The Big Question - What Is Your Proudest Gaming Achievement?

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This week we’re talking about achievements in video games. That’s achievements, not Achievements. Although our biggest achievement might include Achievements, so I guess that doesn’t make it any clearer. Basically, imagine a thing in a video game. Any thing. Now imagine doing it. Now imagine feeling good about it. That’s the stuff we’re talking about today. Make sense? No? Great, now we’re getting somewhere. Anyway, we’re going to talk about all the proper hard stuff we did in proper hard video games, because we’re right proper hard gamers. That’s hard as in tough, not as in… you know what, never mind. We know what the Big Question is, so let’s move on to the Large Answers The Size Of A Small Answer.

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Stacey Henley, Editor-in-Chief

I caught all 151 Pokemon in Pokemon Blue and yes it still counts if I used the Rare Candy cheat and traded my way to the top. I mean I guess that’s it. Let’s do some filler writing, eh? My favourite Pokemon back then was Zapdos but I have since decided that having a Legendary Pokemon as your favourite is desperately uncool, even more than having a favourite Pokemon to begin with, so now it’s Gengar. Yeah, I know that’s just as predictable. Anyway I guess that’s enough words. I was the very best like no one ever was.

Joe Parlock, Tabletop Editor

Back in the Xbox 360 days, I got really, really into speedrunning Mirror’s Edge. I knew all the tricks, and while I was never a major contender for world records, I did shave my full-game run down to just over an hour. Of course, these days the record is at less than half of that, but 2010 was a different time.

The one big success I did get speedrunning Mirror’s Edge was in the often-forgotten DLC,