8 Times Video Games Directly Insulted Other Games

2. Dead Rising & Left 4 Dead's Achievement Battle

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There's an element of back and forth in this one that makes it much funnier than it might have been otherwise, and there's also a liberal dose of pettiness that made it all the more juicy for consumers to sit back and enjoy.

Two of the largest franchises in the world of zombie-based video games went head-to-head over the strangest of things: total kill count achievements.

It all began with Capcom's 2006 effort, Dead Rising. One of the achievements, simply named "Zombie Genocider" required players to kill a total of 53,594 of the undead (that being the population for the game's setting of Willamette, Colorado).

Two short years later, Valve released their own undead action-shooter, Left 4 Dead, in which they included an achievement named "Zombie Genocidest", requiring 53,595 zombie kills.

Not content to live with this blatant show of one-upsmanship, when Capcom's follow up, Dead Rising 2, was released in 2010, they included a new achievement named "Z-Genocider 2: Genocide Harder", this time requiring a kill-count of 53,596.

Valve had the good sense to let this joke die while it was still funny, but for four years, two major studios were locked in a bizarre competition that could have easily sailed over the heads of less observant players.

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