Poll: Achievements - yay or nay?

[Gildan Bladeborn]

There's nothing wrong with having achievements, but if they are a selling point, then there is something wrong with your priorities, heh. Online achievements suck, as I don't buy games to play them online so I'll never ever get them, so knowing they are there just taunts me (thankfully I am good at ignoring taunting).

Achievements are broken when they ask you to do stupid and highly repetitive/annoying things, but you are broken if you play along just because it will make your gamerscore go up. If it's not fun, why the hell are you gritting your way through to 100% completion anyways?

 

[Lost In The Void]

I'm going with the rest of the crowd with saying Online achievements suck right around there with collectible achievements, who the hell wants to collect 500 flags in Assassin's Creed

 

[Evil grim123]

How come there's no indifferent option in the poll?

I don't care about achievements.
If I get any by accident, cool, but I don't go out trying to get them.

Everything I would say.
Said for me.

 

[Distorted Stu]

They add a challenege for when you complete the game. I do them after a normal run through, i concider them extra missions.

 

[willard3]

I almost always look through the achievement list right when I get the game so I don't have to replay the whole game just to get a level-specific achievement...unless there's a "chapter select" screen.

Multiplayer achievements that slowly stack up are nice, as are ones that apply to all game modes. Gears of War 2 does this great, with one exception: Seriously 2.0. What the hell? 100,000 kills, seeing as you can average maybe 5-10 kills per multiplayer match and maybe 500 per campaign? What. The. Hell.

Left 4 Dead was all right with the Zombie Genocidest achievement, but the rest of the multiplayer achievements kind of sucked.

 

[Spike_Alexbobby]

There was no need for achievments before the current generation so I don't really see any point in them.

I've never once though when playing an old game "Wow, this would be so much better if I got an achievment for this", its just a way to feed peoples ego.

Also, if a game is good then why would it need achievments to keep people playing?

I remember my ego being quite satisfied with all the medals in Medal of Honor since the first one on the PC but then again I was an achievement whore before xbox, I just didn't know it yet

 

[GuerrillaClock]

They're ok. I prefer the TF2 method of giving you achievements that you'll probably get eventually, and you can nod and smile quietly to yourself when you do, that some ridiculous grinding quest like Assassins Creed's flag thingy.

 

[Tarmon'gaidin]

Trophies for me but I get your point.

I love them and always have only the offline ones create a hairline fracture in my enthusiasm because people always try to cheat or boost for those achievements/trophies and thats a real shame.

Oh and don't forget that achievements and trophies are only there to enhance the game experience not to get obsessed about, so playing in a certain way just to get more pictures and higher number on a online card is a bit stupid.

 

[kotorfan04]

I loves achievements, for three years I have been hearing that little achievement noise which I can't imitate. I just love them, I like the game rewarding me, telling me I am awesome, I play through some games multiple times with a different achievement in mind each time. I am preparing to go inactive for a while binging on sweet sweet DA:O. So yeah give me more achievements, reward me!

 

[reggiejames]

achievements are great, but i don't intentionally try to complete them.

 

[Fritzvalt]

If the achievement sounds like it would be fun to get, I will actively try and get it. If not, I don't really care. I'll go through and play the game and any achievements that pop up will give me a little smile. If I really like a game, and they don't have any crazy ass achievements (Seriously, Seriously 2.0, etc), I'll try to get all of them.

OP should not read a guide if he doesn't want to spoil a game. That's common sense. I don't care what game it is, the first playthrough is guide free until you need it, and only when you need it. Don't blame good games because you spoiled them for yourself.

 

[Fearzone]

I wouldn't say they ruin a game, either online or offline. But they feel like one more nail in the coffin of good gameplay.

 

[Anchupom]

They're ok, as long as they don't get too possessive

Things that challenge you to be creative or immature are the best in my opinion
But ones that work their way into skillful playing are good also, just get them before stragey guides and they're a joy to achieve

 

[DevilSShadoW]

It's great to have achievements everywhere as long as you don't keep track of them. It's nice to see a little box pop up saying you killed a billion things. Gives you a fuzzy feeling of accomplishment inside. But aiming for them... that's a whole different story. It will ruin your game-play if you start aiming to get them or become obsessed with them.

 

[KittywifaMohawk]

I love them.
Whether they're offline or online.
After beating the game, they give you something to do.

 

[Bigeyez]

Like with anything else if you take it to an extreme achievements do ruin a game, but thats the fault of the player and not the system itself. It's alsways nice to be playing a game and see that little box pop up out of nowhere.

 

[Tears of Blood]

I hated the online achivements for G.R.A.W.

You might want to make an option for "Online ones are okay but not offline ones." Simply because some people think they ruin immersion, but who is worrying about immersion when playing online?

 

[badgersprite]

I like offline achievements, especially since my Xbox hasn't been hooked up to the internet for the last month because of problems with my old router. Sometimes they get annoying, but, at other times, they kind of give you a hint as to how to play the game, which is good, because it saves on exposition.

 

[Britisheagle]

Hard ones give games more replay value I think. But not too hard, done properly they are good though, both online and off as you feel as though you have gone somewhere with the game. Personally I love them but came dangerously close to not putting that in your poll simply because of the way it was spelt.