I choose xbox because it had a hard drive and I have had far too many memory card problems. I used to own a GC but there weren't too many games I liked. I did really enjoy Custom Robo though. In the end I choose xbox because the gamecube does not meet my standard for gore.
The only thing I dislike about achievements are the whores. There are some who think they know more about a game, or video games in general, because their gamerscore is higher than yours. It also makes no sense when people judge how good you are at a game from your gamerscore for that game.
Other than that, achievements mean nothing to me. They have potential to be funny though, like the half-life 2 achievement for picking up a can and throwing it in the garbage... 5G. As to the original question, I don't think they ruin or make the game any worse.
Both games are monstrously over-hyped. I am going with GTA 4 for being more over-hyped simply because I know that I enjoyed Halo 3 more than I will ever enjoy GTA 4.
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