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[ConkerTheSquirrel.]

Earthbound on SNES. Was on my to-do games for a while. Played it and finished it, now it's in my top games of all time. I love it.
Same with System Shock on PC. Overcoming the old school controls was a challenge. Fun game, I go back to it once in a while!

Emerald Weapon on OG FF7. Was the first person in my circle of friends back in the day to defeat a Weapon. Proud moment for me.

You?

 

[Daneel Elijah]

Sif in Dark Souls 1. The rat in Dark Souls 2. Beating a From Software boss first try is always amazing.
But the ones I will always remember are the Elite Four. When I first played Pokemon Red, I was a kid and had a underleveled team, and a bad one too but I didn't knew any better back then. So when I first began to try the Elite Four, I lost a few times in a row and lost most of my money. I almost abandoned the game then, but found out that by at least beating the first member I would still get xp and enough money to buy some potions. So I grinded and after a few hours I got to beat them all.

 

[Embearded]

Psycho Mantis as a non English speaking child.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

video games are easy, they’re literally made for children

 

[LavitzSlambert]

The Orphan of Kos

 

[ScHlAuChi]

Owl Father in Sekiro

 

[The Lunch Legend]

 

[Irobot82]

Elden Ring. Get Gud never clicked for me until that game.

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Lu BUu in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty solo, using a fire build.

 

[KàIRóS]

I made 100% playthroughs of Final Fantasy X and X-2 when I was a kid and I'm never ever doing that shit again, those games are great JRPGs but my god do they have the most ridiculous requirements ever for 100%. Still I guess I'm proud of having done it at least once.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

what a great gif!

 

[Cakeboxer]

Cuphead + The Delicious Last Course, Punch Out!, Super Punch Out! and Contra III.

 

[kanjobazooie]

It's not that impressive, but beating Bowser in original Super Mario Bros without power-ups felt really good.

 

[_Idea_of_Evil_]

Pre-patch Promised Consort Radahn (Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree).

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Sigrun & Gna on the hardest difficulty on the new GoW games.

 

[Bartski]

Sekiro mortal journey gauntlet.

 

[Danjin44]

Beating true final boss of Drakengard 3 and getting platinum.

It’s hardest boss I ever experienced in my entire gaming life.

 

[Three]

Sigrun & Gna on the hardest difficulty on the new GoW games.

Sigrun on Give Me God Of War mode was a son of a b*tch but damn did it feel good when you finally beat her. Never felt the satisfaction of tearing off the valkyrie wings until finishing that fight.

 

[Eimran]

video games are easy, they’re literally made for children

 

[MagnesD3]

Soloing Malenia, Consort Radaun and Sister Friede come to mind. Sans in Undertale was insane. Im sure theres more but I quickly think of these.

 

[ClanOfNone]

Completing my first Yama/Hell run in Spelunky, and beating the Lich in Gungeon.

Currently doing Spelunky 2 runs, and this game is fuckin tough.

 

[Bernardougf]

Inner Isshin Final boss in the mortal journey gauntlet in Sekiro.

To get to him you have to beat all previous bosses without dying once, including three super versions of previous bosses.

And for no award watsoever .. not even a trophy...just pure pride... chef's kiss.

 

[GametimeUK]

I'm never really proud of overcoming difficult boss fights and challenges, but I often get that feeling when I go back play a classic game I missed out on.

 

[mèx]

True Eigong from Nine Sols.

A toast to everyone who persevered.

 

[Hunter 99]

Dead space 1 on xbox360 on impossible...damn that was intense back in the day.

 

[ClanOfNone]

True Eigong from Nine Sols.

A toast to everyone that persevered.

This game was 2D Sekiro on steroids. Props to anyone that can beat it without adjusting the sliders, I had to dial it way down for my old man reflexes.

 

[Aion002]

I loath the Demon of Hatred, I completed Sekiro on new game plus 7 and on every run I had difficulties with it, while everything else was fun.

So every time killed it, I felt proud doing it.

 

[Sintoid]

AC6 Balteus pre Patch (really pre -I was downloading it while beat ing it)

 

[hollowcupra]

Cuphead + DLC, Evil Within 1 on Akumu, 100% FF12, 13, X and a lot more, these just came to mind.

 

[Fess]

Elden Ring + Shadow of the Erdtree
Maliketh, Radagon+Elden Beast, Malenia, Fire Giant, Consort Radahn, Messmer, Rellana

I was actually proud just to beat Margit the first time.

 

[Rush2112]

Father Owl and Sword Saint from sekiro. I couldnt believe it when I beat them I thought it was impossible at first.

 

[BigLee74]

Completing Super Meat Boy won me one million sloppy blow jobs over the years.

 

[Da1337Vinci]

Shinobi PS2 final boss.
Sekiro Isshin.

