Recent content by FinalFreak16

So 2 services removed and 1 Service added? I hope this will be reflected in the price of Xbox Live then. No?

Suing someone for releasing a product that is exactly the same as yours is completely valid and I would support that. Thats trying to mooch of someone elses success. But in this case Apple (and Samsung as they are suing Apple for similar reasons) should not be able to claim ownership of...

'Picasso had a saying, he said good artists copy, great artists steal. We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.' - Steve Jobs, 1996 'Im going to destroy Android, because its a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this!.' - Steve Jobs, 2010...

There are 156 Games on that list that in some way include mario himself or is otherwise part of the mario franchise. That is just ridiculous.

I think this is relevent as well. Sure you shouldnt go out of your way to deliberatly offend someone. But like Ninja said no matter what you do someone somewhere will find something offensive in your work.

As someone who grew up with voilent video games I would agree that I have been somewhat desensitized to voilent imagery. However this is only true to voilent imagery on screen that isnt actually real. I still get queezy seeing real blood and gore and generally feel sad when I hear about...

Part of my initial research was in why we enjoy collecting things, in this case the achievements. It varies from person to person and involves a few different theories such as self determination, positive reinforcement, social conditioning and even as an evolutionary response. These are the...

I'm reading all comments posted via the questionaire as well as here so thank you for the feedback. So far i've recieved a lot of interesting opinions and ideas, including many things I hadnt considered which was beyond my expectations. I should be able to structure a great report around...

I remember explaining to a lecturer at my campus what Achievement systems actually were (he hadn't touched video games for years) and after discussing it with him he couldnt understand why players were not awarded actual tangible benifits for collecting Achievements. Interestingly he made...

Xbox Live Gamerscore and its achievement system inparticular has been compared to the likes of an MMO in the way it works. Collecting achievements is like a meta-game that everyone is playing. The Gamerscore itself is simply the high-score table of which to compare each others progress...

Thats perfectly fine, the poll was added simply to get a quick response from those who werent very interested in participating in the thread or filling out the questionnaire. Anyway as you say it seems to be a common concensus that unavoidable achievements add little to nothing to games, the...

Most of the girls I have interviewed or discussed achievements with so far do infact like achievements and have quite a lot to say, however it will be difficult to get an accurate comparison on how either gender responds to achievements as 80% of participants so far have been male. Perhaps...

Its these 'Inspiring' Achievements which seem to be more popular among most gamers and makes me think if a game included only achievements like this (or at least a majority) would players be more inclined to replay the game compared to games with achievements such as 'Comeplete the game on...

Haha yes I have also played Eat Lead and the 'Pause the Game' Achievement in my questionnaire was inspired by that. Generally it was a summarisation of the unavoidable or very easy achievements present in many games and I was hoping to see how people feel about them. According to current...

To say that your sense of accomplishment feels forced is an interesting comment. Something I havnt yet considered. Would you say that you feel a higher sense of accomplishment with self set targets then you would with those provided by the game through its achievement system?