Some Personal Pride

At heart I will always be a Hardcore Gamer. To most people, being good at a video game means nothing. They see it as a waste of time, and to be honest they are correct in a way. But if you are with friends and having fun, does it really make a difference if you are in a virtual world or the real one?

However everyone understands what it feels like to take pride in your own accomplishments, even if they have no affect on the real world. Here is a list of some of my proudest, yet also quite pointless, video game accomplishments.

  • World of Warcraft
  • Guild Wars 2
  • League of Legends
  • Steam
  • Minecraft
  • Defense of the Ancients 2
  • Terraria
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft

Level 100 warlock, Dowal

   - Roughly 200 days of in-game play time

   - Core Raider in my realms second best guild Let's Go Redwings (I know, the leader lives in Detroit. By proxy it makes me a "fan" of the team even though I don't watch hockey.)

   - Top 35% of the rated battleground list in Warlords Season 1

   - Owner of all four equipable legendary items (for my class)

   - Owner of the Breaker of the Black Harvest achievement (no longer obtainable, also my personal favorite)

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2

Level 80 Necromancer, Dowal

   - Hit level cap within a month of game release

   - Rank 42 in constructed PvP (out of 80)

   - Rank 33 in World vs World PvP (that's not actually that good)

   - Co-leader of the guild Prophets of War

League of Legends

League of Legends

Dowal Thegin, Summoner Level 30

   - Own all but two of the 127 avaliable champions

      - Own at least one alternate art skin for almost all of those champions as well

   - More than 1,300 total wins (each match takes on average 25-45 minutes, most running closer to 40 at least)

   - Estimated account worth (if I were to try to sell it online) at least $1,000-1,500

Steam

Steam

Dowal Thegin, my Steam account

* Steam acts as a kind of "game service program" much like how Microsoft has Xbox, Sony has PlayStation, and Nintendo has the Wii. You can buy games for your computer through Steam, as well as play with friends (or strangers) over the internet just like on any living room console.

Minecraft

Minecraft

I used to play (way to much) Minecraft. To get into specifics before beta patch 1.7 I knew:

   - Literally every recipe in the game

   - All the basic and most of the advanced algorithms behind how the game would randomly generate the world

   - A very large amount of redstone knowledge (Redstone is basically electronic circuitry built into the game. It allows you to do annything you could do with binary circuits in the real world, just on a simpler level. Essentially I learned basic electronics in early highschool through this game.)

   - 90% of the core gameplay mechanics in the game (Stuff that the game doesn't tell you and you have to figure out on your own. Example: you run faster if you constantly jump while you are moving)

Defense of the Ancients 2

Defense of the Ancients 2

Known as DotA 2, a game that is similar in style but harder in practice than League of Legends. I was exceptionally good at heroes that hard outrageously hard or difficult gameplay mechanics:

   - Meepo: a character where you have to control five different units at once, and if any die then they all die

   - Invoker: a character with 14 different abilities, characters are considered difficult if they have 5, and on average most have 4

   - Visage: considered one of the more difficult heroes to master, let alone play at all, his playstlye came quite naturally to me

Terraria

Terraria

A side-scrolling adventure/sandbox game. Before the first major content patch (and then again before the second major content patch) I had killed every boss in the game alone, obtained every weapon and a full set of every armor set, given all of them the best upgrade they could obtain, and had a world that had its own fenced in Hallow, Corruption, and Crimson (which does not happen naturally, and is quite difficult to do)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

A (quite old now) First-Person Shooter that was extremely popular and one of the first games I owned on the Xbox 360, it has a special place in my childhood. Before the next game in the series came out I had managed to obtain every achievement in the game, as well as reach online level 70 a total of 11 times. The latter being known as being a "10th Prestige level 70" and was very time consuming and difficult.