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Will work for Achievements
JoshDunford | 3:28 PM on 01.22.2008 14 comments




Since I received my 360 all those, two, years ago, I've found that playing the games for the sake of game-play has slowly begun to decline in popularity.

The culprits in question are the nit-picky little things on everyone’s mind as they peruse through a dungeon to find a certain magic rock (that grants no actual magic powers) or shoot 27,345 people in the face from (specifically) 83 yards away using only a handgun.

Achievements; what the hell makes them so addictive?



Personally I’ve found that gaining achievements is a self-gratifying quest. I’m the kind of person who can’t play a game (if you read last post) without getting 100% before completion. I’ve found myself playing other games on other systems, hoping I can hear the satisfying “BLOOP” when I’ve collected 50 gems or killed another Colossus. I’ve succumb to the disease, or as I like to call it; the Achiease.

So ask yourself this: are these tid-bits really necessary? What do they do exactly?

I perused the Xbox Live threads to find an answer, or pose another question. Why NOT make them do more than please ourselves and taunt our friends?



Instead of just gaining pointless points, why not be able to use the unlocked image as a gamer icon? Maybe some day, the accumulated gamer-points could be used to purchase small in game items/content. Chances are slim that these obnoxiously addictive trophies, which I just have to collect, will never do anything else but remind us of what we may never be able to accomplish in life…See: Gears of War: "Seriously…"

-JD



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LarkOhiya's Destructoid Blog
I post on your blog you post on mine. its about brawl!
JoshDunford's Destructoid Blog
@Rorschach

I heard about that somewhere, I Think.


I dont have you on my list...K there we go.

-JD
blehman's Destructoid Blog
Yeah, but if you spent your achievement points, how would you be able to show your e-peen to everyone?
JoshDunford's Destructoid Blog
@Bleh

HYSTERICAL! E-peen?

Goddamn, I hope no one around my cube heard my outburst just then.

Anyway, Your right though, unless it could somehow save your earned achievement points and spent achievement points seperately?

It's a flawed, shitty idea...

-JD
blehman's Destructoid Blog
*sniffs*

I smell sarcasm in your comment...
JoshDunford's Destructoid Blog
No, I was being totally serious!

I've literally never heard nor read the phrase, E-Peen. It's genius.

100% no sarcasm.

-JD
blehman's Destructoid Blog
That's right, you're relatively new to the site. Don't worry, a few e-peens will be thrown around at you sometime during your visits. Especially during FNF.
MrSadistic's Destructoid Blog
I hate achievements, and not because my gamer score is so low and there are so many users on here who have way higher scores than mine... oh lord no that is not why I hate them.
JoshDunford's Destructoid Blog
There are so many games you can sit through in a day and get 1000GP in a few hours or so.

I've actually never completed a game's achievements before though. Gotten quite a bit, but never finished.

Anybody?

Whats 1 or 2 games you've gotten ever achievement with that ISN'T Fight Night Round 3 or King Kong...

-JD
mistic's Destructoid Blog
except for the heath ledger reference, this was a great post :-)
mistic's Destructoid Blog
btw, I offer you 20$ to 1000G GH3 for me! :-)
JoshDunford's Destructoid Blog
Oh, F that bet, sir!

I'm AWFUL at GH...I love Rock band though...The drums are where its at.

-JD
JoshDunford's Destructoid Blog
What Heath Ledger Comment? ;)

-JD


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