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    :monster: Oh, you cheating smurfing bastard!

    Who here is as addicted to getting Achievements as I am? Same goes for Trophies. What's the toughest one/ones you've ever gotten?

    Neighborhood Watch on The Orange Box was the cheapest thing I've ever had to do in a game. Save all the buildings outside the silo from destruction. Probably wouldn't be that hard if I attempted it again but at the time it was really tough.

    A couple of the skulls in Halo 3 were real bitches to get too.

    Your turn. Gogogo!

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    Lolol. I try not to worry about achievements unless they actually serve some sort of purpose, like unlocks and the like. Sometimes I can't help myself though and I do whore out for them. D:

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    I get mine legit like. It adds to the fun and replay value of the game.

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    I do them myself, I just mean that I actually attempt getting them for the purpose of getting them. xD

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    Probably doing Resident Evil 5 of Professional, solo. That was a pain. And Legendary Halo 3...Although not difficult over-all, but the stage Cortana is smurfing impossible to do solo.
    Other than that, I don't usually find doing achievements to be that difficult, I enjoy doing them, for the most part.

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    I like completing games 100%, so getting the trophies is a natural way to get there. I'm not a trophy whore in the way that I will play a game just to get trophies however Trophies always comes second to gameplay and having fun.

    my proudest trophies would probably be for Megaman 10, even though I only have about half of them. Now those trophies are actually hard. One of the trophies is never being hit a single time throughout the entire game. That's insane! and what's even more insane is that it's a silver trophy and not a gold one.


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    I ignore them for the most part. As a result, I average about 5 trophies for each game I have.

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    I hate achievements. Absolutely despise them in fact. If anyone has ever seen the article regarding achievements from sirlin.net, it sums up my thoughts pretty well. Achievements won't make a bad game good and they won't make a great game any better, but they certainly will keep those who are addicted to the feeling of accomplishment from getting them playing long after the fun has stopped.

    The only game I've ever actually gotten 100% of them in was Uncharted 2, and that was mostly because it was such an awesome game that I played through it three or four times in a few weeks and happened to get all but one or two. At that point I just sort of said "why not?" and grinded for them but it was such an utterly boring experience that it actually made me love playing the game a little less by the time I finished. I wasn't sold on achievements before that and after the realization that getting them all made Uncharted 2 less fun I said to hell with them after that. Now I just play my damn games and what happens happens. I find grinding for these things about as much fun as fetch questing.

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    MUST. GET. SHINY. ACHIEVEMENT. GAAAAAAAH.

    Although to be honest I look at a lot of achievements and think "smurf that".

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    I don't particulary care for achievements/trophies. I find most of them monotonous to get. Really detracts from the fun for me but I understand why people get so obsessed with them. Plus the fact that most people on my friends list have trophy scores that blow right past mine it seems kind of pointless me getting into them now.

    The only game I actually platinumed was Wipeout HD. That was mainly because I played the game alot rather than actually seeking out each trophy. Its kind of cool having it though as it is considered by some to be the hardest platinum trophy.

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    Are you sure the Orange Box has trophies. I don't recall ever seeing any? The only one that I made an attempt to get almost all of them was in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I did platinum Tekken 6, but those trophies were beyond easy to get.

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    I don't pay too much attention to them. There's always a few that look so boring to earn that I doubt I will ever get every achievement or a platinum trophy unless I'm playing something stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
    Although to be honest I look at a lot of achievements and think "smurf that".
    I think the same thing on a few but my habit of beating games 100% really nags at me to go for it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Depression Moon View Post
    Are you sure the Orange Box has trophies. I don't recall ever seeing any?
    Naw, that was for 360, yo.

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    I...can't see the point in achievements. It seems so silly to me to get an achievement/trophy simply because it's listed as something to do so the console can tell you you did it.
    I like Kung-Fu.

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    Sometimes the achievements provide unlocks, other times they are just stuff you would do normally anyway.

    What really gets me is the stuff that you would only do because there is an achievement for it. Why the smurf would I want to get 100 kills with every weapon in Gears of War?

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