Do you care about achievements or trophies?

[Ljs1121]

I love them, especially if the achievement would inspire me to do something I wouldn't think of doing otherwise.

One of the most fun experiences of my life was playing through Crackdown 2 with some friends, going for achievements. I only ended up getting about thirty, but it was still massively entertaining.

 

[Roxas1359]

Not really, but I use them to track my progress through a game and have so that people know that I am running through a game 100% and not cheating or anything. But mainly I like Achievements and Trophies that cause the player to actually have to work for them and not just "do this part of the story". Games by Bethesda are especially guilty of this as there are no really difficult ways to get said achievements/trophies. Although playing a Bethesda game on a PS3 and making it through till the end is an achievement all it's own... However I play games for the entertainment mainly, heck I mostly play PS2, PS1, Gamecube, and Wii games mainly. Every now and then I'll play games like New Vegas, character 44 for me, or an HD collection but usually that's just for recording said game.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Yeah, I care a good amount about my Gamerscore. I mean, I'm proud of the work I've put into it because I've done it with mostly completion rather than buying a bunch of games. Some of my friends have a contest running for highest gamerscore, just for bragging rights, but it's still fun.

 

[beastro]

If there nearby I'll go for em, but not out of my way.

Empire Total Wat has most likely surpassed CivIII as my most played game by now and in the near three years it's been out I'm still still at 45% on achievements.

 

[The Rookie Gamer]

I'll go for completion in a game, but some of the insane achievements are never sought out unless I feel like an overachieving badass.

And, I might have bought Hearthfire for 100% of Skyrim after losing it when it came out.

 

[Nexxis]

I like them as an extra challenge, but if they're too difficult to pull off, I don't bother with them.

 

[Dead Seerius]

I don't really care much about gamerscore, but the satisfaction of seeing '100% complete' on my games is what usually drives me to go for achievements.

That being said, I don't go out of my way to get ridiculously time-consuming or just plain frustrating achievements. Some make me wonder if the devs hate completionists.

Seriously 3.0 from Gears of War 3? You've gotta be fucking kidding me.

 

[TheDrunkNinja]

Not really, although it is a nice little added-incentive. Alone, however, it's completely pointless to me. Can anyone tell me what benefit or even use it was to collect all the flags in the original Assassin's Creed? There was absolutely no point that I was aware of. Thankfully, it was rectified in the next installments where everything had at least some point or goal to achieve in the end.

Then again, in the years before XBLA and other online interconnectivity, I probably wouldn't give as much of a damn about collecting all the feathers in Assassin's Creed 3.

What I'm saying is there certainly is a place for achievements in the gaming world.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Nah, not really. Sometimes I like to look at the Steam Achievements and see if I can actually pull any of them off, but many of them I end up just going "fuck that."

 

[War Penguin]

For the actual gamer score? No, absolutely not. It's silly, useless, and it's essentially boils down to a contest of "my penis is bigger than your penis." ... No, I'm not rephrasing that.

For the challenge they offer, though? Yep, that's actually a lot of fun! Like Half Life Ep 2's gnome achievement! That adds that "bring your friends over and laugh at the craziness trying to beat this in such a weird way" kind of fun.

But I get incredibly annoyed when I see achievements that have you merely beat a level in the game, or even more pathetically, START the bloody game! Come on! I want an actual challenge or sense of achievement! >_<

 

[Flight]

I don't generally care about achievements or trophies. They're nice and all, and I do enjoy peeking at the ones I've got when the mood takes me, but all in all, I'd rather just enjoy the game without having to worry.

 

[Xathos]

For most games I play, I usually won't go after every trophy or achievement. I will probably look at the list and look at certain ones that may be easy to do in an area that may be coming up, but I usually just take it in stride. Block an enemy's attack 50 times? So easy, I might as well go out and get it. Kill 10 people in a row using only stealth attacks? Meh, if it happens it happens.

