Study: More Xbox 360 achievements = better reviews, more sales

we're starting to see that now. Where early games, and even lots of later ones, had the simple "beat a level, get an achievement" system. They're really starting to get creative and make them something you have to work at a little more. Basically they're learning how they can use achiements to increase the life span of their games. It's basically your same old video game with 37% MORE CRACK!

I definately prefer beat the level get the achievment. I hate stupid achievments like 'Waste 40 more hours maxing out character levels even though you beat the game 40 hours ago'.

I play a lot of games and have no interest in making the most of every game. I don't even care about the points, just make sure you at least include an achievement for beating the game (Im looking at you blue dragon).

the Serious Achievement should be called the Ridiculous achievement.

10,000 kills, assuming you are the only person to kill everyone on the other team every game you play, comes out to 2,500 games.

of course no one is going to have 2,500 perfect games in a row so the real number of games getting that achievement is probably quite a bit more.

that's a whole lot of time spent playing that game, i don't think i'll ever play enough to hit that achievement... just don't have that kind of time to invest for 50 points added to an arbitrary score that has no intrinsic value.

@ Robert

You are right buddy, it is rediculous and I hope they DONT bring it back for part 2 maybe just 5000. Anyhow I never intended on actually setting out to get this achievement but since I played so much Ranked online matches and found that I had around 6000 already I just decided to go ahead and finish it. And your calculations arent too good. I averaged around 800-1000 kills per week so it wasnt that difficult. But then again Im not an average Gears player.

The seriously achievement can be done by a pro in 3 months, basically is a reward for playing it a lot, not bad since there are people still playing Counter Strike source.

The thing is that some guys cheated achievements making it worthless, well I would like to keep play Gears of war a lot of my friend still do but the thing is that I’m sick of it, I keep playing the same maps over and over and over

I also love achievements that give you something like the ones in Gears of war,Doom, UMK3 but my Favorites are Zombie Exterminator/Punisher/Overtime that unlock the Megaman suit in Dead Rising and Anti-Hero that unlocks the Kickass Darkness Dashboard.

The most reward full ones must be the Halo 3 MP achievements,I mean Overkill, Stepping Razor man I was so happy when I unlocked Mongoose Festival not to mention the Skull ones that unlock the Hayabusa Armor.

Right on Word of the street, Im working on those skulls =)

I hear PS3 is working on an achievement system....hmm.....wonder why??

and that's why it's cool.

wow. I didn't mention the ps3 at all. I even gave credit were credit is due. The unification of achievements in one format rather than the way they are in games before this is a great idea. I just need to point out the obvious.

where.

Actually this guy is right, achievements aren't nothing new I remember older games with achievements but now is obligatory in every XB360 game.

We must have a different schedule because Ive never seen you there lol.

Wait, after disliking the PC game you bought it for 360? What kind of person does that?

You're a dream customer. You bought a game TWICE, the second time because you knew you DIDN'T LIKE IT.

Could you please run down your demographic info? I'm always looking for the kind of customer who will pay me double even when I make a game they don't like and I could use some help with my research.

I've actually done that myself - When I purchased Final Fantasy 8 for the Playstation, I ended up returning it in about 4 hours because the combat felt so slow on the PS1's aging hardware. A few months later I picked it up for the PC, and to this day it is my favorite Final Fantasy game.

So basically what you are saying is that you are willing to endure hours and hours of not having fun only so that you can see some kind of reward in the end. So is gaming like a job to you?

To me, people who like achievements are the same people who's first thing to do after buying a game is to go online and type into google "game_name + cheats". They are not really enjoying playing the game but they have a real sense of satisfaction of being able to say "oblivion, ah yea, I finished that one" or see the a large number next to their "E-penis", sorry I meant "gamer score".

Yes, I bought it for the 360 after disliking it on the PC because my 360 has a COUCH, and it has a nice SURROUND SOUND system. And a nice big HDTV. I wanted to see if the experience would be a bit better, and overall, yes, it was a ton better than on the PC. But the achievements really made it shine by allowing you to visit different areas of the game that you might not go on your own. (Ie. On the PC I only went to the Fighters guild)

"So basically what you are saying is that you are willing to endure hours and hours of not having fun only so that you can see some kind of reward in the end. So is gaming like a job to you?"

That isn't what I said at all. The game opened up different areas to play through, and in doing so also opened up more STORYLINE that made the game from meh to fantastic. It has some seriously cool missions to do that I never saw before.

"Could you please run down your demographic info?"

Sure, when you release a game I don't like, try adding in achievements in your 360 version that rewards people for going to places they might not normally go to. To do things off the beaten path. And obviously, have that content be FUN. The fighter guild in itself was not all that fun. The main storyline in itself was not all that fun. I did both of those on the PC. On the 360, I did the Mage guild which WAS fun. I did the Thief guild which was totally awesome fun. I did a bunch of side quests that was fun.

Pretty simple, yeah?

effect and affect always get me as well. The, ones a verb and ones a noun rule doesn't always apply.

Me fail English? That's unpossible!

Thanks dan for making my day!

They're morons. If they are pc gamers why bother and play 360. Just to have an account with points? lol. If they're not pc gamers and just play from time to time, they're not gamers.

So you are saying if you don't play PC you arn't a gamer? My point I'm trying to make is that achievments have changed the game... In some cases it helps because I'll still play geometry wars to try to get an achievment or beat my friends score... At the same time when I have a choice of playing a game on PC,PS3 or 360 I rather play 360 because it gives me that sense of accomplishment but at the same time I've recently decided that I'm going to not play RTS on anything but a PC... cept for Halo Wars...

No of course not, lol.
This yes:
If they're not pc gamers and your friends just play 360 from time to time, they're not gamers. This is no offence just somekind of realization.

Achievements are great. Till now no system had achievements/accomplishments like the 360 has it. It's great. Good games, with great stories have great achievements, cheaper games have easier achievements.
It's the game that makes the achievements what they are not otherwise. So the result of this study does not make any sense.

I kind of agree. I think having a percentage of points obtained over points possible with currently owned games would be a nice addition.

HATER

And about the article...well duh.

Achievements are the coolest...

each successful return should be worth 1000 points added to your gamerscore.

*dink* Achievement Unlocked: Red Ring Activated

@robert
If that happened other users would be able to see how many 360's you went through. Bad idea for MS. ;)

i consider myself fortunate i still have my first one with no problems

Me too.
You play with the pad... not with the box. JFYI.