What's the dumbest brag you have in gaming?

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I was talking to a friend about how I actually care about my crowning accomplishments in games from leaderboards to achievements/trophies. I was thinking about how ultimately, my gaming achievements are sometimes really stupid and like Al Bundy bragging about the game winning catch in football even though he's 40 lol.

So this thread popped up into my head. What's the dumbest thing you've done that you could brag about in gaming?


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"I have a Platinum trophy in X-Men Destiny and Leisure Suit Larry's Box Office game."
 
Being pro in RE5 multiplayer with mate for hours and suddenly stopped getting through and did stupid moves to make him mad and quit the game.
 
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All of them
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But also, completing the Pokemon Emerald pokedex (386 total). I retired from Pokemon games after that.
 
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Defending myself from a guy trying to physically assaulting me with the OG Xbox Duke controller. Dude walked back with a bloody nose and I kept playing Halo. The controller kept working flawlessly.
 
Cert.in.Death said:
All of them

But also, completing the Pokemon Emerald pokedex (386 total). I retired from Pokemon games after that.
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I almost did the original 151. In Yellow, I ended up collecting near 130 and then someone hit new game in my Game Boy as a teen. Ruined the collect em all for me lol
 
Thanks OP.

Now I need to order a #33 Polk High football jersey from eBay, lol 🤣
 
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DryvBy said:
I almost did the original 151. In Yellow, I ended up collecting near 130 and then someone hit new game in my Game Boy as a teen. Ruined the collect em all for me lol
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It spiraled out of control after the OGs. Emerald required importing Pokemon from other versions (FireRed and LeafGreen) in addition to trade requirements, plus exclusive entries from attending conventions like Deoxys and Jirachi.
 
I beat Knights of the Old Republic on an IPad on the highest difficulty playing without party members using the smuggler class for my main character. I knew the game was easy, but I didn't realize how stupidly easy it really was.
 
During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records: most time spent in the penalty box; and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody.
 
In the mid 90s I was the best SFII player in my local area and one time while playing the arcade machine that was randomly sat in the corner of a ladies hairdressers, I fended off contender buy-ins for well over an hour with a single 30p credit. Unbeaten, I eventually left the premises to find my locked BMX bike wheels slashed outside. It was worth it.
 
My Wow account has various achievements that were super rare at the time. I think some got changed into feats of strength after they nerfed them to make it easier for people to do.
 
I was the first person to discover weapon/armor duplication glitch in Final Fantasy II (FF IV in Japan) on Super Nintendo, the year it came out. It was by sheer accident that I figured it out. Submitted to Nintendo Power and it was published. Can't even remember which issue it was in. I owned it for sure, but just recently went back through the ones I still have, and it's not in any of those. Absolutely no way to prove that I was the first to find the glitch for sure, but I know it wasn't anywhere published at that time in any magazine available to me. It is funny any time I see the glitch though, in my mind I'm like "yea I did that" 😂
 
I have 1000 gamerscore in Avatar Burning Earth...

🤣

for anyone who doesn't know,
all the achievements in that game are combo counter based. literally all of them.

so, if you want 1000 gamerscore you just start the game, and instantly walk to the left edge of the screen and spam B to shoot enemies. this will get your combo counter up, and after like 30 seconds or so, you have all achievements 🤣
 
Really don't have anything to brag about. Which is sad. Gaming since 1989 (3 years old).

I have beaten Dark Souls on 4 different platforms. Umm... never NG+ (yet) and no platty

But... ya know.. "hard game" or something like that

Toy Story 3 platty (finding all those collectibles was a bitch)
 
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I was blackpools MK2/Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting daddy. For around three years. Seriously. Every Friday through the weekend at Mr.B's. arcade key gods use to give us free credits constantly, so a crowd formed and regulars became challengers. It was magical. Winner stays on.

Also set a lap time record for the arcade cabinet version of Ridge Racer (Using the gearstick, no automatic rubbish here).

God I was good. 😅
 
I got a FFXIV Private Residence.

... during the 'rona when evictions of lapsed accounts was disabled

... and before they added the lottery system or whatever they have now

A total of 72 hours of speed-clicking on a fucking signboard, trying to bid-snipe the 30 other people trying to do the same thing.

If you were there you'd understand.

Each new house would show up on the market with a hidden availability timer between 0 and 24+ hours. You would have no idea when it would become actually available to purchase, so all you could do is click on the sign again and again hoping you could catch the sale when it actually went live. Since there was very limited stock, everyone else in the market would be there as well doing the same thing.

edit: Oh god now I remember it was even worse - if someone else already had a house, they could buy the property immediately without waiting for the timer. So you could have been chain-clicking for like 8 hours and someone who wants to relocate could just waltz up and take the place at their leisure.
 
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Really good WL and KD ratios in COD back in the day. Playing with total randoms 95% of the time too. From World at War to Black Ops II, probably had WL of 2.00+ (67%+) and KD of 2.75 - 3.80.

In those 360 NHL leagues, I think each division was in chunks of 100 teams. Our team made it to Division 1 playing legit. But we fell behind hard and started losing when the 99 attribute cheat happened and EA never fixed it. There was some stupid cheat you could do messing around with a second gamepad or profile, which suddenly let you make custom online characters with 99 pts in every attribute. If your team didn't do the same thing back, you'd get steamrolled. We didn't and dropped fast.
 
"I have played this game xxxx hours"

I mean I am a gamer too but when the time used gets past certain hours it gets kinda dark.
 
DryvBy said:
I was talking to a friend about how I actually care about my crowning accomplishments in games from leaderboards to achievements/trophies. I was thinking about how ultimately, my gaming achievements are sometimes really stupid and like Al Bundy bragging about the game winning catch in football even though he's 40 lol.

So this thread popped up into my head. What's the dumbest thing you've done that you could brag about in gaming?


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"I have a Platinum trophy in X-Men Destiny and Leisure Suit Larry's Box Office game."
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He had four touchdowns in one game for undefeated Polk High. Get the story right!
 
After a horrible breakup, I decided to not date for a year and invested way too much time into Black ops 2. Got pretty decent. 73-1 lol.

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Played EQ for 96 hours straight, with pauses for pizza and buying snacks.
I was pretty knackered and slept for 24hours afterwards.
 
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