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Grand Theft Auto 4: Endangered Species Achievement

by on Dec.06, 2010, under Ridiculous Achievements

The most stupid of achievements are possibly the collection mission ones as they’re blatantly a way of making the player “visit” every nook and cranny in the game which will massage the ego of anybody who worked on the aesthetics of a game environment. This is one in particular is a shitty one.

Fucking stupid fucking pigeons! Arrgh!!

Pigeons are sporadically spread about the entirety of Liberty City and you have to shoot all 200 of them. 200? In GTA3 there were only 100 packages to get and you had to run over them, so they were relatively easy to come by, ok so some maybe required a tiny bit of parkour but they were attainable. Since these “packages” are gun fodder, these pigeons are in the stupidest of locations and you require a sniper rifle to get half of them. This is assuming that you HAVE a sniper rifle, that and you happen to be looking exactly in that one place.

Yes you can get a guide off the internet but I don’t like doing that. I did the 100 packages in GTA3 under my own steam and that comes with a level of merit on my part, I don’t want some 15 year old virgin’s ambiguous description of a location written on a downloadable notepad telling me where these things are. Yes the pigeons make a “cooing” noise, but they are not in OBVIOUS  places, certainly places where you could feasibly find a fucking pigeon!

I was actually sad enough to complete this achievement, but I can’t hide my frustration of when I was stuck on 199/200 pigeons and I was driving around the city like a madman for about 6 hours before I stumbled across the last one casually sitting on a road bridge. I’m glad I completed it and subsequently got the 100% complete for GTA4, but what I don’t like is how culling the local fauna is required for a 50G achievement especially when they’re hidden in stupid areas.

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