 

[Bojji]

The Orphan of Kos

Hardest fucking boss in souls series IMO.

- Orphan of Kos
- Penance in FFX
- Platinum in MGS2S (it's hard...)

 

[Topher]

Mass Effect Legendary Edition (technically three games) on Insanity difficulty. I don't play games on higher difficulty but this one was a lot of fun as it forced me to try different tactics with my team members. More of a thinking difficulty for an action game. Back when Bioware was Bioware.

 

[STARSBarry]

Ecco the Dolphin, I was 6.

 

[Insanemaelstrom]

Gt7 license tests, missions and circuit experiences.

 

[yamaci17]

jedi survivor
beating double oggdo boggdo without taking damage (gm difficulty)
beating them again without using air dash, saber throw and blaster stance at 30 FPS lock (gm difficulty)
beating them at 30 FPS lock without target lock (gm difficulty)
beating them simultaneously
beating the initial oggdo in the cave without having any upgrades or skills (both in fallen order and survivor)




elden ring
beating malenia solo without heavy weapon stagger, just straight swords
beating mohg without using gimmick items


this


cyberpunk 2077
surviving 3 waves of maxtac at 30 fps in very hard difficulty
completing the secret ending without use of sandevistan in very hard difficulty (it's not really difficult but I made my own special build to survive all that without looking at guides so I'm proud of it)


witcher 3
beating eredin with a doublet in ng+ death march

beating ng+ in general with 30 lvl armor (but its gimmicks makes you powerful)


this bullshit with broken detection system


beating gondul at only level 5 in god of war 2018 (give me a challenge difficulty though)

completing all hitman trilogy maps SASO

completing doom eternal and its DLCs in ultra nightmare difficulty (with escalations)

completing last of us part 1/2 in survivor difficulty at 30 fps lock without aim assist and gamepad

there should be more but these are the ones I remember for now

 

[lmimmfn]

Simple......
"Nanomachines son"

 

[Bartski]

I beat the grand slam in Dakest Dungeon 2 (beating all chapters with the same team one by one, no hero deaths), which I'm hearing requires 300 IQ so that's another one

 

[Shifty1897]

Bloodborne and Demon's Souls Remake.

As for special bosses, I usually don't do them. I did Culex for SMRPG and Yiazmat in FFXII.

Oh! I did the 100 floor optional tower in Tactics Ogre Reborn. It wasn't super hard but it was a test of patience, holy shit.

 

[dave_d]

If we want to go old school I'll bring up beating Kenseiden on the Master system. Admittedly the hardest part was beating the monk boss.(Once you found out how to beat him the rest was easy.) Oh and of course beating Ninja Gaiden on the NES.(Which is admittedly not so bad when my friend realized that the last 3 bosses aren't a boss rush. They don't come back if you've already beat them.)

 

[digdug2]

I have two of them.

The first is Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! After tons of practice and memorization needed to survive that absolute onslaught of punches of the first minute of round one, I then started learning the rest of the fight. This one particular playthrough, it was round 3 with not much time left to go and I knocked Mike down for what I thought was the second time in the round, until Mario told me 'TKO'. I couldn't believe it. I have never tried again.

The second is the original Contra. I have only done it once, but I made it all the way through the game without dying. A couple caveats, it was single-player and I used the spread gun the entire game. You can call it OP all you want but the game is still ridiculously hard to complete with no hits, even when equipped with the best weapon. These days, I'll usually make it to Energy Zone or Hangar... then when I die, I turn it off and will try again next year.

 

[JohnSpartanLee]

Beating Diablo II Resurrected (PS5) Hell difficulty with a hardcore zealot.

 

[Beechos]

Now that I look back beating alot of import jap rpgs back in the 16bit/ps1 days without knowing a lick of japanese. I remember as a kid I would just talk to everyone in the villages/towns to hopefully trigger something and explore everybit of the overworld map to try to find the next destination. The dbz rpg for snes was my 1st attempt back in the days sure wish there was a modern remake for that game and it's unique card based battle system.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Beating Alien Soldier was cool. The last few bosses where hard as nails, specially that fucking space cowboy

 

[Certinty]

The final challenge in The Witness.

Think I played for like eight hours straight until I finally did it.

 

[GateofD]

Earthbound for me as well.
And Super Metroid, I had a SNES but couldn't afford the actual games. So missed out on playing most. Till many years later till I got the SNES Classic.
So beat played and beat Earthbound for the first time on it, as well as Super Metroid. Was like "oh I get why people mention it a lot now"

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Soloin' Halo on Legendary on OG Xbox. This was my frst FPS with a controller and what a challenge it was for a PC kid like me.

 

[RoboFu]

This MF, on launch.. severely underleveled.