Poll: Are you an achievement/trophy whore?

[XT inc]

I used to be back when I could rent a game for a week for 10 bucks, Id try to bore it out of sweet tasty cheevo's.

Or if the achievement unlocks something, or is important to me, I.e. 7 day survivor in dead rising 1 where midway through my grandfather left the door open and my dog escaped running into traffic and all over the place.

Or if the achievement is hard to do, but not arbitrarily hard. Like kill 100,000 guys, where they only throw like 20 at you per level, or beat the game on insane, but it?s just monster closets and the game cheats.

 

[nothingspringstomind]

My friends call me a trophy whore but i disagree.

If i'm enjoying the game and get 90% of the trophies in my first playthrough (Mass Effect 2) because i'm enjoying it enough to try everything then i may as well get that Platinum if it's easy.

As another friend said; "He's not a trophy whore, he's just good at games!"

 

[Apocalypse0Child]

I am a hunter of achivements that interest me, so I tend to diss occult ones.

 

[darksakul]

Nope, I'm not an achievement whore. I have never exchanged sexual favours for gamerscore.

You mean I can do that?

No. But, after I finish a game, I sometimes pick a random achievement and go for it. I'm currently doing the Transmission Recieved achievement in Portal, also, getting the more difficult achievements in Atom Zombie Smasher, and almost have the One Week achievement in Garrys Mod.

I am the same way

Problem with most game achievements, they reward repetitious activity that isn't necessarily fun or the Achievement is some retarded series of "fetch quests".

Is it necessary to have these do-dads to collect, starts, dog tags, flags, coins or what ever. Who care?!

Game developers if you are going for achievements put in achievements that are fun and not a chore to do. Complaining Chapter 5 in the game story is a achievement, mastering the item creation system is a achievement, pulling off a 60 hit combo in a fighting game is an achievement.

 

[AshuraSpeaks]

I voted no because nowadays I actually measure the fun factor and time required to get a trophy to see if it would be worth it before I bother trying to go after. After collect all the feathers in AC 2, I can't be bothered to do anything similar to it in a game ever again unless there is an in game reward that might make it worthwhile. Something more than a trophy/achievement.

For instance, the Auditore Family Cape.

I have only 100% completed games I love. I may do it for Bioshock, or AC2 (because I'm damn close), and definitely will for Fallout 3, but I don't know if I ever will in the Saints Row games. I have in New Vegas (all the DLC even), Oblivion, and Monkey Island 2. And there's an amazing amount of finality to that.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

If the answer for you is no, I want to know why you don't see the point in getting 100% completion out of a game when you've paid for it.

Two reasons:
1. Some achievements are outrageously stupid.
2. Some achievements are multiplayer only, and I could care less about multiplayer, especially on consoles (actually, multiplayer only could fall under "outrageously stupid", too).

 

[scar_47]

I guess kinda I like to 100% games but I do draw the line on some trophies such as those for playing online or some that seem really boring usually collection based trophies but I have gotten 100% on quite a few of the games I own.

 

[floppylobster]

I was once but now I'm not.

If the answer for you is no, I want to know why you don't see the point in getting 100% completion out of a game when you've paid for it.

Why get 100% when I paid for it? Because there are more valuable things in life, like time. And if I'm not enjoying the experience why would I waste my limited time on it? If you bought a loaf of bread, would you eat it even after it had gone off just to get your money's worth?

If the achievement's fun and I have time to waste, I'll go for it. But I will no longer, (because I once did), keep playing beyond the point of enjoyment for something I know will mean nothing to me a five years time.

 

[Ironwampa]

I don't go for achievements because they don't actually add anything to the game experience. Most achievements are for things you would do anyway or are just for making the game seem like it has more to do in it. My time too valuable to waist collecting some pointless knick-knacks.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

No I'm not nuts about it but If I think an achievment will make a game more challenging or fun I will do it.

For example I am doing the pacifist run through on Give me Deus Ex difficulty. I think I have screwed up the no alarm one by saving Malik though.

 

[The Hero Killer]

Yes I find that achievements double the amount of time I spend with game.

 

[Timmehexas]

I only go for achievements when I've basically already completed the game (and if I enjoyed it) I'll go back and do the achievements to extend my play time with it.

 

[khaimera]

YES YES YES!!!!!!!!

I just hit the 100,000 gamerscore milestone yesterday and I couldn't be happier. I had to add my gamertag to my top four badges just in the hopes that people would click on it and feel impressed by my six figure score. Or maybe just make fun of me or caring so much about something that everyone else in my life thinks is petty, childish, and pathetic for a 30 year old man to be doing.

But screw those who think the latter

 

[Eomega123]

I used to be, but then I got Team Fortress 2. You CANNOT play tf2 and hope to get every achievement. It will drive you mad.

 

[Voulan]

I pick my battles, sometimes I decide "Okay, I'm going to get 100% in this game, finish it all the way and kick ass!" but sometimes I'd just rather play the game until I'm finished myself and take it easy. I do think that I am a bit of an achievement whore at times but hey, it's not hurting anyone. *Shrugs*

Grell!

I agree with you anyway, besides having Grell as an avatar. I usually just play through the game, but for the sake of replayability I usually go through again to get the trophies. I'm fond of getting them, but sometimes I won't bother if it's really tricky. I aim, over a long course of time, to get all of the trophies.

Most of the games I have don't actually support trophies anyway.

 

[dangitall]

Single player, yes. I'm a completionist.
Multiplayer, then no. I don't want to burden my friends by trying to do 10 teamkills with my rubber duck.

 

[Dango]

It depends on the game. Oblivion is the only game I've ever bothered to get 1000 achievement points on, but I've bought and traded in enough games to have built up a pretty high gamer score.

 

[DementedSheep]

Not really. I do the ones I feel like doing, they can be fun and add more challenge but I?m not compelled to get 100% if I?m not enjoying trying to the achievements. What would be the point? I got the game to have fun.

 

[mduncan50]

All depends on the type of trophies. I like when games like Fallout 3 use trophies as a way of exploring places, or trying gameplay styles that you may not have otherwise. However I cant stand the trophies that are like: blast 5 womp rats, using the k375 Rifle, while hopping on one foot, while looking in the other direction, within 10 seconds. Developers should use trophies/achievements to help players get the most out of their games, rather than frustrate them with neigh impossible feats.

 

[aarontg]

Typically when I beat a game I like I'll get all the easy achievements I missed and then go on to the harder ones. After about an hour of frustration from getting the more difficult ones I'll come by one that sounds almost impossible and turn the game off to do something else.