Achievement Hunting
 

Well, with the news of Chromehounds' servers going offline in a few months, I've decided it's time to grab all the achievements for it while I can. Along the way, there's a few other rare achievements I'd like to grab for some other games if anyone wants to help (while boosting your own gamerscore).

According to TrueAchievements, nobody has the Win/Kill _____ Battles/Opponents Achievements yet in Armored Core: For Answer. I would like to be one of the first. (i'm sure someone here has to have this game....Tails/Skills?)

I'd like to get some multiplayer Ace Combat 6 achievements as well. I'm sure Skills is up for that.


Any games you guys need help getting achievements for? Ask here!

Don't you have to get 10000 wins/kills for those? Yeah, fuck that.

There's a reason no one has any of the win/kills for those. Even boosting (just kills, let alone wins) in For Answer by taking Kojima Cannons and having the other guy take the lightest armour and just standing there would take dozens upon dozens of hours. I have played enough of that online to get to online rank C (I think my rank was 250th overall or something when I stopped) and have less than 100. No, that's not going to work. You play with randoms and you'll just run into bladers and long distance japan lag, so you'll have maybe one viable build and that shit gets old quick.

Chromehounds is nigh impossible to boost because almost everything requires you to be in the Neroimus War setting, where finding friends to boost with is extremely unlikely in the best case scenario. You're more likely to run into the other people.

Even folks who have played that game to death don't have the max out <whatever> RT experience achievements because someone figured out it took something like 150 hours in the ones that get lots of XP to even come close, and stuff like scout? Well, you're just fucked. I played a Commander type for multiple, multiple wars, and am maybe at level 27 out of a hundred in that? And the XP required to go up a level increases practically exponentially as you go. CH is regarded as one of the hardest and most time consuming games to get achievements in, and it makes sense why.

Don't even ask about the luck based ones like FIGHT THE SUPER WEAPON AND WIN, which is total BS.

Ace Combat is a slow and painful boost because, well, 1 win per five minute round (lowest it can be set to) + loading + results screen + extra crap = one win per something like 8 minutes, and no one is going to boost that for 800 total minutes per game type, for three different game types. No one plays seige battle unfortunately, and that takes twice as long on top of that yet, so.

And if you just want to play it, you'll lose to me, not helping your achievement progress any, regardless.

So sorry, no. I'm down for helping you boost some things but you have got to realize that some of the bullshit ones are considered bullshit for a reason, and no one has them because of that.

Well, it's like 1k, 2k, 3k, 5k, then 10k yeah. I'm just setting 1k as my goal for now. =p


Oh yeah, Fusion Frenzy 2 is another one I'd like to mop up, too, if anyone else was as dumb as me to buy that.

There's also a 7.5k one.

Well, have fun with 1k. It's still extremely hard to come across that many. If you think I'm gonna let you pound on me for 15+ hours to get to that kill count you've got another thing coming.

I'm loathe to play exclusively for bullshit achievements, but some of the less arbitrary ones are fun to work towards. I had a frustrating-yet-fun time getting some of Outrun's (still can't get an overall AAA rank for Heart Attack though, fuck.)

Quite. It does nothing but inconvience multiple people for no reason whatsoever. I like to go for them as a personal challenge, but they shouldn't interfere in any way with the way other people choose to play their game.

Multiplayer ones are a detriment to the game you're playing. Very rarely do they end up being well done enough to not fuck over the experience. (Crackdown's are fun, though. But that's an exception, not a rule.)

Yeah, I'm with you guys on pretty much all points, but I didn't mean to imply that I simply wanted to boost (you shoot me, I shoot you, k repeat 500 times), more that I wanted to get back into playing these games again, with the intent to shoot for the achievements in the process because I can't get many of them without playing someone (and the online communities for alot of these are either dead or jerkoffs).

In the case of Chromehounds, I really just need help for the various Neroimus War achievements. I believe I can get the EXP achievements in single player (I must, because I'm already L30-ish on 5 of the types without ever really having played multiplayer).

I've got a few on Castle Crashers and N+ I wouldn't mind teaming up for. And I finally got around to buying Street Fighter IV, if anyone's still playing that.

By the way, Yush, I got your friend invite last night, but I had no idea who Generator Leon was until this morning, so I rejected it. If you want to, you can send me another or I'll send you one next time I get on.

