5 Achievements that Only Mattered to Us 

Keep your Gamerscore and your Trophies! These are the achievements we made up for ourselves for nothing but the bragging rights (which we're now using in this video, we thank you in advance for all the inevitable congratulatory messages). 💪🎮

"I am as stubborn as I am lazy" That's it. That's the most relatable line I've ever heard. I'm gonna use that line from now on

Jane: "I was super into World of Warcraft fishing" Ellen: "What?!" I completely lost it.

In Skyrim, every time a guard says "let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll" I immediately drop what I'm doing and go steal a sweet roll. Side note: not that easy to find a sweet roll to steal in Markarth.

I remember a long time ago before achievements were even a thing, my brother and I spent hours and hours trying to beat the original Splinter Cell without alerting anyone to anything. If the guard went "What was that?" It was concidered a mission failure and we had to reload. We nearly made it all the way through the entire game, until the very last level. There was a guard guarding stairs or a hallway or something, and we just couldn't figure out how to get around him. We must have spent several hours watching and creeping, and starting over and over and over again. Finally we just bit the bullet and tossed a can to the other side of room followed by the inevitable "Who's there?". We managed to finish the rest of the game according to our rules, but the one guard still bugs me to this day.

Melee killing everyone in every level by running up to them in full view of every other enemy while playing as the world's top secret agent is the most Mike thing that Mike can do and has ever done.

These kinds of lists are my favorites. I enjoy hearing you guys' personal feelings about and experiences with games.

The first one with Jane trying to justify Fishing and literally everyone just incredulous about it has me dying from laughter already.

In The Witcher, whenever i came across an abandonned castle or cave or house where there are specters, i made a duty to always light up every torch in the building to give back some life to the rooms, so that ghost feel good in their environement.

House owner : "Someone robbed my house." Cop : "How do you know this happened?" House Owner : "Because someone cleaned up after cleaning out my safe."

GTA: Vice City. One night, during a group play session at my friend Wayne's house, someone idly wondered if you flew a helicopter into a Pan and Spray would you actually trigger a repaint. With cries of "For Science!" we each took turns to attempt this tricky feat. We chose the one on the western island facing the water, so we would have a good fly-up with minimal interference. 45 minutes later, after many comedic failures, I squeezed the ungainly whirlybird into the garage, landed it, and sure enough the door closed and reopened with a newly painted helo. The fact that I blew it up trying to take off indoors did nothing to diminish my sense of accomplishment.

I'm 100% with Ellen on the closing safes/crates/doors/etc., and there's no greater feeling of having been cheated than when the devs don't program the option to do so!

I love how Ellen talks about how it was her goal to leave everything neat and tidy, like no one is there, and she's wearing a shirt whose slogan starts with, "She is messy" 🤣

Not sure how much you'd class it as an 'achievement' exactly, but I used to play the Ezio based Assassin's Creed games in a style I like to call "Giving The Families Closure". The idea was that the random town guards you frequently had to kill usually hadn't actually done anything to warrant you murder-killing them. They were basically just guys doing their jobs, making a living pretty much the only way they knew how. The worst they'd do was sound an alarm or attack me on account of all those people I done murder-killed. Younger me decided that it was perfectly justifiable to murder-kill as many of them as I wanted (I was an assassin after all), but disposing of the bodies was a step too far. Hiding bodies was fine, as long as it was in places that one could reasonably expect them to be eventually found (in a haystack for example), but if a body was destroyed or placed somewhere it might never be found then the family of said murder-killed guard would never know for sure if they'd been killed on the job, or if they'd abandoned them, or if they'd comitted suicide or whatever. The guard may have gotten between me and my objective, but I had no quarrel with their family. Plus I figured that there might be some kind of payout for families of guards killed on the job (I probably just murder-killed their sole breadwinner after all). For the most part, this just meant not throwing bodies into wells or rivers, but I also decided that leaving bodies on rooftops was taboo as well (how often do people find themselves of roofs after all??), so whenever I killed a guard on top of a building I'd always carry the body to the nearest populated street and hurl the body into the crowd. For their families sake.

