Headlines - The lowdown on XNA community games for Xbox 360

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Priced and dated, finally Xbox live arcade users will get to sample the XNA community games developed by hobbyists, students and indie devs.

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[Stewart]

No achievements... 1 less reason to bother paying for them.

[smithy1158]

And why do you need to have achievements to play games??

I think its pretty wrong that you might think that your wasting your time playing at game that doesnt give you a small pat on the back for doing stupid boring things...

[Steve B]

Originally Posted by smithy1158

And why do you need to have achievements to play games??

I think its pretty wrong that you might think that your wasting your time playing at game that doesnt give you a small pat on the back for doing stupid boring things...

Stupid boring things like completing the game?

[Oobie-]

Originally Posted by Stewart

No achievements... 1 less reason to bother paying for them.

Were there achievements in Doom3, Quake 4 and Call of duty?

I reckon you still played them all.

[Zap]

It's a shame that the Achievement system has had this effect on people and the games they play.

[Steven W]

Originally Posted by Stewart

No achievements... 1 less reason to bother paying for them.

I think there's a trick been missed here. If they did have achievements, even if it's only 30-50 per game, the sales would increase because a lot of people love getting points.

[Blademrk]

Originally Posted by Oobie-

Were there achievements in Doom3, Quake 4 and Call of duty?

I reckon you still played them all.

Achievements: no, yes and (assuming your talking about COD 2-4) yes. And out of that list I've played Doom 3 (PC/Xbox), Quake 4 (PC) and COD 2 (360).

If there were no achievements I'd still play them, but achievements do seem to add something to the game.

[CrazyMonkey]

Achievements are lol. I dont need something telling me how good i am doing, i can see that for myself..

[smithy1158]

Originally Posted by Steve B

Stupid boring things like completing the game?

MS has really screwed ur mind lol

Do I really need to remind you why people buy games??
So let me get this right you play games just to do random things like collect non-rewarding items that are spread away from the action or play for hours on a specific game mode getting kills with a **** gun that they put in for looks...

[Stewart]

Originally Posted by Steven W

I think there's a trick been missed here. If they did have achievements, even if it's only 30-50 per game, the sales would increase because a lot of people love getting points.

Of course you are correct. I was not suggesting a game with no achivevments isn't worth playing, simply that, as you said, getting achievements is fun, and there would be more incentive to pay for these games.

I haven't spoke to a single 360 owner who doesn't like the achievements system, let alone thinks they are stupid and boring.

[Stewart]

Originally Posted by smithy1158

MS has really screwed ur mind lol

Do I really need to remind you why people buy games??
So let me get this right you play games just to do random things like collect non-rewarding items that are spread away from the action or play for hours on a specific game mode getting kills with a **** gun that they put in for looks...

No, I play games because I enjoy playing games, and the achievements add to the enjoyment of this.

Do you see?

Pretending that all achievements are dull or boring is simply not true.

If you miss the point and then lie, you will always have a weak arguement.

Have you got a 360 or a PS3?