achievements are awesome, gives me the extra handicap I need for those easier games that I just plough through with dumb A.I.
Do you care about achievements or trophies?
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I used to try and max out games, but now that DLC is considered part of the original score, I don't bother. I had 1000/1000 on a number of games but lost it when dlc came out bumping it up to 1500 or whatever.
I try to get as many as I can, but ones that require beating the game over and over I cant be bothered to try. For example, blue dragon you had tons of achievements to get max level in every category which was probably hours upon hours of grinding (literally you just popped an xp bubble running in circles for killing mobs called "poos") is where I really questioned how I was living my life.
I like that they exist, but it's fairly shallow self-affirmation that I'm not going to sacrifice fun to achieve.
I try to get as many as I can, but ones that require beating the game over and over I cant be bothered to try. For example, blue dragon you had tons of achievements to get max level in every category which was probably hours upon hours of grinding (literally you just popped an xp bubble running in circles for killing mobs called "poos") is where I really questioned how I was living my life.
I like that they exist, but it's fairly shallow self-affirmation that I'm not going to sacrifice fun to achieve.
I try get as many as I can from a game within reason. If the game is fun and I enjoy it, or they provide a decent challenge I'll try get it.
Sometimes I'd like to get more from a game but a) it can be too hard, b) I suck at the game and it's not possible or c) the multiplayer community is dead. This probably applies to multiplayer level based or campaign difficulty ones most.
Sometimes I'd like to get more from a game but a) it can be too hard, b) I suck at the game and it's not possible or c) the multiplayer community is dead. This probably applies to multiplayer level based or campaign difficulty ones most.
Yes, But only when I really like a game. I tend to only go for the max trophy set if the game was fun and only after I experienced the story.
The only trophies I actively avoid are the multiplayers one. That is just due to pure preference of single player really.
The only trophies I actively avoid are the multiplayers one. That is just due to pure preference of single player really.
I was never into achievement hunting as a hardcore way to play my games but there were a couple of games that I did buy specifically for the 1000GP or Platinum trophy. That being said, I was really disappointed to find that the Wii U didn't seem to have a unified Accomplishment system like the PS3 or 360 but as I've played my...three U games I've kind of felt myself being weened off of wanting/needing them. Don't get me wrong, I still love the little tone that sounds after you've unlocked an achievement but I'm just a bit mellowed on the subject of achievement hunting at this point.
That really pissed me off when I noticed it. For a glorious week I had 1,000 GP on Halo 3 but then DLC made my score less than perfect. Jerks...Comocat said:
Mildly, I?ll go for them if they are fun and I like the game enough. I do get some satisfaction out of 100%ing a game but if it?s not fun I won?t bother unless it?s the last one I need to get to 100% and doesn't take too long.
I don't give shit about gamerscore.
I don't give shit about gamerscore.
I used to be very taken in by scores and superficial achievements and things, but I get little satisfaction from them now. They're only objectives made up by the devs.
These days you get achievements for everything anyway, like '5 kills with this weapon' or 'finish the first mission on easy'... Nobody would really care if it wasn't written down.
The achievements I find to be real achievements are the ones that you don't expect, like when you somehow manage to do something you didn't mean to, or manage to do something you personally find awesome.
I'm very against developers using achievements as a tool to draw players into the game. It's an easy and cheap way to prey on people who are so taken in by seeing a variable increment. I think that it is a terrible thing on the developer's part, for a person to be playing a game to get an achievement rather than having fun.
These days you get achievements for everything anyway, like '5 kills with this weapon' or 'finish the first mission on easy'... Nobody would really care if it wasn't written down.
The achievements I find to be real achievements are the ones that you don't expect, like when you somehow manage to do something you didn't mean to, or manage to do something you personally find awesome.
I'm very against developers using achievements as a tool to draw players into the game. It's an easy and cheap way to prey on people who are so taken in by seeing a variable increment. I think that it is a terrible thing on the developer's part, for a person to be playing a game to get an achievement rather than having fun.
I like to complete things, and achievements give me a good sense of what's out there.. And if I'm capable of getting all of the achievements for a game, I'll strive to do that (I'm not particularly good at games, so there are only a couple games which I've reached that level of completion, at least since achievements were introduced)
My friend whom I game with most tends to just see them as little cookies that he occasionally gets for doing interesting things, but will not in any sense strive to get them. I'm slightly more addicted to said cookies and will occasionally go out of my way to get them, and will remind him of simple achievements that he's passing by, and he just sort of looks at me like I'm nuts.
