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Most Popular Achievements (10/3 - 10/9)

Quite a shocker at the top of the charts this week.

It's Sunday night, and I've just spent almost the entire weekend playing Borderlands while also finishing up Forza 3 and playing a bit of Uncharted 2. They call this "October" in the world of game reviewing. Lots of exciting stuff is here or coming very soon, and it can be hard to make time for all of it. So it's nice that I've already been able to sink 20 hours into Borderlands, which isn't out for another week or so.

The top 10 list for most popular achievement pages is reflecting the season, too, with plenty of unreleased games like Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Age: Origins, and Brutal Legend. You may also notice that there's a PlayStation 3 game at the top of the chart! Cool! More on that later.

Bet you didn't expect to see this up top.
Bet you didn't expect to see this up top.

Top Ten Sets

  1. InFamous (PS3!)
  2. Modern Warfare 2
  3. Unreal Tournament 3
  4. Saw
  5. Halo 3: ODST
  6. Dragon Age: Origins
  7. Risen
  8. Batman: Arkham Asylum
  9. The Beatles: Rock Band
  10. Brutal Legend

I'm pretty sure InFamous and Unreal Tournament 3 are listed above because I linked directly to those pages when we rolled out support for PlayStation 3 trophies on the site. Those pages are still on the site, but we're currently unable to update your PSN accounts. We're doing what we can and hope to restore this feature to the site in the near future. In the meantime, we're still taking your World of Warcraft, Xbox 360, and Steam accounts.

Here are the new sets on the site since the last time we did this. 

You know, I bet this game will end up selling some copies this year. 
You know, I bet this game will end up selling some copies this year. 

New Sets


We also added a slew of PlayStation 3 games while that was up and running.

Lastly, here are your top ten individual achievement pages!
THUMBS UP FOR POINTS BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOOOOP
THUMBS UP FOR POINTS BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOOOOP

Top Ten Indvidual

  1. Halo 3: ODST - Super Sleuth
  2. Halo 3: ODST - Naughty Naughty
  3. Batman: Arkham Asylum - World's Greatest Detective
  4. Garry's Mod - Secret Phrase
  5. Halo 3: ODST - Be Like Marty
  6. Halo 3: ODST - Audiophile
  7. Halo 3: ODST - Good Samaritan
  8. Halo 3: ODST - Campaign Complete: Legendary
  9. Halo 3: ODST - Vidmaster Challenge: Endure
  10. Halo 3: ODST - Vidmaster Challenge: Deja Vu
Man, that's still a ton of ODST up there. If you remember the graph I showed you last week, you saw that you guys peaked on launch day and there's been a pretty substantial drop-off ever since. So I imagine the popularity of these pages has something to do with their difficulty (plus there's apparently some sort of issue preventing some people from properly unlocking that Super Sleuth one).

I'm pretty sure I mentioned this last week, but in case I didn't, we now have the ability to rename secret achievements in the system. It takes a bit of detective work to get them in properly, but it can be done. I've been doing a few here and there, when I get a free moment. We'll probably have to figure out a way for you guys to contribute to that stuff, though, because it's a bit of a slow process when just one dude is doing it. Stay tuned for that.    
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It's Sunday night, and I've just spent almost the entire weekend playing Borderlands while also finishing up Forza 3 and playing a bit of Uncharted 2. They call this "October" in the world of game reviewing. Lots of exciting stuff is here or coming very soon, and it can be hard to make time for all of it. So it's nice that I've already been able to sink 20 hours into Borderlands, which isn't out for another week or so.

The top 10 list for most popular achievement pages is reflecting the season, too, with plenty of unreleased games like Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Age: Origins, and Brutal Legend. You may also notice that there's a PlayStation 3 game at the top of the chart! Cool! More on that later.

Bet you didn't expect to see this up top.
Bet you didn't expect to see this up top.

Top Ten Sets

  1. InFamous (PS3!)
  2. Modern Warfare 2
  3. Unreal Tournament 3
  4. Saw
  5. Halo 3: ODST
  6. Dragon Age: Origins
  7. Risen
  8. Batman: Arkham Asylum
  9. The Beatles: Rock Band
  10. Brutal Legend

I'm pretty sure InFamous and Unreal Tournament 3 are listed above because I linked directly to those pages when we rolled out support for PlayStation 3 trophies on the site. Those pages are still on the site, but we're currently unable to update your PSN accounts. We're doing what we can and hope to restore this feature to the site in the near future. In the meantime, we're still taking your World of Warcraft, Xbox 360, and Steam accounts.

Here are the new sets on the site since the last time we did this. 

You know, I bet this game will end up selling some copies this year. 
You know, I bet this game will end up selling some copies this year. 

New Sets


We also added a slew of PlayStation 3 games while that was up and running.

Lastly, here are your top ten individual achievement pages!
THUMBS UP FOR POINTS BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOOOOP
THUMBS UP FOR POINTS BEEP BEEP BOOP BOOOOOP

Top Ten Indvidual

  1. Halo 3: ODST - Super Sleuth
  2. Halo 3: ODST - Naughty Naughty
  3. Batman: Arkham Asylum - World's Greatest Detective
  4. Garry's Mod - Secret Phrase
  5. Halo 3: ODST - Be Like Marty
  6. Halo 3: ODST - Audiophile
  7. Halo 3: ODST - Good Samaritan
  8. Halo 3: ODST - Campaign Complete: Legendary
  9. Halo 3: ODST - Vidmaster Challenge: Endure
  10. Halo 3: ODST - Vidmaster Challenge: Deja Vu
Man, that's still a ton of ODST up there. If you remember the graph I showed you last week, you saw that you guys peaked on launch day and there's been a pretty substantial drop-off ever since. So I imagine the popularity of these pages has something to do with their difficulty (plus there's apparently some sort of issue preventing some people from properly unlocking that Super Sleuth one).

