This one ranks right up there with Dead or Alive 4's "Five Straight Losses" achievement (worth zero points, natch). Gastronaut, the studio behind the upcoming XBLA game, Small Arms, have created the first viral achievement. Four of Gastronaut's employees will start being the only ones with the achievement. Anybody who plays against one of these four will get the achievement. In turn, anybody who plays against those people will get the achievement and so on and so forth until the whole world is...er...infected with success. Pretty neat idea if you ask me. Which I'm pretty sure you did.
If you're not familiar with Small Arms, it looks an awful lot like Smash Brothers for the Gamecube, except with guns. Lets hope it's at least half as fun.
[Via 1UP]
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7-11-2006 @ 7:23PM
Sam said...
Small Arms looks more like that old freeware game Soldat than Smash Bros., really.
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7-11-2006 @ 7:49PM
SUPERGHOST said...
Want the real lowdown on this game. Check out K1lla's Xbox Domain. Thrills Killa did an interview with the dev's that you can read at this link. Super Smash Bros., not likley...
http://thrillskilla.wordpress.com/2006/06/12/small-arms-dev-interview/
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7-11-2006 @ 8:06PM
Jacob said...
I am looking forward to this more than any X360 game. Except for Halo 3 and GoW. But still, I think this will be awesome to the max forever. When is it coming out, or does anyone know yet?
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7-11-2006 @ 8:27PM
Mr BoomStick XL said...
That's a totally super cool idea!! That's the type of inovation that the 360 XBLA needs and opens the door for more developers to follow suit!!
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7-11-2006 @ 8:55PM
AoE said...
So... will this be called the Kevin Bacon achievment?
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7-11-2006 @ 9:13PM
L Capitan said...
"So... will this be called the Kevin Bacon achievment?"
LMAO!
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7-11-2006 @ 10:00PM
x cram x said...
the kevin bacon achievement it is!
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7-11-2006 @ 11:16PM
Les Doodis said...
Actually, I read on some other blog that it was called "Six Degrees from Small Arms." Don't know if that's legit or not.
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7-12-2006 @ 12:01AM
pmpboarder said...
A couple weeks late, guys.
http://www.xblarcade.com/2006/06/28/small-arms-innovative-achievement/
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7-12-2006 @ 12:46AM
Mario Baumann said...
This game looks awesome! YouTube has an great mayhem filled clip of the game.
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7-12-2006 @ 9:02AM
Doc P said...
Sweet Idea.
The linked article raises another issue that I think is more important, why have I only heard of this game from you guys and not MS:
"who's doing effective PR for independent XBLA titles? One of the things we're noticing is that there's not much info about a lot of the titles (videos, screenshots, press releases) before they go live, which is a shame, because then people don't get to know about them. Microsoft, appoint someone just to do that, immediately!"
If the XBLA titles are aimed at casual gamers, then why do only hardcore gamers hear about them before they go live? For instance the hold 'em poker game that is coming out, I havent heard a lick about it from MS, yet it was on the box art that surfaced a while back. You guys (X360F) should look into it.
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7-12-2006 @ 10:38AM
matthew said...
It is called the Six Degrees Achievement.
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7-12-2006 @ 3:21PM
Chris Fant said...
Here's an even better idea: Give the 4 employees the First Degree Achievement. Anyone who plays them gets the Second Degree Achievement. Anyone who plays them gets the Third Degree Achievement, etc down to the Sixth Degree Achievement (or down to whatever). If someone with a 6th plays someone with a 3rd, they get 4th degree achievement. This way, you know exactly how many degrees of seperation you are away from the employees who started it. Also, those having a 2nd or 3rd degree achievement are part of a more exclusive group than those having 4th or 5th degree achievements.
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