Achievements

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I usually just ignore them if they are just "beat this level. Now, do it quicker. Now, do it on a harder difficulty." However, if they encourage you to play the game differently, I'm all for it. But I will go on record as saying any achievement that requires you to spend extra money for a special controller on top of the game, or an expansion pack, can kiss my ass. That includes the "all instruments" achievements on Rock Band/RB2 and GH:WT. Just pisses me off. I can't sing worth shit, so I won't get a microphone, and that will always keep me from getting all of the achievements.

 

[shadow_pirate22]

Achievements are okay, they're good for when you've already beaten a game, what irritates me is when people equate a high gamerscore with being a better gamer or social popularity, and believe me, that's happened.

 

[51gunner]

I like the achievements. They add a little optional challenge there for when you feel like completing it. That said, I don't think I've 100%-ed any of my games that I own. I got all the single-player stuff in Halo 3, but never finished the Multiplayer ones. I don't have Live here.

I don't mind them in RPG games either for breaking immersion. Usually, something reward-worthy has this happen.
Me: "Who's the man?"
X360: "Achievement unlocked! You the man!"
Me: "Aaah yeah, I'm the man." *high-fives nothing*

Ultimately, I find that I ignore the overall gamerscore and just look up specific achievements. There's always easy-as-pie ones out there that bloat the score: I look for the hard as hell ones to see how good someone is at a particular game.

 

[Lukeydoodly]

Achievements are great. It give you that extra little thing to shoot for once you're done with the main game.

Indeed.

Theres just something pleasing about seeing 1000/1000.

No offense but DAAAAAAAMN you have a lot of free time.

Only time I've ever broken 500 was in Saints Row, and those Ach. are some of the easiest GP in the whole 360 library.

Yeah I do. And ive only 100% 1 or 2 games anyway.

 

[Gormers1]

Games like wii play/sports would have gotten much more replay value if it had achievements imo.
I like achievements, but I tend to not look for them when Im finishing a game for the first time. I will rather hunt for them on the second playtrhough.

 

[Seydaman]

I mainly think that it's interesting at how Sony decided to emulate the Achievements on the 360, but the amount of people accusing Sony of copying was relatively small compared to the Microsoft hate from other camps (like the Sony fanboys) when the NXE was announced, or the similarities between Vista and Mac OSX.

Its like sony and microsoft are in a war to copy each other and the wii to death. people like achievements, lets add them(trophies). people like miis, lets add them(avatars) Microsoft would kill for blu-ray support. Sony would love to have that netflix partnership.

I hope the next generation sees one standardized console. You don't see competing platforms for home video.(well not for very long anyways)or music.(mp3's are standard)or books.(although there is a cool new e-ink technology) My PS4 should play xbox720 games and vice versa. why not?

Sorry for going off topic. I like achievements/trophies.

would be nice to have a super console. spend less money

 

[DirkGently]

I like achievements. Not only do they offer bits of replay value and the "Lets see you pull this shit off, sonny boy" extra difficulty bits, they also give you a nice little pat on the back saying "Well done, smashing good job. Now what bit can we do next, eh what?". I don't know about you, but the only thing better than doing something is doing it and somebody giving you a pat on the back for doing so while saying "Well done".