Achievments in PC Games

[Barrichello]

I play Day of Defeat (DOD) allot on the PC and the achievement's always produce a "grats/nice one" from other players in game (especially the more difficult ones to get) i do not think they subtract from the game at all, although personally i never really set out to get them (especially as some need crazy amounts of game time i can not commit) so more of a surprise if achieved than a long grind for them.

[finlay666]

Also I would like to see the ability on more games for PC gamers to play Xbox gamers online and vice versa on games that dont give a advantage to one platform, Anything bar FPS really.

They did it with a strategy game.... consoles got pwned

alternative is to force both to use a controller of some kind instead of keyboard + mouse

[Platinum]

Like I say though only do it on games where one platform doesn't have a advantage over a other, driving games are a perfect example, sports games would work as well.

[Terbinator]

You cant beat saying to people ive 1000'd CoD4, yes that includes the MHC achievments

[chuckskull]

The mechanic itself is a good one, but it needs to be incorporated right into the game or it adds nothing.

I don't want an achievement for finishing the tutorial, or the first level, or the second...

They need they to add something to the game, reward skill, not grinding. If they don't provide a fun challenge or at least some entertainment, then it's nothing but a pat on the head from a glorified calculator for doing something you were going to do anyway because you already paid 40 quid for the privilege.

[GheeTsar]

I like them when it's not intrusive (ie: Steam based ones), but I dislike having to run G4W to get them.

Sometimes I have achievement OCD, but mostly I'm too impatient and move onto the next game!

[dangel]

Doesn't interest me tbh - smacks of willy wagging for gamers Still whatever shakes your tree n'all that but their inclusion isn't significant enough to annoy me. I suppose it's a logical extension of high scores from the days of yore. TBH I'm lucky to get the time to play games to their conclusion, let alone spend ages trying to get every merit badge on offer. They certainly don't inspire me to reply things - that'd be just a good game in the first place - although I quite enjoy replaying things occasionally with hacks in place to see what all the upgrades etc are like.

[badman_mo007]

I initially was hooked on the concept of achievements but its slowly becoming less important to me, although lately im begining to feel an urge to get a platinum trophy on a PS3 game. Dont know why just coz it would look uber kool on my gamecard, as iv never seen anyone with one ;-P

[jonathan_phang]

I think it depends - as stated before, I like achievements to be meaningful, and whats more important to me is that certain achievements will make me replay a game in a manner which I may not have done, even if I wanted to replay the game anyway. For example, there are games which have a good/evil slant for your character, and I always tend to be good (because I'm nice )

However, when I tried to get some of the evil achievements it made me have to choose certain paths, which meant I was exposed to missions/people/weapons that I wouldnt have been.... The achievement itself isnt that important tbh, but just a mechanism to guide you.

Which is basically a long way of saying what someone else has already said

[hybry]

I like achievements but I agree to people that have said that it depends on the implementation. I hate the ones which give you achievement for natural game progress (completing a level, etc). These achievements should be achievements which means that you went out of your way to achieve them. like in on of the HL2 episodes where you had to carry the gnome form the beginning of the game to the end in order to send him in space.

[MrPink]

I've never seen the point of them. A lot of them you just get for doing something boring and repetitive. I don't want to complete menial tasks for no other reason than to tick them off a list.

[watforddude]

I dont even know how to look at bloody achivements ive done on MW2, im a noob to steam.

[jim]

Answer: It's a real PITA to find achievements in Steam

[watforddude]

Where can i see them then? or are they that hidden?

[jim]

Right, at home now so I can check. The way I do it is:

Community tab
View my profile
View all games
*Scroll down to game*
View stats
Personal Achievements

And it's as simple as that*!

*say over 80% of CERN employees, on finding Steam achievements and the LHC

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Achievements, done well, serve as an excellent motivator to keep playing a game past "the end", by presenting formalized post-game challenges to approach & overcome

disagree but to each to their own. The storyline and gameplay is what brings me back to a game not achievements.

i honestly dont care about achievements. i play games for fun and at my own pace and level. Any achievements i get along the way are purely accident