The Club nods at Gears of War's 'Seriously' achievement

by Griffin McElroy { Feb 10th 2008 at 1:30PM }

For the thorough achievement hunter, there are an elite series of Gamerscore garnering goals that the softcore gamer is not likely to possess, such as Dead Rising's Zombie Genocider achievement, or, well, most of the achievements from Chromehounds. One stands out above the rest, though, requiring a great deal of time and skill to earn -- the "Seriously" achievement from Gears of War. Getting 10,000 kills in ranked multiplayer earns you 50 Gamerpoints, and hopefully, a concerned intervention from a few of your closest loved ones.

Bizarre Creations' latest project The Club gives a hearty nod towards the life-consuming achievement with one of their own -- the cleverly titled "No, Seriously" requires you to kill 10,001 opponents in ranked online matches. Oh, we see what you did there. We'll have to wait until Feb. 19 to see if the game is good enough to merit that kind of time investment, and if Bizarre ripped anything else off of Gears -- such as a steroid-infused protagonist that speaks with the eloquence of Tourette's suffering sailor.

Tags: achievement, gamerscore, gearsofwar, multiplayer, noseriously, seriously, theclub, xboxlive

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

ThornedVenom @ Feb 10th 2008 1:40PM

*facepalm*

Tiptup300 @ Feb 10th 2008 7:02PM

Does joystiq not know that the demo is on the PSN marketplace. I know its developed piss poor and has a very terrible layout and is terribly non-user friendly, but I'm sure you could find the demo after a few hours.

Honestly, why doesnt sony redo the psn thing, its just using the web browser to display it, please SONY FIX THE MARKETPLACE!

FraGNeM @ Feb 10th 2008 11:44PM

Seriously.

Huey2k2 @ Feb 10th 2008 1:41PM

See, the reason 10,000 kills in Gears was so time consuming is because of the fact that a better than average player would get ~10-12 kills per game. So getting to 10,000 kills took a VERY long time.

Now if you look at a game like COD4, a good player can get 20-30 kills a round on average, so getting to 10,000 kills doesn't take long at all. If this game is arcadey enough and has enough people playing in each round then getting to 10,001 kills could actually be a relatively easy thing.

My 2 cents.

jamma @ Feb 10th 2008 7:25PM

Even 10,000 kills in COD4 is hard1

Now, catching the Dragon in Heroin Hero, that's an easier challenge, and i'm almost there!

Mr.ESC @ Feb 10th 2008 8:08PM

Spoilers:

You never catch the dragon.

Mr.ESC @ Feb 10th 2008 8:19PM

Now for a meaningful reply.

I agree with you in that but getting 10,000 in Gears of war was also difficult because:

A) Your kills are only counted in Ranked matches. In games like Team Fortress 2 and even Undertow they count you all your kills no matter which mode you are playing, even single player.
B) Your kills only counted if you finished the match .This is just ridiculous how many kills Gears didn’t count because the host was a f@g and he disconnected by the last round, extremely infuriating.
C) You can only get a maximum number of kills and the matches can last forever.
D) The game doesn’t counts the kills you get in Anex.

Is safe to say even in Halo getting 10,000 kills isn’t going to take you more than few months, in Gears unless you are PWnzord Mcownage is going to take forever and there aren’t really that many maps and waiting for a match is just plain boring.

Deck @ Feb 10th 2008 1:43PM

Lawlz. How creative!

Brello @ Feb 10th 2008 1:50PM

That seems embarrassing to have either of those achievements.

Neil @ Feb 10th 2008 1:50PM

I think comparisons between The Club and Gears of War are quite offensive because:

a) The Club is a much better game than Gears of War
b) The Club's level designers actually like making interesting levels, whereas Gears of War was set in a land of browns and greys.
c) The Club's multiplayer mode is not littered with children who shouldn't be playing the game

I'm finding the negative press this game is getting quite bewildering. It's from BIZARRE CREATIONS everyone! That's the team that made the best game of 2007 - Project Gotham Racing 4. I hope that when this does get a US release people buy it. It really deserves your money.

Rollins @ Feb 10th 2008 1:56PM

Because PGR4 was better than Super Mario Galaxy, CoD4, Mass Effect, etc...

PGR4 was a good game, but by no means was it the best game of 2007.