But for the games that REALLY get me gripped, I feel compelled to get the trophies. Its usually all about the character settings in that world that I get so sucked into it. That's not to say that I usually get everything though. I absolutely love Nier, but I never got all the trophies even though I probably could have. I have most of the achievements for Mass Effect 3, and yet I've never played the game on Insanity. I was really into Heavy Rain though, and I managed to get everything for that game. I already know that if the Kingdom Hearts 1.5 ReMix comes over stateside, I'm totally picking it up despite having the games on the PS2 and whatnot? Why? The trophies. I love the series a lot, so I know I can probably get a lot of the trophies. Same thing if I got a PS Vita and I obtained Persona 4 Golden.

More often than not though, I get close to getting all the trophies and achievements because when I beat the game, I'm already so close. Lego games for instance are a big easy platinum, and for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 it was really simple to have most of the trophies already.

Still, I usually have a set of games where I say, "There are more Trophies/Achievements to get, but I feel very finished with the game". Using Nier as an example again, I COULD probably go back and get the last 3 or 4 trophies, but I felt I got JUST enough of the game from the trophies I already got. Another game, Transformers War for Cybertron has a bunch of Multiplayer trophies in its list. Aside from just a couple, I simply focused on getting all of the singleplayer trophies. To me, I feel like I actually got all the trophies in the game, even though I clearly didn't. I look at these lists, and I feel fulfilled despite not doing everything.

And then of course there are the games where just ask for a bit more of your time than you are willing to give, usually for no good reward besides being the one stopping you from getting all the trophies/achievements. Flag collecting in AC1 or some of the achievements in Gears of War 3 come to mind.

TL;DR: If its easy, really immersive, and I'm pretty much there, I'll try to get every trophy or achievement. However, sometimes I feel like I did enough in regards to trophies or achievements (in a good way), and I won't go for every one. It varies from game to game and depends on the achievement list. Super hard, time consuming, or just plain annoying ones I would more than likely not get.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I only really care about them because they give me fun little challenges to complete that expand the lifespan of the games I enjoy.

In a competitive sense I don't really care about them at all. "Gamer Score" is a worthless number to me, and the people who brag about their gamer scores constantly tend to be insufferable to listen to.

I used to go to school with a guy who bought and played games specifically for the achievement points, and nothing more. Didn't give a shit about the games at all, just wanted to see a bigger number next to his X-Box Live name. For whatever reason that floated his boat, so I wasn't gonna stop him... but he still sounded like a dope whenever he talked about it (which was always).

 

[VeneratedWulfen93]

I'm currently on 71242 gamerscore and its not stopping. I love achievements, hell I love score in any game. Seeing a number tick up as I do crap is awesome and its why I love Lollipop Chainsaw and Bulletstorm. 100%ing Skyrim at the moment with a dash of Halo 4, next I'll be heading back to either Dishonoured or Lollipop Chainsaw for the 100% there and I have Assassins Creed: Brotherhood and Revelations still to play.

I hate it when I don't like a game and get around 200g off it because then its drain on my gamerscore. I hate portal 2 so I only have like 85 g off it or something but I'm gonna have to play it despite that to get at least half the g off it. I'm a bit OCD like that, I need to have over 500g or whatever the halfway point is on any game I play.

 

[Satan]

Not really, I have 13k achievement and a couple of trophy's, but I never really got into them.

 

[Joccaren]

I mostly ignore them, as I'll usually only do one playthrough of a given game anyway, and any subsequent playthroughs are because I enjoyed what I experienced in the first playthrough, not to try and gain some arbitrary points nobody but myself is ever going to see.
If I know of an achievement that doesn't require me to put too much effort into getting it, and its coming up in the next section of the game I'm playing, I'll generally try to get it, but I really don't care about them that much. If they unlock extra content however, like an extra weapon, more health, more damage - ect. then I must have them. I'm not obsessive compulsive about the achievements, but I must get all the bonuses I can for my character, even if it makes the game an absolute cakewalk. Its just my way of having fun.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Does said Achievement/Trophy unlock any spiffy dodad?

If the answer is 'No' then they are little more then wastes of code to me

 

[Fetus]

I find it interesting to go for all achievements in a series. For instance, I am pretty close to getting all achievements in Call of Duty, Elder Scrolls, or Mass Effect.