Which gaming accomplishment are you most proud of?

I beat Gears of War 1 on my own on the Insane difficulty setting. Which one of your accomplishments are you most proud of?

Played Donkey Kong Country 2 as a pacifist,while doing a low banana run ,the stress really picked up at Gloomy Gulch especially in the areas where you have to navigate your Giant Tarantula through the forest levels

Plat Resistance 2. I don't usually go for Plat trophies.

Launching a rocket in Factorio. Took like 300 hours and many many restarts (I have OCD when building things) but it was so worth it.

I beat Kakarot in Japanese without having to stop to check the dictionary even once.

I am proud I played 600+ hours with Hearts of Iron III.

I defeated France, USSR and United Kingdom on the hardest difficulty as Germany which is not that easy to do, in one play through

I speed run pokemon leaf green and sapphire(? The one with the blue pokemon) in a day.

"Proud" probably isn't a word I use for anything gaming related. & I've done some crazy challenges in games.

"Satisfied" think summaries my experiences more. I'm proud of many things, my time playing games isn't one of them.

I'm proud of myself for completing Dragon Age: The Veilguard! That game had so much bad writing, I had to force myself to complete the game in order to form my opinion. Now that was truly an accomplishment I'm proud of.

I'm sorry that you keep buying/ playing bad Bioware games. Stomaching such crud would put most people off video games for life.

Your dedication to Bioware is truly noble. When Capcom released Umbrella Corps, I never bought or played it, with zero intent to ever check it out. & I'm seemingly the biggest Survival Horror fan around here, let alone a massive Capcom fanboi.

(Goes back to playing The Thing: Remastered)

@RSM-HQ: I didn't buy it. I rent it by using EA PlayPro sub aka Game Pass equivalent😉 (Thank you Game Pass oops, I mean PlayPro) Also, I don't judge or go by developers/publishers by name, I go by the game itself. Hope you are enjoying The Thing: Remastered as I played it on PS2 many years ago. (Goes back to playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle)

@davillain: Paying for a service monthly/ yearly is no different from paying for a product, it's all profits going to the source. It's just a different model of payment. & you are still paying for it. While everyone likes to say "free games" majority of these services are not free in any sense of the term.

Plus I noted "buying/ playing"

& frankly if it wasn't called Dragon Age or made by Bioware it's questionable if you'd play it from beginning to end 'c'mon come clean dood'.

I've seen you praise basically every Bioware game. You even supported the developer during the Anthem days. As noted I admire your loyalty to play Veilguard from beginning to end. But if that shit wasn't made by Bioware would you have played it to the end? a 30-40 hour game of that quality?

I dunno man, out of all the thousands of games you could be playing as an alternative I don't take Veilguard as the standout experience that peaked your interest. Even if we just look at 2024 line-up.

Great Circle seems like a good breather for you after Veilguard. MachineGames is a talented team, seeing as they put together those amazing Quake Expansions, let alone the Wolfenstein reboot. More surprised some had doubts on the game when MachineGames has been making quality games for well over a decade. Always been a believer recent portfolio matters, MachineGames & Bioware proves that to be true.

*As for The Thing it's still a very janky game but its pacing is still surprisingly good, enough changes made that tighten the experience. Scripted transformations being removed to be far more random, and overall better shooting is a plus. New lighting in the game really adds to the mood as well. The over-tuned medkits and ammo in the remaster is not good though, kinda takes away from the Survival Horror item management aspect when you've got infinite health and ammo. I know they did this because the original was considered too hard, but dam is it easy now, with item management next to non existent.

Gears 1 is probably the series hardest entry, especially solo. So yeah, to beat it on insane is just that.

Agreed. I'm sitting here thinking why would I be proud of anything I did while gaming?

I guess if I had to pick something, it might be the "Beat the Devil at his own game" achievement in Cuphead. I'm pretty close to unlocking all achievements in that game.

Tell that to some developers who say otherwise.

I still play it regardless of who makes games. It just has to catch my fancy.

I praised the games they have made but not the company itself. Big difference. But yes, I like Anthem's gameplay because there was nothing like it at the time. I like the flying part as the controls work so damn well, it felt like I was Ironman like gaming in an large map. But the game itself had major problems and Bioware didn't put any effort into it as I called them out for it.

Veilguard however, I like the gameplay, it was far better than Inquisition and I can tell you now, I didn't like Inquisition for its gameplay, but good writing. Veilguard wasn't the Dragon Age games I've played over the years. This told me the old Bioware team is long gone. Veilguard has so much bad writing, bad companions, and just a bad experience. So no, I don't praise Bioware, you just happen to think they're overrated which they never were to begin with. But I do enjoy the games I've played over the decades like:

• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Mass Effect Trilogy and Andromeda (but I prefer Andromeda more so)
• Sonic Chronicles The Dark Brotherhood DS (The only game that Bioware works with Nintendo and a very underrated Sonic game as I'm a Sonic fan)

I can tell you now I'm not a fan of Jade Empire. I rented that game on Xbox and didn't like it. Guess I'm not a Bioware fan huh?

Edit: I hope my post wasn't mean-spirited towards you. I just find it odd you think I'm a Bioware worshipper lol. But I can tell you this. I'm NOT even interested in Bioware's new Mass Effect game at all. The old team is dead and gone. I didn't like what I experienced with Veilguard, I know they're not gonna do the new Mass Effect justice. I'm so done with Bioware.

2 spring to mind:

1) I held off a large Egyptian army in Rome Total War using just 2 units of infantry and a couple of catapults. I expected to get wiped out quickly but a few lucky hits from the catapults broke the enemies morale and in the end they retreated. ....Of course the next turn in the game, they came right back at me and kicked the crap out of my few units. Still I'll take it.

2) Hungary in the wet in F1 2017. I was driving for McLaren (who were crap in 2017). Hungary is also not a good circuit for me. I don't know what it is but but, in the dry, I can't get a good time on the track. But one race was in the wet and, for whatever reason (NOT a bug in the game..... ahem) the car actually felt great on the Inters. Other cars were pitting and my pit crew was telling me to pit but deg was fine and handling felt good, so I stayed out. At the end of the race I basically pitted one less than everyone else. Usually I was finishing 17th or 18th in a race but this time I finished 12th or something...felt like a race win :).