Been a while since I've posted, yes. In the intervening time, I've acquired a PS3 to sit alongside my 360. As you might already know, they too have achievables, only they call them "Trophies". And unlike XBLA, they merely rate the tasks as bronze/silver/gold (also platinum, but this is exclusively for 100% completions). Seems a bit more limiting in scope, if you ask me.
On the other hand, it has given me a scientific hypothesis to formulate and test.
SCOPE: Cross-platform games, that 1) are available for both XBox360 and PlayStation3, 2) have identical achievables (X360 achievements, PS3 trophies).
HYPOTHESIS: For any game within scope, an achievable with a given trophy level on PS3 will fall within a specific Gamerscore range on X360.
NULL HYPOTHESIS: There is no correlation between Gamerscore value and Trophy level.
PROCEDURE: Full list of Achievements will be acquired from
TrueAchievements.com, and full list of Trophies will be acquired from
PS3Trophies.com; lists will be compared. Minimum and maximum Gamerscore amounts will be determined for each Trophy level. Platinum Trophies will be ignored, as they are given exclusively for 100% completion, and Achievements for same on XBox360 Games are not always included.
Now that this is established, apply the procedure to some games. I'll start with the game I'm currently working through,
Fallout 3.
DATA COLLECTEDBronze Trophies worth 10G (6)
Mercenary, Protector, Psychotic Prankster, Reaver, The G.O.A.T. Whisperer, Vault 101 Citizenship Award
Bronze Trophies worth 20G (35)
Agatha's Song, Ambassador of Peace, Big Trouble in Big Town, Blood Ties,
Devil, Doesn't Play Well With Others, Escape!, Finding the Garden of Eden, Following in His Footsteps, Galaxy News Radio, Harbinger of War, Head of State, Messiah, Oasis, Picking up the Trail, Pinnacle of Survival, Reilly's Rangers, Rescue from Paradise, Scientific Pursuits, Slayer of Beasts, Stealing Independence, Strictly Business, Tenpenny Tower, The American Dream, The Nuka-Cola Challenge, The Power of the Atom, The Replicated Man, The Superhuman Gambit, The Wasteland Survival Guide, The Waters of Life, Those!, Tranquility Lane, Trouble on the Homefront, True Mortal, You Gotta Shoot 'Em In The Head
Total Bronze: 41
Silver Trophies worth 10G (1)
Yes, I Play With Dolls
Silver Trophies worth 20G (15)
Aiding the Outcasts, Alien Archivist, Among the Stars, Data Miner, Into the Pitt, Keys are for Cowards, Mill Worker, Not of this World, One-Man Scouting Party, Paving the Way, Silver-Tongued Devil, The Guns of Anchorage, The Local Flavor, Unsafe Working Conditions, Walking With Spirits
Silver Trophies worth 30G (6)
Death from Above, Last Best Hope for Humanity, Paradigm of Humanity, Scourge of Humanity, Shock Value, Weaponsmith
Silver Trophies worth 40G (2)
Bog Walker, Take it Back!
Total Silver: 24
Gold Trophies by worth
A Meeting of the Minds (20G)
The Bigger They Are... (20G)
Vault-Tec C.E.O. (30G)
Who Dares Wins (30G)
Free Labor (40G)
Operation: Anchorage (40G)
This Galaxy Ain't Big Enough... (40G)
Total Gold: 7
ANALYSISIf you just look at bronze/silver, there's a clear dividing line at 20G. Only one achievable crosses this line (Yes I Play With Dolls, 10G/silver). If that were all, it could be dismissed as an outlier.
Adding in the gold trophies makes this result a bit more murky. I expected all of the gold trophies to be worth 40G or more, but more than half of them were less than this.
It might make more sense if Bog Walker(40/S) and A Meeting of the Minds (20/G) had their Gamerscore values switched. It would fit with the common pattern, established with other DLC packs, of the last quest being worth 40 and the extra non-quest task being worth 20.
CONCLUSION: Insufficient DataBased on the data I've collected from this game alone, the hypothesis has been disproved, and the null hypothesis has not. Can't come to a final conclusion just yet, as I've only collected data for one game. I figure I'd need to do this for several more games.
More posts in this series coming.
