Achievements and unlockable weapons exist to cover up the mediocrity of the game you are playing so it can draw you along for a few extra hours without providing you with any actual content.
Achievements.
- Thread starter Stevedave00
- Start date
Recommended Videos
You youngsters just don't understand.
Back in my day we had to walk barefoot uphill through the snow both ways to the arcade, and there was only one game and it was broken, but they took your money anyway, that you didn't have, because we didn't have nice things back then and....
...wait... kinda went on a tangent there. Sorry.
Picture if you will...
It's the 80's. "Video games" are a novelty. The ability to control dots moving across a screen was considered high-tech. There was no online multiplayer. Hell, there was rarely multiplayer. So what did you do?
You shot for the high-score.
You wanted to be the one whose initials were at the top of the arcade console. People established fucking *noteriety* for this, even as recently as the days of the fighting game.
"You see that guy?"
"Yeah."
"That's THS. From the Street Fighter machine."
"The guy who won 28 matches in a row? No way!"
Nowadays, high score has been largely replaced. Few games even have a "score" anymore. But we still have gamerscore, to give those of us who remember (or at least who resonate) with a score system something to call our own.
I'll never be able to beat my little brother in Halo, but my high score kicks his ass.
- J
Back in my day we had to walk barefoot uphill through the snow both ways to the arcade, and there was only one game and it was broken, but they took your money anyway, that you didn't have, because we didn't have nice things back then and....
...wait... kinda went on a tangent there. Sorry.
Picture if you will...
It's the 80's. "Video games" are a novelty. The ability to control dots moving across a screen was considered high-tech. There was no online multiplayer. Hell, there was rarely multiplayer. So what did you do?
You shot for the high-score.
You wanted to be the one whose initials were at the top of the arcade console. People established fucking *noteriety* for this, even as recently as the days of the fighting game.
"You see that guy?"
"Yeah."
"That's THS. From the Street Fighter machine."
"The guy who won 28 matches in a row? No way!"
Nowadays, high score has been largely replaced. Few games even have a "score" anymore. But we still have gamerscore, to give those of us who remember (or at least who resonate) with a score system something to call our own.
I'll never be able to beat my little brother in Halo, but my high score kicks his ass.
- J
Sometimes Achievements can allow some players to consider gameplay situations that they may not have considered otherwise. Other times they are, as someone said, "penis points".
I find achievements add replay value to a degree like I'm slighty more motivated to beat a game on a harder difficulty for an extra 50 gamerscore. But trust me if I hate a game I'm not going to go for them.
They're e-penis points, per se.
When I get one that isn't a story achievement, and is just something that I did that was cool, it's quite satisfying. And sometimes they unlock in-game content. The content ones are the only ones I'll go out of my way for.
When I get one that isn't a story achievement, and is just something that I did that was cool, it's quite satisfying. And sometimes they unlock in-game content. The content ones are the only ones I'll go out of my way for.
Achievements are a pretty easy way of tracking your mate's progress through a game. Switch to 2006-ish, when me and my friend had Timesplitters 2. We would spend countless hours arguing over who was better at the game. Said friend came to my house and I showed him I had completed the entire story mode on Medium (which took feckin' ages). When I visited his house, he had barely completed it on Easy. This could have been easily rememdied by comparing achievments.
Jesus Christ that was a fucking rubbish anecdote.
Jesus Christ that was a fucking rubbish anecdote.
What on Earth is with that man's obsession with drawing nudey bits? He is seriously odd.Kroker said:
Creative. Nice.StarStruckStrumpets said:
OT: If I see an achievement I think would be fun. Or if I just get them in the course of the game. I don't go out of my way, like some people I know. I have a friend who rented a game because, I quote, "The achievements were super easy.
Exactly. At first, I didn't love achievements but you grow to love achieving them once you get into it.Curtmiester said:
I like achievements...
It's fun to just be playing and have a little box pop up saying to did something "special".
Not all of them, are useless though. It used to be that in TF2, the only way to get the special weapons for certain characters was to get a set amount of achievements.
Not all of them, are useless though. It used to be that in TF2, the only way to get the special weapons for certain characters was to get a set amount of achievements.
I try to do the opposite and avoid reading them at all (or at least until I've completed the game), that way it's more of an interesting surprise when I get one.Merteg said:
For example in Saint's Row 2 I randomly got the 'Aww Nuts! - Hit 100 lifetime nut shots' achievement. That made me chuckle when I read what I'd done, as I hadn't realised I'd been such a bastard.
However I may be changing my ways soon, when they introduce the 'Avatar Shop' and make it so certain achievements unlock unique items of clothing for your avatar. I'd like to know what cool items I could unlock and what I have to do to get them.