With achievements thats is.
With achievements thats is.
Achievements are undeniably addictive. Sony already plans to follow suit with their "trophies" for your space on their upcoming Home online program. As for Nintendo, they'll probably follow suit about 3 or 4 console generations down the road. Their non-existent online gaming and ridiculous "friend codes" are enough indication that Nintendo just doesn't get it when it comes to doing anything besides making good games.
Let's face it. Achievements only appeal to hardcore gamers, and the Xbox 360 is the console of choice for hardcore games. As an adult with many things on my plate aside from gaming, I just do not have the time or patience for beating a game and completing every small side quest. Back when I was a kid, I would certainly have been totally into achievements. As a console that appeals to the casual gamer, the Wii doesn't really need to have achievements to sell their games. Sony? Well, I certainly imagine they will try to come up with a similar system but at this point I doubt it will help them.
<Evan_G> i keep my games in an inaccessable crate where i can't play them
The Darkness on PS3 has "accomplishments" which aren't as exciting as achievments in the 360 games, but not bad!
I never consider myself a hardcore gamer. Because I only complete 25% of my games and I like sports games. And according to DP members that makes you a casual gamer that is helping destroy the video game market. But I have found myself looking up achievement points in games I play and trying to accomplish as many as I can. Now I have a friend that has 20,000, I on the other hand have 1700. No way am I going to catch him, but we do from time to time help each other out with the newer games.
i couldnt care less. i have about 400 or so.
A friend of mine recently saw my Gamerscore, which is about 2000 at the moment, so nothing special really. He asked me how I got that many points (he´s currently at about 90 points). He´s the prototype of a casual gamer, playing games for fun and only a very few of them. So I have to say that I agree with your post
I play a lot of 360 games but I think I only have something like 1200 achievements. Sometimes I'll try to get them all if it's a Live Arcade game or something like Condemned where you can get every achievement through the natural couse of the game. I don't even bother with multiplayer achievements or anything like that.
One of my co-workers and one of our regular customers are obsessed with the stuff. Whenever the two are in the same room a discussion occurs about who's got the high score in Pac-Man and such.
I love the damn things.
That's not sarcasm. Those points are seriously addictive.
I really enjoy the points, and hope other systems follow suit. I find that it's finally pulling me away from WoW and getting me back into the console scene. I'm playing games I normally would not have played (or had time to play) and am really enjoying the Xbox 360 system.