Archive for the 'Cheevers' Category

10
Aug

26 Million? Christ.

By Mark Hill 7 Comments
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Even though I’m absolutely terrible at Geometry Wars 2, I can’t stop playing it. I was afraid that after I got all the achievements, well, the ones that are at all possible for me to get (Smile? Yeah, right), I wouldn’t want to play it anymore. But the fact that it shows your friends’ high scores along with yours is major motivation to keep killing those shiny shapes and collecting their sweet, sweet geoms. Nom nom nom.

Some of my friends, though (Raul), have the most riduculously high scores (see above), that it’s laughable for me to even attempt to beat him. Tyler, on the other hand, I think I can go toe to gay toe with Tyler.

21
Jul

Stick It In Me

By Mark Hill 17 Comments
Categories: Cheevers, Editorials and Games


There is a cheever in Battlefield: Bad Company called “The Hypochondriac” that is unlocked when you use the auto-injector 50 times. I’m not sure if they meant for this to be something that you wouldn’t unlock until you were deep into the game, but I got it on the very first level.

Maybe I’m overusing it, but I’m playing the game on the hardest difficulty, and would much rather step back and heal myself multiple times than replay any level one time.

29
Jun

Cheevers: Achievement Stacking

By Russ Crandall 8 Comments
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I am a big supporter of achievement stacking - when you beat a game on a harder skill and you are awarded the achievement points for completing the game on the easier skills, too. For instance, when you beat the Hard career on Rock Band, you get the points for Easy and Medium, too. Many recent games have it, so much so that it’s become the norm.

That’s why I’m irked to find a game that doesn’t have achievement stacking. Case in point: I just read that one of the games I’m currently playing through, Medal of Honor: Airborne, does NOT have cheever stacking. Go figure that it’s the first game I’ve tried playing through on a more difficult setting the first time through. Which means that if I was to beat the game on the harder setting, I would still have to go back and play it on the easy setting. I’d rather play it through on the easy setting first and work my way up, which means I have to start the whole thing over again.

15
May

Achieve 720

By Russ Crandall 0 Comments
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Two things:

While searching for a picture that accurately reflected Xbox 360 Achievements, I ran across this site that generates achievements for you (like the one you see above). Pretty sweet.

The other thing is that Joystiq is reporting that Game Informer is reporting that there is a rumor that Xbox 360 achievements will be transferred over to the next Xbox (720 or whatever it will be). I hadn’t thought that far ahead, but that makes sense, and I would like to not start over from scratch again, because I think that would fill me with an unmistakeable bitterness, knowing that years of hard “work” amounted to nothing. Well, it still amounts to nothing, but at least they aren’t going away anytime soon.

13
May

Cheapskate: That’s Barely a Dollar Per Kill!

By Mark Hill 3 Comments
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I got a great game at an even better price today via Gamefly’s May used game sale. There are some pretty good deals on their site, but the best one, I thought, was Assassin’s Creed for $18.99. I also used my five Gamefly bucks that I got for my first three months of membership, bringing the total to the bargain basement price of $14.62!

It’s true, I already played through the game, but I’ve been craving some Templar-killing action lately, and maybe someday I’ll get all those damned flags. Plus, 14 bucks is small price to pay for such a great game, especially when compared to the $15 dollar price tag of the crap-fest Reservoir Dogs on the OGXbox.

08
May

Cheevers: PSFanboys Have No Idea

By Mark Hill 12 Comments
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I feel really bad for PS3 owners. They’ll never know the feeling of the extreme gratification that arises when an achievement is unlocked. I started thinking about this last night while I was trying to get the “King of QUB3D” cheever in GTA4 (didn’t get it), and realized that these secondary activities in the game (bowling, darts, pool, etc.) are going to be so easily overlooked by the PlayStationPublic simply because there is no reward for playing them.

Well, at least they have PlayStation Home. Oh wait, no they don’t.

06
May

Cheevers: Gutterball Theft Auto

By Mark Hill 4 Comments
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Proof

Last night I spent a good hour and a half just bowling in GTA4, trying to get the “Gobble Gobble” cheever where you have to get three strikes in a row. I must have bowled at least ten complete games, and I can’t even tell you how many times I had two strikes, and got nine on the third one. It was absolutely maddening. Finally, right after I declared the current game my last one before bed, I got it (plus a fourth consecutive strike to boot), finishing with a 199 for the game (my best game of the night was 212). Immediately after getting it, I executed the unlucky bowler on the lane next to me with a shotgun.

So, was staying up late repeating a boring, monotonous task over and over again to the point of wanting to pull my hair out worth 10 achievement points? You bet your sweet ass it was.

14
Apr

Cheevers: My Faves

By Tyler Miller 7 Comments
Categories: Cheevers, Games and My Faves
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Yeah, I combined two categories from the site… SO WHAT? Seriously though, this idea has been beat to death but I’m going to give a boot to the chops for good measure. Mainly, I’m curious to find out A) how important Achievements are and B) what are some of your most hard-fought, glorious, fist-pump inducing moments were. To kick things off, here’s my list: Minor spoilers, even though some of these games have been out for so long now if you haven’t beaten them… sorry.

