How hard do you try to get them? I try to get most of them but I will not spend 4 hours trying to get one.
Achievements
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Not at all. Almost all of the achievements I've ever gotten, both on Xbox and the PS3 trophies, were things that just happened in the course of playing a game.
In a couple cases, I'd go a bit out of my way to get a few. With Bully and Lego Batman, I realized that it would be very easy and not that time consuming to get all 1000, so I did a few things I wouldn't have normally bothered with to get them.
In a couple cases, I'd go a bit out of my way to get a few. With Bully and Lego Batman, I realized that it would be very easy and not that time consuming to get all 1000, so I did a few things I wouldn't have normally bothered with to get them.
I dspise such hollow and meaningless rewards so I pay not attention to them when I play. If I get one while playing uh...yay? I don't go out of my way for them seeing as it's just some stupid carrot on a stick bullshit with the carrot being rather non existent.
I don't really have a problem with them. In a generation of games that have completely eliminated the idea of "scoring points" it does recreate that little bit of "yay I have higher numbers than you" thrill from when I was a kid.
That being said I don't usually actively hunt for them and it really depends on the quality of the game and the type of Achievements offered.
I frequently see them as a sort of "cheat sheet" for things to see and do once the bulk of the game has been completed.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is a perfect example. Once I beat the game I looked over the achievements and went looking for the things I may have missed, but I wasn't going to bother playing through the entire game again just to get them.
World Of Warcraft is another good example. I very rarely go out with the intention of gathering Achievements but if I'm just killing time waiting for a party to form or something I'll fart around and try to get some of them.
That being said I don't usually actively hunt for them and it really depends on the quality of the game and the type of Achievements offered.
I frequently see them as a sort of "cheat sheet" for things to see and do once the bulk of the game has been completed.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is a perfect example. Once I beat the game I looked over the achievements and went looking for the things I may have missed, but I wasn't going to bother playing through the entire game again just to get them.
World Of Warcraft is another good example. I very rarely go out with the intention of gathering Achievements but if I'm just killing time waiting for a party to form or something I'll fart around and try to get some of them.
If I love a game, I'll show my love by getting every achievement. Unless that game is Left 4 Dead 2, in which case there's that one goddamned campaign that's too hard to finish on Expert, and that one goddamned achievement that glitches out when I earn it so I don't get what I deserve.
If I enjoy the game, or they look fun, I'll go for them, but even though I LOVE Mass Effect, I'm never going to get the ones where you play 75% of the campaign with each group member... I'm sorry, not happening.
I've never tried to get an achievement in my life, and I don't think I ever will. They're for other people. I don't object to their presence, they're just a part of the game I'm uninterested in.
I like getting achievements, and I will certainly go a little out of my way to get them (like crushing 5 cars in Mafia 2 - it's really not necessary to do this, but it's easy). But I'm still undecided if I want to play through again finding all the Playboy centrefolds for instance (I only found 21 on my first run). Don't get me wrong, I liked Mafia 2, loved it. But do I want to sit there with a map to all the magazines just for 40 points? Then again, I would then have a gallery of 50 naked women I can view at anytime, where else [http://www.google.com] am I going to find that?
My feelings about Achievements: "Eh."
I just don't care. If I happen to get one, it might be exciting for a second or two, but then I go back to actually playing the game. Also, I play on PC and Wii, so I don't come across them as much either.
I just don't care. If I happen to get one, it might be exciting for a second or two, but then I go back to actually playing the game. Also, I play on PC and Wii, so I don't come across them as much either.
I love achievements. I spend way too much time trying to get them. Hello, my name is Steve, and I'm an achievaholic.
For me it depends on the achievement, if it's something stupid that just requires hours and hours of pointless grinding, then I wont bother, but if it's something that's actually skill based, I'll usually give it a shot. [Example, if the achievement is 'Kill 50,000 rats' , it's not gonna happen. If it's 'Complete X without using Y' (where Y is something that trivializes X) then yea, I'll give it a shot.]