Small Arms' Innovative Achievement
In an article at MTV ( I still find it odd to get gaming news from MTV ) it was revealed that Small Arms will have an Achievement that it's director calls "Six Degrees of 'Small Arms.' " (it's not yet clear if that will be the actual name of the achievement yet). The way it works is that the four people who work at Gastronaut Studios will initially be the only ones with the Achievement, as soon as someone plays with any of the four, they will also get the achievement. This viral effect will continue on and on, with each new person gaining the achievement and the ability to "spread" the achievement on to others. Another interesting thing is that Microsoft is hedging their bets and making the achievement worth zero points, just in case the spreading doesn't occur as expected.
Personally I love the idea and hope other developers start coming up with unique and interesting achievements.
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As an achievement junkie myself, I gotta say... I like it.
The way I read the article, it was Microsoft, not Gastronaut, that is requiring the viral achivement to be worth zero points.
I like the achievement, very unique.. and innovative.
Tomacco
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You're correct Measure, I've updated the article
trent82
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that's just craziness...i like it
Haha, I love it! I can't wait to see it work, and you know it will work so well.
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Check out the BFME 2 achievements. There are BAD achievements where you get 0 points for. Like losing to someone who is MUCH, MUCH worse than you.
Tomacco
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Similar to DOA4 where you get zero point bad achievements for losing 5, 10, and 20 online games in a row.
Meh. This was done already with the PSP game which I believe was called "infected." It was a zombie killing game, and when you played multi-player, if you won you infected the other player with a "virus." Enemies in their game would then look like you, and he would spread your virus around and have to beat you again for it to go away. You could also track your virus, and see where it was globally. It was a really cool concept, but the game didn't really catch on.
I think you could also compare it to gmail, where you can't join unless you are invited, but that's decided by the user.