[Amusing] My Achievements. Let me show you them.

I like them and at the same time hate them. Getting some of the harder ones has a little sense of accomplishment. I also like that it kinda gives me a record of what I've done in a game even if I no longer have the said game.

The thing I hate about them, are the insanely hard ones. Ones that are so hard that I know I'll never get them or just that it will be so frustrating that it's not worth trying. Like getting a gold on every sim disc in Marvel Ultimate Alliance. It's hard enough just to get a bronze on some of them.

Then there are ones in some games like win 50 ranked matches in a row. This is a case of achievements hurting the game. I don't know how any developers could have thought something like that was a good idea. Games are ment to be fun, but win 50 in a row? That just encourages damn near everyone to be as cheap as humanly possible which just takes all the fun out of it. This was especially true in Smackdown vs RAW 07 where players would just do the same uncounterable move over and over till they won.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Megalith

I remember when developers would put in real challenges with an actual purpose, and you would actually get rewards. Now, you get a worthless number next to a disgustingly compressed and pixel-neighbor resized "gamerpic." Am I cool yet.

Developers have done stuff like this for years, they just weren't called achievements. Like optional dungeons in RPGs where you get uber gear. Uber gear that you don't need because the enemies you beat to get it are harder then the last boss. Or games that have unlockable artwork, does anyone actually look at the artwork after they originally unlock it?

There's nowhere I can't reach.