Demon's Souls (Playstation 3)
Flying Dragon's Trophy
Slayer of Demon "Blue Flying Dragon"
Biorr made a guest appearance again, tanking the blue dragon for me. I say tanking, what I actually mean is he stood in the same spot, getting toasted over and over again. It took a lot of arrows, but as has become common with a lot of Demon's Souls bosses, the blue dragon was taken down with minimal effort.
False King's Trophy
Slayer of Demon "False King"
After a string of painfully easy bosses, it was a pleasant surprise to face something I actually had to pay attention to. This guy was ruthless, even having an ability that drained my soul levels. This wasn't temporary either. Your soul levels are contained in the usual blood pool you leave behind on death. This means that dying again before reclaiming them means that the levels you lose are gone permanently. That's one terrifying boss ability.
It took me a few attempts, but once I'd got the pattern down, the False King was vanquished.
World Uniter's Trophy
Old One Put to Sleep & World United
In English, that means "completed Demon's Souls". The final boss was mainly a formality that posed no real challenge. I suppose I'd be disappointed, but I've seen this happen in games before and it's actually a good way of rewarding the player who has fought enough bosses and just wants to see the ending. When it follows a particularly brutal end-game boss, it comes as a relief that you get to strike down the main antagonist without the fear of having to go back and fight any preceding bosses again.
The final section of Demon's Souls was set up such that this wouldn't happen anyway, but by this point, I'd had my fill of the game and was more than ready to see its conclusion. Review coming... eventually.
World of Warcraft
Character: Grimtoosk (Troll Druid)
Professional Grand Master
Obtain 450 skill points in a profession
From 1, might I add. I've been making a bit of a gold with inscription on a low level character, and I decided it was time I took it a step further and trained the profession on a high level character. Grimtoosk is a high enough level that he can potentially craft every glyph in the game, which gives me much more stock to sell. With a few thousand gold set aside, I spent a long afternoon taking inscription from 1 to 450, which included a hell of a lot of herb milling.
It was worth it in the end, though, as I'm now raking it in. Selling the glyphs I made while levelling the profession has allowed it to pay for itself already, and my profits are increasing with every new glyph technique I learn through daily research and books of glyph mastery.
In fact, it quickly led to the next achievement...
The Right Stuff
Learn the artisan riding skill
Epic flying! It may be crazy to buy this for an alt, but after getting used to the speed of it on my main character, it's a luxury I just can't be without. Plus, the troll's epic flight form is way too funky looking to pass up on.
Veteran of the Wrathgate
Complete the Dragonblight quests leading up to and including the Return to Angrathar
One of the greatest moments in WoW questing, and the first time we saw a real cutscene in the game (as far as I'm aware). It was the turning point in the relationship between the Horde and Alliance, and led to the increased power struggle between the two in Cataclysm, which I'm enjoying immensely.
What a disappointment that the follow-up, the Battle for the Undercity, one of the best quests in the game, has been removed. Why, Blizzard?
1000 Quests Completed
Complete 1000 quests
At least half of those probably rewarded me with stuff I couldn't use. Spell leather? Yuck.
Character: Grimtooth (Orc Warrior)
Professional Illustrious Grand Master
Obtain 525 skill points in a profession
Don't worry, this was achieved more naturally than the inscription grind. I love mining. It's the first profession I ever picked up, and I've never had the desire to let it go. I know I could probably profit more from something like enchanting, but the feeling of pure joy when I see a yellow dot appear on my minimap is something I would miss dearly. I also enjoy the anticipation of discovering what crazy metals they've come up with for each new expansion. My favourite was titanium. No, not like our titanium. Titanium; metal of the Titans.
Explore Deepholm
Explore Deepholm, revealing the covered areas of the world map
In a way, Deepholm's charm is along the same vein as Outland's. Getting away from Azeroth allows for some uncharacteristic and 'out there' environment design. Outland was a different world that allowed Blizzard's art team more creative freedom. Deepholm, being the elemental plain of earth, offers the same. The result is one very cool looking place. I'm surprised I haven't broken my print screen key.
Deep into Deepholm
Complete 110 quests in Deepholm
While it may look pretty, I felt the quests were somewhat lacking. The storyline is great, and it succeeded in making me feel like I played a large part in repairing some of the more major damage of the cataclysm.
The quests themselves consisted of far too many of the bog standard 'kill this many mobs' and 'gather this many items' objectives. I seem to remember a lot more variety in the Wrath of the Lich King zones. Even one small unique mechanic can make a difference, but quests that strayed from what we've done over and over again were few and far between here.
Team Fortress 2
General Achievements
Dynasty
Win 20 games
Considering I've been playing TF2 for a couple of months now, this must mean I've lost a lot more than 20 games.
With Friends Like These...
Play in a game with 7 or more players from your friend list
Bug! I was actually playing with 2 players from my friend list. We think the presence of bots that somehow copied our avatars confused the game enough to award us this achievement. It would be nice to play TF2 with this many of my friends someday...
Heavy Achievements
Party Loyalty
Kill 50 enemies within 3 seconds of them attacking your Medic
Achieved thanks to my medic usually yelling panicked warnings over voice chat. Sometimes my reflexes actually kick in, and I'm able to save him.
Stalin the Kart
Block the enemy from moving the payload cart 25 times
Out of all the game modes, payload is by far my favourite. Here's to another 25 payload blocks!
Spy Achievements
Come In From The Cold
Get a Revenge kill with a backstab
Snipers. As a Heavy, they're my worst enemies. I'm now in the habit that when a sniper begins to dominate, I switch to the spy and hunt them down personally. This was my first of hopefully many revenge kills of an irritating sniper.
Dr. Nooooo
Backstab a Medic that is ready to deploy an Ubercharge
Something I've learned in my pursuit to becoming a semi-decent spy is to choose my targets wisely. A medic with an ubercharge is the most dangerous player on the battlefield, and I'll always be sneaking up behind them first.
Agent Provocateur
Backstab your Steam Community friends 10 times
It's taken far too long to get to this point, because you can probably multiply that number by 10 and you'll have the amount of times I've been backstabbed by them.
Engineer Achievements
Doc, Stock and Barrel
Repair a sentry gun under fire while being healed by a Medic
Apparently, repairing your sentry as it fires, while receiving metals from a nearby dispenser, is known as 'tanking'. I was tanking, and I had a personal healer keeping me alive. There's WoW in my Team Fortress!
Sniper Achievements
Be Efficient
Get 3 kills with the Sniper Rifle without missing a shot
Something was in the air during this weekend's TF2 session, and it wasn't just rocket-jumping soldiers. It was an air of what could only be described as 'dossing about'. When you end up playing on 2fort with a bunch of bots, what else can you do?
Somewhere along the way, a spontaneous sniper battle emerged between me and my chums. It was the first time I really touched the class, and it turned out to be a lot of fun. Somehow, I managed to wrangle this achievement. I'm not sure it would have gone quite as well if the server was full of real people.
Australian Rules
Dominate an enemy Sniper
Sadly, this wasn't one of the participants of the 'great sniper battle of September 2011'. This was either a bot, or a really terrible player who repeatedly stood still for far too long.
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Phew! I've really got to stop leaving this for 2 weeks.
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