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[twinturbo2]

I'm temped to think that the cheevos are easy on purpose so more people can buy it and be sucked into the world of Minecraft.

 

[cheststrongwell]

Achievements are a blight on the video gaming world.

 

[Tetrasides]

Hmm, they seem very easy.

However; "Travel by minecart to a point at least 500m in a single direction from where you started."

You would need a lot of iron.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

I have 200/200 Super Meat Boy, N+ etc /brag but Hexic HD and Geometry Wars that came with my console 5 years ago are way too crazy for me to complete :lol[/QUOTE]

If you got 200/200 in meat boy, you should be able to get geometry wars. I'm only 2 off for geometry wars. Need to get back to it.

sequence is a nightmare. Smile I'll pretty much never get I think.

 

[VashTS]

Game will appease both achievement whores and minecraft whores. It's a smart business decision. Achievement whores get easy point and minecraft fans get minecraft. Longitivty doesn't matter, when you can't trade the game in or sell it. Initial sale = ($_$)

 

[StevePharma]

Game will appease both achievement whores and minecraft whores. It's a smart business decision. Achievement whores get easy point and minecraft fans get minecraft. Longitivty doesn't matter, when you can't trade the game in or sell it. Initial sale = ($_$)

It's amazing that people haven't fully accepted this. Even for retail titles sales and rentals are very high when games have relatively easy lists. Trophy and achievement enthusiasts will go out of their way to buy/rent and play these titles.

With the added benefit that XBLA/PSN titles can't be traded in, easy achievements are a sure way to boost sales. Trine says hi.

 

[Unregistered007]

This game is 5 - 6 dollars on android and 20 dollars on 360?

 

[Riposte]

Cool, a Portal 1 joke.

 

[Valnen]

My only complaint about achievements is the 3 most popular platforms for them are all separate. I wish there was some kind of universal gamerscore for PC, 360, and PS3. Maybe throw Blizzard games into that too >.>.

 

[Dartastic]

People still give a shit about Achievements?

 

[StevePharma]

My only complaint about achievements is the 3 most popular platforms for them are all separate. I wish there was some kind of universal gamerscore for PC, 360, and PS3. Maybe throw Blizzard games into that too >.>.

I'm guessing that will never happen because these systems are a surefire way to keep a lot of people commited to your next system. A lot of people will want to keep their Gamercards, Friendslist and Gamerscore in future console installments.

In the meantime you could use something like Raptr.

 

[Atomski]

My only complaint about achievements is the 3 most popular platforms for them are all separate. I wish there was some kind of universal gamerscore for PC, 360, and PS3. Maybe throw Blizzard games into that too >.>.

Giantbomb has a function that kinda does that. Tells you how many rare achievements you have or how many games you have done 100% on. Including blizz achievements.

 

[Riposte]

People still give a shit about Achievements?

Seeking out tough challenges can let you squeeze out additional fun out of a game and achievements is a way to service that. Given Minecraft is a boring, brain-dead sandboxy game only good for doing stupid shit with friends over the internet, it could definitely use some challenging achievements to spice things up.

My only complaint about achievements is the 3 most popular platforms for them are all separate. I wish there was some kind of universal gamerscore for PC, 360, and PS3. Maybe throw Blizzard games into that too >.>.

Every game and service is implementing their own achievements. It would be quite a feat to create a platform that covers them all, like something that also tells you have many Final Fantasy XIV and Kid Icarus achievements you cleared on top of everything else(which would be dozens of MMOs at this point I imagine).

 

[Valnen]

I'm guessing that will never happen because these systems are a surefire way to keep a lot of people commited to your next system. A lot of people will want to keep their Gamercards, Friendslist and Gamerscore in future console installments.

In the meantime you could use something like Raptr.

Raptr is cool but sadly the console I play most is PS3, the only achievements I've really been getting for Xbox Live the past couple of years have been on PC games.

Every game and service is implementing their own achievements. It would be quite a feat to create a platform that covers them all, like something that also tells you have many Final Fantasy XIV and Kid Icarus achievements you cleared on top of everything else(which would be dozens of MMOs at this point I imagine).

It would be quite the undertaking but I think a lot of people would like it. Or at least I would.

Edit: Oh crap, Raptr does PS3 trophies now. It didn't in the past. This changes things for me! In fact, the service seems a lot more interesting overall now.

 

[Atomski]

Seeking out tough challenges can let you squeeze out additional fun out of a game and achievements is a way to service that. Given Minecraft is a boring, brain-dead sandboxy game only good for doing stupid shit with friends over the internet, it could definitely use some challenging achievements to spice things up.

Plenty of other ways you could do it as well... maybe effecting the game would be even cooler or special content and such.

Seems more like a simple crutch developers can lean on instead of actually giving you a reward for completing a crazy goal.

 

[Franklinator]

Easy cheevos = more sales

True that. If I ever was in charge of creating achievements for an XBLA game, it'll have the easiest achievements ever.

 

[dr3upmushroom]

I was about to defend the list with something like "Notch is a guy who gets what gaming is about, and doesn't want idiots grinding shit just for meaningless Microsoft points instead of actually playing his game." And then I saw the Portal reference achievement. Really???

 

[Riposte]

Plenty of other ways you could do it as well... maybe effecting the game would be even cooler or special content and such.

Seems more like a simple crutch developers can lean on instead of actually giving you a reward for completing a crazy goal.

I imagine if devs "forced" players to do something that would normally only unlock an achievement (like say, a no death/restart run) they would go out of business.

 

[Atomski]

I imagine if devs "forced" players to do something that would normally only unlock an achievement (like say, a no death/restart run) they would go out of business.

How would it be forced?

Think back to Golden Eye where you had to beat level times to unlock cheats... that was cool and rewarding. Some were a real pain in the ass to... Yet today stuff like that would probably be DLC and some stupid number that pops up on your screen.

 

[Infamous Chris]

I'm temped to think that the cheevos are easy on purpose so more people can buy it and be sucked into the world of Minecraft.

This actually makes sense.

Damn you Notch and your marketing ways!