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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Hitler Stole My Potato on February 04, 2008, 10:23:15 PM

Title: PS3 achievements.....lol
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on February 04, 2008, 10:23:15 PM
http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-107548.aspx (http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-107548.aspx)

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/02/04/dmc4-accomplishments-are-intriguing/ (http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/02/04/dmc4-accomplishments-are-intriguing/)

"We've been happily playing Devil May Cry 4 for a wee while now (check out our review and awesome series retrospective) and whilst doing so we noticed something a little strange about the game's accomplishment system. It's not the first multiplatform game to include the Xbox 360 achievements inside the PS3 version, by any means, though it is the first to allow players to check out their online accomplishment rankings as well as check out exactly which individual accomplishment goals their friends have achieved.

The interesting thing is that the "Accomplishment Unlocked" screen is a part of the PS3 Operating System, similar to the network connection screen, rather than an in game messsage. What does this mean? Well it could mean that DMC4 is the first game to include specific data which Home will later be able to turn into trophies (when it's finally released). It could potentially indicate other exciting things, but we'll leave the rampant speculation to those who do it best: you, the commenters"


(http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x138/Firewire_02/accomplishmentdmc43425.jpg)


So it takes you out of the game to show a black screen telling you that you just accompished something.  :lol
Title: Re: PS3 achievements.....lol
Post by: Cormacaroni on February 04, 2008, 10:26:47 PM
they devote a whole screen to it yet they don't include the description  :lol

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Post by: Mupepe on February 04, 2008, 10:27:51 PM
... Simply Spectacular!!  wtf?  is that the name of the accomplishment or is it telling you that it's simply spectacular?
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Post by: Kyle on February 04, 2008, 10:29:29 PM
OK
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Post by: y2kev on February 04, 2008, 10:32:24 PM
awesome, now they just need to roll out Home and then i can walk to everyones individual trophy room to check out a bunch of trophy icons.

Achievement unlocked : Epic Fail for 50th time

oh you know this isn't the case :D

That said, even though this screen occurs at the end of the level and not in gameplay, its sparseness is sort of antithetical to the whole celebratory aspect of "accomplishing" something. :\
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Post by: Ichirou on February 04, 2008, 10:37:21 PM
Wow, Sony can't even copy other companies' ideas correctly.  First sixaxis and now this.
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Post by: demi on February 04, 2008, 10:44:13 PM
Didn't Naughty Dog say Uncharted will have Home accomplishments? It pops up the achievement when you earn it, just like XBL.
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Post by: FancyFeast on February 04, 2008, 10:45:04 PM
Simply Spectacular
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Post by: ferrarimanf355 on February 04, 2008, 11:28:58 PM
Didn't Naughty Dog say Uncharted will have Home accomplishments? It pops up the achievement when you earn it, just like XBL.
Hopefully, the unlock message doesn't cover the whole screen... :rofl
Title: Re: PS3 achievements.....lol
Post by: Cormacaroni on February 04, 2008, 11:30:51 PM
btw, 'Simply Spectacular' is the actual name of the 360 Achievement for completing a stage with 'S' ranking in DMC4. (i know 'cause i got it)
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Post by: MrAngryFace on February 04, 2008, 11:32:55 PM
You have to buy the 360 game as a strategy guide for achievements!
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Post by: Sho Nuff on February 04, 2008, 11:34:09 PM
SONY does it again! These achievements are totally IN YOUR FACE
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Post by: Joe Molotov on February 04, 2008, 11:39:44 PM
Tiny pop-up in the corner? Sony says fuck that! Our achievements are going to take up the entire screen and make you hit X to skip past them! Sorry, I mean ACCOMPLISHMENTS! WOOO!!
Title: Re: PS3 achievements.....lol
Post by: The Sceneman on February 04, 2008, 11:56:18 PM
Accomplishments.... sounds too much like Achievements

go Sony, and their fantastic originality

I met someone once who actually personified the whole 'wait until 2008' meme, and she was actually serious lol
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Post by: Trent Dole on February 04, 2008, 11:58:27 PM
PS3.....lol
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Post by: The Sceneman on February 05, 2008, 12:15:09 AM
whats funny is some Sony tosspot dismissed waggle as 'gimmick', a gimick they were happy to embrace - badly. I'll bet they said the same shit about achievements, asswipes
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Post by: Himu on February 05, 2008, 12:30:06 AM
:lol @ this half assed achievements
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Post by: AdmiralViscen on February 05, 2008, 12:36:31 AM
360 becomes even more redundant in the Year of PS3 :bow
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Post by: FatalT on February 05, 2008, 12:41:55 AM
PS3 achievements fail.
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 05, 2008, 12:42:48 AM
i dunno, i bet sony ends up doing waggle better than nintendo
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Post by: Joe Molotov on February 05, 2008, 12:51:53 AM
i dunno, i bet sony ends up doing waggle better than nintendo

Like Lair?

It'll end up being half-assed. The only reason third-parties do it on the Wii is because Nintendo has basically forced them to. Maybe one or two first-party Sony titles will have really good waggle but third-parties will ignore it
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Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 05, 2008, 12:57:02 AM
well, lair isn't a good example and just sucked all around, but blazing angels controlled really, really well with the sixaxis (the game itself was the fucking pits, though)
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Post by: Vizzys on February 05, 2008, 01:03:05 AM
reading the gaf thread the screen shows up after completing a mission, not during gameplay
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Post by: Cormacaroni on February 05, 2008, 09:25:23 AM
Sony creative geniuses once again cunningly use evil Microsoft empire as betatesters, 2008 domination confirmed :bow
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Post by: Rman on February 05, 2008, 09:33:39 AM
I don't know, eel.  I absolute hate the way sony waggle has been handled.  It's been totally unnecessary for the types of the games the ps3 features.  flOw has been the only exception for me.
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Post by: ferrarimanf355 on February 05, 2008, 11:27:25 AM
Joystiq pwns Sony...
(http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/02/accomplishmentscreenboringaintit.jpg)
:rofl
Title: Re: PS3 achievements.....lol
Post by: hyp on February 05, 2008, 02:34:58 PM
you guys are really on a roll today.   :lol
Title: Re: PS3 achievements.....lol
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on February 05, 2008, 03:37:20 PM
Quote

I met someone once who actually personified the whole 'wait until 2008' meme, and she was actually serious lol

a female PS3 zealot?  could you send me her contact info?
Title: Re: PS3 achievements.....lol
Post by: The Sceneman on February 05, 2008, 05:44:43 PM
no I binned it, sorry

I dated her a couple of times but I knew it wouldnt work, becuase Im an xbot, shes an sfag. (that would make a good book title!)