Stupid Achievements/Trophies
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95% of achievements are stupid. Especially FPSs. Anybody can shoot 20 guys. Anybody can beat the game (unless you lose the game). Anybody can beat levels 1-10.
There are only a few trophies actually worth a second glance - particularly (in PS3 terms) Platinum trophies. But even then, it just shows you that you bothered to pour a certain amount of your time into a game.
There are only a few trophies actually worth a second glance - particularly (in PS3 terms) Platinum trophies. But even then, it just shows you that you bothered to pour a certain amount of your time into a game.
I think that trophy was meant to be a joke. If I remember correctly, in inFAMOUS 1, one of the few things you couldn't scale was chain link fences, which is why the description for the trophy said something along the lines of "Jump over a fence and rejoice!", or something like that. I could be wrong though, and please correct me if I am.Catfood220 said:
OT: Multiplayer trophies in a singleplayer focused game where the multiplayer is "tacked on". Do they really expect the multiplayer to last long enough for people to get those trophies a few months down the line?
the me2 insanity achievement made me want to put a gun to my head and that was on the second. fucking. level.dogstile said:
There was a Simpsons game that gave you an achievement for pressing "start" on the menu screen. But it was given a fitting name:
"Worst Achievement Ever"
"Worst Achievement Ever"
A lot of the WoW achievements are pretty ridiculous. I'm a bit of a fan of To All The Squirrels I've Loved Before, since it's completely and utterly pointless
http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=1206/to-all-the-squirrels-ive-loved-before
http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=1206/to-all-the-squirrels-ive-loved-before
In most cases achievements like the one you mentioned (i.e. achievements that would imply you having to lose at something or otherwise not do well in the game) ARE meant to be a mark of shame/teasing jest towards the player, that's why they have a 0 gamerscore value.PsychicTaco115 said:
As for an achievement that I thought was stupid, in celebration of Warriors Orochi 3 coming, out, I'll point to the achievement in WO 2 which demanded that you beat every level on every difficulty. Sounds easy enough...except there's no "auto-complete" function for beating a level on a higher difficulty (that is to say how most games if you complete it on Hard, it counts as having completed it on Normal and Easy as well. This game you have to meticulously beat every level 4 times for Easy, Normal, Hard, Super Hard). Still, not so bad...except when you consider the fact that in order to unlock the last playable bonus level, you have to get your combined weapon proficiency for all characters to like 3,356 or something like that. This essentially translates into "Play this game for more than 150 hours."
Which brings me to another set of lame achievements: the time base ones. Like the Dead Island one where you just have to play the game 28 days after the first time you played it. Not bad. But what about Arkham City in which you have to visit Calender Man on every holiday of the year? Good god, I mean that game was a HELL of a lot of fun, but unless you cheat (disconnect your XBox and change the date in the system settings) that means that they want you to either keep playing it for the better part of a year just to get that achievement. There's only so many times you can play through that story, so many times you can beat the crap out of a buncha thugs before you start wanting to play something else.
Captcha: Ok...wow.... "The infiniti jx inspired a cirque du soleil performance."....and apparently it's a True/False question? Great, now I have to google before I can make a post?
Back in Ye Olde Days, prior to the existence of cheevo's, the Sierra adventure game "Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist" (it's better than it sounds) did something like this. Walking up to your pharmacy, locating the key, and opening the front door awarded you enough points to bring your Score up to around half of the total available points in the game. The narrator even lampshades it by telling you that you're now 'halfway through the game!' However, the first time you leave the shop and lock up, it promptly deducts all but ten or so of those points, precisely so you DO have to work for them.Starik20X6 said:
Pure evil.
Oooh... The Gears of War series has a crap-load of stupid achievements in...
"Complete the tutorial"
"Complete act 1"
"Complete act 2"
Ect...
Seriously, you unlock most of the achievements by just going through the game, not going through the game with X silly restriction (Like HL:2 Ep 1's One Free Bullet Achievement, or that Gnome one from whichever episode had that in) just playing the game... Sure there are 4 levels of achivement for the different difficulties, but really?
Also I remember that Gears of War 1 had an online achieve which was something like "Kill 9000 players" which is just stupid...
Really the only achivements I actually like where some fun ones to get (Like One Free Bullet, so many fun times when I was pelting a combine in the face with a small fragment of a crate because I ran out of other things to throw at him) and that one game that was a parody of achivements where the whole object of the game was to unlock the 101 achievements (The first one unlocked by getting to the main menu, the second was for starting the game)
"Complete the tutorial"
"Complete act 1"
"Complete act 2"
Ect...
Seriously, you unlock most of the achievements by just going through the game, not going through the game with X silly restriction (Like HL:2 Ep 1's One Free Bullet Achievement, or that Gnome one from whichever episode had that in) just playing the game... Sure there are 4 levels of achivement for the different difficulties, but really?
Also I remember that Gears of War 1 had an online achieve which was something like "Kill 9000 players" which is just stupid...
Really the only achivements I actually like where some fun ones to get (Like One Free Bullet, so many fun times when I was pelting a combine in the face with a small fragment of a crate because I ran out of other things to throw at him) and that one game that was a parody of achivements where the whole object of the game was to unlock the 101 achievements (The first one unlocked by getting to the main menu, the second was for starting the game)
the God of War origins collection has some wierd ones.
"Pass all the beam walks in the game" there is one beam walk thing in the entire game and its about 5 minutes into it lol.
and other one called "almost there" that pops about half way accross this massive chain thing, which made me laugh.
"Pass all the beam walks in the game" there is one beam walk thing in the entire game and its about 5 minutes into it lol.
and other one called "almost there" that pops about half way accross this massive chain thing, which made me laugh.
Best one ever. Me and my best mates were doing it, and I didn't get what we were doing at first, but we all got into it, and were going on about "Gnomey". "Oh no, we have to save Gnomey!" "Gnomey is useless for bashing zombies."lRookiel said:
Finally we get to the finale, and every game one of my mates in the game and I have played, had the chopper come in on the right. So we went off to there when we heard it. My other friend grabbed the gnome and looked up, laughing as it came in on the left, and went that way. In the end, only he and the gnome escaped, as the rest of us got hammered by a double tank.
That's got nothing on the Gnome Achievement from Half Life 2 ep 2, you had to carry it through the entire game, bearing in mind there were vehicle sections, where you just had to balance it on top of the car...while being chased by a helicopter firing rockets at you. My flat mates done it and it is fucking insane.lRookiel said: