Achievements
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:08 am
Achievements
I bloody love achievements. Sure, my Gamerscore could be higher, but why play anything other than Fable Anniversary – right?! Ahem. Now that I’ve got my excuses out of the way for not having better ‘G’ (although I like to think that 40,000 is a decent enough score!), let’s get onto the good stuff. The thing you’ve all been waiting for. No, no - not that you can grow an acorn or meet a Sandgoose. This is about something far more exciting – Fable Anniversary’s achievement list! Introduction Any game designer will testify, that designing Xbox achievements is a blast! We always open the ideas pool up to every single member of staff here at Lionhead, and this year we started with a list of over 150 ideas. We then whittled this down to 49 achievements, but we just couldn’t think of a 50th – which is where you guys and girls came in! For those of you that may remember, we invited YOU, the fans, to help us design the 50th achievement. You submitted over 3,000 ideas (almost putting us out of a job in the process), to which there was a winner and it is now in the game; http://www.lionhead.com/blog/2013/july/ ... ent-winner!/ With the intro out of the way, now onto the achievements themselves. Let me explain in a little more detail what you’re about to read and the reasons why it is presented as it is. As you know by now, I really like achievements. BUT! I really HATE spoilers, therefore I find myself often not reading achievement announcements out of pure fear of #spoilers! What I’ve decided to do then, is to rate each of our achievements in this blog based on a spoiler rating from 1 to 5; A “Category 1” Achievement is something that is just a bit of fun you can do at almost any point in the game. A “Category 3” Achievement is something that, whilst you can’t miss it, it will require you to do something different, something that requires thinking outside of the box. A “Category 5” Achievement however, is the big spoiler daddy of achievements. These Category 5’s will be at the very bottom of this blog. So be warned, that if you want to know ***** that happens in ***** when you’re ***** then only read to the bottom! The Icons So first up on this achievements blog; the icons! I’m going to tell you a short story about these achievements, but first I need you to picture this; a kid at school, with ginger hair, glasses and braces. Yep, that was me. Not only did I have all this, just to make sure I ticked all of the cliché boxes, I also collected stamps. Nerd alert indeed, but I like to think also something to be proud of! Although I don’t collect stamps anymore (I’m waaaay too cool for that now, honest), when I started designing the Fable Anniversary achievements I was trying to think of things that hadn’t been done before, which in over 8 years since the first Xbox 360 achievement went ‘plink’ is not an easy task! This got me thinking though, that I hadn’t ever seen the Gamerscore added to the icon before (please prove me wrong in the forum comments!), and then my nothing-to-be-ashamed-of-but-also-super-nerdy childhood memories of stamp collecting also kicked in. What if the Fable Anniversary achievement icons looked like the quaint little English stamps that I would collect as a kid, so here you have it – the full set of 50 icons stamps as created by our very talented 2D artist; <icons> The Missables With the icons out of the way and perhaps even some intriguing foundations being laid, I’m going to move on to what is commonly known as the “Missable Achievement”. I know how much these can suck (I’m looking at you, Sander Cohen!) so even though a couple of the following could be classed as a “Category 3” achievement, they won’t spoil anything of major spoilery importance for you; 20G - Are You Not Entertained!? Complete all 8 rounds of the Arena without taking a break 5G - Hero, Their Health Is Low Heal a follower on an Escort Quest. No, not *that* kind of 'escort'. 20G - Combat, Evolved Use an 'Ages of...' Potion with a combat multiplier of 20 or more 10G - As Quiet As A Whisper Defeat Whisper in a battle without losing any health. The Category 1's & 2's Now that we’ve discussed the potentially missable achievements, I feel it’s time to move onto the category 1’s / 2’s, and there’s a short story behind these achievements too! It was a lovely summer’s day at Lionhead; the skies were grey and it was raining hard. We had with us our list of 150 achievement ideas, but something didn’t seem right. It was then, that we conjured up the idea that “For every achievement, a consequence”. Ok, ok, perhaps not every achievement, but we thought wouldn’t it be cool to have 15 achievements that could be earned in one of two ways! Here are those very 15 achievements, along with the conditions that you need to unlock them; 25G - For Every Choice, An Achievement Become holier than Avo, or more evil than Skorm! 15G - But You're A Wizard, Hero Learn one of each spell type, or own one of each weapon type. 15G - That's A Real Lunker! Win 1st prize in the Fisherman's competition, or complete the boast for doing any quest naked. 15G - Fight Cluck Become the Fist Fighter's World Champion, or win the Chicken Hat in the Chicken Kicking Competition. 