I've always known smoking is bad for you...
:)

No questions asked BUMP!

And another bump! Want to take part in this giveaway, but will have to see if I can scrounge up 25 different gaming achievements :D

I'd like to enter please. Let's see, my achievements...

1. I've been playing A LOT for the last year or two. And not only played, but finished like 99% of the games too. This means my backlog is very, very small (less than 10 games currently) especially compared to some other members here. This I am proud of.
2. I've pretty much mastered the 2D Worms games, especially Worms Reloaded.
3. Continuing from #2, I've put 666.7 hours into Worms Reloaded. After that I had to stop cold feet, because my backlog was getting too big at the same time. It's been about two years now and since then I've played the game only about 10 minutes (to show my GF how the game's like)
4. So far I've finished 37 games (+2 expansions) this year.
5. Managed to beat Ghost Master even though I hated it more than any other game this year.
6. Won 2 games from wpegg's latest Nasty giveaway some months ago (and yes, I've since beaten both of them too)
7. Won 1 game from the first Nasty giveaway (skipped the second entirely to give new players a chance)
8. Managed to beat Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. Everyone else here seems to think it's way too hard, especially the last boss.
9. I've never been as close to ragequitting a game so near the end than with BG2:ToB, but eventually decided I'm not giving up and with lots of patience, retries, and different strategies, managed to finally beat the end boss.
10. Speaking of D&D games, I've finished five (IWD, IWD2, BG, BG2, TToEE).
11. The day my dad brought home a NES, when I was six or seven. That day marked a special change in my life: I became an avid gamer.
12. My first PC in 1997: since then, PC's always been my 1. choice of platform (though I did buy an Xbox 360 too in 2006).
13. Though it wasn't always necessarily true in the past, these days and for quite some time, I've bought every one of my games and pirate nothing.
14. I don't know the exact number, but I've calculated I must have finished Fallout 2 at least a dozen times in my life.
15. I've finished Arcanum at least five times.
16. I believe I write pretty decent English and I think the biggest reason for this is my long history of gaming, and the amount of exposure to the language I've gotten via that.
17. While not such a high-valued achievement nowadays (if ever), I'm better in Guitar Hero than any of my friends.
18. Gotten all achievements in Batman: Arkham Asylum.
19. Excluding the Harley Quinn DLC plus the Calendar Man achievement, I've gotten all other achievements in Batman: Arkham City.
20. Gotten all achievements in Mega Man 9.
21. I've finished every Mega Man from 1 through 10, plus a number of the X Mega Mans. These are one of my favorite games.
22. I can still beat Super Mario Bros. on the original NES today.
23. Beat a QWOP tournament at a LAN-party of sorts last Spring (April)
24. Also beat three other tournaments and the combined amount of prizes were 30 Euros worth of gift cards to a Finnish site that sells games, gaming gear, etc; and a wooden doll.
25. Still haven't used those gift cards because I'm waiting for AC III 360 version to drop more in price (currently about 25€)

I hope these achievements count!

Achievement BUMP!

Another BUMP!

+1 not in :) but happy birthday!

Here we go, I don't know if I'll be able to remember 25 stories, I'll try to don't keep all in only one game :-)

1/ My first Steam purchase : Nuclear Dawn. One of the best strategy/FPS, underestimated.
2/ All of my play with my wife in Team Fortress 2.
3/ Minecraft, I'm playing on a private server with a friend and our wife, very funny !
4/ The last sniper bullet which kill U3, Resident Evil 4's boss.
5/ Weekly PES 5 tournaments we made with friends (PS2 with 4 controllers)
6/ Mortal Kombat, Pit Fighter and Asterix on Arcade Cab, memoriieesss !!!!
7/ Some wars on Battlefield 3 are really cool !
8/ Gran Turismo, the first one, pass long nights on it !
9/ Mass Effect was a beautiful trip !
10/ I played only one time Final Fantasy VIII. But I played 14 hours the same day.
11/ niniendowarrior and me had a very laugh evening playing Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection. For him it was the morning :-)
12/ Super Street Fighter IV AE 2012 with french players : good fights !
13/ My first MMORPG, and the only one I played yet : Runes of Magic. Not a long trip, my main is lvl 12 lol
14/ Ace of Spades. But not the crap you can find on Steam, no, I'm speaking about the freeware version. AWESOME !
15/ NBA In the Zone 2, against school friends.
16/ Resident Evil. I was waiting my friends to play it, because he didn't have Playstation system.
17/ Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3. One friend was so good on this game, but not so good than me :-D
18/ GTA Vice City was our favorite entertainment with a good friend. We know the city more than our real city :-)
19/ Deus Ex Human Revolution was a wonderful surprise. I enjoyed it more than the first Deus Ex, which was awesome !
20/ I didn't speak about Street Fighter II Turbo, playing it on Super Nintendo (Super NES) with my cousin. So good !
21/ Battletoads and Rescue Target, my best games on NES system
22/ A friend of my father challenge me on Blades of Steel in 1998/1999. Too bad for him, I kept my skills :-D
23/ My first Point & Click : Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I didn't have a computer at home, but a friend had and let me play.
24/ Sega Rally 2 in Arcade Cab with a friend. The same guy who played GTA with me.
25/ Quake 3 Arena ! Can't forget it, a lot of hours against friends in LAN.

Thanks for the giveaway and good memories desnoscross ! And Happy Birthday ! :-D

Dammit, guess I couldn't get it done in time. Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday, desnoscross!


