Trophies / Achievements

[ace]

Anyone else care about them a little too much? I know they're worthless, but yet I get so much satisfaction every time I hear that little "ding" for getting one. I've never Platinumed a game though, because they are often too time-consuming (collect every feather from AC2 comes to mind), but if all I have to do is use only a shotgun in level 5 of Game X to get a trophy for it, I will end up doing it.

 

[Eight Times]

I think I have about 10 platinum on the Xbox 360 (well, the platinum equivalent). But all on very easy games.

shaunhurle if you fancy adding me Ace, also same for PS3, although I barely have any trophies on that.

 

[dkw]

I try and get the achievements, but dont go mental for them like some do. I even read somewhere some people download other players completed game saves to get all the achievements without playing the game, how pathetic is that?

 

[Cam]

If I get them in the course of playing the game how I want to play the game, good, but frankly it doesn't bother me.

Like, there's plenty of achievements you get for doing menial things, like sharing something, or uploading something...if I don't feel the need to do them, I don't.

Though, I went along time without playing games online....in fact, this was the first Fifa I have used online play (I was forced into it because I found single player too boring)...so I've naturally accrued more achievements through that online, and I will certainly play more games online from now on.

 

[Benji]

For me it all depends on the game. If its a game I've been looking forward to playing for months then yeah I'll try and get all the achivs, but if its just a game I brought randomly then I'd probably just be happy getting random achivs and not looking for them.

 

[ace]

I try and get the achievements, but dont go mental for them like some do. I even read somewhere some people download other players completed game saves to get all the achievements without playing the game, how pathetic is that?

That's pretty sad.

With how expensive games are anymore, I usually end up playing through story-based games multiple times. I won't worry about them too much during the first one, but during the 2nd I will alter my gameplay if it's possible to pick up some relatively simple trophies.

If I don't enjoy it though, I don't bother. I noticed that games that offer single-player challenge maps (CoD, Batman, etc.) are still largely ignored by me, even if there are trophies up for grabs.

 

[Zeta]

I've got all but 3 on L4D2. Most of them I just got in the general course of play, though a few I did try quite hard to get because they were quite hard and I wanted them!