I had an entire play through of Skyrim where I didn't loot ANYTHING from the containers in dungeons. I did however leave stuff in them. Because how does that gold wind up in all those chests in a random cave in a typical RPG? The way that it wound up inside them was ME. I was responsible for it. Some random, eccentric rich guy was responsible for ALL of it. I did the math and I forget the exact amount, but I deposited close to a hundred thousand gold in coin, gems, and random high value pieces of armor in various dungeons across the province of Skyrim

Jane always seems so badass and composed, but I had no idea she could be so adorable when she geeks out. Ellen's laugh is great and probably the biggest reason I keep coming back, but Jane's laughter is so genuine and heartwarming that provoking it would truly be an achievement to brag about.

In Breath of the Wild, I had started a challenge where I tried to beat the game with 3 hearts. While doing this, I climbed to the top of Ganons Castle and got a sweet screenshot of me on top of the world. One of my personal best achievements.

Personal Acheivement for Every RPG I Play: Discover all major fast travel points before having anything to do with the main story.

In Skyrim I made a thief character nicknamed ‘Lavender’. My self appointed task was that, every time I robbed a place or a person, I’d leave a sprig of lavender behind as a ‘calling card’!

When I was a kid I beat Kingdom Hearts by only melee-ing enemies. It was the first game I had played that had a magic/inventory system and I somehow completely ignored it because I didn't think it was important...it legit took me weeks to beat Dragon Maleficient and that was mainly because I couldn't skip the cutscenes before it and I could only sit through that so much at a time (fun fact: I now say "Alexa, true darkness!" To turn off all the lights in my apartment lol). I replayed the entire series before KH3 came out and fully utilized everything as intended whoo

I was also the WoW fisherman. And when they added guild achievements, one of them was to fish an insane amount of fish (meant to be done by everyone in the guild). I'm pretty sure I did most of it by myself. And when it was almost complete, I actually waited until some other guild members were online, so they could see the achievement being completed as well. It was funny because they were wondering who the heck was actually fishing.

Fun fact about Blood Stone: I was a tester on that game and there's an achievement in the opening levels where you chase the bad guy around Greece (Athens specifically) and can sink a bunk of ships during the process. Originally, that achievement was called "Grecian Economy." Which was a banger of a dark joke, since we were working on the game in 2009 and the Grecian Economy basically went into super debt and collapsed in 2008, and what you were doing in the level was basically leaving Greece like the Greeks had left their economy - Trashed beyond all repair. Ha ha ha. However, it was also a really MEAN joke, so we had to have some discussions about how to read the room and not be too cruel to the Greeks and open everyone involved in development and production of the game into a PR nightmare and potential lawsuits from the much more strict EU (at least when it comes to libel) because someone wanted to get a bit too cheeky with the banter.

The thing I love the most about Ellen is how everything she does, she's like "I know this looks stupid... and it is stupid... but bear with me, I can explain" And that speaks to me so much.

Them laughing at Jane for her WoW fishing story was utterly hilarious! As someone who played WoW from vanilla to Wrath of the Lich King and returned 2 years ago, I always have put in the effort to get my profession skills to max. It just feels good to see that 300/300 bar fill up! And Jane: Thanks for letting me be aware of how many gold pearls are needed for Truthfaith Vestments! Something I'll have to focus on when I get a Priest to that point in Classic.

For me it's all about the little things I can do for companion characters I like, or villagers in Animal Crossing. Jacob was one of my first ACNH villagers and as a Lazy, he said it was the "best thing since he learned about pasghetti". So my housewarming gift to him was a pot customized to look like it had pasta in it. And when he displayed it on his table, it felt so sweet. I like to give back to NPCs I love, and games don't always make it possible, so i find work arounds.

"Gary Oak is an early lesson in nepotism for 90s children" - Luke Westaway, 2020.

I'd like to see "achievements you accidentally earned" a list a times you had no idea what you were doing was going to get anything. I'm always entertained when I'm doing something random or dumb and it turns out the developer thought of it.

"REMEMBER ME GARY?" This is amazing

I think you need to have a show with just Luke telling us his video game exploits. Between the feud with the frost troll and now the vendetta against Gary, I need to hear more

Jane: I was fishing just for the... for the..." (gropes for word) Me: "FOR THE HALIBUT! JUST FOR THE HALIBUT!!!"

The irony in Ellen wearing a shirt saying 'she's messy' while talking about closing safes to be neat and tidy...

I love how irrationally violent the hatred for roman was. Cause I played that game when it came out and it's just like... you can say no. It's like when someone asks you to go somewhere in real life you can just be like "nah, busy." It wasn't even that hard.

