Do you care about achievements or trophies?

[Hiroshi Mishima]

They're okay if fun and part of the main game just going a little bit further, I suppose. Unfortunately, you end up with ones that most people will never achieve, such as obscenely ridiculous multiplayer achievements/trophies - keep in mind the astounding amount of people who, like Yahtzee and myself, don't give a damn about multiplayer.

But then you get the stuff that's just plain stupid or worse, boring. Paper Mario: Sticker Star has some in-game achievements like "Get 1000 Excellents when using Stickers", which might be okay if the gameplay actually rewarded you for doing battles with something other than a couple of coins. Likewise, there's one for spending 10,000 in shops, but the big kicker is it only counts in the normal sticker shops and not the black market one which is where most people will be spending money. I'm in chapter 3 and I've barely spent maybe 600 coins, according to the tracker.

I also think the ones for Getting A+++ Golds or Medals or whatever are just fucking silly. Most people don't have that kind of time nor the patience. Which, for those like me who do kind of have a thing for doing 100%, this is pretty much a slap in the face/kick in the balls.

I would love to see them go away, or hope that developers can come up with more realistically doable ones.

 

[TheCrapMaster]

I actualy thought gamescores kinda ruined my gaming experience abit. Havent played much xbox for afew year now but when i did i always got annoyed at that damned "blip" sound and 10G score for my stack of scores i dident realy care about. Like completing a big story part after a plot twist only to get the mood ruined by "blip" and notification on the screen on what you did.

So no i never realy cared about achivements or gamescore as i play the games for the experience not the score pile. But i think i can understand that players want to get some "achivement" for completing hard stuff or finding rare stuff.

 

[Arizona Kyle]

I used to be all into pumping up my gamerscore, but recently I haven't really cared that much about it, especially the overall score. Anyone can play some easy to max out games. However, I still do find satisfaction in fully completing games. For example I'm working on 1550/1550 on Skyrim. I think that would be more satisfying than maxing out King Kong and 2006 sports games.

I care a lot about gamerscore..... how dare my friends have more than me!!!

 

[Jodan]

trophies for me ruins some games. they killed the immersion in fallout 3 as i was focusing on an extirior objective from the game world. helping rivet city became just another trophy instead of a unique expiriance. i personally find them hard to ignore and would prefer my games tobe without them. thus i had i much more enjoyable time playing fallout 3 on PC rather than PS3.