{"id":40308,"date":"2015-04-14T21:58:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40308"},"modified":"2020-07-15T21:59:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T01:59:01","slug":"xbox-achievements-are-lame-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40308","title":{"rendered":"Xbox achievements are lame now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3flv5nWZgII?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Back in the ancient days of the Xbox 360, I really enjoyed Xbox achievements. I spent way more time than I care to admit trying to lock down every single achievement in <em>Left 4 Dead<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rfSs_Hy5EHM\">exploits<\/a> to assist in beating Expert, I changed the difficulty to Easy to farm massive numbers of zombies to kill, and all sorts of tactics to nail down all available 1,000 gamer points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">There was once a night where I managed to wrangle together seven other people, and we played a patsy of a 4v4 game, where we all took turns trying to farm down achievements, such as the one that involved puking on all four survivors simultaneously, one special infected incapacitating all four survivors, and so forth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And then Valve released some expansions that resulted in more achievements, none of which actually worked even when accurately triggered, and I lost interest in being 100% in that game anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Because I moved onto <em>Resident Evil 5<\/em>, and farmed the shit out of getting all those achievements. My friend Huzzard and I would spend hours in <em>Mercenaries<\/em> mode to make farming them easier, and utilized the adventures of <a href=\"http:\/\/vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net\/residentevil\/images\/7\/75\/230px-ChrisRedfieldRE5.jpg\/revision\/latest?cb=20150323002910\">Chris Redfield<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/images3.wikia.nocookie.net\/__cb20091113195207\/capcomdatabase\/images\/6\/69\/ChrisSafariOutfit.png\">Gay Chris Redfield<\/a> to both have shotguns to make farming easier to unlock double Weskers which took us the rest of the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And then Capcom released a PvP mode that had more achievements, and because it cost money to acquire, neither of us went for it, and we eventually lost interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The point is, back in those days, Xbox achievements kind of meant something, and there was some merit to actually unlocking them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I have no games for my Xbox One. Yet, I\u2019ve already unlocked like, eight achievements. I haven\u2019t checked, but none of them actually appear to be for any gamer points, but they\u2019re still achievements forever associated with my Xbox account now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The thing is, none of these achievements really mean anything. You\u2019re basically getting them for doing anything at all, as long as the Xbox itself is turned on. I mean seriously, there\u2019s literally an achievement for logging on an existing Xbox account to Xbox one. There was one for pinning an app to your home page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But the impetus for this post was the fact that I was watching some baseball games on MLB.tv, and I got an achievement, because it was a game involving an NL West teams. The achievement was appropriately labeled simply \u201cNL West.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And because MLB.tv is the Jesus app for baseball fans, I switched to another game, and then another blip and bubble popped up on the screen to let me know that I had just \u201cunlocked\u201d the AL East achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xboxachievements.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=572425\">this list<\/a>, there\u2019s literally an achievement by watching any game from each of the six MLB divisions, among several other patsy achievements that don\u2019t mean anything or boost your gamer score.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The bottom line is that as far as XBONE is concerned, there are so many meaningless achievements that are in existence right now, that it\u2019s basically killing the whole idea of achievements as a whole. Gone is hearing the blip, and then seeing the emergence of the bubble, and the name of the achievement unlocked, much less the curiosity to just what it just was that was unlocked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">If MLB.tv really wanted to add a legitimate degree of difficulty in gaining app achievements, they should have achievements called \u201cCleveland Indians\u201d and \u201cArizona Diamondbacks,\u201d which are each unlocked upon 100% completion of watching a Cleveland Indians or Arizona Diamondbacks game. The app should track whether any sort of fast forwarding was done, and Kinect connectivity should be mandatory, so that Big Brother can watch to make sure that someone was watching the games in their entirety.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Those would be legitimate challenges, and would be something proud to boast about gaining.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the ancient days of the Xbox 360, I really enjoyed Xbox achievements. I spent way more time than I care to admit trying to lock down every single achievement in Left 4 Dead. 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