Poll: Are YOU an achievement whore?

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jimduckie

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too bad they don't unlock cheats and the only thing that pisses me off about achievements is they mix online with offlne ones like gta4 , they should be separate and or optional ( turn on/ off)
 

ender214

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Yeah. I'm one of those messed up people who prefer playing for achievements in single player to going on multiplayer. (Antisocial w00t!)
 

scorch 13

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I have every achievement in fallout 3 including dlc thats me having no life if you want proof check out my gamertag SCOURCH13 and no im not saying this for friend requests.
 

RemoteControlRox

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I think that becoming an achievement/trophy whore entails playing a game only for said achievements/trophies, and not having fun--turning a game into work, if you will. I can't say I've never gone that far, though. I remember going 99 laps on a racebox track in Wipeout HD just to have the trophy for it, but it was a chore and I didn't enjoy myself very much.

However, while I do still strive to eventually get the trophy for maxing out a class level in Resistance 2 online co-op play, I get to enjoy myself while playing, regardless of how much experience I get. The trophy is merely a secondary prize when compared to the equipment upgrades for the class that help make the playing experience better. I understand that trophies and achievements are there to encourage players to explore and appreciate more of the game that the developers put so much effort into making, and sometimes it helps, as in LittleBigPlanet when you're rewarded for participating in the online community for things such as commenting on a user-made level or playing with a full party of players, but again the game is enjoyable and rewarding on its own.

So I suppose you're only really an achievement/trophy whore if you're playing a game solely for those rewards and not having any fun with the game itself.
 

Axle_Bullitt_19

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I said No because I have a PS3 and there are not Achievements on the PS3. But I am a Trophy Whore because I have 6 Platinums. One of them belong to Fallout 3 which I spent 212 hours on.
 

DoctorWhat

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I'm not really one, but I've begun whoring CoD:W@W, just because I really want to 100% a game.
 

WiiFreak

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Normally when I first start playing a game I'll look at the trophies and see how many simple ones I can pick up throughout the game. Most of the time I won't go after the trophies that require perfection in certain areas as they are just a pain, unless I really like the game and then they become another incentive to keep playing.
 

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Lekonua said:
I'm still 6 grubs short of having every HL2:E2 achievement, as it were.
im only 2 away from that one i keep missing those two every time :(

and yea kinda, i wont go crazy for them but i'll try to get them
 

balimuzz

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No. However, I like to look at the achievements that I haven't gotten to see what I can do, and I sometimes try to get those achievements after I see them. I only do this with achievements where I think that getting them could be fun, such as climbing the Agency Tower in Crackdown and then jumping off, which I never would have done if it weren't for the Achievement suggesting it to me.
 

Joshimodo

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No, because achievements don't show any form of coherency in their Gamerscore worth.

However, one of the members of my clan is a bigger achievement whore than anyone else on The Escapist.
 

syndicated44

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I am not really an achievement whore maybe after I have come back to the game after my first few play throughs I might try to kill those 100000 zombies or something but no I am more of a collection whore. If you give me things to collect I will search under every crate table and in every sewer until I find them all. I am on my 3rd playthrough MGS3 to find all of those damn frogs and on my 2nd of MGS2 to get all the dogtags.
 

stonethered

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there are some things i will go out of ny way for like pets/ mounts in wow and others that just aren't worth the effort like bonuses in conduit.
the funniest part is that the badges here on the escapist have actually made me three times as active as i am on other forums. badge for loyalty please?
 

Ph33nix

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I'm sad to say no matter how much i dislike a game that i have i must get atleast 400 or 500 gs out of it if i like it i want to get 700 plus from it. i tihnk i havr about 1400 from halo 3 alone.
 

G1eet

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I've never been one to cry "USE TEH SEARCH BAR!1!", but I swear that I've replied to these threads at least once a week.