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Seventeen Lame Xbox 360 Achievements

Submitted by Midnight on Wed, 03/14/2007 - 7:04pm.

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Here's a look at some really lame achievements from destructoid.com

Whether you like to collect them (or buy them), Xbox 360 achievements have been the new e-peen for everyone to flash. It's almost like you aren't a real man unless you have an uber achievement score. Well, as most of you who own a 360 already know, some achievements are cooler than others. Some make you feel really special, while others seem to just happen as you do the most mundane things. Our pals over at G4 scrapped together a top 17 of really lame achievements that have since been a part of our gaming life. Take a look and see if you have anything to add to the list.

17. Dead Rising - Clothes Horse - 20 points. While most of Dead Rising’s difficult achievements require Frank to kill zombies en masse, kill zombies in humorous fashion, or save the often-idiotic survivors from imminent death, this achievement is earned by trying on all of the outfits in the mall. Sorry, but I prefer the fresh look of caked-on zombie blood to a new pair of khaki pantaloons.

16. X-Men: The Official Game - The Xavier Institute (Training Missions) - 0 points. If the developers of the game are going to give achievements for completing the simple training missions, then they might as well give you some points. Other wise, don’t bother. No one’s going to look at your list and go "Wow, Jonny beat the training level with Wolverine, he must be a badass." Bonus suck points go the game for giving you the last 50 points for free after getting all 950 other achievement points.

15. Kameo: Elements of Power - The various time attack, expert level, and co-op achievements - 0 points. On the opposite end of the spectrum from the X-Men Game, Kameo gives achievements but no points for some of the harder challenges in the game. So in other words, what’s friggin’ the point?

14. NHL 2K7 - Quitter - 0 Points. Another 0 point achievement, although this one actually has some value. If you quit 10 online matches, you earn the Quiter achievement, and hopefully no one will ever play fake Hockey with you again.

13. The Outfit - Persistence Counts - 20 points, and Battlestations: Midway - Purple Heart - 10 points. Both of these brilliant achievements give you points for sucking at online play or dying frequently. Seriously, if I just bought one of these games and I’m getting my ass kicked online, I don’t need the whole world to know next time I join a game.

12. Gears of War - The COG tag achievements - 60 total points. Like most people, I love Gears of War. However, I haven’t liked searching for hidden packages since GTA 3, and even then it was more of a chore to get the good weapons in my hideout than anything else. The COG tags seem like nothing more than a throw-in for an otherwise great game, as they don’t really unlock anything other than some points.

11. Gears of War - Series of Tubes - 20 points. A number of online shooters have achievements like this one, which reward the player for hosting matches. The fact that the person hosting the game’s shotgun fires about a half of a second quicker than everyone else’s should be reward enough. They don’t need an achievement for having a bastard host advantage.

10. Star Trek Legacy - Pacifist of Makus and Guerilla in the Mist - 20 Points Each. Both of these achievements are for completing levels in the game and NOT killing anyone. I know the hardcore Star Trek fans will say being peaceful is part of the Star Trek universe or some B.S. like that, but I play video games to fantasize about killing zombies, monsters, aliens, psychopaths, Germans, terrorists, evil cops, Borg, Romulans, Klingons, and cuddly forest animals. They are not my friends!

9. Lord of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth II - 705 total achievement points. Pretty much every game that has come out on the 360 has 1000 points to earn. So it’s baffling as to why the developers of the game didn’t give out the full total. Did someone forget how to add? Did they feel that the game is only 70.5% good? What gives? (Note: The Godfather game also pulled a similar stunt.)

8. Madden NFL ’07 - Import Draft Class - 10 points. This one is just a shady marketing ploy, as EA is asking the player to import a draft class from their college football game. But the only way to do this is to have also purchased a college football game. I know some people want both the NFL and the NCAA game, but for those of us that don’t, let us get all of the achievements without shelling out another $60.

7. Rainbow Six Vegas - True Identity - 30 points. Similar to the above Madden achievement, this one requires you to take a picture of yourself with the Xbox Live vision cam, and map it to your online avatar. This sucks if you a. don’t want to buy the vision cam, b. are a recognizable celebrity trying to stay anonymous, or c. are butt ugly.

6. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter - Committed (Multiplayer) - 28 points. You get this achievement for playing GRAW for 8 hours straight. If you’re able to do this without taking a bathroom break, eating some pizza, or masturbating in a dark corner, then you’re moving from the realm of hardcore gamer to the realm of the Chinese kid who dropped dead during a marathon session of World of Warcraft.

5. Blitz: The League - Manvalanche - 15 points. I don’t even know what you need to do to get this one, but it sounds more like something Lindsey Lohan might do in her free time, not something I want on my list of achievements.

