Rumor: Old Valve Games To Get Achievements

By Chris on Monday, November 26th, 2007 at 6:38 PM PST In Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Games, Half-Life, Valve

team fortress 2 Rumor: Old Valve Games To Get AchievementsI’m a big fan of achievements; while the score that accompanies them on the Xbox 360 is an annoyance in my eyes, Valve’s achievements system in The Orange Box was perfect – no points, just achievements that are truly meaningless except to act as achievements, and not a platform for bragging. Playing through Episode 2 in particular made me really yearn for achievements in Episode One and the original Half-Life 2, and if this rumor is true, we might just see that, as well as new achievements for my beloved Team Fortress 2.

A forum poster by the name of “slugz” claims to have received a message from a Valve staffer that read: “We’re planning on adding achievements to all of our games you touched on in your mail [Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Day of Defeat: Source and Counter-Strike: Source]. We’re just now coming out of the post-shipping haze, so these should start showing up on Steam pretty quick here. We’re also planning on adding a bunch more to TF2, starting with an achievement pack for the Medic in the next week or so.”

I really hope this is true, even though it’s not like I need any incentive to play TF2 anymore than I already do.

via Joystiq

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3 Comments on “Rumor: Old Valve Games To Get Achievements”

  1. Joelteon7 says:

    Oh, I know some for CS:S

    “Cheating in 10 consecutive rounds.”
    “Cheating in 20 consecutive rounds.”
    “Applied use of a ‘wall hack’.”
    “Applied use of an ‘aimbot’.”
    “10 consecutive AWP kills.”
    “Not getting banned from a server for 10 consecutive rounds while cheating.”
    “Complete one round, without dying, without using a cheat.”

    I’m telling you…the last one will be the hardest one to get.

  2. somewhat says:

    LOL ! Joel, you hit the nail on the head ! That last one will be next to impossible with all the little cheating jerks.

  3. ChaosBahamut says:

    Oh it ain’t a rumor. It was confirmed via a post in the Steam forums. (copied and pasted an E-Mail, the poster did)

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