And you were the one going to buy a 120GB HD a few days ago.
The money was burning a hole in my pocket. I just had to spend it on something
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The money was burning a hole in my pocket. I just had to spend it on something
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I like it when I unlock an achievement, although I never strive to get them
i do like achievements, but i wont not play a good game if the achievements are tough. its a great system in my opinion.
im definately addicted though, crackdown had some awesome achievements and made me do things i wouldnt have done otherwise.
im definately addicted though, crackdown had some awesome achievements and made me do things i wouldnt have done otherwise.
i must say i spent about 3 months when i first got my 360 going for every achievement
then i got r6vegas and stormed that for 6 months non stop
you only get 40points for getting to elite - not that i was bothered - was just a great game so i didnt bother with other games/achievements
now i just dont bother at all
COD4 has no online achievements which is great - no kids in lobbies making 'i kill you 10 times with a sniper rifle and then you do it back to me' deals
achievements lead to 50% of the players on each team just doing stupid stuff whilst the rest of their teams are struggling for the win
then i got r6vegas and stormed that for 6 months non stop
you only get 40points for getting to elite - not that i was bothered - was just a great game so i didnt bother with other games/achievements
now i just dont bother at all
COD4 has no online achievements which is great - no kids in lobbies making 'i kill you 10 times with a sniper rifle and then you do it back to me' deals
achievements lead to 50% of the players on each team just doing stupid stuff whilst the rest of their teams are struggling for the win
i dont know if i'll get into mass effect properly yet...(im searching for this woman on a mining planet. stuck fighting a whole load of geth that get air dropped down, quite near the start of the game) i find it quite difficult, even on regular! no other games interest me this year atm...bar GTA4. as for achievement points, if i get them, i get them, they don't really interest me in the slightest. i play the game to enjoy it, but i do like to see the little achievement unlocked button pop up randomly!
I remember getting kicked from a rainbow six vegas server a few times becuase ive completed the objective "too quickly" and not let people "get enough kills". haha
I've got a reasonably large score (17,000 and something) but usually i like getting the achievements as they pose a challenge. For example, on Assassins Creed there's one for lasting 10 minutes in a fight and i was rubbish at fighting so i did that for fun. I think they add life to a game because it no longer just has the 'complete the game and trade it in' factor.
I really liked Open Season too.
I like boosting my gamerscore although never to the detriment of missing out on great games, or rushing through games that should be savoured.
If it makes me sad *shrugs* I enjoy doing it, not going to stop enjoying what I do just because someone thinks I'm sad
I like boosting my gamerscore although never to the detriment of missing out on great games, or rushing through games that should be savoured.
If it makes me sad *shrugs* I enjoy doing it, not going to stop enjoying what I do just because someone thinks I'm sad
I agree with Haly. I have a reasonably high score really, but I wouldn't say I've ruined any games by rushing through them. If you look at some of the completed games on my account I would say getting all Platinums in PGR3 and PGR4, 1000/1000 in FM2006, total completion of CoD2 and CoD4, True Elite in Burnout Revenge and some others show I don't just blast through games.
I do enjoy playing them,
I do enjoy playing them,
. Cheers Chris.
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I am in a stat stage at the moment, but never really bothered with them for the first couple of years I had my 360. I don't usually let it drive my gaming, so I'll play the game how I feel and then try and get some achievements afterwards.
Just completed Hour of Victory (how bad is this game, see my other thread) and a lot of the achievements were not too hard so I went for them. Without doubt achievments were the only reason I kept playing that game after about 10 minutes.
Just completed Hour of Victory (how bad is this game, see my other thread) and a lot of the achievements were not too hard so I went for them. Without doubt achievments were the only reason I kept playing that game after about 10 minutes.
The darkside has such a grip you cannot see it's taken over. Your a huge game fan, obviously. Often you will talk and tell me how I must get X it's the nuts.
Rarely do I see you go back to any game after the points have been milked.