4. College Hoops 2K7 - Free Throws Are Easy - 25 points. You get this for making 90% of your free throws when shooting 100 or more in the free throw practice mode of this game. Look, if Shaq can’t find the time to learn how to make 50% of his free throws when he’s paid millions of dollars to do it professionally, then I don’t want to spend my time practicing my free throws in a video game when I’m only paid in shame.

3. NBA Live ’07 - Online With 1,000 People - 100 points. In a brilliant over-estimation of this game’s sales, popularity, and fun factor, EA made it so you can only get this achievement by being online at the same time as 999 other people. Unfortunately, NO ONE got this achievement until a couple of websites organized NBA Live meeting sessions at specific times.

2. Bomberman Act Zero - 1,000,000 Bombs and 1,000,000 Block Break - 50 points each. Bomberman for the 360 is pretty much regarded by the press as a horrible game. Therefore, I haven’t played it, and don’t really know anyone else that has. However, if we assume that the game doesn’t even have load times or breaks, and that you are able to plant 1 bomb per every second, uninterrupted and without ammo limits, it would still take you 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds of non-stop game play to get this achievement.

1. Final Fantasy XI - Reach Level 75 with each character class - 30 points each. Level 75 is the maximum level attainable in the Final Fantasy MMO. The achievements for this game are for reaching level 75 with each different character class in this game. Not just once, but with all 18 character classes. A recovered Final Fantasy MMO addict in the G4 offices estimated it took him around 700 hours of play time to get ONE character to level 62! Just think about that for a second. If you are one the two people in this world who have all of these achievements, just remember, there’s a beautiful world in real life out there for you to explore, and that Chocobos taste better when roasted with a little garlic and rosemary.

Mintz's picture

OK, I did the math (and it

OK, I did the math (and it may be off), and using Mr. Recovering-Addict's numbers it would take approximately 1.73 years of non-stop playing to get all the FFXI class achievements. That's called not worth it.

btw, my math was:
((((75/62)*700)*18)/8766)
Where 700 is the amount of hours it takes to get to lvl 62, 18 is the amount of classes, and 8766 is the amount of hours in a year.

Master Kim's picture

That's retarded.

1.73 years?

Playing games isn't something to be rewarded for, being good at them is.

Though I feel that probably most of my friends would disagree with the COG tag achievements being "lame." Someone who has gained all COG tags should be noted for it. Now, that's a worthy achievement. Plus, if you're smart and observant, you can probably get all of them on your first try.

Mintz's picture

GQ

Master Kim wrote:
Playing games isn't something to be rewarded for, being good at them is.

Good quote.

Midnight's picture

I too like the COG tag

I too like the COG tag achievement. Personally, hidden packages (GTA), hidden orbs (Crackdown), and COG tags (GoW) are mini-games by themselves. I always use a guide to finish them off, but I like how it makes me explore the game's geometry in ways I wouldn't have thought of before.

If they just had to find a lame GoW achievement, how about the fact that online achievements can only be done in ranked matches? The GRAW 2 system is much better, which just requires 5+ gamertags in the room for your kills to count.

Master Kim's picture

That's a good thing.

Midnight wrote:
If they just had to find a lame GoW achievement, how about the fact that online achievements can only be done in ranked matches?
I'm actually glad for that. Just think--any average Joe can make an unranked player match, and have all his friends join the game and kill them without resistance. Unlike in ranked matches, where you can't invite your friends and other players on Xbox Live want to get those achievements as well...

The negative side of this is that many players end up not caring for teamwork and go off on their own trying to get achievements. "Just seven more torque bow kills, no one touches it but me!"

Mintz's picture

uhhh

Master Kim wrote:
The negative side of this is that many players end up not caring for teamwork and go off on their own trying to get achievements. "Just seven more torque bow kills, no one touches it but me!"

And how is this any better?

Midnight's picture

So we've got the choice to

So we've got the choice to either
A) make about 10 achievements easier to get or....
B) ruin the teamwork in ranked matches forever and force people to play without their friends

I don't see how one chooses B over A.

Master Kim's picture

It's not likely to happen, I think.

Mintz wrote:
Master Kim wrote:
The negative side of this is that many players end up not caring for teamwork and go off on their own trying to get achievements. "Just seven more torque bow kills, no one touches it but me!"

And how is this any better?

Because this way achievements will actually mean something.

Mintz's picture

I'd rather have a better

I'd rather have a better game than more points next to my name.

Master Kim's picture

Yeah...

Mintz wrote:
I'd rather have a better game than more points next to my name.

But... but... Gamerscore determines your manlihood!1!!1!!Shift+One!1!!

Agreed.

all achievment points do is

all achievment points do is make you look like a whore

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