RE: AskSteemit: What was the most impressive thing you've done on a video game?
🏆 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.