Am I gaming to game anymore?

[KeithTalent]

Meh, I could not care less about achievements. I have so many incomplete achievements for games I've played for ages; the only reason I even see that I have any outstanding is Steam shows them to me when it starts up.

I find it's different than other compulsive things; for example in Mass Effect I went to every single corner of every world I could just because I enjoyed discovering all of the areas and trying to find every little thing I could. General achievements do not feel the same for me; a fully developed world that I am invested in will lead me to find everything, not the random ding of something relating to finding 20 widgets or whatever.

KT

 

[slag]

I don't care about achievements, but sadly they now have taken the place of gaming.

Exactly how I feel. Achievements seem to cheapen the gaming experience for me. When I was a young buck, playing doom, duke nukem, quake 1, etc, I gamed to smear the guts of my opponent all over the floor. I knew that fragging him/her would piss that person off and I drew great pleasure from that.

Thats all disconnected now. People game for achievements, no one takes offense to getting fragged/killed in game, its totally lost its luster.

 

[gothamhunter]

Exactly how I feel. Achievements seem to cheapen the gaming experience for me. When I was a young buck, playing doom, duke nukem, quake 1, etc, I gamed to smear the guts of my opponent all over the floor. I knew that fragging him/her would piss that person off and I drew great pleasure from that.

Thats all disconnected now. People game for achievements, no one takes offense to getting fragged/killed in game, its totally lost its luster.

Umm..you've never played any of the call of duty games online, have you? lol

All I hear is RAGERAGERAGERAGERAGERAGERAGERAGERAGERAGERAGERAGE

 

[KaOTiK]

Nope, never saw the appeal in it personally. I don't need a virtual high five from the game for doing something. I much rather unlock goodies for doing stuff like back in the all days. Be it a new player/skin, weapons, maps, vehicles, etc. Stuff that actually added more to the game were rewards, not the nonsense nowadays. Can't win, even the stuff you use to get for free they charge you for and call it DLC.

Amazes me how companies were able to swap that around. From earning actual ingame things for doing stuff to charging you for those items now and replacing the items you would of gotten for free with a stupid lil virtual high five basically.

Infact, I would say I hate achievements in multiplayer environments. It almost never fails that at least some jerk off on your team is to busy trying to get their achievement rather then focus on the objective of the game.

 

[dpodblood]

I don't mind achievements. I don't really feel that they take anything away from a game. They add re-play incentive for those who care enough to get them, and for those that don't they can just be ignored.

 

[PowerYoga]

never went out of my way to get achievements unless it posed a reasonable challenge. I don't have a single platinum trophy (and only a few gold ones i got accidentally) on my ps3 achievement list and I never got all the steam achievement/trophies either.

Trophies are kind of a "oh cool" type of deal but if you're spending sleepless nights trying to get every single item in a game so you can have a platinum then it sounds like a personal problem.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

I don't usually care about them unless I can unlock something. IE player skins in Killing Floor. Some achievements I think are pretty interesting and I'll try for them also. I think there was one for TF2? where you had to die while falling on a certain map or something.

I don't see anything wrong with achievements. They're a great way to add replayability to a game.

Achievement whores are bad in a pub game. But so are crappy players, HPBs, griefers. (IE Llama Squad/myg0t). But pub games are always going to be a mixed bag.

I've been all three. I remember during the won.net CS days, I would use goatse as my spray. Whenever I was last alive I would just spray it on the wall and leave it there. Lulz were had.

 

[dust]

My all times favorite achievement: the Nadia Comaneci by finishing Metro walking on your hands and shooting noodles from your pants. Doesn't get any better than this.

The achievements are yet another reason to come back later to the game, not the main reason for playing them in the first place.