What gaming achievements impress you?

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Aprilgold

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Beat Nethack. If you don't know what Nethack is, check out their site, its pretty damn interesting.
http://nethack.org/

In case your wondering, it is possible to beat it, but you have to be extremely lucky, thus making it very wondrous when you do.
 

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tippy2k2 said:
The Left 4 Dead achievement of "Survive all campaigns on expert" mode would be pretty damn impressive (unless of course you're a cheating bastard...)
this, except I would specify it be done in single player because the bots have no concept of closet camping
 

Sp3ratus

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Bobic said:
...wat? That was just insane. I'm a so very impressed by that and by the fact that players put so much time and effort into finding ingenious ways of doing levels that quickly. Damn!

For me, I'd say something like "Impossible Boy" from Super Meat Boy. That is, beating the Cotton Alley levels(the ones where you play as bandage girl), without dying. That or just 100%-ing the game. I've neither and don't think I ever will, just because the time and especially patience required to do either of those.
 

Trippy Turtle

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I am extremely impressed when people jump out of flying vehicles, kill someone at the last second and defend the place for a few minutes until their team comes. Sadly I wasn't as impressed that I was in the Falcon he ditched and ended up falling off the edge.
 

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In no particular order.

Demon's Souls and/or Dark Souls Platinum Trophies.
FFX "No Sphere Grid" run.
FFVII "No Materia" run.
Vagrant Story title: "Ruler of the Fallen City."
Metal Gear Solid "Big Boss" title.
Beating Battletoads or Contra legitimately. (No level warps or cheat codes)

I have not done any of these because I'm not good (or crazy) enough to even try.
 

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Torrasque said:
I just saw a Terran player win an SC2 game against a Zerg player that had map control, many more units, much stronger units, and was destroying everything in sight... But the Terran player won because he destroyed the last structure the Zerg player had xD

Even the commentators were "wait... WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!"
What match was that? I'd love to see that one. :D ~Watches SC2 games~

One that was a ***** was Halo Reach's 'If they came to hear me beg'.
My god. That was such a glitchy achievement.

In terms of actually accomplishing something other than jumping off a cliff, welllll.. I beat ME2 first time without losing anyone, since I knew who should do what because it made sense with their character.
Getting a significant way into Dark Souls! (Got to Giant Blacksmith) That alone, because it means I'm a glutton for punishment.. and stubborn. Such a fun game.
I beat ME3 in one weekend. Over 30 hours of gameplay.
 

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Torrasque said:
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Halo Reach: A Monument to All Your Sins

Damn, this one took me a lot of heartache and time. Out of all my friends I am proud to say I'm the only idiot who wasted his time.
I have that :D
After getting it, I played Halo CE on legendary for shits and giggles. That achievement was one of the more frustrating Halo achievements, especially on the parts where you'd have to kill a bunch of elites and your DMR ran out... Ugh...
Yeah, and the copious amounts of Assault Rifles that do next to nothing in whittling down enemy shields.
*start lvl*
"Ok, what weapons do I have... An assault rifle with a lot of ammo, and a grenade launcher, sweet! ...with 3 shots in it..."
Assault Rifle is only good in normal really. Heroic/Legendary, all it does is tickle the shields of Elites. Hell, it takes half a clip to kill grunts even >.>
Yep, funny enough in story, the DMR and AR use the same ammuntion type and caliber. Imagine an AR with the DMR's stopping power. It'd be a real help on Legendary!
 

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Caramel Frappe said:
Torrasque said:
[HEADING=3]Mass Effect 2 - No One Left Behind[/HEADING]
Achievement unlocked for 75G
Keep your team alive through the suicide mission
This is the achievement I worked hard for recently (I own an Xbox 360). Despite if the internet holds answers as to how you can obtain this step by step, there's still risks and chances a team mate can die thus you have to do more then just be nice or strict with someone in order for them to respect you throughout the end.

