Gaming

I don't achievement hunt but getting one that 0.5% of players achieve feels good. One in particular is "Humble Pie" in Stellaris.

Humiliate an Empire that is in the Supremacy Diplomatic Stance, forcing them out of it

“Elden Ring” achievement in Elden Ring (obtain all achievements.) I am a very casual gamer and I played very little of dark souls 3 but I couldn’t get past the tutorial boss so I gave up. I heard many great thing about Elden Ring so I decided to give a FromSoft game another try. The freedom of that game made it really easy for a casual player like myself to go my own pace and get used to the i-frames. I fell in love with the game and my first play through I used as many summons as I could but my other play throughs I hardly used any. It turned me into a gamer that dodged and used parries which I never did before. Very good game and I’m excited to play the dlc.

Now this is luck and not skill, but I traded Pokémon in Pokémon GO with a friend. When you do this, the Pokémon you send to your friend rerolls its IVs. The Duskull I sent him rerolled its IVs, the Buneary he sent me rerolled its IVs, and we both ended up with perfect-IV Pokémon.

(I’m a 100-IV aka perfect-IV hunter in Pokémon GO. In the mainline games, I tend not to care as much.)

Completing the Vidmaster challenges in Halo 3 and ODST to earn Recon armor is probably up there for me. They sure didn’t make it easy and it feels good to have earned Recon. For example this achievement:

Vidmaster Challenge: Endure: In Firefight, on any mission, pass the 4th set on 4-player Heroic LIVE co-op.

This one alone takes nearly 3 hours of continuous playtime per attempt and I remember the frustration if you failed a wave and had to start over.

Being (briefly) 9th in the world at Unreal Tournament. :)

I got hooked on a game in college called Sveerz. It was one of those Wild Tangent games that came preinstalled on my laptop. I loved that game and played way too much during class. I managed to get the #1 worldwide rank by about double the next highest score, and I was crowned with an icon that called me "The One."

Funny thing was, I didn't realize I was anywhere near the high score. I was just having fun.

Nethack, ascending a Caveman, Wishless, polyselfless, Genoless:

https://i.imgur.com/tgEXJh5.jpg

My first was a Valkyrie, and I've gotten a couple of wizards to the bar, but Caveman was a challenge

Back in the days I was one of the first to get the Loremaster achievement on out server in WoW. It basically meant doing every quest in the game.

Another one is not so much a coded ingame achievement, but I can do The Secret of Monkey Island from beginning to end without hesitating at any point. Most of Monkey Island 2 too, but som parts still gets me.

Hollow Knight 112% "Pure Completion"

One of my favorite games, but it's so hard.

Either platinuming sekiro or beating devil may cry 5 on dante must die difficulty, I'm not sure which is better. Platinum sounds more impressive, but according to steam achievement stats dmc5 dmd is rarer so I guess I'll pick that one

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided non lethal playthrough

Beating Metal Gear Solid 2 on European Extreme. The fight is like 50 bosses that can one shot you. It's a gauntlet.

Platinum in Bloodborne. One of the best games I've ever played

Platinum in all Yakuza games.

I beat Eve Online

For me its between my first FFXIV Twintania or WoW Arthas 10 Man hard first kill.

I don’t know what it is about first kills with a group of players in an MMO, but weeks of work and collecting gear for a hard fight and then beating it is super rewarding

SL1 Dark Souls run. Should specify any%, I definitely skipped a good few bosses, and just abused pyromancy, but I did get to the credits with SL1.

Beating COD: MW and the remastered campaign on veteran.

500+ mods on skyrim, no crashes in 50+ hours of playing.

My platinum in Bloodborne.

Fuck you Defiled Amygdala. Go eat a Winter Lantern.

Recently, getting S-Rank on every mission in Metal Gear Solid V :)

An older achievement is probably when I blasted through the Borderlands 2 campaign in one sitting in like 4 hours lol

There's two actually and both are pretty niche but I'm proud to have accomplished.

