Do people just play for the achievements?

I was wonderin if and why most people play for achievements and their gamer score. i mean does it really matter? I like just playin for the fun of it. What does everone else do????

Who plays only for achievements?

I game to fight my disability, the achivements I might earn on a 360 game in the process are just a little bonus.

R/T

i play for the achevments and i dont know why. i guess is a whole play for goals, i mean it would be cool if they did something like unlock clothes for your avatar or something. But i guess bragging rights are cool to.

Sometimes when I'm bored of CSS and TF2 on PC, and bored of FIFA 09, NBA 2K9, CoD5 on 360, I'll play some old games and try to get some achievements. But I don't go all out "achievement hording".....

I play the game for the fun of it, never think about the achievements. They just come as someone earlier said, its just a bonus.

I honestly don't care about achievements or gamerscore in the slightest, but then I've never been much of a "points for the sake of points" person to begin with, even in the 8-bit days. Unless these points or achievements translate into actual in-game benefits or unlockables, my only goals in a game are 1) have fun, and 2) see the ending, in that order.

i dont really care about achievements... im more concerned by the fact that achievements mean that i cant transfer save games between profiles. thats totally lame. and i cant merge profiles either. thats totally lame too. if it wasnt for achiements we wouldnt have this problem.

I swear I don't even know what those freakin thing are good for...so I don't care...I play cause I like games, not achivements

Not to get technical but if there are story driven achievements you are technically playing for achievements. Anyways I only play for achievements if it seems like it's fun or if I'm bored.

Depends on the achievement. Some of them are actually fun challenges, others are simply a chore, and others are absurd boring, beyond annoying.

Good achievement -> Finish a game in the hardest difficulty, Defeat an "X" enemy (hopefully an enemy you don't NEED to kill), finish a survival mode with over "X" score...

Chore achievement -> Find collectibles that do NOTHING besides giving you the achievement (if they give you something else, may be a good achievement). Example: Gears 1 cog tags is a chore. Halo 3 skulls is good. COD 4's intel and COD: WaW death cards are good too.

Annoying achievement -> Stupid things that either take a very long time to get, or are simply stupid. Example: Knocking down trees in Battlefield Bad Company (maniac lumberjack I think), Seriously in Gears 1 and 2, Zombie Genocidest in L4D.

people who only play to get achievements are noobs....i know a friend who has a modded xbox360 and he buys games for under $6 just to get Achievemnts,,and his score is around 34640

I don't play for Achievements really, but I do recognize and pay attention to them. I try to get as many as I can without completely ruining the purpose of playing the games they pertain to in the first place. But I mean, say, for example, I were randomly disabled from getting Achievements. That wouldn't make me want to stop playing Xbox or anything.atm0073

I was wonderin if and why most people play for achievements and their gamer score. i mean does it really matter?

wesprater

As opposed to gaming normally, which does matter?

I like just playin for the fun of it.

wesprater

Stay with me here, but I'm guessing that people who play for achievements derive some satisfaction from it, and therefore are playing for fun.

I play the games I really enjoy for acheivments, but if I am playing a game that is not really fun, I will just beat the story and forget the acheivments.

Side note:

I did borrow all of the old Madden games from a friend so I could sim seasons for acheivments... Sad I know.

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I was wonderin if and why most people play for achievements and their gamer score. i mean does it really matter?

Palantas

As opposed to gaming normally, which does matter?

I like just playin for the fun of it.

wesprater

Stay with me here, but I'm guessing that people who play for achievements derive some satisfaction from it, and therefore are playing for fun.

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I like just playin for the fun of it.

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Stay with me here, but I'm guessing that people who play for achievements derive some satisfaction from it, and therefore are playing for fun.

Indeed indeed. People who dislike Ach's must think that we do the stupidest things for our dissatisfaction. Why do you think we spend hours on utter garbage? Because of the prize in the end of the road!

I bumped into a guy on this forum that used that exact argument. He decided that anyone who plays for achievements was actually making themselves miserable and derived zero satisfaction from the experience. (Naturally, he could never describe the reasoning behind this conclusion in any cogent fashion.) I pointed out that if someone's doing something in their free time of their own free will, they're probably getting something out of it. Some people can't seem to understand that a hobby can be goal-oriented.

I always play for the fun of the game, although I check the achievements sometime and try them for a while to see if they're fun enough to keep playin. :D

I have heard people buy games just for the achievements, but it kind of weird and crazy for people to play games just for the achievements.That wasting good games. :?

Achievements are a nice bonus for me. They mean absolutely nothing but I find it fun unlocking as many points as I can. I have paid for an unlimited rentals for a month at blockbuster last summer when my temporary job wasn't working out so well and I rented quite a few games just for points but I made sure to play all the games I really wanted to play regardless of points as well.

Call me an achievement wh*re, whatever, haha.

I know what you're saying, I've ran across people who would play for achievements. I remember it happen quite often in the original Gears of War, they'd have achievement matches.

i play for fun, and only play games that i enjoy. that being said i enjoy the achievements and think it is a great addition to normal gameplay. it adds more replayability for me, becuase i will play something i like longer to get the achievements

Some people do play for just achievements I am not one of those people

I play the game for story, imerssion, fun, multiplayer and achievements. I like to finihs my games 100% or else I dont feel that I played my full moneys worth.

i usually never play to get the achievments but i like it in the sense that once you beat a game there is still more to do, your never really "complete" and its just fun to try and get some, except lame ones like in gears (seriously 2.0- c'mon, seriously)

I play mostly for fun, I'm not interested in unlocking every single achievement for every game. It is cool though when one pops up, I'll go see what it is. I'd say that's the main reason why I play more xbox and not ps3.

I don't understand why people make threads like these. Anyway, Achievements add replay value to a game. Dead Rising for example, the 5 day survivor achievement is worthy of getting. and it tells you to play infinte mode.

I don't understand why people make threads like these. Anyway, Achievements add replay value to a game. Dead Rising for example, the 5 day survivor achievement is worthy of getting. and it tells you to play infinte mode.

Proto-K

To me most aren't fun to get so i never go for them. Though i wont lie some are fun like Mass effect for killing i believe 150 enemies with a certain weapon. Gave me an excuse to go around blasting people in the head with the shotgun again.

I don't really play for achievements, but I don't see what's wrong with it. Personally I look at it like the old arcade games, I mean really people then used to play to put a higher number on a screen. And even then the arcades would reset the machine and in the process wiping out the top score so you were left with nothing.

I don't see the problem with looking at achievements as a game in themselves just like said arcade games. You can have skill to get achievements, you can have "exploits" to boost your achievements and you can "cheat" to do the same. Sounds just like an arcade games high score to me, and well.... to be fair that's pretty much what got us to the point in gaming we are today....

We owe our thanks to achievements, now ask yourself, have you told your achievements how much you appreciate them lately?

I play the games I do because they look / are fun to me. Sometimes I'll go out of my way to get achievements, but I don't play just to get achievements.

I have heard people buy games just for the achievements, but it kind of weird and crazy for people to play games just for the achievements.That wasting good games. :?

mrhuntin

Most the time, I only use achievements for replay value. I might beat a game. Then go back and try and do some of the achievments that I didn't get by just playing through the first time. Halo 3 caters to those people who only play for achievements, like the 7 achievement. Enter a ranked match ranked 7 on the 7th day.......really come on now!