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Posted June 12, 2021
Our Summer Sale keeps sizzling nicely in the sun with over 3400 amazing deals up to 90% off and chilling game collections that include bestsellers, RPGs, indies, and more. Yet don’t hold your breath because that’s only the beginning! We also have an exciting Contest for you starting today.

To enter, comment on the forum, under our Twitter or Facebook contest post and tell us what your proudest gaming moment was.

You can win one of 10 bundles of 15 games available on GOG.COM, such as Control Ultimate Edition, Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, Kingdom Come: Deliverance Royal Edition, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition and more!

Submit your entries before June 28th, 1 PM UTC. Terms and conditions apply. You can check them in the first comment on the forum.
Posted June 23, 2021
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GOG.com: Our Summer Sale keeps sizzling nicely in the sun with over 3400 amazing deals up to 90% off and chilling game collections that include bestsellers, RPGs, indies, and more. Yet don’t hold your breath because that’s only the beginning! We also have an exciting Contest for you starting today.

To enter, comment on the forum, under our Twitter or Facebook contest post and tell us what your proudest gaming moment was.

You can win one of 10 bundles of 15 games available on GOG.COM, such as Control Ultimate Edition, Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, Kingdom Come: Deliverance Royal Edition, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition and more!

Submit your entries before June 28th, 1 PM UTC. Terms and conditions apply. You can check them in the first comment on the forum.
My proudest gaming moment was quitting Dota 2 for a year+ when my son was born.
Did it twice more for the other two kids.
Posted June 23, 2021
My proudest moment.
When I feel alive as myself.
Posted June 23, 2021
My proudest gaming moment was when I finally beat the final boss in Heavy Metal Fakk 2! It was a fantastic game, and I would play it again on these days!!!
Posted June 23, 2021
My most proud game moment was coordinating the power of the two giant guilds as the third guild among the two giant guilds as guild master.
Posted June 23, 2021
My proudest gaming moment was winning a tournament in Capcom vs SNK 2. A who's who of players from our usual arcades was gathered in a birthday party and the celebrant decided to start a tourney since everyone was there.

It was also the first time I brought out a new line up that I had been practicing. Which was a surprise to most players I usually played with. I was pitted against old and newcomers, got through a few close calls, and got into the finals with someone who was also using a new line up. It was a repeated back and forth shenanigans of pokes and punishes when the other made a mistake. And eventually, we were down to our last fighters: Him with his Ratio 2 - Bison, and my Ratio 2 - Blanka. Ultimately, he made the wrong call to follow up with stomp and after blocking it and he decided to float out to the edge of the screen knowing that a full bar Blanka can use a level 3 rolling super to travel fast enough to the end of the screen to catch him. Everyone just gasped when they saw me activate the level 3 and cheered as it hit my opponent.

It was quite a memorable fight.
Posted June 23, 2021
My grandmother used to work as a philologist and a literature teacher. She taught me how to read when I was barely three and thus pushed me into the wonderful world of fiction from very early on. It was exactly my grandma who showed me the power of a well-written story, something I was truly mesmerized by from the very beginning. This snowballed and by the time I was 7, I was already reading novels thick as bricks that were definitely intended for ages way above mine.

Cut to 6-7 years later, this obsession with stories written on paper had naturally transitioned to another medium - stories expressed through interaction. Yeah, I'm talking about video games and man, was I unhinged. I was obsessed with narrative-driven adventures and was on a neverending lookout for discounts on digital storefronts, always impatient to get my hands on yet another escapade.

In the meantime, I was still in constant communication with my grandmother, either through phone or through letters (yeah, yeah, I know). Our conversations only became deeper and more meaningful as I matured with age, and more importantly, she started visiting more often, as the circumstances allowed it.

And this is how the magic happened.

I got my grandma into gaming.


Even better,



I got grandma to respect games as an art form.


An absolute erudite who grew up with the likes of Chopin, Wagner and Vivaldi, was now being brought to tears by Michael McCann's compositions for Human Revolution. Jesper Kyd, Jeremy Soule, Marcin Przybyłowicz, these were now the names she couldn't get enough of.

She was delighted that something like ICO can inspire a 36 000 words essay and quickly learned to hide her surprise that the world of video games is full of stories just as equally deserving of critique and reflection as literature's greatest masterpieces.

She stood there speechless as I recounted Ezio's encounters with an ancient civilization and explained all the clandestine conspiracies about historical figures using "pieces of Eden" to manipulate mankind.

She was amazed by the potential of open world games like Assassin's Creed, L.A. Noir and Mafia and quickly fell in love with the opportunities for historical tourism they offered. We spent just as long discussing the implications of such virtual experiences as we did getting lost within those worlds and exploring their most intimate corners.

