Does the achievements list affect your purchase decision?

I avoid buying games with achievements where the last digit is other numbers than 0 or 5. I also hate having games with less than a 50% completion rate, and I prefer having it over 60%. So if I'm not particularly hyped about a game I might not try it just because of this. Or I buy it on PS3. I never buy games because of how easy the achievements are, only to what degree they are hard or time consuming to earn. I usually look at the completion rates here on giantbomb or playfire to decide that. 
 
I think the main reason for this is because I feel they don't put enough thought into the achievement making, and is as such neglecting us who appreciate the achievements.

The only time I returned a game based on its achievements list was Ridge Racer 6 on 360. That game had terrible, grind-heavy achievements, and it wasn't worth playing the kind of shitty game that long to get them.

I don't normally even look at the achievements until I've beaten the game to see what I got out of it. I rarely go looking for them. It does annoy me though when I play through a game like Space Marine and have barely any points to show for it. I die a little inside.

Nope. Although I do like collecting achievements and hate having a low completion rate, I won't avoid a game just because it has shitty achievements.

Only if it is an old game that I've played before, maybe on another platform. No reason to go through again/buy it if I'm not getting rewarded.

I never look at achievements until I've finished a game.

Not in the slightest, no.

It hasn't yet. 
 
I rarely look at the achievements list before buying a game since they usually contain spoilers anyway.

It doesn't even cross my mind. I stopped caring about achievements a long time ago.

I don't buy a game based on its achievements. Nonetheless, the first thing I do when I plug a game in and pull up the achievements list so I know if there is anything special I should be looking for or doing while I play the game in order to possibly bust an achievement here or there.

For me, achievements should fulfill one of two needs: either offering an idea of progression or an alternative way of tackling a situation. I think that the achievements in Call of Duty: World at War were some of the best I've ever seen personally, as they made you take on all these different situations with a very different thought process. Sniping a guy who is over 100 feet away with a bullet? Killing three guys with one bullet? It's things like that which make me happy because I know that they are offering me something of a challenge. Those challenges aren't always the most difficult things, but they are incredibly satisfying nonetheless.

No. I like achievements, but I don't usually go out of my way to get them.

No, I don't even think about achievements when purchasing games. I'll check the achievements after I go through a game if I like it enough, and look for specific ones first, like beating a game on hard, and if I really like it enough, I'll try to get more. It's mostly there to give me another reason to explore the game more, and it makes me believe I have more knowledge and experience on the game. I try not to use them competitively, though if someone that I know is worse than me at games has more achievements or trophies on a game that I love, I'll wonder why, and probably be slightly (very slightly) miffed, this has only happened a few times though. Anyways! No, I don't really care about achievements and they don't affect my purchase of any game.

Actually, yes they do. If I know from the get go that there are some achievments I wont be able to complete, or that would take a massive ammount of time I often pass on said game.

It use to, but now I just use them to make my experience in a game longer. I generally don't look at a games achievo's until I've beaten it once (unless it's a JRPG, then I guide it up). Rayman Origins is a great example, I am playing it with my wife for my first play through and will eventually be going after the achievements after we're done. Mainly because sitting on a certain level trying to complete them for achievements takes the fun out of the game for me.

No, I usually won't look up achievement lists until I have bought and put in the game. However after that, depending on the list, it may very strongly impact how I play through the game.

No, I don't even think about achievements when purchasing games.

@jakob187: Duder! That is exactly what I do

Nope. Not at all.

No.

One of the reasons I didn't buy the Halo Reach DLC was because it had achievements that ended in numbers that weren't a 5 or a 0.

One of the reasons I didn't buy the Halo Reach DLC was because it had achievements that ended in numbers that weren't a 5 or a 0.

I only look at achievements if I own the game, so no.

@foggel said:

@pantzing_nome said:

One of the reasons I didn't buy the Halo Reach DLC was because it had achievements that ended in numbers that weren't a 5 or a 0.

I'm not alone!

No you're not, in the quick look for the Halo: Reach Noble Map Pack Brad says he's not going to buy it when he sees achievements worth 42 and 13 points.

I don't care about achivments one the xbox because that was one of the reasons why did not stay for too long on that system. 

no, i don't care too much about achievements/ trophies. i just look at easy ones that i can get and go for them. i enjoy the easy the most because they are so easy, get to level XX, beat the game on normal. eventually i will get to that high level and beat the game.

the only time I look at achievements / trophy's is if the game is super bad and if it has easy achievements then I will wait till it gets reduced to the bargain bin then buy it.

At one point it kinda did when I was a whore. Now, I don't give a shit.

No not at all. But I do find that there is a major trend in putting in secret achievements, which you have no idea how to get. I think worst achievements have to be the ones that have you get the number 1 spot on a multiplayer leader board and then for so little reward.

No, definitely not.

Nope. If you play games only for the achievements/trophies you might as well do everyone a favor and plant a bullet in your head, cause then you are fuckin' stupid.

Not really. What it does do is let me try different things I would NEVER do otherwise. Case in point; Beating the High Mile Club mission on Veteran.

No and why would it?

I don't even consider the achievements lists. Don't even know what it is until the game has been purchased or rented from Gamefly.

It did, but now, not so much.

Definitely not. I rarely go for ANY achievements in games, and just let myself gather them naturally. I have never S-ranked a game and probably never will, but I enjoy the play experience.

I thought people that dictated purchases based on achievements were CRAZY but then I bought NFS Carbon and I was enjoying the game for what it was worth until I realized there were barely any single player achievements for it and that completely turned me off from playing it. It did make me feel ashamed a little.

Used to, not anymore.

I guess I'm a crazy person, Half the time I enjoy the meta game of getting the cheevos more then the actual game. I also check out the list before picking a game up. Alas' Ill never get to play 'Pray'. The only problem is I end up pissing away time. Imagine what I could of accomplished in the time it took me to get all the orbs in enslaved or all the jumps and pigeons in GTA?

Nope. If you play games only for the achievements/trophies you might as well do everyone a favor and plant a bullet in your head, cause then you are fuckin' stupid.

All else being equal if a game I want has achievements that are easy to get I'll play it on 360, if they seem hard to get I'll play it on PS3.

@foggel said:

@Castiel said:

Nope. If you play games only for the achievements/trophies you might as well do everyone a favor and plant a bullet in your head, cause then you are fuckin' stupid.

You don't understand the topic.

Okay let me rephrase it then:

Nope. If you purchase games only for the achievements/trophies you might as well do everyone a favor and plant a bullet in your head, cause then you are fuckin' stupid.

Not if its a game a know I want to play....if its a game I'm on the fence about it can have an influence.

Of course not. This guy summed it up best:

@Castiel said:

@foggel said:

@Castiel said:

Nope. If you play games only for the achievements/trophies you might as well do everyone a favor and plant a bullet in your head, cause then you are fuckin' stupid.

You don't understand the topic.

Okay let me rephrase it then:

Nope. If you purchase games only for the achievements/trophies you might as well do everyone a favor and plant a bullet in your head...

I only care about achievements after a game is in my hands. Unless its a downloadable game. Then i might check it out, because that could drastically change the longevity of the game.

Good achievements are always a plus. But bad achievements doesn't make a game bad. If i was planning to buy a game, achievements doesn't change that.

No. 

Unless it's a free 1000G, no

Back when I was really into achievements, I wouldn't play a game if it didn't have a lot of points from the story or easy to get. Since I hit 100k, I've pretty much removed that 'rule' and just play and get whatever I can. I won't lie and say it totally don't matter cause I still like to be rewarded for finishing a level and killing so many xxx. :D