Not to mention fall damage, fire damage, car damage....Memoriae said:
Plus infinite ammo with no reload times, etc.
Un-achievable Achievements?
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Plus infinite ammo with no reload times, etc.
ManBearPig in South Park: Tower Defence Game. Not because of any game glitch, it's just that there's always some idiot on the team who fecks it right up.
Oh I know the problem and the solution I just don't have the time or desire to grind out that particular achievement at the moment.I'll get around to it at some pointMercurySteam said:
I remember when Crackdown 2 had the *get six stars in all stats* or something like that right when the DLC came out and it wouldn't give it to me until I downloaded the patched version of the DLC again three days later. Pain in the butt, but worth it.
BTW loving these responses. You guys have some great stories!
BTW loving these responses. You guys have some great stories!
Again, I fault developers for every reason you list and those I list myself; it's their improper use of the achievement/trophy system that is the problem, not the achievement system itself. Achievements, when implemented properly and appropriatley, offer another level to a game and can be a lot of fun to pursue, often identifying challenges one might not see on their own. Take "One Free Shot" from The Orange Box; I'd have never thought to try playing Half-Life Episode 2 without guns, but it was a lot of fun doing it! The "cute little icons" are badges of accomplishments and progress that, at least in my case, offer healthy competition between friends and proof that I've actually have done something significant. And I doubt implementing achievements has truly every forced a developer to change the design of their game, c'mon. Achievements can be tied to anything in a game and used how the devs see fit. No one is FORCING them to be used a certain way; look at Avatar, the most famous 1000 GS on the 360, completely attainable in the first few minutes! If a major developer truly wanted to shirk the achievement system they could simply tie their minimum 1000 GS to story progression: "Complete the first mission, complete the second mission, etc" until they've exhausted the full minimum 1000 without ever "affecting" your gaming experience. And there are LOTS of games that do just this...Deviate said:
To say achievements have somehow fundamentally adversely affected gaming is too broad a stroke and unfair to the system. Achievements haven't "killed the actual achievements you could aim for in games." How does an achievement stating you beat CoD4 on Veteran kill the experience of playing CoD4 on Veteran? And if anyone is upset that tweaking a game disables achievements, then I'd offer they can't have it both ways; they're ACHIEVEMENTS, which means you should have to do something to earn them. Either you play the game as it was intended and work to earn achievements, or you change the game with mods and cheat codes to play it as you see fit without unduely earning achievement; any other way WOULD make the achievement/trophy systems meaningless and there are STILL people who've found ways to do this with hacks and exploits. In my experience, and correct me if I'm wrong, the only "tweaks" I know of that disable achievements are those that change the core game, ie: difficulty, cheats, exploits, etc, not the way the user interfaces with it.
Hahahaha!! I'd pay for that game!Soviet Heavy said:
But I actually kinda enjoyed the Little Rocket Man cheevo. About half-way through, it became more a matter of principle than me seeking the achievement. No matter how bad or frustrating it got, I'd come too far; I was NOT leaving that little bastard behind; he was getting on that rocket come hell or high water...
To the OP, the one in Driver:SF. The cones count as hits, It was the last trophy I needed for platinum, so I took a run and knocked out all the cones first, then did it again without hitting anything and staying above 20 or whatever and it pinged.
I failed at getting one of the Kombo Khallenge trohies in MKvsDC. Fuck Dial-a-Combo, I'm so happy MK is fixed.
I failed at getting one of the Kombo Khallenge trohies in MKvsDC. Fuck Dial-a-Combo, I'm so happy MK is fixed.
"Medical Breakthrough" and "Tam O'Shatter" in TF2. For the Medic and Demoman, respectively. You have one Ubercharge (ten seconds) to destroy five buildings -- that's at the very least two Engineers, more likely three Engineers' worth of buildings. All the buildings have to be in a fast reachable radius to be destroyed in that small time frame, most of the time Engineers aren't going to sit down and let their buildings be destroyed that quickly, the other team is still interfering, it's possible someone else on your team could steal a building kill during the Uber push, plus the fucking Sentry knockback can fuck up everything.
