Alan wake achievements discussion

[Abd-L-Azeez]

There are many people like me how doesn't rest until they get every single achievement in the game ,

For me , I say hay ! , am spending 40/50 or 60 $ for the game way don’t I make it worth it ,
Most of Alan wake achievements are very simple compared with other games , I did get 12 achievements on one episode ( I don’t remember if it was the fourth or the third )

Some achievements are very challenging and really push you to your limit , but some of them are simply annoying,

Anyway , I find the achievement Alan wake up (Complete the game on Nightmare difficulty. ) is very interesting and I enjoyed the game in it more than I did on normal mod ,

But , for the achievement " Hypercaffeinated" (Discover all coffee thermoses)
I think it is very annoying I played the game four times now and I only discovered 99th of them , did the game glitched on me ? , do I have to delete the game save and start over ?

I did collect everything else
, including the manuscript pages in Nightmare mode
(and that was my favorite part of the game )
if only the game show you how many coffee thermoses did you collected in every episode ,

Many people suggested that I delete the save . but that is very hard after all I did in the game ,

Sorry , enough about that lets talk about the other hard achievements like :

"Run-On Sentence " (Special 1: Complete the episode without reloading the game or restarting a checkpoint)

This achievement is a real beauty , it really keep you on your toes ,

There are achievements like this , ( not as difficult ) but still , those achievements are :

Gunless Wonder ( Make it to Cauldron Lake without firing a single shot in "On the Road to Cauldron Lake." )

Meet the Deadline ( In "Mirror Peak," make it from the Coal Mine Museum to Cauldron Lake in 30 minutes.)

Anyway that what I think , but what do you think ? and do you care about the achievements ? what is the achievement that you actually find difficult ?

And in the end thank you for finding the time to read my thread .

[Nelsh]

I haven't got all the achievements yet... but I hate looking for thermoses. It's so hard to get them all. Collecting achievements always annoy me in any game, because no matter how well I search, I can never find them all.

[Risemachine]

I haven't got all the achievements yet... but I hate looking for thermoses. It's so hard to get them all. Collecting achievements always annoy me in any game, because no matter how well I search, I can never find them all.
hahaha same you can always go on youtube and check some videos helps me ;)

[Abd-L-Azeez]

but I hate looking for thermoses. It's so hard to get them all. Collecting achievements always annoy me in any game, because no matter how well I search, I can never find them all.

OK ... that's a depressing thought, it can ruin the mode of every one if he think like that .. more or less , your got a point . but that doesn't mean you should give up ..




hahaha same you can always go on youtube and check some videos helps me


you mean that you look at the video then you play then you look at the video then you play .. and you keep doing that 100 time until you got all the thermoses . OK . i will give it a try hopefully i can find the last thermos :D

[PotentialTERROR]

I couldn't care for achievements at all

It's the game i'm playing, i'm not trying to gain a bigger score or (E-Pen*s)

Using youtube to find stuff in games.. Jesus not exactly rocket science. Crazy as when people find all the collectibles they feel proud yet it was the help of Youtube and not their own skill within the game, Oh i forgot it's in the name of the gamerscore so that makes it all right doh

I mean you get some people who think because their score is higher they are better.. Sure if you could redeem the score then yeah it may be worth it, like for every 5,00 Gamer points MS issued 500 MS points or something, But no, it's just another marketing gimmick to get people to buy games and then spend half their life wasting away at the tv

[MikkiRMD]

I mean you get some people who think because their score is higher they are better.. Sure if you could redeem the score then yeah it may be worth it, like for every 5,00 Gamer points MS issued 500 MS points or something, But no, it's just another marketing gimmick to get people to buy games and then spend half their life wasting away at the tv

Well, I dunno. I'm not that big on achievements myself, but a lot of people like them. Sure, they don't do anything, and they don't really matter, but neither does Tetris, or Alan Wake -- not really. Hell, in the final analysis, none of this matters, and we're all gonna be dead in a hundred years anyway. The universe doesn't care. Why bother doing anything?

But nihilism gets old pretty quickly, and there's no point in getting all dogmatic about achievements and even less in being annoyed that every aspect of every game isn't specifically tailored for my personal preference. Sure, some people think their Gamerscore adds to their self-worth, but it's not exactly news that there are lots of dumbasses out there. ;)

[PotentialTERROR]

Well, I dunno. I'm not that big on achievements myself, but a lot of people like them. Sure, they don't do anything, and they don't really matter, but neither does Tetris, or Alan Wake -- not really. Hell, in the final analysis, none of this matters, and we're all gonna be dead in a hundred years anyway. The universe doesn't care. Why bother doing anything?

