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A Sense of Pride and Accomplishment

No, this isn’t another bandwagon anti-EA post.  It’d be a bit late for that, anyway.  Actually, the idea for this post came up whilst mulling over that line one day.  I know what it means in the EA context, but I started to examine what gave me a real sense of achievement when it came to gaming.

I couldn’t really think of too many recent games that I beat and thought I’d just accomplished something.  To that end, I reexamined the games that I’d played since childhood to try to determine which ones were the ones that I was proud of completing.  These are those games. They are not ranked in order of difficulty, but these are what I’d consider to be my “top five”.

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