I have been thinking lately, as a lot of us have, what the next iteration of Microsoft console will be and what it will bring that is new and fresh. Of course they will be sticking with achievements, probably the biggest thing since sliced banana on a Belgium waffle. I'm interested to see what you guys think will be implemented, changed, and transferred.

My prediction is that Microsoft will continue your profile into the next generation. As we all saw from the change to 360, we could recover our gamertags and thus keep our friends and build upon the community of Xbox Live further. Achievements are such a hit these days, even Sony is making it a rule to include them (otherwise known as Trophies).

Which brings me up to speed on my thought process. Will they cater to users who have higher gamerscore completion? A larger gamerscore in general? Reward you with "emblems" (e.g. Gamespot) for your accomplishments? What's cooler than checking out a gamertag and instantly knowing, "Hey that user has 75%+ gamerscore completion, has played 150+ games, and has played for 100 days continuously. He also plays more shooters than anything else and is a top scorer on the Contra leaderboards."

Overall I just want to see more involvement in the achievement process. As a completionist I choose to 100% a lot of games, despite how agonizing it can sometimes be. Games with no community, or just generally difficult multiplayer achievements often have people like us "boosting" the achievements. As a large part of the Xbox community, there should be universal leaderboards involving gamerscore and such.

I am looking forward to see what Microsoft has in-store.

Man, It'd be funny as hell if MS just dropped achievements. Oooooh man I'd laugh so damn hard.

But yeah, I think it'd be cool if they put some kind of emblems system in.

Oh yeah, forgot to say that I'd like to see some Achievement-Avatar integration in the future.

I'd just like there to be a higher purpose for achieving than there is now, as they're currently there for bragging rights and nothing more. It'd be nice to have some sort of competition to them, with the winner receiving Microsoft points, or themes/gamepictures, i.e First to 1000 on COD: Modern Warfare 2

I realy liked the idea of avatar upgrades from getting achievements/gamerscore, I just dont like that  you cant see what people have gotton on games, there should also be  bonuses for getting perfect 1000 points on games.
Also I want more/better games using the avatars
Oh and the idea of spending gamerscore sounded cool even in they would never do it.

isn't embalms like trophies then? MS should keep making Sony catch up to them and not the other way around.

"isn't embalms like trophies then? MS should keep making Sony catch up to them and not the other way around."

I deleted my Xbox LIVE account when I knew I wouldn't e getting a 360 for a while, bought one a few weeks back and began the amazing journey into gamerscores. I really don't know why I'm fretting now about balancing my trophy count and gamerscore. What have I become?

Some sort of correlation between achievements and avatars would be incredible. Being able to get the armor from Gears for getting Seriously 2.0 or 1000/1000 or something like that would be awesome. I remember reading somewhere being able to unlock a guitar or something by completing some GH:WH achievement.

I think you have a good idea with the "badges"...basically take 360voice.com's idea and integrate it into the service itself (Streaks, completion, etc)

They need to take what the site "live eye" did (which is tracked how much time users spend on games/dashboard and so on) and put that on the system. I want to know how many hours of  Madden I played last week, last month, and over the entire course of the console.
It's a shame the site went down :(

I dunno, im happy for them not to make it to complicated.

I wouldn't have said it before, but Vinchezo made me realize some of the differences that can result from the next-generation of consoles and achievements. It should be very interesting to see how this all pans out, and I am excited for the future.

I agree with your prediction, Vinchenzo, I think Microsoft will carry over the achievements to the next generation. Perhaps, though, they will separate achievements into "360 achievements" and "(Next Xbox) Achievements" and show your overall achievement score.

I think Microsoft have to carry over old profiles otherwise there would be a huge backlash.

"I think you have a good idea with the "badges"...basically take 360voice.com's idea and integrate it into the service itself (Streaks, completion, etc)"

"I dunno, im happy for them not to make it to complicated.

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"I wouldn't have said it before, but Vinchezo made me realize some of the differences that can result from the next-generation of consoles and achievements. It should be very interesting to see how this all pans out, and I am excited for the future."

"I agree with your prediction, Vinchenzo, I think Microsoft will carry over the achievements to the next generation. Perhaps, though, they will separate achievements into "360 achievements" and "(Next Xbox) Achievements" and show your overall achievement score.
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"I think Microsoft have to carry over old profiles otherwise there would be a huge backlash."

I don't see how they have a choice.  I can't see myself starting over from 0 points.  I worked my ass off getting over 50,000 and there is no way I'm starting over, especially if I know even THAT score will eventually be irrelevant in the same way.

Bananas on a Belgian waffle? That sounds really good right now.

In terms of achievements, I'd hope that we don't have to wait until the next iteration of the Xbox for some updated achievement features. One I want and see as an inevitability is actually being rewarded with something after reaching some set amount of gamerscore or something. I can see them rewarding people with Avatar clothing, things like Master chief helmets and chainsaws seem likely, I wouldn't mind receiving a small amount of Microsoft points as a reward but I see it as very unlikely. 

"Man, It'd be funny as hell if MS just dropped achievements. Oooooh man I'd laugh so damn hard. "

I think as long as there is Xbox Live there will be achievements which will basically stay the same. Like others have said, if the points tied in with maybe avatar clothing items, that would be cool.

i think maybe a rank for gamer score. and for every time you rank up you receive some form of downloadable stuff. i also would enjoy some emblems or indictation in your gamercard. say like a rank insignia

I personally like the idea PSN is doing with trophy levels, where you level up as you get more and more trophies.  Getting that level higher is the one thing that makes me want to keep getting trophies.

I really doubt this will happen, but I would like to see something akin to the Club Nintendo points. You know, if you hit X amount of points you can get some cool swag. Or you can choose to skip the swag and go for the next points award instead.

let achievements unlock avatar stuff.  That part at least, Jeff got right.  Don't turn it into money that you spend (I don't want to spend my points), but have certain things, features, or whatever get unlocked once you reach certain numbers of points.  Or have each 1000 points give you one gamer buck and spend the gamer bucks.  It all goes back to the fact that I don't want to spend my hard earned points.

I couldn't care less for achievements.

Such a pointless thing, but most people like them so I think they will keep them with a profile transaction.

This is some silly wishful thinking but wouldn't it be awesome if a certain amount of GS points equalled a smaller amount of Microsoft points? For instance, 1000 GS points = 100 Microsoft points. By playing games and completing more achievements you could buy more games! Yeah, I know it's impossible...but one can dream. >_>

Financially it would be a disaster for Microsoft and every other game developer selling their games on XBLA and I'm sure people would find a way to exploit the system somehow. Not to mention that people already play horrible games just because they have easy points, which I find kinda sad. This would only further encourage such behaviour.

At the very least, your Gamerscore will carry over to the next console.  People will be pissed if it doesn't.

ManMadeGod said:

"They need to take what the site "live eye" did (which is tracked how much time users spend on games/dashboard and so on) and put that on the system. I want to know how many hours of  Madden I played last week, last month, and over the entire course of the console.

"I dunno, im happy for them not to make it to complicated.

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The future of Achievements?























Hand Jobs.

Get more PC developers on board, one game every few months is not enough.

I think MS should drop the whole thing, games are meant to be played for fun, not bragging rights.  >_>;;

RIP: Fun