What are you proud of?

[3DTyrant]

beating the Fusion Dragon on Golden Sun (the first one) think i was about 12 years old at the time? (2003)

[Borfl]

Can't say I'm proud of anything I've ever done. And video games I completely disregard as anything to be proud of since they're just made to be fun. If I came up with the cure for HIV or became a rock prodigy then I'd be proud.

[Anthoren]

Probably beating Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts....the prick.

Not sure about specifics but being able to play and beat most games at the highest difficulty does put a smile on my face.

[Underskilled]

Beating the real Final Fantasy III, without stacking ninjas

And beating Lucifer on GH3 on hard mode.

I've beaten a fair share of games, but those were the only two that took so long, and were such a pain to finish, but damn did I feel good when I beat them.

[clickhack]

Banjo Kazooie speed run in five hours. =)
Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie perfection.

Not spending 15 dollars a month on a game subscription anymore.

damn I want to do a time run for that game I just never have the time to sit down for 5 hoursish straight

[Deleted]

Yet you still find time to ruin a good thread on a website dedicated to the game you apparently don't like. BE GONE TROLL!

Theres a huge offtopic forum, your arguement is invalid

[clickhack]

Can't say I'm proud of anything I've ever done. And video games I completely disregard as anything to be proud of since they're just made to be fun. If I came up with the cure for HIV or became a rock prodigy then I'd be proud.

Dude it's just fucking video games. Not different from "I am proud that I made really good food". When you're younger or bored as fuck now you'll find something to say, "oh cool I just did that- awesome!" If you're not able to be proud of simple things then you're either boring as fuck or an over achiever. Like come on, a skateboarder finally landing a kickflip! "FUCK YEAH" I bet 5 years later the guy won't touch a skateboard, but still, it's something to be proud of.

[Deleted]

Uninstalling WoW

This, although it hasn't happen i hope it does in a very near future....

[Wynnyelle]

damn I want to do a time run for that game I just never have the time to sit down for 5 hoursish straight

It goes by a lot faster than you would think when you're trying to set a goal for yourself!

[inboundpaper]

I would say i'm the most proud of my 40 in H3, my most kills record in Blops, that was only with my Ak-47 and my low killstreak set, and all the time I spent pooning newbs in R6V2, I was like 3.0 in that game.

[Sofii]

I was so very proud of myself the first time I beat the Elite Four in Pokemon Blue. I felt so powerful. Then I beat Gary, and I felt invincible. So much fun. Oh, and the first time I beat the final Bowser in Super Mario 64. Also, getting gold in all the cups in Mario Kart Wii. With ratings ranging from 1 star to 3 stars. I tend to play Nintendo a lot more then other games.

[Deleted]

Conpleting Vagrant Story's Iron maiden dungeon. Bit worrying how many people need to assert that they are proud they ''Quit WoW''. Who are you trying to convince here? The reader, or yourself?

[OrcsRLame]

Beating every Final Fantasy ultimate/optional boss, (Ruby Weapon, Trema, Emerald Weapon, Nemesis, Omega Weapon etc) without using a guide.

Beating all 3 God of War games on their respective highest difficulties. Picking up Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta for PS3 soon. ^_^

Holding several top 100 scores in Devil May Cry 4 DMD mode, and an overall score that's in the top 200.

Having the perfect character in Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind.

Getting sponsored to play Halo 2 in MLG back in the day.

[Radoria]

Before my 3rd deployment to Iraq, I started & led a WoW guild for almost a year. It consisted of a few old friends from previous guilds, and tons of players that had no clue what a raid was. We formed our first 10-man raid team during Wrath, and only 3 of us had ANY previous raid experience. We cleared Naxx and Malygos (pre-nerf) in about 28 days.

Granted, there will be those people that will go, "Oh, Wrath raids were easy, blah blah, derp derp...." Fine, but tell that to a group of folks that had never raided before. Teaching new players how to raid is still a huge challenge, regardless of dungeon difficulty.

To me, leading that guild was my proudest accomplishment.

Goddamn buddy, you've been through all kinds of military training and were deployed overseas to defend your country, and your proudest moment was being the guild master of a few dorks in a fantasy world where no real danger of any kind lingers? That's like Neil Armstrong saying his proudest moment was being president of his high school chess club.

[Deleted]

The first time i got 2.4k rating in WoW arena. Had put in around 300 games in that team with people I liked. Was amazing.

Edit: Forgot, also doing 50 attempts on ToC 10 HC whilst current content as a healer. Loved Anub p3!

[Borfl]

Dude it's just fucking video games. Not different from "I am proud that I made really good food". When you're younger or bored as fuck now you'll find something to say, "oh cool I just did that- awesome!" If you're not able to be proud of simple things then you're either boring as fuck or an over achiever. Like come on, a skateboarder finally landing a kickflip! "FUCK YEAH" I bet 5 years later the guy won't touch a skateboard, but still, it's something to be proud of.

Ok, you're right, I'm boring and I'm an over-achiever. So? I'm being completely honest I don't see what there is to be proud of when playing a video game. When I take pride in something it has to be something worth it.

