They appear to happen at relative random. The glitches seem to be worse on Xbox than PlayStation, but sometimes present on both.

These are rewarded for completing the Mass Effect games on the hardest difficulty, and also for being involved in a character romance in each of the three games. Taking a look at reddit, twitter, and various other communities, the offending achievements seem to primarily be the Insanity 1, 2 and 3 achievements and the paired Paramour 1, 2 and 3 achievements.

But it now might not be possible - because BioWare’s implementation of certain achievements appears to be, well, busted. Because I love the Mass Effect Trilogy, I’d planned to pick up 100% of them in Mass Effect Legendary Edition, too - just as I did in the original three games. I’m currently working on the same in Perfect Dark, Nier Automata, and Sonic Mania. I made a point of picking up every achievement in Final Fantasy 7 and 8, for instance. It’s become a point of pride this game is significant to me, so I’ll 100% its achievements. These days, my ‘cheevo hunting’ is limited strictly to games I love. However, the arrival of the Xbox Series X and S has meant I’ve been playing more Xbox… and that has led me to occasionally care about achievements again. By the time we hit Xbox One, I no longer really cared. The sheen of the achievement system felt to wear off as we got towards the end of the 360 generation. I rented it - back when renting games was a thing.Īnyway, I don’t really do that any more. I’m pretty sure I even have that infamous Avatar game that shamefully lets you get all 1000 points in about 5 minutes on my account. Sometimes, I’d seek out totally crap games with the sole aim of picking up their achievements. I would regularly pick up 1000 Gamerscore in games I only liked a little bit - I was an achievement completionist. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.īack in the Xbox 360 era, I was more serious about this whole activity. If they can deliver that alongside the most polished Bethesda Game Studios release (Xbox Game Studios Head Matt Booty claimed Starfield already has fewer bugs than any of their previous titles), this could be a game of the year contender.Is there anything worse than a glitched achievement?Īs I replay the trilogy in Mass Effect Legendary Edition, I’m doing something I haven’t really done in earnest for a long time: achievement hunting. In a previous interview, Todd Howard said it felt like having five or six games into one. These look like minor shortcomings if Bethesda can deliver on everything it confirmed to be in the game, from the space combat to spaceship building, from the improved RPG aspects to much-refined gunplay, the romance options, the outposts, and just the amount of handcrafted content (more than in any other game they made so far).

Skyrim received fishing eventually, so maybe that will happen to Starfield as well over the course of its presumably lengthy post-launch support, with the Shattered Space story expansion already confirmed. Modders eventually managed to add a land vehicle to Fallout, so there's a chance Starfield will get it in an unofficial capacity.Īnother missing feature confirmed during the interview is fishing. On the other hand, Bethesda Game Studios has never released a game with support for land vehicles, though The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim had mounts. Even the first Mass Effect, released for the old Xbox 360 console, allowed that, albeit with many limitations. While the jetpack will alleviate some of those concerns, it is still admittedly a bit underwhelming that we won't be able to explore the planets with a proper vehicle. And then the low gravity planets are just really, really something special in the game. You saw some of that in the video and you have skills for the boost pack, so the boost pack almost acts like this vehicle where you can fly through. You know, we do design it, I'm sure you've seen this with our other games, where we want to design it so it feels good on foot, but we do have the boost pack. Related Story Steam Spring Sale Includes Deals on Diablo IV, Palworld, Hogwarts Legacy, and More

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