More Achievement Talk

So as I mentioned, I am an Xbox 360 achievement hunter. I love playing video games, and I love the extra layer of playability and gamerscore aspect of the achievements. As such, I have recently been going through games in which I have gained at least one achievement to see what I need to look into completing or playing more of. But like most gamers out there who played before they understood the far-reaching consequences, I have a few games in my list that I really wish I could get rid of. I am not going to create a new gamertag and start over though. I will live with my game choices and move onward.

Most of these games came out of renting games to see if I would like them or not (such as with the aforementioned Child of Eden). This is why I have games like this:

I'll admit that it was fun.

And this:

I've mentioned the princesses before, right?

The Kinect is tailor made to do these dance games that read the movement of the entire body and evaluate it to see if it matches what the pros are doing on screen. However, the prospect of dancing 1,000 kid songs in every language available on the disk to get all those achievements is not appealing to me. Yet, it is in my list, so I am stuck with it. If you don't play a game, and therefore, have 0 achievements, you can delete it. If you so much as grab one single achievement, you must continue to live with the shame of a single cheevo on that game in your game list. This versus the other shame of having that game in your list with a 100% completion on it. I'm not sure which is worse. That you can blame the kids for playing it on your profile or confirming that you committed the time to complete it.

Then there are games like this:

Tragically, the stare-off mini-game was cut from the final product.

I know what you're thinking: "But that's Transformers! It's gotta be awesome." That's exactly what I thought. I played this game on the Wii, and hated it. The controls were a nightmare. Then I got an Xbox, and figured that since I'd be using a controller, the issues I had with the Wii controls would be a thing of the past, and they were. However, the general play controls were still hideous, but that could just be me on car games since that's where I noticed most of my woes.

However, that game now has 2 achievements unlocked on my profile, so at some point (after what will likely be a sanity break after surviving Just Dance Kids 2), I will rent (or buy, if it is cheaper than renting) this game and try to get myself to 80%, which is my overall completion goal. Its problems are similar to this one:

Only the cover looks fun. Inside
this box is only tears.

When you say play control, you assume control is part of that equation. 2 achievements later, we decided this game was for the birds. Now it has its place of shame on my game list as well, waiting to be brought back to life (probably after one imbibes enough alcohol to not care how bad the controls are).

But beyond games that can actually be finished, there is this one:

I will credit it for the princesses' love of tribbles
before they saw Star Trek.

I've written before about the woes of this one. The game contains 10 (yes, 10) unobtainable achievements. An unobtainable achievement is a completionist's worst nightmare because that means that no matter what you do in this game, there are 10 achievements that you will never be able to get. I can get my 80% because I can get 40 out of 50 when I get to it, but 100% is impossible because the game's servers were taken down and haven't come back.

To my credit, I will revisit every one of these eventually to try and bring them to at least 80%, but I wish each and every one of these were gone from my list of games. Unfortunately, Microsoft has no intention of allowing people to do this at any time. Bummer.