When were you a gaming Badass?

[TheCrapMaster]

Can´t realy come up with to many of those moments, i rarely play multiplayer games much as i prefer singel player or co-op features, partly because my friends get kinda upset while playing competetive multiplayer and that ruins the experience for me.

But i do have one story from the time me and my friends played starcraft 1 alot, for some reason i got a good rank dont remember for what but was on top 10.000 atleast" a poor placement" but it was a placement, and my friends challanged me on a 4vs1 starcraft 1 match, four of my friends againt me and i somehow won the entire match as terran, rushed one, harrased the other and etc. When i was younger my multitasking skills were kinda impressive, but one friend said i somehow cheated and went on a very serious discution on how to cheat online on starcraft 1.

But now that i´m old and slow, these heroic storys get fewer and fewer and the feats i did are lost to the void.

 

[Pr0]

I think being a gaming badass requires some level of certifiable evidence of defeating other notably good gaming badasses at the game they're good at.

Its not like back in the late 90s, when losing 9 to 10 against Thresh on the pitts.edu server was something people talked about like it was a big deal cause you damn near beat "the man".

To many games now too many people proclaiming themselves to be "the man" and to be honest, I think even CAL has stopped trying to keep track of who the true gaming badasses of the current generation are other than Korean Starcraft league players.

Overall being a gaming badass is no longer relevant. Cause there are lots of people that are good at games.

And I'm not sure I consider plowing through a single player game as gaming badassery. This isn't to say only multiplayer = badass, but, seriously, anyone with some time on their hands can sit down and cut their way through the entire Bethesda collection of action RPG's if they chose to run a marathon and do so, and heck they might even get some viewers on Twitch out of it, just so people could watch someone documenting wasting a couple months of their life playing out every possible angle in every Bethesda game since Daggerfall or some such. But thats not being a badass thats being a documentary film maker.

So in the end there are no gaming bad asses any more, cause, there are too many gaming badasses for gaming badasses to be notable or relevant. Anyone with Fraps and a Youtube account can be considered a gaming badass by someone else....so its all sort of banal reality television now, versus back in the day when you'd have sworn that ************ shot a rocket out of his ass to get that last point on you for the match.

Old school. New school and no school...apparently.

 

[Tropicaz]

Erm, I've single handedly carried teams before in some FPSes, but then again that's pretty common.

In terms of marathons, my last massive one was when NV came out, I think it was half term break from my 6th form, and in the first 5 days of playing it I had clocked up about 35 hours of gametime. And that was whilst still doing some work and playing 5 a side every day.

 

[Quazimofo]

I've had quite a few moments of video gaming euphoria, but only because I'm completely stubborn and refuse to walk away from a seemingly impossible task to my below-"average" skill as a gamer. I can't say I've ever achieved anything in a game I would be able to call a true challenge to the "average" gamer.

Well, gaming badassery is very subjective. So long as you did something that you consider exceptional for yourself, it qualifies, and so its worth sharing.

 

[Quazimofo]

Once apon a time, while I was playing Prototype 2, a bonus said not to take any damage from the giant Goliath. I sat throwing cars at it for a while, mentally said 'fuck the bonus' and jumped from the building just to cut it's legs off and give it's head a beatdown without getting hurt once.
Nightwish played endlessly that moment.

Which song(s) I might ask? Or am i being stupid and its actually called endlessly

 

[HardkorSB]

I've killed the last boss in Resident Evil 2 with a knife.

 

[triggrhappy94]

I was playing Battlefield 3 online for a while. I got so good with the engineer that I was getting multiple team-whipe ribbons in one life--not to mention covering the battlefield with mines.
As soon as I got to that point, I stopped playing.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Age 14-17, I suffered ADHD so I had a prescription that made me super focused with a side effect of insomnia. I had very little friends outside of gaming and no GF so the only real thing I needed to do was go to school. It was the near perfect cocktail for a gamer.

I was the best player in my guild as well as one of the youngest. People in the game new my name and respected my abilities. I never felt more of a badass in my entire gaming life. Top of my game. I didn't accomplish some built in goal or a preprogramed mission. I went into a game that was a player vs player environment, that involved full 3d space, as well as numerous weapons and configurations... just felt more real.

Then I got older, responsibilities got in the way and someone who I trained in game for over 2 years started to kick everyone's ass including my own. At the time I was very upset, felt like some special was being taken from me, but now that a decade has pasted and I've gotten more mature I guess you could say I am glad I trained someone so well they became the next top player in our guild.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

To this day I am still a god when it comes to playing Battlefield Bad Company 2. No one can beat me at that game.

