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    Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.

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    Edited By jeff

    All right, the weekend is pretty much here, so it's time to take a look at what people like you have been reading up on when it comes to achievements for Steam and Xbox Live. I don't think it will surprise you to see that this week's big release, Halo 3: ODST, has taken over the top spot from The Beatles: Rock Band. Now, the big unreleased game that everyone's keeping track of appears to be Brutal Legend. And... yeah, Garry's Mod is still in the top ten list. That's still weirding me out. 

    The real story in ODST. 
    The real story in ODST. 

    Top Ten Sets

    1. Halo 3: ODST
    2. The Beatles: Rock Band
    3. Madden NFL 10
    4. Batman: Arkham Asylum
    5. Garry's Mod
    6. DIRT 2
    7. Darkest of Days
    8. Brutal Legend
    9. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
    10. Trine

    OK, if you like looking at achievement lists for games that aren't out yet, this is your week. The aforementioned Brutal Legend is up in there, along with stuff like Borderlands, the next game in the WWE SmackDown! series, and Band Hero. Band Hero, by the way, appears to have an achievement that's worth 490 points. That's... a lot of points. Forza Motorsport 3 has also appeared in the system, but Microsoft currently has its achievements set up so they don't show up anywhere but on an actual Xbox 360 (or, I guess, PC if you're a GFWL type of gal). So if someone on your friends list is somehow playing Forza 3 already, you can view the list. But everywhere else, it just shows as a zero-point game. Expect that list to go wide on the game's release date, October 27. 

    Spinning the spinner belt is, sadly, not an achievement this year. 
    Spinning the spinner belt is, sadly, not an achievement this year. 

    New Sets


    Let's close it out again with the most popular individual achievements. Keep in mind that this is a traffic-oriented list, so it's probably from people typing in "garry's mod secret phrase" on a search engine or stuff like that. You'd think that everyone that cares about Garry's Mod would already know about the secret phrase, but it just keeps hanging around. I guess with its recent half-off sale, a bunch of new players are getting into it. Of course, Halo 3: ODST is representing big on this list, as well. Some people are reporting that the Super Sleuth achievement is glitched and doesn't properly unlock. I didn't run into that issue, so I'm of no help on that one. 

    Dude is still hanging onto one of the top individual achievements. 
    Dude is still hanging onto one of the top individual achievements. 

    Top Ten Individual

    1. Halo 3: ODST - Naughty Naughty
    2. Batman: Arkham Asylum - World's Greatest Detective
    3. Halo 3: ODST - Super Sleuth
    4. Garry's Mod - Secret Phrase
    5. Halo 3: ODST - Good Samaritan
    6. Halo 3: ODST - Campaign Complete: Legendary
    7. Garry's Mod - Are You The Real Garry?
    8. DIRT 2 - I Ain't Afraid Of No Ghost!
    9. Halo 3 - Citadel Skull
    10. Halo 3: ODST - Both Tubes

    OK, that does it for this week. I think it's safe to assume that ODST isn't going anywhere any time soon, and as you can see, its release spurred a Halo 3 achievement into the list, too. It's for one of the new Halo 3 maps that you can only get on that ODST multiplayer disc.

    Oh, hey, one more quick thing. With regards to support for PlayStation 3 trophies, I've been told that we have top men working on it right now. Top men. That should mix this list up pretty heavily, and it'll be exciting to see how all this turns out. Hang in there.
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    #1  Edited By jeff

    All right, the weekend is pretty much here, so it's time to take a look at what people like you have been reading up on when it comes to achievements for Steam and Xbox Live. I don't think it will surprise you to see that this week's big release, Halo 3: ODST, has taken over the top spot from The Beatles: Rock Band. Now, the big unreleased game that everyone's keeping track of appears to be Brutal Legend. And... yeah, Garry's Mod is still in the top ten list. That's still weirding me out. 

    The real story in ODST. 
    The real story in ODST. 

    Top Ten Sets

    1. Halo 3: ODST
    2. The Beatles: Rock Band
    3. Madden NFL 10
    4. Batman: Arkham Asylum
    5. Garry's Mod
    6. DIRT 2
    7. Darkest of Days
    8. Brutal Legend
    9. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
    10. Trine

    OK, if you like looking at achievement lists for games that aren't out yet, this is your week. The aforementioned Brutal Legend is up in there, along with stuff like Borderlands, the next game in the WWE SmackDown! series, and Band Hero. Band Hero, by the way, appears to have an achievement that's worth 490 points. That's... a lot of points. Forza Motorsport 3 has also appeared in the system, but Microsoft currently has its achievements set up so they don't show up anywhere but on an actual Xbox 360 (or, I guess, PC if you're a GFWL type of gal). So if someone on your friends list is somehow playing Forza 3 already, you can view the list. But everywhere else, it just shows as a zero-point game. Expect that list to go wide on the game's release date, October 27. 

    Spinning the spinner belt is, sadly, not an achievement this year. 
    Spinning the spinner belt is, sadly, not an achievement this year. 

    New Sets


    Let's close it out again with the most popular individual achievements. Keep in mind that this is a traffic-oriented list, so it's probably from people typing in "garry's mod secret phrase" on a search engine or stuff like that. You'd think that everyone that cares about Garry's Mod would already know about the secret phrase, but it just keeps hanging around. I guess with its recent half-off sale, a bunch of new players are getting into it. Of course, Halo 3: ODST is representing big on this list, as well. Some people are reporting that the Super Sleuth achievement is glitched and doesn't properly unlock. I didn't run into that issue, so I'm of no help on that one. 

