Hey everyone, a pretty simple topic really. The question is..Do you care about  Achievements? Like do you go out of your way to obtain them. Myself, I care about them. Like it makes you play though a game again. Just to get them. But I usually get the points by accident. What about you guys? Oh and post your gamerscore as of now. Mine is 8,088.

Oh damn, Sorry guys. I was fixing up the word achievement in the title..and it came out wrong...is there anyway to fix it?

lol, grammar.

I kinda like achievements,it gives you something to else to go for in a game.But i don't really go after them,maybe I will sometimes if I know i'm going to be doing the task at hand anyway.As long as it's fun and it adds value to the game then I'm all for it.

A little bit... little bit.

I don't understand the point really.

But I guess it's something some people get grabbed by and then they can't stop. :-)

Gamerscore: 330

Yeah, im all for achievements. they stretch the replayability of games, and there isn't anything wrong with that.
I'm striving to get 1000/1000 on the Orange Box, so that might be a small hint.

I don't know why, but I always go for achievements even it's a hassle. I care more about % completion in a game than total score though.

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Best title ever.

I will go out of my way to get achievements if it seams posible and I like playing the game

I like achivements. In all my games I like to have somthing extra to do.

When achievements are a natural process, like in left4dead, I love doing them.

Otherwise, it seems detrimental to my experience.  Achievements should be relevant to the game, not farming a task to get a crazy obtainable task that is not really relevant to a GOOD experience.

Had my account frozen before with 6+ achievements, and now I got 6,700+ so yeah, I got about 15,000 in my 360 lifetime.

I don't care about a gamerscore or anything like that, but I do like achievements.

They do enhance my second playthrough of most games, as they often flag cool stuff I might miss.  It's not why I buy games, but given the choice of the same game with them or without, I tend to go for the one with.

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I'm not too bothered about them really, but sometimes I'll try and get a few, just for fun. I don't really play the 360 much anyway.

It's sad when I sometimes have a problem playing a game just for enjoyment... Rather than playing it for achievement points.. :)

Don't care for achievments, waste of time. If I carry on playing a game it is because I enjoy it not becasue I need some more points.

I like them, but I don't obsess over them and try to rent every crappy and Achievement easy game to boost my overall score.

My e-peen is HUMONGOUS.

Depends on how much I like the game and how smart the achievement is.

I'll gladly go for the Halo achievements (skulls, metagame, etc.) but I'm not willing to play 50 ranked games in prey

but I'm not willing to play 50 ranked games in prey

I sort of care for them, I guess. I will go out of the way if I know I can get an achievement, and I worked hours on end to get the Mile HIgh Club achievement, which was very satisfying. My Gamerscore currently rests at about 15,150. I know it will go up soon. Got a lot of games to play.

I care for the unique & fun ones. Its a little incentive to go back and play your past games.

yes, for some reason, not to show off but to keep getting a sense of "achievement" for myself

yes i care achievements about

Yup, I usually go for achievements if they're reachable (i.e. do 50 of this move, kill 25 of this enemy with this kind of weapon, kill 200 stupid pidgeons). But if they're something like "Beat the game on Insane without dieing, while only using your bare fists in 4 hours while doing a handstand" I won't even bother... it starts becoming a chore after that.

To a certain extent, yes. I play to enjoy my games, not to grind achievements. That said, when I do get an achievement I really love it and I think it's great fun to compare the achievements I've unlocked in game X with the achievements my friends unlocked in the same game. But, I never go out of my way to get an achievement if it will adversely affect my enjoyment of the game.

For example:

There is no way in fuck that I was going to try to get Seriously (Gears of War,) Seriously 2.0 (Gears of War 2,) or Mile High Club (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.) I wouldn't waste my breath trying to get an achievement that would cause any inkling of enjoyment I could have with the games in question to go up in flames. However, if an achievement isn't an absurd timesink or of immense difficulty to obtain, I will dedicate some time to pursue the achievement; as long as it is one that I will have fun trying to get, a la Chain Reaction and Wanted (Grand Theft Auto IV.)

Lastly, this is a word to all potential trolls:

The TC made it clear that the grammatical error in the title was a mistake, so don't be an asshat by posting with the sole intention of trying to make fun of him for it. Be nice, guys!

Yes i'm into them, it adds re-playability to games i usually wouldn't do a second playthrough (fallout 3), but i absolutely hate doing achievements like "find x amount of this item"

OMG TC IS IDIOT GRAMMER TARD SHOULD KILL SELF!!!! HATE HATE HATE IDIOT IDIOT IDIOT! Srly tho. I am a fan of the achievements, i wouldnt go as far to say that i care about them...but i do enjoy achieving them.

Lets see 29,000+ gamerscore.  Yeah I guess.  It adds replay value to the game.  I wouldn't go out and rent stupid kids games (Avatar, Cars, Open Season, etc) just for achievements but in games I normally would buy I go through all the difficulties and do things I wouldn't normally do without achievements.

I don't need to get every achievement in a game (I've only gotten 1000 in madden 09) but i deff do play games sometimes and go out of my way to get achievements. It makes it tough when I go back and play a PS2 game. I feel like I have no reason to beat it because I don't get an achievement, wow I guess I do care.

Yes. And now that I and many, many others are somewhat addicted to them... Start making it a mandatory feature for Games for Windows! If F.E.A.R. 2 had them on the PC, I would be purchasing it instead of renting for the 360... wise up M$!

Its okay, I would never go as far as to buy a game just for the achievements. And unless I enjoyed it, I really doubt I'll replay it.

I like achievements because they give the games replay value

I have a question...I enjoy achievements (especially when implemented well), but would you still enjoy achievements if there were no points associated with them? Just the text and nothing else...I know that I personally wouldn't have a problem with it, but how about you...

i love achievements tbh. its the main reason to play games to their full extent

"Yes. And now that I and many, many others are somewhat addicted to them... Start making it a mandatory feature for Games for Windows! If F.E.A.R. 2 had them on the PC, I would be purchasing it instead of renting for the 360... wise up M$!"

Achievements are a nice wee extra, but I'd never kill myself to get them. I'm a bit of a completionist in terms of sub quests and story anyway, so I do tend to get a lot, but I'm not gonna be like 'OMG I need to kill 200000000 zombies to get 15 points', or something. If I get them, I get them. If not, meh. I do like them.

Occasionally, there are achievements which are innovative and fun to go after tho, and those I would tend to seek out. Fable 2 has some great ones, for example. I hate lazy achievements tho. Like Oblivion for the 360 was a big disappointment for such a huge game with such massive potential. Easy to get 1000 in, tho.....

of course, it's a challenge.

I like them and I tend to go out of my way to get them. I only do that with games I like though, and games that I can see myself getting the full 1000/1000 from. I have 19700-something points.

I like them. Sometimes it's nice to have an excuse to play a game all over again, even if it's something as meaningless as getting achievements. I probably would have been done with Dead Rising long before I stopped playing it if it weren't for gamerpoints, and plan on doing a couple more runthroughs of Prince of Persia for the points as well. Comparing achievements and your score with friends is fun, too.

Big fan of them, but I'm not a big fan of collecting like Assassins Creed. If I wanted to go around Collecting shit I'll play Banjo Kazooie. It's pretty sad how some people either glitch or go out and rent Disney games to boost their achivements, even though I'm sitting at 28000 right meow.

I like getting Achievements,but i would'nt play a game i didn't enjoy just for the points.

Depends on the game and how fun or intersting it would be. For example ive got the little rocket man achievment in half-life2 episode 2 because i liked the idea but i probably wouldnt do a complete the game on the hardest difficulty setting (apart from dead space and cod games)