I’ve had an Xbox 360 pretty much since they came out, but have never managed to unlock 100% of the achievements in a single game before. There are myriad reasons; among the top are replaying at the hardest difficulty, something I’m not usually into doing, and games that have multi-player achievements (GRAW2 is still a sore spot with me, buying every single DLC for the co-op stuff then a week later the guys moved to a new shiny game), not to mention my infamously short attention span.
Today, however, I got my first 100%! I thought it would be Borderlands (and I’m darn close there, not counting the additional DLC achievements) but it turned out to be The Saboteur, which I recently wrote about.
From the Stats page, I’m showing 100% Mission Progress and 100% Freeplay Progress with a total game time of 65:04:25!
While I am excited to finally get my first 100% Unlocked status with a game, I am also a bit sad because The Saboteur is truly an enjoyable experience; it’s a shame there’s nothing left to do now. Pandemic’s WWII Nazi-occupied Paris and its surrounding countryside was a fantastic place to adventure and explore. I will miss it.
I’ve wondered recently if an open-world game of that type would be do-able as a multi-player game on consoles. Not massively-multiplayer, mind you. I’m thinking two modes: the first being the standard Listen server mode that could support 4 players, perhaps a few more, then a persistent Dedicated server mode that could support (picking an arbitrary number) up to 64 players. Similar to Neverwinter Nights? The caveats would be the necessity for an even larger game world, and more activities to actually do besides shoot bad guys and blow things up. Maybe a combination of an open-world game with The Sims allowing for some progression without being an RPG?
I’d love to see someone try it anyway…
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Grats on the 100%. I have only completed 7 games on the Xbox and a few were just to pad my gamerscore back when I cared about that. The two I am most proud about are Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare. Beating those two on veteran was about a week each of just pure frustration. I also beat Hitman Bloodmoney, but I loved every minute of that game.
Nice job on the 100%. I have a few but most of them were from a gamerscore contest where I was whoring out any game I could find.
I’m close to 100% in Borderlands, but I have to get 5 stupid Rak in 10 seconds.