i'll whore for something stupidly easy, just for the sake of having it, like the choose a song or something trophy on Gran Tourismo 5, but i wont ever go for ones that need like a million kills or find all the collectables.
Poll: Achievement/Trophy Whores...
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When I first start up a game, I take a look at the list of achievements. I ask myself which ones I can get without wasting my time to the ends of the earth. With that in mind, I play the game, completing any of the achievements I believed I could. Anything relating to multiplayer, or any that has to do with "collect all collectibles" or "collect 500/1000 (blank)" I skip.
I think that an important distinction must be made here between an achievement whore and an achievement hunter. I define an achievement whore as a person who is obsessed with their overall gamerscore and will play a tremendous amount of shovelware to increase their gamerscore. On the other hand, an achievement hunter will attempt to get every possible achievement in a game that they are playing or have purchased. This will often involve playing the game multiple times to get all the achievements.
Regardless, a player must be willing to let an achievement slide and move on to the next game when it is no longer fun. The bottom line is that fun must be the ultimate goal of gaming, not an arbitrary score either gamer or leaderboard.
Regardless, a player must be willing to let an achievement slide and move on to the next game when it is no longer fun. The bottom line is that fun must be the ultimate goal of gaming, not an arbitrary score either gamer or leaderboard.
A better description would be I'll do something that is a challenge but not something that is a tedious waste of time ie I'll try to go through a mission of Bourne Conspiracy without using any takedowns even if it is difficult but I don't bother searching every nook and cranny of a map trying to search down the passport collectibles. One is a measure of skill the other is a measure of how much time you're willing to waste not actually playing the game part of the game.
Depends on the game. I've gotten all the achievements for Oblivion and FO3 including the DLCs, but that's because I really enjoyed them.
I'll check to see if the latest steam achievement thing I unlocked was particularly impressive or uncommon, then I'll completely forget about it. I'd be perfectly happy without 'em, to be
honest.
Badges, if I recall, completely ruined half of the Kongregate community... "Yeah um this game wz awsum, but were badges? I only give three starz, neds badges."
Not that I'm saying that achievements are inherently a bad thing, I just worry when players put them above fun. But each to his own.
honest.
Badges, if I recall, completely ruined half of the Kongregate community... "Yeah um this game wz awsum, but were badges? I only give three starz, neds badges."
Not that I'm saying that achievements are inherently a bad thing, I just worry when players put them above fun. But each to his own.
I'll look at them and try to get them along the way, but never kill myself over them. If I own the game, then after I beat it, I'll try to. It adds some replay value.
But some trophies are so absurd...
Getting all of the highest level weapons in Demon's Souls? Good lord! Only way to get enough supplies for ONE highest level upgrade would require 2-3 playthroughs. I'm halfway through the second one and its not working out so well. This would mean to make the difficulty harder and harder, or start over from square one and play through it 2-3 times again and again... Arg.
But some trophies are so absurd...
Getting all of the highest level weapons in Demon's Souls? Good lord! Only way to get enough supplies for ONE highest level upgrade would require 2-3 playthroughs. I'm halfway through the second one and its not working out so well. This would mean to make the difficulty harder and harder, or start over from square one and play through it 2-3 times again and again... Arg.
I sometimes go crazy over achievements. Though, I'm more of the type that studies his list of games and sees what easy achievements I somehow missed.ThatLankyBastard said:
The one I'm proud of at the moment, is that I completed Halo Reach on legendary alone. I got the heroic and two legendary achievements when I did that. On top of that I got the avatar award of Carter's helmet, which is beat a campaign level on legendary without dying. (To tell you the truth, I think that award was a glitch, because I am positive that I dead in every single mission on legendary. I just accept it as a given, but I won't argue with what the game says I did.)
The most aggravating achievement I got is also a Halo Reach achievement. It is the "If They Came to Hear Me Beg" one where you have to survive a fall that would kill you, by assassinating and Elite just before you land and get killed.
What was aggravating about it is that it is a very picky achievement. It literally had me believing that the wind had to be blowing the right way or I had to catch the Elite mid fart or something.
The reason being is that I did what the achievement said to do, 30 times and it didn't give it to me. Then I got tired, said one last try, and it finally took it. I actually tested how I jumped and where I assassinated the Elite from, and all those 30 times if I hadn't assassinated him, I would have died. Heck, before I got the achievement, I even preformed it on a grunt successfully three times. I think that is more amazing than an Elite, because they are closer to the ground.
What pissed me off is that I was one achievement away from completing all the Halo Reach achievements, then the Noble map pack came out, which added 7 more achievements to the count. One was easy, so I got that one, so I still have the original last one and then the last 6, which I believe, plausibly, I will only be able to get three of them at the most. The others are basically Cinderella achievements, like collecting all the flags in a multiplayer matchmaking game of Stockpile.
I hate that more and more games are coming out with achievements that only people with no life are qualified to get it.
I wish I could get more 100%, it just feels good. I only have one, though it isn't all that impressive, I got 100% on the little XBox Live game Feeding Frenzy. I'm not proud because it was hard(which is wasn't), I proud that I survived the grinding to get the last two I needed.Deshin said:
Now I have a friend that told me, "Just rent a bunch of movie games, they are easy and quick to get 100%." Though I really don't want to do that, I want to get 100% in a game that has some hard achievements. Example, as I said in an above post, in more detail, I was one achievement way from getting 100% in Halo Reach, then when the Noble Map Pack came out, it added 7 new achievements to the game. I was only about 2 weeks away of solid matchmaking game play before I would reach the Lt. Colonel rank and get the achievement, and 100%. I was shaking my fist at Bungie saying, "FUUUUUU" And this set of achievements added a few of Bungie's classic insane achievements.
There was a time when I was a full-blown achievement whore. Now, I only go that extra mile for an achievements if I am completely in love with the game. For Fallout 3 I literally played the game 3+ times just to get each "reach level __ with positive/neutral/negative karma". Yeah, I realize I could have just as easily saved prior to leveling up and then do something that would change my karma, but I loved the game enough to play through multiple times to earn every achievement. I also worked at getting every possible achievement for all the DLC.
But, my most favored achievement was from passing the plane mission on Call of Duty 4 on Veteran difficulty. That was a ***** to complete.
But, my most favored achievement was from passing the plane mission on Call of Duty 4 on Veteran difficulty. That was a ***** to complete.
I'm just curious, what do PS3 trophies look like? I've really only seen the generic symbol of a trophy on the gamertag box people have. But, do they have different looks between each trophy, I see people in this thread talking about platinum trophies, so does that mean that trophies are only different in rank of medal type?Drexlor said:
What I'm getting at is, the reason I love Xbox 360 achievements is that each one has its on unique representative picture.
I'm not trying to get on a one way is better than another, I'm just curious. If I had the money I would get a PS3 to complete my gaming system trifecta. I am in the corner of that is why there are console wars. People, while the like the console or consoles they have, they are jealous that there is something in the gaming world that they don't have. Each console has its merits.
I generally don't bother getting them. Hell, I've put over a hundred hours into Bad Company 2 and have had more than one opportunity to get the achievement for getting a kill with a defibrillator or a headshot with the repair tool but have not bothered.
I have to admit that I do try to get as many achievements as I can. The one achievement I am most proud of so far is the Redeemed achievement in Red Dead Redemption. You have to get 100% single player completion. It is not very difficult just very time consuming.