I can gladly go on and on. But to stay on topic, this is my proudest gaming moment. The moment I realised that I had opened my grandmother's eyes for a whole new world of wonder and adventure, just as she had done all those years before for me. That moment in which I realized that I had returned the favor and had broadened her horizons in directions she probably never expected. To this day we keep debating and analyzing wonderful stories such as Spiritfarer, Metro, Life is Strange, to this day she is always impatient for me to share with her the latest soundtracks I have encountered and to this day she prefers cinematic E3 trailers over some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters. This manner of interaction between us.. it warms my heart so badly. And I'll be so devastated to see it go.
Posted June 23, 2021
Defeating Saren in mass effect 1.
A few early game bugs meant my weapons overheated and wouldn't cooldown/reload. This ended in a 20 min fight using just melee attacks only :)
Posted June 23, 2021
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GOG.com: Our Summer Sale keeps sizzling nicely in the sun with over 3400 amazing deals up to 90% off and chilling game collections that include bestsellers, RPGs, indies, and more. Yet don’t hold your breath because that’s only the beginning! We also have an exciting Contest for you starting today.

To enter, comment on the forum, under our Twitter or Facebook contest post and tell us what your proudest gaming moment was.

You can win one of 10 bundles of 15 games available on GOG.COM, such as Control Ultimate Edition, Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, Kingdom Come: Deliverance Royal Edition, Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition, Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition and more!

Submit your entries before June 28th, 1 PM UTC. Terms and conditions apply. You can check them in the first comment on the forum.
I'd say it was my one and only experience of finding speedrun tech: playing SSX tricky in my 6th form common room on the communal PS2. I was basically unbeatable in that game because several of us discovered loads of great lines and odd glitches.

I didn't know anything about the speedrunning scene at the time but the more important thing for me was the gratification of being able to put in all these ridiculously short times in head to head races
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Posted June 23, 2021
I'm proud to witness the evolution computer gaming has been going through from the late 90s to nowadays. Of course I played my ass off while it happened.

Regarding proudest gaming moments…

I'm loving strategy games or RPGs with great twisting stories, character developments and such, but my guilty pleasure is FPS, especially with friends.

When Unreal Tournament came out in the year of my graduation, I played it with my classmates, all boys of course. In the era of 56k modems, low-end PCs and over 150-200ms ping it was quite big fun to master it so my main weapon of choice was the flac cannon. ;)

My proudest moment in it was when I managed to perform a tele-frag with said conditions on my nemesis who always barraged me with his multiple rockets!
(this is done by using the translocator - you can teleport yourself to the very place the enemy is standing or intends to run to, the result is a bloody satisfying mess)

Anyways, I'm really thankful to GOG, that you guys exist bringing us back our great gaming moments!
Posted June 23, 2021
(Mostly) teaching my parents how to play Star Wars Battlefront II (the original). It was agonizing watching them fail certain parts of the game (Driving, shooting, etc.) But we finally did it and got through a few games and won a few of them. It was a lot of fun playing with them, since they normally don't play videogames, but it worked out really well.
Posted June 23, 2021
Beating Dark Souls for the first time. It's the only game I ever uninstalled out of rage. I was stuck on the Bed of Chaos boss (I'm not very good at platformers in general and the original Dark Souls has poor jump controls) and the gimmickiness of it just made me so mad. A month or so later I reinstalled it and beat it. It's something many people have done and it's not nearly as impressive as the guy who beat it with a guitar hero controller, but the feeling you get when you see the credits for the first time is unforgettable. I've beaten it several times over the years since as well as the sequels, Bloodborne, and Demon Souls. It's one of my favorite game series/genres and I can't wait for Elden Ring to be released!
Posted June 23, 2021
Beating Super Mario Bros. 3 for the first time as a kid.
Posted June 23, 2021
Alright, story time.

My proudest gaming moment is also probably my earliest. When I was a kid, my family and I lived in a small apartment in a big city. My dad needed an office space, and he somehow contrived one inside what was essentially a closet. Just space enough for a chair, a custom-built desk, and on that desk, a Macintosh plus computer (yes, the grey cube with a black and white screen), about as old as I was. And on a floppy disk, amongst other games, was the original microsoft flight simulator. If you don’t know what flight simulator looked like in the mid eighties, look it up, but I can tell you it was a pretty austere game by any standard.

So my dad, who was a pilot, sat 8 year old me on his lap and taught me how to fly the virtual plane. I was fascinated, as kids can be, and I became obsessed with this game. But when I started playing it on my own, closing the door to the closet and imagining I was in a cockpit, I failed miserably, crashing the plane again and again… And again.

Until one day, when I caught the runway at just the right angle, got the plane at the right speed, not too fast, not too slow, popped the landing gear down, and remembered to slightly pitch up just before touchdown, and before I knew it, I was decelerating down the runway. It might not seem like much, but I think anyone who has ever played any flight simulator ever remembers that first successful landing feeling.
Posted June 23, 2021
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daftplay17: Getting grandma into gaming
This was a great read. What a wonderful thing to share your hobbies like this.

My sister in law had this moment recently. She went on and on about how dumb games were. Then she triedSuper Hot in VR. It blew her mind. She’s hooked. It was hilarious and wonderful.
Post edited June 23, 2021 by Tallima
Posted June 24, 2021
Hasta hace poco es que me pase el Tomb Raider, un grandioso juego de sigilo y suspenso, que la verdad disfruté demasiado. Durante el transcurso del juego conseguí uno de los logros que no esperaba para nada, y es haber ubicado todas las tumbas del juego con Lara Croft. No se si llamarlo defecto a lo que diré a continuación pero soy muy curioso con cada una de las zonas que aparecen en los juegos. Buenos después de todo, valió la pena el esfuerzo.
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