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Achievement Whore

I play video games; I'm a nerd. More over, I've been getting more into Steam games and Xbox 360 lately, and they both come with the addition of Achievements in lots of games. This is just the section in which I discuss certain achievements I venture to earn, such as the accursed Little Rocket Man achievement in Half Life 2: Episode Two.

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Man vs Tank

I unlocked the Man vs Tank achievement in Left 4 Dead for taking out a tank by myself without any help from teammates, so I’m clearly hardcore. Sure, it was on easy. Sure, the Tank AI glitched and was stuck in one spot. Sure, this meant I was able to shoot it with just a pistol in order to ensure I unlock Akimbo Assassin as well. But I still managed to do it.
Details? Fine. I was playing the Blood Harvest campaign, and we were on top of one of the train carriages under a big stone bridge. The tank spawned in that area, and tried to get on top of the carriage. However, he got wedged under the bridge where he could see us enough that the AI wanted to charge for us instead of find another route, but because of the height of the bridge he couldn’t quite hoist himself up onto the train. This led to me being able to take him out with just a pistol and win at life. I was afraid the bots would jump in to help, but the tank was just out of their aim, so they just stood there and waited for me to do the job. Awesome.

For Your Eyes Only

This is a Team Fortress 2 achievement for the spy class. The player is required to flick a cigarette on the corpse of a recently killed player, so they see it in their freeze cam. The problem that arises is that this particular taunt is done via the cigarette disguise case, which you can’t actually kill with. As a player, you need to make a kill, then quickly swap to the case and taunt in time for the player to see it.
To top this off, the item has an extra taunt that sometimes activates instead. This taunt features the spy pretending to be a crab, as part of the fun spy crab meme. It sometimes activates instead of the cigarette flick, and unfortunately doesn’t count towards the achievement.
Because in a normal game, there’s no real situation as a spy where you’ll make a kill and have enough time to flip to the case and do the taunt, so I needed to farm it. This took a whole 15 minutes trying to get the timing right, and even then it was a total fluke. I am really glad this one is out of the way.

I have so many achieveables!

BLEEP BLOOP.

So this is a new category I’ve thrown into the blog, which is essentially an extension of the Gaming section. I’ve been playing more Xbox 360 and Steam games in the past month, and as it happens these games come with Achievements.

What are achievements, you ask?

Stop seducing me.

Achievements are those little rewards you get in game, for throwing cans are policemen, or pressing start on the main menu. Little trophies of skilful things you do in the game, and they add a bit of replay ability to a game you may of already finished. I enjoy trying to obtain them, and figure what better thing to do, than to talk about the more interesting achievements, or the ones I’m quite proud of (and maybe more boring ones now and again) that I manage to achieve.

Well, that’s the basic introductory post for this section. TUNE IN NEXT POST, when I talk about something no doubt Valve related, since I seem unable to play anything else lately.