The popularity of achievements populates our lists yet again this week as Dragon Age: Origins holds on for a second week in a row. But what does it say about all this that Dragon Age appears at the top of the "viewed the full set of achievements" list, but no one achievement appears on the individual achievement popularity list? Are people seeing the list, getting intimidated, and buying the PC version, instead?

Assassin's Creed II, however, continues to be an achievement juggernaut, with only 1 vs. 100 matching or beating it on the daily unlocks charts (which you can find on the homepage, of course). Considering 1 vs. 100 is free, and Assassin's Creed II isn't, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that AC2 is probably selling pretty well. Bold, I know.

You know, I was initially pretty excited to see 1 vs. 100 return, but after playing it for an hour, I sort of lost interest. I still like the basic idea behind it, but playing from the crowd just isn't grabbing me. Even the promise of playing better in the crowd leading to getting into the mob isn't enough to keep me sticking around. I went in, got the quick achievements, and got out.

3,378 of you have played 1 vs. 100 since they added achievements a few weeks back. For something that's free to all Gold users, I sort of feel like that number should be higher. That's less than half of what Borderlands has brought in, which currently sits at a very impressive 6,774 players. The DLC has brought some players back to Borderlands, it seems, as it's seen a bit of a resurgence lately. Not that it was ever really in a huge slump. It's no wonder that Take-Two mentioned it in its earnings call last week, and it's safe to expect more Borderlands--meaning a whole new game, not just more DLC--in the near future. How many more pieces of Borderlands DLC would you be willing to play? If they raise the level cap and let me make more progress with the character I've already sunk 50 hours into, I'd probably go for another three or so packs.

Anyway, here's the top ten list for game-level achievement lists.

Top 10 Sets

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Assassin's Creed II
3. Left 4 Dead 2
4. Borderlands
5. Modern Warfare 2
6. Rogue Warrior
7. 1 vs. 100
8. Backyard Football '10
9. The Saboteur
10. Garry's Mod

New Sets

• Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter (Steam)
• Rogue Warrior (Steam)
• Altitude (Steam)
• Zombie Driver (Steam)
• Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! (French/Canadian version?)

Top 10 Individual

1. Assassin's Creed II - Show your Colors
2. Borderlands - Braaaaaaaaaaaaains!
3. Left 4 Dead 2 - GUARDIN' GNOME
4. Left 4 Dead 2 - CONFEDERACY OF CRUNCHES
5. Assassin's Creed II - In Memory of Petruccio
6. Borderlands - You're on a boat!
7. Assassin's Creed II - Messer Sandman
8. Garry's Mod - Secret Phrase
9. Borderlands - My Brother is an Italian Plumber
10. Assassin's Creed II - An Old Friend

The popularity of achievements populates our lists yet again this week as Dragon Age: Origins holds on for a second week in a row. But what does it say about all this that Dragon Age appears at the top of the "viewed the full set of achievements" list, but no one achievement appears on the individual achievement popularity list? Are people seeing the list, getting intimidated, and buying the PC version, instead?

Assassin's Creed II, however, continues to be an achievement juggernaut, with only 1 vs. 100 matching or beating it on the daily unlocks charts (which you can find on the homepage, of course). Considering 1 vs. 100 is free, and Assassin's Creed II isn't, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that AC2 is probably selling pretty well. Bold, I know.

You know, I was initially pretty excited to see 1 vs. 100 return, but after playing it for an hour, I sort of lost interest. I still like the basic idea behind it, but playing from the crowd just isn't grabbing me. Even the promise of playing better in the crowd leading to getting into the mob isn't enough to keep me sticking around. I went in, got the quick achievements, and got out.

3,378 of you have played 1 vs. 100 since they added achievements a few weeks back. For something that's free to all Gold users, I sort of feel like that number should be higher. That's less than half of what Borderlands has brought in, which currently sits at a very impressive 6,774 players. The DLC has brought some players back to Borderlands, it seems, as it's seen a bit of a resurgence lately. Not that it was ever really in a huge slump. It's no wonder that Take-Two mentioned it in its earnings call last week, and it's safe to expect more Borderlands--meaning a whole new game, not just more DLC--in the near future. How many more pieces of Borderlands DLC would you be willing to play? If they raise the level cap and let me make more progress with the character I've already sunk 50 hours into, I'd probably go for another three or so packs.

Anyway, here's the top ten list for game-level achievement lists.

Top 10 Sets

1. Dragon Age: Origins
2. Assassin's Creed II
3. Left 4 Dead 2
4. Borderlands
5. Modern Warfare 2
6. Rogue Warrior
7. 1 vs. 100
8. Backyard Football '10
9. The Saboteur
10. Garry's Mod

New Sets

• Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter (Steam)
• Rogue Warrior (Steam)
• Altitude (Steam)
• Zombie Driver (Steam)
• Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! (French/Canadian version?)

