[Achievement Unlocked] The PA Achievement Thread

jeddy lee

Some people are crazy about these things. I have buddies that rent games that they've read about that have easy to unlock achievements (Avatar: The Last Airbender) just so they can rack up some points.

Not me, I don't care about that overall score, but I do like getting achievements in games I've played. Yes, it is merely a matter of e-Peen extension, but hasn't that been an integral part of our culture since before the internet? Begining with putting in the letterage on that high score, to announce to the world that BUT, ACE or ASS had achieved what others could not.

So, this thread is to discuss hard to get achievements, or proud points, or ones you got the other day. For instance:

I just got on Mirrors Edge the achievements both for going through the game without shooting a gun and beating the game on hard... in the same run through. That was a lot of dying... Hardest part for me was definately the last roomful of guys near the end of the game. I won't go into further details on that one for those that havn't played it. The rest of it was overall a breeze. I also realized how much better I was at the game this time through rather than my first time, and how much better the game is when you know what you are doing.

Also got the day tripper on this one due to opening it up at a big party and playing into the night. The achievement is unlocked by beating story mode within 24 hours of starting it. I'm sure my neighbors wern't thrilled about hearing "Come Together" sung by about 15 people at midnight, oh well.

Also, I've 1000+ pointed Fable II and Resident Evil 5, though I'm missing some of the achievements from the DLC on both.

chamberlain

I just like them as a catalog of all the game I have played.

Wasn't there a contest a few years ago from Old Spice? Gain a certain number of achievement point and win something?

Slicer

Some of the Dead Rising achievements definitely deserve to be mentioned.

I don't think I'll ever get the toughest ones such as saving at least 50 survivors, I shudder just thinking about trying it.

Xenogears of Bore

MM9 without getting hit. Yeah.

LoveIsUnity

The only game I've gotten the full 1000 points on is the Sega collection that came out a while back. As a sidenote, I never want to play Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine ever again.

Oh, I also got the full 200 points on Phantasy Star II for XBLA, but that wasn't much of an achievement.

MinionOfCthulhu

The only achievements I cared about were the ones in Mass Effect, because they actually did something besides boost your epeen levels. Namely, they gave you tangible benefits. It's a shame this system hasn't been copied.
That being said, I have to remind myself every now and then that I don't care much about achievements and I completely understand why people go for them. Seeing that damn message pop up is just so damn satisfying!

Professor Snugglesworth

One of these days I'm going to man up and get the Dead Rising 7 Day Survivor achievement. I need to pick a week where I'll be sure to avoid getting invites to join ODST or some other game.

I probably should have done that last week, as I was mainly focused on PS3 games and didn't turn on my 360 once.

Racist Joke

The only games that I have all points for is Mass Effect (not many people have it, considering you'll need to play the game at least 3 or 4 times), Halo 3, and ODST which I just got not 30 min ago.

I only have two more achievements to get 200 in Peggle, I gotta do the challenges, and clear all the pegs in each level. Considering I already did this in the pc version, it sucks having to do it again.

I should really get more points in GTA4. Loved the game, but didn't play much after beating it because of other games coming out.

jeddy lee

First achievement that I ever set out to get was right after I got my 360 and the orange box, on my first play through of HL2 I went through... Ravenholme? Whatever the spooky city area is with only the gravity gun. The terror of not knowing combined with the limited weapon use made it so damn hard but so damn satisfying.

Slicer

Professor Snugglesworth wrote: »

One of these days I'm going to man up and get the Dead Rising 7 Day Survivor achievement. I need to pick a week where I'll be sure to avoid getting invites to join ODST or some other game.

I probably should have done that last week, as I was mainly focused on PS3 games and didn't turn on my 360 once.

I just wish you could make a temporary save that deletes itself upon loading in survival mode. If they did, I'd definitely have it by now.

Oh well, maybe in the sequel!

acidlacedpenguin

I like achievements, but for many games, the only way to complete them all is to dedicate your life to that one single game. . .

Professor Snugglesworth

Slicer wrote: »

Professor Snugglesworth wrote: »

One of these days I'm going to man up and get the Dead Rising 7 Day Survivor achievement. I need to pick a week where I'll be sure to avoid getting invites to join ODST or some other game.