    Dude is still hanging onto one of the top individual achievements. 
    Dude is still hanging onto one of the top individual achievements. 

    Top Ten Individual

    1. Halo 3: ODST - Naughty Naughty
    2. Batman: Arkham Asylum - World's Greatest Detective
    3. Halo 3: ODST - Super Sleuth
    4. Garry's Mod - Secret Phrase
    5. Halo 3: ODST - Good Samaritan
    6. Halo 3: ODST - Campaign Complete: Legendary
    7. Garry's Mod - Are You The Real Garry?
    8. DIRT 2 - I Ain't Afraid Of No Ghost!
    9. Halo 3 - Citadel Skull
    10. Halo 3: ODST - Both Tubes

    OK, that does it for this week. I think it's safe to assume that ODST isn't going anywhere any time soon, and as you can see, its release spurred a Halo 3 achievement into the list, too. It's for one of the new Halo 3 maps that you can only get on that ODST multiplayer disc.

    Oh, hey, one more quick thing. With regards to support for PlayStation 3 trophies, I've been told that we have top men working on it right now. Top men. That should mix this list up pretty heavily, and it'll be exciting to see how all this turns out. Hang in there.
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    #2  Edited By lemon360

    nice
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    #3  Edited By Bigandtasty

    Lots of new achievements. I'm surprised that the Saw game is actually being released.

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    #4  Edited By trophyhunter

    yes trophies

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    #5  Edited By Bigbombomb

    Cool.

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    #6  Edited By Jeffsekai

    yay, I gotta get me some more ODST achivments.

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    #7  Edited By Csaint

     I'm glad there was an update about the PS3 trophy support. Question: How do games which aren't out yet make it in the list exactly?

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    #8  Edited By ht101

    Need to play Brutal Legend and Borderlands.  It really sucks that they are about a month away.

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    #9  Edited By giyanks22

    Wow..I have two of the top three sets!!! HELL YEAH

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    #10  Edited By luce

    top men. TOP MEN!!

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    #11  Edited By RagingLion
    @Csaint: If their achievement pages are up already then people can have a look at them.  The top ten is based purely on traffic to the games' achievement pages, therefore these can feature in the top 10 before release, and are likely to if it's a big name game that people are interested in getting an insight into early.
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    #12  Edited By teptom

    The Sam and Max achievements have peaked my interest.

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    #13  Edited By zitosilva

    Man, WET didn't even make it to the list.

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    #14  Edited By Claude

    I was wondering if Giant Bomb could get their hands on the Nintendo Channel game records. I think they're open to the public, not sure how it's done. It's all time based, but it would be cool to see how much people are playing certain games. My highest game is Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 All-Play with 261 hours. Who am I kidding, most of the gamers here don't play the Wii.

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    #15  Edited By teptom
    @Claude: I would enjoy that, but yeah...not so many people are playing Wii games on this site.
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    #16  Edited By MetalGearSunny

    You don't know how happy I am to hear about the trophy news, Jeff!

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    #17  Edited By Claude
    @Shini4444 said:

    " @Claude: I would enjoy that, but yeah...not so many people are playing Wii games on this site. "

    The more I think about it, it's probably not open to individual records. Just overall records, much like Kotaku reports on. At least those times will be more accurate. That would be cool though, give Giant Bomb my friend code and boom, my records are in my profile.
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    #18  Edited By Biddy

    Top.....men.
     
    Good to hear Jeff!

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    #19  Edited By Hamz

    Only reason I intend to go for all the achievements in the PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum is due to the Giant Bomb achievement feature. God damn it and how it makes me want to try and get all those achievements.

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    #20  Edited By MaddProdigy

    garys mod hahaha

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    #21  Edited By Seedofpower
    @lemon360 said:
    " nice "
    nice
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    #22  Edited By Pkshields

    Top men working on Trophy Support? My profile can finally be complete!

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    #23  Edited By RHCPfan24

    Band Hero....I don't even want to start on that game.

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    #24  Edited By milpool

    Yay ps3 trophies... maybe this will give me a reason to play ps3 more

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    #25  Edited By MrKlorox

    That is one hideous Batman.

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    #26  Edited By jeff
    @Claude: We're really only interested in building automatic, database-driven solutions for stuff like this. Last time I looked, there was no way to view Nintendo time data outside of the Wii, so it's unlikely that we'd be able to do anything there. Given Nintendo's general distaste for achievements, I don't think we'll see anything from them along these lines.
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    #27  Edited By copycatzen

    Its about Time for my Platinums!
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    #28  Edited By AndrewJD

    ummmm trophies...

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    #29  Edited By copycatzen

    "Oh, hey, one more quick thing. With regards to support for PlayStation 3 trophies, I've been told that we have top men working on it right now. Top men. That should mix this list up pretty heavily, and it'll be exciting to see how all this turns out. Hang in there. " 
     
    I hope this is not like the MGS4 false hopes to get trophies that we never got...
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    #30  Edited By Hammerjelly

    Achievements haven't seemed to sync for days now.

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