fumanstan

Oh, I never doubted people's obsessiveness, even a few on this forum. Doesn't make it any sillier to me. I'd feel better about it if it meant people buying more games, but I know discostu contributes very little to the actual developer/publisher pocket through rented and used games, so i'm less on board with the cause

chuckd21

High scores mean nothing in the real world.
Finishing a game means nothing in the real world.
Turning your game console on means nothing in the real world.

People play games for different reasons.

Supermallet

Yes, but what I'm saying is that some of those reasons are stupid.

Decker

Giving man a virtual fish is stupid,
Teaching a man to virtually fish ... yeah, I see your point now.

slop101

At the risk of sounding judgmental, these are some miserably sad people who need to seriously re-evaluate their lives.

discostu1337

The simple act of playing the game doesn't mean anything in the real world. Why does the ability to gain achievements in said game qualify outside of that box?

Your logic is flawed

chuckd21

Bunch of haters up in here. You're all on blast.

Supermallet

Playing games are a form of entertainment. I guess you could say that getting achievements is a form of entertainment, and that's fine, but to actively avoid playing a game because you can't complete all the achievements? That's just crazy pants.

discostu1337

Hey! They get exactly what they would get from me anyways...nothing. I simply would not be playing the game if renting/GameStop/borrowing were not options.

I do buy quite a few games thank you very much. Just as long as they are worthwhile titles

Dan

jmanlakerfan

A dumb question for you midnight launch experts.

I now have about $ 300 in gift cards that I didn't have when I placed my pre-order. Can I bring them in at midnight with the credit card I have on my order. I don't know midnight protocol. This seems really obvious to me but wanted to be sure before I got in there.

Deftones

i know with amazon you can always go back and change payment methods or add gift cards. i'd assume you could do it with big retailers, but it might involve a call to their main number. what store?

jmanlakerfan

Oops Forgot to mention - Best buy. They won't let you change payment information online.

Deftones

yeah. i'd call their 800 # and see what they can do. i'd imagine they'd be able to do it, but you have to do it through a CSR.

Dan

Now "In transit to UPS facility."
All that webpage refreshing worked! 17.3 lbs of Xboney goodness is commuting on a busy freeway in California as I type this!

SoonerDoc

This. This. This.

The only reason I am contemplating selling my Day One console vs keeping it is the fucking Kinect sensor. Gaming in dedicated theater with front projection. Equipment in the back. Screen and Kinect in the front.

Very frickin frustrating. To think originally the Kinect had to be connected for the damn thing to work? Anybody with a theater would basically have been SOL. Give us a damn cable already to hook your fucking precious Kinect sensor to our new Xbox One.

flashburn

17.3 pounds?! Damn, that Xbone is a hefty bitch!

MoviePage

One of the criteria for the free Xbox One consoles that were given out by Microsoft a few weeks ago was gamerscore. Everyone I know who was awarded one has accumulated over 300,000 GS (though other factors played into it as well).

Also, the rewards program already had tiers based on gamerscore even before that.

And that's what some people would say when they hear that there are others who spend hours of their lives posting on a "DVD Talk" forum on the internet.

xmiyux

I will have to quote the brilliant pop singer...

http://youtu.be/gHgq8GLbXTs

In all seriousness though, I am kind of surprised that we aren't mostly mature enough here to recognize folks take pleasure and entertainment out of different things and different amounts. Some enjoy the completion percentage of games. Some enjoy having a huge gamerscore. Some just want a good story. Some calculate price/hours playtime to make sure their collection hits a certain ratio. And some play games simply so they can bitch about them in a more educated way.

Whatever makes you happy.

slop101

And I would say that as well, if that's all someone did, and not something else at the same time as I do, like working or watching TV, etc.

Ultimately, if someone playing a game or not playing a game is primarily decided upon by achievements (I don't mean just getting an achievement here and there), I'm willing to bet they have some objectively observable mental imbalances. Because it is an obsessive behavior and not something they get joy out of.

Music

duh!

fumanstan

As an adult, I reserve to make fun of everyone and everything!

mhg83

Anytime I hear about Achievements arguments I remember this list:

http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged...211201492.html

With Dead Rising's 7 day survivor and Rock Bad 2's bladder of Steel achievements, I think these Developers are some kind of digital Masochists

And on PS3's Trophies in order to get Platinum on Gran Turismo 5 you need to do two 24 hour real time endurance races!

nickdawgy

Yeah they should have allocated at least one or two timeouts of sorts for a few minutes so you can refresh or whatever. Up to you when to use them and when they are gone they are gone.

Supermallet

Look, people can do what they want. But if someone refused to play a game specifically and solely because it has an achievement that seems unobtainable, that's just some weirdass behavior. If it's a game they weren't going to play anyway, or a game that has other issues and the achievement is the icing on the cake, then fine. But if it's a game that they otherwise wanted to play, and then looked at the achievements, and said, "No way, I won't be able to get 100% on this, I won't even touch it," well, that's crazy.

That's like saying you won't sleep with a woman unless she's a perfect 10 and you can give her multiple orgasms. You'd never get laid, because we all know perfect 10's are frigid.