#1 Zombie Genocider / Dead Rising : Defeat at least 53,594 zombies. 20 Points

I pulled this one while I was in the depths of my Achievement addiction, a place I don’t want to go again. 53,594 is supposedly the population of Willamette, CO. (where the game takes place). I remember this one a little bothered by the fact that it was only worth 20 Points. It took hours of work just to crush all of those Zombies under my tires in the Mall tunnels. Oh, well. Continue reading ‘Cheevers: My Faves’

04
Apr

Crackdown Corrupted

By Russ Crandall 2 Comments
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So, you may have already read that I have been playing Crackdown lately to get some of the achievements I didn’t have the patience for during my first playthrough last year.

I was playing the game for a few minutes yesterday when all of a sudden my 360 Elite froze up on me. No big deal, I was kinda in the mood to pop in Rock Band anyway. So I rebooted and popped in Rock Band and it happened again, but then when I tried one more time it worked fine.

Today I pop in my Crackdown and lo and behold, my savegame has been corrupted. I can’t recover it or anything, so I have to create a whole new one, and lose all the progress I’ve made in it. Which basically means I can’t get those achievements I wanted, unless I want to start completely over.

I’m pissed, this is the first stability issue I’ve had with my 360. I mean, once I scratched up my Guitar Hero II disc by lifting my 360 while it was turned on, but that was my own stupid fault. This was just mean.

So, it was fun while it lasted, but I will probably never play Crackdown again.

02
Apr

almost there

By Mark Hill 3 Comments
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Fo' reelz
I’m only 5 gamerscore away from 14,000 cheevers. I’ve played through a few games recently, which has helped up my score a couple grand in the past few weeks. Currently, I’m about 75% of the way through The Simpsons Game, which I both love and hate, and should hit the magic number tomorrow.

I still really wish that COD4 had achievements for the online multiplayer. The ranking system does an ok job of making me feel like I’m accomplishing something in the game, but I would really love it if completing some of the challenges netted me a couple cheevers.

31
Mar

Cheevers: Cracking Down

By Russ Crandall 1 Comment
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All I’ve been playing on my big black Xbox360 these past few days (aside from a level or two of Doom, which is becoming unfun in its unfairness) is Crackdown. I played through it last year but I’m borrowing it again to get some of the achievements that I didn’t have the patience for during my first playthrough.

Crackdown was one of the first Xbox360 games that I beat, and looking back at it now I’m really impressed with its achievement system. It truly is a game built around achievements; if it weren’t for those little “bloop” sounds I probably wouldn’t explore even 25% of the whole city. But the game is a great balance of work and play, and much like Assassin’s Creed, it is polished enough that I don’t mind its repetitiveness.

02
Mar

Cheevers: Assassin’s Creed “50 Leaps of Faith”

By Russ Crandall 0 Comments
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I played a bit of Assassin’s Creed today (I’ve assassinated four out of the nine baddies so far), and while in the city of Acre I found an easy place to climb and jump off of in order to perform the 10-point achievement for “50 leaps of faith”.

Here’s a quick video that I made of me doing it a couple times:

Basically, you climb up the ladder that leads to the Assassin’s Bureau, and then jump off into a nearby haystack, and repeat. Anyone who’s played this game knows that most places you jump off of in order to perform a “leap of faith” takes a bit of climbing to get to. Hopefully this is a lot easier.

13
Feb

Cheevers: 100 “Easy” Rock Band Gold

By Russ Crandall 1 Comment
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I like achievement points, or “gold” as I like to incorrectly call them. I also like to get them in the easiest way possible, just shy of blatant cheating. I may make this an ongoing section, we’ll see.

Yesterday, I found out that in order to get 100 points in Rock Band for becoming a “Hall of Fame Inductee”, all you really have to do is participate in the 8-song set that the Rock Band band has to complete in order to be inducted. In other words, I went to a friend’s house yesterday and piggy-backed on his Rock Band band’s career, playing the guitar part for 8 songs while he played bass and his wife sang. And bam, we all three got 100 gold each.

06
Jan

Cheevers: 19,995 (updated)

By Russ Crandall 2 Comments
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Update: I reached the elusive 20k today, by doing a 5-point achievement in Assassin’s Creed (use scholar blending 20x). Now that I’ve hit it exactly, I plan on plowing through some other achievements, to reach that elusive 25k.

As you can see from my gamercard (or should see, if Xbox.com wasn’t so messed up), my gamerscore is currently at 19,995. Any suggestions for a quick 5-point achievement? I want to hit exactly 20k.

06
Dec

Cheevers: Scene It

By Russ Crandall 0 Comments
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So far I’ve only played two rounds of the new Xbox 360 game Scene It: Lights, Camera, Action but I’m really liking it. That and I’ve already unlocked 485 gamerpoints. But I earned those points, darn it, I’m that good.

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