Bragging rights: A thread about how awesome you are

BroloBrolo BroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
edited September 2007 in Games and Technology
Are there any games you absolutely kick ass at? Any games where you can school any competition, but most importantly your close friends? Have you ever tossed down with two guys at an arcade and lived to tell the tale?

This is a thread where we brag about just how awesome we are at certain games (I'm looking at you, Super Smash Fans) and tell stories of ownage and domination. Youtube footage is highly encouraged, but mere hyperbole is the only real requirement to tell a story.

The game that I'm best at conveniently also happens to be a game that barely anyone has ever played - Die by the Sword. It's a unique little pc swordfighting game that's a little under a decade old now, but still one of the deepest games I've ever played. My friends and I play in deathmatch arena mode, usually betting against one another for titles like Ultimate Grand Master of the Universe, a title which I currently hold. While my closest rival prefers the heavier blade and damage of the Orcish lieutenant, I prefer the elegant speed and agility of the Skeleton swordsman. Here's a video of some of the matches we've had (including some fights with him and AI backup) edited together to make me look awesome, as a bonus it also includes cheesy music I ripped from one of the Matrix movies.

So have at thee! Tell us all about your skills with a joystick.


also shit bitches I am the worlds greatest skifree player don't even test bitched look at the nub i would pwn him so hard.

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  • Xenocide GeekXenocide Geek Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    i took 3rd place at the hl2: dm tournie this year at PAX

    not that great of achievement, but it was neat because i'd played the game like, 4 times.

    i'd say that The Specialists and Jedi Knight 2 are the two games that nobody can beat me at. maybe not jk2 now, been a long time... but certainly The Specialists.

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  • DashuiDashui Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I was pretty awesome in Battlefield 2 and 2142. I almost always got in the top three positions. That reminds me, I want Frontlines: Fuel of War to come out soon.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I am badass at goldeneye.

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  • delphinusdelphinus Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    marvel vs capcom 2.
    dont fuck with my strider/doom (except if youre cl0ckwork)
    or blackheart/guile

    (being good with top tiers is shooting fish in a barrel)

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    i took 3rd place at the hl2: dm tournie this year at PAX

    not that great of achievement, but it was neat because i'd played the game like, 4 times.

    i'd say that The Specialists and Jedi Knight 2 are the two games that nobody can beat me at. maybe not jk2 now, been a long time... but certainly The Specialists.

    I take it in JK2 you were doing one-on-one saber duels? I've never understood how saber combat in that game really worked, I've always just button mashed and hoped that I would win, but I've only really faced the game AI and it was never particularly good.

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Main reason I have such fond memories of King of Fighters '98 is the sheer amount of cocky bastards I wiped the floor with, once upon a time. I was obscenely good at it- at least compared to the challengers. Especially with characters like Yamazaki, who they totally failed to understand, and thus they spent all their time getting punished by counter-attack moves like Double Returner and Sado/Maso.

    Weird thing? I utterly suck at beat-'em-ups these days. Utterly. To the extent I have difficulty pulling off special moves, let alone nasty health-eating combos.

    Oh, and when Half-Life first came out I could play just about any MP mod and excel. Can't say the same these days- but in its heyday, I was especially good at Op4 CTF and the early versions of DoD and Firearms: 25 - 0 scores and shit like that.

    And now nobody remembers them! Woe is me!

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  • Drunken GhostDrunken Ghost Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I am the greatest rainbow 6 vegas player to ever live, literally i shit you not. And all Platinum medals in Pilot Wings 64, and Blast corp (Besides one level...).

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  • Xenocide GeekXenocide Geek Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Rolo wrote: »
    i took 3rd place at the hl2: dm tournie this year at PAX

    not that great of achievement, but it was neat because i'd played the game like, 4 times.

    i'd say that The Specialists and Jedi Knight 2 are the two games that nobody can beat me at. maybe not jk2 now, been a long time... but certainly The Specialists.

