The Old Republic Gets Launch Day Achievements
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Not an end of level boss monster. As I said, that was SO 90s.Ser Imp said:
Yeah, Lucas and Spielberg have very "Milleresque" dealings with women.manythings said:
We were talking about the original series.
And climatic events are WAY different to Boss Monsters.
Hoth's main battle is Han's. Dagobah is Yoda's. Alderaan/Dantooine is Tarkin's.
What none of them had to do is fight off an oversized Jabba floating on a hover pad like in the SNES version.
Tattooine's "boss monster" was a smuggling job, then a botched commando raid, and finally a climatic battle against impossible odds.
The only "boss" was, as was said, a fat stoned Jabba getting garroted by his own greed.
Not Star Bowser carrying the launch codes.
Actually achievements were introduced at the very end of Burning Crusade before the Wrath expansion actually hit, I remember the day it was launched because everyone was going nuts over the fact that they didn't get credit for raids that they had completed. It was I believe October 14, 2008 weeks before Wrath, in patch 3.0.2. Gearscore started in the beginning of Wrath as well, but it didn't actually start becoming more adopted by the masses until about the time when Naxx was on its last month and Ulduar was starting. There were sites in the Burning Crusade days for maxmizing dps and datamining what gear and talents were thought to be best but it wasn't until someone actually created an addon that with one click pre-determined the "worth" of the gear that it started getting used and abused.Gidgetimer said:
I still think Warhammer's achievements were the best.therandombear said:
I mean... you got the awesome title "Auuuuuuuugggggggh" for falling to your death 20 times.
It rewarded player for just doing dumb shit and enjoying themselves.
Wow, and no-one complained about Deus Ex bosses at all. Oh wait...animehermit said:
You seem to have missed the definition of boss-monster.
Son, I was complaining about Star Wars while you were still in nappies.
The_root_of_all_evil said:
wait wait wait wait...
you hate end of level big bosses?
i absolutely love them to bits, anytime i hear a game has one i instantly get a tingle of excitement, i hate having just wave after waves of baddies or not having to try out a new weapon or something on a bigger badder boss.
partially the reason why i love going back to play kingdom hearts all the time, the bosses were amazing.
I'm sorry sir, this is the butchers. May I suggest getting your eyes checked at Specsavers?animehermit said:
Hate is far too strong a word. I just think that facing off against a flesh glacier at the end of every level is a very lazy way to design a game. As does someone else. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/9115-Extra-Punctuation-What-Human-Revolution-Got-Wrong]gmaverick019 said:
" Achievement FAILED:
Clean launch without wasting resources on non-critical systems;
( + 7,000 subscriber points. )
like my achievement system Br00 ?!"
that's all I see when a company announces achievements
modern society is changing the meaning of the word 'achievement' to essentially mean
'task completed' or 'we wanted that to feel epic, the achievement pr00ves it.'
an actual achievement in a video-game would be:
finishing Mario with 700 score
besting a whole heroic dungeon in Warcraft with only a weapon equipped
finishing the star-craft campaign without building any vehicles or marines
( assuming the game would allow this. )
examples of not an achievement, same games, same order:
completing the game
'achieving' the mighty stature, that is level 10
collecting 1234567898765432 resources.
the problem is so many like that exist
the best achievement that was ever in wow, in my opinion was 'the insane' title
that required a bazillion hours of grinding on multiple chars ( if you weren't a rogue )
that was an actual achievement, it required game knowledge, time
and a psychopathic level of commitment
the worst was a 'feat of strength' that requires you to sit around in a random zone and hope death-wing breathes on you
that's a good example of idiocy ruining the value of feats of strength
Clean launch without wasting resources on non-critical systems;
( + 7,000 subscriber points. )
like my achievement system Br00 ?!"
that's all I see when a company announces achievements
modern society is changing the meaning of the word 'achievement' to essentially mean
'task completed' or 'we wanted that to feel epic, the achievement pr00ves it.'
an actual achievement in a video-game would be:
finishing Mario with 700 score
besting a whole heroic dungeon in Warcraft with only a weapon equipped
finishing the star-craft campaign without building any vehicles or marines
( assuming the game would allow this. )
examples of not an achievement, same games, same order:
completing the game
'achieving' the mighty stature, that is level 10
collecting 1234567898765432 resources.
the problem is so many like that exist
the best achievement that was ever in wow, in my opinion was 'the insane' title
that required a bazillion hours of grinding on multiple chars ( if you weren't a rogue )
that was an actual achievement, it required game knowledge, time
and a psychopathic level of commitment
the worst was a 'feat of strength' that requires you to sit around in a random zone and hope death-wing breathes on you
that's a good example of idiocy ruining the value of feats of strength
i wouldn't say EVERY level, but most huge check points i don't mind a big boss at all.The_root_of_all_evil said:
and seeing as how you quote croshaw, and how much my opinions defer from his, nor do i find his reviews funny at all, that would probably explain why i don't agree with you either.
personally that was my favorite part of the force unleashed, was facing off against those super jedi/force users, then getting to see the sweet cutscene/QTE where you bash the living piss out of them with the force. but i guess you like short realistic bosses...
Which is exactly the point I was trying to make. If you're in an MMO that relies on DPS Bosses ("Flesh Glaciers") then that's a shitty way to make a game. And was removed because of that.Kopikatsu said:
And guessing is what's making this reel out. I already said what I prefer, which is climatic events.gmaverick019 said:
Maybe it's a crafting puzzle, maybe it's a poker game, maybe it's reaching a certain level, but sitting in front of a screen for two hours listening to this:
is not my idea of fun.
Whether it's Hamidon, Bertoxxulous or Onyxia, it's still dull as dishwater.