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

I wrote a piece that I put in my gurnal that pretty much spells out how I feel about achievements, but as Skills says, it's got to be about the fun of it for me.

I certainly do like going for achievements, but only if they're something reasonable and challenging in a fun way. The one area I'm big against them on is multiplayer achievements, for the reason that they tend to alter how people play online and can cause rather selfish or idiotic behaviour as people try to complete achievements.

I've not seen the implementation of trophies on PS3 yet, (not sure I've updated my PS3 firmware actually), so I'm not sure how well they've done that.

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Originally Posted by Mo0

Has a game ever required you to get achievements?

No.

I don't understand why this is an argument that needs to be won.

Good lord, Mo0 just said something prop-worthy. See what you've all done here. I hope you're happy. Quoted for Mo0-sized truth

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Originally Posted by Megalith

They are the worst thing to come out of this gaming generation, aside from general online faggotry.

Says the pot to the mirror.

Originally Posted by Megalith

You may say that achievements are completely optional, but not really---there is almost always a gigantic, stupid screen reminding me that I still have 500 achievements to unlock.

Are you a fucking idiot? No really, please answer me this. There are sometimes screens in games that tell you about the achievements. More often than not they are shortcuts to the dashboard blade. However, in every single fucking case where this is available it's an option you have to purposefully navigate to. The one game you could level some criticism at is GRID, which tells you random stats as it's loading and of those that have some tie to achievements it tells you your progress towards the achievement.

At no point has a game I have played thus far ever, not once, jumped up in the middle of my game and gone:

YOU ARE FUCKING SHIT WHY HAVE YOU NOT DONE MY ACHIEVEMENTS YET YOU SAD SACK OF PISS. GET ON WITH IT ALREADY

You know why? Because it's fucking optional. It's also completely up to you whether you want to navigate, on purpose like, to the screen that will tell you how many achievements you do and don't have.

(I'll give you a clue to the earlier question, the answer is 'yes')

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.