Do you think i'm an achievement junkie?

Ok so I have like 3 games for xbox that I own, 2 of them I got 1000/1000, one of them I have 995/1000

And so I went to my friends house and transferred my account over, I don't have xbox live btw. So we played rockband and I told him there should be an achievment wehre you only use the solo buttons the whole song and get 100%, so I looked and I said there one where you 100% and one wehre you 100% a song, so I said ok, watch me get 100% on this song only using the solo buttons, then he said that's because you're an achievenment *****.

I just ignored him after that, I think he's jealous I almost have as much gamerscore as him. I have around 7000 gamerscore just from playing different games and borrowing games and such, he has 8000 and he has had his xbox for like a year, and I had mine for 3 months.

Am I or is he just jealous?

What the hell did I just read? Also, who cares if your an achievement whore.

What the hell did I just read? Also, who cares if your an achievement whore.

MonkeyPulp

You're only a ***** if you sell yourself to people for achievement points.

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What the hell did I just read? Also, who cares if your an achievement whore.

Furanko_Kun

If he was jealous he would work at getting a higher score.

Did I make is sound confusing? Sorry.

There are 2 different achievements on Rockband 2, one where you 100% a solo, using only the solo buttons, and anotherwhere you 100% the song.

So I told him I would get both, but beating the whole song using only the solo buttons, 100%.

So anyways I have 3 games, someone bought me halo 3, but I can't beat that 100% because the achievements are online, so only 3 games I tried to get all of them. And he doesn't have 1000 on Cod4 but I do. Which he has had for a long time, and I beat it, but he couldn't beat all the levels on veteran.

So we played rockband and I told him there should be an achievment wehre you only use the solo buttons the whole song and get 100%, so I looked and I said there one where you 100% and one wehre you 100% a song, so I said ok, gotdangit

Umm no. Once you start buying games strictly to get achievements then you may be an "achievement junkie."Hopefully you don't get that far!

Who cares? I'm an Achievement *****. A lot of us are. That's why we play, we strive for perfection and instantly stop playing a game once we have all the achievements we can get and never play it again unless it has DLC (With even more Achievements), or a good multiplayer.

i dont think acheivements show how skilled you are. you can get achievements just by playing co-op or going into a game menu. if anyone notice...there not as hard as they were during the first years the 360 came out. the developers are putting in a lot of easy stuff nowadays. and then you have the glitchers for acheivements. i doubt your freind is jealous

You only have three games, so if anything you're just playing the crap out of them because you don't have any other games to play. Buying/renting every game that comes out just to get achievements is what would make you what your friend called you.

I don't think there's anything wrong with maxing out GS on games for the challenge of completing the achievements. In that case, you're an achievement junkie. If you're doing it for the GS itself, though, then you might have issues. I think 'GS whore' would be a more appropriate term then, though.

Did I make is sound confusing? Sorry.

There are 2 different achievements on Rockband 2, one where you 100% a solo, using only the solo buttons, and anotherwhere you 100% the song.

So I told him I would get both, but beating the whole song using only the solo buttons, 100%.

So anyways I have 3 games, someone bought me halo 3, but I can't beat that 100% because the achievements are online, so only 3 games I tried to get all of them. And he doesn't have 1000 on Cod4 but I do. Which he has had for a long time, and I beat it, but he couldn't beat all the levels on veteran.

gotdangit

Ah, thanks for clearing it up. You're friend's just jealous methinks. I mean, achievements are there to get for the fun of it if you want to. Sometimes after completing a game I really like I set out to get the achievements left. I mean, my gamerscore is weak and pathetic and lowly for someone who has had a 360 for three and half years but still, they're there for fun. There's nothing wrong with getting 1000 GS on a game you like. It'd be wierd if you were constantly replaying games you hate for points but that doesn't seem to be the case, so you're friend's just running his mouth off. Plain and simple.