I can't stand multiplayer achievements. Back when I played Halo 3, nearly every game was full of idiots wanting to stand around and let themselves kill each other for achievements. I got to ruin it for a few of them one time. They were talking in the lobby about all going to the sword so they could all get the achievement for killing I think 3 people in x amount of seconds with the sword. So when the match started, I rushed to the sword and got to it first, then killed all of them with it, snagging the achievement for myself. Probably my favorite Halo 3 moment.

Castle Crashers is the only one that springs to mind. I need to finish boosting the other half of my arena wins that I started with Skills, but more importantly is the achievement for reviving all teammates during a 4-player game. Everyone stopped playing it before the game was fixed, so I'll never get that without a boosting squad.

Yeah Wolf, just go ahead and send me another invite, I won't be back on until tomorrow anyway. I wouldn't mind playing someone new on SFIV.

This doesn't necessarily have to be done online. If you have 4 controllers, and a lotta patience to wait until weak-ass enemies slay the other 3 players, you can get this on your own. That's how I managed to snag it.

I also wouldn't mind Castle Crashers or N+. Both are pretty fun and I didn't have a 360 when everyone still played it so.

The multiplayer aspect is the most troubling... because at least with the single player, its there, you just gotta work at it. With multiplayer you are at the whims of the servers being operational, people being online to compete against, and hoping that the servers are not being hosted by EA.

Having that said, I don't know too many people who have Quantum of Solace, so getting some achievements in the multiplayer aspect of that would be something I'd want to try with you all.

I lost any hopes of getting the Seasonal Fame achievements, same fucking squad always takes it. I doubt I'll end up getting all the achievements before the game dies but I would like to get most of them.

Funny that this was one of the first achievements I got. Guess I was really lucky.

I got Lost Planet: Colonies Edition recently and just noticed that pretty much all of the achievements are from the online multiplayer, too bad almost no one plays the game anymore. Anyone here with Culdcept Saga? I think the search function is either broken or no one really plays that game. I think the latter is more likely since my friend stopped playing it because it was too "luck based"

I don't think you understand here.

When you're level 60, it takes you more time to advance one level than it did to advance the first 25. You will go nuts. Level 80? Apparently these take untold hours to just level once. ESPECIALLY trying for it in the single player game, where the shit will be the same thing a billion times over. Good God.

I mean, more power to you if you're that insane, but y'know, it's not worth going for. I'm just trying to save you some annoyances, here.

No shit? Damn, that's fortunate. Which one did you end up fighting? I hear the train was the hardest.

I was waiting for all the conditions to fufill multiple times, tried in the spots that were going to have it and the damn thing never fucking popped for me. Not once. :(

I gave up on it after seeing the newsbit on it's appearance several times and not getting it to show. :(

I'm very much with Devo when it comes to multiplayer achievements. As a general rule I think they can all fuck off and die, but I really loathe those that affect how people actually play the damn game (especially since it nearly always makes them play like fucking retards).

You're not missing out on anything. I had Lost Planet for a while and the multiplayer was fucking horrible. It seemed to be people rushing the mech-suit things and then camping spawn points, which was a lot of fun. -__-

I generally hate multiplayer achievements, except for ones that you get just by playing normally. For example off the top of my head, Battlefield 1943 has two achievements for playing 30 matches and 100 matches respectively, which I think is totally fine since that's reasonable and even if you suck you'll get them. A lot of the Halo 3 ones are bullshit.

I already know people going nuts about achievements now since with the dashboard update it shows you how many games you've 100%'d achivement point-wise, as well as how many achivement points you have out of the total possible for the games you've played.

They're OK, but those ones that anyone can get through regular play also tend to be somewhat dull (obviously BF1943 is a special case as it's only multiplayer). For my money I still see Call of Duty 4 as the best example of how to do it, with good single-player only achievements and then a different reward system for the multiplayer that builds around the way you play rather than forcing you to play certain ways.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is another good example of multiplayer achievements done right (Although I'm not sure I actually have any of them, I always play co-op online rather than vs) in that there are achievements for total online kills, online kills with each weapon type (But nothing retarded like three people with one clip) and for actually achieveing the mission objective a certain number of times, all of which I think are fine as they encourage you to play different game types and to actually play the game properly. Of course you'll still get the odd idiot and his mate taking it in turns to kill each other in an out of the way corner but playing without respawns severely lessens the impact of those. I agree with the others though that anything that requires you to play like a twat, or at least encourages abnormal behaviour can fuck right off.

