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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 8:59 pm

I agree with you mister unicorn.


The room is spinning around my head... :ahhh:
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mike
 
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 4:53 pm

I am a 360 achievement [censored]. I try to get every single one for every game I play.

Are they useful? Absolutely not. They do... absolutely NOTHING.

I don't brag about my gamerscore so calling it bragging rights isn't even applicable for me.

I can't help myself. I see the achievements and I NEED to unlock them.

I need achievements like a heroin addict needs heroin.
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YO MAma
 
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 12:22 pm

The room is spinning around my head... :ahhh:

The head is spinning around my room...
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Holli Dillon
 
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 1:39 am

Achievements were invented as a sop to console gamers to make up for poorly designed games.

Games have come a long way since then—even for consoles :hubbahubba: (not lookin' to start a war here) but Achievements have tenaciously hung around like an appendix (another useless appendage.)


Sums it up nicely.
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Lily Something
 
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 4:39 pm

I'll say "Yes", as all challenges at least give you a bit of experience. Some actually give you a bonus perk for acheiving them.
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 8:14 pm

The head is spinning around my room...


Gah! :ooo: Someone get a priest!
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Deon Knight
 
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 12:59 pm

Gah! :ooo: Someone get a priest!

To the batmobile robin!!!
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stevie trent
 
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 1:07 pm

Achievements are totally worthless.

In fact, I really wish game developers would go back to using points. I wants me some high scores to beat!
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Ebou Suso
 
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 1:52 pm

Since they give Experience Points and or some small Perks, they have some use.

However most of the ones I have gotten, I would have recieved anyway just playing through the game. I have not played a game to get an Achievement or a Challenge. To me, the Challenge in the game is playing the way I want to play and getting the results that I want. Fortunately, in this game, things do not always work out the way I want, so I get to go back and do some things a different way.

I would like a way to turn them off as an option.
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 4:48 pm

to prove youve done a specific task
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 3:09 pm

Yep. Utterly useless aside from bragging rights. Which is to say, utterly useless.

Indeed, I never knew why the got so popular, with the console base.
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 3:08 am

Achievements and trophies are pretty much Viagra for e-peen, and for giving those with low self esteem something to put in a fancy "gamer card" signature on game forums...

Wasn't there a point early on in XBox Live history where achievements actually earned you MS points though? I'm a PS3 player so I don't know for sure...
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 12:39 pm

Take that back! My Xbox Gamerscore of 25482 means something... Doesn't it? :cry:
Oh god my 42235 means nothing aswell?

What have I done.


Afraid not. The guy trying for a full million might get something though

Edit: I remember when I made a topic on the Box game score last year and what you could do with it. I got quite a few people to laugh with my response.
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Heather Kush
 
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 11:16 pm

Afraid not. The guy trying for a full million might get something though

Edit: I remember when I made a topic on the Box game score last year and what you could do with it. I got quite a few people to laugh with my response.

:dead: A million?
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 6:53 pm

:dead: A million?


http://www.blogger.com/profile/16307659825469169967 http://www.1milliongamerscore.com/
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 5:43 pm

http://www.blogger.com/profile/16307659825469169967 http://www.1milliongamerscore.com/

Ima gonna need more skooma.

I will make pop culture references for skooma :tops:
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 1:00 pm

Ima gonna need more skooma.

I will make pop culture references for skooma :tops:


Wait, you make references to Skooma in pop culture? Or do you mean you make references to pop culture with the reward being Skooma?
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Post » Tue May 10, 2011 10:58 pm

So wait, You are saying skooma times skooma equals skooma?

SCIENCE, WE HAVE SUCESS!
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Post » Wed May 11, 2011 12:11 am

Wait, you make references to Skooma in pop culture? Or do you mean you make references to pop culture with the reward being Skooma?

Rewarded with Skooma. Although i could try the other thing (for bonus skooma) :tongue:
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