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Trophies or Achievements?

December 14th, 2009 at 2:07 pm · 25 Comments

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This, unlike the crazy insane lunacy of my colleague, is the most legitimate answer to the ultimate “greater than” question. I’m pretty sure Shanghai is on the take from Sony, if not then he’s definitely hitting some of that herb.

Who suggests that Trophies are better than Points? Probably someone who doesn’t have a lot of the latter that is trying to compensate. I can say that because I know what it’s like. I don’t have any trophies and I’m totally compensating for that by writing this.

Points, unlike trophies, aren’t all full of themselves. I mean points are aware that they don’t really exist, they’re kind of postmodern in that way. You get a Trophy in a playstation game? You gain a meaningless item that doesn’t do anything. You get Points in an Xbox game? You get to say “yeah I totally earned a prize for what I just did, but I don’t want anything useful, I’d much prefer a meta-figure by which I can judge my status compared to others, now check out these new converse all stars, I got them to wear at the Grizzly Bear gig on Thursday”.

Trophies are tiered in a way that really puts down the accomplishment, who says that some tasks aren’t worth gold? Some tasks that get you Copper are still important too. The doctors save people, but if hospitals didn’t have people cleaning up everyone would get MRSA and die. Society runs off the backs of the proletariat, and Sony are Ayn Rand, spreading the ideas of a utopia for only the smart and successful. With points everything adds up to reach a much larger goal, every achievement contributes in its own way toward a much larger tally.

Points are also very educational. I’m not very good at maths so if I didn’t get gamerscore I’d probably never see numbers like those on my gamertag. Did you know there’s only 10 numbers you can use? I mean that’s if you count 0, that’s kind of up in the air since it means there aren’t any numbers. It’s symbolic. Anyone pro-trophies is against the school system.

Anyway, Shanghai is a plagiarist, Greg Millar said so.




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  • Prototype

    How could you even suggest achivments are better than trophies! Achivments mean nothing they are a rudementry system that gives you crap for starting the game! And it’s so easy to get 10,000 GS there’s no skill! With trophies you look at someones profile and see ther have x amount of platinum trophies or higher level trophies you know that person has skill or not. Achivments are the dumbest thing in the world and Sony should rule the world because the xbox is the stupidest thing in the world!!!!!!!
    (this comment is a joke)

    • thejoker34

      wow i was about to yell at you before i saw the end. But yeah, i agree that achievements are better than trophies

  • instant

    I had a good giggle when I read “Anyone pro trophy is against the school system” …

    Good article!!

  • morthor

    The real story is about the achievement unlocked “bloop” noise being cooler than the trophy earned noise.

  • http://Www.youtube.com/inf3rnalslave NubWithATub

    U cant beat the bloop noise. Suck ma ballz trophies. :)

  • PopTrogdor

    Well, each to their own, but i personally like trophies better.

    When you fully complete a game, who cares, when i fully complete a game, i get a Platinum Trophy showing off that i have done so, thus making my e-penis bigger.

    Therefore trophies are better.

  • Matthew Izberskiy

    honestly, I’m not a big fan of either trophies or achievements, but if i had to choose it would be trophies because they are easier to evaluate. By this I mean i can see the type of player someone is by looking at their trophies, gamerscore on the other hand requires a lot more digging to see similar information.

  • Stu

    They’re both dumb and pointless, but Trophies fulfilled the intended purpose better for the reasons already listed.

  • http://www.twitter.com/undeaddog Undead DoG Poo

    I left my 3 year old with a PS3 controller and Flower and came back a few minutes later. He had grown bored with it and moved to something else. I came over just in time to see myself earn a trophy for letting the game go into screen saver mode.

    So it seems like both systems have their share of retarded give-aways.

  • Prototype

    Micro$oft

  • Chubbaluphigous

    You know who else uses points???? Comunists. Communists love points……..I see that you love points too.

  • THE COOKIE JARer

    Hoora we do love our points

  • http://Www.youtube.com/inf3rnalslave NubWithATub

    The People who said they prefer trophies because theyre set out nicer is a ridiculous argument. Im not sure how much u ps3 fanboys know about xbox but FYI, its just as easy to see that someone has 1000g than a platinum trophy, when u go on someone elses profile theres a very obvious option to compare games, i do it more than fifty percent of the time not just to look at achievements but to actually see if they have the same games. And anyway, xbox is getting new kinds of rewards for games aswel now, so in a couple of years you’ll probably see a shitty rip-off version of them too. :)

    • PopTrogdor

      Have you been on a PS3, you know you compare them the exact same way right?

      Go on to the forums, look at my signature, it shows straight up on the PS3 that i have 4 platinum trophies, which means i have completed 4 games fully.

      Then look at my Xbox gamertag, it says i have 10k, but how many of those have i fully completed? The answer is none, but you have to go found that out.

      So basically, Mr Xbot, i compare trophies, I see percentages, i see fully completes, i know how many they have, where they have them, and can evaluate how good they are.

      • http://Www.youtube.com/inf3rnalslave NubWithATub

        Oh nooo!!! U dont have to press a whole one button do you, holy crap! And whatever xbot means, it sounds retarded and gay.

      • PopTrogdor

        so basically, you just called yourself retarded and gay, well done

  • http://Www.youtube.com/inf3rnalslave NubWithATub

    Oh and the fact that more than half of ps3 games dont even have trophies is also lolz.

  • http://www.hitchednglitched.com/ Nicodumas

    OUCH! Thou has cut deep! I mean really, you’re going after six like that? At least provide entertainment, a bear on a bike, dancing monkeys… SOMETHING!

    But really, I almost agree with the assigning of trophy values. Why is one thing a bronze and another a gold? Is not the 1st mission/level as key to the game as the last? But, you can’t make all the trophies the same, because that would make them all mean nothing.

    With points, I can call who I want when I w…. uhm, yeah points, they show that I have attempted to complete something, but on the same note, unless you see the games I have played, those points mean nothing. I know I have friends who have a higher score than me based only on the fact they play every game at and get maybe 200 points for it. But me, I have games that are +75% completed, I did my time.

    I think that MS could over come this with the avatar awards, if game makes start giving out gear for things I would be all for it!

    (and kite…. really reCAPTCHA? AND KITE?!)

  • DEL673

    LOL, gotta love that this is tagged as hipsterism. Don’t you know hipsters ruin everything?

    • Pillowfort

      I’m a hipster, so, yeah, more than aware.

  • Yesthatisme

    LOL!

    Achievements rock BTW. They made me play through Bioshock twice. WORTH IT!

  • http://spacemeat.com.au PorkLord

    I prefer Achievements because I had my 360 long before my PS3… so my trophy collection sucks :P

    Meanwhile I have over 20,000 GS on the 360 so I kinda like working on that.

    Plus the Achievement noise definitely is better, that satisfying *bloop* but I wish so many achievements weren’t given away for nothing.

  • Mickeyyy

    obviously the people who pick achievements are xbox fan boys and will always go for it no matter what, same with trophies. Which is why this article is bias to achievements. DUH I mean why argue?

  • http://pcmutiny.wordpress.com sink257

    How about we just play the game. Like how everyone did in the old days.

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