I love how Ellen is talking about being neat while wearing a shirt that says "she's messy but she's kind"

My cousin and me were playing Halo 3 and we had another run through Crow's Nest, when my Cousin decided to kick Grunt corpse down a ledge and said, as the corpse fell towards our target "Nobody will be left behind when the great Journey begins." Something the Prophets keep saying continously, but that small sentence ended with us, dragging every friggin corpse on the whole map into the Elevator at the end of the level, while muttering cultish rubbish like, "Come, the great journey awaits" or "noone left behing." or "The great journey begins now" Just imagine the Marines watching in Terror, as we punched every covenant soldier we just killed through the level. And then my cousin killed the marines and let them join the covies in the elevator with the words: "The great Journey doesn't discriminate. It is the Salvation to all." So, yeah, did that

I think my favorite achievement was in Fallout 2, when I removed my wife's brain. It was not easy. You can acquire this wife via a shotgun wedding. She will then join your party, kind of. She will follow you, but never fights or carries anything. She will go where you tell her to, until you get something like 5 hexes away, and then she will sprint back to your side. She was marginally better than the Pariah Dog. Eventually, you can find a military complex where they make robo-brains that you might have seen in later Fallouts as well. I saw the opportunity for a "Wasteland Divorce" as nobody calls it. The tricky part was: I had to get her into a room, and activate the removal process from outside. So I had to get her as far into the room as possible, run out as fast as I could with enough time to turn and use lock picking on the door (because back in those days it could be used for both unlocking AND locking). It was not a simple task, but then, there I had it, my wife's brain, ready to be put into a terrible murder bot. Hmm. I wonder if she would bear a grudge? Maaaaybe I'll just hang on to this.

If there's a fox in the game I will not hurt it. Legend of Zelda: breath of the Wild Assassin's Creed 3 Red Dead Redemption 2 Skyrim Even if I need fox skin for crafting I will not kill one. I even reloded a save in Skyrim just to save a fox that was killed by a bear.

I love the shear hate and spite coming out of Luke with Gary 😂 you see it’s not always true that you dig two graves with revenge. Luke pulled it off with just pain and anguish, but he was victorious 👍

I love how Ellen and Jane's achievements are for positive/ constructive end goals, While Luke, Andy, and Mike's achievements are acts of vengeance or revenge. ( Luke V Gary Oak/ Andy V Roman/ Mike V Blood Stone).

My classic one was in Morrowind, where I wandered the island stealing every pillow I could find and stashing them in huge piles in my home base. My character had ultimate comfort, while everyone else in the world had to just sleep on a bare mattress.

Getting max level anything in an mmo is quite an accomplishment. Absolute respect Jane!

When I was playing Vanilla WoW, I really wanted a Nightsaber mount for my Human main. Buying the faction mounts for a different race required the Exalted reputation, which, with your own faction, was tough enough by level 40, but as a human, you started at Neutral with the Night Elves rather than Friendly like the rest of the Alliance, which was an extra huge undertaking of reputation gaining (like 10k or something just to get to friendly and quests would give 5 rep iirc). I think running my level 3 character to Stormwind to jump a boat, and then hightailing it to the NE starting zone was the most harrowing and strangely rewarding part, but that was a LOT of time spent in Stonetalon and Desolace. I was garbage at PvP, which was the fastest way to build rep, so it was just questing and killing loads of demons and centaurs. Worth it? I don't know, but every now and then riding on it rather than the free warhorse Pallys get just made me smile.

For me it was when I was playing Breath of the Wild, trying to complete every shrine. One day, when I finished the 69th shrine, I noticed I also had exactly 120 korok seeds... so I stopped progressing in the game for multiple weeks so I could hunt down 300 more korok seeds and end up with the perfect 69/420 save file. I also sold things until I ended up with a rupee total of 1337. ...I thought it was funny at the time!

“Queensbury Rules”, Mike. The trophy, THAT ACTUALLY EXISTS, for beating up enemies rather than shooting, is called Queensbury Rules

"Death by cheese grater?" Jesus Christ no, that sounds like hell

In Yakuza 0, 1, and 2 I always ended boss fights with a Heat Action, because I think that's the way it should be in my head cannon. I restarted boss fights if Kiriyu or Majima didn't finish off a fight with an insane heat action.

