1. Buying my first MMO house in Asheron's Call. I stumbled across a perfect neighborhood out exploring and managed to snatch up the cottage of my dreams!
2. Beating the Balrog for the very first time in LOTRO when the raid was new. We had a guild that sort of had A and B teams. The A team was busy working on the raid and we threw together a very shaky B team for people who wanted to raid but had never done so. We were horrible and couldn't get past trash mobs for a few weeks. With regular practice, we started getting better and better gradually surpassing the A team. When we got that bad boy down (weeks before the other group), you should have heard the cheers. At the time, just a few guilds on our server had been successful so it was quite an accomplishment considering we had been so bad, lol.
Let me put this in perspective. If someone asked me to list some of my greatest achievements, they might include marrying my beautiful bride, getting my most recent promotion, etc. there is no way I would list becoming an early SWG Jedi among those things. In fact it would never have come to mind. But we talking specifically about an achievement in a virtual world. Does it make you feel better to try to imply you are better than these posters?
I'd point out that things in live only have value if you give them value. It seems people who follow the status quo always like to point out how everyone who isn't getting married, having kids, and working constantly are lesser beings in some way. If you are happy with your family that's all that you really need to worry about. You don't need to worry about weather someone takes pride from other things in life.
As I said, if someone asked "ME, they might include..." My example is only to point out that for most people, you can have great sense of accomplishment in real life, and also have a sense of achievement in a game. I'm sure this would be very different for many people and it really depends on what is important to the individual. People who feel they have accomplished something in a game (however large or small), are not dysfunctional nor is it a reflection of what their real life achievements might or might not be.
I'm sorry to have jumped at you, but it hit a nerve. I see a lot of people on this board who keep saying video games are only for entertainment and should have no challenge/achievement. It's something I strongly disagree with.
We can agree there. I think modern games are becoming too simple and easy. Though my life doesn't allow the amount of time gaming as I have had in the past, It would still be great to see others have complex and challenging game achievements. For example, I'll never be Emperor in ESO, but kudos to the guys that make it.
Everquest Bard epic 1.0 - wasnt one of the really hard epics but it wasnt easy and it took me about 6 months even with a guild behind me. I was third Bard on our server to complete it but it was really an achievement for our entire guild because they were involved every step of the quest. you guys NOTHING compares.. NOTHING compares!!! to Everquest Epic Quests for satisfaction of completion.
and now I discovered Project1999 and the sheer joy of the greatest MMO of all time is back!!! Started a Shadowknight and I'm enjoying Everquest even more this time around. Project 1999 Everquest is fucking amazing and its bigger than ever. Velious is in beta and the thought of fighting through Temple of Veeshan and then into Sleepers Tomb has got my guild so fukin giddy. You can even use the newer Luclin character models!!
I dont have anything real special, but getting the Green Protodrake in WoW was a big deal for me.
Also FINALLY getting a Yalm in Anarchy Online, you'd think those things were made of moon and stars with how expensive they were. Getting my ql200 P-Beamer was a big day too.
The Great Masquerade was the alliance quest chain that leads to obtaining the Drakefire Amulet, the key to Onyxia's Lair. This is one of the most arduous quest chains in the game, involving multiple trips into Blackrock Depths, a major event in Stormwind City, and a raid in Upper Blackrock Spire. It may require several Lower Blackrock Spire runs as well, to acquire the key to the raid area.
While the above-referenced event in Stormwind was definitely the most immersive moment for me up to that point in WoW, it was surpassed by a little-known event in the WotLK expansion that happened during the moments immediately preceding the cutscene for the Battle of Angrathar the Wrathgate.
What I discovered is that if you have completed The Great Masquerade, Highlord Bolvar Fordragon will whisper you as he walks through the parade on his way to the Wrathgate event. And what he says is: Ill never forget what you did for us back in Stormwind, <name>.
This is an amazing bit of personal history/lore that went unnoticed by most players. It was so stunning, I actually cried. My most immersive mmorpg moment ever.
I remember the first time my guild downed Rag in vanilla WoW. It was absolutely intense. The only things that highlighted that was defeating Nag on a 'learning run' and my leading a 10 man that killed KT in early WotLK.
Let me put this in perspective. If someone asked me to list some of my greatest achievements, they might include marrying my beautiful bride, getting my most recent promotion, etc. there is no way I would list becoming an early SWG Jedi among those things. In fact it would never have come to mind. But we talking specifically about an achievement in a virtual world. Does it make you feel better to try to imply you are better than these posters?
