use to not anymore sometimes ill go for the challenging achievements if they are just that and not impossible ones like some achievements they throw at you.
Without achievements, I never would have bothered to finish COD4 on Veteran...and beat Mile High Club on Veteran...both bloody hard and if not for the achievements, I would have simply not bothered...so even though I say I don't care...I kind of do.
heck yeah, but also no. when playing games, i like to play through the first time for fun. granted, i like to get as many achievements along the way as i can but im not after anything crazy. this way, i get the most out of the experience. i then go back, after i know everything, seen it all, and try for as many achievements as possible. i feel this way i dont lose anything. right now, ive got no new games, so im going back for achievements. they help me get more time out of my games. got two achievements just now
I usually play games just for the fun but if I have completed all my games and have nothing else to do I do try to get achievements. Every time I get a new game I also look at the achievements so I can try to get them why still playing the game. I would never buy a game I don't like for achievements but I think that they give games more depths and addmore replay value.
renting games just for gamerscore is ridiculious but then again its always good to know that your a good enough game to have gotten everything in that game i do care about my gamerscore right now i have 56,140 gamerscore and im still going
no, i dont' care about my gamerscore. i play games for fun, i don't try getting all of the achievements for the game. i only try to get the easy ones that seem easy. if i don't get it then i don't try anymore. i just think that it is a waist of time to do that.
Well, buying games just for gamerscore is ridiculous. But I do care about my score. Dunno why really. I just like to see the number go up. I like knowing I've got the most out of my games also, so going back and replaying them for achievements is something I always do.Hotwire246
Yeah, I only rent a game I think i willlike, I then try to do as much of it (and it's achievements) before I have to bring it back.
If I buy a game, I don't think it's finished until I have over 800 G in it. I stoped playing COD4 and COD 5 around christmas but I restarted because I didin't have all the G's, now I have 1000 in both.
Gamerscore is a bonus, a reason to play your game after finishing the story.
I only get achievements from the games that I own since they're the ones worth spending the time on to me. I don't go out of my way to get as many as possible or even rent games just for the points so I guess you could say I just like to play the games.
I like getting achievements. But I've never played a kid game just to boost my socre. You can check my games. There all games I liked or thought I would like. No games like cars, avatar and such.
I like getting achievements. But I've never played a kid game just to boost my socre. You can check my games. There all games I liked or thought I would like. No games like cars, avatar and such.
I probably wouldn't rent a game just to get points, but it is fun to open them up. They add another element to the regular gameplay. If it's possible to get some while doing other things in game, I'll ahead and try for one. It's also fun to compare my gamer score with friends. I tend to think of them like high scores from way back when.
Not at all. It's fun to get them, but I don't actively go for achievements. I'd rather just play the game without having to worry about some impossible achievement. My score is not important to me.
Well, buying games just for gamerscore is ridiculous. But I do care about my score. Dunno why really. I just like to see the number go up. I like knowing I've got the most out of my games also, so going back and replaying them for achievements is something I always do.Hotwire246
Well, buying games just for gamerscore is ridiculous. But I do care about my score. Dunno why really. I just like to see the number go up. I like knowing I've got the most out of my games also, so going back and replaying them for achievements is something I always do.Hotwire246
I care about gamerscore. A guy with a low gamerscore in a specific game would obviously be less familiar with the game then a guy with 1000/1000 in it. Of course skill is still factored in but i like to stereotype, it makes life easier.
as for people with big gamerscores, i think it makes you look more experienced, and in a nerdy sort of way, look cooler than people with small gamerscores. I would never buy games for them, but at blockbuster during the summer i get the 20 dollars for a month of unlimited rentals and rent every game they have (one per day), and play through them for gamerscore, if i like them i can buy them later.
as for people with big gamerscores, i think it makes you look more experienced, and in a nerdy sort of way, look cooler than people with small gamerscores.
Vashn
I knew it! I knew it was compensation for something!:P
its fun to get achievements and rack up your score but people who base their entire xbox expeirence only on achievements...well i guess thats kind of a waste, your not really having fun are you?
