Poll: Are you an achievement/trophy whore?

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Nope. I really don't care that much. I just want to have fun.

 

[SoulSalmon]

Getting achievements, especially if you actively worked towards it, easily ramps up enjoyment in a game

 

[SuperToaster]

I'm an achievement whore, yes.
I just love that feeling I acomplished something,
and it's an even better feeling when I went through trouble for it.

 

[CleverCover]

I only go for it when (1) I absolutely adore the game and (2) the achievement ties into furthering the story of the character or something.

Usually though, I only go for what I get in the first try or something.

 

[MAUSZX]

a little bit... you see, I don't die and get frustrated for achievements, but yes i try to get the more I can and enjoy the game, most of the time I play it on hard mode, not for the achievements but for the challenge, and then sometimes i check out the list and go with it.

 

[LiliumSnow]

Not really, though I do feel slightly proud when I get an achievement that's super-duper hard to acquire.

 

[Spoon E11]

Some games I will endlessly hunt the achievements down. Borderlands and BF:BC2 are some examples. But I really didnt enjoy playing ME2 on insane so I stopped playing it.

 

[hinataxemnas]

I play online most of the time, but there will be times when I want to go achievement whoring, so... yes and no, but I do have a seperate file from that so that I dont need to waste money for online i don't play with that account (at least until I face an achievement that needs to be online, in which case, i just buy the cheap 5$ 1 month online)

 

[Eleima]

What is Mount and Blade like? I've been looking at buying it once I repair my gaming computer.

M&B is fun, albeit hard to master and very time consuming. Not sure you'd really need a gaming computer to play it, though, far from it. It's not like it's the most greed of games... Demo's available on Steam, IIRC.

And yea, not having the time is a pain, but it makes it all the sweeter when you do finally get those tricky achievements, wouldn't you agree?

Well, it mostly means I'll be glad to have the achievements I can get, but there are some I'm just not even going to try for, because I just don't have the time for it. And having so little time, I'm not going to turn what gaming I do have into grinding.

 

[ShotgunZombie]

I am a complete and total trophy whore (though I've never exchanged trophies for sexual favors). But the weird thing is that I don't go out of my way to get trophies for the trophy's sake, I do it because I like to watch my Trophy-XP-bar-thingy (no idea what it's called) steadily rise as I conquer arbitrary challenges. I reminds me of an RPG and I like to see my level increase, maybe the next level will be the one where a get to learn a new spell!

 

[deal]

No. For me it sucks the fun out of the game to do all the pointless work necessary to get them.

 

[octafish]

No. I wish I could turn off the notifications in most games, of course good games don't tell you are getting achievements, I like that. I hate it when you can't turn the notifications off. I play games for fun, or for story telling, or adventure, or to blow off steam, not for bragging rights.

 

[SonOfStayPuft]

For those that are Achievement Whores/Hunters, then fair enough.You want to experience the game to it's fullest.

Me though? I'm the opposite.There are some Achievements that i've gone out to get I admit, but i'm going to be honest, and I know some may laugh, but the only game i've got all the Achievements for is Dash of Destruction.
I have replayed games yes (infact i'm still playing Arkham Asylum, even though I completed it two years ago), but i'm not prepared to really annoy myself just to get 100G for completing a Game on "Super Mega Ultra Veteran Difficulty just using a Toothpick to kill 8000 Enemies in 30 Seconds"
I just want to have fun.Sometimes I unlock some Achievements by accident (This happened in Bulletstorm with the "Master of Disaster" Achievement)

Fable II & III are fun because at least with their Achievements, you can have fun getting them.Dressing like a Chicken to give out Royal Orders? That's plain dumb, but still pretty funny all the same.

But anyway, each to their own

 

[Death God]

Yes and I don't know why. But when I hear about achievements, trophies, un-lockables, I just have to get them all.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I don't really care about "My Collection" of Trophies, I like earning them though. I know its cool to hate them, but whats the difference between ingame challenges and trophies/achievements?

If I like a game, I go for Platinum.

 

[aaronobst]

I sorta consider myself a trophy/cheevo whore but basically for me, If it involves tedious grinding or just isnt fun then I wont bother.

 

[newdarkcloud]

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.

In my honest opinion the cape wasn't really worth the time it took to get all those feathers. Fallout 3 and New Vegas are a different story because it's more fun to explore the area looking for whatever new weapons or items you can find as opposed to just feathers or some such.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Sometimes, yeah. Personally I prefer the vibrant *DING!* of the trophies to the *Bleep bloop!* of the achievements.

 

[The Cor]

I am 90% guy, I will try to achieve as much as I can until I feel like that I am wasting time on the last 10%

 

[damocles23]

I like the challenge, so i like to go for the harder ones,for example i'm doing a no kill run on the hardest setting on Deus Ex HR, but the ones who are too much of a drag i don't care, like the one with the ebooks,though i think i'm getting a lot of them...