Your Incredible Gaming Moments

[glaman5266]

What are some of your incredible gaming moments? Either good or bad.

A good moment from me: In ~2009 I was big on Halo 3 multiplayer, but I only played social & had a K/D of maybe .46. (yeah, I sucked) I was playing one morning after my night shift. Big Team Slayer on The Pit. I was maybe 4 beers in & said screw it- I'm going for the sniper rifle. I suck with the sniper & NEVER go for it, lol. But then semi-drunk me proceeded to throw caution to the wind, rack up a dozen kills & snag MVP for that game. Never managed to get MVP before that or since. Still dunno how I pulled that off.

EDIT: Another one: Me, my wife, my brother & his wife all play Mario Kart 8 together semi-regularly. My bro & I are very competitive with each other in Mario Kart. So we all decided to marathon all 48 races at 150cc & keep a running point total.
48 races and 2 & 1/2 hours later, my brother & I tied for the top spot in points.

[ford]

Eh... Console game wise I really enjoyed beating Mega Man 3. Later learning the In/Outs of a game like Final Fantasy 6 felt really rewarding as a kid.

I picked up Counter Strike between 1.3 and 1.6 and totally sucked at these LAN parties my friend would invite me to. I could not understand it... Weekend after weekend I was just getting left in the dust. Finally after months I started to get the hang of it. Turns out a few of the folks I was playing against every weekend were basically the first 'pro' CS gamers... X-3 I think. All that ass whooping got me in shape that I can hold my own on basically any FPS game I pick up.

The last incredible gaming moment for my gaming era was Vanilla World of Warcraft. Over the first year of that game I had over 3 months time played in game. I was a minor e-celebrity on my server (Sachem on Thunderlord) and got super burned out after the game went from fighting dragons to bugs. Winning a truly pointless game of Warsong Gulch that lasted 2 hours and 13 minutes stands out.

[the_matrix_guy]

Hah thats awesome. I played CS at the cal-m level, and 3D Eddy was in my clan before he was in 3D, 3D was one of the first -- if not the first pro team to get sponsored by a PC company/chip manufacture, I think it was EVGA.

[evilfishsticks]

Nothing too crazy sticks out in my sleep deprived current state, except one and even that wasn't too amazing. I remember paying Guitar Hero 3 online pretty religiously back in the day and just killing it. I recall being ranked 6th for win streak with somewhere in the high 600 wins in a row. I also remember losing and finally moving on to play something else.

[Cdn_Cuda]

I suck at gaming. Never had a Nintendo or anything growing up so lack the speed on a controller and friend would just massacre me in fighting games ( Thank Tyler…). I stay away for online multiplayer games now-days and play single player games.

That said, going back the first redo of Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the first one that had multiplayer, I was actually good at that one and regularly finished as a top player in a match. It’s not a very high bar. Did enjoy that multiplayer though.

[glaman5266]

I suck at fighting games too. I see all the Street Fighter players counting frames & whatnot… I ain’t got time for that stuff, lol.
Smash Bros. is the only fighting game I’m actually decent at.

[moonweasel]

Modern warfare 2 or 3,Tea bagging a player I found lying on the ground, and then stabbing them, turns out to be the final kill, and the whole lobby gets to watch my glorious moves

[GanonsGrin]

Back in the olden days of the original Xbox, I was ranked globally at #8 on Ghost Recon 2.

[glaman5266]

Holy crap, that’s good!

[GanonsGrin]

Well, I am nowhere near that level any more. I know I was in the top 100 on COD World at War for a bit but Ghost Recon was my pinnacle, and then college, girlfriend and full time jobs took my free time away. I am absolutely atrocious at games these days, but my kids think I’m the greatest gamer ever and that’s all I care about now.

[JeeperCreeper]

Ah good old back in the day type stuff. Back on PS3 when Modern Warfare 2 came out, I was unstoppable with a pistol and the tactical knife. I used to get 20+ kills without firing a single shot. That was truly the last great Call of Duty IMO. The best maps and the secret locations on the maps just can't be beat. Nowadays I hardly even turn the console on, just not as interested anymore.

[Seajay]

Agreed it was a ton of fun, I loved the suppressed shotgun, hilarious. That is until the hackers went nuts and every server was ...an experience.

[chrislognshot]

if we do not have video can not prove it.