However, the score itself, I don't really care about. I'm not about pumping my score (although seeing my score as higher then my friends does sometimes make me smile), achievements are more of just a scrapbook of interesting things I've done. almost every one of them has a story attached to it that I can usually recall (at least the difficult ones), and even the not easy ones, the ones people would consider rote or boring (the ones people go THATS NOT AN ACHIEVEMENT RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE), they're just a way of saying "I was there, I beat this"
A game with good acheivement design, you'll get about half the achievements in a relatively full first playthrough of the game, then have to work relatively hard for the next quarter, and then ridiculously hard for the final quarter. To me, that's how it should be.
My friend whom I game with most tends to just see them as little cookies that he occasionally gets for doing interesting things, but will not in any sense strive to get them. I'm slightly more addicted to said cookies and will occasionally go out of my way to get them, and will remind him of simple achievements that he's passing by, and he just sort of looks at me like I'm nuts.
However, the score itself, I don't really care about. I'm not about pumping my score (although seeing my score as higher then my friends does sometimes make me smile), achievements are more of just a scrapbook of interesting things I've done. almost every one of them has a story attached to it that I can usually recall (at least the difficult ones), and even the not easy ones, the ones people would consider rote or boring (the ones people go THATS NOT AN ACHIEVEMENT RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE), they're just a way of saying "I was there, I beat this"
A game with good acheivement design, you'll get about half the achievements in a relatively full first playthrough of the game, then have to work relatively hard for the next quarter, and then ridiculously hard for the final quarter. To me, that's how it should be.
I do, and feel absolutely no guilt about it. All games essentially boil down to aiming for achievements; whether it's killing a boss, finishing the storyline, or achieving a high score. So why would I not go for the achievements set by the developers -- they're just as arbitrary and interesting as any others.
My current mission is 1,000 in Dynasty Warriors 7, to keep up my reputation for achieving almost-perfect scores with that series.
My current mission is 1,000 in Dynasty Warriors 7, to keep up my reputation for achieving almost-perfect scores with that series.
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Depends on the achievement/trophy.
If it is an actual challenge, like Dishonoured 'Shadow', then sure than can be fun.
Anything relating to multiplayer, Kill X amount of enemies, or milestones are lazy, boring and feel like a grind.
If it is an actual challenge, like Dishonoured 'Shadow', then sure than can be fun.
Anything relating to multiplayer, Kill X amount of enemies, or milestones are lazy, boring and feel like a grind.
I would call myself a trophy hunter. I love the noise you hear when the trophy pops up.....
So... addictive....
So... addictive....
I like them.
I don't usually go out of my way to get every single achievement or trophy in every game I play, but if there's a trophy/achievement that I feel I can get, I can try to go for it. Like the Hardcore achievement in Fallout: New Vegas.
All in all, they're fun little optional challenges.
I don't usually go out of my way to get every single achievement or trophy in every game I play, but if there's a trophy/achievement that I feel I can get, I can try to go for it. Like the Hardcore achievement in Fallout: New Vegas.
All in all, they're fun little optional challenges.
I have 6 platinums. So yes. I need to finish Borderlands 2 fully, and then at some point need to go back and get the rest for Infamous 2 and Skyrim, I'm pretty sure I could platinum those, I just need time.
No it's a shallow psychology trick to get people to play longer. If I play a game it's to have fun playing the game, not to turn the games into a means to an end to get 30 more gamer score or whatever.
I really don't care about my Gamerscore. The worst thing I ever did was use a Fallout 3 mod that unlocks all the game's achievements in one go.
That was the only game I ever hundred-percented, and I didn't even do it legitimately, trolololololol. I'd probably do the same thing for New Vegas or Skyrim if I could, but no modders came up with an ESP that does that.
Outside of that, though? I honestly pity the boosters who punish themselves with shovelware titles just so they can stay on top of the non-existent GScore ladder. There's even lists of the easiest Achievements you can bag in any game, around the net, specifically catered to boosters in need of dirt-cheap points.
That's just sad.
That was the only game I ever hundred-percented, and I didn't even do it legitimately, trolololololol. I'd probably do the same thing for New Vegas or Skyrim if I could, but no modders came up with an ESP that does that.
Outside of that, though? I honestly pity the boosters who punish themselves with shovelware titles just so they can stay on top of the non-existent GScore ladder. There's even lists of the easiest Achievements you can bag in any game, around the net, specifically catered to boosters in need of dirt-cheap points.
That's just sad.