Mario, Spyro, Solid Snake, Crash, Link, Master Chief, Nathan Drake, Soap McTavish, Frog (from Frogger) Rayman and the countless Lemmings who gave their lives for our amusment.
However I dont want to look at them, they have been given their limelight.
Instead I have been wandering the vast interwebs and have discovered that some of the players themselves are legendary within their own rights.
Although I have never followed the Halo franchise hearing that they were to close the Halo 2 servers on April 15th 2010, brought a sad thought. Consider the countless frags that the servers must have seen, the many deaths that ensued for entertainment of all Xbox users and nothing to commemorate.
With gamers hearing the news, 'dozens' logged on and continue playing past the termination date, vowing to continue playing until either 'their Xbox consoles conk out, a power or network outage takes them offline, or Microsoft boots them'.
Halo 2's server finally shut down on the 11th May 2010 when the last player was booted.
Xbox live screen name - Apache N4SIR
The last man in an epic battle of player vs server. A true legend.
http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/214933/dozens-still-playing-halo-2-on-xbox-live/
This news post got me thinking, who else out there is willing to apply their time to push the game systems to their maximum limits, or just play in extraordinary ways.
I then stumbled into this post by a guy called Andrew Reiner, he is following the story of a part time gamer currently playing Modern Warfare 2 under the screen name - 'Mr_No_Kills'.
Pushing a game to its limits can take many forms, this unlikely gamer (real name Glen) is trying to level up to 70 (highest possible level) without actually killing anything.
In this Ghandi style epic; Glen can only gather points by capturing flags and using the passive style to win games.
It takes guts to complete such a task, and patience of a saint. With my Jedi type ability to shoot on sight, I would never be able to complete such epic proportions of gaming mastery.
I believe this guy should be allowed legendary status.
http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/08/24/modern-warfare-2-player-attempting-to-reach-level-70-without-killing-anyone.aspx
Pushing games to the limits, playing games to achieve greater heights than the average player. Trophies? Achievements? No. Self Actualisation is what this is about.
Ross, Out.
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