Do you even like Achievements?!

[ibunwestMember]

hythrain:
Achievements are a touchy thing with me. As a former WoW addict, when achievements were added to that game I went insane for them. I can’t tell you how much time I WASTED on them. I wasted so much time, in fact, that I actually went and got one of the hardest achievements in the game before it got super nerfed (It was nerfed a little bit prior, but not to the extent it would be nerfed some six months after I finished it). The achievement in question wascalled “Insane in the Membrane” for obvious reasons: http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=2336/insane-in-the-membrane (Two of the reputations you needed to hit exalted with for this were a LOT harder to get Exalted with before. Another faction was downright removed, which was the most time consuming one to do. There’s also another rep that says you need to be Honored for, which was an enemy of a rep you needed Exalted for, meaning unless you did a long, painstaking method, you couldn’t get both at once. You didn’t need to, thankfully, but I still did).

That… that thing… is why I HATE achievements. To people like me, who can easily get hooked on that sort of thing, achievements suck because I feel the urge to get every single one! It makes the game last longer, but I waste so much time doing it all! I don’t want to! I don’t want to waste that time! If you wanna add a couple of achievements to unlock stuff, cool, but when a game has a crapload of achievements and a lot of them are so time-consuming? No. Get rid of them. Don’t have them.

I had a guildy who got that achievement once. I remember making fun of him quite a bit (to my friends at least). No offense to you of course; but he was one of those guys who thought it really was a big deal. The kind that would rather do this than help the guild run a raid. He was all about his own personal “glory”.

[slykatMember]

hythrain:
Achievements are a touchy thing with me. As a former WoW addict, when achievements were added to that game I went insane for them. I can’t tell you how much time I WASTED on them. I wasted so much time, in fact, that I actually went and got one of the hardest achievements in the game before it got super nerfed (It was nerfed a little bit prior, but not to the extent it would be nerfed some six months after I finished it). The achievement in question wascalled “Insane in the Membrane” for obvious reasons: http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=2336/insane-in-the-membrane (Two of the reputations you needed to hit exalted with for this were a LOT harder to get Exalted with before. Another faction was downright removed, which was the most time consuming one to do. There’s also another rep that says you need to be Honored for, which was an enemy of a rep you needed Exalted for, meaning unless you did a long, painstaking method, you couldn’t get both at once. You didn’t need to, thankfully, but I still did).

That… that thing… is why I HATE achievements. To people like me, who can easily get hooked on that sort of thing, achievements suck because I feel the urge to get every single one! It makes the game last longer, but I waste so much time doing it all! I don’t want to! I don’t want to waste that time! If you wanna add a couple of achievements to unlock stuff, cool, but when a game has a crapload of achievements and a lot of them are so time-consuming? No. Get rid of them. Don’t have them.

Yeah it made me dislike wow on the level because it turned it into a chore in my eyes and that crap kept popping up but normally i never really notice them, but if they arent there i begin to notice that, weird huh?

[bonefootModerator]

Sometimes when I finish a game that I still very much want to continue playing it’s fun to take a look at the achievements and try to achieve them. Otherwise I don’t really acknowledge them.

• This reply was modified 10 months ago by  bonefoot.

[Duncan325Moderator]

I love achievements when they are actually that, an achievement. However, when I get 6 achievements for walking down the first hallway of a game I see the blatant attempt to make the gamer feel like they’re doing something great in the game and that if they keep going they’ll get more and more shiny little things. One achievement for finishing the game is all I need for the story portion thanks.

[lihjeMember]

achievements are fun, when they done right but way to many is just silly, but no one really force any one to do achviement it just something extra:P and yes as a former and sometimes still wow player i went insane wiht achviements there had great fun doing them

[awhaleableMember]

They’re ok and can be useful for bragging rights but I always prefer in game rewards. Like in Halo 3 if you got all the achievements you unlocked a piece of armor. That’s cool at least because you can wear it around and stuff.

[lisaMember]

I absolutely love them.

I’ve always been the type to try and 100% or find hidden things for games that I really like anyway. I remember doing this a lot with the classic RPGs and N64 3D plat-formers. With trophies it just makes it that much sweeter after you accomplish something. There’s also that love of mine to collect things. I usually have fun getting trophies and ones that seem like work I just skip.

I don’t feel they hurt the gaming experience because you don’t have to go for them. I’ve also never met anybody that was real obnoxious about their “gaming score” (even though I’m sure they’re out there) but that’s also easily ignored so no big deal.

[jsc315Member]

I could care less one way or the other about them. All they are is that carrot on the stick to make you think you are actually achieving something when really you haven’t done all that much.

[tabbikattMember]

Personally, I like them. I grew up being the kind of gamer that liked collecting everything so to me they are just a new generation of that collecting. The key reason to me liking them is that I can CHOOSE to collect trophies, I’m not FORCED to collect them. They can also add a little challenge that I may not have considered, like completing Ico in two hours or less.

Do I still have a few nitpicks? Yeah (if a trophy name/description has a huge spoiler and isn’t hidden, or that I can’t delete trophy information for games that fill me with burning rage just at the sight) but I don’t feel any deep negative feeling towards their existence. They’re there, I can ignore them if I don’t feel like doing them, but I can also have fun with them if I feel like it. Everybody’s happy.

(As for people talking about getting trophies for completing story segments, I was once told that it was an industry standard for all games to have a certain amount of trophies and assumed that was where most companies shoved the numbers. Feel free to correct me if that’s complete BS.)

[tgorman83Member]

I personally hate achievements with a passion
i feel they don’t contribute to the game after all
they have no impact on the game whatsoever
you get one and then what? nothing it dosnt affect the game at all so why bother?

[tychoMember]

I kind of like achievements, I don’t try to get them all, but I like to get an achievement for some hidden stuff or doing things an unexpected way or funny stuff. I don’t like achievements for “starting the game” or other pointless things.

The is a good Extra Credit Episode about achievements on Penny Arcade.

[shinmaruMember]

I don’t mind them. They’re a nice substitute for high scores and the like, especially as games become more plot-oriented. It’s kind of neat having a record for things you do in a game that you can point to at any time and be like, “Yeah, I did this.”

[rarityMember]

I love achievements since they are one of the most important factors in measuring how big your gaming dick is.

[nightshadeMember]

I like progression-driven achievements like finishing a chapter, finishing a story, completing every missions of a set, have a character fully upgraded and so on. They allow me to keep a quick resume of my progression in a game.

However, achievements of the kind of “Do this hard to pull move just because you can” does not appeal to me. I don’t bother with them because I’ll rather move on to the next thing rather than waste time on one single trick that doesn’t really give me anything but a notification that I did it.

[herbisMember]

I like achievements when they are used properly. Like when you do something that everyone who completes the game doesn’t necessarily do. Something that makes the game have a replay-value. When they are just like “You did what you were supposed to do, here’s an achievement”, those I don’t like.

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