Xbox Achievements Do you care
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When it is done in an entertaining manner. Like the names of the achievements from any of the Lego games.
I don't care about them. If I happen to get some achievements along way, that's fine. But I'm not going to go out of my way and do an annoying mission or kill 500,000 people to get one.
Achievements are important to me. That's one of the reasons I stopped buying games for PS3(I know it has Trophies, they just aren't as fun.) I usually try to get as many achievements I can during my first playthrough of a game, get the game completion achievements, then get at least 800/1000 GS worth of achievements. Then I'll pretty much be done with a game. Yeah, but it adds a lot of extra playtime for me.
I love achievments just because it offers a challenge. However if it's a collectables one i won't touch it.
I agree completely. I hate the idea of working my butt off to get some arbitrary score I can then compare to thousands of other people. The thrill of the game comes in playing it and seeing what I can do with it. I'll spend hours trying something out just to see if it's possible (Once spent 2 hours stacking crates in a Thief level), but it loses the thrill to be told what useless thing I should spend my time one. On the other hand, some achievements can be useful for pointing you in a fun direction, but this could easily be accomplished some other way without the arbitrary awards.51gunner said:
While I dislike the system, I understand that a lot of people like working for the points (brings me back to lessons from my psyc 101 class) and it can be a great way to get people to buy your games or use your hard/software.
Yes I am an achievementwhore. I love the sound of it popping. I have replayed games just for achs. I have spent hours replaying a single level just to get one.
The question I have is who cares? Love em or leave em why does it seem to bother so many that people like me like them?
The question I have is who cares? Love em or leave em why does it seem to bother so many that people like me like them?
Achievements are great fun but I don't really give a shit about gamerscore. Having a gamerscore of over 40,000 does make me feel slightly superior but gamerscore is so horribly flawed that it actually means next to nothing and I prefer the challenge of trying to unlock as many achievements as I can in one game. I'm very proud of getting all the achievements in some games like Gears of War and BioShock because I feel like I've really accomplished something. Of course, I haven't actually accomplished much but the feeling is enough for me.
As a general thing, acheivements/trophies/badges annoy me, if only for metagamers whining to everyone in the party/lobby that they need x award so we all need to push for it.
That said, there are 2 things that I like about them, when they're well designed:
- You do something cool/unusual and an secret achievement pops up for it.
- They can *occasionally* give an incetive to try out a particular mode/character etc. on a second playthrough.
That said, there are 2 things that I like about them, when they're well designed:
- You do something cool/unusual and an secret achievement pops up for it.
- They can *occasionally* give an incetive to try out a particular mode/character etc. on a second playthrough.
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: I can't play games on other systems now with the incentive to explore and find little things like I used to
I find myself replaying 360 games for points, which really is what Achievements are intended to do. I could never see myself fighting for Trophies though, they seem stupid, even with a Level system.
Long answer: I can't play games on other systems now with the incentive to explore and find little things like I used to
I find myself replaying 360 games for points, which really is what Achievements are intended to do. I could never see myself fighting for Trophies though, they seem stupid, even with a Level system.
i kinda care because it brings up your gamer score and on live you are playing with people around your score as well.
It does tend to put a tiny smile on my face seeing messages like "you have just fallen 40'000 feet", or "you just accumulated 500 headshots", or something.
I never tend to bother with any of the more complex otherwise non-rewarding feats though.
Like the garden gnome, for example.
I never tend to bother with any of the more complex otherwise non-rewarding feats though.
Like the garden gnome, for example.
speaking for PC achievments I've never really cared about them... They were interesting to read about+ sometimes they make you realize about things which you can do which you wouldn't otherwise (like graverobber from one of the HL2 eps)but apart from that....don't really care.
Sometimes try for the easier ones but don't care about anything which makes me either: do stupid stuff to get, get really, really lucky, or just spend *way* too much time doing something to earn.
Sometimes try for the easier ones but don't care about anything which makes me either: do stupid stuff to get, get really, really lucky, or just spend *way* too much time doing something to earn.
Not really but its entertaining to do.
Once you complete a game what else is there to do? The achievements give you goals and tasks to do, its good getting them but its nothing major.
Just gives you tasks and a little something to do when your palying a game.
Once you complete a game what else is there to do? The achievements give you goals and tasks to do, its good getting them but its nothing major.
Just gives you tasks and a little something to do when your palying a game.
