Achievements - Good or bad.

How many people out there think the achievements are great to get or do you think they are pointless. If so what would you change about them and why? Do you find yourself ever getting all the achievements for every game before you stop playing or do you get fed up of trying to get particulat ones.

Whats your thoughts?

I think they are a good thing, but like someone said, they should either be offline only or they need to re think alot of the online ones, so they don't effect the gameplay.

To be honest though - I personally don't care much for them.

Ha ha, thats a good one lol. Some how I dont think they will ever do that lol come on, its MS. I agree and disagree with some of your comments because yeah 1p achievements would be cool however multiplay offers more things specific to do. Bear in mind if you guys didnt like multi-ones then simply dont do them.

I think achievements would be awesome if the points you got from them counted as Microsoft Points. That would add a lot of replayability! However, Microsoft has a problem with "free money."TDT912

Mmmm... There's definitely merit in them, but the main benefits are for the games publishers who can comfortably release utter gash, safe in the knowledge that some fool (me included) will play through their waste of pixels to snaffle an easy 1000 points.

I totally agree that MS should reward its users with MS points as an incentive to play more. Its not "Real" money so the losses would be negligible compared to the increase in use from enthusiastic gamers keen to get a tangible return on their investment of precious game time. Lets say..... 800 MS points for every 10,000 Achievement level acquired. Sounds fair to me.

Single player achievements definitely increase the life of a game so for that they should be praised. The multiplayer ones aren't as well thought out, and there's nothing worse than joining a room to find a "boosting" session in progress when you just want to have fun.

Overall a very cleaver business decision by MS and I must keep reminding myself that these virtual trophies mean absolutely nothing in the real world. (he says as he returns the Fantastic Four disc to Blockbuster :))

I think achievements would be awesome if the points you got from them counted as Microsoft Points. That would add a lot of replayability! However, Microsoft has a problem with "free money."TDT912

That's what I thought they were at first. Anyway I like the fact about achievement points. Like when you get them you ususally unlock something in a game. People may call other us achievement collectors "whores," but I see them as something to do in my spare time. I hate trying to get achievemens when I have school work to do or something lol. I still manage my time to get them anyway.

they are wonderful and awesome but they should make them only for single player only it also adds replay-ability.....online achievements are horrible...they are non creative and lame cause some people ruin everyones fun trying to get themoutbreak201

amen

I never try and get achievements in the first place, if I do get em it wasnt intentionally

they are wonderful and awesome but they should make them only for single player only it also adds replay-ability.....online achievements are horrible...they are non creative and lame cause some people ruin everyones fun trying to get themoutbreak201

Couldn't agree more.

they are wonderful and awesome but they should make them only for single player only it also adds replay-ability.....online achievements are horrible...they are non creative and lame cause some people ruin everyones fun trying to get themoutbreak201

yeah that is so true, they need to fix alot of those. including the stupid ones in Gears of War, 10,000 kills wtf is that?

I really don't care about achievements at all. It doesn't make a difference to me whether they're there or not.

achievements are ADDICTINGfazio93

ditto

there very good on terrible games as there is something to play for i.e: king Kong(1000 gamer-points). They lead to improving your gamer-score and that is street cred and bragging rights on xbox live