sick of achievements

I've had my 360 since launch, loved the machine and was totally addicted to the achievement points system for a while. But for a long time now its totally put me off the system.

I join a game of rainbow 6, the host quits a minute into the game then sends me a message telling me its because they are trying to get a certain achievment.

Im playing Gears ranked match, all my team mate is doing is using chainsaw, i ask why, because he wants the chainsaw achievement.

My friend has been playing turtles a lot lately yet telling me how crap the game is, why is he playing it then? answer, easy achievements.

When i played through Oblivion, i remember just looking up the achiements list and going for each one rather than having a good adventure in my own free will like i did with Morrowind, it totally ruined it for me, and yes i know it was my own doing but thats what achievement points did for me.

Some friends of mine dont play certain games online anymore, why? because they have all the achiemements and have moved on to something else.

I could go on and on and on, but you get the point, ive just got myself a Wii and to play through Zelda without thinking about the stupid achievement points has been a blessing and brought back to me what gaming is really about.

I'll buy all multiplat games to help my lousy gamerscore. I think its a cool way to show your friends what you did, and compare it with thers to see who really is better when not in multi.

I rarely play LIVE, not cause of the achievements, but because of the tools. I hate looking at my game going "why is everything online now?" They need to make a better balance.

interesting POV. i guess you helped me realize it didn't really like achievments.

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 Interesting reading!

I've had my 360 since launch, loved the machine and was totally addicted to the achievement points system for a while. But for a long time now its totally put me off the system.

I join a game of rainbow 6, the host quits a minute into the game then sends me a message telling me its because they are trying to get a certain achievment.

Im playing Gears ranked match, all my team mate is doing is using chainsaw, i ask why, because he wants the chainsaw achievement.

My friend has been playing turtles a lot lately yet telling me how crap the game is, why is he playing it then? answer, easy achievements.

When i played through Oblivion, i remember just looking up the achiements list and going for each one rather than having a good adventure in my own free will like i did with Morrowind, it totally ruined it for me, and yes i know it was my own doing but thats what achievement points did for me.

Some friends of mine dont play certain games online anymore, why? because they have all the achiemements and have moved on to something else.

I could go on and on and on, but you get the point, ive just got myself a Wii and to play through Zelda without thinking about the stupid achievement points has been a blessing and brought back to me what gaming is really about.

 

martinoob

In its defence, achievements has its advantages, like i probably wouldnt have botherd getting all the cogs in gears, gold in gun or birds in condemned. But to some people its like crack, the first thing they think about when getting a game is achievements.

Achievements make make games last longer, I wouldnt be trying to beat gears of war on insane right now if it werent for achievemtnsajax_on_fire

i like achievements for some games just because it adds another apect to a game to beat.  I honestly don't care about the stupid achievements like 10,000 kills in GOW or however many it is.  I've also found 29 of the 30 cog tags...  no flippin clue where the 30th is, but i don't care.  I think achievements are very good aspect of games and add a lot of replay value, but I also think that people blow it out of proportion and make a gamerscore more important than it is.  It is dumb when people buy a game and play it to death just to get achievements.  Achievements should be secondary to the main game.    ibanezdropd

You make a good point.  I will admit, however, that the achievements do add some replayability to some titles.  Just when I think I have exhausted the challenge of a particular title, I will notice an achievement target that is relevant to the gameplay and may work towards that.  Playing online solely for the purpose of attaingin an xbox live achievement is kind of lame.  If I play online, it's to connect with friends or because i am seeking the challengeof a human opponent.

 I am, ulitmately, pissed off by the achievement system for an entirely different reason.  It's such a let down to earn an achievment, be excited by it and then realize; "What's the F***ing Point!?!".  It's not like xbox live is offering rewards for the achievments.  I would be very excited to see even a few measly Xbox Live Gold credits applied to your account when you achieve an accolade of 5-10,000 points. 

U GUYS WHO DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENTS ARE DENSE THEY MAKE GAMES LAST LONGER THEY ADD COMPETITION THEY ARE FUN 2 GET JUST TO HAVE THEM IF U DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENT POINTS ITS PROBABLY BECAUSE U SUCK SO BAD U CANT GET 100 KILLS WIT UR PISTOL IN GEARS NOOBS STOP **** AND PLAYWarTime71

lol wartime moron ..........TC you are very right tho, but I'm in too deep :) excuse me now i must go suffer through a Prey multi match for an achievementRebornInFlames

i completely agree with the original poster. although, i dont disable acheivments and i like them, i dont do the acheivments that take a super long time to do. i dont go too far out of my way to get acheivments.

 its not worth playing online confining myself to a certian weapon or sometihng (when im not even that good, ill admit) at GOW. I hate when ppl just run straight for the sniper or pull out their pistol, and ruin the team. i dont play online a ton, but i hope they dont add them to halo 3. the acheivments should be for kills, not specific kills.

