Poll: Are you an achievement/trophy whore?

[Bourne Endeavor]

I actually had an argument with someone on this subject. She was insistent if she could not get 100% on her games, which would deem them unworthy of purchase. Our cross stemmed from her wanting achievements to be easily acquired, like for instance, leaving the Insanity difficulty in Mass Effect 2 as it is, whereas I wanted it improved so the AI was competent and challenging in lieu of merely tossing an extra few health bars on them. She found this unfair because than she wouldn't be able to get "Completed on Insanity" achievement. Thus is should be just "Complete game."

In any case, I couldn't care less about achievements for the most part. There are a few games I will get competitive for and I do enjoy the ring whenever I unlock something but alas, it is far from why I play the game. I measure a successful purchase on my enjoyment, not a gimmick.

 

[Jelly ^.^]

I do finish the game. Achievements are just meta things bolted on at the end to make the game seem longer than it is. I don't buy into that.

 

[Section Crow]

i go for achievements to murder time or when i feel the game was WAY to short and try to lengthen it by going for achievements and as for 100% games, those are my special few that i really enjoyed or really hated

but most of my friends call me an achievement whore or hunter because i have alot of gamerscore so meh

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

If the answer for you is no, I want to know why you don't see the point in getting 100% completion out of a game when you've paid for it.

Because that's like asking "why u no go under all levels and superjump in Halo2 when u paid for it?". Simply because I don't care if I've done something a certain way. What's more is, that some things I've done I'm really proud of, or like, but nobody gives me an "achievement" for that. Sometimes I even do things and they're not recorded.

Finally Achievements are *shudder* console things.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

Yeah, i like achievements. I can see if people are worth playing co-operatively with before i start a game with them. I can judge how much i'm going to end up carrying them by the end

It makes it harder for people to lie about what they've done and it also punishes people for cheating. It also means people can't deny what i've done aswell

The only negative i've noticed is when people go all out for overall score using guides to minimize game times. I'm all for using guides to pick up obscure achievements after the game is finished but not on the first playthrough...its kinda self defeating

I can't see any reason for people to moan about them though

 

[CannibalCorpses]

Finally Achievements are *shudder* console things.

Yeah, like the pc mmorpg's aren't saturated with them

 

[MetaKnight19]

Not really, if I've finished a game which I've really enjoyed then I might go back to it and see if I can get the other achievements. I think the only game I've ever gotten 100% achievements on is Pac Man CE: DX although you can do that in about 20 minutes.

 

[JochemDude]

What I think about achievement whoring?

 

[Kekkles]

I'm not so much a hoarder but I do enjoy getting the 100% out of the game. Unless I have to go multiplayer... I hate hearing other people's shrill little voices screaming and bantering. MY GAWD!

It's also the idea that they're little challenges in a game that could be completed. Unless they're not a challenge then I don't usually bother.

 

[Michael Hirst]

Achievements are a virtual pat on the back they are not part of the game really. Sometimes there's one I like the sound of and go for it for example Pacifist in Deus Ex Human Revolution.

Saying that you haven't completed a game because you haven't done the pre-set achievements is just wrong. I prefer self challenges anyway. Sometimes there isn't an achievement for the crazy shit I want to do.

For example Ace Combat games don't give me an achievement for completing tunnel runs upside down in the worst plane on Ace difficulty

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

Finally Achievements are *shudder* console things.

Yeah, like the pc mmorpg's aren't saturated with them

Not a while ago, no. There's been a recent explosion however, due to later success in the original xbox, and moreso on the 360 side.

Collectables? Yes. Achievements? No. You don't (or at least didn't, I'm not sure if Xbox has changed that) get any special "trophy" for collecting the hidden packages in GTA Vice City, only rewards, and that was originally a console game too.

I think it's mainly due to connecting the consoles up to the internet where you can track these things.

The sad thing for me though, is that there's less and less "making your own achievements" or doing amazing/stupid stuff to tell your friends about, because you have a more convenient achievement system.

 

[mikespoff]

I have certain classes of achievement for games that I will try and get, and I often find that trying to get an achievement teaches me a new way to play a game and I really enjoy it.

TF2, for instance, has a ridiculous number of achievements so I'm not trying to get them all, but there are achievments for doing certain things that I then incorporate as regular strategy.

 

[JochemDude]

What I think about achievement whoring?

 

[Mauso88]

I used to take a general interest in WoW achievements, picking them up whenever the mood took me.
Lately, however I've been hitting them pretty hard. So, I'm becoming one.

 

[Xaio30]

If you count loot as trophies, then YES, YES GIEF ME MOAR LOOTZ!

 

[Shirokurou]

To a certain degree.
There are some games to which I look at and go, damn I'd like to platinum that.
But others I go "That much pain and time for a trophy? Are you nuts? Not interested..."

So while I like to have 100% on the games that I like, I never buy/rent games for easy trophies or go to extreme lengths to get trophies.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

The sad thing for me though, is that there's less and less "making your own achievements" or doing amazing/stupid stuff to tell your friends about, because you have a more convenient achievement system.

*blinks* Do you even believe that crap?

By giving them something 'extra' to go for, people will play the game less than before? If people do something ridiculous in a game they aren't gonna tell people?

Yeah, achievements have destroyed human vanity and ego

 

[DaJoW]

Nope. I sometimes have a look at the achievements just to see what's there/stuff I may have missed, but other than that they just take up space on the screen. On the whole I'd prefer it if there were no achievements, but it's good for some stuff.

 

[kickyourass]

Sometimes, but usually only really go after (As in specifically persue) really hard or unique ones, like climbing to the very top of the Agency Tower and jumping off in Crackdown.

 

[kypsilon]

If the answer for you is no, I want to know why you don't see the point in getting 100% completion out of a game when you've paid for it.

Because I can enjoy a game without having to get all the achievements out of it. It's not that the game isn't 100% done if an achievement states something like "you must play this game 30 times" to get the "You Played This Game Too Much" achievement. It's not like I've lost money on the game itself for not grinding out the achievements.

Is it a psychological compulsion on your part to finish all the achievements in a game? It's my compulsion to enjoy what I play and play how I want to play, not have my experience dictated to by the mandatory Microsoft gamerscore system.