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vivster said:
jlmurph2 said:
vivster said:
He will never learn of the fulfillment of trophies.


Why would he need to when Achievements started it all?

Points are boring. But a trophy, now that is something.

Points don't distinguish between achievements. He could have mad 100k 10 point achievements or 1k 1000 point achievements. Who knows.

But look at a PSN profile and you can instantly see how the gold and platinum trophy ratio is.


It doesn't matter the type of achievements he got if it adds up to 1 million points. There are no 1000 point achievements, retail games are 1000 points. I'm sure he has a shitload of completed games (Platinums).



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jlmurph2 said:
vivster said:
jlmurph2 said:
vivster said:
He will never learn of the fulfillment of trophies.


Why would he need to when Achievements started it all?

Points are boring. But a trophy, now that is something.

Points don't distinguish between achievements. He could have mad 100k 10 point achievements or 1k 1000 point achievements. Who knows.

But look at a PSN profile and you can instantly see how the gold and platinum trophy ratio is.


It doesn't matter the type of achievements he got if it adds up to 1 million points. There are no 1000 point achievements, retail games are 1000 points. I'm sure he has a shitload of completed games (Platinums).

It's a symbolic thing. Getting a trophy ironically feels more like an achievement than just getting points. The platinum trophy you get will always be there and shine as a big achievement on your profile. But points just feel so abstract and cold and unless you dig deep into the achievement lists to see where those points actually come from.

Not to belittle his achievements but to me it would kinda feel empty.

 

But wait, every retail game has the same amount of points?



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vivster said:
jlmurph2 said:


It doesn't matter the type of achievements he got if it adds up to 1 million points. There are no 1000 point achievements, retail games are 1000 points. I'm sure he has a shitload of completed games (Platinums).

It's a symbolic thing. Getting a trophy ironically feels more like an achievement than just getting points. The platinum trophy you get will always be there and shine as a big achievement on your profile. But points just feel so abstract and cold and unless you dig deep into the achievement lists to see where those points actually come from.

Not to belittle his achievements but to me it would kinda feel empty.


How exactly are you to say how an achievement feels if you didn't know that 1000 point achievements aren't a thing?

Just because its your opinion, doesn't make it fact.



vivster said:
jlmurph2 said:
vivster said:
jlmurph2 said:
vivster said:
He will never learn of the fulfillment of trophies.


Why would he need to when Achievements started it all?

Points are boring. But a trophy, now that is something.

Points don't distinguish between achievements. He could have mad 100k 10 point achievements or 1k 1000 point achievements. Who knows.

But look at a PSN profile and you can instantly see how the gold and platinum trophy ratio is.


It doesn't matter the type of achievements he got if it adds up to 1 million points. There are no 1000 point achievements, retail games are 1000 points. I'm sure he has a shitload of completed games (Platinums).

It's a symbolic thing. Getting a trophy ironically feels more like an achievement than just getting points. The platinum trophy you get will always be there and shine as a big achievement on your profile. But points just feel so abstract and cold and unless you dig deep into the achievement lists to see where those points actually come from.

Not to belittle his achievements but to me it would kinda feel empty.

 

But wait, every retail game has the same amount of points?

Honestly when you click on someone's profile or on your self you get the total number of games that you have completed..  The platinum trophy is fine if the game have one, Outlast don't have one so you are stuck with some gold trophies..



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lucidium said:

i traded achievements for 1440p 120fps.


Didn't PC ripoff achievements too?



jlmurph2 said:

Didn't PC ripoff achievements too?

A little like Xbox Achievements ripped off Achievements in E-Motion for the Amiga/Atari ST huh?



lucidium said:
jlmurph2 said:

Didn't PC ripoff achievements too?

A little like Xbox Achievements ripped off Achievements in E-Motion for the Amiga huh?


You can find any game that had challenges to achieve. Xbox Live started Achievements as a competitive ecosystem for all of the games on one service.



Wow that's dedication. Good time to achieve even though he wanted it before Xbox One came out



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jlmurph2 said:
lucidium said:
jlmurph2 said:

Didn't PC ripoff achievements too?

A little like Xbox Achievements ripped off Achievements in E-Motion for the Amiga huh?


You can find any game that had challenges to achieve. Xbox Live started Achievements as a competitive ecosystem for all of the games on one service.

Yes, yes. if you narrow the rules of anything down fine enough you can get the outcome you prefer.

Were they the first with achievements? no.
Were they the first to implement them across a platform? yes.

But they werent the first to HAVE achievements, were they?, If i draw a picture, then you use it on the cover of a magazine, does it mean anyone else using it on the cover of their magazine ripped you off? does it reaaaly? or are you basically just "borrowing ideas" from the person who drew the original?

In that sense, Microsoft "borrowed ideas" from games that features achievements, just like Sony "borrowed ideas" from the xbox platform, and built their own system, just like Microsoft "borrowed ideas" from Nintendo and made an xbox version of Nintendo's "Miis"

So, would you like to say everyone ripped off microsoft and that microsoft ripped off eveyone else too, or would you like to be logical and just say "actually yeah, everyones just building the same kinda thing and lending ideas off each other".

Your choice.