Charmander: "Charmander learn flamethrower?" Luke: "No. Always remember scratch."

Jane, I can completely relate to you. When I was first leveling my first toon, hunter, in WoW, I spent ages skinning. I was determined to get the gold to purchase riding and mounts at the levels they unlock at (30 and 60). To raise the gold I used my skinning skill to farm all the low skins and sell them on AH or, if they didn’t sell, I vendored them. Yes I leveled up sooo many times farming skinning (the least profitable until max level), that I went from 30-37 and 55-60 just from hunting mobs and skinning them. No questing, nothing besides killing and skinning mobs.

I replayed the Starcraft 1 campaign pretty frequently, and my favorite self-imposed challenge was to finish the human campaign producing only marines for units. If a level started with non-marine units, I could use them, but once they died that was it. It's a lot of fun and actually pretty challenging in later levels. In particular, the last level requires that you destroy an ion cannon that is on its own island with a ton of missile turrets and other units. Basically you have to take over the rest of the map using marines, the AI will slowly move the units off the island to reinforce the rest of the map. Then you have to make a ton of barracks and float them to the island, taking missile shots the whole way. whichever ones dont get shot down start producing marines and you win. It's really a fun way to play.

Ellen: "I like to be neat and tidy." Ellens shirt: "Am i a joke to you?"

I love it when Jane talks World of Warcraft nostalgia. I was a leatherworker, so I went around skinning diresaurs (dinosaurs, but not called that, because fantasy) forever to try and make some armor than didn't even have an agility stat... the memories of that game have such emotional pull still.

I've never been so fast. My challenge in Skyrim was to Rob every single house in the realm. Still ongoing but I WILL NEVER GIVE UP. I WILL NOT LET OUT MY LAST BREATH BEFORE I ACHIEVE THIS.

I once had a goal to collect one copy of every book in Skyrim. Whenever I went on a quest I would make sure to pick up as many books as possible. Then when I got home, I would put them all in my dedicated book chest, then remove any duplicates and put them in dedicated chest of "stuff to sell the next time I go into town". Thing is I never read any of them. I just liked having the option.

Trying to melee everyone in uncharted 4 I did it Felt like melee-ing myself afterwards

A good friend had helped me finish some of the trickier sections of Ocarina of Time, he knew the game inside out and back to front. So when he told me that if you played the whole game through with a) just the three starting hearts and b) without dying once then something cool would happen....well, I believed him. I started a new game and I spent weeks carefully proceeding through the game without picking up any extra heart containers and without getting killed by any bosses. I was so determined. And I did it, I smooshed Gannondorf good. Of course nothing happened and there was no reward. But it was still immensely satisfying.

I can relate to Ellen and her ambition to keep stealthy in games that really let you relish in this style of gameplay. Closing cupboards and drawers after having stolen every piece of valuable junk out of them, really does feel quite lovely. 😀

I won the first ever Booty Bay fishing contest on Akama Jane. it was a nightmare, folks were ganking each other left and right, huge fights were breaking out, and I was but a lowbie barely leveled enough to be in the zone. I was just hiding, fishing, sneaking from place to place, and... I won! I was in the guild "Fishing Inc" and let me tell you, the Guild Leader was more than a little bit jealous. I chose the trinket that let me transform into a fish and probably surprised quite a few Hoardies when I'd jump into the water and go swimming off.

In Runescape during the Old School days, I loved exploring. Same with any other MMO I played, it never matter how low level I was or how everything could kill me in one shot, I would always go exploring dangerous zones. In Runescape i explored the entire wildys at level 32 wearing nothing but a cape and holding a staff (Cause I thought I looked like a cool wanderer) everytime I saw someone on the map i'd bolt in the opposite direction

Man I love this style of video, with everyone on the team interjecting and taking the Mick out of each other. 😂 I mean that's what best friends are for. "Judging you on your game decisions!" 😊

