AskSteemit: What was the most impressive thing you've done on a video game?
Hello Steemians! I've got a bit of a random question for you all today, hopefully one you guys wouldn't mind talking about. So, what is the most impressive or awesome thing you've pulled off while playing a video game? I was talking about this with a friend earlier in the day today, and it made me start wondering what other peoples greatest accomplishments or most impressive feat in a game are. I had a few things pop into my head while we were talking, whether it be a cool glitch I exploited on accident, speed running time on a level, or an impressive kill I pulled off during a multiplayer game.
I definitely have to say that I think my most impressive act to date on a video game would have to be back in my Halo 3 days, when I pulled off a once in a lifetime shot using the Spartan laser gun and got an extermination/overkill with it. It might not be the biggest deal ever, but the chances of it happening like it did are so minuscule that I can't help but think I'd probably never be able to pull it off. I would probably have to say it's one of a handful of exterminations that someone got while using the laser throughout the years the game was popular. I actually was so shocked and excited about it that I recorded it years ago, and figured I would share the video with you guys so you can see what I'm talking about!
For those of you not familiar with Halo 3, this took place during a game of Action Sack (Quite possibly one of the most entertaining names for a playlist on a multiplayer game ever.) during a game of Team Splasers. The playlist had a lot of strange/goofy modes for you to play that were randomly generated for you to vote on. I honestly think this was 99.9 percent luck that I was able to pull this off, because no matter how skilled a player is unless you rig it and fake it, I just don't see how you can do it otherwise without a fuck ton of luck. There are other things I've done that were impressive on games, but I don't think anything can top this personally.
But, what about you guys? Why don't you tell me about something cool, impressive or crazy that you've done on a video game over the years? I'd be happy to see/hear you talk about anything, whether it be some crazy high score you got on space invaders 20 years ago, a speed run of a game that you haven't been able to beat since, just whatever you've done share it below for me to read about! Or, if you've got a video of it like I did then feel free to link it below and I'll check it out!
🏆 you deserve my question of the day reward! 😉 after playing computer games for over 30 years now, it took me quite a bit to remember, especially back in the good old days. I try to come up with my personal top 3:
3. Beating emperor difficulty level on my Amiga 500 for Civilization (I, 1991)
That really took a lot of practice and patience. Because Civ1 was delivered on four 3.5inch floppies, I had to switch discs all the time. A move on the map nearly took 10 seconds. I think after several weeks of absolutely amazing perfect zero mistake building cities and railroads I managed to beat it.
By the way, look, what Sid Meier signed for me:
Some other guys also was bragging about it:
2: Getting my first Mu-Mu-Mu-Multi-Kill on the beta version of the first Unreal Tournament by GT Interactive in their German headquarters (I was a games journalist back in 1999)
The developers looking at you playing a brand new game with the team and you blow out some shots and there is the legendary Mu-Mu-Mu-Multikill for the first time. Awesome feeling. Wasn't there something even above that?
1: World of Warcraft Classic: 40-man guild raid 1st kill of Vaelastrasz in the Blackwing Lair (2005)
I cannot tell you how often we tried and wiped. It was more than three weeks and over 100 times. The first boss in BWL (Razorgore) also got us into trouble most of the times, so people got really tired of trying over and over again, especially since we had Vaelastrasz down to 1 or 2% very very often, but never managed to kill that dragon beast off. When we finally did, 40 grown up men & women were crying tears like little kids in teamspeak.
The more I think of it, the more I could think of a Top 20 or even 50. Thanks for pushing those great memories into my mind!
Dude, that's awesome that you got Sid's signature on it! Trying to beat that game sounds like it was pretty brutal, lol. I've only ever tried Civ 5 and I thought that game took a long time to beat, haha.
These all sound like pretty exciting times in your gaming "career" (Not sure if that would be the correct term or not, haha). I can imagine the WoW kill in my head, since I've seen my friends lose their minds over and over again while dealing with boss raids on there. That's also really, really fucking cool that you pulled that off in their HQ. Even just getting to travel there is awesome on its own! I've got to say, I'm pretty jealous! Thank you for taking the time to share these memories with me, man!
My pleasure! Thanks again for inspiring me. And I promise to work on some other interesting tales from "my gaming career". I have been working there for the last two decades so there are plenty of fun, wild and crazy stories to be told.
Damn do I miss action sack and I can't say I got a overkill laser extermination like that before...