I very rarely get any online multiplayer achievements as I simply don't play enough to get the hundreds of kills ones but it's nice when you do pick one up through skillful play. I'm rather proud of my achievement for coming out top player in a ranked Frontlines match for example as I got it by killing a ton of people and capturing a load of bases. On the flip side there's an achievement for being on the winning team but not getting killed, which simply encourages people to get one sniper kill then run away and hide out on the edge of the map, hoping the rest of the team will pull off a win. I did actually get that one but got it fairly, leading a charge to capture all the flags quickly and win the game that way (Although to be fair there were only ten people in the match and half the enemy team seemed to be boosting the same achievement I ended up with).

I find achievements are a nice way to see how far through a game other people are (In terms of storyline ones) or get an idea of how much other people have played a game, rather than worrying too much which ones I've got. I have boosted for one or two but never anything that'd mess up an online game or would take more than half an hour or so. They're also sometimes a good way to get you to try playing the game differently, such as Mass Effect's which lead you to play it more than once and as a different character type and with different allies (Not that I've got round to that yet).

I personally don't understand why people get worked up about getting achievements but then I'm also not that bothered about winning games, I play them for the fun of playing them as a rule. Different people play games for different reasons.

I really hate online achievements. Especially for games that shouldn't have even had an online mode in the first place (I'm looking at you Overlord!). They do terrible things to the games and just encourage people to go the cheapest route possible to win everytime. Like in Smackdown vs RAW 2007 everyone would just Spike Headbutt there opponent to death cause the move was glitched where you couldn't counter it.

Then aside from the possibility of the community dieing out and depriving you of any way to get the achievements. There is also the possibility of them shutting down the servers. Something I've heard will be happening with both Overlord and Army of Two eventually.

I wouldn't mind helping people with Street Fighter IV, Castle Crashers, or Soul Calibur IV (I need the Phoenix achievement still). But my work hours make me available at odd times.

My favorite example of terrible multiplayer achievements is Grab Bag from Turok.

"Kill at least 1 creature, 1 enemy, 1 teammate, and yourself in the same round of a public match"

Among a list of several other achievements that encourage people to play like complete morons, here we have one that promotes team-killing and suicides for 10G. I already had no interest in buying Turok, but that achievement is still amusingly horrible.

The person responsible for this should be publicly tied up and left for anyone who was killed as a result of this moronic idea of an achievement to beat to a bloody pulp. It's annoying enough when you get idiots playing stupidly because of achievements, but at least they are usually aiming their bullets at the other team. That right there is in its own special world of dumb though. -______-

It was that giant pressure cooker with legs from Sal Kar. I remember asking one of my squadmates when we would fight another one and he said I would probably never see it or any other superweapon again. Well, he was right, I still haven't.

This has to be the worst achievement ever.

Damn, that's pretty fortunate. I hear fighting those things is pretty hard, and fun.

Oh, Yushiro, I found some information on valour medals.

Which means, for Scout....

Or commander, and to get this you need an N/A maker. Half RT points if it gets destroyed.

The only achievement that I absolutely want to get is the "Brass Balls" achievement in Bioshock. (Complete the game on Hard difficulty without using a Vita-Chamber) It's worth 100G and since I really don't get tired of playing that game, it would be one that I'd like to do before I, you know, get shot in a drive-by or something.

Also, someday my friends and I will do the "Bladder of Steel Award" achievement in Rock Band 2. (Complete The Endless Setlist 2 without pausing or failing. Sure it's only 25G but, goddamnit, we can do it.

I know it's not really fair but it's easy if you just have someone to rotate the guitar with you.

That already occurred to us but no one else around here is good on the guitar on Expert.

Seems like it would be easier to get that achievement on vocals.

Um... you don't have to play on Expert. It can be on Medium and you'll still get the achievement.

Yeah but there's also achievements for beating the Endless Setlist alone. It's worth 50G on Expert and also gives you the ones for Hard and Medium if you beat it on Expert. (They're 30G and 20G respectively) If I'm doing this, I'm going all out on it.

Again, I want to do it on Expert and I'm not nowhere near that good at singing. I'm good on the guitar.

I don't know if it works with an online band or not, but I can play through any song on expert if you guys are good enough to keep me afloat during some of the really nasty segments. Is it every single song on the endless setlist?

Issue with attempting that one online is that if for any reason your Internet hiccups during the 7-8 hours required to play all the stock Rock Band 2 songs then you're fucked and all that effort will have been for nothing.

