Achievements for Small Rewards?

I love achievements, they give a sense of accomplishment in a game and add replay value, but lately I've been wondering what the point is. Games have had this sort of thing for years, but the Achievement system is a standardized version of it, and as such they should have some small reward for getting certain achievements (like a gamertag picture exclusive to those who have beaten a particularly difficult achievement, such as COD4's Mile High Club). This would really help getting people into the game and I think increase the effectiveness of the Achievement system with increased incentive to achieve. Thoughts?

yeah i know, i think its cool how some games do that. Like Mass Effect also gave you exlusive pictures for getting certain achivements. But yeah, anyways i agree with you i thinjk games should do this more often.

totally agree with you, another suggestion is, MS or a 3rd party company would offer free stuff(arcade games, MS points, etc etc) for people who have reached a certain amount of gamerpoints (either in total or in a specified game) this would help MS to encourage more people to spend more time in their games/ keeping their games for a longer period which may lessen the number of those who sell their videogames to the used game markets.Arclight_Blue

yeah but then you would have people glithcing points and so forth so they could just get free stuff.

I remember something along the lines of for every 20 achievements someone would get they would recieve 400 MS points. Love that idea.Rac1407

Gears of War 2 gives you gamerpics for certain achievements, like beating the entire game in Co-op and another, different gamerpic for beating the game on Insane. I don't know what other achievements you can get gamerpics for, but they also did this in the first Gears of War and some other games.