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Everyone loves to <a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/133865411_9fd520a3bb.jpg">achieve something. After I got my 360 and received my first achievement on Gears of War, I felt excited. Fair enough I got an achievement for passing the prison section which takes. 3 minutes at most.. But that's not the point! I got points for it. That means it was http://members.aol.com/Ian Wade/Waste/monstera.jpg">worth while doing, right?

Browsing the <a href="http://www.xleague.tv">xleague.tv</a> forums I found a post that was turning into a debate about Achievement points.
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⿿  Why did we bother playing games after we completed them ever before?
⿿  Wait why did we bother!?

He's right. I am a Tomb Raider fan. I brought Legend when I came out for the PS2 before I owned a 360. Played it through, 97% completed the game and felt pretty satisfiedhttp://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/02/95/23169502.jpg">satisfied</a>. Then I brought the game for the 360, played it nearly all the way through and now feel the need to do all the extra⿿s that I had already done with the PS2 version in the 360 version. Why? I've already seen the extra content beat most of the time trails and collected all the secrets. What is the point to do it all over again? Oh yeah, achievement points. I know I will be getting myself a 360 copy of Anniversary even though I have fully completed the PS2 version of the game. <a href="http://www.destructoid.com/warcraft-junkie-fools-tyra-banks-wife-and-sea-of-women-in-a-tv-intervention-29500.phtml">Sad really.

Apparently having a high score makes you a better gamer. I actually got attacked by someone via comment once because my achievement points were not that high and in conclusion I was not a gamer. I could of sworn gamers play on more than one'>http://www.gamerandy.com/archives/jack/2cb4_12.JPG.jpg">one console.

In response to Cerebral_Wolf, ROC E REDSKULL talks of how achievements have nothing to do with skill and are "bragging rights" . He goes on to say;
And if you ask me achievements are wrecking ~Xbox live. All you get is players wanting to get all the kills, no team work. Achievements are a good idea if they keep them to the single player game, on live they are a silly idea. And what if you don't have Xbox live. You can't 100% finish any game.

It is true; obtaining achievements sometimes blinds players from the point of the game itself. Fun. Epic didn⿿t want you to waste hours and hours tearing through hundreds of people with a chainsaw. They wanted to remind you that you've been playing this game so much that you turned 100 people into bloody stumps, you crazy <a href="http://www.filmsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/TexasChainsawMassacre1.jpg">freak</a>! Giving you achievement points for that is a thank you.

There are so many offline 360 gamers out there who cannot 100% complete their game because they don't online play. Is that fair to them? Is it some money making scheme by Microsoft to get everyone on silver to gold? Are achievements ruining Xbox live and are gamers playing games because they enjoy them or to get a social rank among their peers?

All I know is that when I get an achievement I do feel like I've done something and that I can prove to someone I have. Sure I am not on the leader board but I am enjoying the games that I play and scoring achievements are a good push to get you to explore 100% of the game. So many people rush through and if you truly explore the whole game maybe you can find a whole new love for it.

Add your thoughts in the comment below and check out the thread <a href="http://www.xleague.tv/XForum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1395&PN=1">here</a>.

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We all get into a game, play it about 70% through and then for some reason.. just stop and never end up finishing. This has only happened to me twice but I am bewildered as to why it's happened in the first place.

So the games in question are Dark Chronicle (ie Dark Cloud 2) and Final Fantasy III (DS). Two good games worthy of completion! What went wrong?

Dark Chronicle was getting really good. I had finished all the map's and now I was having to go back to them and find the extra levels hidden under. This just so happened that I got accepted onto the scholarship program for High School in Japan. Not only was I desperately trying to finish the game before I left for the year but also to organise life issues, end a relationship with a guy I truly loved, resolve some old problems, earn some more money from my job and pass my A-Level Exams all at the same time! I never got time to finish DC and I jetted off to Japan for 5 months of confusing TV and social LOL's!

When I got back from Japan however, I was a free lady. No job, no college, nothing to worry about. Perfect gaming time, right? Ideally I wanted to get a job, save up and move out and/or go to university. The latter never happened however when I sat down and got ready to finish off Dark Chronicle it never happened... Well, it started to. I got through 2 levels and then stopped. Obviously I had to update everyone on my arrival back in the UK and I can play DC any time! It just so happened.. I couldn't get back into the game that I had abandoned for so long. Is it only me? I want to complete the game, oh hell I do. However as soon as I turn it on, I just think I could be playing something better! When did my enthusiasm for this game vanish!?

Same story with Final Fantasy III, I pre-ordered the north American copy! Ensuring I would not have to wait a year until it's arrival in the UK. First time I really got into my DS and I was only playing one other game on it, Kira Kira Music Hour... a girly pink music rhythm game based on the Pinky Street series. My friend Mike had lent it me and for some reason I wanted to collect all of those cute clothes. So time for FF3 was split in two. I spent a good 13 hour session one time on FF3, my hand was killing!

Then I went to do a gaming event, I took my DS but working 13 hour days makes you just want to drink & sleep after. Also during the event most people just pop onto pictochat and draw penis'. After returning back home I found out I was to move out of my place and find a new one. I had also received my American copy of FF12 so that went number one priority as I don't have an American PS2 but my room mate did. FF3 was put in a box with my DS and then moved off to my new place. Soon after moving in I got my 360 and pretty much left my DS to dust until Pokeman Pearl was unleashed onto the interwebbs!

I am flying to America in the next 2 months so maybe I'll play it on the plane but I really haven't had the energy or passion to get back into the game. But I really don't understand why with two games I have enjoyed from the start, I suddenly can't get back into! Maybe the arrival of social gaming with xbox live has destroyed my ability to get back into older 1 player games. I am playing through Tomb Raider Anniversary now though... I can't explain it!

So what games have you abandoned but wanted to complete?

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