so i just got doom on the 360....
so i just got doom on the 360....
I just got doom on the 360 and i love it. Cant believe i waited this long to play it. Thing is I love getting achievements but hating getting online achievements. my question is will some one let me kill you 50 times in a deathmatch so i will never have to play deathmatch again?
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RyaNtheSlayA
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yes when i had a 360 and use GamesforWindows LIVE. Suprisingly enough I havent felt that way w/ the trophies yet (there is only one game that supports them after all). You just get bronze, silver, gold, and platinum and u advance through "levels". Mabe im just not the "achievment whore" that i used to be. Yea Doom was fun, too bad it hasnt come to PSN yet, oh well we still got the PS1 classics as well as all the arcade and downloadable games.Ack wrote:Honestly, I'm not a big fan of the achievement system. Whenever I play a 360 game, it always feels like I'm just working towards those instead of enjoying the game. Does anybody else get that feeling?
Glad you're enjoying Doom though. Good to know it came out well.
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Droid party
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I only bought a 360 over the weekend. What is the point behind the achievement system?
JT wrote:Yeah, like vampire aliens invade and hit us all with a ray beam that paralyzes all of our arms. The only way to deactivate the ray beam and fight back the vampire alien threat is with a complicated series of foot patterns on the device's control board that looks remarkably like a DDR pad. We will all praise this man for saving our lives and buy him a mountain of stuffed animals.
Just show em off to your friends. They are pointless but I love to work towards them. Some games they are fun to get like Crackdown, other suck like avatar. I try to have half of the GS points per game, sometimes I get more sometimes I get less.Droid party wrote:I only bought a 360 over the weekend. What is the point behind the achievement system?
Any one willing to help? Ill return the favor!
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Gamerforlife
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I like achievement points. It can be a nice show of your skill, or just a way to show that you truly have played a game in its entirety. I also love the idea of players getting a nice pat on the back and a little badge of honor for their accomplishments. It adds a little extra feeling of reward as you play through the game. Unlike some gamers, I like getting achievements but don't actually care too much about my Gamerscore. I mean I enjoy seeing it go up, but it's not like there's some maximum score to shoot for, and someone will always have a higher score than you anyway.
I hate online achievements, and in the future I plan on avoiding games that support them. Since you MUST have Xbox Live gold, essentially you have to PAY for these achievements, which is lame. It's fine for something like Halo, since anyone buying that is obviously buying for the multi-player, but I hate buying a good single player game that has some half-assed multi-player mode(like Stranglehold)and expects me to waste my time(and money) on it if I want all the achievements for that game.
Co-op achievements are also annoying to me because they are pointless. How is getting someone to play a game with you an accomplishment? I've got all the achievements for TMNT arcade except two that require me to get a Gold account and get someone to simply play the game with me and finish it. That's lame, playing a game on co-op is not an accomplishment, and I don't want to pay money for a Gold account, when I could use that money to buy another game instead.
I have to mention how much I hate Capcom right now, as their games have the most annoying achievements known to man and trying to get them takes away from your enjoyment of the game rather than adding to it. Dead Rising has a 7 day survivor achievement that requires you to play survivor mode for 14 hours straight without dying, and with no saves or check points. Any sadistic bastard who can come up with an achievement like that should have a special place in hell reserved for them. Then there's that stupid Bloody Palace bullshit in Devil May Cry 4 but I digress
What I think every game should start doing is giving players rewards for their achievements like Mass Effect does. They actually unlock gameplay bonuses that apply to a new game from scratch or a new game plus. It's very cool. Then nobody could say that achievements are pointless
I hate online achievements, and in the future I plan on avoiding games that support them. Since you MUST have Xbox Live gold, essentially you have to PAY for these achievements, which is lame. It's fine for something like Halo, since anyone buying that is obviously buying for the multi-player, but I hate buying a good single player game that has some half-assed multi-player mode(like Stranglehold)and expects me to waste my time(and money) on it if I want all the achievements for that game.
Co-op achievements are also annoying to me because they are pointless. How is getting someone to play a game with you an accomplishment? I've got all the achievements for TMNT arcade except two that require me to get a Gold account and get someone to simply play the game with me and finish it. That's lame, playing a game on co-op is not an accomplishment, and I don't want to pay money for a Gold account, when I could use that money to buy another game instead.
I have to mention how much I hate Capcom right now, as their games have the most annoying achievements known to man and trying to get them takes away from your enjoyment of the game rather than adding to it. Dead Rising has a 7 day survivor achievement that requires you to play survivor mode for 14 hours straight without dying, and with no saves or check points. Any sadistic bastard who can come up with an achievement like that should have a special place in hell reserved for them. Then there's that stupid Bloody Palace bullshit in Devil May Cry 4 but I digress
What I think every game should start doing is giving players rewards for their achievements like Mass Effect does. They actually unlock gameplay bonuses that apply to a new game from scratch or a new game plus. It's very cool. Then nobody could say that achievements are pointless
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RyaNtheSlayA
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Well if your simple minded you will become an Achievment whore and buy bad games just for the gamerscore but if you have a slightly higher IQ than most people on Xbox-LIVE (its true and although i hate to admit it Sony's online is becoming the same way, perticularely in COD4) it can be an enjoyable experience that can push you to play the game to its fullest. It is a very satisfying feeling, as long as you dont become a whore like I had when I had a 360Droid party wrote:I only bought a 360 over the weekend. What is the point behind the achievement system?
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I always enjoyed the Achievements. You never really felt too pressured to get them and added a surprising amount of replayability. The achievements where you needed gold were annoying and I think every game should just not have those. My brother on the other hand was obsessed with achievements. He had a subscription to gamefly and would get sports games just because it was easy to get 1000 points out of them. He was determined to get as many achievements in as many games as possible no matter how shitty those games happened to be.
On regards to Dead Rising and Survival mode I have a tale of woe. Dead Rising is my favorite game on the 360 and I was determined to get everything. But I never thought it possible to even survive past two days let alone five or seven but when I heard that you acquired a laser sword for getting five day, well my interest was piqued. So one night I decided I would do it. It would take around 10 hours but by golly I was gonna do it. So I got all of the health magazines, filled my inventory with food, and waited. It wasn't very hard once you got in the rhythm of it. Fill your inventory with food, wait about an hour or so while healing yourself, find a boss to kill to get more food, repeat. Well finally I had made it on the fourth day, not much to do now but wait. But I wanted to play around because I was so happy that I was going to make it so I headed to the food court. Sadly it was not to be, a loading screen came up but it never went away. The game froze. I just stood there(yes I was standing in shock)and watched as my brother laughed on and on. I still have nightmares to this day.
On regards to Dead Rising and Survival mode I have a tale of woe. Dead Rising is my favorite game on the 360 and I was determined to get everything. But I never thought it possible to even survive past two days let alone five or seven but when I heard that you acquired a laser sword for getting five day, well my interest was piqued. So one night I decided I would do it. It would take around 10 hours but by golly I was gonna do it. So I got all of the health magazines, filled my inventory with food, and waited. It wasn't very hard once you got in the rhythm of it. Fill your inventory with food, wait about an hour or so while healing yourself, find a boss to kill to get more food, repeat. Well finally I had made it on the fourth day, not much to do now but wait. But I wanted to play around because I was so happy that I was going to make it so I headed to the food court. Sadly it was not to be, a loading screen came up but it never went away. The game froze. I just stood there(yes I was standing in shock)and watched as my brother laughed on and on. I still have nightmares to this day.