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Xbox Achievements Go Full Circle

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The Xbox 360 sports an exalted achievement system – which has the ability to make gamers play through tedious bits of games they wouldn’t otherwise bother with, as well as purchase games they wouldn’t generally be caught dead playing; all for the sake of a misguided sense of self-worth, or digital e-penis extension. The obvious inspiration for the PS3’s me-too trophy system, the Xbox’s achievements have come full circle, as they’re now borrowing certain elements from the PS3.

According to Major Nelson’s latest podcast, Microsoft will be insisting that all games feature achievements tiered by difficulty – easy, medium, and hard – much like the PS3’s bronze, silver gold and platinum trophies. What does this mean to real-world gamers? Well, for a start achievement whores may be required to work a little harder for their gamerscore fix – achievements like those seen in Avatar : The Last Airbender will be a thing of the past.

Source : Major Nelson

Last Updated: August 3, 2009

14 Comments

  1. janrik

    August 3, 2009 at 14:13

    Noooo. Avatar is like teh roxor!

    🙂

    Nice, good thing I’ve had a 65k headstart then. :wub:

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  2. Faheem

    August 3, 2009 at 14:19

    Anyone else think Geoff has the breast pictures? Thanks buddy :tongue:

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  3. easy

    August 3, 2009 at 14:47

    they kinda look under age to me… then again i can’t tell the difference between a 16 year old and a 22 year anymore.

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  4. Lupus

    August 3, 2009 at 14:50

    Yeah that’s the excuse you going to use ;-). Odd I used to play the games for the achievements but ah now I just play the game and the achievement pops up woohoo. I play all my games on hard anyway so no big difference.

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  5. Darkling

    August 3, 2009 at 14:58

    A lot of guys got a blikseming for that exact reason..

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  6. Geoff

    August 3, 2009 at 14:58

    Yeah I know, it really is becoming quite hard.

    err..I mean difficult. :blush:

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  7. Faheem

    August 3, 2009 at 15:07

    :shocked:

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  8. Faheem

    August 3, 2009 at 15:09

    I’ve been sitting in class since 8am – when will this end? My brain is full!

    Anyway I bought my Xbox 2nd hand with games so I kept the profile onboard and had to create another account for downloads etc but my achievements are mostly on the other so I really couldn’t care.

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  9. TT25

    August 3, 2009 at 15:15

    I love achievements.. they make such a pretty noise.
    Geoffy that pic is like so… YOU

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  10. Geoff

    August 3, 2009 at 15:22

    Yeah, Only I’d REALLY, REALLY have a tough time resisting the urge to test for ripeness. 😛

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  11. Darkling

    August 3, 2009 at 15:24

    Geoff always submit the ‘breast’articles! :silly:

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  12. Faheem

    August 3, 2009 at 16:07

    :face: :face: Hehe like two uhm blank melons

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  13. RonaldMcDeath

    August 3, 2009 at 18:08

    haahah awesome post Geoff.

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  14. WitWolfyZA

    August 4, 2009 at 08:40

    Geoff you rock dude i didn’t even read the article, Its all about the boobies man

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