do we really need in game xmb for everything and trophies

do we really need in game xmb for everything there is. I mean sure when you are online in a game and you see your friend come on and want to ask him if he wants to play sure. Let's just say you are playing a single player portion of a game are really going to need to message somebody while playing and doesn't that kind of ruin the purpose of playing games if you really aren't. The same with achievement trophies or whatever. Do we really need to be all "booya" I have got the trophy for not killing anybody in the whole game of resistance 2 or whatever. I am not saying this is waste of time. There is some value to these things, like in Uncharted how it gave you cheats. Ratchet was hit and miss. Did I really need a skill point for doing 10 barrel rolls in the first spaceship shooter level. It did nothing and I accidently found it.

I think achievements are blown way out of proportion. Only if it is something truly incredible do I understand a recognition of some kind. If you never died in Contra without cheating or got 100% of everything in Final Fantasy 8. A week after you get it, you are just going to be like "yep I did it" and then move on. Whatever happened to achieving experience in games. In a fighting game for instance, how people learn all the moves with every character and so on. In Mortal Kombat 2, if someone knew every fatality there was, I would consider that more of an achievement than any trophy or point given for doing something just anyone can do.

Doesn't seem like everybody always wants to feel good about themselves even though they haven't put any work into what they have done. That is what also annoys me about Wii, since anybody can master those games in about 2 hours, you can't tell who actually wanted to really play and understand the game and who is just not caring and "having fun"

you typed all that for a 1 word answer?

hell yea we need it

trophies and achievements sucks

in game XMB thats a need

I dont know if in game XMB will support it,,,but talking to friends while playing different games is a very nice option. And yes checking messages and communicating with friends while playing a game is a must. And the ability to listen to your own music while playing also makes some games especially online so much more enjoyable!!1

I am sure everyone enjoyed filling the boot camp type challanges in COD4, why complain about a small option added to a game that may increase replay value, provide extra content such as cheats, special vids, different clothes, or guns. And maybe one day of the trophy is more challanging and shows you put your time into it, ps store dollars to use towards purchases.

BUT YOU seem to give good enough reasons why we really need it, if people think a trophy system is only about showing the world minor accomlishments, that should be far from what accomplishments should be. But judging by Sony' effort I think thats all it will be at first and eventually be up to developers about what we will get for cerain challanges.