Love it, shows how far I went to save everyone. Also shows how much i've bonded with these characters that share the Normandy with me, that they're worth doing favors for even if it's a pain in the butt. Otherwise I wouldn't of bothered trying to get this achievement and besides.. I didn't know there was an achievement for caring about your companions lol.
Actually, I found this to be pretty much the easiest achievements of all those included in Mass Effect 2 (except for stuff like "Imported an old savegame"). All you need to do for it is play the loyalty missions and decide logically when assigning the jobs during the last missions. Hardly a challenge, sorry.
 

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Resident Evil 4 on pro without any recorded deaths, on PC with the hellish PC controls.
While playing C&C 3 Kane's Wrath online 2v2 my m8 got killed pretty fast so I thought fuck it made an extra MCV put stealth on it (I was NOD)and sneaked it behind one of my enemies bases, my base got destroyed but my stealthed MCV just sat there and I was in game both opponents were furious and after a while gave up, game over I win.
In TF2 I got 23 kills as a sniper within one life.
 

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Muspelheim said:
"Enlightened" out of Metro 2033.

You did the right thing, Artyom...
How did you get it, I have tried it 2 times with 2 different walkthroughs and did'n get it.
 

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SilverStrike said:
Torrasque said:
I just saw a Terran player win an SC2 game against a Zerg player that had map control, many more units, much stronger units, and was destroying everything in sight... But the Terran player won because he destroyed the last structure the Zerg player had xD

Even the commentators were "wait... WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!"
What match was that? I'd love to see that one. :D ~Watches SC2 games~

One that was a ***** was Halo Reach's 'If they came to hear me beg'.
My god. That was such a glitchy achievement.

In terms of actually accomplishing something other than jumping off a cliff, welllll.. I beat ME2 first time without losing anyone, since I knew who should do what because it made sense with their character.
Getting a significant way into Dark Souls! (Got to Giant Blacksmith) That alone, because it means I'm a glutton for punishment.. and stubborn. Such a fun game.
I beat ME3 in one weekend. Over 30 hours of gameplay.
It was during game 2 between Polt and Violet at the Lone Star Clash. Polt is a ridiculously good Terran player. Why? Because he can beat Stephano, and give Stephano pause =|

Lol, I got that achievement three times because of all the bloody times it just "NOPE CHUCK TESTA"d me. It was still fun though.

Rawne1980 said:
Beating Devil May Cry on Dante Must Die mode without dying.

Said that one before but it's the only time i've ever physically got up and danced around my living room whle my wife and kids looked at me with a sense of sadness and pity in their eyes.
"Mommy, is daddy insane?"
'No dear, he just got a sweet achievement...'
"Mommy, what is an achievement?"
'I'll tell you when you're older...'
 

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I'm working on the Zealot achivement for Dead Space 2. I need a good place for the last save.
 

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Even though this is an achievement whenever I see somebody who has completed Mile High Club
(CoD 4) on veteran difficulty I know that they're at least somewhat of a good player :).

After many attempts I achieved it (Woodysgamertag did a live stream of him trying to beat Mile High club on veteran difficult, I though I would try too i completed the mission before the stream ended :D)
 

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Not specifically, but some of the TF2 ones ,as they seemed to be created to guide players into either being useful team players, or discovering new ways to play, or use their weapons in new ways.

I agree there's nothing quite so tiresome as seeing 'Achievement unlocked - Finished Level 1' or 'Achieved Level 10' or 'Reloaded a weapon' or some such nonsense that you couldn't avoid if you tried.

To me, achievements should be about doing something that wouldn't happen in a regular playthru.

I think because some people seem to only play games for the gamer points tho, sometimes they're shoehorned in for the sake of it.
 

kouriichi

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I have 54k gamerscore @__@ forgive me if i cant remember which on i was most impressed with.
I saved all my comrades in ME2. Im kinda impressed with that one.
I hit 50 in Skyrim. ((almost 80 now actually.))
And i stopped the Greymarch in Oblivion.
And i killed the Ender Dragon in minecraft, completely legit playthrough. I enchanted my bow and got Infinity and i believe it was Power 2, maybe 3. Couldnt have done it without that lucky roll.