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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 10:27AM Dirty said

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Cheevos by another name are still cheevos
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 10:44AM Shmil said

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I swear everytime I see cheevo I think of some sort of junk food.
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 10:46AM Dirty said

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It has many of the same effects. Addictive, no real substance, makes you fat.
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 11:50AM FredFredrickson said

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Exactly. Achievements. Trophies. Kudos. Triumphs. Pats on the back. Copping a feel.

You get the idea. All the same.
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 3:07PM Bolts said

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I'm kind of tired of the whining over not calling achievements "achievements"

X-Box Live wasn't the first place to see achievements

I remember them in the first Smash Brothers game, and even that was probably not the first time you could do a bunch of random stuff unrelated to beating a game and be recognized for your efforts
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 6:04PM (Unverified) said

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Achievements were the first on consoles to actually mean something out side of the game. I'm just as tired of people dismissing achievements as not being the first and that is some justification that these clones(I'm looking at you trophies most of all) are OK. Yet, MS is crusified by the media for using Avatars. The double standard sucks! Avatars = Mii2 but trophies, badges, attaboys or whatever the hell you want to call them are fresh and new! NO!
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 10:31AM (Unverified) said

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I thought they were edgier than that.

Anything game related with the word triumph involved somehow just isn't proper anymore after Portal.

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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 10:56AM (Unverified) said

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I'm making a note here: huge success
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 11:51AM (Unverified) said

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Surely they would call the Wiiwards?
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 11:16AM kaneda26 said

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For me to poop on!
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 10:31AM Foetoid said

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Now we just need Nintendo to scoop up 'Medals' or 'Badges' and we'll be set!
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 11:04AM Berzerk said

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Kongregate has badges, so Nintendo Medals it is!
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 12:22PM (Unverified) said

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Stars would be better, and more fitting :)

Please Nintendo dont screw up your next console!!!
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 10:36AM hahnchen said

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It had to happen soon, given that Penny Arcade already has achievements on Xbox and Steam.

Steam however, already offers all this, and free with Steamworks. What do you get with Nitrogen? Sounds rather inert.
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 11:05AM (Unverified) said

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Maybe you havn't heard of these Mac and Linux thingie's, they are other operating systems that steam doesn't support. I can play my Penny arcade adventures on any OS I want for one price at greenhouse, steam not so much.
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 11:15AM kaneda26 said

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Conquests and Comeuppances
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 12:41PM TRTX said

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"Entitlements" was a terrible name for the concept. I'm glad that never went anywhere. The idea is you EARN them. Using "entitle" to me would make it sound like they're just given to you because you bought the game.
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 1:07PM jhowlett said

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i think the initial reasoning behind calling them entitlements was that by earning them they could entitle the user to prizes.
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 11:25AM (Unverified) said

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Is this some sort of a knock at tax/spend? Or some sort of implicit jab at the detractors of the free market? Either way, i'm not seeing the funny.
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 12:26PM Contradictions said

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I'm glad they are trying to have their own identity and call them something other than achievements.
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Posted: Oct 28th 2008 2:22PM Courtney said

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Most of these systems have a way to tap into the information to display it elsewhere (like the plugin code to show what your xbox gamer score is). I wonder if it would be possible to tap into all of the different cheevo systems and display a single score for a player? It's something you could put in your forum posts or on your blog or whatever.

Damn, if I could code worth a crap I would get on that.
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Posted: Oct 30th 2008 2:36AM (Unverified) said

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Greenhouse Degrees.

User: Fernando
Degrees: 99F - Hot.

Either that or Tomatoes...
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