The rumours are true##

You may have heard it already. Maybe you haven’t. But it has happened. The curse is broken. Also, as side note, here we have what I have done the last month (which is not that much due to playing time-eating games -_-)

• Cave Story+
  

  44 hours playtime

  70 of 76 achievements

• 100% Orange Juice
  

  252 hours playtime

  140 of 187 achievements

• Borderlands GOTY Enhanced
  

  52 hours playtime

  80 of 80 achievements

Cave Story+: The well-informed may have guessed it already. This is the game the intro is referencing. I also saw it just by accident. But apparently after, like eight years, someone managed to bug the developer in a way that the broken achievement is finally fixed ….. which is cool ….. and also confronts me with a problem. Because now I haven’t completed the game because I suck at it and not because it is impossible to complete it anyway :P The important takeaway here is: If a game has broken achievements just keep nagging the developers.
The interesting thing here is that I don’t remember the game updating (maybe I just forget). As far as I understand there is a server side (the receiver) to achievements which apparently can be changed independently from the game. It seems the emitter for the achievement has been in the code all the time but it just went nowhere. So with this fixed, the achievement for the best ending can be obtained legally. Also, to pour salt in the achievement cheater, the old achievement has been deleted apparently as “the curse broken” stands at 0 %. So with the achievement done I was at 68 achievements which is a stupid number. So I went back to Hell …. and managed to get a sub 6 minutes time. But yea, as I didnt suffer enough I decided to top this and get a better time. And after like um 4 hours I got a sub 5 minutes time. I maaaaayy be able to get below 4 minutes but that is not worth the pain, especially as there are still S rank achievements left which are just sick (coming from someone spending hours on single achievements). Checking the stats I should be able to complete Hard Mode in theory. Not sure if I want to spend the time for that one. But yea, three more achievements.

100 % Orange Juice: Another achievement bane as they just keep adding new DLC’s. On the bright side I have now (again) obtained every achievement which can be gained with my DLCs. Also I have completed (for now) the free co-op mode which I like a lot more than the versus game. I just can enjoy playing with other people and working towards a common goal more than beating the shit out of each other. For now, I have to wait for more DLCs to reach the 50 % sale treshold to get more achievements. At least I reached 75 %.

Borderlands GOTY Enhanced: A lot of the achievements can be gained by importing old characters from normal Borderlands (a feature I discovered after 30 hours in-game ….). Nonetheless, as I read that you have to complete the game once anyway for the ending achievement I decided to start anew as it is more interesting. And actually I wanted to get everything done with a new character. I managed fairly well, had beaten the main game with all achievements as well as two of the four DLC’s. Got lucky and did co-op achievements with a Steam friend (and also by joining for 5 seconds an open two-player game, sorry). Only thing missing was killing Crawmerax to complete the Secret Armoury and …. Mad Moxxis Arena. So I did the three shorter challenges. I did the first of three larger challenges and I got to round 16 in the second challenge. And then, by stupidity, I crashed the game. So after 45 hours I gave up, important my all powerful level 69 Siren, got directly the missing achievements with the exception of killing Crawmerax. Since I was an all powerful Siren I just went there and killed him. So yea, Im mad that I have some achievements unlocked at the same time and also getting the all missions completed before killing Crawmerax. But with this I have completed this free addition to my library.

So yea, that’s it for now. Hm, all I talked about this time are achievements but the games are well-known so there is no point in talking about gameplay. Back to my most difficult game: What to play next (besides wasting more time in Vermintide ….). Hm, maybe I will finally start Sunless Sea. But I think I do some vacations in two weeks so I dont really wanna start a new game before ….. I think.