Post your recent video game accomplishments.

Monster hunter 4: Unlocked Crimson Fatalis. Dying horribly to Crimson Fatalis

Became the champion in Pokemon Alpha Sapphire.

Finally earned my Dragon Ball Xenoverse platinum trophy.

Won a game of FreeCiv against the AI, for the first time.

The AI definitely seems to get weaker as the game advances. Near the beginning it has masses of cities and military units and is very dangerous, but if you can survive long enough, it ends up with low population and inferior tech, and although it still has masses of military units, they're all weak primitive ones. However, my tanks were still unable to capture the AI's heavily fortified final city (I had been massing battleships against coastal cities with a great deal of success, but their final city was situated inland), and I eventually just nuked it.

Kingdom Hearts Final Mix: defeated Kurt Zisa; beat the Hades Cup in Time Trial mode. (both on Final Mix Proud Mode)

Final Fantasy X HD: defeated Braska's Final Aeon and brought on the Eternal Calm; cleared Omega Dungeon.

Just yesterday I finished Gothic 1. Posted my thoughts in the other thread.

Just beat Infinifactory. As far as final levels go, The Homeward Fleet is pretty awesome.

KHII FM: defeated all Organization XIII Data Replicas.

Master Combo Alice at 8 star difficulty during high speed challenge in Show by Rock!!.

Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies: cleared the game.

1CC'd Crisis Zone at score more than 4 million.

Terraria

Managed to kill two dungeon guardians at once! Yay temple traps!

edited 12th Jul '15 12:52:02 PM by carbon-mantis

In Diablo 2, just beat the Diablo Clone in singleplayer for the first time. (I'm using PlugY, which is how I get the Diablo Clone in singleplayer.)

But the bizarre part is how I did it.

Some time ago, I tried fighting the DC with my sorceress using frozen orb, and although the frozen orb damaged him, I had to spend so much time escaping his attacks that he'd just heal back up again (unlike normal act bosses, he heals himself, and really fast to boot). So I researched the DC's weaknesses, and decided that the best approach would be to use a bow amazon, equipped with an edge runeworded bow (it has PMH, poison damage, life steal, damage bonus to demons and good attack speed), and trick the DC into a position where I was safe from his attacks but could fire guided arrows and have them curve around and hit him (guided arrow always hits, so attack rating and armor would be no concern). Supposedly, this would eventually wear him down and finish him off. After considering all the possible location for spawning the DC, I decided the ideal spot would be to spawn him on Stormtree, lead him down to the river in the Flayer Jungle, and then escape across the river and shoot at him from the other side. Accordingly, I spent some time building up a bow amazon to level 79 and getting her up to Hell Lower Kurast.

However, this approach ended up not working. The DC's spells easily crossed the river, and I still had to spend a lot of time running around to avoid them. Also, my mercenary would tend to die easily, leaving me without the benefit of an insight polearm, which caused problems with mana whenever I couldn't consistently hit the DC for mana steal. After a bit more research, I found a recommendation online to spawn the DC on Fire Eye by going to the Arcane Sanctuary waypoint and up the portal; there was also a suggestion that a blizzard sorceress might be able to do enough damage to kill the DC. Since the Palace Cellar is full of walls and bars, I tried taking my amazon to Fire Eye, manipulating the DC to a place behind some bars, and then trying to hit him with guided arrow from there. This still didn't work; he would often cast spells through the bars, and my guided arrows seemed to guide really badly after passing through the bars, hitting the DC only rarely.