@raptorvenom 

where'd you get stuck in cod2? i got hung up on the last tank mission (they can shoot through the bloody hills at you) and the sniper bit on that hill which was really horrible. Almost flung my controller into the wall but made it eventually. Its funny cause the final mission is like the easiest one

I agree they are cool, but I dont go online and make a ranked game just for the achievements. That kind of ruins the point on working for it. It also wont improve in the game either. If you work on the game and just go with the flow and not be a dork and create a game just for chainsaw achievements then the game actually can give you more time to work.

U GUYS WHO DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENTS ARE DENSE THEY MAKE GAMES LAST LONGER THEY ADD COMPETITION THEY ARE FUN 2 GET JUST TO HAVE THEM IF U DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENT POINTS ITS PROBABLY BECAUSE U SUCK SO BAD U CANT GET 100 KILLS WIT UR PISTOL IN GEARS NOOBS STOP **** AND PLAYWarTime71

They have this thing called punctuation now. I'm pretty sure they teach it to people in Grade 2, you would know this if you quit skipping school to play video games. ;)

U GUYS WHO DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENTS ARE DENSE THEY MAKE GAMES LAST LONGER THEY ADD COMPETITION THEY ARE FUN 2 GET JUST TO HAVE THEM IF U DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENT POINTS ITS PROBABLY BECAUSE U SUCK SO BAD U CANT GET 100 KILLS WIT UR PISTOL IN GEARS NOOBS STOP **** AND PLAYWarTime71

[QUOTE="WarTime71"]U GUYS WHO DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENTS ARE DENSE THEY MAKE GAMES LAST LONGER THEY ADD COMPETITION THEY ARE FUN 2 GET JUST TO HAVE THEM IF U DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENT POINTS ITS PROBABLY BECAUSE U SUCK SO BAD U CANT GET 100 KILLS WIT UR PISTOL IN GEARS NOOBS STOP **** AND PLAY-Zaku-

[QUOTE="-Zaku-"][QUOTE="WarTime71"]U GUYS WHO DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENTS ARE DENSE THEY MAKE GAMES LAST LONGER THEY ADD COMPETITION THEY ARE FUN 2 GET JUST TO HAVE THEM IF U DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENT POINTS ITS PROBABLY BECAUSE U SUCK SO BAD U CANT GET 100 KILLS WIT UR PISTOL IN GEARS NOOBS STOP **** AND PLAYRebornInFlames

@raptorvenom 

where'd you get stuck in cod2? i got hung up on the last tank mission (they can shoot through the bloody hills at you) and the sniper bit on that hill which was really horrible. Almost flung my controller into the wall but made it eventually. Its funny cause the final mission is like the easiest one

RebornInFlames

Achievements make make games last longer, I wouldnt be trying to beat gears of war on insane right now if it werent for achievemtnsajax_on_fire

[QUOTE="-Zaku-"][QUOTE="WarTime71"]U GUYS WHO DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENTS ARE DENSE THEY MAKE GAMES LAST LONGER THEY ADD COMPETITION THEY ARE FUN 2 GET JUST TO HAVE THEM IF U DONT LIKE ACHIEVEMENT POINTS ITS PROBABLY BECAUSE U SUCK SO BAD U CANT GET 100 KILLS WIT UR PISTOL IN GEARS NOOBS STOP **** AND PLAYRebornInFlames

I play live a lot, and that has just happened twice. There are people that still play for fungp19

Agreed... I don't play online for achievements. Do I go out of my way to get some? Sure I do, but I agree that people screwing up a good game of Gears or R6V for the sake of getting an achievement is bad mojo. The chainsaw one will come eventually anyhow, you don't need to consciously do that. You end up in more than enough desperate situations in that game that the chainsaw's got to come out sometimes and doesn't have to be forced.

If you're running into a lot of this, all I can really recommend is player matches. People in player matches are just out for a good time, don't care about achievements (can't get 'em in there) and etc etc etc.

First off, thanks Old Spice for this completely lameass challenge.  :D

At least I got me some Contra and a few MS points out of it.

Anyway, I think achievements are pretty fun.  Even if I don't get a full 3-4 hour game sesh in, I can still play for an hour trying to get an achievement and I've had fun trying.

It is kinda like crack though.  "It's time for church."  Yeah, I'm trying to crack 10,000.  "Dinner's on."  Yeah, I just need to strike out two more batters for this acheivement.