Stop this

[GeekyJuuu]

Okay, thanks for indulging my curiosity, everyone. :> I guess it just is a matter of opinions, but if you're indeed sick of memes proliferating the 'nets and other media, I can see why. I think the one they had was cute, but I can indeed see where the charm would wear off if say, the whole list was like that.

[Terro]

It's not that. I just find these types of "memes" incredibly annoying. They should stay on facebook, reddit, and 9gag with the rest of the unfunny garbage and not invade games. Just putting this out there so maybe this won't continue in the future.

I've already seen them in tshirt kiosks too. They are becoming more mainstream and used more. Can't be any worse than Angry Birds though. Can't walk into ANY store without seeing stuffed animals or shirts of them... As long as memes won't get to that point... Still using it for an achievement, eh not a fan.

[Dusty Starr]

Everyone totally wants a Forever Alone plushy! X3

[Minneyar]

I don't mind the pop culture references in achievements; at worst it's harmless, and sometimes it's pretty funny.

From design standpoint, though, it seems like the vast majority of achievements are either for things that you'll accomplish over the course of playing the game normally (doing sidequests, beating the game) or are pure tedium (killing 2,000 mozgouz). It'd be nice to have more achievements that you get for feats of skill (like beating Galbalan without getting hit, but maybe not that hard...) or for sequence breaking.

[none123]

I don't mind the pop culture references in achievements; at worst it's harmless, and sometimes it's pretty funny.

From design standpoint, though, it seems like the vast majority of achievements are either for things that you'll accomplish over the course of playing the game normally (doing sidequests, beating the game) or are pure tedium (killing 2,000 mozgouz). It'd be nice to have more achievements that you get for feats of skill (like beating Galbalan without getting hit, but maybe not that hard...) or for sequence breaking.

About the mozgouz. There is one area in the illburnes lava pits areas with over 100 of them!

[Minneyar]

About the mozgouz. There is one area in the illburnes lava pits areas with over 100 of them!

Yes, but that still means you have to run in and out of the room 20 times and kill them all each time. That's tedium.

[AweOfShe]

That achievement took about 5 minutes (after grabbing all the Emeralds). lol

But there really were less skills based one than I expected.

[Wyrdwad]

It'd be nice to have more achievements that you get for feats of skill (like beating Galbalan without getting hit, but maybe not that hard...)

Actually, that IS one of the achievements. (: We tried to come up with a list of achievements that included both stupid things AND skill-based things, so as to cover all our bases. If anyone has any ideas for skill-based achievements they would've liked to have seen, though -- or skill-based achievements they'd like to see in Ys Origin -- please let me know.

We also tried to include everything from internet memes to movie references to badass titles in our achievement names, for variety.

We certainly don't mean to offend or annoy, but judging by the overall responses we've been getting (not just here, but also via email and Twitter, and on forums like NeoGAF), it seems like more people enjoyed the "Forever Alone" achievement name and graphic than not. And we wouldn't want to rob those people of their joy just because a few of you find the meme overplayed, would we? They deserve joy too, you know!

-Tom

[Minneyar]

Actually, that IS one of the achievements. (: We tried to come up with a list of achievements that included both stupid things AND skill-based things, so as to cover all our bases. If anyone has any ideas for skill-based achievements they would've liked to have seen, though -- or skill-based achievements they'd like to see in Ys Origin -- please let me know.

That's why I mentioned it as an example. ;-) (and it's probably one of the ones I'm never going to get) You could have similar achievements for beating other bosses without taking damage, beating them in under a certain time limit, or beating them through unconventional means... for example, the first time I ever played Felghana, I beat Istersiva using only the fire ring because I didn't think you could run under his crystals when they expand. Another tough one would be defeating each one of the Ligaty one at a time rather than the normal strategy of whittling them down until they're all near death. It'd also be neat to have one for doing something like beating the game without dying, but from a programming perspective I think that'd be pretty tricky since people could just reload their last saved game if they die.

It's been a while since I've played through Origin, I'll have to go back to it and see if I can think of any good ones...

[Chaosblade]

Zava. Nightmare Mode. No damage.

I want to see someone do it.

I did beat Istersiva without taking damage in Oath, and I beat Gildias ridiculously quickly, like speedrun fast. Not even sure how long it was, but he hardly got any attacks off.