Un-achievable Achievements?

[replingham153]

Achievements being completely worthless to begin with, along with how they negatively impact gaming in general is pretty much the reason I have to respond to this with a shrug and a yawn.

Why do you think that?

 

[Hatchet90]

I generally hate achievements. Let me ask you: What are their purpose? Most of the time they're used to get the player to continually play a game past the end credits. The fact is, if a game is actually really good, I'm going to continue playing it anyway. Achievements add un-needed stress and frustration to a game, and that's why I never have really paid any attention to them. I'm done with a game when I say I'm done with a game.

 

[Kreett]

If they came to hear me beg...
I just can't jump of a cliff and perform an assasination on an elite to survive a fall that normally would have killed me in halo reach.

I've done that in multi-team^^

 

[ghostrider9876]

I used to be an achievement whore. But after running afoul of a few achievements that were driving me up the wall trying to get, I finally had a moment where I asked myself, "Why am I doing this?" Now, I only try get them if they sound like something fun/interesting to do, or if I think I can get all of them without too much frustration. And if it's a game with many multiplayer achievements I usually don't bother at all.

Having said that, I can think of one positive aspect they add to games. Sometimes they impose a challenge that you might not otherwise have thought to try. Two good examples for me being "The One Free Bullet" and the one where you go through Ravenholm using only the Gravity Gun. I never would have thought to try either of those things, but they ended up being fun challenges.

 

[Fijiman]

Achievements being completely worthless to begin with, along with how they negatively impact gaming in general is pretty much the reason I have to respond to this with a shrug and a yawn.

Why do you think that?

It's mostly because they serve no real purpose other than, as Hatchet90 said, to try and get people to keep playing the game. I still try to get as many as I can because it can sometimes be fun, but there are always going to be some that I could care less about. Now if there was some sort of reward for getting a certain gamer score or certain number of trophies that was actually worth getting, then there would be a point to the things.