Editor's Note: Carrot on a Stick

[Valiance]

I love 100% completions.
I do not love achievements.

I love "You found all the hidden packages!"
I do not love "You killed 10,000 people in multiplayer matches."

It's hard to explain, but I like less achievements that take time and skill to attain rather than achievements that take simply time to achieve, or achievements that feel like bookkeeping and stat-building...

I don't mind achievements. They've grown on me, but since 90% of the games I've done a lot in aren't recognized as achievements, and games I obsess over aren't even from this generation, I won't find it to be an accurate representation of myself or my gaming skill or my gaming devotion.

 

[Trivun]

I have just the game for you... [http://armorgames.com/play/2893/achievement-unlocked]

Loved that game, brilliant

Editor's Note: Carrot on a Stick

Are merit badges the gateway drug to achievement-whoredom? In former Girl Scout Susan Arendt's experience, they can be.

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I have to say, that explains the Pony Badge, Susan. You're a woman after my own heart

I am also an achievement whore, and proud of it. I've just started a period of retro gaming and I'm obsessing over finding the last box to smash in Crash Bandicoot 2 (99% completion and missing 1 gem, this is really peeing me off now...), and I'm worried that when I come to play the old Pokemon games I really will want to "catch 'em all". Whenever I play a game I try and unlock as much as possible and I love the badge system on Kongregate, so maybe I should be slightly worried about my obsessive personality...

 

[Adinoman]

yknow, i always wondered why i had such a incessant desire for Achievements and Trophies and you've finally answered my question for me. I was a boy scout once and i remember that i simply couldn't stop earning badges simply because of that sense of accomplishment you received when you got to put a shiny new badge on your sash. granted that got less exciting when the only badges left were Dog Grooming and Insect Study

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

I was never a scout,so I wouldn't know,however I belive it's the feeling of a need for every random person you meet to think your great.

why else have these collectibles like trophys and achievements and badges?

I actually do just want to have collectible things,but don't really need recognition from random people for it.

 

[mattaui]

If I really like a game, I'll want to get more of the achievements because I enjoy playing the game, so it hardly feels like work in most cases. I've never gotten all of them for any game, and for most games I get less than half. The only 100% completion I ever got was for Red Dead Redemption (which is just for the single player game and doesn't include any online achievements), so that's about as close as I got. I did most of them on my own, had to check with friends or other online sources to finish off a few hard ones, which I've never felt bad about doing.