99 achievements in Orange Box

[Mojo]

But only 1000 points :megamon: :megamon: :megamon: :megamon:

http://www.daking240.com/?p=349

that is WAY too many damn achievements, sure many of them are "oh hey play the game" but seriously, it is just too much. You get points for just walking around it seems

[Mazy]

Whaaaa??! I thought the rules from MS was a maximum of 50 (and 1000 actual points, obviously). Must've changed since I last read them (or maybe its different because its some kinda of compilation package.

Good thing I've been planning on buying it via Steam all along anyway. But I know you're desperately trying to catch up with my Gamerscore Mojo so rock on

[Steppenwolf]

what are they good for?

[Scinbed]

Well to be fair, they do span five different games.

[⌐■_■]

what are they good for?

GQ

[Zyn]

What the ... ?

[jaboo224]

They took a note from BF2. People in the bf2 community go nuts for medals etc. They had Bronze silver and gold achievements. I think these are in 1 round medals, at least i hope. The reason why they stick them in is so people have goals in a long run instead of feeling that you play round by round. Rather smart thing to to do tbh.

[Mojo]

Good thing I've been planning on buying it via Steam all along anyway. But I know you're desperately trying to catch up with my Gamerscore Mojo so rock on

only 3000 more to go!

[zaphod]

I would really like to see a well written article by a psychologist / game developer about why people love these arbitrary achievements and the base way to use them in games.

[Sentura]

fundemental instinct; we like to collect because we might need them later. humans are far from the only species doing this. whenever you gain something like a rank, endorphin is released which makes you want to do it again.

[Bic-B@ll]

my penis is longer than yours

[^Slick]

fundemental instinct; we like to collect because we might need them later. humans are far from the only species doing this. whenever you gain something like a rank, endorphin is released which makes you want to do it again.

my penis is longer than yours

Ohhh, I hard choice.

[mjens]

you hace 20 000 gamerscore... that is saying all :>

[Mazy]

To be honest then I think the most brilliant part of the achievements is the fact that I can follow how long people have progressed in games I'm also playing. For example with Bioshock I could check out how far somebody else from work was to see if I'd be able to talk with them about something the next day, that kinda stuff.

Plus even the people at work who were thought it was the dumbest thing ever eventually got soft when they finally got a 360 and started playing a few games. Everybody can agree that its fucking dumb in the long run, but it does add something that makes each game you play feel a bit more valuable beyond just completing them. Plus the fact that developers can almost invent new game modes just by using achievements for those who want to hunt them.

Anyway, you're all naysayers and haters but Mojo know what its about!

[mjens]

On XBox Dev Kit some guys have achievements form upcoming games like NFS ProStreet...