Ok so I have like 3 games for xbox that I own, 2 of them I got 1000/1000, one of them I have 995/1000

And so I went to my friends house and transferred my account over, I don't have xbox live btw. So we played rockband and I told him there should be an achievment wehre you only use the solo buttons the whole song and get 100%, so I looked and I said there one where you 100% and one wehre you 100% a song, so I said ok, watch me get 100% on this song only using the solo buttons, then he said that's because you're an achievenment *****.

I just ignored him after that, I think he's jealous I almost have as much gamerscore as him. I have around 7000 gamerscore just from playing different games and borrowing games and such, he has 8000 and he has had his xbox for like a year, and I had mine for 3 months.

Am I or is he just jealous?

gotdangit

Ok so I have like 3 games for xbox that I own, 2 of them I got 1000/1000, one of them I have 995/1000

And so I went to my friends house and transferred my account over, I don't have xbox live btw. So we played rockband and I told him there should be an achievment wehre you only use the solo buttons the whole song and get 100%, so I looked and I said there one where you 100% and one wehre you 100% a song, so I said ok, watch me get 100% on this song only using the solo buttons, then he said that's because you're an achievenment *****.

I just ignored him after that, I think he's jealous I almost have as much gamerscore as him. I have around 7000 gamerscore just from playing different games and borrowing games and such, he has 8000 and he has had his xbox for like a year, and I had mine for 3 months.

Am I or is he just jealous?

Umm no. Once you start buying games strictly to get achievements then you may be an "achievement junkie."Hopefully you don't get that far!

Samslayer

This. Going for a particular achievement in a game you're playing doesn't make you an junkie. Buying or renting games with the sole purpose of just getting some achievement points would be. Or plugging a second controller in and playing with nobody just to get some 10 kills in a row type achievements, would be.

If i really like a game, i'll try to get 1000 as long as the achievements are fun. Beating a game on the highest difficulty or winning every race in the game kind of achievements are fun to me, as long as the game itself is fun. Winning X amount of games in a ranked match, especially when it's a particular gamemode that i hate. Or beating a game like Guitar Hero as a vocalist, (singing in Rockband or GH isn't fun to me), are the kind of achievements i won't even try for. If the game is fun to you, and the achievement you're going for is fun to you, there's nothing about that that makes you a junkie.

Many people have alot more than that. What else are you going to do on Rockband? yawn.

i dont think acheivements show how skilled you are. you can get achievements just by playing co-op or going into a game menu. if anyone notice...there not as hard as they were during the first years the 360 came out. the developers are putting in a lot of easy stuff nowadays.

BLAS1AN

I disagree with this. When the 360 first launched, there were alot of games with as little as just 5 total achievements for all 1000 points. Others had 10-15. I got all 1000 points in NBA2K6 in ONE GAME. Very few, if any, games had the max 50 achievements allowed at the time. Now, most games have in the higher range of 40-50 achievements. It does make for some pretty stupid achievements. But i definitely think the earlier games of the 360 were WAY too easy for 1000. Mostly because you didn't have to play much to get it.

Some games have nice achievement awards, which you get after you get the achievements. Like unlocking new skills for new characters in Mass Effect. in those cases,I get it that people want to get achievements.

Some other achievements are pointless and plain stupid, so why people want to get those? I have no clue. It's not like you can buy stuff with your gamerscore points anyway.

might be just me though.

[QUOTE="BLAS1AN"]

i dont think acheivements show how skilled you are. you can get achievements just by playing co-op or going into a game menu. if anyone notice...there not as hard as they were during the first years the 360 came out. the developers are putting in a lot of easy stuff nowadays.

DZBricktop

I disagree with this. When the 360 first launched, there were alot of games with as little as just 5 total achievements for all 1000 points. Others had 10-15. I got all 1000 points in NBA2K6 in ONE GAME. Very few, if any, games had the max 50 achievements allowed at the time. Now, most games have in the higher range of 40-50 achievements. It does make for some pretty stupid achievements. But i definitely think the earlier games of the 360 were WAY too easy for 1000. Mostly because you didn't have to play much to get it.

sports games have always had easy points. earlier games like Gears, GRAW 1 and2, dead rising, geometry wars: retro, FEAR, project gotham, lost planet. older games required you to finish missions or campaigns without dying. GTA a fairly recent blockbuster hit game has easy points. i played transformers and the acheivements pop up constantly after every mission.

