The hunt for achievements (and trophies) doesn’t seem to be quite as pronounced this generation. In the days of the Xbox 360, achievement hunting was a worthy sport, and the internet was littered with guides on getting the things in the ultimate pursuit of having a high Gamerscore. While it still happens, there’s far less of it about.

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Ahh, the lure of achievements. Many gamers this generation have been chasing the dangling carrot that is the “buh-plipppp” sound that accompanies earned achievements in Xbox 360 games. Some people though, take it a bit far. I present to you Stallion83, avid gamer and achievement whore hunter who has now amassed an impressive 500 000 gamerscore using Microsoft’s digital penis …

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 …

Achievements, and by extension, trophies are a strange thing indeed. Completely worthless, the digital badges of honour make us battle through the tedious bits of games. What’s the point of them then? Absolutely nothing, but we love them anyway. We like them so much in fact that we, gamers, have unlocked a total of 2 and a half billion of …