Seeing that the bars at least worked well to keep the DC from getting near me, I tried bringing my sorceress back in and spawning him on Fire Eye with her. I used PlugY to reallocate my skill points and pump blizzard, and even equipped an insight polearm of my own so that I wouldn't have trouble if my mercenary died (it turns out a sorceress looks really weird carrying around a polearm :P). However, the blizzard didn't do very much damage, and I had a similar problem with the DC shooting spells through the bars, as well as moving around out of the blizzard. But I did discover an interesting thing: Although I needed a line-of-sight to cast the blizzard, casting it right against a wall would cause part of its area of effect to go past the wall, damaging monsters immediately on the other side. And as it turned out, the Palace Cellar had a convenient location where a narrow room came up against a blank wall with the portal room behind it, and I was able to lead the DC into that spot. Sadly, the blizzard still didn't do enough damage to keep the DC's health down.

But then I reasoned, if the blizzard could go past the wall, what about meteor? With meteor I don't get the advantage of cold mastery, so the DC would have his full 95% resistance; but if he stood in one place, the integrated damage effect of the meteor fire might be so large as to overcome that problem. Worth a try, right? So I reallocated my skill points again to pump meteor, and started casting meteor right near the wall. And it worked. Whether it was the meteor blast or the fire (or both), some aspect of the meteor went through the wall and did enough damage to consistently scrape away at the DC's health. It was slow, but after about 15 minutes of blasting meteors at the wall, the DC died and dropped an Annihilus for me.

It turned out to be a shitty Annihilus (plus I kinda wasted the effort of building up my amazon, although she did find me a Harlequin Crest and an Ohm rune), but I hardly even care, because now I know for sure that it's possible, and how to do it. Now I've gathered up all my best meteor-boosting equipment for more DC hunting; it increases my meteor damage by about 50%, which could make killing the bastard a lot quicker. It's gonna be Annihiluses for everyone pretty soon! :D

edited 12th Jul '15 8:06:18 PM by Meklar

Just completed Deus Ex 1. While it's overhyped for sure, it was not bad by any stretches. In fact, it was pretty good. I think I'll do another run of it in the future.

Just finished Realms of the Haunting, after getting it for free on Steam a few weeks ago.

Completed Earth Bound.

Finished all but one of the DLC in Fallout 3 on PC. Harder than I remember it being.

Dealt with two annoying Sibellians in Xenonauts who were blasting at my troops from the window of a house and then ducking back into cover...

...by having a MAG Storm-armed trooper shred the wall and the Sibellian hiding behind it in a single burst of fire, then having another trooper lob in a satchel charge through the hole in the wall that leveled the house, buried the other Sibellian in the rubble, and for good measure giving me LOS to a third who was promptly picked off by a sniper.

Jesus, those magnetic weapons are powerful.

Birth By Sleep Final Mix, critical mode: cleared Aqua's main story.

Civilization Beyond Earth: Won my first game on Apollo difficulty.

Gaming overall: I have reached such a level of stubborn refusal to put in work that I bicker with others over games being far harder/grindier than really are and am just about ready to quit the entire hobby over my extreme softness and awful mentality.

Dragon Age Inquisition: Beat the game on Nightmare difficulty, getting the last two achievements in the process.

I have conquered the entire realm in Mount and Blade Warband with the Floris gameplay mod. May all bow down to the King. May my reign be long.

edited 7th Aug '15 10:23:53 PM by KingFeraligatr

Samurai Warriors: cleared one story path each for Yukimura Sanada and for Oichi, as well as both story paths for Akechi Mitsuhide.

One Way Heroics Plus: Defeated the Demon Lordon Afternoon Stroll difficulty (Normal) using a weird weapon called a Sword Crossbow. I used up the last of my Berserks to tear down its barriers, and then I pelted it with a Cursed Bone and a Vial of Acid to lower its defense powers, while boosting my own attack with Berserk and a Meditation Herb (to boost my Critical Hit rate).

A mercenary I'd picked up along the way had been killed by a Skeleton I'd accidentally released from a nearby dungeon to get at a really powerful Lizardman (which boosted my level generously). It was just me against the Demon Lord, two Skeletons, and my deceased mercenary's vengeful ghost. One of us had to go. Luckily, the Random Number God was on my side, and I was able to deliver the final blow before the boss could do the same to me.