Ok so I have like 3 games for xbox that I own, 2 of them I got 1000/1000, one of them I have 995/1000

And so I went to my friends house and transferred my account over, I don't have xbox live btw. So we played rockband and I told him there should be an achievment wehre you only use the solo buttons the whole song and get 100%, so I looked and I said there one where you 100% and one wehre you 100% a song, so I said ok, watch me get 100% on this song only using the solo buttons, then he said that's because you're an achievenment *****.

I just ignored him after that, I think he's jealous I almost have as much gamerscore as him. I have around 7000 gamerscore just from playing different games and borrowing games and such, he has 8000 and he has had his xbox for like a year, and I had mine for 3 months.

Am I or is he just jealous?

gotdangit

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but unless you recovered your gamertag back to your console after doing it at your friends, then none of the achievements you have unlocked since will count for anything - as soon as you try to connect to xbox live it will realise your version of your gamertag is invalid, force you recover from Live - which will be the condition it was in when you last used it on your friends console.

In short your gamerscore will get reset to when it last connected to Live, and there is nothing you can do about it :(

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[QUOTE="BLAS1AN"]

i dont think acheivements show how skilled you are. you can get achievements just by playing co-op or going into a game menu. if anyone notice...there not as hard as they were during the first years the 360 came out. the developers are putting in a lot of easy stuff nowadays.

BLAS1AN

I disagree with this. When the 360 first launched, there were alot of games with as little as just 5 total achievements for all 1000 points. Others had 10-15. I got all 1000 points in NBA2K6 in ONE GAME. Very few, if any, games had the max 50 achievements allowed at the time. Now, most games have in the higher range of 40-50 achievements. It does make for some pretty stupid achievements. But i definitely think the earlier games of the 360 were WAY too easy for 1000. Mostly because you didn't have to play much to get it.

sports games have always had easy points. earlier games like Gears, GRAW 1 and2, dead rising, geometry wars: retro, FEAR, project gotham, lost planet. older games required you to finish missions or campaigns without dying. GTA a fairly recent blockbuster hit game has easy points. i played transformers and the acheivements pop up constantly after every mission.

It all comes down to what you think is easy or not i guess. Compare Transformers you played to King Kong. I thought Dead Rising, GRAW, and PGR were easy achievements. But i thought Dead Rising was easy because i loved the game so much and played the crap out of it. PGR was easy because i've played that series since it launched. GRAW was fairly easy except for a few dumb ones.

What about Kameo, Condemned, King Kong, Gun, Amped 3, Hitman, Oblivion, Tomb Raider, Just Cause, Phantasy Star, Need For Speed Most Wanted, Forza, Test Drive, Fuzion Frenzy 2, Crackdown, etc.. All early games with easy achievements. Compare newer versions to older ones. Check any of the Need for Speeds compared to the early, and easy Most Wanted. Compare Fight Night Rd 4 to Rd 3. Compare ANY of the sports titles now to the early, and extremely easy earlier ones.

I think it goes both ways. I think some have got more achievements, but easier. It may seem to me that some of the newer games are alittle tougher because the games have so many achievements now compared to before, you have to play them longer to get them all. But thats just my opinion.

[QUOTE="BLAS1AN"]

[QUOTE="DZBricktop"]

I disagree with this. When the 360 first launched, there were alot of games with as little as just 5 total achievements for all 1000 points. Others had 10-15. I got all 1000 points in NBA2K6 in ONE GAME. Very few, if any, games had the max 50 achievements allowed at the time. Now, most games have in the higher range of 40-50 achievements. It does make for some pretty stupid achievements. But i definitely think the earlier games of the 360 were WAY too easy for 1000. Mostly because you didn't have to play much to get it.

