Dem 'chievements

[G13]

I really enjoy getting achievements, almost as much as I enjoy playing video games. I like beating games with 100% and it seems to me that getting the achievements is a part of that.

Lately I find myself getting them just because they're there and I can. I began to question why I do it when I leaped to my death in Portal 2 just to hear that harmonious blink. I willingly killed myself twice in that game for some achievements. I'm worried. I've heard of people getting addicted, but I never thought it could happen to me. I've talked to a few friends about this already, and all of them agree that I'm one lost job and 1,000 gamerscore away from giving handy-j's back behind the Red Lobster just for a taste of that sweet sweet cheevo sound.

Do you find yourself doing things you normally wouldn't do in games just to increase the size of your e-peen? Trophy's work too, I guess, though I'm not sure if the two are even remotely similar.

[Tigmafuzz]

I work for them because they give a sense of accomplishment and I am a ridiculously obsessive slight perfectionist.

I don't really do it for recognition, since I can't get online with my JTAG'd box anyway

[Del Murder]

I like when I get them but some are so obscure that I hardly find them to be 'achievements'. I do like collecting items in games and I like when there is a reward for doing so.

[Araciel]

I ignore them.

[Quindiana Jones]

Dude, I participated in a competition to become a CK. Everything I do here is for e-peen.

[Psychotic]

I used to give an almighty trout about achievements. Then I got a job.

(Snarky as it sounds, it's also true!)

[Quindiana Jones]

I like the achievements that are actually awesome. Those I will pursue with righteous fury. But I don't bother with the bulltrout "collect 9000 cakes" ones.

[DMKA]

I usually get a game and tell myself that I'm going to get them all, but then after finishing the playthrough, I typically lose interest in getting any remaining trophies.

[G13]

I like the achievements that are actually awesome. Those I will pursue with righteous fury. But I don't bother with the bulltrout "collect 9000 cakes" ones.

Yeah! That was originally the motivator for me. The Orange Box's achievements were super fun to get, and they were actual challenges. The If They Came to Hear Me Beg achievement in Reach was fun too.

I've done a few fetch quests, but only because I was under the assumption that there was story behind it. Assassin's Creed comes to the foreground of my mind. AC1 had no story after killing all the Templars and that was a letdown, but AC2 had a little cutscene after collecting all the feathers and that was satisfying. I don't really have an excuse for PoP 2008, though.

[Quindiana Jones]

That's a great example. I spent bloody ages trying to get They Came To Hear Me Beg, and it was really satisfying when that Elite finally smurf stayed still for once. In a similar vein, hell yes am I going to get the Dastardly achievement in Read Dead Redemption!

[Shauna]

I like achievements when I actually feel like I did something to deserve it. Unlike in PoP 2008 which felt like it threw achievements at you for pressing "START GAME" and moving the analogue stick forward to move.

[Bolivar]

I was under the impression the allure of achievements has largely faded away by 2012.

I'm a different case because FPS multiplayer, especially CoD is the main usage for my PS3. CoD never has multiplayer achievements and with the games that do, there always comes a time when you've gotten them all.

The craziest I've ever gone for trophies is in Killzone 2 where four of them are for being in the top 10, 5, 3, and 1% of weekly players on the online leaderboards. It's based simply on how many points you have so you need to devote a crazy amount of time to the game and get pretty good at it. I got the first two or three and then the Apocalyps3 happened literally as I was getting the trophies and I didn't get the final one or two... regardless, I did get it.

I've gotten some of the achievements on Steam but I can't say it's increased my desire to get them, especially since it seems kinda random which games have them and which don't.

Also trophies and achievements are pretty much the same thing, but instead of a score value, trophies are either bronze, silver, or gold according to their difficulty. Getting all of them in a game nets you a Platinum trophy, which is really just a cool way to say you completed a game. And instead of a gamerscore you have a player level that takes more and more trophies to go up in the higher you go.

[Jiro]

I reached the point you were at G13. I stood there in the depths of addiction and I clawed my way out. Partially thanks to some retarded glitches. I'll go slightly out of my way to get achievements now, but I don't care about them too much; they're a bonus, not the point.

[Aulayna]

I used to give an almighty trout about achievements. Then I got a job.

(Snarky as it sounds, it's also true!)

Pretty much this. When I had heaps of free time I used to obsess over getting achievements. These days I'll just have a glance at them and find which ones I can realistically obtain before I get bored and go for them - or any particular fun and quirky ones (ala Assassin's Creed type parachute from tallest building on the map to a specific location in under X seconds ones).

[Raistlin]

I generally don't care about achievements. My e-peen is already too heavy to lift.