[Chuck E Ducky]

I have a super Hail Mary knife throw saved. Playing COD I throw a knife as I jump off an adjacent roof at what looks like a 45* angle and hit a player in the head as I’m falling switch to my shotgun and catch the last kill with a point blank shotgun blast as I fall forgetting to pull my parachute and break my legs. But the guy I shot was the very last player and I killed him first so I win with broken legs. I do have it saved on my old Xbox.

[homerj]

Beating the Die Hard 2 level of Die Hard Trilogy on the PS1 with an original digital controller. I remember a professional reviewer at the time saying he thought it was all but impossible to beat it without a light gun. It was definitely hard as HELL & took many, many, many tries but i finally did it.

[moonweasel]

Not sure I would say incredible moment, but I'm happy with my handy work

[the_matrix_guy]

roflmao

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[the_matrix_guy]

Counter Strike 1.6 back in 2003, Cal-M match, dropping down in the tunnel in de_dust with a Deagle as a T, and headshotting the AWPer peaking in the far corner where the ramp is as soon as i dropped down and then another Ct against the wall in the tunnel, both in succession, both headshots --just out of pure muscle reflex from playing that game so much. I had em call me a hacker the whole match, telling me that they had me on video and that they were reporting me...roflmao

My buddies were all cracking up in the mic telling me to turn off my hacks (obviously joking)

A funny moment I can remember from another game, was playing TES Skyrim, I had all the double wielding axe perks, including decapitation, and one time I had a guy's head roll down a hill like 150 yards with ragdoll fx. Had me cracking up

[bellicose]

I tried CS at around this time as well. Was so dominated that I quit. Last year, my students started playing it in the after noon game club that I run, so I jumped back in. I can safety say that I can hold my own with them (but not against anyone really good).

[the_matrix_guy]

bellicose Yeah, one major factor to consider if you want to stay competitive nowadays, is the type of monitor and resolution you play at. Of course your reflexes slow down too as we age. But to stay competitive these days online in competitive FPS games, you gotta run a monitor at 1080 and it cant be bigger than 23". I have an Alienware 1440p 36" ultrawide and hell no, I can tell it makes it 20x harder, you just cant compete with the guys that have FPS gaming setups and are practiced. The bigger the resolution the smaller everything is and the more your brain has to process and track, also mouse tracking wise it's much more difficult to acquire targets outside of your immediate FOV, youre doing longer mouse tracking as well apart from your brain processing all the visual information. The only benefit of higher resolution is a wider FOV but your mouse tracking as I mentioned is also longer so it negates the wider FOV pro to a con, and of ocurse as I also alluded, everything including your targets are smaller too thus harder to hit accurately. Plus at 1080 the refresh rate is also way higher which helps alot too.

[Seajay]

Counter Strike 1.6 back in 2003, Cal-M match, dropping down in the tunnel in de_dust with a Deagle as a T, and headshotting the AWPer peaking in the far corner where the ramp is as soon as i dropped down and then another Ct against the wall in the tunnel, both in succession, both headshots --just out of pure muscle reflex from playing that game so much. I had em call me a hacker the whole match, telling me that they had me on video and that they were reporting me...roflmao

That brought back some memories. CS 1.6 was great. I had played CS when it was a brand new mod for Half Life... those were some amazing gaming days.
Similar kind of feat, I was the last one alive on my team and it was on an italy looking map with cross path vertical walkways, can't remember the name. I was on a corner wall edge and the other guy was on the far end across the map on a 2 story balcony or wall. I peaked the corner real fast and got his location. Set my crosshair where his head would be, and strafed back out from the corner and fired a single shot from the AK and got the headshot. It was so quick I was in shock.

I was also super good with the scout, loved that thing. Headshots for days.

[Spider!]

Around 1985, three of my friends and I started a multiplayer, turn-based, world domination type game around 10 pm on my original IBM PC. Somewhere between 2 and 3am, the f'n thing crashed.

Stoopid computers.

[bellicose]

One of my winning moments was back when the Xbox was new, and Halo was taking the college campus by storm. This was probably 2003-ish. One guy on my dorm, Drewzie, was the best in the entire University, hands down. No one could come close to beating him. His twin brother visited once, and I came over to their room; they needed a fourth player for even teams. I was against Drewzie and his roommate, Castro. My teammate, Drewzie's twin, however, was ranked 3rd...in the nation. I was so proud that I held my own in those matches, and got praise from a nationally ranked player. That was definitely my apex fps days.