Re: Getting Tired of Achievements ?
01/21/10 11:23 pm | #25
I agree 100% with the things Mask and Evol said. I've been getting "achievements" in games back since I started playing them. Friends and I would exchange stories about doing weird things, finding everything, or beating certain parts of games.
The way to not get burned out is just to find a nice balance, try not to get too obsessive--every now and then, put in a game you really enjoy even if you already have the 'cheevs or they're almost impossible. When I get sick of grinding in the newer music games I always pop in GH3 just to have fun.
I am definitely sick of DLC achievements; on the one hand I like that it adds a little more "value" and more points in a game you like is always good, but it's annoying when you have some game 100% completed and don't ever intend to touch it again and they come out with DLC that robs you and forks up your ratio.
Online achievements, especially the kind that require ranked matches, are really stupid and pointless for maybe 99% of the games out there. A few months after release, anything that doesn't start with Call of Duty, Halo or Madden is going to be dead as far as online goes which means you have to start scouring forums and bugging people to set up boosting matches.
I really like how Modern Warfare 2 did its Achievements. Most of them are for the campaign and the rest for Spec Ops which you can do with friends, even locally. Having the online component reward you with experience, gear, upgrades and new titles & icons instead of Achievements is a great "progression-reward" model in my opinion.
While I can understand the appeal of getting a "Get to #1 spot in X online leaderboard", and that definitely is an achievement worth bragging about, it doesn't accurately reflect what Xbox 360 Achievements have become, in my opinion at least, which are more about keeping track of game progression and rewarding alternate game play possibilities like only using 1 weapon type in a level or completing a section without killing anyone.