Top 10 Individual

1. Assassin's Creed II - Show your Colors
2. Borderlands - Braaaaaaaaaaaaains!
3. Left 4 Dead 2 - GUARDIN' GNOME
4. Left 4 Dead 2 - CONFEDERACY OF CRUNCHES
5. Assassin's Creed II - In Memory of Petruccio
6. Borderlands - You're on a boat!
7. Assassin's Creed II - Messer Sandman
8. Garry's Mod - Secret Phrase
9. Borderlands - My Brother is an Italian Plumber
10. Assassin's Creed II - An Old Friend

Haha, I hope those people weren't actually playing Rogue Warrior.

This achievements feature is a very interesting read.  Continue this feature.  I'm so happy that ACII appears to be so successful!  I have 1000 gamerpoints on that game, because the achievements are fun to get, and not infuriating. 
 
@Jeff:  It's better to smoke bomb them, then throw sand in their face for the Messer Achievement.

G Mod REPRESENT!!!!!!!!

I would totally be down for more Borderlands! You know, even though I never bought the game or played the DLC. I did get to level 50 on my cousins game though, and that was pretty badass.

1 vs 100 is not available worldwide so naturally the number of players would be lower some other games :)

I'm still amazed the Garry's Mod is on there.

They have to raise the level cap in Borderlands to make me consider going back to it.

I think they should maybe do one or two DLC packs for Borderlands, but for some reason I'd rather just have a whole new game. I know its kinda soon and it obviously wouldn't come out until like 2011, but there are soooo many things they could add to that game to make it even more awesome than it already is. If they put a good story into it and just add or improve a few features, I really think that the next game could be one of the greatest games ever.

Was Garry's Mod one of the Steam deals over the Thanksgiving weekend? If it was it would explain the sudden jump to the list; it's great to see it up there though!

As long as they raise the level cap next time around for Borderlands DLC, I will buy every one that they release. Which means 3 or 4..

This is the age of dra... nevermind.

To be honest I had no idea 1 vs. 100 was now finished and released lol. Accurately shows how much I care about it. haha

when are trophies coming back?

After being spoiled by the massive influx of Quick Looks over Thanksgiving, it was understandable that they would taper off the week after vacation. But if there isn't more GiantBomb video content this week, I'm going to type, angrily.  
 
In that typefest, I will link GiantBomb and no new Endurance Run to the lack of dedicated servers in MW2 and Luchadeer being demon Greg Kasavin from the future.
 
That is a threat. Don't tempt me.

I still wanna S rank 1 vs 100 but 500 questions -_-

I can't wait to get a 360 to contribute to this achievement madness!

Dragon Age is a great game Jeff. You should play it sometime, it's got achievements.

i stopped playing 1 VS 100. maybe i should go back to it?

Man,  love this column.

Great

I got the sand one by backing myself into a corner so all the bad guys bunched up in front of me... does seem a little glitchy. Same deal with the pole sweep one.

" This is the age of dra... nevermind. "

THIS IS TRULY THE AGE OF DRAGONS AND DRAGON RELATED ILLINESS LIKE DRAGON FACE WHERE YOU WAKE UP ONE DAY AND YOUR FACE IS A DRAGON.

Dragon Age rocks, Jeff. You are missing out. It almost seems to me that you are more interested these days in easy achievement points than actually playing fun games. That's seems like dangerous territory for a dude whose living is based off of reviewing games. Like would a game get an extra star because of some easy achievements?

You know I have seen only one dragon so far in Dragon Age so truly it's the age of one dragon.

" There should be some kind of bonus for players who track down all of the appropriate hardware and software needed to play them all. That bonus should probably be a kick in the face."
 
This is why I come here, guys. Pure gold.

Nice, thorough update. I wasn't even aware that 1 vs. 100 had achievements....must have missed that!!! I am also glad to hear Spirit Tracks is a good game. It seemed to get released at such a late date that I wasn't sure to care for it or not anymore.

1 vs 100 isn't in Australia and across Europe... I'm guessing that alot of the Borderlands players are from there??

for 1vs100, i can't be bothered to play at the times of the games, so i don't.  
I've unlocked the sweeper achievement no problem, although i havent tried the messer sandman one yet. 

TRUUULYYYYYYY,

Wow that your on a boat achievement has been listed on there for the past month or more.

I'd actually like to try 1 VS 100. But I would also like to try last.fm. Fuck you Microsoft, stop fucking us Aussielanders around.

" Dragon Age rocks, Jeff. You are missing out. It almost seems to me that you are more interested these days in easy achievement points than actually playing fun games. That's seems like dangerous territory for a dude whose living is based off of reviewing games. Like would a game get an extra star because of some easy achievements? "

" Dragon Age is a great game Jeff. You should play it sometime, it's got achievements. "

" @Delta_Ass said:

" Dragon Age is a great game Jeff. You should play it sometime, it's got achievements. "

It is got achievements, or it has got achievements. Either way, your sentence is grammatically INCORRECT. And we won't tolerate racism here, no sir. "