    I take it in JK2 you were doing one-on-one saber duels? I've never understood how saber combat in that game really worked, I've always just button mashed and hoped that I would win, but I've only really faced the game AI and it was never particularly good.


    yep, 1v1 no force saber duels.

    the saber combat was... amazing. unless you played it a ton, you never really understood the subtle nuances. so much went into dueling in that game... mmm. then they raped it with Jedi Academy, gah

    i want a proper JK3 plz, thx.

    Xenocide Geek on
    i wanted love, i needed love
    most of all, most of all
    someone said true love was dead
    but i'm bound to fall
    bound to fall for you
    oh what can i do
  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Edcrab wrote: »
    Main reason I have such fond memories of King of Fighters '98 is the sheer amount of cocky bastards I wiped the floor with, once upon a time. I was obscenely good at it- at least compared to the challengers. Especially with characters like Yamazaki, who they totally failed to understand, and thus they spent all their time getting punished by counter-attack moves like Double Returner and Sado/Maso.

    Weird thing? I utterly suck at beat-'em-ups these days. Utterly. To the extent I have difficulty pulling off special moves, let alone nasty health-eating combos.

    Oh, and when Half-Life first came out I could play just about any MP mod and excel. Can't say the same these days- but in its heyday, I was especially good at Op4 CTF and the early versions of DoD and Firearms: 25 - 0 scores and shit like that.

    And now nobody remembers them! Woe is me!


    I remember Firearms, and just how horrible I was at that game. I'm pretty sure out of those 25 kills per game at least 10 would be coming from me, as I stumbled into mortar after mortar, blew myself up with grenades, shot my teammates in the face with sniper rifles and failed time and time again to open up my parachute. I just could never fathom how a game could be so realistic in some areas and not-realistic in others, which meant I tended to play more like TFC than anything else.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I've won every local GH2 tournament. I plan to move on to Orlando tournaments next year, take my act to the big city.

    I'm also pretty kickass at THPS3.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Rolo wrote: »
    i took 3rd place at the hl2: dm tournie this year at PAX

    not that great of achievement, but it was neat because i'd played the game like, 4 times.

    i'd say that The Specialists and Jedi Knight 2 are the two games that nobody can beat me at. maybe not jk2 now, been a long time... but certainly The Specialists.

    I take it in JK2 you were doing one-on-one saber duels? I've never understood how saber combat in that game really worked, I've always just button mashed and hoped that I would win, but I've only really faced the game AI and it was never particularly good.


    yep, 1v1 no force saber duels.

    the saber combat was... amazing. unless you played it a ton, you never really understood the subtle nuances. so much went into dueling in that game... mmm. then they raped it with Jedi Academy, gah

    i want a proper JK3 plz, thx.

    The thing that pissed me off is that when I went online (with JK2 or 3) nobody ever used sabers, they'd all just sit and snipe and shit. I thought it was fucking retarded. I mean, I know if they had meant for everyone to only use sabers then they wouldn't have put in the guns, but who in hell plays JK2 or 3 to fucking shoot people? I mean seriously?

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  • BallmanBallman Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Well, I do have this under my belt. (The only one I have yet to five-star is Six.)

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Ballman wrote: »
    Well, I do have this under my belt. (The only one I have yet to five-star is Six.)

    I salute you good sir.

    The only things I have yet to five-star are Six, Jordan and (don't laugh) Tattooed Love Boys.

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  • projectmayhemprojectmayhem Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Do not even think about messing with me in any Winning Eleven game. I used to kill at Pokemon Blue as well.

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  • BallmanBallman Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Ballman wrote: »
    Well, I do have this under my belt. (The only one I have yet to five-star is Six.)

    I salute you good sir.

    The only things I have yet to five-star are Six, Jordan and (don't laugh) Tattooed Love Boys.


    I can believe it. That main riff, with its rapid g/g+y alternations, take some practice. I know it took me some practice to get a 5-star on.

    I'll probably never 5-star Six. There's just something about it I can't wrap my head around. I think my high score is about 235k.

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  • spookymuffinspookymuffin ( ° ʖ ° ) Puyallup WA Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Soul Calibur 2/3. People won't even play against me anymore.

    Back in the day I was really good at Rival Schools. I could keep people up in the air for the whole match, it was ridiculous.

