/achievements/ - Achievement Hunting On Consoles

[Digital Cheese]

This thread will mostly focus on achievement hunting for Xbox Live and Playstation Network, but you may discuss it in regards to Steam or other services/consoles too. This thread, while not forbidding such, highly discourages just playing the easiest possible games to get obscene amounts of gamerscore without trying. This thread is more so intended for those wanting to achievement hunt in games which require effort, such as the Halo Master Chief Collection, or, the Call of Duty games. Do not discuss ways to "hack" achievements. Games like Halo 3, who's achievements required matchmaking or other shut down features, are able to be obtained mostly-legitimately in many cases, but, it is a risk doing so, therefore, you acknowledge that you alone are responsible if you get banned or your achievements are reset for attempting them. Below are some important notes, for those interested in achievement hunting.

XBOX LIVE
- Gamerscore goes up as you gain achievements, usually it is a multiple of 5 or 10, but some developers like to screw the perfection up, so you may have the occasional odd number such as 5001 gamerscore.
- Achievements have been reset for players who hacked them to their profiles in the past.
- Any game with online-only achievements who's servers have shutdown are impossible to achieve now. For certain games like Halo 3, there are private servers, but achievements gained from playing on said servers may risk your account getting the achievements reset, or worse, suspended.
- If you need a ton of games to obtain gamerscore on, without paying ridiculous prices, purchase used games from eBay that are from the Xbox 360 or early-Xbox One era. Do not start a new game until your previous game has 100% achievements obtained, unless, said game has achievements that are impossible to get now, or, are impossible for you to get because you physically cannot find players willing to help you get the achievement.
- If you need games to start with, and have Xbox Gamepass, complete all of those first, then, buy new games. 1 subscription can be shared for every user on the same Xbox *if* that user has your Xbox as the home-Xbox. You may be able to earn achievements on PC in games like Halo MCC or Halo Infinite, instead of just Minecraft.
- Expect this to take time, you're completeing potentially hundreds of games. If you want to retain any semblance of a real life, get very good at speedrunning entire games, or, only achievement hunt on your favorite games, and preferably, with friends who are also interested in such, at night instead of the day.
- Xbox Series X w/ disc-drive plays all Xbox One games, Xbox 360s are easy to obtain. Xbox Series X *requires* the internal SSD or a proper expansion card to play X|S enhanced games, anything not enhanced for the Series X|S can be played on an HDD. This includes Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Original Xbox as expected. Internal SSD and Expansion Card only go to 2TB each, sadly, so you may just need to store games on an HDD and transfer them back and forth if you don't delete anything.

PLAYSTATION NETWORK
- Trophies are given. Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum.
- Games which are on PS3 and PS4, and similarly, PS4 and PS5, may or may not share the same achievements, so you may not need to collect them twice. This is very convenient if so, but I cannot confirm. I say this because on PS4, Destiny 1 on PS3 and PS4 *seemingly* show as though they are the exact same game according to achievements, because it shows both the PS3 and PS4 banner on 1 game at once.
- PS3 online is free, any PS3 games you want to achievement hunt in are, therefore, going to be very useful to your collection, particularly if you dislike paying for online play as I do.
- PS5 can play PS4, so just get a PS5 with a disc-drive.
- PS5 requires SSD for PS5 games, but unlike Xbox Series X|S, those go up to 4TB or 8TB for the SSD. You must play them off of an SSD, otherwise, the HDD is just for storing PS5 games and playing PS4 games. An 8TB SSD and 8TB HDD will likely last you a lifetime, unless you have hundreds upon hundreds of games.
- As it is on Xbox, achievement hunting takes forever, but if my memory is correct, it is still far less of an effort than Xbox achievement hunting. You and a few friends could almost go far with enough dedication.

STEAM
- Until you are level 100 or higher, you gain more slots on your friends list. Achievements give you XP, which gives you higher and higher levels. On this basis alone, it may be worth it to those of you who exploit friends lists or have just used steam for 10+ years and haven't cleared out your friends list.
- You gain the most XP from trading cards, gems, and other stuff of that sort iirc. But, game achievements still give an ok amount of XP.
- Similar to consoles, it will take a long time to get high levels or amazing achievements via Steam. Prepare to spend many hours doing it.
- Exploit Steam Sales, borrow games from friends, etc. This will save you hundreds, if not thousands. After you reach level 100 though, I cannot see too much of a point in achievement hunting here unless you have a particular enjoyment for 100%ing your achievements.

May add more later, I will start us off.

