Posts Tagged ‘achievements

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.

06
May

Cheevers: Gutterball Theft Auto

By Mark Hill 4 Comments
Categories: Cheevers, Editorials, Games and News
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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.

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.

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.

04
Dec

Cheevers: Thank Bejeezus For Inclusive Achievements

By Russ Crandall 1 Comment
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I have a statement and a confession to make.

Statement: I beat the Rock Band solo tour on the Hard difficulty today.
Confession: Mark beat two songs for me that I couldn’t finish myself.

Now that I’ve got that off my chest, I am also happy to announce that the Rock Band achievements are inclusive - meaning that when I/we/he beat the game on Hard, it unlocked the achievements for the Easy and Medium difficulties as well (unlike Guitar Hero). So bam, 90 achievement points all at once.

I can’t wait to get my hands on a drum set.

23
Nov

Cheevers: It’s More Satisfying Than You’d Think.

By Russ Crandall 0 Comments
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I’ve spent days - nay, weeks - trudging through some games for achievement points. A good example is The Darkness, which came out this year. I didn’t really enjoy it. It had a lot more to it than I initially thought, and it took me a couple weeks (with a one-month break in the middle of it, too) to get through it. And after I had gone through and finished as much of the game as I could stand, I walked away with only 540 of its possible 1000 achievement points.

So imagine my immense delight and satisfaction when I pop in the latest Avatar: The Last Airbender game into my Xbox 360, and one minute later I have 1000 achievement points. It’s a beacon of reward for all those other games I work so hard at and come away with peanuts.

18
Nov

Cheevers: 1000 gamerpoints in three minutes

By Russ Crandall 3 Comments
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It has officially knocked Assassin’s Creed down to #2 on my Gamefly queue.

16
Nov

Cheevers: Would you pay $30 for 3000 gamerpoints?

By Russ Crandall 1 Comment
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Aside from TMNT, there are three Xbox 360 games that are geared for younger audiences and are known for being easy achievement points: Open Season, Cars, and Fusion Frenzy 2. Microsoft announced today that they are releasing all three of these games in a pack for $30. I wonder how much of these sales will actually go towards people legitimately wanting to play these games? At least most of its proceeds go to charity.

15
Nov

Cheevers: Call Of Duty 2

By Russ Crandall 1 Comment
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cod2

I’ve decided to play through Call of Duty 2 on Veteran difficulty. COD2 was one of the Xbox 360’s launch titles, and its best-selling game until Gears of War came out a year later (which was also the system’s best selling title for a year, until Halo 3 decimated everything in September). COD2 was one of the first titles I bought when I purchased an Xbox 360 Elite this past May. Unfortunately, being a launch title has one dramatic setback - unoriginal and unfair achievement points. Continue reading ‘Cheevers: Call Of Duty 2′

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