Do you play for achievements?

Thats pretty much the only reason i play the 360. I play games that i hate just for achievements. Im addicted!

Thats pretty much the only reason i play the 360. I play games that i hate just for achievements. Im addicted!

SaintTheKing

yea im pretty much an achievement whore like you....i played need for speed most wanted....thinking i could get an easier thousand only to got about 265 after painstakingly trying for 3 weeks.....but yea if it werent for achievements all my games would be played on my ps3

I usually play the game through first. Then I go for achievements.

Here's the deal, you know a game is good, when you play it for the game, and achievments dont matter.

Some games do achievements really well, by basically playing the game, you get them, which is good.

what is the point of playing for gamerpoints? to me it is the biggest waste of time and i dont see anything gratifying about it at allbongcat

its just something you get or you dont get...it cant be explained....

No, I play for fun. But its nice to get achievements, and sometimes I'll try to get achievements, but thats not the only reason I play.Zach68486

agreed

A wicked game shall always be wicked. The sensation that you achieved everything that the developer wanted you to experience makes a game above and beyond. Achievements when done well are an excellent measure of your skill and total completion of a game.....Love it.

It is also to be noted the is no freaking way i would play a garbage game for achievements.

I play games I like for achievements. Example: I've got 1000/1000 from Mass Effect, but I'm not going to go for achievements in my little brother's copy of Cars. I try to use the Achievements as a measure of how much value I have gotten out of the game, for the most. Brmarlin

Same here, same here. I'll try to get every achievement in a game I like, but I also play the game to enjoy it. I find doing both at the same time easy to do.

I buy quality games, but I strive for Achievements in the game. I won't buy a game for an Achievement, but if I buy the game because it is good, I will try to get Achievements.Bluestorm-Kalas

same here ^^

i love achivements, they bring a whole new level to all games, but saying that i wont play games i hate or ones just because they have easy achivements, but all games i own i thrive for 1000 and if i rent or borrow, ill settel for 700ish.

as someone said before yeah i wouldnt play on the hardest difficulty if it wasnt for them, i usually play on hard or normal. not insane, legendary or veteran.

my second rule is they must come legitimately, none of this "lets play for achivements" crap.

i dont like achievments they ruined games for me

i feel so inadequate when i dont get certain ones

Yes and no

I never really got into them at first and they are not balanced across games. My mate got 1000g in achievements in a game called avatar in like 5 minutes! Then in other games you can get like only 50g for completing a game and 10 hours gameplay!

HOWEVER, that said, I think the achievements do add gameplay. not everyone can afford loads of games, so anything that adds gameplay is a good thing in my book.

Hell NO

No, I play for fun. But its nice to get achievements, and sometimes I'll try to get achievements, but thats not the only reason I play.Zach68486

Well, first of all, I play for fun. As we all do. And then I may play for achievements for replay value. It sorta-kinda gives you a reason to go back and play a game. You can say it's a great motivational tool for some of us gamers who find it hard to replay a game the second time through. If it was a perfect world, I would like to see more download content for games like Call of Duty 4, Lost Odyssey, Halo 3, and Gears of War, and others. Things like extra missions, weapons, and neat perks would really give us gamers more of a reason to replay our games, not only that, but give us a bang for our hard earned bucks. Disagree as you may, but I would have loved to see the Brumak in Gears of War original, and not Gears of War 2. Although, now that they have decided to include that in Gears of War 2, the upcoming sequel will be a lot bigger and badder. I play for fun, and replay for achievements. Thanks for reading.