With certain achievements, game developers indulge in some crafty in-jokery that you’ll only get with a bit of insider knowledge, leaving those not in the know utterly baffled as to what they’ve just unlocked and why. Join us for seven achievements and trophies that really need some explaining and subscribe: http://www.tinyurl.com/SubToOxbox
Many of the above achievements and trophies are based on events that took place at games industry megaconvention E3, such as the Stage Fright trophy from the recent PS4 smash Uncharted 4.
The Stage Fright trophy asks you to stand perfectly still for 30 seconds at the start of the game’s city chase section. This is in reference to E3 2015 when, due to a technical glitch, the same thing happened during Sony’s conference.
E3 is also responsible for the Peter Moore Achievement in hack-and-slash sidescroller The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, which asks you to “pay homage to one of our generation’s greatest rock performances ever”.
That performance was the time legendary rocker and then Microsoft corporate vice president Peter Moore accidentally paused the game while playing Rock Band live at E3 2007. So, just screw up one of The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai’s guitar solos by hitting the Xbox’s guide button in the middle of it, and your gamerscore will be 8G better off. I guess you had to be there.
Other achievements reflect a behind-the-scenes bit of winking one-upmanship from game developers, such as how Dead Rising’s Zombie Genocider achievement for slaying 53,594 zombies was followed by Left 4 Dead’s Zombie Genocidest achievement for racking up 53,595 zombie kills. The population of the town of Willamette in which Dead Rising was set was 53,594, obviously.
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