Achieve This!

Xbox 360 Achievements, we’ve all got  an opinion on them.
Love them or hate them, want them or need them they’re a part of every 360 owners gaming experience.

Some say they’ve spoiled the way we play our games, putting too much effort into unlocking achievements instead of just playing the game and enjoying it.
I can imagine these people in a supermarket queue tutting at the 13 yr old behind them who’s spending his birthday money on the latest cartoon game saying “When I was your age, we played games for fun, they took about 20 minutes to load and the only button we had was fire.”

Then of course you have the Score Whores, who’ll play anything for points or maybe just the warm fuzzy feeling they get from the Achievement Unlocked sound.

The most boring experience I ever had on Live was running around Roadhouse on Prey with some dude taking it in turns to kill each other to unlock achievements, I think I gave him five kills before I went rogue and blasted him.

Personally for me, I love them. I like having a score, it’s mine I earned it.
 I like comparing games with friends and other Xbox Livers but most of all I love the fact that it’s a record of all the good times I’ve had on my favourite games. I can remember how I was feeling on my favourite ones and if I worked my butt off to get them or if they were a nice surprise.

I spent hours of my life on Wipeout Fusion on the PS2 a good five or six years ago loving every minute – unlocking every race, map and challenge, I can’t even remember what they were called now….um there were cool weapons and there was a yellow ship wasn’t there?!