Its nice to get them... but here worthless at the end. I still try to get them though.

Its nice to get them... but here worthless at the end. I still try to get them though.

Absolutely nothing

I started gaming with the NES and tried to get 100% in every game since i was born.
I don't need something that tells me "Oh you got 100% - Here 1000/1000/Plat Trophy - Now bash everyone who doesn't"

See this is my exact scenario but I have more trophies than achievements. Either way I think merging both would be a great idea.

OP - I care enough that I didn't turn on my PS3 during the February 28th blackout.

what twesterm said.

Achievements are really the best invention in this gen.
But they only matter if you own quite a few games.

so, not the motion controls, the HD graphics, the giant leaps forward in technology used, blu-ray or online multiplayer?

none of those things are as good as trophies/acheivements?

Maybe the online multiplayer, but since I don't care that much about online.... yes achievements.

Makes every game twice as good and sometimes even twice as long.

Of course there's no real value so many would find it useless, but because of trophies i play my $60 game more than once. It creates replay value and allows me to play the game differently, exploring more of the fine work the devs put into the game.

Before i'd sometimes rush through the game just to finish it once and i'd probably miss out on some of the nice work devs put in the game.

When i hold up a game that i've gotten all the trophies for, i can look at it and smile knowing that i've done practically everything this game had to offer me.

As well with trophies you can level up yourself =)

I don't go for any of them. I have alot,just buy beating games. Most of mine are bronze. lol

• Motion Controls - important and we have seen some great motion control games, but they aren't quite the carrot that achievements/trophies are.
• HD Graphics - while they are nice and pretty, they are actually hurting games since making a game a AAA game (which you almost have to do these days) means a giant budget and giant risk.
• Leaps in technology - see above
• Blu-Ray - cool movie format brah
• online multiplayer - I wouldn't call this something new to this gen and I would also call this something that helps as many games as it hurts.  Now even things like Bioshock absolutely must have multiplayer or else it's a dud.  This takes away from the single player experience and some people just want a single player experience.

Don't get me wrong, all of those above things (except BlueRay) are very important things that matter no matter how much I downplay them, but achievements really were just a genius idea.  Unifying them was just a stroke of brilliance.

I think the only thing that really compares and is arguable as to the biggest innovation is motion controls.  I downplay them a bit because I've gotten over them but they are important, I just believe achievements are more important.  Of course achievements didn't bring 50 million or so new gamers to the market so that's a pretty big thing, but meh, whatever, my opinion.