GWJ 360ers: trueachievements.com!

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Best Achievement Ratio: Ball Madness in Pinball FX (6.77). That one surprised me. My next best ratio is 2.96 which is for a Raiden Fighters Aces achievement. Given how popular Pinball FX was, I'm shocked this one seems to be so rare. Interestingly, Giant Bomb's achievement rarity tracker shows this one as uncommon but not rare.

My best score...umm...I plead the 5th on that one. :)

I've got that one and Monster Hunter and Rocky & Bullwinkle, each at 6.77. The 3 main games have scores in the 13, but those achievements are whores.

Phishposer wrote:

Hi folks. I guess I can say I'm on the list? My best achievement is a mediocre-at-best 1.83 from Forza 2. Perhaps this will serve as motivation to get off my duff and use the 360 once I get it out of storage. At 77th out of 80, there's really only room to improve :)

How random! I got that achievement just the other day -- I put down Forza 2 ages ago at around level 36, and in the last week I thought I'd make one last rush to get to level 40 and finish off some of the events before Forza 3 hits.

I've just signed up, and sent a request to join the leaderboard. Four of my top five ratio achievements are from Rez HD... I guess that works Top one is Firewall Buster, at 3.67.

Mine are:

Best True Achievement Score: War Hardened (CoD2) at 322

Best True Achievement Ratio: Nerd Rage (Wolfenstein) at 2.95

Clemenstation wrote:
ragin_redneck wrote:

Best TA Ratio Hendrix Reborn 3.11 ratio.

I gotta know... do you actually know someone who's a lefty, or did you go out of your way to get this?

I went out of my way. I did this with my son one night while looking in a mirror.

Best True Achievement Score: Defeat Clarence Callahan “Razor” (NFSMW) at 510

ahrezmendi wrote:

Do you have an example of these gigantic scores? I'm just curious what these people who work at Taco Bell get in terms of GS.

Most of them were around Nei's score, although one dude was well into six digits. Maybe they neglected to mention their bountiful trust fund in their application.

Trophy Husband wrote:

Ok, let's see here...

Probably the one I'm most proud of is Zombie Genocidist. That's a whole lot of dead zombies.

That's the one from Dead Rising, right? Man, I know those underground tunnels so well after traversing them for four straight hours. I did it moreso for the mega buster than the achievement (at least I told myself that), but after it unlocked I haven't been able to go back to the game since.

I have a new contender! Unlocked last night.

No One's Frightened of Playing (Beatles Rock Band). 3.81 TA ratio.

One of the 'gold star 4 songs' ones... the first three were easy, but I Me Mine was a real bastard on guitar.

Yea! It's cool to be an Achievement Whore!
My two best TA is
NFS Live World ChampionWin (NFS:Shift) 389 (150) (this one won't last long)
Key To The City (GTAIV) 338 (100)

Best ratio is
Adrenaline (EndWar) 113 (20) 5.63

edit:
My wife is responsible for
Big Cheese of the South Seas (Hexic HD) 94 (20) 4.68

My Best TA Ratio Unstoppable: Hall of Heroes Too Human 1.62

Interesting how the leaderboard type really changed things around. I've jumped from about 15th into 2nd place!

I'm also quite surprised at my top TA Ratio Achievements:
1. Tournament Expert - beat all the tournaments in Texas Hold 'Em (5.92)
2. All Hail The Splode King - complete 'Splosion Man on Hardcore (definitely a tough challenge) (5.89)
3. SpeedRun - speedrun Braid (shocking that this is so valuable and rare) (5.53)
4. SpeedRoller Expert - Silver medals in Switchball (golds are basically impossible) (5.41)
5. Forgotten Forest A Rank - A Rank Kameo (5.36)

I definitely aim more for tough (offline only) achievements so this leaderboard view suits me

Clemenstation wrote:

That's the one from Dead Rising, right? Man, I know those underground tunnels so well after traversing them for four straight hours. I did it moreso for the mega buster than the achievement (at least I told myself that), but after it unlocked I haven't been able to go back to the game since.

This is the one from Left 4 Dead. Dead Rising was "Zombie Genocider". I still get a kick out of those two, though I know I'll never achieve either one.

Any 360ers planning on picking up the new DLC campaign for Left4Dead? I still have a bodacious amount of achievements to unlock for this game, but pubbies in this game are horrific. At least in Gears you get to kill a few dumbasses here and there, but in L4D they're always your teammates

Clemenstation wrote:

Any 360ers planning on picking up the new DLC campaign for Left4Dead? I still have a bodacious amount of achievements to unlock for this game, but pubbies in this game are horrific. At least in Gears you get to kill a few dumbasses here and there, but in L4D they're always your teammates :(

Speaking of dumbasses, I traded it in a few weeks before the DLC announcement was made. Figured I'd try and get the best price for it before L4D2 killed the trade-in value.

Oh no! My coveted last place position is in jeopardy! Grumpicus, how did you get a score of zero? Has it just not scanned you for the first time yet?

