Over-Achievers Comments by Simon Parkin

I already have 100 % on Tenchu z, VP 1+2 btw. Those are among the absolutely easiest games on my gamertag too. Too Human and KUF = hours of grinding from what ive heard.
Afro Samurai could be good, but i chose Ninja Blade instead.

"Dude, I beat you at the games we have in common and at GS, what do you want to do about that? Go play some games... sheeesh... "
Wrong. You beat me at some games. I beat you in games like: Halo 3, Gears 2, Aot and RE5 among others.

The all dyes achievement might be alright i dont know. I never use guides when playing games because it ruins the experience for me personally. I have done it on a few occasions in the past and i stopped because it killed the fun of just playing the game.
Getting the pigeouns or maybe the dyes without a guide. Is it even possible?

Of course you win the metagame. You dont waste time on the really hard ( but fun) games. You are really dedicated and persistent either way. I hope you dont look back and regret it later on though. There are more important things in life than killing 20 000 enemies in Too Human you know. Maybe not in your opinion. You are a facinating person. I must admit that. I dont have anything against you in any way. I just like the discussion.

flatout is ace! arguably the best racer on the 360, and has one of the hardest achievements in the 'get all golds in carnage mode' one, but was so satisfying to eventually get.

i've no interest in score (mine is a mere 10,000 or something) but i love the challenge of some of these tough achievements, like flatout, edf, doom, etc. but hey if the game is shit then forget it.

@Gecks

Yeah FlatOut is great. Kind of like BurnOut only harder. The tough achievements is the ones i love the most too. I hate the collection and grinding achieves. One shouldnt only take gamerscore and completion % in consideration since its pretty easy to get both very high if you buy a certain type of games and skip the ones with next to impossible achievements.

I think achievements should acomplish two things:

1. Make the player strive forward in the game. Offering achievement points for finishing the game in different difficulties but also rewarding exploration of the environments (orbs, tags, etc...)

2. Make the player think about different ways to play the game. An achievement such us using granades to kill 10 fallen enemies or the execution achievement, in GOW 2, can make the player think about different ways to approach the game, instead of for example just using sniper tactics for the most part. Just and example, but achievements such as these can make a game feel like a complete different thing on a replay through.

If they are able acomplish both things, I would not think achievements as useless.

Dunno if anyone has mentioned this already, but quite a few people in final fantasy 11 have an item gained by getting the first fifteen jobs to at least level 66(over 1,200 people confirmed because you get an ingame item for this). At this high level, exp is much easier to get nowadays so making the jump from 66 -> 75 for those hardcore players would be very easy.

The hardest achievements in FF11 (from someone who has played it WAY too long) are:
Obtain a Relic Weapon - If you manage to somehow obtain 1 million gil per week(I could personally make maybe 1/4 of that before becoming TOO bored), this would still take you 3-4 YEARS to get. Only about 1,000 people in the world have this.

2 achievements that are impossible to get because the missions they come from are gonna be added in some future patch. Based on the pattern of GSP used, one will be from an casual endgame event or a mid-difficulty title(20GSP - same as limbus achievements) and the other will probably be to finish the latest expansion(40GSP - same as the other expansion achievements)

disclaimer: I recently quit ffxi and wasn't a hardcore player, although I still played too much, lol

how can gameroints engender anything when they offer no tangible reward apart from rather hollow bragging rites. When compared resi 4 and 5's monetary system or even coinage in an rpg, they pale in comparison because these syystems offer in game rewards.

"Oh btw, the "All dyes" Achievement at Fable 2 is very funny, specially the one you have to get at the colosseum... go get it!"

Got it.