Achievements..I'm new to the 360..what are they?

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#1 RojAvon
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Ok I admit it. I'm new to the 360....what's this stuff about earning "Achievements". How does this work?

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#2 SorasGhost009
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you earn them by completting certain things in the game
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#4 RojAvon
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I've picked that much up..but what are they worth to me as a gamer?
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#5 kkbeach93
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They aren'tactuallyworth anything.
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I've picked that much up..but what are they worth to me as a gamer?RojAvon
it cant be used to buy anything but its fun to earn them, they add replay value to games and gamers respect u for having a lot.
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#7 qbell
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Its a overall score of every game you play! You dont need them but its fun to collect-em-all!!!!!!!

full games come with 1000 points each (can be a total 1250 if it has some new downloadable content)

xbox live arcade games come with 200 each (can be 250? if it has some new downloadable content)

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[QUOTE="RojAvon"]I've picked that much up..but what are they worth to me as a gamer?lvin5992
it cant be used to buy anything but its fun to earn them, they add replay value to games and gamers respect u for having a lot.

agree i beat dead rising so many times for achievements... i see them as something for the hard core gamers to do once they r done with the game : / can't wait till i get all of bioshock achievements :)

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#9 zero030
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it can give you more incentive to complete everything and that way you will get more out of your money. well thats how I see it anyways.
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Points for bragging rights and achieving something that you normaly wouldint do.Each game contains 1,000 points with download content 1,250 arcade games contain 200 with download content 235.

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#11 plastic_rich
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[QUOTE="RojAvon"]I've picked that much up..but what are they worth to me as a gamer?lvin5992
it cant be used to buy anything but its fun to earn them, they add replay value to games and gamers respect u for having a lot.

so true, i remember having to break up with my gf because i was all, "dude you didnt even get the king kong 1000 pts" and she was all "psh" so i was all "peace ho, i ain't wastin my 360 controller keyboard strokes on you"

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#12 Nasukashi
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hey, i dont play live so i was wondering how many points can i get from each game without doing the online achievements?

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#13 plastic_rich
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hey, i dont play live so i was wondering how many points can i get from each game without doing the online achievements?

Nasukashi

Varies from game to game. The older games don't really require live to get most achievements, but the newer games about a third of the ach pts are live. Check out the games page on this site, and go to the"Hints and Cheats" tab, and it'll tell you all the achievements for said game.

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#14 FatCat360
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Pointless points.
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#15 Nasukashi
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[QUOTE="Nasukashi"]

hey, i dont play live so i was wondering how many points can i get from each game without doing the online achievements?

plastic_rich

Varies from game to game. The older games don't really require live to get most achievements, but the newer games about a third of the ach pts are live. Check out the games page on this site, and go to the"Hints and Cheats" tab, and it'll tell you all the achievements for said game.



oh, thx, ive seen some on my 360 and did most of them (the offline ones) and i have many games but little gamescore, like about 5k only, and i always wondered why it was so low, guess its because of the online achievements, thx anyway though =P
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#16 EXLINK
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Achievements increase your Gamerscore.

The larger your Gamerscore, the larger your 360 E-Peen is.

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#17 RojAvon
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Thanks.

I was under the impression that they were worth points towards online game downloads or somthing.

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#18 cheezy909
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Can someone please give some examples of Achievements?

Are they things like- '50 consequtive kills', 'completed level X without dieing', 'completed level X in under 7 miniutes' ect?

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#19 mike2kcool
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Check this out http://www.360-hq.com/Xbox_360_Achievements.html

a really good site to ;)

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#20 gatsbythepig
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They give you nerd bragging rights, that's it.
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#21 cheezisgoooood
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Achievements serve as a way to tell other gamers who look in your profile which games you like the most, how good you are at those games, and whether or not you play games a lot. If I look at a person's gamer profile and see that he has a very low gamerscore but has a lot of games in his list with 0 achievement points for them, then I know that he likes to waste his money a lot :D. If I see that someone has a lot of achievement points but very few games, I can see that they like to get their money's worth out of their games.

They can even tell you how far a person is in the game, like if a person only has the first act achievementin Gears of War, I know that he hasn't touched the single player campaign much.

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#22 Kevondadon
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Can someone please give some examples of Achievements?

Are they things like- '50 consequtive kills', 'completed level X without dieing', 'completed level X in under 7 miniutes' ect?

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Yea. Something like that. !0,000 kills in GEOW is a respect acheivement. When you see someone with that, you know they know how to play.

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#23 booomer69
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[QUOTE="cheezy909"]

Can someone please give some examples of Achievements?

Are they things like- '50 consequtive kills', 'completed level X without dieing', 'completed level X in under 7 miniutes' ect?

Kevondadon

Yea. Something like that. !0,000 kills in GEOW is a respect acheivement. When you see someone with that, you know they know how to play.

I agree.