Achievement Unlocked: You Get More Achievements!

RKRigney | November 02, 2008 | Blog | PC XBOX 360

A user-submitted article to SlapStic.com takes a look at the difficulty of achievements that are being presented in newer 360 games, as well as World of Warcraft.

When I bought a 360, I fell in love with it. I played and played and played with achievements in mind, and did the craziest things. I killed 10 people while in the air off the back of a flaming warthog. I knew I was in trouble when I thought "Why would you play a game that didn't have achievements?" That was about the time I moved to PC gaming, which of late has given into this guilty pleasure (I’m looking at you, Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4).

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AznLiquid | November 03, 2008

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This of course raises the question, are achievements supposed to be hard and requiring luck to obtain? Or are they supposed to be easy, like benchmarks?
I think it makes more sense to me when achievements actually require skill, but not luck.

From a Starcraft ladder player's point of view, it's unfortunate that Blizzard has decide to jump on the "achievement points" bandwagon. It starts with WoW, but they are planning to add achievements to SC2 as well. Achievement points really don't reflect someone's skill level, especially if it's related to the number of wins you can get. That really just leads to people "newb-bashing" online and avoiding the better players.
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RabidChinaGirl | November 03, 2008

Sorry if this is irrelevant, but I love your article image. Sure beats a silly cat picture.
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  Final Blade | November 03, 2008
  
  _{But..but..cats are cool and cute.}
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Darknet | November 03, 2008

Achievements are the reason why I prefer to play multiplatform games on my 360 rather than my PS3.

I'm not a huge achievement whore. Honestly, the only times I've ever really reached for achievements was with Halo 3 and Call of Duty 2. Every other time I've just played and whatever I got it playing regularly, I got. If an achievement was easy to get or seemed somewhat in reach I'd go for it.
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  Final Blade | November 03, 2008
  
  _{I don't see how its different to Trophy's hell if that article was right where every trophy we PS3 owners gets means something, then you'll be itching to play PS3 games and Achievements would be nothing more then bragging rights, where as Trophy's would be a real point and cause to have it.}
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    Slumpy monkey | November 03, 2008
    
    Yeah, But achievements are in all 360 games.
    
    Give trophies around half a year and then you can make that statement, even though they still wont hold value either.
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      Final Blade | November 04, 2008
      
      _{And your point is? From what I hear come next year all games, mandatory will be going to support Trophy's within the same time of that system to make trophy's worth it, like getting into beta's or DLC you would have to pay for otherwise. Or couldn't because its only allowed for certain people.}
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    dmf_dynasty | November 04, 2008
    
    I have both systems and getting trophies feels much more rewarding that getting achievements. Plus, you have more of an incentive to get more because the gets you closer to leveling up as well as grabbing a platinum.
    
    Honestly, if Uncharted was on the 360, I never would have went for finishing on Crushing, but knowing I'd get the Platinum pushed me through it.
    
    But yeah, I'd wait until the new year before every single release comes with trophies, probably sooner.
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BANDITO ATTACK | November 03, 2008

i played forza 2 for like 3 months and got about 200 gamer points out of it. :{
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Supernouva | November 03, 2008

Seriously though, some achievements are just straight up impossible or take too much time to get unless you play the game non-stop, such as "Seriously" in Gears of War. And you only get 50G for it. 10,000 kills (not to mention ONLY in online MP) for 50G? Rip off! I better get more than 50G when I get Seriously 2.0 in Gears 2.