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[Achievement Unlocked] The PA Achievement Thread
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Portal achevements. Specifically, the Bronze/Silver/Gold all challenges achevements. I freaking love the orange box, and nearly all of the other achevements where imaginative and fun.
I'm stuck on 940/1000, 96 out of 99 achevements, because they forgot to nerf the achevements to make up for the fact that the control pad will never be as fast or precise as a KB+M. The step counter is really buggy (3 steps for nudging the stick), and has been patched on the PC version, making the Gold medals on there reasonably obtainable. Not so much for the 360.
Hell, even with cheats like Portals anywhere and invincability (which, yeah, I'm a bit ashamed at using) some challenges are still damn near impossible. I doubt anyone has this achevement legally.
Now, I'd like to think I'm not an achevement whore. I couldn't care less about my total gamerscore. I just want to 100% this game after getting so damn close.
Pretty annoying fault on an excellent game.
Add me to the list as well - one of 3 games Ive 100% (along with LEGO Batman and Doritos whatever...)
There's some amusing stuff, like Avatar: The Burning Earth's 1000G being nothing more than 5 'achieve a hit counter of x' all the way up to 50 hits. Apparantly this can be done in about 5 minutes. Or the fact that one person in the world (at least who's on Live) has the Bomberman: AZ achievement for destroying one million blocks.
I think I'm the only one who's proud of my odd-numbered Gamerscore; I think it ends in a 2, from the Dishwasher. I'm somewhere around 12k Gamerscore, though I could give a toss about the total, but once you crest 10k or so it's entertaining to go back and look at all of the games I've played to date.
I take the opposite tack as a lot of people: I wish all Achievements were secret and locked at the beginning, and you only got to see how to get more of them once you've played the game once. Things like the Irony Achievement in Bioshock ring out as really clever ways to reward players who mess around on their own, or whatever the DeLorean one in PGR3 or 4 was. The secret missions in Vesperia are a cool twist too; as a result I'm always looking for weird twists to exploit on the battlefield with bosses, but if I miss the chance I won't cry and stomp my feet about it.
But that's the way I use them: to flesh out the experience I get on subsequent playthrough. Like the time trials in Mirror's Edge and Tomb Raider Legend, or hard-mode runs in Bioshock and CoD4. I think trying to gorge yourself on as many achievements as you can on your first playthrough -- at the expense of playing the game the way you would normally have fun -- is rather alien and a tiny bit unhealthy. But hey, horses for courses. From a marketing standpoint, Achievements are genius, and it's why Sony and Nintendo, to a limited extent with MP3 and Wii Sports Resort, have emulated the idea.
EDIT: And fittingly enough, I had forgotten that I swapped my sig for the Backloggery one -- a site devoted to making Achievements out of beating all your old games!
During the guitar minigame, screw up and press the Guide button like Moore did during the E3 2007 Rock Band Demonstration
Man, do I wish Australia got Indie games.
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But I tend to go for the obscure kooky achievements more than any other, evenback when I was ensnared in WoW. Like "Kill 10 vampires while wearing the Rabbit outfit and without using a holy hand grenade". I'll spend hours doing stuff like that.
Also multiplayer achievements on older games are usually impossible to get more than a week after release. Case in point; The Darkness and Dark Sector.
Playing around with mygamercard.net, you can sort by effort. It compares how many achievements you got versus the average for that game.
My highest one was maxing out Mega Man 9. It wasn't terribly hard since I played the shit out of all the MM games when I was a kid. Invincible (beat the game without dying) was easier than Conversationalist (use as little energy as possible) since I couldn't be sure I was doing it right until I beat the game.
My next highest is BC: Rearmed, which I didn't even 200/200. I am missing H4><0rz (easy to do, I just didn't feel like doing it) and Elite Commando (beat the game on super hard) which is goddamn ridiculous. That game is fucking HARD on super hard. Jesus christ, the enemies have a ton of HP, shoot a million bullets, and you die in like 2 hits. I might have beat it if I hadn't burned myself out beating all the challenges. That's probably the achievement I'm most proud of -- getting all those challenges down was tough.
Other games I've full completed are Batman: AA, N+, Banjo-Kazooie, Hitman:BM, Mass Effect, Defense Grid, and Warriors Orochi. I might take a stab on Brutal Legend in the coming weeks.
The website Giant Bomb has an achievement tracker, that ranks your achievements/trophies and grades you on each game. Kind of cool.
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Given the absolutely retarded Achievements on FFXI, I don't think you'd want to. It's something like one Achievement for getting each individual job class up to max level, like 75 or something.
I read up on those a few months back, clearly showing complete lack of creativity. I figure something like timed runs or defeating bosses with unique strats or set ups should be rewarded.
Anyway, I think the only game I've gotten tons of trophies/achievements has been Rock Band 2. I don't usually mind them but admit they're pretty nifty and extend the replay value of some games.
