Achievements... Good or Evil?

What do you think. Heres what I personally think, but what are your thoughts.

Now, I know this topic gets thrown around a lot, but i want some in depth comments on this topic. not just "i play gamezez cuz d3yz funnz!"

I could careless about them. I normally get hooked on online games which offer little to no achievement points(COD4,Halo 3,and TF2). So i only have like 6.1k and most of my games i've barely touched. But it doesn't bother me whatsoever because i only play the game i wanna play the way i wanna play it. craigalan23

GOOD I lOVE itDEATH775

[QUOTE="DEATH775"]GOOD I lOVE itnicknees93

Lol that's his signature. Also i'm glad you agree with me.

[QUOTE="nicknees93"][QUOTE="DEATH775"]GOOD I lOVE itcraigalan23

Lol that's his signature. Also i'm glad you agree with me.

I like achievements but some of them are pretty hard to get... Such as the one I am trying on Condemned right now where you need to collect a whole bunch of dead birds...

I havn't come across any quite as evil as the ones in Assassin's Creed where you need to collect all the flags... Thats just wrong.

You know how some games have secondary objectives? That's how I think of acheivements, there these little side things that i try to do. To me they add to the fun. Playing king Kong just to get the points is stupid, but going, "Oh I think I'll try this little challenge" can add to the fun.

Oh, and being able to conpare acheivements is cool, I can see if my buddy beat The Force unleashed on hard, or if anybody else uses sticky grenades like crazy in Halo 3.

I dont think they are evil, i personally like them. I dont really ever finish all of them for my games, i get whatever ones are given to me when i play through the games as i normally would, if i want to play through again then i will try to go for the ones that i didnt get the first time.

I find myself sometimes not wanting to get games on other systems because they dont have any achievements, i just think its a fun little extra.