Achievments - do you play for the points?

download dash of destruction. its free, and all 200 points can be earned within 20 minutes

Not really, no. Occasionally, achievements motivate me to spend time with a game which I otherwise wouldn't have; but other than that, no. Most games I earned about 400-600 points in, for completing the main game and a couple of minor things. I have no 1000/1000 games.

I did play Dash of Destruction for 200 easy points, though. But I feel really bad about it. :P

Hmm, there are some good points.

I just usually feel bad buying more games when I dont have full achievments in all my games (I have yet to get any 1000/1000 most are around the 100-500 points mark depending how many are awarded for single player finishes and whether easy mode gets points such as Halo 3 which I am replaying in normal to get the points for the campaign) but I feel bad wanting things like Mirrors Edge and Gears of War 2 when I have not completed or got all the achievements on all the games I have.

I love achievements.  It's the stupid little sound they make when they unlock.  I'm hooked on it.

i suck at achivement collecting im afraid

I usually try to get 1000/1000, if only to experience every part of the game, but then there's some games that just aren't even reasonable to attempt this.

yes i do

No, I am not a points whore.

Yes, I will go out of my way to get achievements that require more than standard play, although the only game I have the full thousand in is Oblivion (but of course I don't have shivering isles, so that's another 250 right there). 

I have a lengthy answer to your questions, but im not going to rewrite it here.

Achievements have been a good motivator for me to finish games.  For awhile there I would start a game, play 2/3 of it, and move on to the next thing.  After a while it left me uninterested and unsatisfied with games.  So after some solid advice from Garnet Lee, I decided to try to finish every game I start [excluding wipeout HD cause fuck that gets hard] and achievements have been a great way to keep me going with that.  Consequently, i'm not a fan of games that don't give you points for playing through the main story.  Ef that shit.