DZBricktop

sports games have always had easy points. earlier games like Gears, GRAW 1 and2, dead rising, geometry wars: retro, FEAR, project gotham, lost planet. older games required you to finish missions or campaigns without dying. GTA a fairly recent blockbuster hit game has easy points. i played transformers and the acheivements pop up constantly after every mission.

It all comes down to what you think is easy or not i guess. Compare Transformers you played to King Kong. I thought Dead Rising, GRAW, and PGR were easy achievements. But i thought Dead Rising was easy because i loved the game so much and played the crap out of it. PGR was easy because i've played that series since it launched. GRAW was fairly easy except for a few dumb ones.

What about Kameo, Condemned, King Kong, Gun, Amped 3, Hitman, Oblivion, Tomb Raider, Just Cause, Phantasy Star, Need For Speed Most Wanted, Forza, Test Drive, Fuzion Frenzy 2, Crackdown, etc.. All early games with easy achievements. Compare newer versions to older ones. Check any of the Need for Speeds compared to the early, and easy Most Wanted. Compare Fight Night Rd 4 to Rd 3. Compare ANY of the sports titles now to the early, and extremely easy earlier ones.

I think it goes both ways. I think some have got more achievements, but easier. It may seem to me that some of the newer games are alittle tougher because the games have so many achievements now compared to before, you have to play them longer to get them all. But thats just my opinion.

maybe there is a balance. the older games had less achievements but today it seems like a way for the developers to lazily add replayability to the games, therefore adding more easy points. I see you didnt get 1000 dead rising acheivements, lol

I still don't know what to make of all this but your gamer score isn't godly or anything, your friends' score is just crap for someone who's been playing a year.

Do i think you're an achievement wh***? No. An Achievement junkie? No. An achievement hunter? Slitghtly. But mostly do i think you're a thread seeker? Yes.

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[QUOTE="BLAS1AN"]

sports games have always had easy points. earlier games like Gears, GRAW 1 and2, dead rising, geometry wars: retro, FEAR, project gotham, lost planet. older games required you to finish missions or campaigns without dying. GTA a fairly recent blockbuster hit game has easy points. i played transformers and the acheivements pop up constantly after every mission.

BLAS1AN

It all comes down to what you think is easy or not i guess. Compare Transformers you played to King Kong. I thought Dead Rising, GRAW, and PGR were easy achievements. But i thought Dead Rising was easy because i loved the game so much and played the crap out of it. PGR was easy because i've played that series since it launched. GRAW was fairly easy except for a few dumb ones.

What about Kameo, Condemned, King Kong, Gun, Amped 3, Hitman, Oblivion, Tomb Raider, Just Cause, Phantasy Star, Need For Speed Most Wanted, Forza, Test Drive, Fuzion Frenzy 2, Crackdown, etc.. All early games with easy achievements. Compare newer versions to older ones. Check any of the Need for Speeds compared to the early, and easy Most Wanted. Compare Fight Night Rd 4 to Rd 3. Compare ANY of the sports titles now to the early, and extremely easy earlier ones.

I think it goes both ways. I think some have got more achievements, but easier. It may seem to me that some of the newer games are alittle tougher because the games have so many achievements now compared to before, you have to play them longer to get them all. But thats just my opinion.

maybe there is a balance. the older games had less achievements but today it seems like a way for the developers to lazily add replayability to the games, therefore adding more easy points. I see you didnt get 1000 dead rising acheivements, lol

LOL. That's true. But there's a reason for it. 2 of the 3 last achievements i have are "Survive for 5 days" and "Survive for 7 days". There was a glitch in the game when it launched that caused the game to freeze if you went into a certain area of the mall. After 3 or 4 tries i gave up with the game freezing after playing for hours. It's since been fixed with a patch, but i haven't had the passion to go back and do it again. And i was actually in the middle of the "Escort 7 females" achievement when i stopped playing it. Not sure why. Must have been another game that came out?

What is a thread seeker? I made a thread, but since no one thinks I am what my friend told me I don't know what his problem is.

