Favorite Achievement

[Coaxill]

As I hate all achievements indiscriminately, my answer to this is: none. I've never gotten the point of them, whenever possible I ignore them or sometimes I go out of my way to not gain any during normal gameplay.

And that is bloody hard. Seriously. Try completing any game these days without getting at least one achievement (even if you exclude plot-related ones!)

Why do you hate them? Achievments are pretty much the main reason I prefer consoles over PC gaming.

That little bling that comes up when you get one breaks any and all immersion immediately. There seems to be an achevement for everything; like the Mass Effect 2 one about killing people with different weapons or headshotting them. Achievements wouldn't be so bad but there actually are only a few ones that are hard to get. Most just requires grinding MMO style (complete the game with 4 different characters, achieve 10000 kills etc). How is it an achievement if you gain it during normal gameplay or you get after a playtrough or three?

Truly difficult ones, I've never seen. Such as, in a rally game, crash an enemy car after doing a double flip, without destroying your own car in the process and then win the race. Or kill 50 enemies within 5 seconds. Or be reduced to a single builder unit, no offensive ccapabilities and then win. The word 'achievement' implies you've done something noteworthy to gain it. When the vast majority of them are gained during a normal gameplay, how are they noteworthy?

To me achievements are all bad nothing good. They break immersion, the reminders that you're only 50 headshots short can be mighty distracting or cover a piece of HUD I need at the moment. To me they serve no purpose whatsoever: Why should I care what some anynomous person over the internet thinks of my gaming 'achievements', those whose opinion I give a damn about in a hobby like gaming I can and do meet in real life and they don't go 'pics or it didn't happen' if they happen to ask me about something.

Additionally, the achievements so not encourage me to find new areas or aspects of the game; if it seems worthwhile or fun I'll do it anyway. If it seems dull and boring, no possible little electronic message is going to make me change my mind.

So, tl:dr. To me they serve no purpose. They break immersion and are distracting. They pop up over the most mundane of reasons. The vast majority of them require nothing but playing the game once or twice to accomplish, or require simple mindless grinding. They are, in a word, annoying. My gaming experience would be vastly improved if achievements didn't exist.

May I remind you that gaming is nearly completely comprised of numbers that are arbitrary when out of context? Achievements are the same as a high score, or a rank, or any other kind of denoting factor in a videogame. The only difference being, they only rarely impact the game itself which if you ask me, is a good thing. As for the sound breaking immersion, you can disable the noise on the Xbox 360.

 

[iJosh]

Favorite: Seriously 2.0, Gears Of War
Most Challenging: The one that you have to shark 5 or 10 games consecutively, In Bankshot Billiards.
Funny: OMG BFF FTW , Halo Wars

Seriously 2.0 from Gears of War 2 is ridiculous, kill 100,000 enemies!! it's not that easy to take out enemies in that game (barring wretches).

I have it , sadly. I have it on both of the games. I find beating GoW2 on Insane difficulty alone is pretty hard.

Wow! You sir are a legend. I'm only around 10,000. But I just started.

Hence the name, INSANE!

True, true. Thanks for praise. I've quit playing xbox since I've started college. So I'm barely online anymore. I go on to take to my friends who are stuck in the modern warfare 2 game.

 

[chstens]

"Worst Dayshift Manager Ever" you get it for killing, I think it was 10 Stormtroopers at the beginning of Force Unleashed as Darth Vader.

 

[OmegaXzors]

As I hate all achievements indiscriminately, my answer to this is: none. I've never gotten the point of them, whenever possible I ignore them or sometimes I go out of my way to not gain any during normal gameplay.

And that is bloody hard. Seriously. Try completing any game these days without getting at least one achievement (even if you exclude plot-related ones!)

Normally, I don't really like achievements they don't really add anything to the game.

To the contrary, Achievements/Trophies add quite a bit to the world of gaming. Passion. When a person is so affectionate to a game that they spend their time going outside of the ordinary to complete mediocre to sometimes nearly impossible tasks. When you complete those, it's a little bragging right. Some view it as a waste of time, but it adds more playability to your game. I know I wouldn't have tried to get every ending of Heavy Rain if there wasn't a reward for it.

