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Something about autumn has everyone here at G4 in a contemplative mood. The end of another summer and the prospect of the cold days of winter ahead have us looking backwards, taking stock of where we've come from and which choices led us to our current lives. In other words: We thought it would be enlightening to go back in time and reminisce over the first 360 achievements we earned. (We're not doing PS3 trophies because no one cares about them.)
Donell Tucker -- Technical Wizard -- Grand Theft Auto 4
When you think about the first time for anything, you remember how nervous you were. You hear from your friends how good it feels when you do it for the first time, and that you can’t get enough of it. Of course, I’m talking about unlocking an achievement for the first time on Xbox Live. My first time was magical.
It was July, 6 2009 and I finally got my Xbox 360 with Grand Theft Auto 4. I was ready to sit back and dive right into the sandbox world. My first achievement was called “Off The Boat” where all you had to do was complete the first mission. When I heard the pop up noise and saw that achievement on my screen I felt this sensation in my mind that said "I finally did it!" One year later and 20,000 G money obtained, I don’t have the same sensation as before. I still like unlocking great achievements because it encourages me to play certain games a little bit longer, but like people say, it’s never as good as the first time.
Nikole Zivalich-- Suburban Gangsta -- ???
I've gone through a few gamer tags, as well as a few Xbox 360s. It's hard to say what my very first achievement was since I don't have my first account anymore. My current gamertag’s first achievement was "Piñata Name Caller". I got 20 gamer points for naming a piñata. If I remember correctly it was a Wurmple I named Wurmy. There were no extra points for creativity.
I've always really liked achievements. Sorry, trophies just don't do it for me. I made it a New Year's Resolution for '09 to get a gamerscore of 10,000. A winner was me, and I currently have a score of 15,000+. I will play through a game twice to get every achievement I can. I don't think that's a bad thing. I'm getting as much out of the game I paid for as I can.
I'm not sure why people hate on achievement whoring. Why not get rewarded for killing an enemy with a toilet in Half-life 2? It adds another element to the game and you can prove you accomplished something. Plus you get to use the gravity gun to carry around a toilet and bash someone's skull in with it. Everybody wins.
Moye Ishimoto -- Future Crank -- Halo 3
My first achievement was the "Used Car Salesman" on Halo 3, which according to Xbox Live, is when you destroy a vehicle that has three enemies in it during a ranked playlist or campaign. This was back in 2007 and I don’t remember anything about it, even when it happened. I do know it was my first Halo game and I had no idea what I was doing. So this was probably a fluke, like maybe a good friend took the controller away from me while I was peeing in the bathroom or it was a weird bug in the game that allowed people who suck at video games to somehow actually “achieve” something. Or maybe Bungie just felt really sorry for me?
However, this Achievement still means a lot to me because studies have shown that the number of Achievements directly correlates to one’s level of self esteem, which therefore determines one’s personal success and wealth. That means I’ll take what I can get. Even if it’s worth only 5 gamer points and making up psychological studies to prove my point.
Dana Vinson -- Editrixie -- Halo 3
The first achievement I ever earned was "Landfall." It’s in honor of completing the first mission of the Campaign in Halo 3. Before I bought my 360, I hadn’t owned a console since the NES, mostly because I was poor and partly because I was too busy braiding my hair, or whatever else it is that girls do in their late teens. When Halo 3 was released in 2007, Steve Johnson decided that it was time I came into the 21st century (and that he needed people to play with), so he made it his mission to make sure I bought a 360. I was hesitant, but Johnson can be pretty persuasive, especially when he’s calling you every hour to see if you’ve done his bidding. I caved and bought the console with a copy of Halo 3. Immediately, I went home, hooked it up, and proceeded to get lit up every time I tried to do anything.
Because I had little experience with the dual stick controls, I spent most of Halo 3 spinning around in a circle with my gun pointed to the sky. Occasionally, I would manage to run (while my gun was still pointed at the sky) and throw a grenade at myself. I don’t remember much about earning that achievement, or my Halo 3 experience in general, except that it was short and I spent most of it at the bottom of a pond waiting to respawn. Regardless, this achievement is pretty special to me, because it was hard-earned. I can only imagine the number of hours it took me to slog through the first campaign, make the decision to never play Halo 3 again, download Uno, and turn my 360 into a very expensive deck of cards. It wasn’t until a few months later when I picked up Portal, that I finally learned how to successfully use the controller and I haven’t spent anytime spinning around in a circle looking at the sky since. I still, occasionally, blow myself up though. That’s just good clean fun.
Brian Phan -- Intern!! -- Call of Duty 2
The first time I received an achievement ("Completed Basic" in Call of Duty 2), frankly I was confused. Why is my TV screen flashing the Xbox 360 guide button? Are my controller batteries already dying? Is this a new way to say a save file has been saved? What the heck is an achievement? Why should I care about virtual points that I can't cash in for anything?
