![]() “Before achievements, I always just tried to complete the game as quickly as possible, and would do some sequence breaking with wall jumping. “I have gone back and played a few games to earn that 100 percent achievement list, such as Super Metroid,” Conley shared with me. Nowadays, he loves to finish as many challenges as possible before playing a different game. Before, he would finish a game as quickly possible in order to quickly experience a new title since he didn’t really have any incentive to do otherwise. Matthew Conley, a veteran Retro Achievements member, says the site “came from the idea that achievements would make a great way for people to re-experience their favorite games from their childhood by playing the games in a different way.”Ĭonley changed the way he plays games ever since he joined the Retro Achievements community. This had led to a thriving website that exposes classic games to a deluge of both new and old players. Members of the site can either play Mega Drive or SNES games in the hopes of earning some interesting and challenging achievements, or create their very own achievements. Retro Achievements, an online community and website obsessed with resurrecting old games, agrees with me. A community obsessed with retro achievements And they have a slew of enjoyable PS Trophies to earn as well, like completing the entire game using only tank-controls. Grim Fandango was impossible to find for decades, but now kids have easy access to it. These are games younger folks would’ve either ignored entirely or found it difficult to actually buy and play. Mega Man Legacy Collection, Grim Fandango Remastered, Rare Replay, and now PlayStation 2 Classics are a great way for generations of younger gamers to play classics for the first time. Publishers started to re-release games that were barely a few years old Tomb Raider and Dishonored: Definitive Editions anyone? But recently, companies have gotten better with the games they choose to re-release. Of course, this particular business practice eventually began to get a bit obnoxious. Similarly, Gears of War Ultimate Edition was the third best-selling game in August, 2015. The game was completely sold out during its first week of release. ![]() Xbox marketing boss Aaron Greenberg also revealed a few months ago that Rare Replay had succeeded the company’s sales expectations. Resident Evil HD sold more than 1 million copies, becoming the fastest-selling digital title ever. Though the 1080p visuals and, often, 60-frames-per-second cameras are welcomed additions as well. Ever try finishing Resident Evil HD just using your knife? The way these HD collections have been selling is great proof of that. They allow players to complete satisfyingly difficult and engaging challenges they otherwise would’ve ignored. One of the biggest incentives for people to repurchase or play these HD re-releases for the first time are the PlayStation Trophies and Xbox Achievements. Games like The Sly Collection, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, and Rare Replay. Plus, it just isn’t Grim Fandango unless you can make Manny sing a song at his piano (once Glottis has left the building.)įor a full list of changes and fixes, have a read of Double Fine’s changelog.Ever since Sony released the successful God of War Collection back in 2009 (a package that includes the first two entries in PlayStation’s blood-soaked series), the industry has had a torrent of similar HD re-releases. I highlighted those in my review, and assumed they were bugs because the latter has an achievement attached to it which was presumably unobtainable until now. In addition to the elevator shenanigans, the patch notes for this update say they’ve addressed the missing hot-spots for the piano in Manny’s club and the striking Sea Bees. Getting stuck in the first place should be fixed too. If you have a saved game file where Manny is trapped in the lift, you should now be able to reload it, free him, and carry on with the other puzzles in Rubacava. That damn elevator is cursed.Īnyway, Double Fine has released an update today which takes the game to version 1.3 and claims to have fixed the elevator bug of doom. Grim Fandango Remastered has (or had) a different glitch, which just locked Manny in the elevator indefinitely. There’s a timing-based puzzle you need to solve in there and the original version of the game had problems on newer PC CPUs – they ran it too fast, and the puzzle was unsolvable. The High Rollers Lounge elevator in Grim Fandango’s second year has a dark history, which apparently extended to the recent Remastered edition of the game.
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