Acheivements Vs Unlockables

What do you gamers prefer. I ask because it seems like nowadays unlockables are in the form of DLC. Before online gaming was the norm to consoles....unlocking maps, costumes, characters, tracks, cars...etc were fun to obtain through gameplay. It helps make the game addictive for me. Is it a hassel for ya'll to work on unlocking content yourselves? Do you want all the unlockables to be avaliable from the start? I hear a lot of people on here addicted to acheivements. Its a shame the day has come where we have to pay for costumes, cars and levels. I understand DLC is another way to make money and extend the life of the game but I dont want unlockables to be phased out.

unlockables for sure. gamerscore really means nothing to me, and usually when you see someone with a high gs, you just think there a no lifer. nobody thinkes, WOW i wanna be like him!

i didnt read anything you said but i loveee achievements. i dont know what it is though.. like if i played a game and beat it that had no achievements then wiped my memory and played the game again with achievements id have so much more fun with it.. even online MP games like bf:bc, i have tons of fun playing it, but i know when i unlock all the achievements i wont have much desire to play it anymore. some achievements are rediculous to get, so my goal is to just get 700+ gs on all my games.

i didnt read anything you said but i loveee achievements. i dont know what it is though.. like if i played a game and beat it that had no achievements then wiped my memory and played the game again with achievements id have so much more fun with it.. even online MP games like bf:bc, i have tons of fun playing it, but i know when i unlock all the achievements i wont have much desire to play it anymore. some achievements are rediculous to get, so my goal is to just get 700+ gs on all my games.

imlolmon

can I ask if your a younger gamer? The younger gamers on my freinds list have a ridiculous amount of gamerpoints. did you break your neck toget the mile high Club achievement in Call of Duty?

[QUOTE="imlolmon"]

i didnt read anything you said but i loveee achievements. i dont know what it is though.. like if i played a game and beat it that had no achievements then wiped my memory and played the game again with achievements id have so much more fun with it.. even online MP games like bf:bc, i have tons of fun playing it, but i know when i unlock all the achievements i wont have much desire to play it anymore. some achievements are rediculous to get, so my goal is to just get 700+ gs on all my games.

BLAS1AN

can I ask if your a younger gamer? The younger gamers on my freinds list have a ridiculous amount of gamerpoints. did you break your neck toget the mile high Club achievement in Call of Duty?

[QUOTE="imlolmon"]

i didnt read anything you said but i loveee achievements. i dont know what it is though.. like if i played a game and beat it that had no achievements then wiped my memory and played the game again with achievements id have so much more fun with it.. even online MP games like bf:bc, i have tons of fun playing it, but i know when i unlock all the achievements i wont have much desire to play it anymore. some achievements are rediculous to get, so my goal is to just get 700+ gs on all my games.

BLAS1AN

can I ask if your a younger gamer? The younger gamers on my freinds list have a ridiculous amount of gamerpoints. did you break your neck toget the mile high Club achievement in Call of Duty?

ill be 18 in 2 months and i dont even own any of the call of duty games. i like battlefeild more and would rather wait for the second one to come out

Unlockables, its a shame we hardly see any in games anymore :(.

[QUOTE="imlolmon"]

i didnt read anything you said but i loveee achievements. i dont know what it is though.. like if i played a game and beat it that had no achievements then wiped my memory and played the game again with achievements id have so much more fun with it.. even online MP games like bf:bc, i have tons of fun playing it, but i know when i unlock all the achievements i wont have much desire to play it anymore. some achievements are rediculous to get, so my goal is to just get 700+ gs on all my games.

BLAS1AN

can I ask if your a younger gamer? The younger gamers on my freinds list have a ridiculous amount of gamerpoints. did you break your neck toget the mile high Club achievement in Call of Duty?

unlockables definitely they make the game more fun and your gamerscore is just a number that no one really cares aboutexplosivecorn

i think instead of charging so much money for DLC's which can make the price of ONE video game go up to like 100 dollars which is beyond rediculous they should have like 1000 GS per DLC for any game. something like that.

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[QUOTE="imlolmon"]

i didnt read anything you said but i loveee achievements. i dont know what it is though.. like if i played a game and beat it that had no achievements then wiped my memory and played the game again with achievements id have so much more fun with it.. even online MP games like bf:bc, i have tons of fun playing it, but i know when i unlock all the achievements i wont have much desire to play it anymore. some achievements are rediculous to get, so my goal is to just get 700+ gs on all my games.

chaoscougar1

can I ask if your a younger gamer? The younger gamers on my freinds list have a ridiculous amount of gamerpoints. did you break your neck toget the mile high Club achievement in Call of Duty?

anyone around the 18 or below age. A dude on my freinds list who is in high school has like 68,121 points...thats incredible

Personally I think that we should see both but this just isn't the case anymore.judog1

It depends. I like to unlock new costumes and stuff in some games, but I voted for achievements.

I love both

i fell that achievements are just useless

[QUOTE="judog1"]Personally I think that we should see both but this just isn't the case anymore.orb_03_2006

I prefer unlockables as they are worth getting. In Clive Barkers Jericho you unlocked a bestiary which made the story a lot better and also I really enjoyed the creatures descriptions. I played the game on hard and got around 780 GS from it which I didn't really care about. If more games had bestiaries I would go for achievements.

Acheivments. They make the games so much more exciting, I remember re-playing a few games and not getting the acheivments on my new Elite and it just didn't feel the same without the Acheivments.

Why are achievements winning? Unlockables get you stuff like you said: cars, maps, etc., but achievements just raise the number in your gamerscore. Seriously? :|monkeymoose5000

Thats what I was afraid of hearing. So may people get off on achievements these days. Sounds like people love gamerscores to compete and show off there skills.

unlockables get the edge but i'm really stuck between the two.

unlockables are nice cause they give you something different to use/do but if i ever unlock those i usually don't play the game again with that item

if there is an achievement for doing something with the unlockable I'll go for it but otherwise i don't really have any incentive to play the game anymore if i've unlocked everything

Unlockables because they can give you new awesome stuff most of the time.

I dont know thats a tough question, unlocking things in games are fun, but achievements are quite fun also. Whatever keeps a game alive.

You know something. I wish I could reset my achievement points like I can with unlockables. I mean, start a new save or delete my save data and I can go do it all again. raahsnavj

why would you want to start your gamerpoints from zero again? do you love hearing that achievement pop up sound?, lol

[QUOTE="raahsnavj"]You know something. I wish I could reset my achievement points like I can with unlockables. I mean, start a new save or delete my save data and I can go do it all again. BLAS1AN

why would you want to start your gamerpoints from zero again? do you love hearing that achievement pop up sound?, lol

I like both, but achievements just can't compare to unlocking bonus things in games. They both add replay value, so that's always good. Like a couple others mentioned, I like the way Mass Effect did it as it gave you achievements as you unlocked stuff in the game.

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[QUOTE="raahsnavj"]You know something. I wish I could reset my achievement points like I can with unlockables. I mean, start a new save or delete my save data and I can go do it all again. raahsnavj

why would you want to start your gamerpoints from zero again? do you love hearing that achievement pop up sound?, lol

[QUOTE="raahsnavj"][QUOTE="BLAS1AN"]

why would you want to start your gamerpoints from zero again? do you love hearing that achievement pop up sound?, lol

K1LLR3175

wow..I had no idea people were this obessed with acheivements. I could see if it effected the gameplay as well like ME and Jericho as others have mentioned.