Which games give you the most "gamer cred"?

Tue Jul 15, 2025 10:04 am

Perhaps you remember that Dunkey video about Gamer Cred.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH2ePWtKdfo

I've always found the whole thing fascinating, but have recently being trying to evaluate how much gamer cred beating a certain game would give you.
To me, some of the qualities would be: quality, difficulty, obscurity, legacy, developer-recognition (Star Fox Guard is cool because it was made by PlatinumGames). I made a list, divided into tiers under the spoiler. (If I had to choose one, it'd be Glitchhiker, made by Vlambeer et al)

But which games make you go "Wow, you beat that game? You must be really cool!". And do you agree with my list?
Perhaps we can hone this out and work on our own gamer cred!

Post by **marurun** » Tue Jul 15, 2025 10:20 am

The idea of "gamer cred" feels very try-hard to me. I play games for me, not for someone else. I don't need someone else's nod that I climbed Everest and didn't die. That doesn't sound fun to me at all. If I play and beat a hard game it's because I happened to find that game fun and the difficulty didn't totally turn me off to it. I'm never going to go after a game because beating it is some badge of how hardcore I am. I've been playing games too long, for too many years, to care about that.

Post by **ElkinFencer10** » Tue Jul 15, 2025 1:44 pm

My gamer cred comes from the fact that I work my ass off in an underpaid profession that society gives near zero respect and then spend what little money I make on video games.

Post by **pierrot** » Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:46 pm

ElkinFencer10 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 1:44 pm My gamer cred comes from the fact that I work my ass off in an underpaid profession that society gives near zero respect and then spend what little money I make on video games.

So-- Dark Souls?

Post by **opa** » Wed Jul 16, 2025 8:02 am

pierrot wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:46 pm
ElkinFencer10 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 1:44 pm My gamer cred comes from the fact that I work my ass off in an underpaid profession that society gives near zero respect and then spend what little money I make on video games.

So-- Dark Souls?

Sounds more like Dragon's Lair NES

Post by **ElkinFencer10** » Wed Jul 16, 2025 8:53 am

opa wrote: ↑Wed Jul 16, 2025 8:02 am
pierrot wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 4:46 pm
ElkinFencer10 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 1:44 pm My gamer cred comes from the fact that I work my ass off in an underpaid profession that society gives near zero respect and then spend what little money I make on video games.

So-- Dark Souls?
Sounds more like Dragon's Lair NES

ET on 2600 with no instruction manual

https://gamebanana.com/members/4563136 · Post by **QUAG BOI** » Wed Jul 16, 2025 9:56 am

i kind of agree with marurun on this.

no offense to anyone who wants to brag about anything gaming related.

go ahead but i just don't get it.

i just play games because they are fun challenging and fun to collect.

the closest thing i have done to posting about gamer cred is when i posted about beating ecco 1.

but i was just sharing that because it was apart of my summer games challenge.

Post by **Ack** » Wed Jul 16, 2025 10:02 am

Gaming comes in many shapes and sizes, and my tastes have changed over the years. Sometimes I do want a challenge, and sometimes I don't. I prefer to think I'm playing stuff I like to play or am interested in exploring. Like, I play a lot of horror games and FPS, but I find them fun. But when I see folks who play "casual" games, I don't feel the need to belittle them, because they're engaging with games in a way I don't, but that doesn't make it less relevant.

Now yes, some of it is a personal challenge, but as I'm aging, something I wonder about is whether I'm still capable of beating certain things. I'm wary of losing what skills I had, and I know at some point I'm likely to do so or have already. For example, my twitch response rates aren't as fast as they used to be when I was a teenager or in my twenties, but now I'm more observant and think through things differently thanks to experience and attained wisdom, so I can still keep up with some games.

Post by **SamuraiMegas** » Wed Jul 16, 2025 8:08 pm

Honestly the only reason I'd care is maybe if they were like super kaizo Mario style games, Tetris grandmaster tournament player, & high level tournament players for games in general I guess.

I was friends with a lot of the top 10 smash bros 64 players on irc chat back in the day, and I was / am fairly solid at Melee. Honestly believe I could have been ranked in it if I had the desire to stick to it but the community is awful, and it's part of the reason I don't place much in being good at video games.

Post by **Raging Justice** » Thu Jul 17, 2025 12:24 am

Seeing a collection of physical games that has some obscure, niche, retro, and rare releases alongside some modded/hacked consoles and handhelds gives someone way more cred in my eyes than the fact that they beat some hard games. I'm looking for smart gamers with good taste, not man children bragging about the latest hard game they've beaten or boring gamers raving about some flavor of the week, AAA title or crap like Fortnite like everyone else does. A gamer who can talk about great games beyond the mainstream crap, and discuss the virtues of modding, as well as talk about gaming history has "gamer cred" to me. Basically, the type of people you'd expect to find on places like here.

For me, cred isn't about skill, it's about knowledge and good taste. I find as a get older I don't care about the hardcore crap like "I beat the game with 5 hit points, on fuck you difficulty, in under 5 seconds!". Who the hell cares? Kids are impressed by that kind of stuff, not adults with jobs and social lives.

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