Forum:Mass Effect 1 Achievements

I'm currently on my 4th replay of Mass Effect 1, mainly to pick up a few extra Xbox Achievements and do one or two side missions I only discovered the existence of recently. However, it only now strikes me how hard and annoying the Achievements in ME1 are to accomplish by comparison to those of its sequels. After nearly 80 hours of gameplay, I have just over half of the Achievements. Whereas with ME2, I've about 85 hours put in, I've nearly all the Achievements, bar a few DLC ones. And in ME3, with only 2 playthroughs done, I've only about 4 Achievements left to go. Sure, I don't have the Pinnacle Station DLC for ME1 which has a nice number of achievements, but even still - all those companion and power-related achievements are just ridiculous. In ME1, I bring squadmates whose powers synergise well with my own, and usually that results in me bringing the same 3 or 4 in rotation - depending on the mission. Hence, I don't think I'll ever get more than 1 or 2 of the companion achievements (they seem to be virtually impossible to get anyway - I bring Garrus almost everywhere and I've yet to get his). I'm not exactly an "Achievement Hunter", but I like to complete a game to the best of my ability. And for a game I've played so much, Mass Effect 1 still feels incomplete in my mind. --An Ceannaire (talk) 13:48, July 24, 2012 (UTC)