Achievements - Do you care?

poker_999

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Do you care about achievements in games?

For instance alan wake can be bought off gog you get tons of extra features but no online epeen achievements. But if you buy on steam you get no bonus features, have to run the drm client but you can show how cool you are by unlocking achievements.

Which would you rather have?


I dont think they add anything to games, half the time you get achievements for doing simple things like loading the game :rolleyes: or grinding some monotonous task for days. I think if they offered some tangible in game reward then they might be worth while but more often then not they dont so I think they are a fad and the fad should have died years ago.


YOUR THOUGHTS
 
Depends on the game and the achievements.

Certain achievements can make you replay games in a different way to the way you would normally.

Getting the gnome one in HL2 Ep2 or the one in HL2 Ep1 where you can only use one bullet throughout the entire game. So you have to use nades, rockets and the mavity gun to kill enemies.
 
I'd rather have a good story to keep me going than a rubbish game full of achievements.

It's a shame that most of them rely on achievements to add content, when, if anything, they should have no effect on the game.
 
My curse is being a completionist & I find that if I don't get all the achievements I haven't really finished the game.
 
I do and don't care about them I think there good for showing ppl that you have completed a game and done it on hard or better but as for some of them like kill 10000 what ever I couldn't care less but some ppl like to do things like that :)
 
They are useful in Civ and FM as they have made me play them in different ways, as a way to pad out a terrible game though I despise them
 
The only games I've ever tried for some of the achievements were Left 4 Dead and the Half-Life games. Some of the ones in Left for Dead were quite good, going for perfect playthroughs, only using certain weapons and just completing the game on expert mode were nice when you finally got them.

The Half life 2 games have some great ones though, I seem to remember there being one where you couldn't walk on the sand on a level which was basically a massive stretch of beach. I loved how you got an achievement for throwing the can back at the guard who knocks it on the floor and tells you to pick it up :D
 
I love cheevements, most of the time I don't go out to specifically unlock them but it's nice to have something to compare to friends. Why not?
 
I tend to find Achievements go from one extreme to the other very quickly:

Leftie - You moved Left
Right On - You moved Right
Forward Thinker - You moved Forward
Sdrawkcab - You moved Backwards
Criss Cross - You Jumped
Engage - You fired your weapon
Imposssibru - you completed the hardcore game mode without firing a single bullet, losing a single point of energy or armour and all within a 15 second timeframe.
 
"Achievements" have become pretty meh, I used to like it how they did it in COD4 tho i.e. you'd get one for doing stuff that was actually an achievement or something funny like killing a guy, picking up his gun and then killing him again using his own gun.
 
I might show a little interest, but I soon quickly forget them, and I never aim to get any during a sp campaign. I don't mind them quite so much in CS:S, though I still consider them unimportant.
 
I don't mind them as long as they're not a substitute for good gameplay, but I can easily take them or leave them.
 
Ehh sometimes slightly, but most of the time they're just pixel cookies.....


Very few games have i bothered to try to get all achievements... maybe Trine 1? Because i genuinely enjoyed it and it wasn't a mammoth task like an MMO.
I do get annoyed in MMO's when losing achieves to reroll.
 
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