X08: Cliff talks Gears of War 2 achievements, Seriously 2.0
by Xav de Matos 
{ Aug 21st 2008 at 4:57PM }
Stay tuned for the entire interview where Cliff reveals his thoughts on the single-player experience, Gears of War 2's Horde mode (first revealed at E3 2008), Too Human and, err, his desire to pee. Yeah, he went there.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Duke @ Aug 21st 2008 5:03PM
Fenix, you think you get get 100k in the first week?
Tiptup300 @ Aug 21st 2008 5:11PM
If anyone here gets that achievement just know this, you do not have a bigger epenis then anyone else. Yours is smaller by default, since you wasted so many precious hours getting a small achievement. All your earn is my disrespect and a small gamerpic to make it up to you. Every player without this stupid achievement, better yet, every person in the entire world will look down upon you with disgust. Seriously, there are a lot of other things you could be doing to better use your time wisely: helping the elderly, cleaning your house, cutting yourself. Yes that's right, it would be a better use to be cutting yourself.
Just my 0.03 cents.
The_Punisher @ Aug 21st 2008 5:12PM
and yet people are going to do it anyway
:)
Mr.ESC @ Aug 21st 2008 5:20PM
"There are a lot of other things you could be doing to better use your time wisely"
Like playing World of Warcraft..Oh wait.
As much as I like achievements the only game were I can see myself getting 100k is in Galaga Legions and that if it includes the minions.
Jakka(Why the fuck am I banned for the 5th time?) @ Aug 21st 2008 5:32PM
Phew.
By the first week, Fenix will have 1000/1000 already.
Duke @ Aug 21st 2008 5:44PM
Damn, looks like I had a seizure when I typed that.
Fenix @ Aug 21st 2008 6:29PM
Duke
I'll get it, no doubt about it. Not in the first week though.
Tiptup
And I'll have fun doing every...single...kill. You're a dumbass if you don't think I had fun getting 10k+ in Gears 1. I wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't.
;)
"I kill fo fun mang!" -Tony Montana
Thief @ Aug 21st 2008 8:29PM
I hear ya Fenix. I enjoy really hard or dedicated achievements, but not the nonsense grind ones... that's where developers need to take their heads out of their asses.
343 Guilty Fart @ Aug 21st 2008 5:04PM
I guess the Cliffster really wanted to one-up The Club's "No, seriously" achievement.
Mr.ESC @ Aug 21st 2008 5:08PM
I wonder why he didn't call it Ya rly.
theturtle363 @ Aug 21st 2008 5:16PM
Battlefield Bad Company had an achievement for 10002 kills.
Sabata @ Aug 21st 2008 5:05PM
Please, I kill 1 billion locust every morning.
And thats before breakfast.
The_Punisher @ Aug 21st 2008 5:27PM
Please, i EAT THEM for breakfast.
but then i usually throw up...
Mr.ESC @ Aug 21st 2008 5:14PM
Pff I killed 1 trillion with my bare fist before shaving plus and army of wolverines with my nun-chucks.
(Is one of those times were I miss my Napoleon Dynamite Avatar)
Jakka(Why the fuck am I banned for the 5th time?) @ Aug 21st 2008 5:36PM
You guys all suck.
I kill Locust with one hand while devouring the souls of dead Locust in The_Punisher's vomit with my other.
Mr.ESC @ Aug 21st 2008 5:49PM
*where.
Yeah but I killed 1 Trillion beat that.
deaftly @ Aug 21st 2008 5:52PM
Fuck you guys, a locust killed 2 of my best friends!
Mr.ESC @ Aug 21st 2008 5:54PM
And then the Radio said:"No Deaftly" *Bzzzzt "you are the Locust".
Jakka(Why the fuck am I banned for the 5th time?) @ Aug 21st 2008 5:58PM
How many Locust does it take to change a lightbulb?
Erik Stroud @ Aug 21st 2008 6:25PM
I kill locust by eating pie. I'm just that good.
Tiptup300 @ Aug 21st 2008 7:58PM
@Jakka: One, as long as he's not seriously injured or especially short.
Arnon @ Aug 22nd 2008 9:00AM
He should call this achievement "What The F*ck, Chuck!?" Btw.. I devour the hearts of locust and crap out their souls.
Neebs @ Aug 21st 2008 5:06PM
Well if it's across single-player, you could probably play the campaign about 100-200 times through.
That'll probably be a LOT less time than playing on multiplayer.
Mr.ESC @ Aug 21st 2008 5:12PM
I think I played it 8 times max.
Someone needs to tell Cliffy B (or Cliff Besanintiniskyitsybitsy) that Achievements are supposed to be fun and not a second’s job or something that will turn you into a vegetable.
theturtle363 @ Aug 21st 2008 5:23PM
he explicitly stated that he thinks achievements are there to extend gametime. So basically, to him, achievements are bullshit fillers to suck every last drop of fun out of a game, and then suck even more
MYSTERY O @ Aug 21st 2008 5:14PM
I hope horde mode counts.
atrimus @ Aug 21st 2008 5:16PM
i don't even know what the Seriously Achievement in the first game was about. i'm not really an Achievement whore (think i've earned about half the Achievements in the first game) and can't recall earning anything that said "Seriously".
as for Cliffy's comments on Too Human, who cares. he seems to rag on everything not his, but i have a funny feeling he's gonna have nothing but glowing praise for Too Human, him being the Microsoft puppet he is.
Mr.ESC @ Aug 21st 2008 5:35PM
“and can't recall earning anything that said "Seriously"”.
If you have a life or a job obviously you didn’t get it.
“Seriously…Kill 10,000 in MP Ranked”.