I've beaten the game twice and still haven't gotten it.
Because I had a Friday off from work, a long bachelored weekend and a lot of pent-up Metroid love. :P I had one Normal mode runthrough, a second Insane 100 percent run, a third Insane/Hard Minimalist run, and I was so close to level 50 at that point that I just started a fourth run and stopped when I hit 50. I tended to stick with the final assault rifle instead of the bad-ass shottie, because it was easier to headshot, and when you whip through the game really fast with constant 7x and 8x multipliers, the experience stacks really quickly.
I have an unhealthy love for Shadow Complex. The same with Pac-Man CE; I played the game obsessively the first month of its release. That's one where I got 200/200 Gamerscore just by playing it for 20 or 30 minutes; the game clicked with me, I played through all of the modes and I didn't even think to check the Achievement list until I had gotten everything.
As far as Trophies go for the PS3, the closest I am to a Platinum is in Infamous. But I'll be god damned if I'm supposed to go hunt down a bunch of fodder enemies and perform those infuriating stunts on them.
Anyway, I could not care less about achievements, trophies, or anything else. I've got no desire to go out of my way and do some menial, boring task in order to get a 'point' increase.
I play games for fun. Trying to get achievements that don't come in my normal course of playing a game seems like work.
How do you do this?
Let's see, what else - Portal: SA, both PA games, Shadow Complex, and I would have Burnout Paradise if one of the damn fences wasn't bugged. I might start a separate save just to grab that.
One of the things I refuse to do is use a map for any collectibles. Otherwise I'm doing it just for the points, not the search.
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@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
On the left, under the ad, there's a box for "organize game list". The drop down box is set to Last Played. Set it to Effort (Best->Worst). I clicked on your sig and your highest is SFIV with 270% overachievement.
There's an achievement for beating the last boss, which is pretty much beating the game.
i was fairly close on crackdown, and did finish gears 1, but both had DLC come out that ruined those for me.
seems like the only game i've got 1000/1000 is TMNT.... the movie game. that one was a gimme though.
i'm only 2 away from done with halo 3, and also quite close in pacman (4 ghost achievement!), gears 2, assasin's creed, and a few others that escape me.
my one major gripe with achievements is the collecting ones. i am really lazy, and collecting things is so mario. what really turned me off was crackdown, i got to some crazy number of orbs and was only like, 5 away from done, and the last ones i could never find. maps are useless for these in my opinion, because fuck if i'm going to stare at a small marker and know exactly where it is.
i never got the collecting achievements in gears, or assasin's creed, and probably will not get them for ODST.
That's why I like it on PSN that the Platinum Trophy doesn't require any DLC Trophies.
50% going through the game
25% Self-enforced difficulty or extraneous challenges
25% Weird things nobody would normally do
Mass Effect and Mirror's Edge I would put near the top for achievements that require commitment or skill but aren't psychotically unobtainable.
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collect x of y
the 'you completed the tutorial! wanna lolly?' ones
get x kills online (gears 1, oh jesus i can't believe i got seriously...)
any achievement that is exclusive to online play (halo 3 has certain achievements doable in campaign or in MP. this is the best thing)
Yeah I was pretty chuffed when I got that one.
Perfect : Eat all ghosts four times within a stage!
30G : Acquired 10/8/2006
August 2006 man, holy crap over three years ago!
Easiest achievement ever.
EDIT: Found it, interesting read
http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2007/11/26/infinity-ward-talks-call-of-duty-4-achievements/
you are a god among men, i will probably never get that
Damn! I just checked my and I score underachievement in all of my games excepted 1
Lost Planet : 96.38% underachievement
Yup I am teh suck at shooters. :oops:
Banjo Kazooie;
Burn the Witch!
Shot Grunty with the laser in Showdown Town
Pointless Collector
Took part in the L.O.G. badge collecting challenge at the start of the game in Spiral Mountain
Fable 2;
The Hunter
So, proud of yourself? Big brave hunter killed an innocent rabbit? How do you sleep at night?
The Party Animal
You, or a friend, spread the joy (and pain) of intoxication to five people in under three minutes.
The Swinger
You went to bed with more than one person and... Well, why do you think we blacked out the screen?
LEGO Star Wars
Crowd Pleaser
Break Jar Jar 20 times.
I would give up the 30 gamerscore to get Infinite Undiscovery off my game history. It just looks annoying to see it there with so little, but I sure as hell wasn't going to keep it longer from Gamefly just to get it up when there were games I actually wanted to play.
You played it long enough to get 30 points? I checked out after 5.
I am similarly embarassed by my 20 points from X-blades.
I think this is a pretty good formula. 50% is kind of high for just going through the game but it's okay for retail games. I think XBLA games should skew less towards just completing the game and more towards challenging stuff, since they're shorter and more arcade-y by nature. I know some people complain about the MM9 achievements since you can't get any without beating the game (I think?) but just having them for beating a boss or whatever would be silly.