15G - That's A Real Lunker! Win 1st prize in the Fisherman's competition, or complete the boast for doing any quest naked. 15G - That's A Real Lunker! Win 1st prize in the Fisherman's competition, or complete the boast for doing any quest naked. Now this is where it gets really interesting; you will unlock a unique achievement icon on the Fable Anniversary achievement interface based on the decision that you make. Not only will your friends know what decision you made when they see your stamp collection, so will the in-game characters. Oh, so you decided to become obese in order to shortcut the “Definitely Not On Rails” achievement? Watch the villagers of Albion judge you the next time you enter the local tavern! *INSERT EXAMPLES HERE OF ACHIEVEMENT UI PAGE* The Category 3’s & 4’s We’re getting close now, it’s time to move onto the Category 3’s and 4’s. These achievements require a certain amount of thought, or a certain technique in order to unlock. These are the kind of achievements that will unlock if you pull off a cool feat, or reward you from doing something different. If you don’t want to spoil the surprise of these, look away now! 25G - For Every Choice, An Achievement Become holier than Avo, or more evil than Skorm! 15G - But You're A Wizard, Hero Learn one of each spell type, or own one of each weapon type. 15G - That's A Real Lunker! Win 1st prize in the Fisherman's competition, or complete the boast for doing any quest naked. 15G - Fight Cluck Become the Fist Fighter's World Champion, or win the Chicken Hat in the Chicken Kicking Competition. 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You are the kind of player that will earn achievements at all costs even if it means playing Avatar: The Legend of Aang, you’ll laugh in the face of a website *spoiler* tag, and if someone says they haven’t seen Star Wars, you are the first to reply with “Darth Vader is Luke’s father”. You, oh immortal one, are now rewarded with all 15 of the story-based achievements; 20G - Are You Not Entertained!? Complete all 8 rounds of the Arena without taking a break 5G - Hero, Their Health Is Low Heal a follower on an Escort Quest. No, not *that* kind of 'escort'. 20G - Combat, Evolved Use an 'Ages of...' Potion with a combat multiplier of 20 or more 10G - As Quiet As A Whisper Defeat Whisper in a battle without losing any health. And that brings to an end this achievements blog post. To the 0.1% of you that are still reading – thank you. We hope you have fun unlocking these achievements when you play Fable Anniversary in February of 2014!
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I bloody love achievements. Sure, my Gamerscore could be higher, but why play anything other than Fable Anniversary – right?! Ahem. Now that I’ve got my excuses out of the way for not having better ‘G’ (although I like to think that 40,000 is a decent enough score!), let’s get onto the good stuff. The thing you’ve all been waiting for. No, no - not that you can grow an acorn or meet a Sandgoose. This is about something far more exciting – Fable Anniversary’s achievement list! Introduction Any game designer will testify, that designing Xbox achievements is a blast! We always open the ideas pool up to every single member of staff here at Lionhead, and this year we started with a list of over 150 ideas. We then whittled this down to 49 achievements, but we just couldn’t think of a 50th – which is where you guys and girls came in! For those of you that may remember, we invited YOU, the fans, to help us design the 50th achievement. You submitted over 3,000 ideas (almost putting us out of a job in the process), to which there was a winner and it is now in the game; http://www.lionhead.com/blog/2013/july/ ... ent-winner!/ With the intro out of the way, now onto the achievements themselves. Let me explain in a little more detail what you’re about to read and the reasons why it is presented as it is. As you know by now, I really like achievements. BUT! I really HATE spoilers, therefore I find myself often not reading achievement announcements out of pure fear of #spoilers! What I’ve decided to do then, is to rate each of our achievements in this blog based on a spoiler rating from 1 to 5; A “Category 1” Achievement is something that is just a bit of fun you can do at almost any point in the game. A “Category 3” Achievement is something that, whilst you can’t miss it, it will require you to do something different, something that requires thinking outside of the box. A “Category 5” Achievement however, is the big spoiler daddy of achievements. These Category 5’s will be at the very bottom of this blog. So be warned, that if you want to know ***** that happens in ***** when you’re ***** then only read to the bottom! The Icons So first up on this achievements blog; the icons! I’m going to tell you a short story about these achievements, but first I need you to picture this; a kid at school, with ginger hair, glasses and braces. Yep, that was me. Not only did I have all this, just to make sure I ticked all of the cliché boxes, I also collected stamps. Nerd alert indeed, but I like to think also something to be proud of! Although I don’t collect stamps