During their interview with Cliffy B, the guys over at CVG learned an interesting Gears of War 2 achievement fact that will probably make "achievement whores" a bit furious. Scratch that, it will make achievement whores furious.As it's currently planned, Epic will be "throttling" GoW2's achievements by limiting how much unlocking progress can be made per game or round. Cliffy gave an example of the unlocking system by saying that "if you're going for headshots, you get one headshot that counts and any other headshots won't count towards your Achievement" which is being done "so players don't just play to get headshots the entire round just to get Achievements." It's an interesting idea, but one we aren't sure we (or any achievement addicts for that matter) fully embrace.
[Thanks, shay07]
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5-15-2008 @ 12:45PM
Emphar said...
Lets look at recent MP games:
Halo 3 had achievements for MP but everyone whored to get them.
COD4 did not have MP achievements BUT has in game ranks and awards that actually do something. There are achievements in COD4 just not Gamer score achievements.
GoW2 could find a middle ground. Have maybe 2 or 3 achievements for reaching a rank. Everything else could be in-game only or have web based stats ala Halo 3 and BF2.
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5-15-2008 @ 12:50PM
Teabag said...
I think this is dumb. Achievements has so much potential for developers to be creative with and here we are with developers restricting the achievements.
I long for a dev team to be creative with their achievements. Epic gets thumbs down for this. Even though i am not an online player at all.
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5-15-2008 @ 2:46PM
Vcize said...
Crackdown had pretty good/fun achievements.
5-15-2008 @ 12:50PM
Rez said...
It's the biddest stupid idea in the histor of stupid ideas, 'Scrap it Epic'. It sucks big time. It will be like drugs with no fix. Rez.
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5-15-2008 @ 12:52PM
Ste said...
Why do we need online achievements anyway? It's extremely rare that they're well implemented, and you'll still get people asking others in the game to give free headshots or whatever to get achievement X.
CoD4 was an awesome game, and that has 0 online achievements. I say just concentrate on doing offline achievements, online ones aren't needed and usually hamper the experience.
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5-15-2008 @ 12:55PM
Max said...
Like I said get the word out before it is too late! Let the people know!
5-15-2008 @ 12:53PM
Max said...
If the people don't like this then the people should make it known now before it is too late! Make a petition or spread this all over the net! It doesn't matter as long as word gets out!
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5-15-2008 @ 1:02PM
SadisticHam said...
Don't care, it's my favourite online game it'll just take me longer to get them but I'll still get them. Never boosted in gears anyway, got a kick out of hearing some guy crying cause he wanted the sniper though.
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5-15-2008 @ 6:31PM
mrbiggsndatx said...
we should play, i like hearing b1tches cry too
mrbiggs n d atx
5-15-2008 @ 1:05PM
zero said...
I like this idea. Because of the medic achievement in TF2, almost everyone plays as medic, and they only concentrate on Sawing people or hiding in the base trying to maximize the amount they heal in one life. It sucks.
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5-15-2008 @ 1:08PM
SpekOpz said...
Wow, this is a really stupid idea.
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5-15-2008 @ 1:09PM
Drago Dracini said...
I'm fine with this as long as they allow player matches to count. Cause ranked sucks.
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5-15-2008 @ 1:11PM
Matt Clement said...
Ive played this game like hell for such a long time and never have i seen a problem with people boosting or whoring weapons specifically for an achievement.
Epic needs to focus on the real problems like People quitting out of matches. Nothing is more annoying than people dropping out of ranked matches and having to play 4 vs. 2 or some Bullshit like that, on top of the kills not counting cause its not equal teams.
ENFORCE A PENALTY FOR QUITTING EPIC...PLEASE!
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5-15-2008 @ 1:15PM
braincake said...
i think this is a pretty good idea in principle. limiting someone to one headshot or one execution per round is kind of extreme though.
it really sucked trying to play a match with a 4-man team, and 2 of those people ran around trying to stick people instead of trying to win the match.
i really dont like the achievements that require ranked play. most of the multiplayer achievements are stupid already.
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5-15-2008 @ 1:52PM
ChromaTick said...
Personally, I'd prefer to see them take out multiplayer achievements altogether OR just make the multiplayer ones for unranked play only.
Way too many games have been ruined by having ranked multiplayer achievements.
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5-15-2008 @ 2:31PM
m0rb1d said...
Cliffy B and Epic are idiots. This is definitely a bad idea. Besides... GoW is not a great game anyway, I can live without it.
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5-15-2008 @ 2:41PM
Vcize said...
Just make them attainable in unranked so I can still work towards them when playing with a group of friends and I don't care how much they limit it.
However, didn't they say a while ago that achievements like "get xx kills with xx weapon" this time around would count across single player and multiplayer? This recent interview seems to contradict that...
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5-15-2008 @ 3:29PM
Microswirl said...
They should just award some 5-point achievements for each of the following:
5 headshots
20 chainsaw kills
10 pistol whippings
20 shotgun kills
1 boomshot murder-suicide
Let people get it out of their system so we just have fun playing the game.
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5-15-2008 @ 4:51PM
Flakundenga said...
that's so freaking retarded, it would make online achievemnets (which i dread already) even more annoying n hard 2 get. this is a terrible idea!!! i predict too many pple are going to complain about this causin epic to cut this out of the final product
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5-15-2008 @ 4:53PM
Jayslacks said...
Hey, Epic. How about, before you do anything else, fix the host advantage of Gears of War. Fix it. Cause its broken. Anyone that has been killed by a shotgun BEHIND A WALL knows what I'm talking about.
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