by Wynn on Thu May 15, 2008 6:39 pm
So, after accruing 21 hours of gameplay on my save, I decided to sprint to the end to earn the achievement for finishing the missions in 30 hours. In order to do this, I skipped all the cut scenes, and always took a taxi to waypoints (skipping the taxi ride).
This is a terrible achievement, because I think it actually ruined my enjoyment of the game. Skipping cutscenes turned out to be unnecessary, but the time crunch made me feel like it was better to do so. I ended up missing out on one of the best parts of the game! Ah well. I might go through it again.
If you want this achievement, I'd suggest using the taxi trick. Also, if you ever fail a mission, just reload the previous save. Lastly, postpone all the optional stuff until after you complete the missions. It still kinda sucks, because I'd rather have the freedom to hop around to different optional things as I go through and discover them. This achivement kind of locks you into playing a certain way, and I found it to be dissatisfying.