I have 4 games, CoD4, Dead Space, Halo 3, and RE5. I loved RE5, I was pretty much obsessed with it, until I got all the achievements, there wasn't much I could do anymore, I played some random levels I liked but It was boring playing with one person. For CoD4, I only just recently tried to beat Veteran but I never tried before because I had xbox live, now since I don't I tried to get all the achievements. For Dead Space, That was is really awesome, I beat it 3 times, I only need one achievement, I didn't even try to get most of them, except for the last one I need push 5 enemies into a gravity lift thing, I haven't tried yet.

Halo 3, I beat on Legendary with my brother, I got like 500 GS, and the rest were random online ones when I had live.

So that's about 3500 gamerscore, plus the 500 from arcade, so add another 3000 from games I borrowed, or played at friends houses.

But I will admit that the only reason I recover my account is to get achievements, but also to play on my own account, I mean, now it wouldn't matter if I recovered because I can't go on xbox live, but if we don't have to, I recover it just to get achievements I guess. I like to earn stuff while I play, I like to earn achievements for other people too, not just myself, if I'm on my friends account I try to get achievements for them.

i got more then 10 thousand already , have the oppertunity to get well over 20k

i dont get this message fully... but playing games for achievements will get boring. you have to play a game because its fun not for gamerscore.

Ok so I have like 3 games for xbox that I own, 2 of them I got 1000/1000, one of them I have 995/1000

And so I went to my friends house and transferred my account over, I don't have xbox live btw. So we played rockband and I told him there should be an achievment wehre you only use the solo buttons the whole song and get 100%, so I looked and I said there one where you 100% and one wehre you 100% a song, so I said ok, watch me get 100% on this song only using the solo buttons, then he said that's because you're an achievenment *****.

I just ignored him after that, I think he's jealous I almost have as much gamerscore as him. I have around 7000 gamerscore just from playing different games and borrowing games and such, he has 8000 and he has had his xbox for like a year, and I had mine for 3 months.

Am I or is he just jealous?

gotdangit

[QUOTE="gotdangit"]

Ok so I have like 3 games for xbox that I own, 2 of them I got 1000/1000, one of them I have 995/1000

And so I went to my friends house and transferred my account over, I don't have xbox live btw. So we played rockband and I told him there should be an achievment wehre you only use the solo buttons the whole song and get 100%, so I looked and I said there one where you 100% and one wehre you 100% a song, so I said ok, watch me get 100% on this song only using the solo buttons, then he said that's because you're an achievenment *****.

I just ignored him after that, I think he's jealous I almost have as much gamerscore as him. I have around 7000 gamerscore just from playing different games and borrowing games and such, he has 8000 and he has had his xbox for like a year, and I had mine for 3 months.

Am I or is he just jealous?

chaoz-king

LOL! I've got mine for a year and a half as well and I've got only around 4500 GS :)

I'm somewhat of one. I won't go buy a game that has 5 achievements to get just to get an easy 1000. (Avatar) But I'll buy a game because I like it and then grind to get the achievements for it. Take Fallout 3 for example. I read all the achievements and I worked on getting those just for the sake of getting em. I'll never play Avatar because I don't really even like the show. So there is no point in even playing it. I think doing that kind of thing, you should be called an Achievement Sellout.

[QUOTE="gotdangit"]So we played rockband and I told him there should be an achievment wehre you only use the solo buttons the whole song and get 100%, so I looked and I said there one where you 100% and one wehre you 100% a song, so I said ok, GamerForca

No I don't like to get achievements to show off I like to get them just for the challenge. So when I get my account I get it to have fun on my account, then I try to get achievements for an extra little bonus.

Like if i'm playing Left 4 Dead at my friends house, we always play expert, I think one of the achievements is, not dying and beating the level on expert, so I try to play expert and not die, it's not like I restart all the way just so I can get that achievement, I just try everytime to get it, if I die, oh well.

I like to get achievements, I don't buy games to get achievements, I don't gloat because I have achievements. Theres just something satisfying about getting an achievement.

I like to "harvest" achievments if you will. Only way you can become this "achievment whore" is if you think you are one.