1. I love to surf in CSGO/CSS/Momentum Mod and at the time of writing I'm top 1.4% of a large server on CSGO of people who surf which isn't amazing by any means but feelsgoodman.

2. I managed to finish a 16 star "run" on Super Mario 64 (wasn't fast but was super fun and the child in me was in amazement)

Gaming for 30 years straight and never picking up any completionist disease, enjoying games up until the content is dense enough fro me to have fun and moving on after finishing it, as in, killing the last boss, winning the tournament, exploding the base, not as in picking up the .jpgs of spiderman hiding under the barrels.

getting my first freeform in champions online.

Diamond Camo on sniper rifles, assault rifles, submachine guns, shotguns, heavy weapons, and pistols in COD: AW. Couldn't do it on the launchers and special weapons.

I stopped playing after that.

In Kerbal Space Program i circumnavigated Kerbin in an amphibious vehicle. It was a challenge someone in the forums set and it took me about 20-30 hours of play time in total. I documented the whole thing in the forums but it unfortunately got lost during the transfer to the new forum site :( . It was genuinely the most fun I’ve had in a game since there were so many problems to solve, i even had to make a crane to lift the vehicle up the ice shelf at the pole.
EDIT: looks like the post actually does still exist on the forums! You can see it here if anyone is interested

Tales of maj eyal nightmare roguelike mode achievements, it's not the hardest it could be, and i have not completed it. But that game has some HANDS

Most of y'all won't even know what this is, but I maxleveled a main in Lineage II without botting.

If you know what that is, you also know that I'd never ever do it again. lol

Not really an achievement but when halo 2 online was a thing I was part of the creation of some of the fun side games. Game types like Zombies, Cat & Mouse, King of the hill, etc. It was pretty cool to see 343 pickup and create some of those as actual game modes in the future releases

Beating Devil May Cry 3 on Dante must die mode.

Tough....not really an achievement but receiving both Illusionary Rings in Dark Souls 2 is up there.. Either that or the Platinum for Furi.

Either my no-death run of Dark Souls, or getting a nuke on the high-rise construction site map on MW2 using a sniper rifle. That map was tiny. Also just my entire career in SOCOM II, I was in a gamebattles clan and we were soooooo good.

I love figuring out an overly complicated game like Factorio or Oxygen Not Included and KSP. You fail upwards (if your lucky) until you figure the game out. It's a good learning curve with that slim line of frustration and losing is fun.

I also killed 53,594+ zombie in Dead Rising beacuse I had nothing better to do as a kid.

I was pretty stoked when my 'mucus ranch' sentence in Dictionarium got the most votes in our friend circle.

This doesn’t really count as an achievement or trophy, because those things just weren’t counted back then, but I used to 100% every game that had that stat tracked.

My proud thing is that I have a memory card with a few dozen 100% save files for ps1/2 (I copied them over to it when I finished the games)

In the original FF7 I beat Emerald and Ruby Weapon without doing the chocobo breeding minigame to get Knights of the Round. Yuffie, her ultimate weapon Conformer, and a really excessive number of counterattack materia does wonders.

I platinumed Final fantasy XIII. Not that incredibly difficult I guess, but it took so freaking long to get all the weapons, and some are missable IIRC so I had to meticulously catalog each one and make sure I didn’t miss an opportunity to get one.

Beating Contra on the NES with no cheat codes. 🤓

I'm still working on Super C...

Defeating Ornstein & Smough in Dark Souls. It was the goal I set for myself, and the game was beat enough for me after I achieved it.

Dragonsong's Reprise (Ultimate) in Final Fantasy XIV. It's you and seven other people versus nineteen minutes of grueling, bonkers-difficulty fight across six phases where individual mistakes can easily cascade into a full wipe and reset back to the beginning.

But now I can tell people I'm an ultimate legend, btw.

About a year ago I went through the Tony Hawk games 1-American Wastland and 100% all of them. And not just do one play through with 100% of the goals and stuff. Unlocking characters and everything, which means beating each game over and over with every character.

Got the Kingdom Hearts collection for the PS3 and platinumed 1 and 2