Do you care about trophysachivements? : Othor Games

» Fri May 04, 2012 12:22 am

As a few people stated, achievements/trophies can often give you the incentive to play a game in a way you normally wouldn't think of. They can be a great way of getting a few extra hours out of a game. For example, Just Cause 2 had some really fun achievements that involved you killing enemies in various inventive ways such as attaching a tank to a helicopter and using it as a wrecking ball.

» Thu May 03, 2012 10:35 pm

What do i care till i get rewarded for the achievement, oh thats right my reward is the satisfaction of getting to look at an achievement icon and and say to my freinds i achieved a pointless icon. The day theres a decent reward is the day ill care, otherwise, its another line of text and another link to a group of icons that are useless.

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:23 am

Nope, don't care at all. Steam or a publisher telling me a game has so-many achievements as some kind of selling point is completely wasted on me. Heh

But I can understand they can give some motivation to keep playing etc. Just isn't the kind of thing that motivates me.

» Thu May 03, 2012 3:11 pm

Do I care? No.

Do I find some of them fun to get? Yep.

Pretty much this. Some are just fun things, or a challange you want to set yourself.

I will enjoy the tears when people have a new console come out, unless they carry over, in which case. It will just show how sad some people are.
Its pointless, a bit of fun some of them, but lots of people take them too seriously.

» Thu May 03, 2012 3:53 pm

I do enjoy some of the challenges developers come up with (such as sending the gnome into space in HL2), but I couldn't care less about the developer awarding me an imaginary trophy, and slapping me on the back and saying, "Congratulations. You achieved something!"

No, I didn't. I'm sitting on my ass playing a video game. That's the exact opposite of achievement. I find the whole thing condescending. If I want a sense of achievement, I'll go do something real.

» Fri May 04, 2012 2:49 am

No. I don't see the [censored] point behind them, and I don't know why so many people have such an obsession with them.

I personally don't see why some people have a problem with them. They are in essence optional objectives for the game, what's wrong with that?

» Fri May 04, 2012 1:40 am

Do I care? No.

Do I find some of them fun to get? Yep.

This. I like the challenge of getting them, but I don't care if someone has less or more than me.

» Fri May 04, 2012 12:18 am

Do I care? No.

Do I find some of them fun to get? Yep.

This.

I don't buy a game for achievements and I don't want them at all on PC. But on PS3, I do tend to get them either while playing or when I get bored with whatever I'm playing. I wouldn't miss them if they were gone though.

Edit: I think EvilFish just won this thread. lol

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:15 am

In some sense I do I guess. I like to get and collect them. But do I judge other users on PSN by how many trophies they have? No.

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:33 pm

I don't care about gamer score, but they can be fun to try for, like any goal in a game.

Pretty much this. They suggest things I might have overlooked myself, and that keeps me playing. I always take a look at the list of achievements you can get for a game, though I don't care about the score I get. The only people likely to see it won't care either.

» Thu May 03, 2012 4:15 pm

Sometimes I will go for an achievement or trophy just because the name of it might be witty or something... The challenge might be worthy of my try-hardness.. Or maybe i'm just bored.

Other than that I'm not much of a hunter for these things.

EDIT: But, I do not feel like I've accomplished a game unless I got 30/50 (or roughly half) of the trophies/achievements of games I play.

» Fri May 04, 2012 1:13 am

I like a challenge, but the trophy/achievement is not the draw. It's the quest, the journey, that's what I want.

» Thu May 03, 2012 3:45 pm

No. I don't see the [censored] point behind them, and I don't know why so many people have such an obsession with them.

This. To me achievements are a waste of time. You fell 65 feet without dying, Here's your achievement. That's all I got for falling 65 feet without dying? :flame:

Now if you got in game items for doing the achievements then they might actually be worth doing.

» Thu May 03, 2012 2:23 pm

I personally don't see why some people have a problem with them. They are in essence optional objectives for the game, what's wrong with that?

My problem with them is that a lot of games use achievements in lieu of actual content, and customers actually believe they're getting more with them.

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:00 am

Not really, but sometimes i might try to get the odd one. What annoys me is ones you get for stupid things like completing tutorals and doing easy stuff.

» Fri May 04, 2012 12:42 am

A little bit. :blush:

I don't buy games for achievements, but once I have the game I will try and go after them. I don't think I have ever gotten every achievement in a game nor have I ever really tried to. The game that is the worst for me is Killing Floor. Once I beat a map and get the achievement I have a hard time going back and playing that map again. WHy should I spend that much time and effort when I don't get anything out of it. :glare:

» Fri May 04, 2012 1:20 am

My problem with them is that a lot of games use achievements in lieu of actual content, and customers actually believe actually getting more with them.

In some respects. But other games let you see just how much content there is. Look at RDR for example. Only about 5-8 trophies come from the Main Story itself.

» Thu May 03, 2012 6:58 pm

Not really. If I really like a game then I will try to get the achievements just out of a sense of prolonging the life of the game and for more [censored] to do. I have like a 23,000 gamerscore though that is because I play a lot of games. Not necessarily going for achievements. I think I have like two games with all the achievements. Oblivion and Fallout 3.

» Thu May 03, 2012 2:31 pm

The only game i have 100% with is Oblivion :lmao:

» Thu May 03, 2012 9:14 pm

I just view gamerscores as a measurement for how much people play.

That said, mine is really really low. I don't own alot of xbox games. Was embarrassing to see people with 40,000+ scores to my teeny weeny 1k back when I played on live all the time.

The only time I cared about achievements was Tomb Raider: Underworld.

» Fri May 04, 2012 1:20 am

I just view gamerscores as a measurement for how much people play.

That said, mine is really really low. I don't own alot of xbox games. Was embarrassing to see people with 40,000+ scores to my teeny weeny 1k back when I played on live all the time.

The only time I cared about achievements was Tomb Raider: Underworld.

I got my first 360 (they die) when it first game out and my score is 12110 :lol:

» Thu May 03, 2012 10:35 pm

on action games they give some cool bonus objectives, like hitting 20 people with the bio bomb in prototype 2. I mostly don't go out of my way to get them, but it is cool when you unlock them i guess

» Thu May 03, 2012 5:19 pm

I don't much care for them, but they're a fun timekiller. Like Solitaire, but with less cards and more trying to do silly things.

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:53 am

My problem with them is that a lot of games use achievements in lieu of actual content, and customers actually believe they're getting more with them.

But do you think they are completely useless just because some games do that?

» Fri May 04, 2012 12:15 am

Nnnope.