I probably should have done that last week, as I was mainly focused on PS3 games and didn't turn on my 360 once.

I just wish you could make a temporary save that deletes itself upon loading in survival mode. If they did, I'd definitely have it by now.

Oh well, maybe in the sequel!

You mean a quicksave feature like what portable games have, right?

I wish there was a written rule that made this a requirement for all console games.

Hurry up and fucking evolve.

Slicer

Professor Snugglesworth wrote: »

Slicer wrote: »

Professor Snugglesworth wrote: »

One of these days I'm going to man up and get the Dead Rising 7 Day Survivor achievement. I need to pick a week where I'll be sure to avoid getting invites to join ODST or some other game.

I probably should have done that last week, as I was mainly focused on PS3 games and didn't turn on my 360 once.

I just wish you could make a temporary save that deletes itself upon loading in survival mode. If they did, I'd definitely have it by now.

Oh well, maybe in the sequel!

You mean a quicksave feature like what portable games have, right?

I wish there was a written rule that made this a requirement for all console games.

Hurry up and fucking evolve.

Yeah, exactly.

I have so many games that I'd play more if I could quit anytime I want to instead of having to go to the next save point before I can finish.

If any one of the companies makes that a rule for their next console, they definitely have my money.

Allforce

chamberlain wrote: »

I just like them as a catalog of all the game I have played.

Wasn't there a contest a few years ago from Old Spice? Gain a certain number of achievement point and win something?

Yeah there was, I won the one we put together over at 360Arcadians back in the day by renting Avatar and popping it in at 11:40 PM on the final night of the contest and racking up a quick 1000 points to seal the deal. 4 dollar rental for a 50 dollar Best Buy gift card seemed like a fair trade to me.

And yeah I'm an achievement whore, any game I get usually starts with me checking out the achievement list at Achieve360Points.com to see what I can rack up on one playthrough.

Sitting at 47,700-something right now, my goal was 50K in 2009 (I think I started 2009 at about 38K).

chamberlain

Allforce wrote: »

chamberlain wrote: »

I just like them as a catalog of all the game I have played.

Wasn't there a contest a few years ago from Old Spice? Gain a certain number of achievement point and win something?

Yeah there was, I won the one we put together over at 360Arcadians back in the day by renting Avatar and popping it in at 11:40 PM on the final night of the contest and racking up a quick 1000 points to seal the deal. 4 dollar rental for a 50 dollar Best Buy gift card seemed like a fair trade to me.

And yeah I'm an achievement whore, any game I get usually starts with me checking out the achievement list at Achieve360Points.com to see what I can rack up on one playthrough.

Sitting at 47,700-something right now, my goal was 50K in 2009 (I think I started 2009 at about 38K).

only 50,000?

Weak.

jclast

I have a couple that I am proud of. 185,000 points in Aegis Wing, Boss Blitz in Heavy Weapon, 200/200 on Boom Boom Rocket and Legendary win on Halo 3.

Nickle

I don't really care about gamerscore, but I do like looking at achievements after I've beaten a game to get more life out of it. When I look at the list of achievements, it's to find something interesting that I might not have thought to try; I couldn't care less about the points, really. Stuff like PoP's little time trial achievements, or "Beat x using only y", etc.

I almost wish they didn't have points, just so I could convince my friends that I do something other than play video games. (I don't)

jclast

Nickle wrote: »

I don't really care about gamerscore, but I do like looking at achievements after I've beaten a game to get more life out of it. When I look at the list of achievements, it's to find something interesting that I might not have thought to try; I couldn't care less about the points, really. Stuff like PoP's little time trial achievements, or "Beat x using only y", etc.

I almost wish they didn't have points, just so I could convince my friends that I do something other than play video games. (I don't)

I really liked the timed running achievements in PoP. Never would have thought to time how quickly I could get from point A to point B in an action game like that.

Pancake

The only game I've ever gotten 1000 points in has been CoD4 and that was a lot of pain. I came close with Mass Effect, with my score sitting there at 960 points, but the grind to level 60 was too much of a bore for me.

Achievements are never really very important, but hearing the little bloop and seeing a number go up is pretty fun. I miss it sometimes, having switched back to mostly PC gaming.

Docshifty

I'd have all the achievements in Too Human, but, as anyone that has really played it knows, armor set.

Seriously, fuck that drop rate.

Nickle

First game I got 1000 points on was Batman:AA.

I've taken this as a message from my 360 that I should be fighting crime.

Kor

I don't care so much about gamerscore as I do about completion. I hate it when I'm scrolling through my games and I see 47/48. It just drives me nuts.

Currently for completions I've got

Halo 3
Halo ODST
TMNT-Reshelled
Banjo Kazooie
Banjo Tooie
Worms (the first one)

Nothing really impressive. The only one I'm really proud of is Halo 3, as I got all of the bonus 750g (so the game has 79 achievements total with 1750g.

I was actually recently working on Dead Space, only having 4 achievements left for that one.

I'll probably never get the Drum Trainer ones for Rock Band 2, because between my surround sound and my LCD tv, the audio/video lag is just awful.

Can I just link this, I guess?

http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/Achievements/ViewAchievementSummary.aspx


Anyway, I hate people that feel like achievements should just be handed to them, but I'm not an elitist at the same time.

The way I see it, achievements should be able to be used as measurements of time. For example, seeing you beat the campaign of Halo 3 is much different than seeing that you got all the skulls, which is much different than seeing you got all the Lone Wolves achievements.

The each represent a general level of time involvement.

aBlank

I'm 1000/1000 in Eternal Sonata... which means I actually played it through again having already seen how horrible it was from start to finish. I'm also 1000/1000 in Enchanted Arms... thankfully that was only 1 playthrough (you can't miss any achievements, but being 1000/1000 means you actually played it start to finish... which was incredibly painful).


As for achievements I'm actually proud of.... I beat Bloody Palace BEFORE being Dante Must Die Mode, even before collecting all skills for both Nero and Dante (granted, I had the more useful ones done). I beat it as Nero and by beating it before DMD mode, it proves I didn't use the super suit or whatever :P

PaperLuigi44

I like Geometry Wars 2's achievements, as it puts a whole new twist on the various gametypes.

That reminds me, I am so close to 100% Banjo-Kazooie, but I need to know whether that glitch which deleted notes in-game still exists. I got the game at the start of the year, but I'm 4 notes short in Click Clock Wood. I'm hoping I'm just blind and not unlucky.

Aim

1000/1000 in Project Gotham Racing 3 - making the tournament qualifier was one of the hardest things I've ever done gaming wise.

Kor

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

I like Geometry Wars 2's achievements, as it puts a whole new twist on the various gametypes.

That reminds me, I am so close to 100% Banjo-Kazooie, but I need to know whether that glitch which deleted notes in-game still exists. I got the game at the start of the year, but I'm 4 notes short in Click Clock Wood. I'm hoping I'm just blind and not unlucky.

Oh, god Tick Tock woods drove me nuts, I a good 2 hours looking for 4 notes specifically. Of course, they ended up being the first season (spring) and just around a corner that I never really glanced at. I ended up using a note guide at some point, which was actually kind of helpful since the notes always come in chunk of 3s or 4s or 5s.

Zerokku

I have two games completed.

Avatar 1000/1000, and Sonic 3 200/200

I'll go after achievements, but I wouldn't call myself an achievement whore. Hell I only have about 5700.

jclast

I was driven to get all of the trophies (figured I would be exact since the PS3 trophies are different from the 360 achievements) in Burnout Paradise. Game was too much fun to stop playing after I got my Burnout license, and the trophy list served as a nice "what else can I do here?" list.

PaperLuigi44

I used Gamefaqs, but none of the four note clusters were there. I'm think it may be two clusters of two notes, but I did do that Bottle's puzzle of the beehive, and four notes were there, which I can't remember picking up.

Allforce

Probably the one I'm most proud of is beating all Extreme Tracks in Trials HD. Just got that a few weeks ago after never even being able to beat the 2nd one out of the 4. Then one night I tried and flew through all of them in one sitting. I credit playing all the batshit insane user tracks that people have created that are leagues harder than anything the devs could come up with.

Kor

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

I used Gamefaqs, but none of the four note clusters were there. I'm think it may be two clusters of two notes, but I did do that Bottle's puzzle of the beehive, and four notes were there, which I can't remember picking up.

Just remember, when using a note guide, don't assume you've already gotten those because you remember doing it, or because it would have been too hard to miss.

If you have to, literally go through it step by step to find them.

fragglefart

Hmm... for me, I don't think any achievement is likely to top when I 200/200'd Geometry Wars, way back when.

Really really wanna 1000/1000 EDF2017 but the last weapon drop just does not seem to be happening.

Beating Omega 5 was pretty cool, as was Catlevania : SotN.

I've managed to fully complete quite a few, but so many still allude me. Not a fan of massive grind-fests, especially if they are MP-centric. I can't stomach all those ranked games.

Not got any really awesome Achievements for a while, the best recently have been in The Beatles : Rock Band.

How Could I Dance with Another?
Score 100% playing I Saw Her Standing There on Expert Bass.
20G Acquired 9/10/2009

That's It! You've Got It!
Get a 350-note streak playing Hey Bulldog on Bass.
25G Acquired 9/10/2009

EvilBadman

I had all 1000 on Bioshock, but I need to beat the rest of the game on Hard without Vitachambers. The reason I stopped is there was a glitch where you couldn't turn them off anymore.

PaperLuigi44

Since Prince of Persia was brought up, I'd just like to say that as much as I enjoyed that game, you honest to god get achievements for:

a) Watching the opening cutscene

b) Pressing Y to use the compass

c) Pressing LT to talk to Elika.

Voro

As much as I love achievements, I do have to admit that they hurt my enjoyment of RPGs. Take a look at my Vesperia progress sometime and you'll see why. I decided to go all the way on the secret mission achievs, which resulted in me dropping the game the first time I hit a boss and I just couldn't get it to work.

Then there are collection achievements like the flags in Assassin's Creed. If the game actually told you where the flags were that you acquired, then it would be doable. But the moment you grab one without a checklist, then it's all over. That, and having to listen to an annoying speech every time you load up the game to do some free roaming...not fun.

Game That I've 1000'd
Warriors Orochi
Resident Evil 5
Bladestorm

Games That I Plan to 1000
EDF 2017
Onechanbara
DW6 Empires
Mass Effect

I'm sitting on 155 weapons in EDF 2017, but I've only finished Easy so far. I actually got my Zexrs 13 hours in and my Lysander Z 14 hours in, so I really have no excuse for not going all the way. At this point it's just a matter of persevering and finishing all the difficulties. I have everything I need to grind out the remaining weapons if need be.

I've completed the most difficult/pain in the ass achievs for Onechanbara. One day I'll grind through Hard, Violent, and Berserk difficulty.

DW6:E is one I could probably finish tonight if I wanted to. All I have left is finishing a single battle with 37 officers that I have yet to touch.

In Mass Effect, I'm in the middle of my insanity playthrough. I think I stopped right before a battle with a certain biotic. It actually isn't that difficult, just tedious since so many enemies are spamming immunity. After that, I just need to grind to 60 and then spam abilities for the remaining achievs. Thankfully I have a few months before that needs to be done.

Nuzak

i really like some of the single player GTA4 acheivements

i think some of them were put in for being awesome, like getting 5 rolls from one car crash, which i got for speeding through times square and hitting a car at a weird angle

i got the acheivement in mid air, and then landed almost in central park

PaperLuigi44

What was the Hot Coffee related achievement called again? Because that was hilarious.

QuirkyLittleTyrant

I bought Watchmen: The End is Nigh, which is fun for about two minutes and then sucks HARD. The achievements are numbers like 8 and 36.

When my Gamerscore became a number not divisible by five, some small apparently obsessive-compulsive part of me started raging.

Nuzak

PaperLuigi44 wrote: »

What was the Hot Coffee related achievement called again? Because that was hilarious.

warm coffee

i smiled

PaperLuigi44

That's the one.

And QLT, I know what you're talking about, Civ Rev does a similar thing, and I still need to get one more 9g achievement to even my score out again.

jclast

The Civ: Rev ones are doable because all of the odd-numbered ones are easy and you should get them after 1 game on Chieftain if I am remembering them right.