I like Achievements, personally. The stupidly easy ones like "Press Start" on The Simpsons or "Start a New Game" on Soul Calibur 4 I could do without, but otherwise, I think it's a lot of fun completing these challenges. Dead Rising had the most fun Achievements I've seen yet, and like someone mentioned before, you actually get rewarded for some of them. I haven't played Mass Effect enough to get those kinds of Achievements yet, but I intend to. One day.

I only have a problem with them when people online try to help each other during matches to get them and completely disrupt the game. Like one time before a Halo 3 match, a few faggots were talking in the lobby and decided they all wanted to gather by the Sword and let themselves get killed for the "Kill three people in three seconds" Achievement. So I beat them to the Sword and killed all of them, netting the Achievement myself. They were so mad, it was quite hilarious.

The only achievements I dislike, are the ones that involve online play, when 1/2 the time, the online portion is badly coded or in the sense that people can skimp out on fighting you. Take SC4 for example. Either 1/2 the time you'll get a server is full, or when you are about to defeat someone, a "disconnect".

Granted, it's not necessary, but I try to have fun online, and it doesn't help when people play cheap. :mad: :mad:

Eliminating the "cheap player" factor from online achievements, there's also the problem of late adopters. For older XBLA games, or games that I might find in a discount bin that have been out a few years, it can be impossible to find someone online to play against, which means I'll never get those achievements.