Poll: Are Achievements Worth The Effort?

[Xojins]

Don't you fuckers get it. Achievements are just cheat codes for game developers. With achievements all they have to do is write down some words that make an annoying noise when you do something right, instead of making a minigame to do the exact same thing.

Achievements are a failed attempt by Microsoft to lengthen the game 4 or 5 hours. The only problem is that there's no point. All gamer scores are giant dicks attached to your foreheads that you show off to other dickheads to see who's head dick is bigger.

Flame much?

Achievements are not an exclusively Microsoft thing; Sony has their own version with Trophies on the PS3. They're exactly the same though.

 

[FallenRainbows]

I think that achievements are worth it, my gamerscore being 26,835

"I am an Acheivement Finatic" =/= I'm an Achievement Fanatic

Also anyone noticed that gamerscore spell checks to gamecock?

 

[blood77]

The Xbox panels are how I feel about achievements [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=258].

 

[Dalisclock]

Unless it's a particulary interesting achievement that I really feel I have to get(which is usally none of them), then no. That and the fact most people I know haven't heard of half the games I play, let alone care if I have some particular achievement.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

They don't really add any perks worth caring about, so I don't care for them unless they're the hilarious ones, like in Splosion Man.

 

[sneak_copter]

Eh dont really care about that or gamescore, i just play the game and if i happen to unlock something then great if not, oh well.

Same. I'd never keep trying to get an achivement. Explains why for some games, I have NO GAMERSCORE AT ALL.

Really zero?

For a handfull of games I have got 0/1000 Gamerscore.

In total, I think I'm around 11,000.

 

[nathan-dts]

I think achievements (trophies in my case) are great and extend the life of a game by making you do something you wouldn't think of doing.

Same here. They should remove trophies that require you to play the game online though.

Agreed. How was I supposed to get 10002 kills in Battlefield: Bad Company online when the community consists of 4 rocks and a 3 sticks?

 

[suhlEap]

kinda. i'll get some, but i won't go out of my way and spend hours just to get one! i have actually been wondering for a while what the point of them is, and yet i still try to get them.

 

[Ophiuchus]

I think achievements (trophies in my case) are great and extend the life of a game by making you do something you wouldn't think of doing.

Pretty much this, but some achievements require such insane skill and/or dedication that I just think "...yeah, no". My patience is limited so I'm not gonna grind away at one achievement when I could be having fun with a bunch of other games.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Some are. Some are just damn stupid. I like games that reward you with more than just gamerscore though. That usually makes it somewhat worth it.

 

[jpo009]

NO!, i may have hit 30,000 a few days ago but who cares? It's pointless.

 

[VinnyKhan]

I see them as artificial lengthening to games for the sad people who use their gamer score to measure their gamer ability and "hardcore"ness

 

[Xanadeas]

Only if they give you something for all your hard work. Like they did in Red Faction Guerilla or like in World of Warcraft. Ooo shiny mount. :3 Also, The Escapist's spell check seems to have issue with the word guerilla as no matter how you spell it it's always wrong.

 

[halonut117]

I realize that, but popular culture doesn't try and shove the idea of obsessively collecting trophies down your throat like Microsoft does Achievements. Trophies feel more like happy accidents. Achievements feel more like awards for awards for doing things that don't matter to get something that doesn't exist and has no real world value. No unlockables, no coupons in the online store, no nothing.

At least with trophies you can look at them in Home like some sort of vaguely impressive sculpture.

 

[SimuLord]

I don't own a 360, and my Steam profile has one game that I've played absolutely to death and yet only have 8 of the game's 27 achievements (Empire: Total War). This should tell you something. I hate when a developer tells me how to play their game, whether it's faux-sandbox linearity (Fable games, I'm looking directly at you), linearity of the regular type (JRPGs, thanks for playing, try harder next time), or achievements that are anathema to the way I play games (why hello there, Empire, no, I don't want to play multiplayer.)

 

[Triforceformer]

Depends on the kind of Achievements. Dead Rising's Genocider achievement was just one huge grind. While Splosion man has many simple yet humorous ones. So i'm gonna put down kinda.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

No.

I hate them.

They are simply a measure of how many games you can afford to buy and therefore a cynical, subversive, underhanded marketing tool by Microsoft.

 

[FinalHeart95]

I enjoy getting achievements, but only if they're not crazy hard. If they are then I'll just hope that I get it by accident while playing.

By hard, I mean a boring kind of hard, as in grinding for an achievement.