I'd point out that things in live only have value if you give them value. It seems people who follow the status quo always like to point out how everyone who isn't getting married, having kids, and working constantly are lesser beings in some way. If you are happy with your family that's all that you really need to worry about. You don't need to worry about weather someone takes pride from other things in life.
No ... but he is just talking about his perspective .. just like you.
I don't see if someone can state that an in-game achievement makes them proud, someone shouldn't say that his values are different and only real world achievement matters to him.
If one side can state their values, the other side can do.
Getting my first mount with Warlock years ago. Was awesome! Got Warrior around 42 when I realized at that time I will never get enough gold for mount. That was my first ever alt. So started Warlock. And was incredible feeling when I finnaly got my first mount. :-) Well years after .... I have 11 always maxed out alts of Alliance, now working on Horde part.
not really an accomplishement, but i have fun finding loopholes in games, kinda breaking them sometimes
Dark ages of Camelot
found a 2h axe : quest reward with like 6.0 atk speed (hella slow, hits like a truck), thought about trying that with shadowblade who had an attack from stealth which did like 4* your regular hit. Tried that in PvP : every foe I tried it on were one shot. What was funny is they never thought you could one shot from stealth and the game didn t de stealth you when you killed someone that way. Needless to say a lot of albs and hibs didn t understand what hit them as they croaked that day. Was fun looking at the kill spam :
XXX was killed by Chaykon
YYY was killed by Chaykon
ZZZ was killed by Chaykon
Some guy on the forums asked me how I did it… I explained and it got nerfed like it should ve been the day after.
Anarchy online :
Agent+ crit buff from false profession:MA + huge crit weapon (like 5x a normal hit) + ability to use a lvl 120 ish gun at 60 ish = I was one shotting red mobs that killed whole groups my level on crits ( which happened often with MA buff).
Getting in a group was quite easy: go near one, say “hey look”, one shoot a red mob… Then they go WTF as they see the damage dealt in the log, and 3 secs later I had a group invite. Go figure.
Finally reaching the level on my Druid in EQ1 where i could cast a spell to change the weather, then going into the newb zone and saying things in general chat like "I'm bored, i'm going to make it rain now" and casting and seeing noobs gather around me in awe lol
Let me put this in perspective. If someone asked me to list some of my greatest achievements, they might include marrying my beautiful bride, getting my most recent promotion, etc. there is no way I would list becoming an early SWG Jedi among those things. In fact it would never have come to mind. But we talking specifically about an achievement in a virtual world. Does it make you feel better to try to imply you are better than these posters?
I'd point out that things in live only have value if you give them value. It seems people who follow the status quo always like to point out how everyone who isn't getting married, having kids, and working constantly are lesser beings in some way. If you are happy with your family that's all that you really need to worry about. You don't need to worry about weather someone takes pride from other things in life.
No ... but he is just talking about his perspective .. just like you.
I don't see if someone can state that an in-game achievement makes them proud, someone shouldn't say that his values are different and only real world achievement matters to him.
If one side can state their values, the other side can do.
The point is this thread is to talk about accomplishments you had in games you played. It doesn't matter if you feel that other things are more important in life. The thread is not to try and belittle people for feeling pride in something like this. As I said what does it matter to you or anyone else if someone takes accomplishment from something in game. I'd argue real life accomplishments are just as hallow in many cases. Unfortunately people on this board seem very happy to belittle others who see gaming as something important to them. Do you see people on the board saying wow gaming is a major accomplishment. How could you waste your time getting married, working all the time, and raising kids? My perspective is I'd rather not see people share their opinion on weather something is just entertainment or is worthless compared to x in life.
The point is this thread is to talk about accomplishments you had in games you played. It doesn't matter if you feel that other things are more important in life. The thread is not to try and belittle people for feeling pride in something like this. As I said what does it matter to you or anyone else if someone takes accomplishment from something in game. I'd argue real life accomplishments are just as hallow in many cases. Unfortunately people on this board seem very happy to belittle others who see gaming as something important to them. Do you see people on the board saying wow gaming is a major accomplishment. How could you waste your time getting married, working all the time, and raising kids? My perspective is I'd rather not see people share their opinion on weather something is just entertainment or is worthless compared to x in life.
So? That is only your perspective. You have no control over what others want to share.
