Trophies are better than achievements. Therefore you are better and cooler for earning trophies. As much as people try to deny it, once you start it’s hard to stop. You love your points. Whether it be in trophies, gamerscore, or even the 3DS achievements, every one has something keeping track of how well they’re doing.
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The ideal system would be the simple achievement type scoring combined with a platinum like award. Simple is good in my opinion.
InFamous 2 is a good start. I'm a gaming addict and Trophy Hunter for sure.
Have fun being pulled in :)
Live made the achievement system what they are today and hardcore 360 gamers cherish them with their life.
I said it for years...achievements are crack..people think its just a score but its so much more than that for gamers on Live. I love my PS3 slim but achievements are the main reason I buy 99% of multis on the 360 and buy the big exclusive ls on my PS3.
Carrying over achievements and Live accounts is a major reason why 720 will have a huge early adoption rate from the hardcore 360 heads.
But at the end of the day, neither system outdoes the other in my opinion..it's simply your preference..
Evildead
You people come up with a billion reasons as to why you think Achievements are better, but it won't change how addictive and fun collecting Trophies have been since they were implemented on the PS3.
Truth is, they're the same. They work the same exact way.
It's just Achievements. Calm down.
Trophies will also carry over to PS4 the same way they did to PS Vita. So again, it's not that special.
I personally like Trophies because of their Leveling system which is almost like a mini-game of its own, allowing for competition between friends.
Now, I'm not gonna give you some melodramatic BS about how "hardcore gamers cherish them with their lives" lol, but the truth is people care more about Trophies or Achievements depending on the system they play the most and which system most of their friends are on.
So it's down to perspective. But they're basically the same. Sorry.
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Trophies are broken down into 3 distinguishing values: Bronze, Silver and Gold. That's more simple than random numbers. So I don't know what you mean by it needing to be more simple.
Nobody is saying one is more addicting than the other. both are fun and engaging ways of rewarding the gamer for accomplishing otherwise menial feats. Like I already stated, both have their ups and downs, and both are nice additions to this generation of gaming. Hopefully they carry into the next generation.
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need I say more?
Also MS was only the first to make achievements universal across all games on a console. There were similar systems in some games way before. MS didn't come up with the whole idea, like you're implying.
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Games have been keeping score and rewarding players from the beginning. Keeping score or rewarding players across an entire platform = Achievements.
Next we are gonna see 10 reasons why PS3 face buttons are better than Xbox360.
I wonder when will gamers grow up.
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But just feel that if this article was "10 reasons why Achievements are better than Trophies" instead you wouldn't have made this comment.
The only thing I'm very critical of concerning Sony is Vita.
But you are right I'm human and bias to an extent but I'm critical f all companies but I just hate hypocrisy.
It's all just an opinion, i know people on both sides that like one over the other. Play on what you like, you can't "prove" one is better than the other.
Also, Achievements have been with the Xbox 360 since launch, which means every Xbox 360 game since 2005 supports them, Trophies weren't mandatory until 2009, there are some games that I'd buy on PS3 hoping to get some easy Trophies only to find out that Trophies aren't supported.
Sometimes the original is still the best. I'll take Classic Coke over New Coke any day.
Trophies and achievements are the exact same in multiplatform games . I have never seen a case where a ps3 game had much difference than the 360 version in trophy/achievements.
The second part is pretty self explanatory, of course I'm going to like the idea of every game I buy or rent having Achievements, where as I have to look up something ahead of time for PS3 games.
"In the games post 2009 you mean?"
Are you just trying to troll or what? What other games would he be talking about? OBVIOUSLY he was talking about the games with trophies, not the trophies in herp derp... games that don't have trophies. He clearly was responding to your bit about the type of trophies/achievements in exclusives. In order to actually discuss the type of trophy, they actually have to, you know, exist.
I like the gamerscore though. Levels aren't great for comparison. I'm level 21. I have no idea where that puts me in comparison to a guy at level 17. I know where I stand if I have 21000 and someone else has 17000 though. If Sony adjusted it so one game's worth of trophies boosted you one level, it'd be perfect.
And did somebody on here seriously say that Ratchet and Clank is the father of achievements? Somebody is actually comparing one game vs. a total gamerscore of every game played?
Naaaaaaaa, nobody is that stupid on here.
I think its awesome getting the platinum trophy or saying, "I have the platinum for (Insert game)".
250: Bronze
500: Silver
750: Gold
1000: Platinum.
Do you really need a visual item to show you what you have compared to numbers? It's the same. Only difference is that the 360 supports all the games and the ps3 doesn't.
After trophies came out Sony made it a requirement for developers to make any game they made from the launch of trophies onward, to include trophies.
Although there are still a handful of games that don't have trophies on PS3, but do have them on Xbox 360, but that was before Sony stepped in and made trophies mandatory.
Two buttons tells me whether or not my friend has any Platinums(the particular friend I'm looking at has none). Quick and easy breakdown of how many of each type of trophy; one more button press can compare the trophies he has to the ones I have.
They're not really the same. I mean, they do the same thing, but in different ways.
That's just my 2 cents.
Still a good deal for those who do not collect games...
Meaning technically they are not free, because when you end your membership, you also lose all of those Free games.
I will say that is not actually a bad perk, but not "Free" with no strings attached.
Sometime this year MS will make an announcement that actually may make them worth something...
Right now they both suck, because really they are meaningless...
They are nothing more then novelty right now. We will have to wait and see what MS announces to see what it is, but if it is a decent program...That would easily put it on top of trophies.
I've platinummed a couple of games but I weren't bothered at all about them. Whereas on 360 I'll conciously go through and try and 100% or 1K the game. I would like to see MS copy Sony in reognising when you have completed a game but that's the only thing from Sony's system that I miss.
Oh and coincidentallly I recently did an article myself on why we find collecting achievements/trophies so compelling which you can find on my profile.
Stupid article is stupid. -.-