The only way I can see this working is to get a Kritzreig Uber to give the Demo critical stickybombs, and quickly kill the Engineers with the increased damage. But a Kritz Uber doesn't give you invulnerability, and when you're possibly facing two Sentries at once to get that achievement, you're going to fucking need the invulnerability.
The only way I can see this working is to get a Kritzreig Uber to give the Demo critical stickybombs, and quickly kill the Engineers with the increased damage. But a Kritz Uber doesn't give you invulnerability, and when you're possibly facing two Sentries at once to get that achievement, you're going to fucking need the invulnerability.
I was never able to get the one in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood where you drop a weight on a guard. It just won't unlock for me...
Good luck getting the multiplayer achievements in Mercenaries 2 when the game wont even start if your console has an active internet connection.
Good luck getting the multiplayer achievements in Mercenaries 2 when the game wont even start if your console has an active internet connection.
Most games I don't do achievements unless I think it's something I can do. I think we need to bring up the rock band(s) achievement which is play all the songs in a row.... without pausing. I have a friend who has achieved this on all three games (he has really severe OCD) by switching off with a group of 4 people.
That EXACT same thing happened to me. So pissed.trollpwner said:
I wish Valve would make that game. I took me two or three tries to get that achievement. The first time I lost him after you run into the giant maggot thing are being chased by the chopper and have to turn and was very sad. The achievements that I think are impossible in that game are Get Some Grub(I always come out of there having killed all but two or three of those things) and Neighborhood Watch. Other achievements that are impossible to get are pretty much every non-story related achievement in Chromehounds. I will forever be disappointed in SEGA for shutting down the servers on that game.Soviet Heavy said:
I can only remember two that I didn't get:
Insanity - Beat Mass Effect on the Insanity difficulty (I got the profile picture for beating it on Insanity though)
Keep Off the Sand (or whatever the hell it's called) - Don't step on the sand in that one level in Half Life 2 (I spent and over an hour on that level, being really careful to not step on the sand, and I was pissed when I didn't get my achievement)
Insanity - Beat Mass Effect on the Insanity difficulty (I got the profile picture for beating it on Insanity though)
Keep Off the Sand (or whatever the hell it's called) - Don't step on the sand in that one level in Half Life 2 (I spent and over an hour on that level, being really careful to not step on the sand, and I was pissed when I didn't get my achievement)
I see where you're coming from, but I think you're taking a bit of an extreme perspective. The abuses by users, precautions taken and limitations imposed upon individual gaming experiences are predominantely the exceptions and not the rules within the achievement system. Would you fault cars because thousands of people die in car accidents every year, or is the benefit and convenience of billions of perfectly safe, non-pedestrian commutes worth the "risk?" Many developers have seemlessly integrated the achievement system into their games adding/quantifying a level of depth previously unmeasured. To oversimplify and call it a crude measure of "endowment" is unbefitting for, by your logic, what else are ALL games if not that? You gain nothing from playing a game without achievement save for a feeling of accomplishment and a measure of pride, correct? Before achievements and now, do you not talk to friends about the things you do in your games, boast about your 'accomplishments?' Achievements are nothing more than an objectievly quantifiable representation of the same crap we gamers have been talking since the first games came out decades ago, and yes, just as I took pride in beating the tar out of friends on NES titles back in the 80s and 90s, I take pride in having a significant achievement my friends today might not. It's healthy competition, a surmounting of a challenge; it's about fun, which is what games are supposed to be about; innocent enough until like anything can be, it's perverted by abuse and misuse. Still, I think the benefits outweigh risks; hopefully the next gen can weed out some of the issues you and others have with the system because rest assured, they're not going away any time soon!Deviate said: