Batman Arkham City Achievement Takes Year to Complete

This easy to miss Batman Arkham City Achievement requires users to manipulate their system settings or start marking their calendars for the next year.

[explicitd]

It would take some serious dedication to actually do this legitimately.

[BattleTorn]

Well considering majority of the dates are prior to now (release), can this acheivement actually be done legitimately?

beginning to think this was a error in the guide.

[dski1080]

The year only matters for the holidays that fall on a different day every year:

Mothers Day
Fathers Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving

So if you were going to do this legitimately you'd have to look up what days those fall on in 2012.

[saladthieves]

I'll do this legitimately...gonna take me some time though

[Soldierone]

At above. So since I don't have money to buy it now, I won't be screwed right? I wonder how far in advance they planned it.

[torchic]

there's a trophy/achievement on Crysis 2 that requires you to log on 6 months after your first online game. and you can't manipulate it as it uses the online server times. not as bad as completing this trophy legitimately but still... dedication

[M-Easy]

True and the trophy/achievement is glitched, how hilarious is that lol?

[joab777]

Its the first, or second one I got, to get out of the way & I'm glad it isn't like crysis 2 b/c I'm 3 weeks over 6 months and it isn't popping and its my last trophy. As a hint, feast of St. Roch is August 16th. Calenderman is quite sadistic, especially father's day, lol. And, its gonna take a bit to plat for 2 reasons, there's a ton of content & i can't seem to make any progress because i just keep traveling around and kicking a$%!. I love how got feels like i just got done w asylumn...so familiar.

And it reminds me of another superhero game that i found myself wandering for hours...infamous.

[IrishAssa]

Smart enough way to attack used sales...for Achievement hunting f**gits

[Gamer1982]

There will be few people doing this legit. Also means those who platinum/finish it within the first week did it through UN-legitimate means lol.

[teedogg80]

Pauses video before spoilers...I'm gonna attempt to try it!

[HardCover]

It's still nothing compared to any of WoW's toughest achievements. Plenty of them are based around holidays, and you CAN'T cheat the clock.

Then there are achievements like Insane In The Membrane.... Oh God that one's ridiculous....

[thedarkvault]

I guess if you really wanted it legit you could set up a bunch of calendar alarms on your phone

[beer_baron]

Was Calendar Man in Arkham Asylum?

[Rampaged Death]

Not physically but there were items and such associated to him.

[dski1080]

Did any of those items relate to the stories he tells for each holiday in the video?

[Kran]

There was one room in the Asylum which was filled with calendar day sheets covering the entire room.

[saladthieves]

It's actually one of Riddler's challenges, and it's a cell prison within one of the cells. You walk in, and just scan the environment.

[Spitfire_Riggz]

In one part of the game you actually get to see a jail cell with a bunch of post its with dates on them I think. Bunch of calendars everywhere or something like that

[Pikajew]

Gothem need to get death row

[smashcrashbash]

You can't kill people with mental illnesses. They are not responsible for what they are doing. Arkum needs to update and improve their methods

[SilentNegotiator]

"You can't kill people with mental illnesses. They are not responsible for what they are doing"

We all run on random chemical impulses in our brains. We can't let murders off because they're extra messed up in the head. Especially comic book characters.

Vote 'yes' on B12....the initiative to give comic book characters the death penalty!

[despair]

After the number of people these "mental patients" kill in real life someone would've just put a bullet in their heads and noone would care.

I mean how many hundreds of dead bodies before a police officer just shoots joker when he's being transported or an arkham guard just gives a lethal dose along with the happy pills.

Still if you kill the super villains then you won't have a comic book or non zombie related video game sequels.

[geddesmond]

I think trophies like this are retarded. Having to wait a full year to unlock a platinum trophy legitimately is a big outrage. Its never going to stop people from trading in a game so why bother.

[explicitd]

Can you switch the time on the PS3 like you can on the 360?

[doctorstrange]

Yup

[Vortex3D]

PS3 has two clocks, user clock can manually change and internal clock that user can't manually change and only updated when you sync time over the internet.

I have tried manually change the user clock and the trophies time stamp were still based on the internal clock.

Not sure if Batman AC looks at the user or internal clock to count that you "play" the game on the required days.

Has anyone unlocked the trophy by manually adjusting the user clock?

[Robotronfiend]

Yes, but if changing the time manually does not unlock it, then you will have to d/c from the internet and figure out how to change the internal clock. I'm not sure which clock the trophy syncs with.

[SwampCroc]

I did this on PS3 just like the video suggests and it worked... you disable internet, change date... load game.. talk to calender man... exit back door of courthouse and exit out and continue with all dates..

read my post at the very bottom.

