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  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.

 #113349  by Lox
 Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:35 am
Haha...that's pretty funny.

 #113350  by Zeus
 Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:36 am
That's fucking stupid, it's a disgrace to achievements

 #113352  by Tessian
 Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:00 am
wow... I can't believe Microsoft let them do that. I've never seen so few achievements in a game, let alone ones THAT retarded.

 #113353  by Zeus
 Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:13 pm
Tessian wrote:wow... I can't believe Microsoft let them do that. I've never seen so few achievements in a game, let alone ones THAT retarded.
Or so easy to get. I'm sure their excuse is "we have to make sure the kids can get them too" but to make them THAT easy? At least have the majority based on game completion or something that requires some level of effort

 #113354  by Tessian
 Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:06 pm
Zeus wrote:
Tessian wrote:wow... I can't believe Microsoft let them do that. I've never seen so few achievements in a game, let alone ones THAT retarded.
Or so easy to get. I'm sure their excuse is "we have to make sure the kids can get them too" but to make them THAT easy? At least have the majority based on game completion or something that requires some level of effort
Most games don't give you that many points in 1 achievement that is for completing the game... I mean HOW LAZY were they on these achievements? Completing the game is always a simple one. It literally would take an afternoon to come up with at least 20 better/different achievements.

 #113363  by SineSwiper
 Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:19 pm
There should be a rule that you can't get an achievement that is 300 points. The max I've seen is 50 or maybe 75 points.

 #113365  by Tessian
 Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:22 pm
SineSwiper wrote:There should be a rule that you can't get an achievement that is 300 points. The max I've seen is 50 or maybe 75 points.
Really? Cause I KNOW there are MANY games that have 100-200 points per achievement. Hell your beloved Bioshock gives you 2 100 pt achievements for beating the game. I think some games even have a 300pt achievements.

 #113366  by Lox
 Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:54 pm
GH3 has a 100 point one but you have to beat all career modes and buy everything in the store so it takes a decent amount of work.

 #113369  by SineSwiper
 Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:36 pm
Tessian wrote:Really? Cause I KNOW there are MANY games that have 100-200 points per achievement. Hell your beloved Bioshock gives you 2 100 pt achievements for beating the game. I think some games even have a 300pt achievements.
Yeah, but you have to actually beat the game to get those points, and one of the 100 pt ones is supposed to be a special ending.

The point is that there should be a lot of little ones that you get by playing through the game, and you shouldn't be able to master the entire list in 2 minutes.

Games like Burnout piss me off for the opposite reason: they don't give enough points. Thus, I look like I have zero points, even though I've play through quite a bit of the game.

 #113372  by Tessian
 Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:57 pm
SineSwiper wrote: Yeah, but you have to actually beat the game to get those points, and one of the 100 pt ones is supposed to be a special ending.
Your post said nothing about "special" achievements-- you said no achievement was over 75 points :P

But yeah, there's still an imbalance... I think Halo3 struck a good balance of SP, MP, and random achievements. Others are too MP heavy or too hard.

 #113385  by Zeus
 Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:55 pm
SineSwiper wrote:There should be a rule that you can't get an achievement that is 300 points. The max I've seen is 50 or maybe 75 points.
Halo gives you 125 for beating it on Normal or Heroic

 #113387  by Blotus
 Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:59 pm
Zeus wrote:
SineSwiper wrote:There should be a rule that you can't get an achievement that is 300 points. The max I've seen is 50 or maybe 75 points.
Halo gives you 125 for beating it on Normal or Heroic
Therefore it's better than any game Sine has ever played or ever will. /topic

 #113411  by SineSwiper
 Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:15 pm
Remember, kids: Achievement score is directly proportional to the size of your penis.

 #113442  by Zeus
 Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:35 pm
SineSwiper wrote:Remember, kids: Achievement score is directly proportional to the size of your penis.
You really should replace "directly" with "inversely" :-)