famousringo on 07 February 2009
| Reasonable said: I don't like them when playing (i.e. I want to turn of the alerts) but I do find them amusing to review. When playing an immersive game I hate when they pop up. I mean consider, you're playing something like Fear 2 (shortly) and right in the middle of a tense, dark scene you get a cheery little pop-up telling you that you've just got your 30'th shotgun kill or something similar. It just ruins the experience for me. On the other hand when I review them I do find it amusing to discover I've killed 100 foes via exploding barrels or something of the sort. But mostly I think they're bragging rights for folks of a certain age and disposition - and yes I'm not being complimentary with that view. |
This pretty much mirrors my opinion. Whenever I see somebody bragging about achievements, I always wonder how many crappy games they played and tedious conditions they fulfilled to get that tiny scrap of reward.
Nice for the people who want them, I gues. They don't really bother me as long as they don't yield actual in-game rewards. I'm looking at you, Team Fortress 2!
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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