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by Stephen Laughlin , Long Beach, CA, Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 21:31 (3945 days ago) @ Ragashingo
edited by Stephen Laughlin, Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 21:34

Depends. I most definitely want a Bleep Bloop when I beat Destiny's main stroyline on Legendary or whatever. Same if I search out and find all the clues to whatever major story point. Achievements marking and recognizing that I accomplished something awesome are fine. I also tolerate achievements for doing things the first time. Like when Bungie made an achievement to uploading a video to your fileshare, that was good because it pointed people towards an amazing feature they might not look at otherwise.

The achievements I dislike are the ones that are "unnatural." "Kill 25 enemies in one Matchmaking game with the plasma pistol while surfing on the front of a Ghost on the DLC map that you'll never play because nobody else bought it"… Yeah, no. I'd do away with the "kill 80,000,000 Elites" or "Fire 63 million bullets from the Assault Rifle" or any other long term but mundane "you incremented the number high enough!" achievements too.

If I understand it the 180 will allow for achievements to be added much more easily on the fly. That's going to be good and bad. Bad because we'll surely see many more stupid achievements, but good because we'll see some good ones too. I don't think I ever got it, but I enjoyed when Bungie put in the achievement for killing someone with a flying traffic cone after the youtube video showing it happen totally on accident. Sure people tried and tried to do it right after that… but so what? Responding to awesome things the community does is fine.

I agree for the most part. Definitely not a fan of the high-tier achievements that encourage grinding. I can appreciate that the others serve a purpose and I'm sure most people don't mind. I've just always disliked Live achievements for whatever reason. It seems like an unnecessary layer between the player and the game world, especially if you leave notifications on.

Like visiting a foreign country and every time you go somewhere cool or do anything interesting some dorky guy from the travel agency jumps out of nowhere, yells CONGRATS! and posts about it on your Facebook...Or even worse, like wandering through a new town with your nose firmly stuck in the travel guide book.

Not really a big deal though since the system is easy enough to ignore. It was fun to have a whack at some of the more unique achievements after finishing the Halo games but it always felt better to just go exploring and trying things out on my own.