Feel like a failure : Othor Games

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:05 pm

I have Oblivion for both the PC and Xbox 360, and I usually play on my PC because it's always with me. Well, I was looking at my achievements last night on my Xbox...and I barely have any!

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:14 pm

Complete failure, I got all 60 of 'em (including SI).

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:16 am

How can you even look your mother in the eyes!?

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:19 pm

What's the point of achivements anyway? They don't affect the game in any way. Pointless, IMO.

OT: What does this have to do with Skyrim?

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:39 pm

Personally I never saw the allure of achievements, as they seem completely arbitrary to me. If I max out the achievements on any game, it's not because I "went" for them, but rather because I simply played the game long enough for that to happen naturally.

It may sound cliché, but the only thing I'm ever going for when I play a game is a fun expenditure of my time. A lot of the achievements are more like work... which I do enough of already. :-)

Edit: And good point, this is kinda off topic for Skyrim, unless you wanna reform this topic into "Are you going to try to max achievements for Skyrim"?

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:57 pm

There are very few things in gaming that are more immersion breaking than achievements...

(In my humble opinion)

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:13 am

I like collecting achievements

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:13 pm

There are very few things in gaming that are more immersion breaking than achievements...

(In my humble opinion)

Immersion breaking...maybe. But I don't know why, but they always gave me just that little bit more satisfaction when I finished a quest and got an achievement.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:47 am

yeah almost all of my 360 games have uncompleted achievments. I just find them boring and pointless. I have most for oblivion though, just cos I've played it so much.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:53 pm

Achievements are immersion breaking? Oh come on.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:53 am

The only time I have ever noticed achievements in a game (but still not cared about them) is usually playing an MMO like WoW or Rift. Mainly because they slap a banner across the screen for a bit and spam your guild chat with "So and So has earned the Achievement "Dances With Squirrels". Other than that, in single player games, I just don't pay attention.

Some people like them though and that is cool - it gives them some goals while gameplaying. People play games for their own reasons and fun for one person, like filling out an Achieves list might not matter to the next guy at all.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:54 am

Achievements are completely and utterly pointless.

If you need an arbitrary goal set to give you focus in a game etiher you, the developer or more often both are doing something very wrong.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:22 am

Immersion breaking...maybe. But I don't know why, but they always gave me just that little bit more satisfaction when I finished a quest and got an achievement.

I just think that achievements are a cheap way developers use to make the game longer without adding any actual content. Also, often there are pointless achievements that you will get no matter what you do (Like "you've killed x number of monsters"). I really hope that the pc version of Skyrim won't have achievements

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:23 pm

I had all achievements on my brothers 360. all but one.
My last achievement i was going to get was the Head of the Thieves Guild. Well.

Spoiler

When the Gray Fox talked to his wife he was supposed to talk with me after but he walked away, leaving me in a cut scene postition.
Unable to do anything, excepts look around.

So i never got it.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:43 pm

I like going for achievements felt not bad having them all for Fallout and New Vegas but it felt empty after a while since I had done everything that was potenially worth doing, now I have all the DLCs and still got a few more to get on each game but I don't want to rush in and claim them since they are whats keeping me playing.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:12 pm

Achievements in MMOs? Something fun to work towards when you don't want to grind.
Achievements in anything else? Gimmick slapped on at the end in order to hold the attention of America's ADD afflicted youth.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 7:34 pm

Complete failure, I got all 60 of 'em (including SI).

I would have them if I played on my 360 more...=/ Which is why I will be getting them all in 10 days. Including all the side quests...hopefully I can do it. *crosses fingers*

How can you even look your mother in the eyes!?

It's very difficult...

Starting to almost get painful.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:26 pm

Playing video games is absolutely pointless, why do you play at all in the first place?

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:51 pm

I don't usually try and get all the achievements for a game unless I really like it and want to feel like I've done everything. That said, it's always satisfying to hear that little bleep and see your gamerscore roll up a few digits.

On a side note, I find things like crappy AI far more immersion breaking than a little achievment symbol.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:47 am

I understand that this may be a highly sensitive issue for you, but this problem has an easy fix. Play more!

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:19 pm

All I see is nothing, because PS3 doesn't háve oblivion throphies. If it had, I'd have platinumed it ages ago.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:29 am

At least you got achievements for it on the 360. Beth never bothered with trophy support for the PS3 :sadvaultboy:

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:43 am

I don't even own an XBox so I have even fewer achievements than you.

Saying that, I own a SNES, NES and N64 so... who wins. Make your own mind up on that one.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:30 pm

You feel like a failure on not having virtual achievements? That is kinda sad......does an achievement put you above other players. Play the game you want to , not to the parameters of the achievements.

» Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:04 am

I have Oblivion for both the PC and Xbox 360, and I usually play on my PC because it's always with me. Well, I was looking at my achievements last night on my Xbox...and I barely have any!

How does having very few Xbox achievements make you a failure? I don't have any at all, and it doesn't bother me in the least.

If it not having lots of Oblivion (or other) achievements truly bothers you, dedicate yourself to getting them. If you can't find the motivation necessary to do so, then you aren't bothered enough and shouldn't worry about it. Why should you conform to someone else's definition of bad-assery? Make your own. :thumbsup: