achievements..what's it about?
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I have had a 360 since launch and played all the best games, yet I cant understand what all this achievement stuff is about. Ok it gives you a gamer score, but is there a prize? or a chart of the highest scoring gamers?
Probably a stupid question, but I could never be bothered to find out.
Probably a stupid question, but I could never be bothered to find out.
I started off with very much the same kind of attitude as Fidgits.
However, in the year or so since I bought my 360, I've found that I've subtlely changed the way I play games - I do now actively seek out achievements. Perhaps it's heightened by a degree of informal competition on the S2000 owners board I frequent where someone compiles weekly score updates and a league table of who has what.
Some achievements are just too much hassle to be doing with - especially those games that require lots of online multiplayer gaming, and even worse those that require you to win online games, which is a barrier when you're as crap as me!
- so I don't even try but I do tend to look at the achievements list before I start playing a game and see how I can pick them up.
They're addictive.....
But in answer to the OP's question, it's just a way of showing what you've managed to accomplish in playing games. There's no competition per se.
However, in the year or so since I bought my 360, I've found that I've subtlely changed the way I play games - I do now actively seek out achievements. Perhaps it's heightened by a degree of informal competition on the S2000 owners board I frequent where someone compiles weekly score updates and a league table of who has what.
Some achievements are just too much hassle to be doing with - especially those games that require lots of online multiplayer gaming, and even worse those that require you to win online games, which is a barrier when you're as crap as me!
- so I don't even try but I do tend to look at the achievements list before I start playing a game and see how I can pick them up. They're addictive.....
But in answer to the OP's question, it's just a way of showing what you've managed to accomplish in playing games. There's no competition per se.
I'm not into the whole gamer score thing at all, for a long time all the achievements I had were on Gears of War as I played through it on the 3 levels of difficulty as well as helping friends through on co-op, and so soon racked up 750 points on that game alone with some being online play too. I tend to play against the guys on here and other forums/friends in player matches instead of ranked which you need to be in to get some of the achievements, but to me I play the games because I like playing them, not to simply rack up my score like some who download titles such as "bigears goes fishing" which throws 1000 gamer points at them by simply playing the game for half an hour (i.e. it's meant for a 2 year old)...
Hopefully my attitude will stay the same, as I don't want to become a point whore...
Hopefully my attitude will stay the same, as I don't want to become a point whore...
Steve Evil said:
They are there to demonstrate how much of a better person I am than all of you.
Kotaku said:
# Since Xbox Live's inception, there's been 2,300,000,000 hours spent playing games on the network. Which is 95,000,000 days. Which is 260,000 years.
# 2,000,000 text and voice messages are sent over the service every day.
# Average number of gamers on your friends list? 22.
# Nearly 300,000,000 achievement points have so far been unlocked. Which adds up to a collective, hivemind-esque gamerscore of 7,500,000,000.
See? Silly numbers. When, at the dying of the sun, High Priestess Xanthorg remarks upon mankind's most lasting achievements before all known existence is extinguished in a celestial furnace, surely she will speak of the 260,000 years we spent playing Xbox Live.
# 2,000,000 text and voice messages are sent over the service every day.
# Average number of gamers on your friends list? 22.
# Nearly 300,000,000 achievement points have so far been unlocked. Which adds up to a collective, hivemind-esque gamerscore of 7,500,000,000.
See? Silly numbers. When, at the dying of the sun, High Priestess Xanthorg remarks upon mankind's most lasting achievements before all known existence is extinguished in a celestial furnace, surely she will speak of the 260,000 years we spent playing Xbox Live.
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