On the fickle nature of achievements

[Ezdaar]

I was somehow denied the achivement for using only the gravity gun in Ravenholm in HL2. This is most frustrating since playing through that stage with only the gravity gun was a huge pain in the ass. All I can imagine is that I didn't get it since I fired off one of my other weapons by accident. I know of course that I earned the achievement but it sure would be nice to actually get credit for it.

Anyone else run into this or a similar achievement situation where you put in some effort to get it and ended up not getting it for some arcane reason?

[jabroni]

I was dumb enough to take the gnome along with me on my commentary play-through of Episode 2. Luckily I gave up when I got to the helicopter chase, only to find out later that achievements don't count on commentary mode, which I should have realized since they give you god mode while they talk.

[Cronox]

I had to start a new live account when I moved from the UK back to Australia (I tried to continue using my UK account but it wouldn’t accept my Australian credit card/address and I couldn’t be bothered trying to sort it out with their support system/staff). This has resulted in me currently replaying forza 2, saints row and crackdown at least partially to get achievements. I feel disappointed in myself.

[BDGE]

I was somehow denied the achivement for using only the gravity gun in Ravenholm in HL2. This is most frustrating since playing through that stage with only the gravity gun was a huge pain in the ass. All I can imagine is that I didn't get it since I fired off one of my other weapons by accident. I know of course that I earned the achievement but it sure would be nice to actually get credit for it.

Anyone else run into this or a similar achievement situation where you put in some effort to get it and ended up not getting it for some arcane reason?

You don't actually get the Ravenholm pop-up until a bit later when you emerge from the car tunnel onto the highway in the buggy(end of chapter). Did you play up to that point yet without firing a gun?

I got screwed out of achievements for finishing The Darkness on Hard difficulty. Apparently there is a glitch wherein if you decide to replay a chapter of the game anytime before finishing the game, then it assumes you messed with the difficulty slider(even if you don't) for your playthrough and screws you out of achievements. Beat it, but got no difficulty completion ones because I replayed the intro chapter over and over for the 'shoot x number of guards in car tunnel' achievement halfway through the game. Lame.

Finished C&C3 on Hard difficulty, but you don't get the achievements for Easy or Normal as well. EA expects you to play the campaign through on all difficulties instead of lumping them together...stupid.

[Fugitive]

I missed out on a couple of achievements for completing chapters and the end of the game in the PC version of Halo 2, because the GfW Live code blows and desynced the save state if your connection to Live was lost, and it then refuses to grant achievements unless you redo the whole chapter.

And there are a handful of ones I wasted far too much time on but still didn't get, like the agility orbs in Crackdown and grubs in HL2:Ep2. (Due to giving up though, not glitches.)

[SqueakyFoo]

I was somehow denied the achivement for using only the gravity gun in Ravenholm in HL2. This is most frustrating since playing through that stage with only the gravity gun was a huge pain in the ass. All I can imagine is that I didn't get it since I fired off one of my other weapons by accident. I know of course that I earned the achievement but it sure would be nice to actually get credit for it.

Anyone else run into this or a similar achievement situation where you put in some effort to get it and ended up not getting it for some arcane reason?
In Gears of War, there was a bug where if you killed Raam with the turret, you wouldn't get credit. You have no idea how fucking pissed I was.

[fuzzyslug]

Finished C&C3 on Hard difficulty, but you don't get the achievements for Easy or Normal as well. EA expects you to play the campaign through on all difficulties instead of lumping them together...stupid.

Don't the Guitar Hero games do this as well? You could fall asleep playing through on easy.

[Nathan Phoenix]

This isn't really an achievement issue but I'm annoyed because I went to play some Gears on Insane yesterday and the game has it blanked out as though I haven't completed hardcore first. I double checked and I have the achievements for beating the game on hardcore and for finishing the first two levels on insane. I sure don't feel like playing the entire game again to fix that... pisses me off.

[MyNameIsWill]

Don't the Guitar Hero games do this as well? You could fall asleep playing through on easy.
Yea and it's quite lame.

[Ezdaar]

I did make it to Highway 17 and didn't get the achievement. I imagine it is because I shot some other weapon in frustration at a wall early in the Ravenholm section. I didn't realize that would screw up the achievement. Oh well. I was thinking of trying for the not touching the sand one but I don't think I will now.

[Bahimiron]

I was thinking of trying for the not touching the sand one but I don't think I will now.

It ain't hard. I got it on accident.