Ever heard that before? Or something similar to it?? What about looking through some forums and spotting something like THIS??

You know I never understood the whole achievement hysteria that everybody and their Grandma shares. It's funny... a little gray blimp with the words Achievement Unlocked appears and gamers unload in their pants. Maybe it's cause I'm old but I remember playing games just to play them. I didn't need the game to choreograph specific snippets to adhere to so I could have fun with a game. The whole gamescore thing is like the equivalent of " Who's got the biggest balls?". But unfortunately when the system is broken by game developers that give you achievements for nothing other than start a game up, than even "Who's got the biggest Balls" analogy doesn't even work here. More like "Who's the biggest loser to rent King Kong and pad there score??"

Now some would argue that it's not the score just the virtual attaboy-ness of it. In that regard I can see that. My kids flip out like monkees in heat when they see that gray blimp and they could care less about their score. But if we must have them at least remove them from Multiplayer Modes. They're ruining games for people who just want to play a game online for fun. When Gears came out before they patched the game..you had online RANKED rooms just full of losers choreagraphing matches just to get achievements. This has become more and more prominent now.



When you have teamplay modes online and you can't even enjoy them because some loser wants to receive an individual Achievement it sucks to high heaven. But really I can't even fault the people who do this too much. It's the game developers who actually cripple their own online modes by including these moronic achievements in their own multiplayer modes. What are they thinking??

Thankfully you got games stepping up and removing them from multiplayer altogether. Call of Duty 4 doesn't have any Achievements for their online modes. Good for them. Halo 3 does though but they have them at a paltry 5 points apiece. But really they should just get rid of them.

Am I the only one that thinks they need to be gone from Multiplayer??