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I guess I just like liking things

Sorry about the picture quality, but Commander Zwordling Shepard doesn't have time for your fancy picture takin' rituals.

Sorry about the picture quality, but Commander Zwordling Shepard doesn’t have time for your fancy picture takin’ rituals.

I finally earned the last achievement in Mass Effect 3, 348 days after I got the first achievement in Mass Effect 3. The very last achievement I got was the Veteran achievement, earned for dispatching 5,000 foes. The victim that put me over the goal was a virtual Cerberus agent in the Arena matches on the Citadel, but there were many Reapers, Collectors, and Cerberus agents before him (4,999 of them, to be exact). This last push was prompted by a sale on XBox Live that included the last DLC I hadn’t bought yet for Mass Effect 3 (Omega, in case you’re wondering).

I know there’s plenty of debate over achievements and how they affect a person’s enjoyment of games. I’m unlikely to solve that here, but I will say a couple of things about achievements (that are probably repeats of things I’ve said before):

  • Getting all of the achievements on a game I love is like getting the extra frosting for a Cinnabon.
  • Getting all of the achievements on a game I don’t enjoy is like putting toothpaste back in the tube.
  • Attempting to get some achievements has led to me seeing parts of some games I wouldn’t have otherwise.
  • Attempting to get some achievements has led me to trying things in games I wouldn’t have otherwise.

I’m not an “Achievement Hunter” in the sense of “I will get and play a game with the specific intent of getting all the achievements.” My 46.62% on TrueAchievements should make that perfectly clear. But I do enjoy getting all the achievements on games I really like. I have gotten all the achievements on 21 retail games and 10 arcade games, which really doesn’t sound like that much to me overall.

I have gotten all the achievements for Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. There are still 22 achievements left for me to get on Mass Effect, and I do hope to get them eventually, but they are a lot of work and will take a few different versions of Shepard (something I am very loathe to do, as we have discussed previously).

What are your favorite games you’ve completed (both gameplay-wise and achievement-wise)?

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