Comments on: Achievements: The Future Of Gaming, or the End Of An Era. http://oxcgn.com/2007/12/24/achievements-the-future-of-gaming-or-the-end-of-an-era/ More Than Just Gaming News Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:58:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: tizmagik http://oxcgn.com/2007/12/24/achievements-the-future-of-gaming-or-the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:17:16 +0000 http://xboxoz360.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/achievements-the-future-of-gaming-or-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-269 I love achievements. I have spent more money on this generation of gaming than I ever have combined. Achievements are definitely one of the selling points, but I will only buy games that have long replay value; the rest I will rent, and how fun I think the achievements will be is definitely a part of the decision of what titles to rent next ;)

]]> By: DarkArmada http://oxcgn.com/2007/12/24/achievements-the-future-of-gaming-or-the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:06:57 +0000 http://xboxoz360.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/achievements-the-future-of-gaming-or-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-247 Nice read there Sutton – I totally agree… I love achievements, but I hate what it has done to me as a gamer. We may as well call it eCrack… :P

]]> By: steviethek http://oxcgn.com/2007/12/24/achievements-the-future-of-gaming-or-the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:58:11 +0000 http://xboxoz360.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/achievements-the-future-of-gaming-or-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-243 Interesting!

It seems analogous to fantasy sports teams/leagues. You start to care more about the performance of your OWN team, instead of the game/sport itself.

One could argue for or against, but it certainly adds to the overall interest in gaming, which has to be considered a positive.

]]> By: sithlordjim http://oxcgn.com/2007/12/24/achievements-the-future-of-gaming-or-the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:12:33 +0000 http://xboxoz360.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/achievements-the-future-of-gaming-or-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-224 Good read. Yeah I do enjoy the fact that they can sometimes have you trying to do something you might not normally do or playing a way you might not normally.

I find that it has unfortunately made me more hesitant to play games on other consoles as its not going to unlock anything for me. Sad times, but it was definately a smart move for microsoft.

]]> By: dkpatriarch http://oxcgn.com/2007/12/24/achievements-the-future-of-gaming-or-the-end-of-an-era/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:30:43 +0000 http://xboxoz360.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/achievements-the-future-of-gaming-or-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-223 Good topic. When I started playing the 360 I was not concerned with achievements. I played pretty much like I always did. I even bragged in one Xbox forum thread that I would reach 10 000 points before mid-year without ever trying to get them. When I started King Kong and didn’t enjoy it, I stopped; I didn’t keep going to get the easy 1000.

Now, though, I check the achievements list for how I should play a game: Half Life 2: return a grenade and blow up thrower….5 points. Find 10 Masayf Assasin’s flags 10 points. The bigger my score the more I wanted to go higher. I’m not competing with anyone…just want to have my score go up. So I started setting targets: 15, 000 by Christmas.

This is ridiculous and worse I’m doing some tasks (like those flags) that are not that fun, just to try and get the points. Worse still I get angry at games that give the most points to those ONLINE multiplayer tasks that I don’t play as a silver member. It doesn’t motivate me to play online, it just pisses me off at the game.

And I shouldn’t care. So I’m trying to return to the days when I didn’t look at the achievement list to see how to get more points, and just got them automatically the way I enjoyed playing a game.

Mind you….some of the chasing points tasks have given me a new way of approaching gameplay which have been interesting. A good example is Dead Rising.

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