WiiU need some type of Achievement/Trophy system

[Tatewaki75]

My usual reaction to seeing them is "Oh... Neato." then quickly going back to what I was doing.A trophy in brawl was another story, I would immediately drop everything and rush for it. I think if the trophy/achievement system is to remain, it should have worthwhile benifits aside from e-peen. New stages, characters, harder difficultly modes, giant heads, and that sort. If you look at my profile, you'll see that I pretty much skipped most of this generation, being completely addicted to FFXI. I did get an Xbox 360 at launch, but I quickly forgot about it, and I never even bothered going past a silver membership for Xbox live. Perhaps I'm a dinosaur, or living in the past, but I miss the days of a meaningful singleplayer experience coupled with a fun local multiplayer. It was a bit of a shock to me, jumping into this generation where local multiplayer is all but dead, and internet play reigned supreme, even at the cost of the single player experience.

I remember my first game after kicking my FFXI habit was playing my sister's copy of Brutal legend. Can't remember the exact trophy, but I got excited thinking that I unlocked something extra. My sister then explained, to my supreme disappointing, that it's just an award for completing something in game, and didn't really give me anything. I'm sure there are games out there that give extra gameplay stuff when you get trophies and achievements, but they're becoming more and more scarce. I'd rather not see Nintendo travel down this path of giving a quick message but nothing else to show for it.

Then again, maybe I'm too old-fashioned for my own good, and I should go back to telling youngsters to get off mah lawn, and go back to playing the Donkey Kongs and the Super Mary-o's.