You "point" of this thread clearly is not the only point, nor the agreed upon point. In fact, it is irrelevant since people can say whatever they want, as long as they stay within the guidelines.
Personally i think it is fair to discuss what constitute accomplishment in the context of real life. If you don't like it, you don't have to read nor respond. Just like i am not going to ask you to stop airing your opinion, even if that is not the same as mine.
My biggest MMO accomplishment was to accept the fact that this genre was mutated for good and became something different and definitely not for me; hence, I shiver with disgust every time I read about a new title then I realize it's an "MMORPG" *shivers*. brbrbrasbdsbasjkd... *baaarfs*
Waiting for a new genre (what MMORPGs should be). Let's see how long would it take this sad and incompetant industry to pick this potential market up.
In EQ, completing the epic for each of my Wizard, Shadowknight, Ranger, Beastlord and Enchanter. I will never have the time nor motivation again to achieve something like that in an MMO.
Waiting for a new genre (what MMORPGs should be). Let's see how long would it take this sad and incompetant industry to pick this potential market up.
Sad for you because you don't like the games. But incompetent? How can you claim that when the industry is growing? Even something like TOR, which many hates here, is a huge financial success. That is very competent .. in doing business.
You know what's sad? People that bash video game accomplishments probably think athletes have a real career. Are football playes really successful? Not to people who don't care about football or sports, I couldn't care less about how good of an athlete someone is, but I certainly will applaud you for video game accomplishment myself. I can understand the value of all things that people do, but why is everyone so obsessed with sports?
E-sports and sports are not any more important than playing video games or anything else is...
If you design fashionable brand name clothing and are a millionaire , gratz, but the odds are high that I personally won't ever buy or like any of the designs on your clothing, that is just the way that it is.
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1. Buying my first MMO house in Asheron's Call. I stumbled across a perfect neighborhood out exploring and managed to snatch up the cottage of my dreams!
2. Beating the Balrog for the very first time in LOTRO when the raid was new. We had a guild that sort of had A and B teams. The A team was busy working on the raid and we threw together a very shaky B team for people who wanted to raid but had never done so. We were horrible and couldn't get past trash mobs for a few weeks. With regular practice, we started getting better and better gradually surpassing the A team. When we got that bad boy down (weeks before the other group), you should have heard the cheers. At the time, just a few guilds on our server had been successful so it was quite an accomplishment considering we had been so bad, lol.
We can agree there. I think modern games are becoming too simple and easy. Though my life doesn't allow the amount of time gaming as I have had in the past, It would still be great to see others have complex and challenging game achievements. For example, I'll never be Emperor in ESO, but kudos to the guys that make it.
Playing mmos for 13 1/2 years without ever having a great accomplishment to brag about
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No matter how cynical you become, its never enough to keep up - Lily Tomlin
Playing MMO's for 13 1/2 years is an accomplishment in itself. You sir are among the winners.
Everquest Bard epic 1.0 - wasnt one of the really hard epics but it wasnt easy and it took me about 6 months even with a guild behind me. I was third Bard on our server to complete it but it was really an achievement for our entire guild because they were involved every step of the quest.
you guys 
NOTHING compares.. NOTHING compares!!! to Everquest Epic Quests for satisfaction of completion.
and now I discovered Project1999 and the sheer joy of the greatest MMO of all time is back!!! Started a Shadowknight and I'm enjoying Everquest even more this time around. Project 1999 Everquest is fucking amazing and its bigger than ever. Velious is in beta and the thought of fighting through Temple of Veeshan and then into Sleepers Tomb has got my guild so fukin giddy. You can even use the newer Luclin character models!!
PROJECT 1999 !!!
Ah, it doesn't have to be great. Just something that was a highlight for you!
I dont have anything real special, but getting the Green Protodrake in WoW was a big deal for me.
Also FINALLY getting a Yalm in Anarchy Online, you'd think those things were made of moon and stars with how expensive they were. Getting my ql200 P-Beamer was a big day too.
The Great Masquerade was the alliance quest chain that leads to obtaining the Drakefire Amulet, the key to Onyxia's Lair. This is one of the most arduous quest chains in the game, involving multiple trips into Blackrock Depths, a major event in Stormwind City, and a raid in Upper Blackrock Spire. It may require several Lower Blackrock Spire runs as well, to acquire the key to the raid area.
http://www.wowwiki.com/The_Great_Masquerade_quest_chain
This vanilla Wow quest chain was removed from the game in patch 3.0.2.
