Are they just a list of accomplishments, or does your character become more powerful by unlocking them? If so, were can I see an explanation of achievement usefulness?

things called challenges do give some benfits just google fallout new vegas challenges..

as for acheivements.. they give xp

Well, there was the time that one achievement jumped in and saved me from a guy with a knife. But such events are rare.

Achievements and Trophy's do nothing, just for show. Some Challenges in game though give some perks and bonuses.

Edit: All Challenges give exp when you complete one though

Challenges give you some boosts. But achievements/trophies, and even challenges to an extent, are just things to add to the game (and the replay value). If you're a bit of a perfectionist, you'll spend more time with the game, trying out different things, exploring different areas, rather than simply running through the story and being one and done.

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

Achievements are a necessary component of achievement-hunting guides and websites, used in the pursuit of time-soaking fake gameplay.

Other than that, no purpose.

And the challenges aren't really ...challenges, they're just things that you stumble across during normal play. BLAM! Dead fiend. What's "Rifleman" mean? Whatever. BLAM! BLAM!

I suppose they could be used from a marketing stand point. Gather data on what achievements are earned first-ish. What achievements are never earned and what faction ending is most popular (NCR or legion for example). This could help decide which is the canon ending.

Although i could be looking far too deep into this. :shrug:

i for one like achievements, it brightens my day when i finally get one that i wasn't even trying to get..


they just add to the fun for me...

Take that back! My Xbox Gamerscore of 25482 means something... Doesn't it?

Oh god my 42235 means nothing aswell?

What have I done.

Um....

Er....

Well....

thanks guys!

For a moment there, I was afraid I might be doing something with my life. whew!

Well, the only thing left is to going on a rager... How about some Skooma? :celebration:

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.)

I'd love to share but you know...i'm clean now... i swear. :angel:

Alright... Scotch it is...

:bonk:
I may have relasped

i want that little blip sound you hear when the achievement unlocks as my ringtone..and another one i want is the orb beacon sound from crackdown..

I prefer moon sugar.

Yay! It's bender time!

WOOOOHHHHHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! bliviongate:

Any who while i drink skooma until i bleed purple
i'll ask which achievement/trophy is the hardest to get?

They're all pretty easy but I suppose the hardest one to get would be Desert Survivalist.

I agree with you mister unicorn.

This is true, considering that you don't need to actually complete specific challenges to get them. Generally, you just get them if you kill enough enemies of a certain type, kill enough enemies with weapons of a certain type, or things like that. These sort of things tend to happen naturally if you do whatever it takes to complete the "challenge", given enough time. When I hear "challenge", I think of something like killing so many enemies without losing any health or within a certain amount of time, or finding some extremely hard to find item, you know, things that could actually be a challenge to get, as the name would imply. Still, they give experience and sometimes perks, so at least they have some real impact on gameplay, achievements, on the other hand, are, like in most games, just for bragging rights.

Still, I don't hold anything against achievements, I never got why some do, honestly. They're pointless and I don't care about them, but they don't diminish the game in any way, for the same reason why they also don't improve it, they don't effect gameplay at all, it's just something you can brag about to your friends, which really isn't that different from the scores that many older games kept, to be fair, though, a lot of the games like that were the kind where the focus wasn't so much on finishing the game to complete the story, if there was a story or actual way to "finish" it at all, thus, one might argue that in those games, a high score was the only real reward to strive for. But in a game like New Vegas, bragging rights rewards are just decoration.