    And not saying I'm still good now, because I never play it anymore, I used to be the shit at MvC2. I had it on the Dreamcast, and could use 3 Dans and kill anyone.

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I like to whip this out at every chance I get
    my penis
    No not really
    Actually this disgaeamajin.jpg
    but also my penis

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Rolo wrote: »
    Edcrab wrote: »
    Main reason I have such fond memories of King of Fighters '98 is the sheer amount of cocky bastards I wiped the floor with, once upon a time. I was obscenely good at it- at least compared to the challengers. Especially with characters like Yamazaki, who they totally failed to understand, and thus they spent all their time getting punished by counter-attack moves like Double Returner and Sado/Maso.

    Weird thing? I utterly suck at beat-'em-ups these days. Utterly. To the extent I have difficulty pulling off special moves, let alone nasty health-eating combos.

    Oh, and when Half-Life first came out I could play just about any MP mod and excel. Can't say the same these days- but in its heyday, I was especially good at Op4 CTF and the early versions of DoD and Firearms: 25 - 0 scores and shit like that.

    And now nobody remembers them! Woe is me!


    I remember Firearms, and just how horrible I was at that game. I'm pretty sure out of those 25 kills per game at least 10 would be coming from me, as I stumbled into mortar after mortar, blew myself up with grenades, shot my teammates in the face with sniper rifles and failed time and time again to open up my parachute. I just could never fathom how a game could be so realistic in some areas and not-realistic in others, which meant I tended to play more like TFC than anything else.

    Well what eventually drove me away from the mod was the dev's sudden idea to make it that you couldn't fire various weapons while moving.

    Which invariably meant you'd get a "CAN'T FIRE THIS WEAPON WHILE MOVING!" popup as you come across an enemy, and attempted to stop moving and press your fire button all at the same time.

    That was just ludicrously stupid. But prior to that, the game was awesome- inconsistent realism was better than all consuming anal-retentive realism. Not fun.

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  • wavecutterwavecutter Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    No one in my neighborhood could beat me at Street Fighter 2. I even allowed then to choose my character.

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  • Xenocide GeekXenocide Geek Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/dantaar/haha.jpg

    that's from The Specialists. if somebody wants to put that in a spoiler and image it for me, feel free to do so.

    people posting pictures inspired me to make with the pict0rz.

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    most of all, most of all
    someone said true love was dead
    but i'm bound to fall
    bound to fall for you
    oh what can i do
  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Entire pokedexes in Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow/Gold/Silver/Ruby/Firered.
    Always have handraised Charizards, Alakazams, and Nidokings.
    Over 60 hand raised 100 lvl pokemon.
    Crazy box organization in Ruby/ Firered.
    Considering selling PS2 to fund purchase of new DS to get Diamond and start my addiction over again.

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  • BallmanBallman Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    This isn't all that impressive, but fairly recently I beat the Omega Weapon in FF8 at ~level 14 or so by mercilessly abusing the junctioning system. It took forever and I went through about 8 Holy Wars, but it wasn't really that hard.

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  • ErgandarErgandar Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Jedi Knight 2

    I played in a clan that had a saber-duel exclusive server.

    It was epic

    I absolutely dominated with my style-switchin' skillz+energy drain.

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/dantaar/haha.jpg

    that's from The Specialists. if somebody wants to put that in a spoiler and image it for me, feel free to do so.

    people posting pictures inspired me to make with the pict0rz.

    Man. Much kudos for going that long. Always liked The Specialists but never really got much beyond a 1:1 ratio: I was just way too slow for that game.

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  • ArcticMonkeyArcticMonkey Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I beat Super Mario Bros Lost Levels (SMB2 Japan) on Super Mario All Stars.

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  • Xenocide GeekXenocide Geek Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Ergandar wrote: »
    Jedi Knight 2

    I played in a clan that had a saber-duel exclusive server.

    It was epic

    I absolutely dominated with my style-switchin' skillz+energy drain.

    psh

    force. no force is where it's at. what clan were you in? i frequented all the good clan servers - most were NF, or NF after accepting a duel, though.