I don't know where you heard that doing it alone gives you extra achievements. That is nowhere near the truth. However, you are correct in the Medium and Hard clear achievements being binded to the Expert clear one. It is, however, easier if you do it alone, because if you had another band member, he/she, too would have to play on Expert, or you would not get the Platinum.

I was dumb enough. I was looking for a simple multiplayer game for me and my girlfriend to have some stupid fun with. It was very, very cheap. I now realise why. Few people will pay for torture.

I can't even bring myself to concentrate hard enough to actually do well at the minigames. Just exactly what would we need to do in order to boost the achievements for that game? If we can get it done fairly quickly, I'm probably up for it... although it's definitely not worth the effort, I'll do it anyway.

Anyone interested in boosting the GTA IV achievements with me? I've already done a lot of the singleplayer stuff, so I figure might as well try to add the multiplayer achievements if possible. Only thing is, I don't really enjoy playing the game online. At all.

Just like many of us in this thread, I'm available for Castle Crashers and Rock Band 2 point whoring. In particular, the Bachman-Turner achievement in RB2, since it's no fun restricting my RL friends' experiences just for points. It already felt silly forcing them to do the Savior achievement.

Lesser known ones I need assistance with would be for Battle Fantasia and Fusion Frenzy 2, mainly because no one plays them online, so those achievements seem sealed off to me :/

This probably doesn't count as much so, but Final Fantasy XI for party purposes 8-|

Well, you two let me know when you want to boost Fuzion Frenzy 2, I'm up for it anytime this weekend.

Also, I'd be willing to help with any GH2/GH3/GHWT/RB/RB2 achievements that you guys think can be done.

Fuzion Frenzy 2 doesn't take as long to boost as you'd think. I did it with Kagosin back at the beginning of the summer. It would be even easier if the three of you did it together since there would only be one computer player to block from winning then. The only really annoying part is the achievement for winning an online tournament. That's two planets at minimum, and you can't skip the wonderful announcer in that mode.

Also, my 360 RROD'd so it'll be a few weeks before I'm available for Castle Crashers whoring.

Works for me, my GT is Soluzar just like my forum username. Add me and I'll be available at the weekend as well!

I've got none of the GH3 and World Tour online achievements but I'm also not that good at the games, Medium is about my limit, although I can hard mode a few of the bass parts. Also, my Xbox is off getting fixed so I won't have for it for at least a couple of weeks.

When I get it back, I never got the achievements for being player 2 in Gears of War co-op and I'd love to finish Rainbow Six Vegas 2 on Realistic and get the being player 2 ones in that. I just can't do the refiney in the dark mission on my own, too many snipers. :(

Also up for the weekend, and also same Gamertag circumstances (Summonmaster). =D


Are you serious? The announcer made my friends and I want to shoot our heads off. I'm having doubts about enduring this achievement now.

It's quite not as bad as you'd think, really. That one achievement is worth 100G too, so at least you're well rewarded for enduring the announcer. Just make sure the right person wins while boosting (easy with 3 people, not hard with 2) and there won't be a problem.

That's actually what I meant. I didn't mean to say that if you pull the one-man-band act you get the achievements but that if you pull off the expert achievement alone you get the rest of them automatically. Unlike that GHIII where you have to play through the game on every level to get them. I TRIED to beat it on easy but I kept falling asleep.

Thanks for talking about the bladder of steel achievement. You assholes just inspired me to make my first attempt at it. Of course I started just after I downed a Pepsi. Of course I am playing drums, on hard (there are several songs I can't complete on expert). I make an effort to minimize my movements, to preserve energy for the later songs, the ones that are nasty even on hard.

In the mid-30s, my shoulders begin to tighten. No biggie, I will just use my wrists. They are strong, from years of mast whoa I mean from playing lots of drums. I press on. Soon, I notice that at my current pace, I will rub a blister on my right hand from holding the stick. I grab a soft detailing cloth that I normal use to clean my car's interior and wrap it around the stick. Awesome, problem solved.

Around song 50, I realize that I will have to piss soon. I weighed my options, and shot a quick glance at the empty detergent bottle near my trash can. "No, that's silly." I knew that I could use the knowledge of the game's songs to my advantage. I knew that at that point, I still had not played AC/DC's Let There Be Rock. It features a very long "big rock ending". That would be my only chance.