I'd say anyone who has "Long Time No See" (beating Arcade on the hardest difficulty with no continues and beating Gouken at the end) from Super Street Fighter IV is damn good. The difficulty curve of this game is ridiculous. I've never played a Street Fighter game really for more than just a visit at a friend's house. I've never owned one. It took me 106 tries (approximately 2 and a half hours) to beat Arcade on MEDIUM. This game is brutal. Some of my friends can't even beat Easy.

 

[psychic psycho]

I know I wouldn't have tried to get every ending of Heavy Rain if there wasn't a reward for it.

I'd say anyone who has "Long Time No See" (beating Arcade on the hardest difficulty with no continues and beating Gouken at the end) from Super Street Fighter IV is damn good.

See that's the thing, I would have done anyway those things anyway. I replayed a lot of my games before achievements. I'd try to 100% them, see every ending, and I'd also add self imposed limits such as restarting all the way to the beginning if I died. My problem with achievements are that many are designed so you'll get them just by playing the game, like "completing chapter 1". When there is a difficult achievement, it would usually be similar to one of my self imposed limits. That's why achievements are lame, I end up getting most, if not all of them without even looking at the requirements. In order for achievements to work they have to be something I would never have thought of doing, like "Guardin' Gnome" in L4D2.

Basically, what SakSak described.

So, tl:dr. To me they serve no purpose. They break immersion and are distracting. They pop up over the most mundane of reasons. The vast majority of them require nothing but playing the game once or twice to accomplish, or require simple mindless grinding. They are, in a word, annoying. My gaming experience would be vastly improved if achievements didn't exist.

 

[AMMO Kid]

7 Day Survivor in Dead Rising - your have to play the game 14 hours straight in infinity mode...yes it's true! Your health slowly depletes and each location only spawns each health item ONCE so you have to get books to enhance the amount each health item gives you. Very hard achievement...but sooooo worth it. Oh, and if by chance you get killed by the random boss sawns or random survivors(they aren't actually random, they are just different from the story), then you have to start all over again, cause you can't save in the middle of it...

 

[bleh002]

Scrotality in D2R: Retribution. While controlling Shadow (the dog) perform a groin takedown.

As someone who either goes for a headshot or groinshot, this achievement is just the best

Edit:

"Scrotiality" Perform a groin kill as shadow. Dead to rights retrubution. Its my favourite because the trophy symbol adds to the awesomeness. Its a nut cracker with two nuts lol

Aww, nuts, I missed your post.

 

[duchaked]

doing the Vidmaster: Annual for Halo 3... twice. the laughs we had were awesome. (involves completing the last level of Halo 3 in 4 player co-op Legendary, with the Iron Skull on, and all players must finish the level riding Ghosts)

All Medals and All Secrets for Ace Combat 6 by far were the most challenging, particularly getting the Gunslinger medal (complete the campaign using only the plane's gun), in the Aigaion mission the target area to finish off the carrier is insanely small, even Luke Skywalker would have trouble bullseyeing that one.

I'm still going for the Vidmasters
hoping to rustle some players on Live over the summer

even tho I'm not an intense Achievement hunter, I see them as as no different from any in-game medals or secondary objectives that games had before the 360 took the term. that's not whoring, that's just gaming =D

I don't have a fav...but getting 1000G in AC2 was real nice (stupid feathers)
still working on MW2 tho sigh, but Spec-Ops is gonna take a while (and one last level on Veteran in campaign...)

 

[Daedalus1942]

I'm curious what everyone's favorite achievement or the one they found the most challenging. Name of the achievement, list of the game, what it requires, and why(if you want).

My favorite: Vasily Lives!, Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, "As a normal soldier, pick up an
ENEMY sniper rifle and get 10 kills before dying."

Dark Void - Forgot my Tow Cable - Fly through an Archon's legs.
That one was so much fun to do, and just epic as I flew through the damn things legs, then did a rocket manouvre and came down on top of it raining hell's fury with my mounted machineguns.