Jane! The feels! Ok, storytime, growing up when the WoW achievements came out there was a meta-achievement for fishing requiring all of the hardest achievements of the fishing professions. The hardest of all being to win the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza. A once a week, on a Sunday lunchtime, server-wide event to catch rare fish the fastest and hand them in. Not first to catch, but first to race across the area and get to the NPC at the top of the zone and hand them in. I got all the other achievements, but problem. I grew up in a very religious family, so had to go to church around the same time as the event. For 2 years, I missed the event, occasionally rushing home and finding that it had just finished. Then one day, it happened. We were all ill. This was it. My one chance to get the competition and the meta-achievement!! I braced, knees weak, palms sweaty, vomit held in by lack of spaghetti. I raced to the area, caught fish, nearly with the required amount, when the server-wide announcement “Another player has caught all the fish!” I was heartbroken, but then I caught the last fish and raced across the area. I saw the other player. THE FOOL had autorun on and was caught on a texture. I sprinted past him, made it to the NPC. My name went up in the /1 chat. Achievements popped one after the other and my God I have never felt more alive!!! That was 14 years ago and in truth, I know I never will. I peaked and it’s all downhill from here.

Jane, don't let them mock your dedication. When I played, I mained a Troll Holy Priest, who's professions were tailoring and enchanting. I too spent way too many hours fishing, but when it was all said and done, I had some kick ass robes, a crap load of gold from selling fish and items gained while fishing, and a sense of pride and accomplishment. You did good. They can never take that away.

I remember distinctly playing "Watchdogs" for the first time, and getting obsessed with the baton stealth. Something so satisfying about the cracking of skulls and knees, that I decided to play the game using the baton as much as possible. So I was 100% stealth (as often as I could without being forced into open combat) and using basically only a silenced rifle to headshot snipers that I couldn't reach... Very difficult at times but gratifying to think that you brought down the chicago underground with nothing but a metal stick and a few silenced rounds.

I love the "we've had an argument in the office" videos

Skyrim is one of my put on some music and relax games and one day I decided to make a normal realistic person. Not an adventurer or vampire, werewolf, mage, or anything like that. Just some dude in Skyrim. He chopped wood during the day and played at the inn in Solitude at night (I used a mod to make him a bard). He then joined the Bard College and then the Army to fight in the Civil War. After that he came home, eventually made enough to buy a house, got married, adopted, retired and still plays nights at the inn. Just a normal dude. He is my favorite character I've ever played as in Skyrim.

Love this video! I have never done actual achievements as a thing before, and I'm nothing more than average at most games, but I really got a bug with the Yiga clan hideout in BOTW. I wasn't that far into the game, but I was DETERMINED to wipe them OUT. Anyone who has done that area knows that just fighting them is ridiculous unless you're a god mode player, which I am not. So I stealth killed. Ice sword, lightning sword, ice sword, lightning sword. It took me hours, since you get fully reset if they catch you. In the end, I did it... I killed them all. At the end of it, there was an eerie silence in the hideout. I went back there multiple times over the game... despite the fact the clan kept sending assassins after me, there was never anyone in the hideout again.

In Zelda: Breath of the Wild, at one point I became obsessed with seeing how close I could get Link to a Silver Lynel before being noticed. Actually got right next to one and snapped a photo of it before teleporting the hell out of there before getting crushed.

I played the entirety of Red Dead Redemption without running because I thought John Marston was a cool guy who would slowly meander his way around at his own pace.

I remember specifically being a merchant in skyrim. The goal was to act like a merchant and hire people to do the fighting, focus only on selling and crafting, always wear fancy clothes. That sort of thing. End goal was to make enough money that way to buy a house in every main area including the two buildable ones. It was so fun to subvert the game like that

Mine was always getting every possible captain dominated in the Middle Earth: Shadow series. Always completely dominated the entire army in every area and never got anything for it

0:50 I have an HP computer and i had to replay it for the sake of my sanity because i have notification sounds turned off ☺

Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire.: Using the spell "Thermonuclear Blast" to take out the final boss. Normally this is a joke spell. You use it, you destroy the world. Even if you use the spell normally in the final fight, you also kill your party. However, something about the message you get when you do this made me think it could go differently. And it can. If you time everything perfectly, you can weaken the dragon with the pillars, AND tell each party member what your plan is and whichever love interest you rescued from Hades will teleport everyone but yu away from the battle, THEN you can cast the spell and only take out yourself and the dragon. I still have a screencap from pulling this off. There's no reason to do this. None at all, but I'm still glad I pulled off the timing. The death message: "The Dragon of Doom would destroy your new home, And Kill all the people who called you a friend. So you Blasted the Dragon at the cost of your life, With all Valor, you faced your vvictorious end. In Honerable Death, there is gread Glory"

2:37 "Being really e-FISH-ent at fishing"

To add one of my own personals here: Playing through Baldur’s Gate, the original one, using a party of only Evil-based alignment characters. All of the goodie two shoes people in the game walk out of your party nearly instantly, all the Npc’s in game aren’t the biggest fan of you and aren’t willing to help you anymore, things can cost more (like at the church to revive a dead party member,) and more importantly, you get to hear all the quality dialogues when they talk trash about you as they’re leaving your party because you’re just that twisted!

