Post your recent video game accomplishments.

Just finished Half-Life 2 (not counting the expansions).

Although better than some FPSes I've played, it honestly did not live up to the original game. I felt like I wasn't really free to choose how I played, like every encounter was a scripted encounter. Like the map designers were constantly controlling what I was and wasn't allowed to do, and exactly how much health and ammo I would be forced to lose and when. The painfully low ammo cap didn't help either (I can't even carry enough rockets to take down one gunship, seriously?), and although the friendly antlions were fun, the rebel squad members seemed pretty useless and spent most of their time physically getting in my way. I'm a little surprised why anyone calls this game a 'masterpiece'. It has some aspects going for it, and a few moments of sheer brilliance, but the ways in which it departs from Half-Life 1's gameplay are almost universally more frustrating than fun.

When I was still gaming on my laptop, I managed to install Decay and played through...about half of it, I guess. Then I reached a point where the game just always crashed when I tried to progress. I forget where exactly in the campaign that was. Maybe I should try it again on this machine and see if it behaves any better. The element of jumping back and forth between the two characters was actually really neat, and I wouldn't mind playing more of that, although the AI that takes over when monsters approach the secondary character was pretty bad (it usually ended up wasting ammo and doing more damage to me than to the monsters).

edited 12th Feb '15 8:09:03 PM by Meklar

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I blew up the crystals, fired my weapons at him, jumped up to the top ledge, fire my weapons at him some more, then when he could only fire one ball of electricity, I jumped into his head and whacked the crystal in it repeatedly. Eh, the episodes are better in every department except length. Also, are you up for a game of decay co-op?

edited 13th Feb '15 12:48:23 AM by jdj42

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Need for Speed Rivals:

• Completed all SpeedLists and assignments in the career.

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Beat Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance on Revengeance difficulty.

Why was Armstrong a harder boss in Very Hard than in Revengeance mode? Seriously, VH!Armstrong took me, like, upwards of three dozen tries to beat. R!Armstrong took fucking three.

I guess it must've been because R!Armstrong can one-shot you with literally any attack, so all my focus was on dodging everything he threw at me.

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Well, I'm hoping so.

Probably not. My schedule tends to be pretty unpredictable.

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I finished a Music Stage in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call and got all possible Rhythmia bonuses: Clear Bonus, Chain Bonus, Rank Bonus, Tactical Bonus, Stoic, Title Character Bonus, All Male, Daily Player Bonus, Critical Charter Bonus and Daily Special Bonus!

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At the same time?! Impressive?

Anyways, finished Abyss Odyssey and then finished Luxor Evolved an hour later. (However, since I also bought The Escapists and Darkest Dungeon in the same day, my net backlog gain was zero.)

I hope you get tiny bits of eggshell in all your omelettes for the rest of your life!

Killed Motor-Runner in New Vegas a while back, then did these mods.

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/37310/? - New Vegas Bounties I

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/41184/? - New Vegas Bounties II

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/49012/? - The Inheritance

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/40433/? - The New Bison Steve Hotel and Lucky Casino

and finally

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/49531/? - The Couriers Cache

All of which are highly recommended by me, add lots of content to the game and give hours more fun in the Mojave Wasteland.

@Willy: Yeah, at the same time. It's kinda hard, because you have to complete the Critical Charter of a song on the first Music Stage you play that day, and it's gotta be a song of the day. Which means that every Stage that you complete the charter of basically blocks you from getting the Critical Charter Bonus later on. You don't get any in-game achievement for it, though, so it's solely a self-imposed challenge. But it was very satisfying to pull off.

EDIT: And there I just All Critical'd an Ultimate Scote (Ronfaure from FFXI) on my first try.

edited 16th Feb '15 11:51:30 AM by Lemurian

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I still associate the Mosin Nagant with Metal Gear Solid 3. Since I'm godawful at that series, getting it felt awesome...and then using it was less helpful than I'd hoped. But still, it was great to have (and it let me endurance-kill The Boss so yeah).

Finished Super Meat Boy! I got the 100% completion achievement and I won't go near any of the ones I don't have at this point because I do not want to go full-on obsessive.

edited 16th Feb '15 3:34:55 PM by MrMatt

Achieved 100% Completion in Ittle Dew — collected all of the Heart Container pieces, all of the collectible cards, and even cleared the Master Cave. Man, those Master Cave puzzles require some esoteric solutions, I tell ya what.

I hope you get tiny bits of eggshell in all your omelettes for the rest of your life!

Beat Outland (100% completion) and Metroid Prime (not quite 100%, but did beat the whole game without dying).

Battlefield 3

• Unlocked the T-UGS
• Actually managed to kill someone with a SKS
• Earned 2 Combat Efficiency Ribbons
• Unlocked the basic M320

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In the last three months in Battlefield 3 I:

• Got to rank 5000 (roughlyish) worldwide for X Box 360 players as of Sunday February 22 2015.
• Earned the Master Dog Tag (5 service stars) for ALL primary weapons, the XBOW (unscoped one), the mortar, the 40mm grenade launcher, and the M9 and MP 443 and M1911 S-TAC pistols.
• Got the Proficiency Dog Tag (1 service star) for the MP-412 REX, G18, and M26 MASS.

In Halo 3 yesterday I finally got around to finding all the skulls. And did.

Ace Attorney: beat the first game. Now onto Justice For All.

I defeated the Gigantaur in Final Fantasy VI! Easily the hardest boss until now, even counting the Tonberries-fight.

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Tonight, I discovered a theory for winning a basic game of Archon in as few as five moves by rushing toward the power points as quickly as possible. This is extremely risky because it involves attacking the opponent's spellcaster as quickly as possible—a suicidal move due to a few factors:

1. the spellcaster starts out on one of the five power points, which can't be targeted by magic,
2. the spellcaster also starts out on a space opposite of your color, greatly extending their life bar and greatly shortening your own, and
3. because spells are Cast from Hit Points, an early-game spellcaster with all seven spells not yet cast will have a very large Health Meter.
4. the spellcaster's attacks are either very strong (a Light-side Wizard's fireballs) or very fast (a Dark-side Sorceress' lightning bolts), so you'll have to be uncommonly good at dodging if you want to survive, and hope that you don't take any damage if one of your opponent's pieces decides to steal that power point back from you on their next turn.

I hope you get tiny bits of eggshell in all your omelettes for the rest of your life!

Finished Hotline Miami 2.

Dayum.

Somehow you know that the time is right.

Beat Mario Kart 7 in 50-150cc (non-Mirror, hoping to finish Mirror) engine classes and get at least one-star ranking in all of the cups.

Mirror Mode? I'm fucked by this point.

Just hit one thousand Steam acheivements. #1000? Double S+.

Banjo-Tooie (XBLA): Got the Jiggy from Canary Mary in Cloudcuckooland for the first time ever.

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!

Won an arena melee in Mount and Blade:Warband using nothing other than the bow (not even the dagger).

Super Smash Bros 4: Playing as Robin, got a KO by throwing a spell tome at my opponent and won.

Moved handles because meh

Dragon Age Inquisition: Soloed the final boss of the Jaws of Hakkon DLC.