 

[Bonkekook]

I didn't think the Seven Day survivor achievement in Dead Rising was that difficult, it's just a matter of having enough time to do it(and avoiding the gamebreaking glitch).

My most difficult was "Getting All Sick Classic Goals" in TH: P8. That game was hard. I still can't get to number 1.

Growing up with ADHD, I'll never understand the Immersion argument. I never have problems with achievements breaking immersion. Maybe you should seek medication if your attention is that easily manipulated. You might have a chemical imbalance, or something.

 

[WaffleCopters]

Borderlands "Your on a boat" achievement.
Nothing like a good Internet Meme to gain a few Gs.

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

Soprano, singing to the Radio on Saints Row 2.

Each of our characters will just sing to "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", and one other song of the 80s, you'll just have to hunt them down to figure them out.

 

[bleh002]

Soprano, singing to the Radio on Saints Row 2.

Each of our characters will just sing to "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", and one other song of the 80s, you'll just have to hunt them down to figure them out.

Oooh, I forgot about that one. I think I drove around for 2 hours, because I wanted to hear my character singing some 80's classics. Well, that and I wanted more cars for my garage.

 

[WaffleCopters]

achievements are lame, I end up getting most, if not all of them without even looking at the requirements. In order for achievements to work they have to be something I would never have thought of doing, like "Guardin' Gnome" in L4D2.

Basically, what SakSak described.

I agree, I want to see a game where you can go through a game on Normal Difficulty yet NOT GET AN ACHIEVMENT. too many games have achievements for boring things such as completing a single level on any difficulty. I understand the complete the game ones, but they should be for more then just normal difficulty, and there should be more secret achievements that require some thought. Because Left 4 Dead, And some of the COD achievements are the only ones ive seen that really have any huge achievement value to them. I mean seriously, "ye see a flask" 5g, WTF. Achievments worth anything below 50g shoudlnt exist, cause all they are is really just a sign popping up saying "keep playing, you'll get more of these".
I do love the games that have really thoughtful achievements. the collection ones are ok as long as they are well hidden, rather then in-your-face obvious. And the achievements for like shooting 4 guys with one bullet are ok, as long as the game doesnt have like an infinite supply of piss-weak baddies to crush neath yer mighty tread.

 

[Zacharine]

Achievements are the same as a high score, or a rank, or any other kind of denoting factor in a videogame.

Ahh, you see, funny thing that... I don't give damn about those things either.

Perhaps there is something fundamentally broken in me;my competetive streak in anything, excluding multiplayer games where my opponent is physically there, is completely dead. Whenever someone mentions highscore or achievements, it's like hearing there were 22 401 dead at the Vesuvius blast of 79, instead of 22 400 dead: 'There better be some mighty intertesting story behind this one, because this is distinctly in the Not Caring zone...'.

 

[Zacharine]

Passion. When a person is so affectionate to a game that they spend their time going outside of the ordinary to complete mediocre to sometimes nearly impossible tasks. When you complete those, it's a little bragging right.

And yet, achievements have not cornered the market on that one. Bragging rights are not dependand upon achievements if one is so inclined about gaming.

After all, everyone here knows Battletoads and I Wanna Be The Guy. And yet, where are the 'achievements' in those? There are none. But the bragging rights... oh, those they have.

Besides, as I said in my response to Coaxill, I don't give a damn about highscore. I also don't give a damn what some anynomous person over the internet thinks of my gaming successes; those that matter in the slightest are the ones who I meet in real life.

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

Soprano, singing to the Radio on Saints Row 2.

Each of our characters will just sing to "Everybody Wants to Rule the World", and one other song of the 80s, you'll just have to hunt them down to figure them out.

Oooh, I forgot about that one. I think I drove around for 2 hours, because I wanted to hear my character singing some 80's classics. Well, that and I wanted more cars for my garage.

Best way to get it? Start setting up your own station, start it or make the 2nd song the
"Wants to rule the world" n.n

 

[e2density]

Your on a Boat!

In borderlands.

 

[bqadswr]

i've always been fond of the toaster in the tub from bioshock.

kill a dude by jumping on their head in borderlands gets the 'my brother is an italian plumber' one. lots of the borderlands ones made me titter