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Pointless Achievements: Kayak Master


What’s that? You find Fishing Resort way too calm and relaxing?
Well then, just try a kayak race and watch your blood pressure soar!

In case you hadn’t heard, Fishing Resort is possibly the greatest fishing game ever made, and just a good game in general. It can also be really relaxing at times. What with scenic surroundings and the mellow vibe it gives off. I even thought of holding a contest to give away a copy of Fishing Resort. Then I remembered almost nobody visits this site.

But even with its laid back gameplay, Fishing Resort isn’t above tedious goals with only a razor thin margin of error, nor am I above pursuing such pointless goals even though I really really should know better by this point.

Fishing Resort has achievements, or accomplishments, or whatever the hell you want to call them. All though a lot of them are a pain in the ass, they usually have something to do with fishing. Not the case with Kayak Master, which takes what should have been a simple diversion and turns it into a tortuous ordeal.

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Pointless Achievements: Keeper of the Black Cross


You collected flags. You’re the keeper of worthless shit!
Leave it to Ubisoft to put the ASS in Assassin’s Creed.

Or Keeper of the Four Gospels, or Keeper of the Crescent, they’re all just fancy fucking names to dress up a single worthless collect-a-thon that is part of the misery that is Assassin’s Creed! God I hated this game. The story is absurd and bogged down with a horribly unnecessary Sci-Fi framing device only created to hand wave all the games awful glitches and inconsistencies. The gameplay is incredibly stilted. The actual Assassinations are padded out to ridiculous lengths with god awful filler missions that involve sitting on a bench or following some random jack-ass. Even most of the actual Assassinations feel incredibly scripted, where you might as well be playing a cutscene.

I felt so ripped off by Assassin’s Creed that I demanded my money back, which was a really odd thing for me to do because I actually borrowed it from a friend free of charge. I hated playing Assassin’s Creed so much I swore of the series right then and there. I hear people say the sequels are actually “better”, but I also heard the same people say the first one was “good”, so I don’t trust those people.

But the crowing moment of crap had to be the “Keeper of…” achievements, which was a fancy way of saying you had wasted large chunks of your life collecting tiny little flags that had been casually strewn across a giant game map. And what did you get for collecting all these fucking flags? Nothing. Just an achievement that marks what a loser you are, unless you’re playing the PS3 version, which was released before the trophy update, in which case you literally got nothing.

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