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Dec. 26th, 2011 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingArgh, dear stupid Steam: When presenting an achievement for reward, please to be either AWARDING IT AUTOMATICALLY if the user has done it already, or making it be something an experienced player can do again.
Because FUCK YOU I don't want to lose 2 hours of Bastion to get a "first 5 minutes" achievement that I can't get from here. I can't go back to redo that area without restarting the game, and restarting the game *loses my progress*.No multiple saves here!
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xyzzysqrl points out that there ARE multiple saves hiding in Bastion, inder Help And Options -> Profiles. So I just took the 5 minutes to get that one, because hey why not?
That is, for the record, only today's SECOND-WORST achievement. Which is, itself, an achievement. The worst being "Survive 10 minutes of Christmas Radio in Beat Hazard"
Because FUCK YOU I don't want to lose 2 hours of Bastion to get a "first 5 minutes" achievement that I can't get from here. I can't go back to redo that area without restarting the game, and restarting the game *loses my progress*.
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xyzzysqrl points out that there ARE multiple saves hiding in Bastion, inder Help And Options -> Profiles. So I just took the 5 minutes to get that one, because hey why not?That is, for the record, only today's SECOND-WORST achievement. Which is, itself, an achievement. The worst being "Survive 10 minutes of Christmas Radio in Beat Hazard"
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Date: 2011-12-27 12:04 am (UTC)I was a bit eh on the Psychonaughts achievement requiring either you to have a saved game around, or to cheat.
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Date: 2011-12-27 01:10 am (UTC)Losing 30,000 ships in AI War... now that was a crazy one.
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Date: 2011-12-27 01:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-27 03:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-27 01:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-27 03:09 pm (UTC)(Also: Love your icon.)
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Date: 2011-12-27 06:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-27 06:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-27 03:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-12-28 01:53 pm (UTC)E.Y.E the Cybermancy
Date: 2011-12-27 01:58 pm (UTC)I ended up writing a recommend on E.Y.E - it annoyed me that much.
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Date: 2011-12-27 03:57 pm (UTC)My current bugbear is the Toki Tori snowflakes one - I'm tempted to go through the unecessarily complex hack from the above link to get it. I mean, I'd just ignore it, but I've already spent a week's supply of swearwords on it...
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Date: 2011-12-27 04:43 pm (UTC)I just put up with terrible music for 10 minutes. It's not like Beat Hazard Survival gets *hard* until the ~15min mark.
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Date: 2011-12-27 05:35 pm (UTC)Anyway, given my current rate of success, I'm think I'm not going to get too invested in earning them all. So far, I've got three vouchers and a bunch of coal. The vouchers are all for games that are currently on sale for greater discounts than the vouchers, and the coal I could trade in for another voucher, or keep for a lottery odds chance of winning something worthwhile.
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Date: 2011-12-27 05:38 pm (UTC)I'm not going to get them all, certainly, but my rule of thumb is that if I already own the game (or want it) and the achievement will take ~10 minutes? I'll grab it. I've won a full free game (Aliens Vs Predator, but hey, free game) and a bunch of shots at the grand prize, and it's kind fun collecting these.
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Date: 2011-12-27 10:46 pm (UTC)And yes, I concur with your rule of thumb, it's just that seeing what I've got so far, and calculating my odds at the grand prize, I don't think I'm going to bother jumping through the various hoops to use the hacks from that wiki.
Good for you for the free game - is it the new one? The original two were utterly awesome at capturing the atmosphere. Some years ago, I was playing the first late at night, with headphones on, in the dark. My wife woke up, came up behind me and tapped me on the shoulder to ask what I was doing, and learned that I could scream like a girl.
(Completely unrelated, for your collection (http://imgur.com/gallery/JSU4i).)
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Date: 2011-12-27 10:51 pm (UTC)Funny story!
I played the original and shared it with some friends of mine who I used to play card games (mostly Doomtown, sometimes Magic, etc) with in person.
I took the facehugger skittering sound and set it as track 5 on a mix CD.
I gave the CD to Our Host at the store we played at to put over the speakers.
I waited.
After 4 normal-seeming songs, the facehugger noise came on and my opponent JUMPED.
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Date: 2011-12-28 01:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2011-12-28 06:47 pm (UTC)I worry slightly that I'm introducing him to a life consuming malady, but hey, he's enjoying it.