I dont see any difference. :p

How about Steam achievements :P.

I'm a PC gamer before the other systems and I don't care for steam acheivments. The fact that you can show off your total game acheivments with the other two systems is nice, but with steam you actually have to manually look at other players specific games just to see what they have. I'd rather just have an "overall" compare with a point system like the other two achievments systems and then if i wanted to compare steam achievments i could go in, but they don't have neither of those options.

Achievements, because the best PS3 game ever made, Valkyria Chronicles, doesn't have Trophies and it pisses me off!!! It's like having sex and not being able to orgasm

I have to agree on that analogy....

In general, I think I prefer the achievements. By assigning a score value, you can set more than 4 levels of "difficulty." Take 2 gold trophies; if one of them was harder than the other, you could set one at 100 points and the other at 70. It's a better reward for the harder task. And it lets people with varying playstyles compare gaming better- a "casual" player with a wide breath of games can be seen in the same light as a "hardcore" player who's completed (1000/1000) a few games.

That isn't to say it doesn't have its downsides, though. The trophy system does let you better determine what kind of a gamer someone is. And the points system can really emphasize what a, well, dick, some programmers are. You finish a game, and have 999/1000. But that last point is some insane task that's not really too hard, it's just painfully long. And they know that the completionist in some people will want it. They're basically saying "You want that last point? You're going to do what WE say for it, bitch!" But I still think I prefer points...

i go with the flow lol

I like the fact that every retail and arcade Xbox 360 title has achievements. Not every PS3 game on the other hand has trophies. This is why I prefer achievements.

If trophies were completely universal, I suppose they would be better. It gives you a pretty quick and dirty overview of how much they accomplished. But on the flipside, the 360 achievements system is more indepth (with the trophies, you have 4 tiers. but the points system for achievements is more flexible in terms of weighting the significance of each achievement. And the completion percentages are nifty). Especially if you use trueachievements, you can really go in depth in analyzing a gamer's achievements. But it's not as convenient on the 360 because you have to really look at their game library and go through their trueachievements and stuff. Basically you get a pretty good overview with the PS3 Trophy cards but with 360 achievements, you can really go into depth analyzing a gamer's achievements.

I really wish the Wii had console-wide achievements/trophies. :( Even if I'll never have the biggest e-peen on the internets, I like hearing that achievement unlocked sound. It sucks we don't have that on the Wii.

I don't have an Xbox360 so I can't vote. I'd wish all games in the PS3 would have trophies.