! Views on X360 Achievements !

Breezy

Breezy

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In my personal opinion I have found X360 Achiements to be the next BIG thing in gaming.
They extend playtime thus increasing the lifespan of many of my games.
I take my cap off to Microsoft for finding a low cost way of giving more value to titles.
 
I have to agree, On my previous consoles, once I was done with a game I would move on to the next and never play that game again. There are exceptions obviously (Final Fantasy series especially), but 90% of the games I finished I never touched again. Ever since I got my Xbox last year, It's been a different story. Halo 3 ,for example, I played over and over till I got all the skulls and all other single player achievements. It does give more value in a sense but not everyone has the same view...My girlfriend for example can't understand why I'm playing a game over if I already finished it. She'll hunt for achievements, but won't play the game over to get every last one.
 
Depends on the game to be honest, like some I will hunt down every green orb or flag, others I just want to finish
 
To bloody addictive, must have more! If i dont get 100% i feel like ive never finished the game before
 
Agreed, achievements offer great incentive to play through a game again. At the moment I am busy playing through Halo Wars again just to get a couple of the achievements I missed on the first run through. Even playing the same mission a couple of times to get it right.
 
Totally... such a simple idea... and its got me into gaming again .... my issue now is playing pc games i lose interest a lot sooner looking forward to having more games having achievements on pc ... you end up getting more value for money cause you're more willing to play the games more to get achievements
 
The Xbox Gamer Points system has actually made me move away from PC. It gives me more motivation to play a game & find all hidden "treasures".

I still have to get a complete 1000 points for a game. :o
 
To be honest I could not be bothered by any achievements or trophies, when I'm done with the story of a game then that's it for me, I don't see the point of going back for some virtual points.
 
I'm hooked on achievements. And like other people have already said, I find they add an enormous amount of value to games - I find myself trying all sorts of crap I wouldn't usually try, and I get more out of my games that way. Achievements motivate players.

Having said that, I'm not much of a replayer. If I don't have all the achievements by the time I've finished my first playthrough, I've very unlikely to replay the game. There are some exceptions (I've played both Gears of War titles several times over, for example), but for the most part, I simply play too many games to invest a lot of time in any one of them. Move on, start something new.
 
I am not bothered much by achievements, although I usually browse the achievement list for interesting thing to do in the game like in the saboteur jumping off the eiffel tower and not dying looked interesting and I achieved it.

I do think they should rework the system to give a you gamer score divided by the number of games played so you can tell the difference between those who just play a lot of games and accumulate score and those who play a game until every achievement is unlocked. It would mean a lot more then even though I will probably fall into the former category.
 
Achievements are awesome to keep you playing a game.

However, and I'm talking from my WoW experience here (Which is a PC game for the Xbox folk around that don't know. :)), they are also the biggest waste of time ever. I mean, how does it help me that I killed x amount of y in z time? That I spent 50 hours running around looking for a chicken just to wait another 70 to have it drop the egg that I need (Might be slightly exaggerated...)? How does that help me in any way? Except to be able to compare my e-p....
To play a game and do things over and over again just to get achievements such as the 1,000,000,000 Gold achievement of Fable 2 (Or whichever amount it was) is...a waste of time.

If they're fun things to do though, such as exploring or going through before unseen content, then I reckon it's worth it.
 
I think achievements span the range from "awesome" to "totally absurd" (I'm looking at YOU Valve for that damn gnome-achievement! which I eventually got... :D), but like most other people on here, I'm totally hooked! Games seem to have more value and you spend a lot more time on the game, which makes spending R600+ on a game more worth it.

Also, it guides you into discovering / doing things you might otherwise have never done in the game...
 
They're there and if I unlock a few a long the way, that's cool. I've never replayed a title to unlock achievements though, if I unlock a lot its more because the game itself had good replay value or great multiplayer.
 
Points. I love my achievmetns. The only problem I have with them is the online one's. I mean you can get all the single player ones but never the online one's just because our lovely country doesnt have decent connectivity rates, and thus it stops you from getting 100% achievment on that game.
 
I suppose in most cases it boils down to whether or not you buy originals or make copies.
I mean let's face it, the more you pay the more u tend to respect and play a game else why buy it. !(PS3 Ownerz know this)!
But for me be it R600 or 60 bucks It doesn't matter.
 
Breezy said:
I suppose in most cases it boils down to whether or not you buy originals or make copies.
I mean let's face it, the more you pay the more u tend to respect and play a game else why buy it. !(PS3 Ownerz know this)!
But for me be it R600 or 60 bucks It doesn't matter.
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Wut.

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For those of you who say they don't see the point of going thru all that trouble for nothing but (made up digital points) think about this.....:confused:
... Why do we do anything, I mean even playing a game in the first place ???
Answer = For the IMATERIAL reward of knowing your SKILL LEVEL and how good a Gamer you really are.
I mean theres a major difference between telling someone how you painstakingly cleard "GEARS OF WAR2" on INSANE
and having an Achievement to F@*!ing prove it.:cool:
 
It is a mixed bag for me. All depends on the game.

Honestly I have seldom found myself going out of my way to get achievements. Often I have too large a backlog of games to play to bother with them too much. Over time however I have grown to think it is a decent idea for those who enjoy collecting the points / trophies, but sometimes the e-peen waggling can get annoying from some people I have encountered.
 
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