So even when I read your post title my mind went to Halo 3 before I even saw what you did! I don't have the video clip still of my favorite moment but mine was when I got a perfection in ranked Team Slayer. If you don't remember what that is, its when you get over 15 kills in a game without dying. This was when I was in the 40's for ranks too so it was against some pretty tough people. Didn't even realize use power weapons if I remember right too, just a trusty BR!
Oh, I remember, lol. I only got two ranked perfections before, one was in SWAT when I was on an alternate account helping to boost my friends rank up, and the other was in Squad Battle and I was just on the warthog gunning people down the entire game, lol. All of my other ones were in Big Team Battle pretty much from what I remember. I probably still have a bunch of my clips saved on my Xbox, but I don't have my Halo 3 disc anymore to recover them :(
Also, a BR is the only weapon you need :P Probably my all time favorite gun in a multiplayer.
I had a boy tell me he wanted to teach me how to play CS:GO - I had never played before but had the basics of FPS shooters down, nowadays the keys are standardized. So my first game when the enemy team came out I singlehandedly killed all of them. His response? "I hate you."
Haha. I probably would have had a similar response, along the lines of "...Fucking bullshit, man". That's pretty sick that you got the ace in your first game though! Do you play CS:GO anymore or did you retire after your epic first game :P?
Way back in the day I was on a Battlefield 2 team. I had the no scope scud and artillery down. Sure it's camping.... but still fun to lay waste to enemy base from across the board just by pointing at the right cloud. :)
Hey, razing the earth is always a fun time :)
Almost every extraordinary stuff I could do in Doom. The old, original one.
Modding scene is quite huge so you can find unique experiences, my favourites are extra tough maps, rocketjumping and puzzles.
Usually I suck at all three, but back in the day, I played through all 30 levels of a mapset called Alien Vendetta with a weapon and monster randomizer mod. When reached the final map, I acquired 105 different(!) weapons.
I'd call that impressive if you will.
But then again, playing through mapsets like Sunlust is already impressive enough for me. Just
GoogleDuckDuckGo it ;)I have a couple, but one really sticks out in my mind...
My friends and I were running some Fractals of the Mists dungeons in Guild Wars 2. This was before the Heart of Thorns expansion, so things were harder. I was on my elementalist (spec'd at the time for healing).
We had gotten this boss down to his last phase. It still had quite a bit of health left, however. I was the last one alive.
Since I was spec'd healer, I kept myself alive as I whittled this boss down slowly. But eventually, I'd finished the sucker off by myself.
The moral of the story is, thank your healer :P They save the group.
It's old hat to any speed runner, but back in the day I recorded myself playing Mega Man II on the NES, specifically to prove to a friend at school that I could beat Quick Man's stage without using the Time Stopper power on the screens with all the instant-kill lasers. Since I did that, I also proved that hitting Quick Man with the Time Stopper de-powered him by 50% on the same run. Probably not the greatest things I've ever done in gaming, but 11 year old me was suitably impressed.
One of the absolute funniest things I've ever seen somebody else do involved Unreal Tournament. One of my friends was an absolute beast of a sniper in that game, and would figure out the best places to lurk unseen while blasting the shit out of the other team.
One evening we're all playing an online match against another team on the "Facing Worlds II" map, and nobody on the other team could get anywhere near our base, nor could they figure out where the sniper was. They kept getting more and more pissed off as our sniper re-routed their cranial fluids to external sources. The other team got belligerent and abusive over the mics, but the sniper never answered, never said a word, just went to work and ignored all the chatter.
Finally the match ended (we won by shut-out, something absurd like 20 - 0) and the other team's captain gets on his headset and starts shouting about how he wants to talk to the goddamn sniper on our team NOW or else he was going to report us for using some kind of bot or AI, and demanded to know why all of his challenges and insults went unanswered.
I passed my headset over to our sniper, who keyed the mic and said, "I figured it would just piss you boys off more if you knew you a woman was kicking all your asses."
Cue the rest of us laughing our heads off while Sarah handed back my headset, and the other team cussed up a blue streak over being flat-out pwned by a girl.
Kind of a "you had to be there" moment, and my own skills had nothing to do with it, but still an awesome gaming memory. :)
Well I think one of the most interesting thing I do with games is sharing them in steemit as content. :) I have already reached more people here than youtube which 11 followers with 34 follower in 2 weeks :). I won't even count the earnings I made here. which is about 1 to 2 steem dollars but it is better than youtube anyway :)
Probably beating gain ground on hard, that game is so underrated
I was pretty good at Halo:CE but there was no singular moment from that game other than accidentally hitting a sticky grenade(way harder to stick in that game btw) on some cloaked guy with rockets
i have killed all my enemies
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