Less than amusing ramblings from a jaded former gamer.
Yeah, an achievement for getting lucky at a game, inside a game.
Really hard pressed to find something quite as pointless as this.
I can’t seem to leave BioShock alone, can I? But I’ll spare you any long rants this time, because you don’t need to know anything about BioShock to appreciate how completely worthless an “achievement” like this is. At one point in BioShock you can find some still working slot machines. Like any slot machine you put money in, and if the little icons line up you’ll win some money back.
You get the Lucky Winner achievement when three dollar signs line up and you win the $250 jackpot… That’s about it, there’s no trick to this. You just pour your money into a machine and hope it’ll hit the jackpot. You have to wait for it to finish spinning each time, and your odds of hitting a Jackpot are really damn slim. You don’t even need to worry about losing money because you can just save your game before you attempt this and if you go broke, reload your last save and try again.
That’s it, that’s the whole achievement. The name says it all. “Lucky Winner” You just got to be lucky. You can click the picture up there to watch a “guide” of someone demonstrating how to get it. But it’s all luck. Some get it right away, some people it takes two hours. I seem to remember it took me like ten to twenty minutes to get it. Just some pointless achievement where you have to stop and occasionally hit the A button while doing absolutely nothing else. You probably don’t even need the money. Most of my pointless achievement posts have long stories connected to them. But not this one. It’s so pointless there’s nothing really to talk about. I’ve got absolutely nothing left to say in fact.
I said I’ve got nothing left to say! Come on, I’ve been posting giant rants all week. If you really need something else to read, go check out one of my other posts, I’m sure there’s at least one you haven’t read. I’m tired, my back hurts, I failed Green Grass and High Tides with less than 5% to go earlier, and I only just now got around to watching Star Trek: The Animated Series Volume 2.
It came in like Monday, but I’ve been so busy I didn’t get to watch it until this morning. Every day you sit on a Netflix envelope is like throwing money down a hole, a hole that eats money. Is that what you want? For me to be standing over some unnatural money eating hole? Just throwing wadded up dollar bills in it while my Netflix rentals go unwatched? Yeah, bet you didn’t think of that, probably because it makes no sense. Point is, I’m trying to relax this weekend.