 

[Icehearted]

Unreal tournament and Crimson Skies. I would play against some friend on both, but was so "badass" they would feel having me on either team was unfair. They then tried to all team up on me and got kinda pissed that even together they couldn't take me down.

There was this WSG WoW match (vanilla) where I was healing even though I wasn't speced for it and I had racked up a huge score for heals and kept people going from a sliver of health to half their health. The speced healer wasn't even healing at that point. People were pretty pleased, called my heals sexy, my fast reflexes made the team unstoppable badasses, so I was a badass by proxy.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Defended Mining Facility, Abandoned Facility, Alpine Region and Executive Sector on seperate occasions in 1v4s with my tank in Armored Core V. But that's about it to be honest.

 

[Strazdas]

Well, at one point in a little game called Tibia i was the highest level and highest skilled player on the server.

Beside that, well, i guess there was a time when somone called me a pro in Counter Strike, even though i have been playing for 2 weeks and was already kinda bored (i played totally 3 weeks of CS). but then again it was probably that this guy didnt knew any better.

 

[Black Reaper]

Back when the Borderlands 2 Torgue DLC was released(not sure if it was on release or after),i was trying to kill the new raid boss,i got slaughtered,so i called a friend,he also got slaughtered,but i survived,and when i came out of the boss room i was victorious,sadly the boss gave us(very)shitty loot

I once cleared Castlevania Order of Ecclesia and Dawn of Sorrow without taking damage,i did Dawn's by sequence breaking,and OoE'S by using the Death ring(massive stat boosts but everything kills you in one hit),i saved in both runs,detracting some of the badass factor

I have done a few NINDs(no item(s) no death(s))of the 200 man melee in Tales of Vesperia with Yuri,they take a while to complete,and near the end i almost always spam Guardian field(healing skill)→Final Gale(long range,high damaging skill)→Guardian field

In Castlevania Harmony of Despair,my impatience gets the better of me when waiting for my teammates at the boss door(bosses get stronger the more players there are),and so i have soloed many bosses in multiplayer games,the most recent example was while doing chapter 4 with me and 3/4 other guys,i took a shortcut to the boss in the beginning of the stage,and i kicked his ass,not only did i not take damage,i also killed him before my teammates could get there

 

[Assassin Xaero]

A 27 kill streak in F.E.A.R. Combat with dual pistols or when I took over a control point and killed the entire enemy team (some a few times) by myself in Joint Operations. I don't play online games much.

 

[adam352]

I remember playing a few games of whichever WWE game happened to be most recent at a friends house a few years ago.

We had one guy who would constantly brag about being great at the game, and we were all planning to go to my friends house and spend the day playing, each of us bringing a memory card with a created wrestler and using them.

I created a wrestler who's move set was designed entirely around damaging the opponents head. Every single move for every situation was a head attack. I also gave him Really tall (Paul from Tekken) ginger hair, massive novelty boxing gloves, sunglasses, purple trousers, and as many pelvic thrusting taunts as possible.

We decided to play an Elimination Chamber match (a variation on a cage match for 6 wrestlers, where 4 are contained in glass chambers at the start and released one at a time, randomly, every minute). The game started with one of my friends and a CPU wrestler, easy job for him. As the minutes ticked by, I was third from the chamber, with the obnoxious dude last. by this point, one friend and one CPU was eliminated. I hat taken no discernible damage.

I eliminated the final CPU player while the obnoxious fellow beat out my friend, leaving the two of us. At this point, I would like to mention that his fighter was a super-heavyweight, while mine was a heavyweight. In these games, strength and defense were easily more important than a little extra speed, although I liked being able to move around more.

After squaring off in the ring (both with a finishing move stored) I broke out the secret weapon. I thrusted. Lots. This started to break his concentration, allowing me to land a few running attacks and then run to the far corner to thrust again. I had him chasing me, while I ran, taunted and occasionally landed a hit.

Things went south when he managed to hit me with some big attacks, damaging me and preventing me from using my speed. As he went in to attack once more, I blocked and countered with a finishing move. But he countered it, and used a finisher of his own. But all my taunting and constant attacks had gained me a second finishing move, I countered him and managed to pull off my finishing move (complete with sexy cinematic cam) and destroy his head health, making for an easy pin.

All of that last combination took about 3 seconds, before the pin. He was furious. I felt godlike.