Batzarro @ Feb 10th 2008 2:02PM

You think comparisons between The Club and Gears of War are quite offensive because:

You am easily offended
YOu tottally worked in The Club
You need to jab at Gears
You needs flaimbaitz

Huey2k2 @ Feb 10th 2008 2:12PM

"I think comparisons between The Club and Gears of War are quite offensive because:

a) The Club is a much better game than Gears of War"

Because a game that hasn't come out yet which you haven't actually played is better than a game which has been out for a very long time, has won several awards, and has a metacritic rating of 94.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/gearsofwar?q=gears%20of%20war

whymog @ Feb 10th 2008 2:20PM

Those are some seriously loaded opinions, but I will say that I hope people go into The Club with the right expectations - a skill-based action game that really plays more like Tony Hawk than Gears of War. What I played in the demo was absolutely fantastic, but I wasn't expecting the next great epic shooter.

Mr.ESC @ Feb 10th 2008 8:21PM

D0n't f33d teh tro11z!!!

Anticrawl @ Feb 10th 2008 1:57PM

This is gonna be hard without anyone to actually kill online when the game finally launches. No, srsly though the only reason the Gears of War one was hard is because one had to play Ranked matches. And ranked matches were so fucked in Gears, one person leaves and the whole game ends. I just didn't put up with that shit. In fact on my current tag I haven't even played a single ranked match.

JakubK666 @ Feb 10th 2008 2:10PM

Some people will care...will they!? Maybe I'm a dumb PC Elitist but to me it feels like 95% of people are playing CoD4 or Halo 3.

Anticrawl @ Feb 10th 2008 3:13PM

Not quite sure what you are replying to but uhh yeah, game on.

Jeremy White @ Feb 10th 2008 1:59PM

I think you people are missing the point that it's giving a "nod" to Gears of Wars, not ripping the game off entirely. But just so I can be like you guys, "Wow, they so stole this from Gears of War! How creative!"

JakubK666 @ Feb 10th 2008 2:07PM

It suck and teh kopy gOW! It h4s ahivments and u sh0ot ppl! Wat a total rip-off SuXX0rz!

Neil @ Feb 10th 2008 2:16PM

Huey2k2, The Club was released on Friday and I've been playing it a lot since then. Almost done with the SP campaign and it's a HELL of a lot more exiting than GOW ever was.

Shimrra @ Feb 10th 2008 2:26PM

So when Gear of War 2 comes out you are going to have to get 10,002 kills to unlock the achievement point lol.

tmacairjordan87 @ Feb 10th 2008 2:34PM

"c) The Club's multiplayer mode is not littered with children who shouldn't be playing the game"

i find it hard to believe anyone will play that abomination online, let alone kids.

"I'm finding the negative press this game is getting quite bewildering"

couldn't be because the game sucks could it? no not at all. Did you even play the demo? It's miserably bad. You gotta be very easy to please if you're that hyped about The Club. Oh that's right, you think PGR4 was the best game from last year so you must be pretty easy to please.

xFenixKnightx @ Feb 10th 2008 2:51PM

Damn right I have that achievement. 200 kills a day =) It DOESNT take THAT long. You just have to be skilled as fuck ;) It also gives you a sweet ass Marcus Fenix gamerpic. If I see someone with that pic online I usually give them props.

Sam @ Feb 10th 2008 2:53PM

have you guys played the demo? The game doesn't have a plot, at all. it's a gears arcade shooter, the only thing missing are the crazy weapons. and you stroll through the levels racking up combos. If they're online multiplayer is the same way it will be annoying to play, since everyone will be trying to rack up combos they're will be deaths ever other second.

DBuck_Eye @ Feb 10th 2008 5:01PM

Now I'm just a Wii gamer who has very little experience in the online/achievement world of gaming. But it seems to me that "achievements" should be just that: achievements. They should be something that you say to your friend one day when he's over playing a game with you like, "hey, one time I [insert incredibly time consuming/hard thing to do in the game you are currently playing]" and then he says, "No way" and you show him the achievement and he says, "wow, you have no life." If the Wii ever got achievements (Nintendo forbid), I would want them to be more like Chromehounds and less like Avatar. But hey, that's just a Wii gamer's two cents.

Demaar @ Feb 11th 2008 4:40AM

Chrome Hounds and Avatar are two massive extremes. Most games are somewhere in the middle. In fact, I don't own a game that has ridiculous achievements or stupidly easy ones either. Easiest was probably Bioshock, and the "Brass Balls" one wasn't a cake walk...

BeeDizz @ Feb 10th 2008 5:26PM

I wonder if you'll be able to glitch this achievement like Gears? That would show a true nood to the game.

xFenixKnightx--"It also gives you a sweet ass Marcus Fenix gamerpic. If I see someone with that pic online I usually give them props."

That Fenix gamerpic was offered for free for 24 hours when Gears was launched. I got about 10 friends, (me included), who have the gamerpic but not the seriously achievement.