I'm pretty sure I mentioned this last week, but in case I didn't, we now have the ability to rename secret achievements in the system. It takes a bit of detective work to get them in properly, but it can be done. I've been doing a few here and there, when I get a free moment. We'll probably have to figure out a way for you guys to contribute to that stuff, though, because it's a bit of a slow process when just one dude is doing it. Stay tuned for that.    
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Edited By beargirl1

wao, infamous?  
quite a shocker indeed

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@AjayRaz said:
" wao, infamous?  quite a shocker indeed "
zing!
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InFamous? Quite the shocker, indeed, huh, Jeff?

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Yeah I was pretty shocked that Infamous is on top, no pun intended!

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I was told by Dave that the problem was out of your hands.  
 
I sure hope trophies came back, because game are coming out!

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Being able to edit the secret trophy/achievements names would be great.
Also, secret trophies need to equal points, rather than nothing - its a priority! Apparently. According to me.
 
Cheers

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When will you guys tell us the most earned achievements, not just the ones that get the most traffic on GB?

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I'm shocked that InFamous is at the top....
 
Everyone else is doing it...

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Is there going to be some kind of on/off toggle for secret achievements to prevent spoilers?

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@rargy: We've talked about doing something like that down the line, but there's currently nothing in place to toggle secret achievements.
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So when can you talk about Borderlands?  I guess it's not a huge deal cause it comes out in like a week, but that would be awesome if you could talk about it on the Bombcast.  Stupid NDA!
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Interesting

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I've actually been playing InFamous last week... thats a weird coincidence!
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Nice to see Risen on there I'm gonna be downloading that soon as I get my graphics card back from an RMA.

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ODST is actually quite good. At first I didn't like it that much, but now I really like it. Been taking it slow though, still not finished with the game. I really like the music when playing as the Rookie and the night setting with all the flashy neon signs gives a nice vibrant color pattern. And when you look up and see the burning ONI building in the distance, that's one of the most amazing views in video games. Reminds me a bit of when you first see all those ships swarming out of the Citadel in HL2 and you think "wow this is massive scale."

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InFamous, great to see it's getting played. It is a great game after all. 

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Oh man! Can't wait for the Borderlands review.

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Kinda funny that's at the top this week, as I just started playing this game again the other day =D

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@SJSchmidt93: I'm trying to work out how in my head how interesting that would be.  It wouldn't show the interesting achievements since they are typically the rare ones, it would just be a sign of which game is most popular at the moment among GB frequenters with all of the easy achievements for it listed (could be different in off-peak game season granted).  If Jeff gives some information in that direction he might as well just show us a top 10 of games as created by the number of achievements earned in it.
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Infamous is great, awesome to see it's being played

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Modern Warfare 2 isn't even out yet! =/

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:(  no trophy sinking makes me a sad man..

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@Xeiphyer said:
" Modern Warfare 2 isn't even out yet! =/ "
Neither is Dragon Age. What's up with this?
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@Matfei90 said:

" @Xeiphyer said:

" Modern Warfare 2 isn't even out yet! =/ "
Neither is Dragon Age. What's up with this? "
It just means that a lot of people are looking at the achievement pages right? I don't think it's a list of games people have gotten achievements for already...
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@Kajaah117: I thought it was list of achievements people had unlocked on their gamertag which is synched to GB. But I must be wrong.
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I contributed to that, been playing it all week.

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got a platinum in infamous this week.

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Go for his leg!

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BOOOOM LEGSHOT!

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Borderlands....you are lucky Jeff!!! I can't wait for a review!! 
 
And I can't wait to see MW2 and Uncharted 2, two other games you mentioned there.

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@Kajaah117 said:
" @Matfei90 said:

" @Xeiphyer said:

" Modern Warfare 2 isn't even out yet! =/ "
Neither is Dragon Age. What's up with this? "
It just means that a lot of people are looking at the achievement pages right? I don't think it's a list of games people have gotten achievements for already... "
The "New Sets" are new games that have appeared in the system, which means at least one member who has their account linked played it in some form. The Top Ten Sets and Individual are ranked by page views.
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@NickNorman said:
" @Kajaah117 said:
" @Matfei90 said:

" @Xeiphyer said:

" Modern Warfare 2 isn't even out yet! =/ "
Neither is Dragon Age. What's up with this? "
It just means that a lot of people are looking at the achievement pages right? I don't think it's a list of games people have gotten achievements for already... "
The "New Sets" are new games that have appeared in the system, which means at least one member who has their account linked played it in some form. The Top Ten Sets and Individual are ranked by page views. "
That's what I thought. Thanks, Gin drinking Jeff.
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I've been playing inFamous for the past month or so. Fantastic game, I'm on my second playthrough trying to get the rest of the trophies - only 1 blast shard left!

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I'll get Infamous later...

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Does this tool that lets you rename secret achievements also let you add trophy type and point value for PS3 games? Because having all secret trophies worth 0 points totally sucks.