Reward Whores Anonymous

Meado

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GonzoGamer said:
Hi I hate achievement trophies, I prefer to be rewarded with things you can use in the game (like how stealing all the cars in GTA used to get you a respawning stock of cars) instead of useless and arbitrary points.

It would be nice if they could do both;
but they don't so I hate them.
The achievements in Mass Effect give you bonuses to every character from then on. Getting x kills with an Assault Rifle allows any new characters to use assault rifles, for example. If more games did this, I'd love achievements more than I currently do [cough]50,000GS[/cough]
 

MisterLillie

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Mrsnugglesworth said:
Hi, I am not an achievement whore, but I'd like to be one. How do I start?
Become a perfectionist when it comes to getting all of your achievements
 

shadowelancer

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Pi_Fighter said:
Search "achievement whores anonymous"
Why should I. Are you trying to say that this has been done before or something? Or did you make your own in an attempt to usurp me.
 

Tech Team FTW!

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shadowelancer said:
Why should I. Are you trying to say that this has been done before or something? Or did you make your own in an attempt to usurp me.
This has been done in the Off Topic forum... several days before you originally posted. Not by me though I am not an achievement/reward whore.
 

GonzoGamer

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Meado said:
GonzoGamer said:
Hi I hate achievement trophies, I prefer to be rewarded with things you can use in the game (like how stealing all the cars in GTA used to get you a respawning stock of cars) instead of useless and arbitrary points.

It would be nice if they could do both;
but they don't so I hate them.
The achievements in Mass Effect give you bonuses to every character from then on. Getting x kills with an Assault Rifle allows any new characters to use assault rifles, for example. If more games did this, I'd love achievements more than I currently do [cough]50,000GS[/cough]
That's the way it should work: the achievement trophy coincides with an in game reward but my point is that for the most part, they don't. And even when they do the rewards have been getting crappier: back to GTA4, getting the endangered species achievement/collecting the "hidden packages" got you a crappy attack chopper in the middle of the city (nowhere near a safehouse) rather than an arsenal in your safehouse.

Achievement Trophies just seems like a pretty poor substitute especially when you consider that (in game or out) they aren't worth anything.
 

impactsickness

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Evil Scotsman said:
My name is Bryan and i am an achievement whore...I have 20k+ gamer score and i have only had my xbox from last Christmas...
you must have had at least 18 games for christmas. lucky white boy...
 

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impactsickness said:
Evil Scotsman said:
My name is Bryan and i am an achievement whore...I have 20k+ gamer score and i have only had my xbox from last Christmas...
you must have had at least 18 games for christmas. lucky white boy...
I meant Christmas 2007

Since then, 53 games...
 

Blow_Pop

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Frank_Sinatra_ said:
aprilmarie said:
Frank_Sinatra_ said:
Hi, I'm Keenan and I'm a trophy whore.
Hi, I'm April Marie and I am a TROPHY whore as well. Which speaking of Keenan, you beat me on the Fallout 3 trophies yet? I was close to Prince of Persia then the stupid expansion came out....*grumble*
No not really, I've been playing Battlefield: Bad Company online recently because I noticed my blood pressure was too low, and I needed another heart attack.
haha. figures....i'm still gonna beat you with that platinum....soon as we can get to that game again....
 

beholdmycape

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shadowelancer said:
I've only ever achieved a 100% on oblivion.
And that was only for the achievments.

Im not too bothered about gamer score or getting every achievemnent in a game but the one game I arbitarily decided to 100% was Call of Duty 2.
My brother was surprised I managed it and asked how long it took me to get through on veteran
and I just said 'heh, quite a while'.
In reality it's just plain wrong how many hours it took, it's still my only 100% and im oddly proud of it.
 

Ago Iterum

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Hello everyone. I'm James, and I'm a repressed obsessive compulsive achievment whore...

Any game with achievments, I can't enjoy unless I'm getting all the achievments along the way. And it pisses me off.

I hate achievments more than anything in the world. They are the worst thing to happen to games ever.
 

Frank_Sinatra_

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aprilmarie said:
Frank_Sinatra_ said:
aprilmarie said:
Frank_Sinatra_ said:
Hi, I'm Keenan and I'm a trophy whore.
Hi, I'm April Marie and I am a TROPHY whore as well. Which speaking of Keenan, you beat me on the Fallout 3 trophies yet? I was close to Prince of Persia then the stupid expansion came out....*grumble*
No not really, I've been playing Battlefield: Bad Company online recently because I noticed my blood pressure was too low, and I needed another heart attack.
haha. figures....i'm still gonna beat you with that platinum....soon as we can get to that game again....
Mmmhmm... You keep telling yourself that.
 

Blow_Pop

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Frank_Sinatra_ said:
aprilmarie said:
Frank_Sinatra_ said:
aprilmarie said:
Frank_Sinatra_ said:
Hi, I'm Keenan and I'm a trophy whore.
Hi, I'm April Marie and I am a TROPHY whore as well. Which speaking of Keenan, you beat me on the Fallout 3 trophies yet? I was close to Prince of Persia then the stupid expansion came out....*grumble*
No not really, I've been playing Battlefield: Bad Company online recently because I noticed my blood pressure was too low, and I needed another heart attack.
haha. figures....i'm still gonna beat you with that platinum....soon as we can get to that game again....
Mmmhmm... You keep telling yourself that.
I will, cause last i checked i'm a hell of a lot closer than you are. like i said my game is inaccessible right now. halfway in the process of moving so most of the games are packed away and none of us thought not to pack it. of course i went crazy ***** on everyone and flipped out the day we moved so its understandable haha
 

SunGryphon

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My name is Sunny, and I blame City of Heroes [http://www.badgehounds.com/archive/Badge_Hounds_1_-_Badge_Hound_-_Lite.jpg] for my badge addiction.
 

Da_Schwartz

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I like to see myself more so as a reward slut then a whore. I tend to get a few here and there, go halfway with this one, 3/4 with another. but never really bang out enough to call myself a professional at one area of expertise. Reguardless..someone told me there was punch and pie at this meeting?