You have creamed the arse out of PGR4 in the last week or so. I would bet a Cadburys Crunchie you wont go back to it either offline or online. Don't you miss the old days when you would just play a driving game for the fun of it, driving laps to get your time down to perfect a car rather than a set target.
Think of all the truely great MP games whose direction you are happy to point people in while playing some drab SP game for points.
Its your bloody fault I bought Orange box and Mass Effect in the first place and your not playing them.
I've been guilty of it myself, that i'd freely admit. It wasn't til COD came along with no achievements for online I realised how stupid it was. OMG i'm gaming for nothing other than fun.
I've hardly got a point since november and I wont bother again unless it's plot based, probably, maybe
CoD4 is probably the only game I go back to just for fun, but that's always been the case for me. Once I've completed a game or got as far as I want to get, I rarely go back to them. I could name probably 3-4 games in the past 10 years that I'd happily go back to just for fun.
I tend to play games that are heavily plot based though so I find they just lose the same appeal once I've seen the full story, unless there's different endings to view such as in the case of Knights of the Old Republic and Star Ocean 2, both of which would be rare exceptions to my rule.
I tend to play games that are heavily plot based though so I find they just lose the same appeal once I've seen the full story, unless there's different endings to view such as in the case of Knights of the Old Republic and Star Ocean 2, both of which would be rare exceptions to my rule.
I have a good grasp on quality games, that's why I recommend.
Generally because a game has been completed (completely) by that point, but it's also not true. I continue to play Call of Duty 4. I also used to play a lot of Smackdown vs Raw 2007 and I played Burnout Revenge almost religiously for 4 months solid (as well as further over the coming months with other games).
I probably won't, I personally don't think it's as good as PGR3. I've not been well lately and before that I was busy, PGR4 is a quick pick up and play, TOB and Mass Effect are neither, so they weren't options. I wanted to get PGR4 out of the way before Burnout Paradise.
Do I miss having to beat old times? No, not really, I never really used to do that in the past, when a game was complete it was complete. I've always had a lot of games and a lot of systems, so whilst my playing style with achievements may look odd to you or others, it's in fact no different to what I've always done with games with or without achievements.
My favourite types of games were point and clicks or adventure games, so you'll see nearly all my games with an achievement for "collect everything" have that achievement.
I'm not a massive fan of multiplayer. I've always said a games bread and butter should be the SP campaign, get that sorted first and then work on the MP. I still have over 24 hours of MP time on Call of Duty 4, around 50 on Burnout Revenge, around 10 hours on Team Fortress 2, I legitimately have the host 50 games on Gears of War and host 50 games on Fifa 08 too and there are a few others around. Most of my MP playing days were around 5 years ago.
As above, I wasn't well and I was busy. I've got a lot of games and let us not forget, I bought The Orange Box the day it came out, not recently, it's 5 different games and I've completed Portal and I was never a massive fan of Half-Life 2, so going through it again is something I'm trying to savour and enjoy this time.
I think the fact you don't like either is purely down to you as many people put either as their game of the year, both have won oodles of awards, so it's hardly my fault
.It's not that often I go stupidly out the way for achievements, the one that comes to mind is the stupid '1000 miles' achievement in DiRT which you can't get without intentionally going for it. At the time I was with a rental company, where I would rent games I was either not too sure about or were daft games I wouldn't buy, as a result I felt I had to play these and send them back as I owned others, it's a ridiculous cycle to be in and it's why I've cancelled my subscription.
You're acting as if Achievements are a bad thing, but they do the very thing you preach about at the beginning of this 'rant' and that's add longevity in almost every case. You're now racing through games once and getting rid of them (which is ironically what you're accusing me ofI've hardly got a point since november and I wont bother again unless it's plot based, probably, maybe
).
But what if people are having fun gaining the achievements?
Wrong. It's all about enjoying it. I enjoy collecting achievements in the same way I used to enjoy playing Tomb Raider on the PS1 and getting all the artifacts, or getting all the different endings in Silent Hill.