01 - Playing Enduro and River Raid on a older cousin's house while listening to Raul Seixas.
02 - My first NES-clone, a Hi-Top Game system (or something similar).
03 - First time beating Super Mario 3 without flutes.
04 - Salamander, my first home-console SHMUP.
05 - Upgrading for a SNES.
06 - Beating Super Mario 3 50 or more times on Super Mario All-Stars Cartridge. ;p
07 - Beating all my friends on games like Rock 'n Roll Racing and Super Star Soccer (the last good soccer game ;p).
08 - Chrono Trigger ruining all other JRPGs for me, finding all the finals on it and them lending the game to never be seen again.
09 - Super Metroid.
10 - Beating some of the hardest games, Contra III, Gradius III (no Konami code, ok?), Battletoads and so on.
11 - Playing Shoddai Neketsu Kouha Kunio Kun always with a friend and having a hell of a time without understanding anything. (not sure about the game's name).
12 - Skipping school to play beat'em ups on Arcades, especially Cadillac 'n Dinosaurs.
13 - 102% (103?) on Donkey Kong Country 2.
14 - Fallout (my first CRPG, I think).
15 - Discovering old Lucas-Arts games, and playing all I could find (legally or not).
16 - Discovering emulation, playing old games I never played before and Chrono Cross without a PSX.
17 - Upside down castle on Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (on emulator).
18 - Grim Fandango.
19 - Soul Reaver is so much better on PC than PSX...
20 - Borrowing a friend's 64 to play Ocarina of Time and Mario 64.
21 - Killing giants on Shadow of the Colossus.
22 - My stolen DSi. :/
23 - Discovering GOG, some old friend and old new ones.
24 - Drooling at the sight on Bioshock Infinity.
25 - Playing Freespace 2.


Thanks for the ride through the memory lane.. There's a lot more to it, of course..

Happy Birthday, desnoscross! :)

Happy 25th birthday desnoscross!

count me in!

thanks for a giveaway!
+1

01- Bought LSL on GOG an beat the EPIC Larry 1! and had max money from my blackjack winnings (in-game >_<)
02- Killed Mr Foo in Day of Defeat with a rocket, on a friend's game account. (Mr Foo is/was a camper) Much cursing ensued from Mr Foo.
03- Beat Primordia and was quite happy! realized there probably wont be a sequel and was quite saddened >_<
04- Finally Beat the final boss in FTL after many many failed missions! (still much left to unlock though)
05- Beat Terraria on easy mode (solo)!!! YES! then got to the Eye Boss in Hardmode and got demolished even with maxed gear and potions galore O_o
06- Got max arrows and many bombs (not quite max IIRC) in Legend of Zelda - a Link to the Past and i was unstoppable.
07- Beat Star Ocean: Second Story and remain forever exploring the infinite dungeon.
08- Beat Shadowrun on Genesis then Snes then again on Genesis (with the race mod applied. Way better with the mod c/o distroing Karma from 0. thx darkzero (or something like that))
09- Finally beat Legend of Zelda's - Ocarina of Time - Water Temple! (without smashing the system, cartridge, or controller.
10- Beat Disgea1 with an insane number of hours racked up in it. >_<
11- Beat Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines and got all viable endings. fin love that game! should have another in the series, that would def be Kickstarter Worthy even if its not 'official' to avoid licensing issues; ie 'Torment KS'.
12- Finally beat Castlevania: Symphony of the Night after getting it on my psp after way too many years of half started attempts.
13- Beat Mother on Nes (probably translated) and the music was fin awesome!
14- After training in Street Fighter Alpha 3 for way too many hours, i destroyed a SF champion of my dorm who had what seemed to be every conceivable combo memorized. Used Guy for the victory and made much use of triangle jumps, and that air combo reversal where he slams them into the ground. ^_^
15- Beat Saga Frontier several times.
16- Beat Illusion of Gaia, loved the sections as Shadow.
17- Lost half a year or more when Diablo 2 and the expansion was released. Loved running around with Hurricane active. Crashed many PCs in a LAN party c/o my Necromancer summons ^_^.
18- Killed my way through Hotline Miami! finally figured out what Rooster head and Owl Face were gabbing about, and beat the hidden level.
19- Got Gogo and Umaro in FF3 (FF6j) and kept Shadow alive.
20- Beat Chrono Trigger while keeping Chrono Alive in my initial run through in a world without FAQs.
21- Slashed my way through Bushido Blade (and there were many bodies).
22- Found Ed and Ein in Gemini Rue! +beat the game. Loved it, and the space traveling.
23- Maxed out all my gears in Secret of Mana, and power leveled up all my spells. those exploding ducks and werewolves were not happy to see me ^_^
24- Witnessed a Street Fighter battle that lasted under 7 seconds vs Akuma. the dude playing was able to do 1 thing before it was over, he jumped towards Akuma. then died. it was HILARIOUS!
Akuma did a double fireball then before he could even land it was the Shun Goku Satsu. he might as well not even have picked up the controller. ^_^
25- Finally beat Contra on Nes!!! (after what felt like 3 years of trying) fav gun = spread shot.

Thank you for all the birthday wishes, the giveaway will be closed, and the winners announced at 12:00 PM my time (6 hours from now) Anyone who wishes to make their entry before then, please do so, I would like nothing more than to give plenty of people a chance.

If your timing is perfect, you can actually land 9 punches on King Hippo's stomach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=I5zpM4PUoME#t=295s

You probably meant without emulator tools, but still.

And Happy Birthday!

Need to edit this post as I don't wish to double post. Apologies for the lateness, but I fell asleep.

In any case, the entries are closed and I am beginning the drawing, now.


And the winner is... mrkgnao! Please PM with your choices when convenient.