Clemenstation wrote:

Any 360ers planning on picking up the new DLC campaign for Left4Dead? I still have a bodacious amount of achievements to unlock for this game, but pubbies in this game are horrific. At least in Gears you get to kill a few dumbasses here and there, but in L4D they're always your teammates :(

I bought it the other night. I'd love to grab a game with Goodjers sometime. I've really only played it single player, aside from a few pub matches.

tanstaafl wrote:

Oh no! My coveted last place position is in jeopardy! Grumpicus, how did you get a score of zero? Has it just not scanned you for the first time yet?

he's marked as private in his gamertag settings i think, so it can't read his GS.

TheCounselor wrote:
Clemenstation wrote:

Any 360ers planning on picking up the new DLC campaign for Left4Dead? I still have a bodacious amount of achievements to unlock for this game, but pubbies in this game are horrific. At least in Gears you get to kill a few dumbasses here and there, but in L4D they're always your teammates :(

I bought it the other night. I'd love to grab a game with Goodjers sometime. I've really only played it single player, aside from a few pub matches.

Sweet action. Anyone else? I'm good for pretty much anytime late next week (Thurs-Sat).

Also, choose your tag!

I play a lot of Left 4 Dead, hence the achievement. Go ahead and add me, I'm on most days, and I'm usually on L4D.

So I haven't unlocked anything in quite a bit, not for lack of trying. As previously mentioned, Oblivion is a harsh mistress. And I keep getting distracted by side-voyages to places like "Goblin Jim's Cave" to see what's up with someone named Goblin Jim, and then to inevitably slay him (He was a goblin-loving meanie-pants).

Also my love affair with Puzzle Quest is nearing an end, as I am a heartbeat away from the final boss fight.

For now, however, I am switching up the leaderboard order once again: it's now ranked by Completion %. I imagine this format favours the poor: those who don't get to play too many games, but spend a lot of time with the games they do have.

Completion % isn't ranking correctly. I mean I'm 41st currently with 32.41%. Meanwhile Phishposer is ranked above me at 40th with 30.94% and Madcat2030 is below me at 42nd 31.01%. I'm noticing a bunch of other people on the list out of order percentage-wise too.

Last time the ranked by type was switched, did it take a while for this type of thing to sort itself properly?

Hmmm weird. I did some searching around and it seems the wonky order has something to do with users' individual settings - whether they choose to include DLC as part of the game or not (under My Settings).

I imagine the leaderboard has to choose one way or the other, and it looks like it's including DLC since my listed % and home page % are one and the same.

nice - i've shot up to 17th. Best leaderboard layout yet

This is a site wide bug. Try sorting your games list by completion %, for me it didn't put a single one of my 100% games at the top.

ahrezmendi wrote:

This is a site wide bug. Try sorting your games list by completion %, for me it didn't put a single one of my 100% games at the top.

It looks fine to me.

I was so excited to be at 33.3% achievement completion, but this dropped me a bit lower. It must be DLC related like Clemenstation said, but my personal settings have always excluded DLC percentage.... so i dunno.

Does anyone know how to find the trueachievements page where it shows the trueachievement net point changes per update based on statistics. I'm just curious. I saw it once but can't find it again. I'm sure Halo 3:ODST etc are ones where the TA values are dropping like rocks with each update. Another useless, but fun thing. (Hey anything to get me out of an excel at work is rejoicing...)

Irongut wrote:

Does anyone know how to find the trueachievements page where it shows the trueachievement net point changes per update based on statistics. I'm just curious though I'm sure Halo 3:ODST etc are ones where the TA values are dropping like rocks. Another useless, but fun thing. (Hey anything to get me out of an excel at work is rejoicing...)

My Pages -> My Achievements, changes to achievements you have are listed in the TrueAchievement Changes box on the right side.

I had to watch my Beatles ones free-fall for a few weeks, but they seem to have evened off mostly.

Well, there's obviously something wrong with this ordering because I have lost my hard-claimed spot in last place.

Grumpicus is cheating!

Awesome, every time the rank is recalculated I seem to rise 10 spots! Change it around 2 more times and see if I can get up to 3rd! Actually, I'm finding that this website has taken my penchant for achievement whoring to a new level. A level where I strategerize to get the achievements as fast as possible and with the most TA bang for my buck. I was scouting out RB2 achievements earlier today during my lunch break.

Clemenstation wrote:
TheCounselor wrote:
Clemenstation wrote:

Any 360ers planning on picking up the new DLC campaign for Left4Dead? I still have a bodacious amount of achievements to unlock for this game, but pubbies in this game are horrific. At least in Gears you get to kill a few dumbasses here and there, but in L4D they're always your teammates :(

I bought it the other night. I'd love to grab a game with Goodjers sometime. I've really only played it single player, aside from a few pub matches.

Sweet action. Anyone else? I'm good for pretty much anytime late next week (Thurs-Sat).

Also, choose your tag!

I'm up for some 360 L4D Crash course goodness. My gamertag is Madcat2030