anymore (I’m waaaay too cool for that now, honest), when I started designing the Fable Anniversary achievements I was trying to think of things that hadn’t been done before, which in over 8 years since the first Xbox 360 achievement went ‘plink’ is not an easy task! This got me thinking though, that I hadn’t ever seen the Gamerscore added to the icon before (please prove me wrong in the forum comments!), and then my nothing-to-be-ashamed-of-but-also-super-nerdy childhood memories of stamp collecting also kicked in. What if the Fable Anniversary achievement icons looked like the quaint little English stamps that I would collect as a kid, so here you have it – the full set of 50 icons stamps as created by our very talented 2D artist; <icons> The Missables With the icons out of the way and perhaps even some intriguing foundations being laid, I’m going to move on to what is commonly known as the “Missable Achievement”. I know how much these can suck (I’m looking at you, Sander Cohen!) so even though a couple of the following could be classed as a “Category 3” achievement, they won’t spoil anything of major spoilery importance for you; 20G - Are You Not Entertained!? Complete all 8 rounds of the Arena without taking a break 5G - Hero, Their Health Is Low Heal a follower on an Escort Quest. No, not *that* kind of 'escort'. 20G - Combat, Evolved Use an 'Ages of...' Potion with a combat multiplier of 20 or more 10G - As Quiet As A Whisper Defeat Whisper in a battle without losing any health. The Category 1's & 2's Now that we’ve discussed the potentially missable achievements, I feel it’s time to move onto the category 1’s / 2’s, and there’s a short story behind these achievements too! It was a lovely summer’s day at Lionhead; the skies were grey and it was raining hard. We had with us our list of 150 achievement ideas, but something didn’t seem right. It was then, that we conjured up the idea that “For every achievement, a consequence”. Ok, ok, perhaps not every achievement, but we thought wouldn’t it be cool to have 15 achievements that could be earned in one of two ways! Here are those very 15 achievements, along with the conditions that you need to unlock them; 25G - For Every Choice, An Achievement Become holier than Avo, or more evil than Skorm! 15G - But You're A Wizard, Hero Learn one of each spell type, or own one of each weapon type. 15G - That's A Real Lunker! Win 1st prize in the Fisherman's competition, or complete the boast for doing any quest naked. 15G - Fight Cluck Become the Fist Fighter's World Champion, or win the Chicken Hat in the Chicken Kicking Competition. 15G - That's A Real Lunker! Win 1st prize in the Fisherman's competition, or complete the boast for doing any quest naked. 15G - That's A Real Lunker! Win 1st prize in the Fisherman's competition, or complete the boast for doing any quest naked. Now this is where it gets really interesting; you will unlock a unique achievement icon on the Fable Anniversary achievement interface based on the decision that you make. Not only will your friends know what decision you made when they see your stamp collection, so will the in-game characters. Oh, so you decided to become obese in order to shortcut the “Definitely Not On Rails” achievement? Watch the villagers of Albion judge you the next time you enter the local tavern! *INSERT EXAMPLES HERE OF ACHIEVEMENT UI PAGE* The Category 3’s & 4’s We’re getting close now, it’s time to move onto the Category 3’s and 4’s. These achievements require a certain amount of thought, or a certain technique in order to unlock. These are the kind of achievements that will unlock if you pull off a cool feat, or reward you from doing something different. If you don’t want to spoil the surprise of these, look away now! 25G - For Every Choice, An Achievement Become holier than Avo, or more evil than Skorm! 15G - But You're A Wizard, Hero Learn one of each spell type, or own one of each weapon type. 15G - That's A Real Lunker! Win 1st prize in the Fisherman's competition, or complete the boast for doing any quest naked. 15G - Fight Cluck Become the Fist Fighter's World Champion, or win the Chicken Hat in the Chicken Kicking Competition. 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You are the kind of player that will earn achievements at all costs even if it means playing Avatar: The Legend of Aang, you’ll laugh in the face of a website *spoiler* tag, and if someone says they haven’t seen Star Wars, you are the first to reply with “Darth Vader is Luke’s father”. You, oh immortal one, are now rewarded with all 15 of the story-based achievements; 20G - Are You Not Entertained!? Complete all 8 rounds of the Arena without taking a break 5G - Hero, Their Health Is Low Heal a follower on an Escort Quest. No, not *that* kind of 'escort'. 20G - Combat, Evolved Use an 'Ages of...' Potion with a combat multiplier of 20 or more 10G - As Quiet As A Whisper Defeat Whisper in a battle without losing any health. And that brings to an end this achievements blog post. To the 0.1% of you that are still reading – thank you. We hope you have fun unlocking these achievements when you play Fable Anniversary in February of 2014!
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