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Archived: Quick/Do Nothing Achievements

This guide lists quick (about an hour or less from the time you first pop the disc into the tray) and "do nothing" achievements. "Do nothing" achievements are achievements that, once you set them up, you can walk away from the XBox and the achievement will eventually pop (like an achievement for spending X amount of time in a game). Please feel free to post any achievements that you do not see on the list. Please make sure to include the time required to get them and it should be less than an hour. try to be accurate with the times. Remember, it will take a first time player longer to navigate through menus than it will a seasoned player, so don't underestimate the times.

Last Updated: 08/25/2010

Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth:
150G "The Flow of Combat I" - Achieve a Hit Counter of 10.
150G "The Flow of Combat II" - Achieve a Hit Counter of 20.
200G "The Flow of Combat III" - Achieve a Hit Counter of 30.
200G "The Art of Combat" - Achieve a Hit Counter of 40.
300G "One with Combat" - Achieve a Hit Counter of 50.

All 5 achievements can be obtained in less than 5 minutes. Basically, just move to the left and start mashing the 'B' button when the game starts. Search for one of the guides or video if you need further details on this.

Batman: Arkham Asylum:
Batman: Arkham Asylum: Game of the Year:
5G "Freeflow Combo 5" - 5 move combo. Press X to build up a 5 hit combo. Should get it when you fight for the first time. 10 mins.
10G "Shocking Rescue" - Takedown Zsasz. 20 mins.
10G "Leave No Man Behind" - Rescue 3 men by pressing 'A' to lift them up. It's at the room with the gas in it. About 30 mins. from start of game.

NOTE: These games have the same achievements but are separate games, so you can get each achievement twice!

Chime:
50G "Fairy Godmother" - You get this for buying and starting the game. 2 min.

Dash of Destruction:
10G "Extinction Event" - Win a multiplayer game. Set up a multiplayer game (two controllers). Type: Chaos, Map: Any, Deliveries: 20, Eats: 1. Select the T-Rex to start and you only need to destroy one truck for the achievement. < 5 mins.

Dead Rising:
20G "Marathon Runner" - Run 26.2 miles - You can tape the left and right sticks down on the roof to run 26.2 miles.
20G "Indoorsman" - Remain inside for one day - At start of game, go in security room and stay for 2 hours (real time).
20G "Outdoorsman" - Remain outside for one day - At start of game, just stay on roof for 2 hours (real time).
20G "3 Day Survivor" - Just wait on roof for 6 hours (3 days game time) and then get on helicopter. You just completed a whole game doing nothing! LOL
20G "Freefall" - When you gain control of your character at the beginning of the game, climb on the security room roof and then onto the air conditioner on that roof and jump off. Takes about 10 minutes due to initial cut-scenes.

Eragon:
20G "The Spine Mountains - Normal" - Complete first tutorial level on normal difficulty. < 10 mins.
30G "The Spine Mountains - Hard" - Complete first tutorial level on hard difficulty. < 20 mins. (includes time for 'normal' achievement. Achievements aren't stackable).

Guitar Hero II:
10G "Long Road Ahead Award" - Fail a song on easy. Requires no work.
10G "Extra Credit Award" - Watch the credits. About 30 mins. No work.

Guitar Hero: World Tour:
5G "Download Junkie" - Download a few songs (3) from GHTunes.
5G "Stamp Of Approval" - You created your own band logo.
5G "One Of A Kind Axe" - You created your own custom guitar.
5G "Warrior Of Rock" - You created a male band member.
5G "Custom Beats" - You created your own custom drums.
5G "Rock Maiden" - You created a female band member.
5G "Inked" - You created a custom tattoo.

Just do the above randomly, then save them. Altogether shouldn't take more than an hour.

Gun:
5G "The Hunt Complete" - Complete first level. About 10 mins.

Madden Aracde:
10G "Games Don't Grown On Trees" - All you have to do is start the credits and it pops!

Madden NFL 06:
10G "Enter History Book" - Enter any of the history book screens in Franchise mode.
10G "Activate RS Card" - Activate any of the RS cards.
30G "Score a Touchdown" - Score a Touchdown in any Offline game mode.
20G "Get a First Down" - Gain a first down in any offline game mode.
30G "Complete an Offline Game" - Successfully complete an offline game.
100G "Four Sacks in One Game" - Amass four sacks in one game.
100G "Win a Franchise Game" - Win a user-controlled Franchise game.
100G "Rush for 200 Yards" - Successfully rush for 200 yards or more.
100G "Pass for 350 Yards" - Successfully pass for over 350 yards or more.
100G "Win the Super Bowl" - Win the Super Bowl with your Franchise team.

First two are really quick, just go to the History Books screen for the first one, and while in the middle of a game, just push down(click) on the Right Stick. There's the second achievement. The others are really easy to get in one game, just turn the difficulty down all the way, choose all the teams in franchise mode, play one game as the Colts and have the computer control the other team, earn in-game chivies, then just sim the rest of the season. Since you have all the teams selected as yours, no matter what, someone has to win the Super Bowl, lol.

Madden NFL 09:
50G "Now Here's a Guy..." - Create "John Madden" character. Takes 2 min.
50G "Midway Monster" - Create "Bones Jackson" character. Takes 2 min.

Scene It: LCA:
15G "Intern" - Answer a question correctly.
15G "Extra" - Played a multiplayer game.
15G "Supporting Actor" - Won a round in a multiplayer game.
15G "Matinee" - Won a short game.
25G "Lead Actor" - Won a multiplayer game.

You can get all the above achievements by playing a local multiplayer short game with a 2nd controller (just don't let the 2nd controller win, LOL). A short game should take you 25 minutes or less. NOTE: If you are good at trivia you will probably get some other achievements as well but the above are guaranteed.

Sherlock Holmes:
80G "Curious" - Study all the objects in Sherlock Holmes's apartment. Just look at all the objects at the start of the game. Takes < 10 mins.

The Beatles: Rock Band:
5G "Let's Get Some Levels" - Calibrate your guitar. Takes 2 mins.
10G "Liverpool Lads" - Play a song in The Cavern '63 in Story. Takes 5 mins.

The Saboteur:
5G "Chain Smoker" - Smoke 100 cigarettes, lay down controller and will have within an hour.

The Simpsons Game:
5G "Press START to Play" - Just hit your start button. 1 min.

Tony Hawks American Wasteland:
50G "The New You" - Complete first mission. 10 mins.

Contributors: C0LDH3ARTED, Grenade Rising, nightstorm56, nowherebig, Panthera onca, xsupermanx81x

Quote by Panthera onca:

I'm interested in a list of achievements that are either really quick (from the time you first pop the disc into the tray) or require you to do nothing.

I've done lots of searches and there are plenty of lists that show you whole games that are quick, but I want something that is achievement specific. I'd gladly help compile such a list.

For example (some that I just aquired):

Guitar Hero II
10 "Long Road Ahead Award" - Fail a song on easy. Requires no work.
10 "Extra Credit Award" - Watch the credits. About 30 mins. No work.

Madden NFL 09
50 "Now Here's a Guy..." - Create "John Madden" character. Takes 2 min.
50 "Midway Monster" - Create "Bones Jackson" character. Takes 2 min.

I have lots more I can add if there is any interest.

So are you saying your going to make a list, or you want a list to have?

I would love to make a list. I just didn't want to "step on anyone's toes" if this was something that was already done. I haven't been able to find such a list though.

I joined my first achievement competition this week and thought such a list would be good to have if you needed some quick achievement points to pass someone in a competition.

I guess I will go ahead and start adding the ones I already know about and others can submit ones as well and I will add them in.

For right now, I will define "quick" as an hour or less and "do nothing" as once you set it up, you can put the controller down and walk away and at some point the achievement will pop.

The Simpsons Game
5G Press Start to Play- just hit your start button

Tony Hawks American Wasteland
50G The New You- complete first mission 10mins.

The Saboteur
5G Chain Smoker-smoke 100 cigarettes,lay down controller and will have within an hour

Dead Rising: Marathon Runner 20G: Run x amount of miles
Indoorsman 20G: Remain inside for one day
Outdoorsman 20G: Remain inside for one day

Just rubber band your analog stick and go outside once your done indoorsman.

LOL. I'm actually running Dead Rising as we speak with the stick taped down to get these achievements!

Guitar Hero: World Tour
Download Junkie - Download a few songs from GHTunes
Stamp Of Approval - You created your own band logo
One Of A Kind Axe - You created your own custom guitar
Warrior Of Rock - You created a male band member
Custom Beats - You created your own custom drums
Rock Maiden - You created a female band member
Inked - You created a custom tattoo

Each worth 5G (35G total). Just do random, then save them. Altogether shouldn't take more than an hour

There's the Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth chivies, which are about 2-3 minutes to get - 1000G

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Create a male golfer -Create a Male Gameface character
Create a female golfer - Create a Female Gameface character

Each worth 5G. Same as above, just create and save.

Madden 06
Enter History Book - 10G - Enter any of the history book screens in Franchise mode.
Activate RS Card - 10 - Activate any of the RS cards.
Score a Touchdown - 30G - Score a Touchdown in any Offline game mode.
Get a First Down - 20G - Gain a first down in any offline game mode.
Complete an Offline Game - 30G - Successfully complete an offline game.
Four Sacks in One Game - 100G - Amass four sacks in one game.
Win a Franchise Game - 100G - Win a user-controlled Franchise game.
Rush for 200 Yards - 100G - Successfully rush for 200 yards or more.
Pass for 350 Yards - 100G - Successfully pass for over 350 yards or more.
Win the Super Bowl - 100G - Win the Super Bowl with your Franchise team.

First two are really quick, just go to the History Books screen for the first one, and while in the middle of a game, just push down(click) on the Right Stick. There's the second achievement. The others are really easy to get in one game, just turn the difficulty down all the way, choose all the teams in franchise mode, play one game as the Colts and have the computer control the other team, earn in-game chivies, then just sim the rest of the season. Since you have all the teams selected as yours, no matter what, someone has to win the Super Bowl, lol.

All these should give you 600G.

That's my short list of games with quick/easy chivies.

Thanks nightstorm (and everyone else)! I'll get your stuff added later tonight. I have to get back to my real work now. I'll also be adding some markup to clean it up a bit and I'll add a contributors section to give everyone credit.

If you are still able to download the live draft tracker and score tracker games, they are both full of achievements that you only need to enter menus to unlock. The other ones are for logging in on certain days. I don't know if they are still available though.

Battlefield 1943:
-20G Melee Man: Melee kill one enemy player
-10G Parachutist: Use the parachute once (2 seconds)
-20G Master of your domain: Get one kill playing as each class
NBA 2K10 Draft Combine:
-5G The Legend Begins: Create your player
-15G Practice Makes Perfect: Complete 3 drills
NBA Live 10:
-5G From Downtown Rookie: Score a 3 point shot for the first time in a single solo game
-20G Connect with D-Wade: Hit six 3 pointers with Dwyane Wade (NBA) in a single solo game
-5G Come fly with me: Get a solo dunk for the first time in a single solo game
Command and Conquer 3:
-20G Rookie No More: Complete boot camp mission
Saints Row:
-10G Canonized: Joined the 3rd street saints.
-10G Reclamationist: Retook saints row.

Madden Arcade "Games Don't Grow On Trees" 10g

All you have to do is start the credits and it pops!