[Caiada]

Hmm.... I've slogged through some pretty difficult games (some with savestates) but none of that I'm all that proud of. I beat Mechanator for the SNES, but it was full of cheap crap and had to be savestated through. Fun game, at least. Pretty similar with what happened with Kaizo. I've 100%ed all sorts of games by now, some of which are pretty time-consuming, like KH2, the Metroidvanias, some FFs, but that's just time well-spent. Beat Sephiroth on KH2 in proud mode way underleveled and by abusing elixirs, basically, but that just mostly took a lot of resets.

Perhaps the only gaming accomplishment I am proud of that I can think of at the moment is my old sprawling metropolis in SimCity 4000 that was nearly the size of a small European country at it's peak, with maybe 3 million or so residents and jobs for all, a high-quality subway system, steady cashflow, and industry taxes manipulated to just the right level to forgo high-pollution industry and instead start to begin a space program. I do wonder what might have happened had I been able to continue it, but the hard drive it was on failed.

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Ok, you're right, I'm boring and I'm an over-achiever. So? I'm being completely honest I don't see what there is to be proud of when playing a video game. When I take pride in something it has to be something worth it.

Personal worth is just as significant as societal worth, and many gaming achievements have personal worth.

[Borfl]

Personal worth is just as significant as societal worth, and many gaming achievements have personal worth.

Yeah, no. Personal worth is just trivial and insignificant to me. That's like saying I'm a multi-gladiator, does anyone give a shit? No. Therefore it has no merit. But if I did something that was ground breaking and useful such as creating the best video game of the year or all time I would be proud of that.

[Deleted]

Ok, you're right, I'm boring and I'm an over-achiever. So? I'm being completely honest I don't see what there is to be proud of when playing a video game. When I take pride in something it has to be something worth it.

I think, basically, what he's trying to say is that this isn't about the the things that you're the most proud of, out of all the things you've ever done. This isn't about that greatest moment in your life when you were stood teary-eyed on a podium in front of trillions of people being handed an award by the prime minister of the universe. Perhaps I'm mistaken but I think he's trying to explain that this is more about the things that you're most proud of within a videogame context (as in: excluding all the wells and schools you've built in africa and all the fair trade chocolate bars you bought from tesco this one time to help poor farmers).

Obviously you have some feeling about everything you do, on a sliding scale from embarrassment to indifference to pride, and even if everything you do within the confines of a videogame is somewhere between embarrassment and indifference (this probably says more about you than him, just so you know!) then there's still that one thing, or those couple of things that are futher towards "proud" than all the others, even if they are really far down compared to all your other past glories.

To give a (hypothetical) example, while you may not be "proud" of that one time you got a world-first m'uru kill, you're still MORE proud of it than the time where you wiped on post-nerf shannox for hours, or the time (hypothetically, remember) you got super fucked up on crystal meth and woke up in a soup kitchen with your head inside a goat's skull and a broomhandle lodged a good 2 feet into your clunge. These are the kind of things the OP was asking about. I know it's pretty confusing that the thread title didn't go into this much detail and you seemed to have misunderstood the intent, but that's okay. It's not really your fault because you can't put much description in a thread title, and there arn't really many words to use that are more appropriate than "proud" in this situation, even if it's a little bit misleading at first!

I hope this cleared things up for you so you can join in with the conversation, and happy posting!

[OrcsRLame]

I think, basically, what he's trying to say is that this isn't about the the things that you're the most proud of, out of all the things you've ever done. This isn't about that greatest moment in your life when you were stood teary-eyed on a podium in front of trillions of people being handed an award by the prime minister of the universe. Perhaps I'm mistaken but I think he's trying to explain that this is more about the things that you're most proud of within a videogame context (as in: excluding all the wells and schools you've built in africa and all the fair trade chocolate bars you bought from tesco this one time to help poor farmers).

Obviously you have some feeling about everything you do, on a sliding scale from embarrassment to indifference to pride, and even if everything you do within the confines of a videogame is somewhere between embarrassment and indifference (this probably says more about you than him, just so you know!) then there's still that one thing, or those couple of things that are futher towards "proud" than all the others, even if they are really far down compared to all your other past glories.

To give a (hypothetical) example, while you may not be "proud" of that one time you got a world-first m'uru kill, you're still MORE proud of it than the time where you wiped on post-nerf shannox for hours, or the time (hypothetically, remember) you got super fucked up on crystal meth and woke up in a soup kitchen with your head inside a goat's skull and a broomhandle lodged a good 2 feet into your clunge. These are the kind of things the OP was asking about. I know it's pretty confusing that the thread title didn't go into this much detail and you seemed to have misunderstood the intent, but that's okay. It's not really your fault because you can't put much description in a thread title, and there arn't really many words to use that are more appropriate than "proud" in this situation, even if it's a little bit misleading at first!

I hope this cleared things up for you so you can join in with the conversation, and happy posting!

Someone should hire you as some kind of debate translator. That was absolutely brilliant.