My friend loaned me Motorstorm one time and I barely played it because there were no trophies. Kind of lame, I know, but I've grown used to being rewarded for what I do in games and having bragging rights to my accomplishments.

You've got one of the highest GS I've ever seen, and yet somehow, you're always on VGChartz!!  Is there an army of Badgenomes playing games around the clock or something?

um no lol that is crazy imo

Well, I do hate to brag... but yes, I run a little gamerscore sweatshop. Got a dozen or so down-on-their-luck preteens playing movie tie-ins around the clock.

i thought the achievements in gears 2 where great
which ones where pointless?

I ignore achievements altogether.

Multiplayer achievements, in all games ever. K thx.

No, but only because I'm not overly concerned about Trophies/Achievements. If it seems dumb then you won't catch me wasting 10 ours to do it. Most of the time I don't even bother with anything for online play - I just play my way and if a get something then fine, but I'm not going to spend my playtime actively trying to find four guys in a group I can kill at once with a grenade, or run through a hard level as you describe until, but chance, I get the right run where my rapid firing combines with a bit of luck with the enemy fire to let me get through.

BTW I don't have the Mile High achievement or any similar one for that reason.

You my friend are insane haha. I applaud you for your dedication. As much as I like Gears (or any shooter), I could NEVER play online enough to get it legitimately. I would get too bored, I need to change it up fairly often.

Exactly! Achievements shouldn't break the flow of a game.

I don't mind so much of an achievement is difficult (so long as the game is working as intended of course), I actually enjoy it in that case, but time-consuming and/or grinding achievements are the worst. Project Sylpheed, fun little game (I love 3d space shooters, well, and 2d shooters too), after beating it a few times (you do a new game+ type thing) and beating it on the hardest mode, I thought I was done. Go to check the achievements, turns out I needed to grind more kills and 'total weight destroyed' before I got my achievements done. It took 9 more play-throughs (can't mission select or I'd have just picked the mission with a bunch of carriers). So pointless.

I wouldn't have minded Modern Warfare:1 if only flashbangs worked properly on the plane, I got some strange glitches while going for that achievements (throwing a flash in, goes off, not a single enemy blinded, including the enemies right behind (and looking at) or on top of the flash).