I decided that I want to get some extra life out of the games I have already in my arsenal by trying to S-rank some of those that I enjoyed the most and looked possible. I started with Assassin's Creed II because, hey it was easy and I realized I only needed 3 more. Then I did ME2 because it may be my favorite game ever and it was fun.
Then the wheels started to come off a bit.
It started with Stacking. I had played
Stacking, enjoyed it and never thought of it again......until I was bored and started on my self imposed S-rank quest. Long story short I actually bought DLC for the sake of my Gamerscore. Don't get me wrong, the Lost Hobo King was fun and appropriately cockney, but I still bought it for those extra 50 points.
I started a second run of
Darksiders and
Dead Space in an effort to S-rank them but just kind of got bored of them during their respective second play-through's
And now I have started
Borderlands, and fuck that shit in its stupid ear. What really kills me is that the achievements for the box game where actually entertaining, a fun challenge or just a silly bit of nonsense. But the DLC has the most diabolical achievements that I have attempted in gaming. The
Underdome pack is in no way fun, it is clearly meant to be attempted in groups of four serious players, and even then the last 3 arenas will take you at least 3-4 hours each with no option for STOPPING, honestly who thought that was a good idea? This is my envisioning of the meeting:
Some Dude: Standard horde mode stuff so far, sir.
Randy Pitchford:OK, any quests?
Other Dude:Just the one, sir
Randy Pitchford:Wait, wait, wait, how are we going to sell DLC with only one quest?Some Dude:Well, we where thinking of just making the last 3 stages really hard and tedious.....like take 4 hours per stage.
Randy Pitchford:Wow, sounds hardcore! How many save points?
Other Dude:None, sir!
Randy Pitchford:Won't that make it almost un-doable for the vast majority of our customers?
Some Dude:.......We......hadn't thought of that, sir
Random Asshole: Hey, Randy, you know what I was thinking? Fuck those guys.
Randy Pitchford:.......That's the best idea I've heard all week! Ship it!
And that's the story of the first Kwanzaa.
But really, I don't get the whole idea of building entertainment products that are that frustrating, I play games to relax dammit!
Because I have made this post too long for the internet already I'll not get started on the Claptrap Revolution achievements (which also sucked). But, what do you guys think, how big is the sweet spot between too easy and fucking infuriating when it comes to achievement packages?
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