Are Achievements\Trophies important to a game?

Aldurin · 06-21-2010, 03:04 PM

It's more like a casual hobby within video games, unless you misunderstand it and have no life, then it would be an obsession.

My earliest memory of this type of system was "Skill points" in Spyro 2 for PSX. Out of the way stuff that you can do for a feeling of accomplishment.

Which is why I have a beef about achievements/trophies you get for merely completing parts of the main storyline. It should be the stuff you wouldn't normally think of, or something really hard but avoidable.

I only work towards trophies/achievements whenever it's "along the way" or if the required effort doesn't exceed my attention span (I'm not even gonna try for all of the trophies on MAG because the community died down and I estimate hundreds of hours to get certain trophies on that).

06-21-2010, 03:04 PM	#3
Aldurin Lakitu Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 4,648	It's more like a casual hobby within video games, unless you misunderstand it and have no life, then it would be an obsession. My earliest memory of this type of system was "Skill points" in Spyro 2 for PSX. Out of the way stuff that you can do for a feeling of accomplishment. Which is why I have a beef about achievements/trophies you get for merely completing parts of the main storyline. It should be the stuff you wouldn't normally think of, or something really hard but avoidable. I only work towards trophies/achievements whenever it's "along the way" or if the required effort doesn't exceed my attention span (I'm not even gonna try for all of the trophies on MAG because the community died down and I estimate hundreds of hours to get certain trophies on that).