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    most of all, most of all
    someone said true love was dead
    but i'm bound to fall
    bound to fall for you
    oh what can i do
  • ErgandarErgandar Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I played in fragglerock (more of a community).

    For the most part, force was removed, except occasionally it was permitted.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Couple of E3s back I would have won the Prey tournament that 2k had to win that top of the line PC, but luck just wasn't with me. I owned so hard in the first two practice rounds that the developers came up to me and said that I was one kill away from resetting the counter. AWESOME! So then why didn't I win? During the tournament I spawned in the most remote part of the map and for the first two minutes of the 5 minute round I didn't see a single person. So the last 3 minutes of the round I was playing catchup CLAWING my way to the top of the rankings to just come short of winning when the clock ran out.. :(

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I'm not sure if you can really play Baldur's Gate 2 competitively but I'm now able to beat the game with my ridiculously overpowered party.

    Same goes for Oblivion, actually. Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul was no match for my enhanced killer mage.

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  • The_SpaniardThe_Spaniard It's never lupines Irvine, CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Oh and a couple months ago I was playing Gears of War with some PA guys. For two rounds straight I killed the entire enemy team with JUST the chainsaw not getting touched. I was GOD!

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  • LavaKnightLavaKnight Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I used to be pretty good at the original Enemy Territory. What with the popping off of headshots and everything, it required a lot of skill to be really good.

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  • vegeta_666vegeta_666 CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I was quite good at Call of Duty 2, with 64 players going I could rack up kills, me and my Thompson/MP5/Whatever the Russians had. I topped the kill chart many matches. Some people just did not have good reaction times.

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  • a Ferreta Ferret 360 Dunk from Half Court Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I made it to the second round at EVO 2k4 in Soul Caliber 2. I'm pretty damn proud of that one.

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  • thej3wthej3w Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Oh and a couple months ago I was playing Gears of War with some PA guys. For two rounds straight I killed the entire enemy team with JUST the chainsaw not getting touched. I was GOD!

    I used to do that all the time when I played. My friends got scared of the chainsaw noise cause usually if they heard it, that meant they were dying. I can't find my Gears disc though :(.

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  • spookymuffinspookymuffin ( ° ʖ ° ) Puyallup WA Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    a Ferret wrote: »
    I made it to the second round at EVO 2k4 in Soul Caliber 2. I'm pretty damn proud of that one.

    I want to compete in EVO so bad. I hope it's still around when I get back to the US.

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  • Marty81Marty81 Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Pretty sure I hold the speed record for Devil May Cry 3:SE's mission 2 on DMD! mode with Vergil.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6GCnDiztc

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  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Ninja Gaiden 2. I've reached the final boss in one run(I think I died twice, tops).

    Also, Street Fighter Alpha 3 arcade; reached Bison one-handed(it was the only way I could make the game more challenging. I literally played it too much).

    It mostly involves cheap tactics though; lots of jumps and fierce punches/kicks.

    I'd love to go to EVO, but only to compete in something Alpha or Rival Schools.

    Maybe Tekken, but I'd probably get slaughtered(Julia user).

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  • delphinusdelphinus Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    a Ferret wrote: »
    I made it to the second round at EVO 2k4 in Soul Caliber 2. I'm pretty damn proud of that one.

    holy shit.
    hat's off.

    closest ive ever gotten to evo was playing guys like ace vallera, cl0ckwork and beating potter at cap 2.

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  • DarksierDarksier Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    One day I beat the Battletoads for the NES straight through, without warps...I still have nightmares about going down that road....but man did it feel good to finally beat that game.

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  • PlutoniumPlutonium Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Edcrab wrote: »
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/dantaar/haha.jpg

    that's from The Specialists. if somebody wants to put that in a spoiler and image it for me, feel free to do so.

    people posting pictures inspired me to make with the pict0rz.

    Man. Much kudos for going that long. Always liked The Specialists but never really got much beyond a 1:1 ratio: I was just way too slow for that game.

    I remember the specialists.

    Mostly I remember being able to rack of enormous amount of noscope kills with the Barrett at ridiculous ranges.

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