I did not understand the appeal of earning achievements until I started playing more games on the Xbox 360 and earning more and more achievements. In the early days of the Xbox 360 it seemed like everything you did earned you an achievement. Turn on the game, there you go, there's an achievement. I think these early, cheap, and easy rewards became like a crack addiction. The more I played games the more achievements I wanted. Hence, the term "achievement whore".
Now a days, I get a little twinkle in my eye and a smirk on my face whenever I hear that Xbox 360 chime when I unlock an achievement. I acknowledge the achievement being there, but I don't have the addiction I did when I first started playing on my Xbox 360. Today, I could deal with not having achievements in my life, but it would be a bitter sweet kind of existence after knowing the joys of achievement unlocking.
Eric Eckstein -- Dr. Who Fan -- Hexic HD
Looking back, my first achievement seems to be for Hexic HD with "Star Gazer" back on 12/30/2006. I know, I wish it was for something 'cooler' but clearly, I didn't have anything at the time. In an alternate universe, my first achievement is "Seriously 2.0" from Gears of War 2, which would probably be impossible to obtain first, but that's the way my alternate universe works. Also, Eric Stoltz is Marty McFly in that universe too and he's amazing.
Jake Gaskill -- Miscreant -- Kameo: Elements of Power
My first Xbox 360 Achievement was worth 20G, and it was “Found Pummel Weed” from Rare’s colorful and quite enjoyable launch title Kameo: Elements of Power, and it was unlocked on March 5, 2006. I don’t remember seeing and hearing that first plink-plonk as my very first Achievement popped up on screen, nor did I have any idea just how (literally) game changing those seemingly benign Gs would become. There are occasions where I’ll go out of my way to unlock a particular achievement, but I’m far from an Achievement whore; I’m more of an Achievement tease.
My favorite Achievements are the ones you get for doing something totally random, like killing an enemy with a toilet in Half-Life 2, but for the most part, they kind of depress me more than fill me any sense of satisfaction because there will always be dozens in every game that I simply will never get, and, honestly, who wants to be constantly reminded of their inadequacies all the time? Plink-plonk! 30G - Sad Face: Bring what was supposed to be a lighthearted and celebratory post to a super depressing and pessimistic end.
Chris Monfette -- Ghost Hunter-- Gun
My first achievement was incidental, at best, largely because it was earned out of pure curiosity and random game-playing than the excitement of a well chosen launch title. At the time, I was working for a company called Edelman doing PR for Microsoft during the premiere of the Xbox 360. When the console finally arrived in stores, I already had a handful of the initial launch games – Kameo, Gun, Quake, King Kong, etc. – so I purchased a console and prepared to enter the next generation of gaming without any real fanfare or excitement. It was an unimpressive line-up, after all. Simply by the look of it, and also the sheer lack of any real hardcore games, I intended to fire up Kameo, but in the midst of being distracted by some ongoing conversation, I’d opened up and popped in a copy of Gun purely by mistake. I figured, “What the hell! A game’s a game, and I want to see this thing in action.” I started playing and earned my first achievement, “The Hunt," about as quickly as I realized that the game sucked. So whenever I’m asked this question, I usually just lie and say that my first achievement was finding Pummel Weed in Kameo, a game I actually played to completion. 32, 140 points later and I’m still addicted…
Kevin Kelly -- Plays Board Games -- Call of Duty 2
My first Xbox 360 achievement was completing basic training in Call of Duty 2. You know, it’s that difficult achievement that you basically get for picking up the controller and starting the game. Amazing! At the time, when it popped up, I remember thinking it was just a way of keeping track of what you’d done in the game. Little did I know that it would be contributing to a score that people would obsess over. I’m not sure if I’ve ever cared that much about my achievements or my game score, but I do like comparing my gamertag to friends and thinking “HA! I totally pwned their ass in Halo: Reach.” But then there are the moments where I’m secretly ashamed that I haven’t picked up all the achievements in Outpost Kaloki X. WHY DO THEY TAUNT ME. And seriously, that “Achievement Unlock” sound both thrills me and haunts me.
Stephen Johnson -- Charming Gadabout-- Prey
The first achievement I unlocked was "Last Call" in Prey. Basically, I completed the first level. I had no way of knowing it then, but that achievement was the beginning of my slow descent to addiction. Sure, when the initial "plink plonk" sounded, I didn't care. I was too busy looking for radios that played Art Bell's show. Besides, I regarded gamerscores as meaningless numbers that measured a person's loserdom. I'd make jokes like, "You know, real life has a gamerscore too. It's called 'money.'" But now, four years later, I work to increase the entirely arbirtary number. I work hard, too. I set sports sims up to play themselves. I play kids games for a quick fix. Intellectually, I know that it's a ridiculous pursuit, but the heart has reasons that reason knows not, and so I am drawn and trapped by my achievements.
