I have Chinese friends, they'll carry me to victory
Damn, good luck. I don't think I'll be dedicated enough to do all 7. I'm already doubting my decision 100% this game after I looked up a spoiler-free guide. Usually games give you a bit of leeway when you try to get all the achievements, but this one is straight up a literal 100%.
Oh, don't remind me. Good luck trying for them NOW since everybody is on GTA V. Even so, they ask way too much for the player. Win 20 different multiplayer races. Reach max rank online ($5 million). Win every mode on either side, win every race, regular and GTA race. Even IF you boost/glitch for a high rank, expect to sink hundreds of hours into playing nothing but GTA IV.
That...I regret 100% IV's story mode, it's a waste of time and the reward is glitched out the ass. Uncapped ammo but when you load a save the any ammo over the cap is lost and a shitty annihilator on a Rotterdam Tower that only spawns when you fly another heli to it.
I would LIKE to 100% GTA IV, but I am enjoying the story to where I'd like to do side progression in my own pace. The experience would turn into a slog if I would be devoted into those collectibles with no tangible reward.
Finally got off my ass and booted up my save again. Going through and knocking out absolutely everything possible before ending chapter 2, and while you don't have to 100% everything, it is damn close. Some mini-games barely require any work (bowling, batting cages, arcade games) and some require 100% or damn near (crane games, disco). I'm just glad equipment is the about the only thing item wise that's tracked specifically and that RC parts have their own completely seperate inventory, because I am getting hit with the item corruption bug so frequently that it's become it's own unique challenge for me to overcome out of sheer spite.
I pray I don't encounter that bug you're experiencing, it sounds like hell. You sure you haven't found like someone experiencing the same thing and finding a fix? Also, what's with the crane game being near or 100%? I might've just misread it, but in the completionist progress, don't you need to just play it once as part of the "play every minigames at least once"? I don't remember seeing a goal there where you need to even win it. I'm still at chapter 1, but after the main boss fight, so pretty sure I'm close to ending the first chapter. It's just that there was an unexpected outage so I lost the motivation to play the game after that. Think I'll continue playing the next week and hopefully finish the storyline by the end of the week.
I've looked and as far as I can find, the item corruption appears to be a "common" bug exclusive to the PC version, and no one has been able to pin down exactly what causes it or why it happens and its frequency seems to vary from player to player. Some people don't get it at all, some get it infrequently, some people claim it's tied to the shrine items, some claim it's not. I'm hoping to suss it out at some point, but it's not the kind of thing I'm trying to intentionally trigger, so I may or may not figure it out. Depends on how it works with me, but dining and story/side events seem to cause it more than anything. If I had to guess, it's something to do with how the game probably has to reconstruct your inventory under the hood between these transitions.
Thanks. Those just require a time sink. It's the others that will require a bit of skill. And a party.
Good luck fellow gamer O>
I've been planning on 100% that game. I'm thinking of grabbing it the next time it gets a discount. I'm on the same boat as you with the missable collectibles, it's what made me buy South Park: The Fractured But Whole instead. Speaking of that game, it's over there with EBF5 as one of the best turn-based games I 100% mainly because of how unique the gameplay is compared to your average turn-based game and the crude humor. I've only seen gameplay of The Stick of Truth but SPTFBW is such a huge step up from it.
As in, the achievement is broken? If you use Steam, I'd just use SAM for it. You do the required task then give the cheevie manually. This should be used as a final resort though if there's really no other way.
Yeah, I've tried several times with my 2 characters and that achievement doesn't seem to unlock. I've looked at the Steam forums and some people have other achievements that didn't unlock. At first I thought that it was because I was using mods but my saves don't have the "M" next to them.
Speaking of discount, guess it's time.
Yeah because usually when you 100% a game, you've already seen what it has to offer or you've burnt yourself out by grinding the grindy ones. There are exceptions like Hades, but usually that's the case.
But you gotta admit, when you pull it off, it's almost euphoric. Achievements are suppose to be challenging after all, albeit some are just way too extreme. No deathless can work, like Super Meat Boy with their multiple deathless achievements.
I hate when games have overly long challenge runs. Like there is test of skill, and then there's test of how much of a welfare leech you are that you can waste hours trying to do a no hit run that takes an hour each try.
There's a few games I can think off the back that do these, like Jump King, but that one's for the actual hardcore gamers out there. I was watching someone 100% this game, and it's Splasher. You know what they were trying to get? A speedrun badge, alright that's pretty difficult, but here's a catch: YOU CAN'T DIE ONCE! They've combined the worst, and most difficult tasks in one badge. You also have to get platinum in a speedrun, and beat all levels with the platinum rating. Absolute hell. That mad man actually got all the achievements though believe it or not.