I believe the calender is set... and doesn't change as real time moves forward... so if this is the case... during the actual year 2012... the dates on Calender Man's calender will still correspond with 2011. so you can get it by just playing normally on those specific dates.

I.E. - The Mothers Day One is marked May 8th 2011... unless the actual calender changes when we enter 2012 than on May 8th 2012 you should be able to hear what Calender Man says on that day.

[Dead_Cell]

Not really, it's done for effect. Look at the Psycho Mantis Controller Switch in MGS1, how long do you think it took people to figure that one out?

[rogimusprime]

Didn't take long at all, as the colonel was kind enough to suggest it if you died more than a few times. and THAT was actually fun. This seems like just a pain that only the whoriest(?) of trophy whores will go after...

[firelogic]

Outrage over a trophy? Yeah, you have your priorities straight alright.

[beer_baron]

Which achievement is more ludicrous; collecting over 400 collectibles or unplugging your console from the internet and changing the date 12 times?

[geddesmond]

I think you missed the unlocking a trophy legitimately part. Disabling the internet connection and unlocking that way is sort of cheating. Secondly what about the ones like Crysis 2 that unlock if you play an online game 6 months after your first online game. At least with a collect 400 items trophies you are given a chance to get the platnum in your own time.

@Firelogic

Your the one who needs his priorities straight. Your defending a trophy that was put into a game to help the developers only. As for me when I buy a game I expect the challenges a trophy list offers to be a test to my gaming ability and I like racing PSN friends to a platnum. Wheres the challenge in disabling your internet and setting your PSN clock 12 times???

@Dead Cell

In MGS1 you could get by that part without switching controllers and in MGS3 you could kill that old sniper without setting the date forward until he died of old age.

[sjaakiejj]

Care to clarify how this trophy would help the developer in any way? If you've got the game, they already have your money. They won't really care about what you do with it afterwards.

[Cablephish]

@geddesmond

Consider this trophy a test of your patience then.

[Kahvipannu]

Hmm.. it does sound a bit over the top, but most retarded trophy must be in MK. You have to play 24h with each character separatelly, and besides that make 100 fatalities with each one, etc..

It's just insane, there is so many characters to play with.. I got Jade "mastered", but that took insane ammount of playing already.

[Brownghost]

I like those kind of achievements and love the game

[Xenial]

It would be cool if the achievement was tangible within a months time and could adjust to the first start up of the game so if you started the game in July it would be possible to get it in July; same thing with other months as well. And if you didn't get it within that month it would reset to next month.
Just my opinion, a year is a bit too long. Cool achievement though.

[explicitbaron]

Wikigameguides makes such great guides it SHOCKING the founders are not in to Forbes 100 richest men.

[NyGiants7]

Reminds me of the days of restarting Animal Crossing over and over and changing the date to get certain items

[Neo Nugget]

Only Arkham City doesn't get filled with weeds afterwards :P

[rogimusprime]

and Pedophiles don't use Arkham City to track down fresh meat....

[Cablephish]

lol I remember I changed the date many times to find the NES games in Nook's shop... Or was it Redd's Market?

Good times...

[Robotronfiend]

I did it for Flower on PSN.

[Hozi]

Haha...that kinda funny. Can't wait to play this although Im not sure I'll be able to do this achievement legitimately.

[damnyouretall]

to be honest i never cared about acheivments. i dont know why. and this one makes me really not care.

[king05]

Yea, its not like I ever go out of my way to acquire them, if the sound pops up, then it pops up...

[dionnysus]

more cleverness from Rocksteady

[SwampCroc]

the dates are circled on the calender in the game... they all correspond with the year 2011.

i did it last night and got it... it was tedious... but today I started thinking about it..

they are circled in game on the calender, one specific day during each month... and it's an integral scripted part of the game. since the days on the map are circled i'm assuming it will always be the same...

so if you're playing in 2012 on let's say May 8th (2011 Mother's Day)... you can still get it because most likely the calender won't change when the new year hits...

but if the calender does change after the new year... to a 2012 calender then you can do it legit... and I'm completely wrong... either way.. I just felt like getting it before I get into the bulk of the game..

trophies/acheivements and shit just show us how much of a life we don't have... haha.. nah but it's easy to get just like the video says.. but I can understand why people wouldn't even try for it... It's only a bronze anyway, so probably 10 GS points on Xbox.

[Pillville]

"You Don't Know Jack" has a similar Trophy/Achievement:

Turncoat - Play on July 4th instead of celebrating America

[Zephol]

what? curse not!!