 

[D-Class 198482]

Once apon a time, while I was playing Prototype 2, a bonus said not to take any damage from the giant Goliath. I sat throwing cars at it for a while, mentally said 'fuck the bonus' and jumped from the building just to cut it's legs off and give it's head a beatdown without getting hurt once.
Nightwish played endlessly that moment.

Which song(s) I might ask? Or am i being stupid and its actually called endlessly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ8T1ZWUGaI

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

In Team Fortress 2, went a full match as the heavy, didn't die once, final score 34-0. Practically won the game for our team. I've gotten similar results in Modern Warfare and Battlefield as well.

But the best though would be in Shogun. I've had quite a few baddass moments in Total War, but the best was in Shogun 2. Playing as the Uesugi clan on hard I was besieged in the province just south of Kyoto (Yamato I think). The combined Mori and Ito forces outnumbered me 3:1, so I just waited until the next turn when I thought they would assault my fortress.

Except they didn't. I had to go out and attack them.

If I lost the battle, my game would basically have been lost. I quicksaved to see what the autobattle results were, and it resulted in my entire forces being decimated with the enemy only losing 300 men.

My forces consisted of my level 6 general, his second in command, a few cavalry, some warrior monks, a single samurai and no-dachi unit, and the rest were ashugaru. The advantage I had was that my ashugaru were seriously ranked up, and my general's abilities boosted their morale and defense even more. On top of that, the geography was on my side and I situated all of my forces on top of a snowy steep hill.

When the battle began the Mori forces started coming towards me, with the Ito army coming in from behind them. My saving grace was that they did not decide to combine their armies, they attacked one full stack after the other.They charged up the mountain as snow fell upon them, with my archers not doing much to diminish their forces. My ashugaru and warrior monks formed a spear line of death that the enemy decided to just run strait into.

When the battle ended, both enemy armies had been completely routed, with all of my forces losing at least half of their men but only 1 out of 16 units actually retreated. One of my spear ashugaru had gotten 500 kills. Final tally was me losing roughly 1000 men, the enemy losing 4500 men. It was epic beyond words, and I won the game just a few turns latter.

 

[IGetNoSlack]

Beating Shadow of the Colossus in 24 hours, without dying (or coming close)....

...with one hand.

 

[V8 Ninja]

It was a game called inMomentum. After getting the world record for the normal difficulty time trial on a level called NightSky (a record which I still own [http://steamcommunity.com/stats/inMomentum/leaderboards/65872]), I decided to aim a bit higher. After some decision-making, I settled on the level OrangeFlow as the next level I was going to declare my supreme reign over. I practiced for over a week, shaving off seconds that slowly turned to milliseconds as the days went by. It finally came down to one fateful night, where had a straight gaming session for over three hours attempting to dethrone the then-champion. I decided to end at 8:02 PM EST, where I flung myself towards the goal in the last attempt I would make at taking the throne.

Long story short: I got the world record [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=34966731].

...And then six months later someone else dethroned myself [http://steamcommunity.com/stats/inMomentum/leaderboards/65876] by a small 0.4 seconds. But man, those six months were something special.

 

[NoOne852]

I felt pretty awesome during one game of slayer on Halo: Reach. My teammates were terriable and one left at the very beginning making it a 3v4. The other two (was some guy with his guest) managed to collectively string together 8 kills, before leaving at the last 2 minutes of the game with about 10 kills left to win. The enemy team ended up with about 25-30 kills. The game was out of 50. I died 3 three times and I pulled off the other 42 kills. Yeah, my heart was pounding near the end when my teammates left, which is where I died two of the three times. I felt glorious after that, unsure if the other team was just bad or I just got lucky, or I was actually good at the game. (I had the shotgun once or twice, so assume about 15 kills were from that)

I have had several other games that came close to that, but nothing has matched or surpassed it (in multiplayer). That goes for other titles as well.

If we don't include multiplayer, then there was one time in Halo Wars where I was playing on a map (don't recall the name) where there was a building you could capture that increased your population limit. So I sent my Spartans (they don't take up population for some reason, not that I complain) to capture it. Then I used the rest of the population to build Vultures, while also exploiting the glitch where if you select a unit to build very quickly, you can have units take up more population than the limit (however, it only works for one unit past the limit). I got the mega barrage upgrade (allows twice the number of rockets to be launched from a Vulture) and rallied my terror force to an enemy base. From there, I waited until they were all in range of the base and gave the order to release the kraken missle barrage. The game lagged into the single digit frame rate (playing on 360 for reference) and I watched the missles pour onto the base like a tidal wave of metal and fire. It was terrifying to watch and the base was destroyed before half of the missled could even reach it.