From Gears 1 I got every Single player achievement and some MP achievements but to be honest Gears of war online achievements never were fun by so many reasons.You don’t have to be an achievement whore to enjoy achievements for example I just like to complete my games but in the case of Gears of war 2 I’ll just stick with Single player and Co-op after that I’ll be playing Viva Piñata 2.
theturtle363 @ Aug 21st 2008 5:21PM
I never cared for the Gears of War 1 achievements, because most of them weren't even real achievements, they were mostly just "Do this thing a lot" which isnt really much of an accomplishment compared to something like the mile high club on CoD 4. It's not exclusively a problem GoW has, a whole lot of games do it, but GoW was the most popular for a long time
Jakka(Why the fuck am I banned for the 5th time?) @ Aug 21st 2008 5:42PM
CoD4 isn't the best example for Achievements either.
Most of them were either "Finish X","Finish Y and Z" or "Finish X,Y and Z on Veteran".
Hardly any more creative than GoW's imo.Now if you want a good example, look at Orange Box or Team Fortress 2.
Mr.ESC @ Aug 21st 2008 5:44PM
“the mile high club on CoD 4”
*Foams
Arrggghhhhhhh!!!!!! HNNNGGGGGGGGG!
*Heart attack.
That was hard, frustrating and it wasn't fun at all although it was incredibly easy after getting Gold on Portal challenges which reminds me I never got “Aperture Science” in TOB and I only need 2 gold medals.
Yeah it was pretty much grinding and If you look in the bio of the people who have all Gears achievements they don’t have more than 2500p or 4000p which means they only played Gears and the people who have over 10,000 glitch it.
To be honest Gamerpoints are ridiculous if you have a lot of them you probably have more games and that’s it. In my case I just want to beat the game 100% and even when I got a 100% I don't feel like I Beat it completly.
Mr.ESC @ Aug 21st 2008 5:47PM
“Team Fortress 2”
Eh the new achievements aren't fun either, the original achievements were good but the new ones require you to go to achievement servers and grind them.
I say the best are in Dead Rising and TOB.
Jakka(Why the fuck am I banned for the 5th time?) @ Aug 21st 2008 5:52PM
They wouldn't "require" you to grind them if Valve didn't make new weapons achievement-dependant.
And tell me you didn't smile when you first saw Rasputin(Get shot,burned,bludgeoned and receive explosive damage all in one life.)
Mr.ESC @ Aug 21st 2008 6:06PM
Yes but you know that MP doesn't works like that. All MP achievement sound good in Theory but since every one tries to get the same achievement they should just make the achievements optional and give us the weapons already.
theturtle363 @ Aug 21st 2008 7:05PM
i didnt mean that Mile High Club was a real fun achievement, but it was a god damn pain in the ass to do, so imo completing it was much more of an accomplishment than repetitive killing with different weapons for achievements
theturtle363 @ Aug 21st 2008 7:05PM
i didnt mean that Mile High Club was a real fun achievement, but it was a god damn pain in the ass to do, so imo completing it was much more of an accomplishment than repetitive killing with different weapons for achievements
tmmoore_nc @ Aug 21st 2008 5:31PM
I do hope they have a score counter for that one.
Jakka(Why the fuck am I banned for the 5th time?) @ Aug 21st 2008 5:37PM
Now who'd win in a fight.
A 1000-man Locust horde or a Heavy,Engineer,Dispenser and a Sentry?
Shroomsday @ Aug 21st 2008 5:52PM
Might as well re-name the acievement to "I wasted far too much of my life doing this 2.0"
I'm not going to get it. I think that's a good thing!
Jawmuncher @ Aug 21st 2008 6:14PM
Well if it's through both then alot of people will just be playing SP for the achieevemt, since it sounds like you could get 99,999 and just 1 MP kill to get it.
Since it doesn't say its a 5/50 kind of deal
Handbone @ Aug 21st 2008 6:29PM
Wow, that is a lot. But at least its during the campaign. The few videos of the campaign showed you killing hundreds at one time, unlike Gears 1
brain @ Aug 21st 2008 7:14PM
haha wow, he sure knows how to create a difficult (and pointless imo) achievement
Chase @ Aug 21st 2008 8:40PM
That's some serious seriousness.
r1lovin @ Aug 21st 2008 9:38PM
Am I the only one who thinks this achievement will not take as long as 10,000 from gears 1? First off all it logs all your kills not just ranked multiplayer. Second of all like someone said above I saw a scene where there are hundreds of enemies on screen to shoot with the new rail gun. On top of that you have horde mode which is non stop enemies in waves. Now assuming horde mode counts (dont see why it wont since single player will count) this should not take as much time as the first "seriously" ach did.
Red Leader @ Aug 21st 2008 9:44PM
The first Gears was a terrible game that was serverely overhyped, and I feel sorry for any tool buying the sequel.
HempStCrewDon @ Aug 26th 2008 5:08PM
dumbasses talk like this over the greatest game of all time. u must have gottn pwned so u hate on the game. Halo is overhyped not Gears
Giroro @ Aug 21st 2008 10:23PM
OMG red controller!!! I can barely contain my excitement.
Ownd u 13 @ Aug 29th 2008 11:57AM
Dude, Red Leader, gears is awesome and that achievement does seem a little high but i might get it over some time considering this time around it includes campaign too thats why they raised the number
DFuse @ Sep 22nd 2008 8:52PM
No, people who get seriously like one game and dont spend all of their money on a variety of games like 3/4 of the kids on this board. Gears of War's multiplayer achievements were the best thing that gears could have brought, i actually find it disappointing that 100,000 kills can be in campaign i think thats garbage. As for the kids who say I play it for fun not for the achievements, those are the kids that enjoyed there shitty little trophies at the end of little league when they came in last place. Grow some balls and get a sense of competition cause in all reality life is a big competition. For example School competing for a grade, competing for a job, competing for girls.