I'd seek treatment, but I'm a little worried about how the hardcore junkies at my local NA meeting would react to my story of G-addiction.
(You, too can share the story of your first achievement. Go to Xbox.com, sign in, and look at youre games played. They should be listed chronologically. Find the oldest, and tell us about it!)
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scottyrob82
Mine was in Forza 2 for winning a race without crashing I think. I was like what the hell was that?
Call_Me_Raiden
I think most of us here need to go to Gamer scores anonymous...I know i do
sloth92
mine first achivement was perfect dark zero! compelete in normal mode lol
monufrak1
My first achievement was for escaping the sewers in Oblivion. I was too enthralled by the huge open world I was greeted with that I didn't even notice the achievement unlock. Message to Bethesda: MAKE ELDER SCROLLS 5! Everyone wants it. If your new game announcement is anything but this, I will automatically hate it by default. Sorrys :)
d-wri
My first Trophy was in Resistance Fall of Man....oh sorry are we talking about Xbox??...right I have one of those too...um let see, it was Halo 3. Sorry i screwed that up... not sure why i was talking about trophies...OH WAIT! HA! ..silly me! I know why! Cause they are the exact same thing made by different companies! ! Even have the same names in most cases. so you can see how a guy could get confused.
Oh, sorry, was that too sarcastic? Amazing how the team of writers at G4 have nothing better to do than fan a flame of fan boy fire( yes that was deliberate alliteration). ya know... wouldn't surprise me if all the staff huddle around their computer screens taking bets as to who is going to throw the first "cyber punch"....Kinda the geek equivalent of dog fighting, don't ya think? Awesome class G4.
I especially like the deliberate jab at PS3 fans, "we are not talking about trophies cause no one cares about them". Very clever way to throw bait into the ring. It, now, makes complete sense to me why your staff gets so upset by accusations of favoritism, thats a ridiculous notion! favoritism?? Noooo, its not favoritism, its just fan disrespect thats all. Okey dokey, I've spent more time on writing this than the topic deserve and have conveniently met my sarcasm quota for the day! In short , stop taking the bait people, you are entitled to you choice of game console. Stop letting G4 make you dance like puppets for their entertainment. With each message board Playstaion jab, the staff laugh at your attempts to defend your preferences. hmmmm. makes me wonder if the staff there even like the people who they are writing for...well, it's either that or they just think that they are much more clever than their average reader, who knows really.
Spybreak
I couldn't tell you my first, yeah it's been a while since then.
rob42164
thats bs I CARE about my PS3....I had a 360 but it kept breaking so i got a ps3 instead...i do enjoy getting trophy's as much as achievements..i can't remember the first achievement..but ican remeber getting the hardest one....the MILE HIGH CLUB...it took me FOREVER...i got it at 3 am and i started yelling and my wife threatened to beat me if i woke up the baby...lol good times.
shmaron
What's wrong with PS3 trophies? When it comes down to it, both are worthless, except for personal satisfaction.
cwhas2godhands
Mine was also Prey "Last Call".
silent_jedi
Fledgling Super Hero for Marvel Ult Alliance. 12/28/07, came with the system. got the 360 because I wanted to play Mass Effect but had to wait for next payday to get it or my first achive would of been a Mass Effect one.
tankprohp
Need for speed most wanted was the first, and love the sound, but hate secret achievements, thought they were put in the game to help players to try new things in the game that they wouldn't have tried before. Gamerscore 21,500 tanksn42O
ChaosKillerX7
According to Xbox.com, my first achievement was from Oblivion, escaping the Imperial Sewers for 50G. I unlocked it at 1/1/1753. Interesting.
CycoMiko138
It's a little hard to tell since I wasn't an Xbox Live subscriber at the time, but I believe my first achievement was the same as Mr. Johnson's - the "Last Call" achievement from Prey. If I recall correctly, it pops to the tune of Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" as you're getting abducted by the alien ship. A pretty memorable moment, recorded for all time in the form of a little beer bottle icon and 10G.
sodared
Love that achievement sound!
DPsx72
Meant to say 'Thank you', sorry for the typo.
DPsx72
And that you for proving the site bias, a55wipe. If only the 360 had anything worth bragging about...
d_dirdy
My first achivements were from Kameo. Please don't judge me It came with my xbox when I won it from the pepsi/moutain dew sweepstakes so I had no choice.
-John-
"Fear the Pink Mist"
Christmas Day, 2007.
I remember seeing it popping up on the screen as if it was yesterday.
ThePsychoGamer
Infinite Undiscovery, can't really remember what the achievement was.
GameFreak398
My first achievement was for Supe Mario Bros. Oh wait...
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