So over the last couple days, I've been on a quest to get as many achievements as possible in this game (other than the one for all titles....because damn....) and now, as I've just spent an hour in one low level battle spamming the same weak attack to get max GRADE points in minimum time, something that pretty much breaks the game, I realized there is no way I can get all the achievements without doing this (well you COULD but it would easily take several times longer).  There are several ways to break the game, but you really wouldn't resort to any of them if you didn't already know how, but these achievements are sadistic to say the least.  I wouldn't even be doing that if it weren't for that damn fell arm thing making the last boss WAY harder than he would be otherwise.  Now I'm wondering....is this good or bad?  On the one hand, I'm cheating basically.  On the other hand, I'm getting hours and hours of "entertainment" that I wouldn't get otherwise.  I'm torn on this.

the same thing sort of happened with gears2's seriously 2.0 acheivement. people are grinding specific parts of the campaign to get as many kills as possible

"So over the last couple days, I've been on a quest to get as many achievements as possible in this game (other than the one for all titles....because damn....) and now, as I've just spent an hour in one low level battle spamming the same weak attack to get max GRADE points in minimum time, something that pretty much breaks the game, I realized there is no way I can get all the achievements without doing this (well you COULD but it would easily take several times longer).  There are several ways to break the game, but you really wouldn't resort to any of them if you didn't already know how, but these achievements are sadistic to say the least.  I wouldn't even be doing that if it weren't for that damn fell arm thing making the last boss WAY harder than he would be otherwise.  Now I'm wondering....is this good or bad?  On the one hand, I'm cheating basically.  On the other hand, I'm getting hours and hours of "entertainment" that I wouldn't get otherwise.  I'm torn on this."

Arbitrary achievements like that don't hold any meaning to me, when you know that everyone who's got them just used some exploit anyway. I only go for achievements I think are fun, and in most games I don't care at all.

I never go for achievements unless its something that i know i can do already. Anything else just seems stupid and a total waste of time.

Why was this thread bumped?