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About a month ago when I pre-ordered Mass Effect 2, I decided that to do another play through of the first game to get all the decisions for the second game set up the way I wanted them to be. Whiney LT dead, check. Annoying alien counsel dead, check. Alien sex, check. Something else I decided to do was to try to get every achievement in the game, since at that point I had yet to get a 100% achievement on any game.
Now for the record, I don’t that much about getting achievements. Out of the 13 full retail games I have played since I got my 360, I have none that are 100%. The two closest games are Fallout 3 with 1200/1550 and Mass Effect 1 which currently is at 1150/1200. The problem is that the last achievement requires reaching level 60 with your main character. Since I started the game from scratch, even with the two DLC packs, the game set to the highest difficulty, and doing everything I could, I could still only get my character to level 53. As much as I enjoyed Mass Effect 1, despite all its faults, I really don’t want to go through another play through to get that last achievement. Mass Effect 2 has bonuses for transferring games over. As far as I can tell from what has been reported, the level needed for the best bonus is only level 50, so I am covered there. So technically I don’t have to go back through the game YET again to get a game bonus.
Still, it’s one lousy achievement. It’s staring at me, mocking me from a distance about how I am so close to “finishing” a game. The weird thing is that while I have gone for a “full” game finish with achievements, I do enjoy going for achievements. Usually it’s for the oddball achievements, the ones where you have to do something out of the normal flow of the game. For example, in Batman: Arkham Asylum: I got 5 points for catching my own batarang and another 5 points for gliding over 100 meters. Those were fun. I am not sure why this bugs me so much. I have never cared about achievements, but then again I never tried to get all the achievements.
Now for the record, I don’t that much about getting achievements. Out of the 13 full retail games I have played since I got my 360, I have none that are 100%. The two closest games are Fallout 3 with 1200/1550 and Mass Effect 1 which currently is at 1150/1200. The problem is that the last achievement requires reaching level 60 with your main character. Since I started the game from scratch, even with the two DLC packs, the game set to the highest difficulty, and doing everything I could, I could still only get my character to level 53. As much as I enjoyed Mass Effect 1, despite all its faults, I really don’t want to go through another play through to get that last achievement. Mass Effect 2 has bonuses for transferring games over. As far as I can tell from what has been reported, the level needed for the best bonus is only level 50, so I am covered there. So technically I don’t have to go back through the game YET again to get a game bonus.
Still, it’s one lousy achievement. It’s staring at me, mocking me from a distance about how I am so close to “finishing” a game. The weird thing is that while I have gone for a “full” game finish with achievements, I do enjoy going for achievements. Usually it’s for the oddball achievements, the ones where you have to do something out of the normal flow of the game. For example, in Batman: Arkham Asylum: I got 5 points for catching my own batarang and another 5 points for gliding over 100 meters. Those were fun. I am not sure why this bugs me so much. I have never cared about achievements, but then again I never tried to get all the achievements.
Nice job, mate. All but one achievement is damn good in my book.
ReplyDeleteThe achievements were not difficult. Just tedius. Most of them came down to either "Beat mission " or "use skill times". Granted its not as easy as Avatar: The Last Airbender, but still.
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