Poll: Are you an achievement/trophy whore?

[octafish]

No. I wish I could turn off the notifications in most games, of course good games don't tell you are getting achievements, I like that. I hate it when you can't turn the notifications off. I play games for fun, or for story telling, or adventure, or to blow off steam, not for bragging rights.

 

[SonOfStayPuft]

For those that are Achievement Whores/Hunters, then fair enough.You want to experience the game to it's fullest.

Me though? I'm the opposite.There are some Achievements that i've gone out to get I admit, but i'm going to be honest, and I know some may laugh, but the only game i've got all the Achievements for is Dash of Destruction.
I have replayed games yes (infact i'm still playing Arkham Asylum, even though I completed it two years ago), but i'm not prepared to really annoy myself just to get 100G for completing a Game on "Super Mega Ultra Veteran Difficulty just using a Toothpick to kill 8000 Enemies in 30 Seconds"
I just want to have fun.Sometimes I unlock some Achievements by accident (This happened in Bulletstorm with the "Master of Disaster" Achievement)

Fable II & III are fun because at least with their Achievements, you can have fun getting them.Dressing like a Chicken to give out Royal Orders? That's plain dumb, but still pretty funny all the same.

But anyway, each to their own

 

[Death God]

Yes and I don't know why. But when I hear about achievements, trophies, un-lockables, I just have to get them all.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I don't really care about "My Collection" of Trophies, I like earning them though. I know its cool to hate them, but whats the difference between ingame challenges and trophies/achievements?

If I like a game, I go for Platinum.

 

[aaronobst]

I sorta consider myself a trophy/cheevo whore but basically for me, If it involves tedious grinding or just isnt fun then I wont bother.

 

[newdarkcloud]

I voted no because nowadays I actually measure the fun factor and time required to get a trophy to see if it would be worth it before I bother trying to go after. After collect all the feathers in AC 2, I can't be bothered to do anything similar to it in a game ever again unless there is an in game reward that might make it worthwhile. Something more than a trophy/achievement.

For instance, the Auditore Family Cape.

I have only 100% completed games I love. I may do it for Bioshock, or AC2 (because I'm damn close), and definitely will for Fallout 3, but I don't know if I ever will in the Saints Row games. I have in New Vegas (all the DLC even), Oblivion, and Monkey Island 2. And there's an amazing amount of finality to that.

In my honest opinion the cape wasn't really worth the time it took to get all those feathers. Fallout 3 and New Vegas are a different story because it's more fun to explore the area looking for whatever new weapons or items you can find as opposed to just feathers or some such.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Sometimes, yeah. Personally I prefer the vibrant *DING!* of the trophies to the *Bleep bloop!* of the achievements.

 

[The Cor]

I am 90% guy, I will try to achieve as much as I can until I feel like that I am wasting time on the last 10%

 

[damocles23]

I like the challenge, so i like to go for the harder ones,for example i'm doing a no kill run on the hardest setting on Deus Ex HR, but the ones who are too much of a drag i don't care, like the one with the ebooks,though i think i'm getting a lot of them...

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Grell!

I agree with you anyway, besides having Grell as an avatar. I usually just play through the game, but for the sake of replayability I usually go through again to get the trophies. I'm fond of getting them, but sometimes I won't bother if it's really tricky. I aim, over a long course of time, to get all of the trophies.

Most of the games I have don't actually support trophies anyway.

DEATH~! *Poses* [sub]XD[/sub]

But yeah, that's usually the best way to playthrough, replayability is a big thing, but sometimes I try to get all the trophies on the first run, but other times it's more fun to just play normally then go back. Like I said depends on the game.

 

[Izael]

My 26,360 gamer score does say I have a bit of an issue with getting achievements. Now, I tend to play my first time through just for fun on whatever difficulty I think is fair for me. It is the second time I play that I begin to go all out 'Achievement Whore' mode and go after all the Achievements that I feel are reasonable to get.

Taking the OP's game choice of CoD:MW2, I admit I'm only 50% completion on it. The single player portion was losing fun after a while and I just went to Online play. Still only do online when playing MW2, and don't plan to finish getting those achievements.