Around song 60, I get AC/DC. I play the last note before the big rock ending and sprint to the bathroom. I hear the song end and the next one will begin shortly. I am still not through. I heard the next song begin. "It is the Rush song! It has a relatively long intro that involves almost no drums!" Luck was clearly on my side.

As the setlist drags on, my shoulders, right forearm, and right ankle are not feeling real good, but I had come this far, I was not giving up easily. In the early 70s, I can almost taste victory. By this point, I had dominated and had not even come close to failing a song. I knew that the last few songs, though, were rough, even on hard. In the late 70s, they throw Mastadon and something about a Shoulder to the Plow at me, no problems. I know that all I have left is Judas Priest, Metallica, Dream Theatre, and some crap song called Visions.

Metallica comes first. It took me a bit to get the timing down on the main drum part, so there is a minor scare here, as my bar gets down around halfway. I had been hoarding star power during each song since the mid-70s, and this one was no different. I was in good shape. Next is Visions. I grab a couple of early star powers before the true bullshit starts on this song. It is a good thing too, as I almost failed out, then hit start power and saved myself. Visions is down.

Only Judas Priest and Dream Theatre to go. Panic Attack is up first. Fun fact: I have only completely this song once, but I haven't played it since. I hoard my star power, have a slight scare in the middle of the song, but make it through, star power unused. Song is done. Judas Priest? Pff, that song is easy. Nothing close to a scare here, game over, achievements unlocked.

Now I'm laying on my couch, beer in hand, trying to rest my clearly out of shape body. It took roughly 5 and a half hours I think.

I must say, russ, Congratulations on your accomplishment. Playing drums is no easy task, and getting the Bladder of Steel achievement via drums is definitely not any easier. Doesn't even matter that you played it on Hard.

My hand-foot-eye coordination is horrible, so I don't even bother with drums, unless there's an achievement in a game that simply says "beat a career on drums on any difficulty".


Now you just gotta worry about getting the Platinum Artist achievement.

Nice story russ. My friend who plays drums with us had to stop multiple times to rest when we did the Rock Band 1 endless set on hard, so for you to go through a longer setlist on hard without a break is impressive.

You mental bastard russ, good work.

I'm willing to bet that in the instruction manual for that game it recommends taking regular, short breaks while playing. You probably have grounds to sue them for the RSI you've just inflicted on yourself.

Oh hey, thanks for letting me know you were gonna try it, russ. You asshole. :mad:

One game: Condemned 2: Bloodshot.

Cue ragemode.

Also have Castle Crashers still and will boost achieves. Otherwise most games with MP achieves can just rot on the ground, I don`t give a flying fuck.

What was hard in Condemned 2? I got 1000, don't remember them being too difficult.

The multiplayer achieves were total bullshit.

Heres a strange one - Chronicles Of Riddick: Dark Athena.

Most of the achievements are in the 10p range, a couple of them are between 15 and 20 and only finish either campaign on the Hard Difficulty will net you 50. Is it me or does that seem like they were low-balling it a little?

Well, I didn't exactly plan it. I was reading through this thread, specifically the handful of posts about the endless setlist, and was like "What the hell, I'm not doing anything for the next few hours." And off I went.

And just to update, the next day, my shoulders weren't sore anymore, but my right hand was sore and felt slightly swollen, since the right hand was holding the drumstick for probably 100,000 or so drum hits. By Monday I was good though.

Sorry for the bump, but for some reason, I had no clue that Beautiful Katamari had online capabilities and about 5 achievements linked to online play. The prospect of throwing cookies at friends sound fun too, but no one seems to play this game as well. The multiplayer lobby is also amply psychedelic, looking more promising than the multiplayer mode of the last Katamari game.

Anyone else willing to invest a bit of time towards this?

I'm still missing the one for playing online 50 times, not to mention the overall time achievements, so I'd be up for it sometime. During the week, I'm usually online 8-10pm or so.

I haven't really been on Live for awhile, but I'm up for GH5, Katamari, Fuzion Frenzy 2 still, and whatever else; just let me know when.

I'm usually on this in the evenings. All I have left in the way of multiplayer achievements are a full standard Band Vs. Band match, the standard band simultaneous activation of star power, and getting the maxed out band streak (the one involving getting a band moment, having everyone get their 4x multipliers, and then activating star power while holding that during the band moment).

If anyone has all 4 instruments and wants to boost the BvB, lemme know. I'll be back on it sometime later during the week, as I NEED to finish Marvel: UA tonight.