Currently, I am interested in achievement hunting for the following games:
- Minecraft Bedrock (Switch, PC, Playstation, Xbox, Mobile)
- Minecraft Legacy (Xbox 360/Xbox One, Maybe PS3)
- Halo 3, 3 ODST, Reach, 4, And 5 (Wherever Possible)
- Halo Master Chief Collection
- Call Of Duty Games (Xbox 360 Onwards, May Repeat On PS3-5)
- Destiny 1 (PS3/4, Xbox 360/One)
- Destiny 2 (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Maybe Steam)
- Phantasy Star Online 2 (Xbox Series X|S, Maybe Steam)
- Quake I-IV (Xbox)
- Doom + Doom II (Xbox)
- Perfect Dark + Perfect Dark Zero (Xbox 360)
- Roblox (Xbox Series X|S, Maybe PS5, Very Easy Tho)
- Borderlands 1-4 (Xbox, Fren Also Wants To So It Should Be Easier)

Presuming I completed all of these to their maximum, still reasonably possible extent, I should easily get over 30k Xbox gamerscore, and a ton of Playstation trophies. Steam I don't use much, and honestly am not concerned at all with obtaining the achievements on outside of growing my friend list limit to 750 or 800. However, even that isn't particularly useful, due to a more proper groups function on Steam, along with many games like Destiny 2 having their own built-in friend list, and even clan list.

 

[Sketch Relics]

I'm not much of an achievement hunter, but I do have a few games I went out of my way to 100%

You have to go to NG+3 for knights honor and grind a few drops, not that bad otherwise.

You basically get this one for 100% the game, just one out of the way one for playing all the multiplayer stages.

I am surprisingly close to this one, I'd do it, but one of the achievements requires a shit ton of luck and I don't feel like grinding for it.

 

[Andy Kaufman]

Slashes in the title? yeah that's gonna be a gay thread.

 

[ControllerJunkieツ]

I used to hunt achievements, but after some time I realized that when I do try to get everything, there's a 50% chance I will start disliking the game I like just because its trophies are unfair and annoying.

What helped me was getting a Nintendo Switch, which doesn't have them. I still try to get 100% in some games, but it's very rare.

Now I disable the popups, as they are what, bragging rights? But for who, as almost all of my playtime is single player, and more than 80% is on older systems. (Vita and older) That's why I don't add anyone on Steam, even my real life friends as I don't find a point in it.

Some achievements are cool, but I find them best when you get them accidentally for something cool you did. It gives me that "ah, they thought of that!" satisfaction (off-top, but maybe that's why I love recent Hitman trilogy, as everything you can think of can be done and likely rewarded).

Now I just play the game as I would without them and then check what I got after my playthrough out of curiosity. I rarely come back to finish it. The most recent game I did it with was Mafia Definitive Edition and I got the last trophy in like, 2022? I also got a Downwell platinum on my Vita last year but that's due to Platinum being awarded mostly with 100% completion (beating the game on hard mode)

Out of curiosity though, I checked my trophies on both PlayStation and Steam. And man, they really don't portray my current taste in games well lol

 

[Satori]

I only recently started to get into achievements, and I've been enjoying having more goals for my favourite games. As of right now the only note worthy hunt has been Art of Rally, however I have been working on Yakuza Kiwami, Satisfactory, and Risk of Rain 2. All of those on Steam since I do all of my gaming on PC, but early this year I discovered RetroAchievements which has motivated me to play some older games.
The only game I 100%ed on RA is The Simpsons: Hit & Run on the PS2, it was pretty easy despite 90% of the comment complaining that many challenges were annoying and tough to get. After that I started Wave Racer 64 but kinda lost interest lately, I will come back to it though.

after some time I realized that when I do try to get everything, there's a 50% chance I will start disliking the game I like just because its trophies are unfair and annoying.

I feel you, I don't ever want to play Art of Rally again, despite it being an amazing game, just because of the one grind I had to do for the last achievement

 

[Sketch Relics]

Alright, so

I got it done, and am apparently rather lucky, I got the problem achievement in one run.
Overall, the big roadblocks for finishing the achievements in Grim Dawn are the 3 superboss kill achievements, the hardcore character achievements, and the final Crucible(arena wave mode).

The superboss ones are kinda self explanatory, it takes quite a bit of playing to get the items you need to make a character strong enough to beat them, even on the easiest difficulty you'll get shredded in seconds if you're not up to snuff.
The final Crucible achievement requires you to beat the mode (150 waves) on the highest difficulty with extra spawns enabled, the final wave of which requires a fight against 5 nemesis bosses (one tier down from superbosses basically) at once. Though thankfully you can start from higher waves and don't have to do it from wave one to unlock it. The nemesis bosses are also somewhat nerfed, as some of their gimmics are disabled in this mode.
Lastly you have the hardcore achievements, which require you to beat several end game challenges on a character that erases itself if it dies. With the biggest roadblock being a fight against what I suppose could be considered the weakest superboss in the game on the hardest difficulty. I actually lost 2 characters about midway through just getting them to the hardest difficulty before making a character that made it through everything I had to do on hardcore.