I'm playing Skyrim a lot recently and I'm doing so through the figurative eyes of a different character, so I'm having fun with that. Basically taking D&D characters and playing them in Skyrim. True Neutral alignment who doesn't like to fight with swords most of the time is tricky. Requires a lot of stealth and magick. Might make a different save so I can play how I want freely.

Ellen: talks about how she's a neat freak Also Ellen: wears a shirt saying she's messy. ...uh, I guess she borrowed one of her sister's shirts for the day?

Andy and Mike's reactions to Jane's fishing story while Ellen giggles in the background makes this one my favorite OX list videos. I also kinda want a Jane live stream of fishing in various games.

I did something similar to Mike's melee kills in VTM: Bloodlines. I realised about halfway through that draining people's blood was the most efficient way to kill them because as it kills them it heals you of damage. Whether it was a glitch or not, it even worked on some other vampires. After that, Los Angeles was my buffet.

I love seeing these videos and I always look forward to more! As for my own pointless achievements, in GTA 3 I used to engage in what I liked to call "pedestrian bowling". Take any car and get it up to speed, then aim for a group of pedestrians and jump out of the car before you hit them and see how many people the car knocks down! Good times! I hope all of you are doing well in these difficult times. Stay safe everyone!

In Splinter Cell, we have an intensely challenging run called "no traces", in which we move through the level touching literally nothing except for things required by objectives, including guards. This is the ultimate way to play stealth games

There was this light squad tactics game on the Wii called "Battalion Wars 2", which is tangentially related to the "Advanced Wars" series. In it you commanded a small squad of infantry, armored vehicles, planes, and ships, all of which have their own strengths and weaknesses and could only attack certain other units. Pretty standard RTS stuff, however the game's main gimmick was that you took direct control of one of your units at all times and could switch control to any of your units on the fly, turning the game into a hybrid RTS and 3rd person shooter/arcade flight sim/world of tanks/world of warships thing. Usually, this meant that the player would take direct command of whatever unit was the most combat effective for the current skirmish to protect their more vulnerable units, since player controlled units took less damage, dealt more damage, and your AI controlled teammates were bleh. What I did, instead, was something I liked to call "Rambo mode". Any time a level spawned the "machinegun veteran" unit (one of the only units that could effectively attack infantry, vehicles, sea , and air targets, though he wasn't the best at any of those roles) I would take control of the machinegun veteran, command the rest of my army to wait at the starting area, and proceeded to try and beat the entire level on my own just to show them how a real man does it. And also because I had way too much free time as a 12 year old boy.

My favorite fake achievements are in the original Legend of Zelda. First, I tried to skip the brown sword at the beginning of the game, and start with the white sword. It only takes a couple extra heart containers, so no big deal. Then I decided to skip the brown and the white swords, and only get the Master Sword. Quite a bit more challenging, but ultimately doable. Then I just decided "Fudge it, no swords. Get to Ganon without a sword." And I did that one. The best part is you need a sword to defeat Ganon, so you can't actually win. But just completing the journey feels like a win. Then I did it on the second quest. That was the true win.

Watching you paint the sidewalk red reminded me of the time I accidentally bailed out of a helicopter on GTA IV, went skimming through a tree which saved like 2hp, meaning I fell out of the sky AND SURVIVED... then I tripped over a curb almost immediately and died! 😂 Honestly one of the funniest gaming moments I've ever had, and it's only rewatchable in the brainbox. I tried recreating it, but it's really hard to aim at a tree when you're up with the clouds...

Hitman achievement: knock out every single person in the level, and drag them into one big pile.