Not really the score its self as much as the amount in each game. I feel like i haven't completed a game unless i get like 800 points. I wish they didn't have them altogether, they kill a lot of good games for me. Oh well. :(
i think they're fun to get. they make you want to go back and play a game that you normally wouldnt want to. but sometimes its frustrating if your playing the games just to get achievements.
To an extent. On my fav. games, I try to get as many points as I can, but for anything thats to hard, or takes away from enjoying the game, I don't bother.
i get as many acheivements as I feel like getting in a game but I am not a person who will go rent games like Avatar to get it up. I just don't even rent games anymore, went up to $10 at Blockbuster (rip off!)
I know I lose respect for a player when I see 1000 points from games like Avatar and Open Season, hell I checked a few people in this very thread and you guys had them. I bet you guys have not played every great game that has come out on the 360 (or one of the systems you own). Now think that instead of playing that unplayed great game you spent time and energy acquiring some crappy game just to get achievement points. That is just sad.
Personally, I'm a PS3 guy now (I sold my 360) and I do enjoy the fact that games now have trophies and it cause me to replay a game more often then I usually do but I would never play some crappy game for trophies. My cousin even suggested that he would bring the new Hannah Montana game over because it had easy trophies and I said I would kill him if he ever put that disc in my system (because then I would be tarnished forever with that game in my trophy history).
I know I lose respect for a player when I see 1000 points from games like Avatar and Open Season, hell I checked a few people in this very thread and you guys had them. I bet you guys have not played every great game that has come out on the 360 (or one of the systems you own). Now think that instead of playing that unplayed great game you spent time and energy acquiring some crappy game just to get achievement points. That is just sad.
Personally, I'm a PS3 guy now (I sold my 360) and I do enjoy the fact that games now have trophies and it cause me to replay a game more often then I usually do but I would never play some crappy game for trophies. My cousin even suggested that he would bring the new Hannah Montana game over because it had easy trophies and I said I would kill him if he ever put that disc in my system (because then I would be tarnished forever with that game in my trophy history).
AppleBlade
ya..but the question was do you care. and obviously you do because you think that having a game like hannah montana in your game history will make you look bad.
Well I have friends that are bent on just playing games for achievements. He didnt even Play Gears of War 2 online with all of his other friends until he got all of the achievements he could. I dont see how that makes gaming fun, so I dont particularly care.
Oddly enough, I thought gamerscore was currency for the Xbox LIVE marketplace before I went online. Now that I know the truth, I just wonder if there really is a point to these points other than to show off.
I used to think precisely the same thing, now if I don't have access to online I try to get acheivments for fun and it adds replayability to most games.
its fun to get achievements and rack up your score but people who base their entire xbox expeirence only on achievements...well i guess thats kind of a waste, your not really having fun are you?
flavian2
Don't you suppose that if a person's participating in a hobby, then they probably enjoy it? If somebody has fun seeing "Achievement Unlocked," then--stay with me here--that's probably fun for them. Amazingly, not every person in the world enjoys the exact same things as you do.
its fun to get achievements and rack up your score but people who base their entire xbox expeirence only on achievements...well i guess thats kind of a waste, your not really having fun are you?
Palantas
Don't you suppose that if a person's participating in a hobby, then they probably enjoy it? If somebody has fun seeing "Achievement Unlocked," then--stay with me here--that's probably fun for them. Amazingly, not every person in the world enjoys the exact same things as you do.
you sir, are on to something. I would like to subscribe to your news letter.
I like the little "bleedoop!" noise when you unlock an achievement :-) But I don't care too much about my score. I like the ones where you have to kill a bad guy a certain way or complete a level without using your gun or something. Random ones that add a little more to the gameplay rather than "completed level 1 - 25 points". But I do have better things to do these days other than rack up points on a video game(do people still call them video games?....damn I feel old).
Well mine sucks.. but it was a selling point for me to finally break down and get an xbox. I like useless achievement points in any games I can get lol
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