Over last weekend my friends and I returned to the world of The Dark Carnival to rack up some achievements, and high up on the list was the “Guardin’ Gnome” achievement.

But some of the achievements are just so difficult to obtain, and I could never imagine spending hours trying to complete a sometimes ludicrous challenge. It’s a nice motivator to be in the middle of the game and randomly get an award it means you must be doing something right. It can be for anything from killing a certain number of enemies, to surviving a level without taking any damage. So when my friends introduced me to the idea of earning achievements, I was a little skeptical.įor those even more out of the loop than me, an achievement, or a trophy, is essentially your reward for completing some sort of in-game challenge. As fun and addictive it is to play, there just isn’t very much of a storyline, and you pretty much do the same thing over and over again. Especially the team based campaign style of Left 4 Dead. As you are all aware, I’m completely new to the world of first person shooters.

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