Achievements made me lose sight.

Does anyone else feel like they have been pulled away a little bit from the game itself because of achievements? I cant help but go after them and i feel like going after goals that arent really tied to the game itself takes away from the experience of the game. At this point i have to make sure that i dont see any sort of achievement list before i play a game!

Anyone else? ......am i crazy??

uh... no.. achievements don't mean anything.. unless they are like in LO - "Complete Disk 1" then THATS an achievement...you've finished part of the game. But if it's like AC - Collect all of the flags. or whatever. helllllllllllllllll noSpirit_Warriors

yh i do go after gamerscore sometimes. like now im going through the halo campaign even though i hate it. the online is awesome but i thought the campaign was way below par but now seeing as though i can get over 300G im going for it.R_MAHIL

i think achievements have a purpose. Instead of getting to the end of a game and staring at the credit roll and thinking to yourself what to do now that it's all over, you actually have something to go after. I personally love to gain achievements, but I don't play games only for the achievements.cluelesspug

I just hate it when developers come up with douchey achievements and then tie lots of points to them. GTA IV had the pigeons (worth 150 pts because you need them for 100%), and there is no way I will go after them. That sort of thing is only fun in games like Crackdown, where you can jump 50 feet and run as fast as a car. Trying to find 200 hidden pigeons with Niko's slow ass, tapping A the whole time? No thanks. RebornInFlames

Some achieves are absolutely ridiculous like collecting hundreds of hidden items in a large world like GTA, Assassins Creed, Crackdown etc etc. Nocturnal15

Achivements are nice touch to games this days, but play just for then is stupid, i play the first time without even looking what the achivements are, then the second time is to get as much achivements as i can and that's it, next time i play i dont care anymore about then.

But is really nice when get some difficult achivement and you get a little price for it, like complete the game 100%.

Achievments are gud but it distracts you from the game (beta the ps trophies)

Yeah I go achieve them after i've beaten the game.Keizaru

Same here. I like collecting achievements, but only after I beat the game. I like to see them as a challenge, plus they add a lot of replay value imo.

Sometimes i look at the acheivements and if i see one thats easy i go for it. but otherwise i just enjoy the game so that acheivements feel like a bonus instead of a task...Tailscoolio

i think achievements have a purpose. Instead of getting to the end of a game and staring at the credit roll and thinking to yourself what to do now that it's all over, you actually have something to go after. I personally love to gain achievements, but I don't play games only for the achievements.cluelesspug

i think achievements have a purpose. Instead of getting to the end of a game and staring at the credit roll and thinking to yourself what to do now that it's all over, you actually have something to go after. I personally love to gain achievements, but I don't play games only for the achievements.cluelesspug

Likewise. As long as the game is fun, i'll be glad to go back and earn some achievements after i've finished the game