With Mass Effect Legendary Edition coming on May 14, we're excited at the thought of playing through three fantastic RPGs all over again. With us being achievement hunters as well, the prospect of earning a gargantuan amount of gamerscore across three titles fills us with glee - but there's one small caveat. In what may seem like a minor inconvenience to some, the list avoids capping out at a lovely 3000G and instead sits on 2915G. Argh!
Okay, so it's not the biggest deal in the world. But would it have hurt to have just bumped this up another 85G? Probably not, but for some reason the team has decided to taunt us with its random number. The full list can be seen at True Achievements, and has even got commenters feeling the same as us. No doubt most players won't even be phased, but for those achievement hunters out there like us, it's a pain.
Luckily, EA and BioWare came through on their promise to streamline the achievements across all three games. Certain achievements, such as 'kill x amount of enemies' now pertains to all three games, instead of being tied to one. This is great news and diminishes the need to grind by a considerable amount.
While we joke about the annoying achievement list, you can bet we'll be there on day one next week, reliving the classic Xbox 360 adventures of Commander Shepherd. It seems like the Legendary Edition is introducing some fantastic improvements to all three games, and we can't wait to check them out.
Are you excited for Mass Effect Legendary Edition? Let us know in the comments below.
[source trueachievements.com]
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Spreading those 85Gs across existing achievements (in multiples of 5, of course) is all that was needed.
Hell, add one or three achievements that are basically 'finished all other achievements' job done. Go home.
I was really happy they added three platinums for the PS version, then they go do this to the xbox version? The hell?.
Yawn. Is this article from the same writer who refused to play Cyber Shadow because the achievements on that game weren't in multiples of 5?
I'm going to play and enjoy Mass Effect Legendary Edition and forget all about this nonsense whilst doing so
Doesn't bother me at all. Bet your one of those folks who hates having odd volume number on the TV? (My wife is the same and drives me nuts...)
@Beermonkey You would be completely right. Multiples of 5 or an even number, else I’ll start sweating, haha.
As long as all Achievement scores are divisible by 5, I am OK with with whatever 'maximum' score is possible. I am not someone who has to collect EVERY achievement in EVERY game but I do hate my overall score to end in anything but a 5 or 0.
Therefore, I couldn't care less if there is only 2915G available. Just as long as any achievement I earn is divisible by 5, that's all that I am concerned with...
What’s the point of gamer scores anyway? Seems like a lot of effort for minimal reward.
@Flurbdurb Enjoy...
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Doesn't bother me at all as I likely won't come that close to getting them all anyways. Three games being all thrown together might annoy some, but I'm ok here. It is annoying sometimes when the main game and DLC are all thrown together, but labeling everything here solved that.
I got an email from microsoft saying it's launching on 13th instead. Anyone else get that?
@Beermonkey This is scarier than Resident Evil Village!
doesnt matter the original mass effect 1 had 1200G, Mass effect 2 had 1355G and mass effect 3 had 1550G
@Dezzy yes, I got the email this morning
It is annoying, yes, but not the end of the world.
What I can’t stand, on the other hand, is achievements with irregular gamescore that doesn’t end in 0 or 5.
Like Cyber Shadow, for example. I will never play that game on Xbox because it has achievements with like 16 and 31 gamescore each, so you either have to unlock all achievements in this hard game, or you have to live with an ugly and messed up gamerscore total.
Some people need to chill and get out more if this upsets them. Bigger problems in life than this.
I prefer my gamerscore to end in a 5 or 0..but to completely avoid a game because you might end up with it ending in something else is laughable...probably want to get yourself checked out
@StylesT I didn’t say I would avoid Cyber Shadow completely, just that I’m not going to choose the Xbox version because of it. Normally I would have played it on Xbox because it is my preferred console, but for Cyber Shadow I’ll go with the Switch version instead.
Pre ordered my copy, never played Mass Effect so can't wait 😜😜
@Flurbdurb At first I assumed this was because they dropped Pinnacle Station DLC? But that was 150 points.... so that makes little sense.
I think I also read that they were simplifying some of the other achievements too. E.g. ME1 almost required 3 full playthroughs to get the affinity achievements with all squamates, now it's only 5 mission each, doable in one playthrough (It's the only reason I don't have 100% across all 3 titles on XB360)
Still as others have said it's ultimately a minor issue and we need to not let these annoyance prey on our minds too much
If you have yet to preorder/buy the game and have MS rewards you can earn 6000 points but buying it via the Xbox console rewards app.
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