But nihilism gets old pretty quickly, and there's no point in getting all dogmatic about achievements and even less in being annoyed that every aspect of every game isn't specifically tailored for my personal preference. Sure, some people think their Gamerscore adds to their self-worth, but it's not exactly news that there are lots of dumbasses out there. ;)

I definately agree Mikki,

I know it's not the developers doing as such. Microsoft initiated the trend and i suppose as it's their platform they prob state that all games must contain achievemnets. Am i correct?

Microsoft knows that if you've a high score then you're respected more in the online community. I feel it's definately a way for MS to entice players to part with more cash

[MikkiRMD]

I know it's not the developers doing as such. Microsoft initiated the trend and i suppose as it's their platform they prob state that all games must contain achievemnets. Am i correct?

Microsoft knows that if you've a high score then you're respected more in the online community. I feel it's definately a way for MS to entice players to part with more cash

Well, I dunno about that. I mean, certainly, it's a feature that people like; if they have to choose between a game with achievements and another, fairly similar game without achievements, they'll probably go with the first one, so sure, it's a selling point. But the PS3 has trophies, Steam has achievements, World of Warcraft has achievements, even iPhone games have achievements. It's a thing people enjoy.

And yes, of course, people make things in order to sell them to other people, and they try to find ways to make those things desirable. But on the other hand, if you spend more time with a game because of the achievements, they aren't actually making any extra money off you (well, World of Warcraft excepted, obviously). It's the other way around -- you're actually getting more for your money.

I think achievements that change the way you play and offer you a challenge you get a kick out of -- for example, the "don't fire any weapons" achievement we have towards the end of Alan Wake -- are kind of cool, because they give you a different kind of a gameplay experience, and you get more out of the game. The key words here are "get a kick out of," of course; there are people who don't like a specific challenge and still try to do it and get frustrated, because they aren't having fun, which always strikes me as a really weird situation. I mean, that's like hating ham and eating it anyway. =)

[PotentialTERROR]

Oh i definately agree Mikki i don't mind achievements as such, I just don't personally go out to obtain them all to feel i've fully justified completing the game.

I've got 3 signs in Bright Falls To find, plus i've only found 91/100 thermoses. Then i would have completed all achievements. I won't go on youtube to find the remaining 9 thermoses though as to me thats an easy way out.

The only thing i hate about achievements is the online ones. i don't really play online unless i'm with my friends but games like MW have a handfull of achievements for the single player campaign and then the rest are devoted to online

Bit crap if you don't play online you know

[Abd-L-Azeez]

the reason i like achievements is not because of the GS . it because you will take the most of your gaming . like a bunch of challenges you have to complete along the way .
i know that some could be difficult but that is what make it more fun .
and it will always let you go back to the game ( and not jest because the story ) ,
and trust me . you will feel proud when you complete all the achievements for a game . and that is what really difficult . and not getting GS . i have about 26.000 GS and i know that there is lot of gamers how are higher then me . but that doesn't bother me . because i only care about complete all the achievements for a game .

there are people who don't like a specific challenge and still try to do it and get frustrated, because they aren't having fun, which always strikes me as a really weird situation. I mean, that's like hating ham and eating it anyway. =)

there will a always be something you hate in a game but you keep playing anyway . the achievements is the same thing

[Nelsh]

Yeah, I think some achievements are really fun, because they present you with a new challenge, like the no guns achievement, I loved it.

But I just completed my third playthrough on nightmare and I didn't find a single thermos this time around, so I'm still on 90/100 thermoses, just like I was after my second playthrough.

I found all the manuscripts and caches though, it's weird... I always explore every tiny corner of the map, not because of the thermoses but because I want to see everything and I'm just curious as to what there might be found.

It's a shame that some areas are hard to explore, when the Taken keep coming until you're gone. Sometimes when I reach the next checkpoint I go back to explore the area again, and the Taken are gone. But sometimes they're still there and often you can't even go back because the way is blocked.

[LordHuffnPuff]

Sure, some people think their Gamerscore adds to their self-worth, but it's not exactly news that there are lots of dumbasses out there. ;)

I'm 100% sure that in the past, Microsoft has given out free points/discounts/what-have-you to players whose gamerscore was over a certain amount. That's certainly one incentive.

Then again, the Xbox Rewards program seems to have been AWOL for a while.

[Abd-L-Azeez]

I'm 100% sure that in the past, Microsoft has given out free points/discounts/what-have-you to players whose gamerscore was over a certain amount. That's certainly one incentive.

Then again, the Xbox Rewards program seems to have been AWOL for a while.

really ?

i didn't know .

but you should know that at this time is very easy to hack your gamerscore
some people have 700,000 GS how do you think the get it ?
by finishing all the achievements for 700 game ?