You know how when you complete Metal Gear Solid AND watch to the end of the credits without skipping them, you get either the infinite ammo bandana or the stealth suit, depending on which ending you choose? And then you can replay the game with this new gear? Well it turns out that if you complete the game a second time, and choose the other ending, then you can ALSO unlock the other item, and do a 3rd run of the game with both, now pretty OP and with a full knowledge of how to defeat every boss, solve every puzzle, where every guard goes, etc etc. BUT there's another item you can unlock. Complete the game 3 times, and on your 4th playthrough Snake's character skin is switched so that instead of his sneaking suit he's wearing a tuxedo like James Bond. The tuxedo confers no additional powers at all, it just looks cool. So yeah, I completed the game as the suavest version of Solid Snake, knowing every inch of the thing backwards & entirely untroubled by even the toughest battles. And the best part is that I didn't even own a PS1 - it was my mate's PS1 & I was only doing it because he dared me to complete MGS in the tux, not realising how much I was gonna really cut into his FFVII time in order to murder everyone in Shadow Moses 4 times over. Should've been studying for my degree, but no regrets at all.

In the Ace Combat series I’d always try to beat the game with the starter aircraft. Who has time to learn a new plane when there’s a war on? Realism.

I've never even played World of Warcraft (as I always deliberately steered clear of an MMORPGs knowing what time sinks they can be)... but that WoW "fishing mastery" story was such a relatable thing, it had me giggling the whole way through.

This list kind of reminds me of how in Pokemon I've never liked saving my game ready to turn it off with my character stood in front of doors, the pc or the pokemon centre's front desk, because it feels rude, like in my tiny child brain I'd be thinking what if one of the NPCs needs to use them and my character is just standing, unresponsive, in the way? It's so dumb but to this day I still can't save in any of those spots. 😅😆

It's just like Achievement Hunter's series "Imaginary Achievements." Absolutely the highest form of entertainment.

There was a fishing achievement in vanilla WoW: Stranglethorn Vale Fishing Extravaganza. It was a weekly fishing competition that gave a unique rod + hat if you won.

I'm so glad that Luke and I still play Pokémon games the same way we did when we were 7. Effectively strategising by using status effect and stat changing moves? No thank you. Offensive moves only and then powerlevelling. I made it a habit to be at least 20 levels above the current gym leader.

I was playing World of Warcraft when achievements began and I got the meta-achievement for completing all of the fishing achievements in the game! For the culmination of about a year of intense fishing effort, I was awarded with the title "Salty"! Because we all know when someone calls you "salty" that means they really respect you.

3:42 and Andy’s brought up RDR2 again! That must have been the longest time Andy didn’t talk about RDR2. The last time he didn’t talk about RDR2 was when Andy was playing RDR2

I always love these kind of videos, the more free form videos, just hearing you guys all BS with eachother is always great

When everyone's taking the mick out of spending hours of fishing.... LAUGHS IN RUNESCAPE

Game: go back for your friend! Nikko: *screaming as he falls out of the helicopter* Game: your friend has been abandoned. Nikko: *plunges into the river from a massive height, still screaming*

Jane: "I was super into World of Warcraft fishing" You've missed out the greatest fishing achievement that has come along for WoW Jane - you can, as of the Legion expansion, get your very own Legendary Fishing Rod!

as a former WOW player, i commend you so much on that first one. I remember back in the day, fishing Deviate Fish from Wailing Caverns for HOURS to sell on the AH ...and to drink with noggenflogger potions to make my already tiny gnome mage as tiny as possible.

i always like to see how high of an elevation i can drop from without dying/injuring myself. like, can i jump off a cliff and then press the double jump button right before i hit the ground to soften the landing? can i slide all the way down the side of a mountain without actually falling off of it? it always makes me feel cool.

I remember I was really proud of myself for playing through fallout 4 without fast travelling at all. I hoofed it across the map every time there was a mission or settlement in trouble and eventually gave myself the luxury of using the brotherhood of steel's vertibirds as transport in emergencies. A little added challenge was not having the pack mule perky that enabled me to run while over encumbered and not having the aquaboy perk that gave me resistance against rads and water breathing. It really just consumed more time than anything, but it helped me feel more immersed with the inconvenience of the apocalyptic wasteland.

Speaking of GTA 4, I made the point of driving strictly by the book, waiting on red lights, speed limit, letting people and cars pass before moving on, ever so careful as to not put even a scratch on my or other drivers' cars... My friends made it clear that my playing was unbearable to watch.

Close to your Scratch, mine was using Venusaur's Tackle. I went through so many Full Restore items but it was worth it in the end.