I hate to say it but I am an achievement guy

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I like to earn achievements but have completed only 2 games (Oblivion and Darksiders).

I always try, and if I can't I can't...

I try for achievements, and I make sure I check them out before I start playing to try my best not to miss them. However, if there is some ridiculous achievement that's going to take a ton of time, I am perfectly fine with skipping it. It's all about opportunity cost...

I like achievements. I'll go out of my way to earn the ones that seem fun and not overly complicated. I think they add something to my enjoyment of the game...and pad my gamerscore whatever that's worth.

i do it too yea i can just play the games but achievements give me something to do mid way or after i finish. it's called achievement whoring

I have a lot of games so the gamerscore adds up... 25000 and rising :)

I love achievement hunting. It's fun, and gives games replay value in my opinion.

I try for achievements, and I make sure I check them out before I start playing to try my best not to miss them. However, if there is some ridiculous achievement that's going to take a ton of time, I am perfectly fine with skipping it. It's all about opportunity cost...

Samslayer

I try for achievements, and I make sure I check them out before I start playing to try my best not to miss them. However, if there is some ridiculous achievement that's going to take a ton of time, I am perfectly fine with skipping it. It's all about opportunity cost...

I've kind of overcome my trophy/achievement addiction. At first I was really obsessed with them, but now I haven't even bothered looking at them. I suppose I shouldn't feel guilty about it, I mean play games for fun, right? Yet every once in a while I still think about them...

I use to care about achievements about a year ago. Now I don't really care for them anymore. I've also stopped buying so many games.

I'm starting to become more of an achievement guy because I'd like to get the most out of a game I buy, but only if I truly enjoy it.

I've kind of overcome my trophy/achievement addiction. At first I was really obsessed with them, but now I haven't even bothered looking at them. I suppose I shouldn't feel guilty about it, I mean play games for fun, right? Yet every once in a while I still think about them...

Vari3ty

I'm in the same boat, my friend.

I was the guy who would kill all 200 pigeons in GTA IV or carry the lawn gnome through Half-Life 2: Episode 2. Doing such things certainly added more I got out of the game, however, it wasn't always fun. It became more like a job or a chore, which is when I realized this needed to stop. And I'm not the guy who did it to pad my gamerscore; it was about trying to achieve 100% in a game. Unfortunately that did include boosting. Again, I don't do this anymore.

Nowadays I still get more achievements than most people, but that's because I play a game thoroughly and actually finish the single player portion on a game like Call of Duty.

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I try for achievements, and I make sure I check them out before I start playing to try my best not to miss them. However, if there is some ridiculous achievement that's going to take a ton of time, I am perfectly fine with skipping it. It's all about opportunity cost...

firefox59

I second this. After you spend too much time trying to get an achievement you realize that you could have just been playing games for fun. I have too many responsibilities to spend my leisure gaming time being frustrated. I tried teaming up with people from the Black Ops board to get the Shangri-La easter egg, and we worked at it forever. After a while I deleted them because the process had become more frustrating that fun. I could care less at this point, gaming shouldn't feel like time wasted.

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I try for achievements, and I make sure I check them out before I start playing to try my best not to miss them. However, if there is some ridiculous achievement that's going to take a ton of time, I am perfectly fine with skipping it. It's all about opportunity cost...

Jurassic85

I second this. After you spend too much time trying to get an achievement you realize that you could have just been playing games for fun. I have too many responsibilities to spend my leisure gaming time being frustrated. I tried teaming up with people from the Black Ops board to get the Shangri-La easter egg, and we worked at it forever. After a while I deleted them because the process had become more frustrating that fun. I could care less at this point, gaming shouldn't feel like time wasted.

I like going for achievements simply because I like feeling like I 100%'d a game.

The most outrageous thing I recently did for an achievement for driving every car in L.A. Noire

I don't always achievement hunt. But when I do, I 100%.

Exactly! I spent close to an hour one day trying to get the "If They Came To Hear Me Bed" achievement in Halo: Reach. Finally I just realized I could have been playing online for an hour instead of watching videos/guides and failing over and over again for 25 gamerscore. If you play long enough your gamerscore will increase anyway. Besides how often to you spend looking through people's achievements and being impressed by them? I'm never impressed by my friends in game achievements, and its not like you get Microsoft points or anything by earning them. To me, achievments are just a great way of personally looking back on what you've done. Even when I get a stressful achievement, I just look back on it and remember how annoying it was to get. So what's the point?Jurassic85

I only try maxing out my GS for games that I really really like.

I've maxed Reach 3x now, 4 achievements left now that Anniversary is out:x

Halo, GTA, Battlefield, Left 4 Dead. those are the only games I try and get achievements for.

I feel like I have to go for all the achievements in games like Call Of Duty. I pay $60 or 5 hours of campaign, might as well get another couple of hours out of it going for achievements.

I like achievements/trophies although i don't spend too much time on them.....whats boosting?