While the above-referenced event in Stormwind was definitely the most immersive moment for me up to that point in WoW, it was surpassed by a little-known event in the WotLK expansion that happened during the moments immediately preceding the cutscene for the Battle of Angrathar the Wrathgate.
What I discovered is that if you have completed The Great Masquerade, Highlord Bolvar Fordragon will whisper you as he walks through the parade on his way to the Wrathgate event. And what he says is: Ill never forget what you did for us back in Stormwind, <name>.
This is an amazing bit of personal history/lore that went unnoticed by most players. It was so stunning, I actually cried. My most immersive mmorpg moment ever.
No ... but he is just talking about his perspective .. just like you.
I don't see if someone can state that an in-game achievement makes them proud, someone shouldn't say that his values are different and only real world achievement matters to him.
If one side can state their values, the other side can do.
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
not really an accomplishement, but i have fun finding loopholes in games, kinda breaking them sometimes
Dark ages of Camelot
found a 2h axe : quest reward with like 6.0 atk speed (hella slow, hits like a truck), thought about trying that with shadowblade who had an attack from stealth which did like 4* your regular hit. Tried that in PvP : every foe I tried it on were one shot. What was funny is they never thought you could one shot from stealth and the game didn t de stealth you when you killed someone that way. Needless to say a lot of albs and hibs didn t understand what hit them as they croaked that day. Was fun looking at the kill spam :
XXX was killed by Chaykon
YYY was killed by Chaykon
ZZZ was killed by Chaykon
Some guy on the forums asked me how I did it… I explained and it got nerfed like it should ve been the day after.
Anarchy online :
Agent+ crit buff from false profession:MA + huge crit weapon (like 5x a normal hit) + ability to use a lvl 120 ish gun at 60 ish = I was one shotting red mobs that killed whole groups my level on crits ( which happened often with MA buff).
Getting in a group was quite easy: go near one, say “hey look”, one shoot a red mob… Then they go WTF as they see the damage dealt in the log, and 3 secs later I had a group invite. Go figure.
Now everything is normalized hehe
The point is this thread is to talk about accomplishments you had in games you played. It doesn't matter if you feel that other things are more important in life. The thread is not to try and belittle people for feeling pride in something like this. As I said what does it matter to you or anyone else if someone takes accomplishment from something in game. I'd argue real life accomplishments are just as hallow in many cases. Unfortunately people on this board seem very happy to belittle others who see gaming as something important to them. Do you see people on the board saying wow gaming is a major accomplishment. How could you waste your time getting married, working all the time, and raising kids? My perspective is I'd rather not see people share their opinion on weather something is just entertainment or is worthless compared to x in life.
So? That is only your perspective. You have no control over what others want to share.
You "point" of this thread clearly is not the only point, nor the agreed upon point. In fact, it is irrelevant since people can say whatever they want, as long as they stay within the guidelines.
Personally i think it is fair to discuss what constitute accomplishment in the context of real life. If you don't like it, you don't have to read nor respond. Just like i am not going to ask you to stop airing your opinion, even if that is not the same as mine.
Killing a high warlord tauren warrior who tried to gank me in burning steppes as a lvl 56 gnome warlock in vanilla wow.
Toss up between saving up enough gold for my epic ground mount in vanilla WOW or getting my "Hand of A'dal" title in Burning Crusade.
My biggest MMO accomplishment was to accept the fact that this genre was mutated for good and became something different and definitely not for me; hence, I shiver with disgust every time I read about a new title then I realize it's an "MMORPG" *shivers*. brbrbrasbdsbasjkd... *baaarfs*
Waiting for a new genre (what MMORPGs should be). Let's see how long would it take this sad and incompetant industry to pick this potential market up.
Not holding my breath.
Sad for you because you don't like the games. But incompetent? How can you claim that when the industry is growing? Even something like TOR, which many hates here, is a huge financial success. That is very competent .. in doing business.
You know what's sad? People that bash video game accomplishments probably think athletes have a real career. Are football playes really successful? Not to people who don't care about football or sports, I couldn't care less about how good of an athlete someone is, but I certainly will applaud you for video game accomplishment myself. I can understand the value of all things that people do, but why is everyone so obsessed with sports?
E-sports and sports are not any more important than playing video games or anything else is...
If you design fashionable brand name clothing and are a millionaire , gratz, but the odds are high that I personally won't ever buy or like any of the designs on your clothing, that is just the way that it is.