There's many different types of achievements. Just wondering - if you obtain achievements on the 360, what's your motivation? What about achievements motivate you?

Usually because they're fun and it gives me different challenges in games I enjoy that I want to complete. Which annoys me when developers choose the lazy options like collectables or completing set missions. They should be gameplay challenges, like Don't Touch The Sand in HL2 or flying under all the bridges in GTA4. Those are the sort of things that add longevity to the game and I enjoy doing. I really couldn't give a damn about my gamerscore.

Because they are shiny. And I like shiny things.

They add some replayablilty to the game. They also keep me motivated so that i'll play a game for longer than I usually would. Gets me more for my money.

For the same reason I work to get the high scores on the off-line Guitar Hero scores: to prove to myself that I am capable of it.

Why do people try to get first place if the only prize is a trophy? It's just something fun to do to be able to say you did it.

They're a way of saying "You did good, player. Keep it up and save the princess/kill the bad guys/ get the cake."

This:

Strafe Mcgee:
Usually because they're fun and it gives me different challenges in games I enjoy that I want to complete.

thebobmaster:
to prove to myself that I am capable of it.

and

GloatingSwine:
Because they are shiny. And I like shiny things.

People say that there's no purpose to getting achievements, but by that logic, there should be no purpose to playing games at all. It's for fun.

To rise my own ego.

I make achievements of my own - I'm more creative than the list of achievements that the game says is worth wasting my time on. That sounds cocky, and it isn't intended to be...it's just that I make my own stupid little challenges, like, Wear a monkey mask through the ENTIRE experience of MGS3 - on extreme difficulty, without alerting a single person.

Not "collect all this shit, and play the game for this long while upping your kill count".

Strafe Mcgee:
Usually because they're fun and it gives me different challenges in games I enjoy that I want to complete. Which annoys me when developers choose the lazy options like collectables or completing set missions. They should be gameplay challenges, like Don't Touch The Sand in HL2 or flying under all the bridges in GTA4. Those are the sort of things that add longevity to the game and I enjoy doing. I really couldn't give a damn about my gamerscore.

I hear you there. Granted, I only own a PS3, but Insomniac have had skill points in their games since before Microsoft started making consoles. But it's always the random skill-based challenges that keep you (well, me anyway) coming back for more. Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction had some awesome skill points, such as Chorus Line, in which you have to turn a dozen enemys into penguins with a Transmorpher, then hit them with a Groovitron to get them dancing. Since the effects of both weapons are only temporary, you really have to pick the right spot, but when you do get it going, it's worth the effort. The unlockable extras also help.

I do them so I can laugh at other people who can't.

because they latch on to me like burrs when I am playing.

Because there is a definitive correlation between the number on my gamerscore and the size of my penis.

Because I either a) do what the achievement requires without realising or b) decide that it would be fun to do whatever that was, do it and win.

I'm a sucker for a good game mechanic. Challenge someone with something seemingly trivial and you find them working harder then they normally would otherwise to achieve... Kind of like that one big frat guy who always has to drink himself retarded AND smash all the cans about his thick unfeeling cranium

I thought they were like a geek/ recluse rating?

Sometimes for something to do. Once I beat a game, I usually look through all the achievements to see what else I could do to spice things up.

Also, I think anyone who plays a game just to get the achievements and nothing else is completely missing the point of gaming.

Shits and grins mainly.

Other than that, total accident. See: the achievement for having an enemy medic heal you as a disguised spy.

They're fun to get.

For the Gamerscore. Its fun to compete.

Pretty much this

L4Y Duke:
do what the achievement requires without realising

Because I love the noise they make when it flashes up that I've unlocked it.

because its my favorite drinking game with friends, play any game with a million easy achievements and take turns in half hour shifts, every time you make an achievement, the rest drink a beer, last man standing wishes he wasn't.

BECAUSE I VALIDATE MYSELF BY HOW WELL PEOPLE ONLINE RESPECT MY BUTTON-CLICKING!!!

(Protip: I'm a single-player PC gamer, so no, disregard that)

Pretty much what all you guys just said.

I usually play the game, and earn archivements for something i do along my gaming.
I really never look on what to do for them, because they give me only Points...
I only hunt for archivements when they are "Complete the Game in (game-mode)" because that proves my Skill or when they are scavengerhunts that unlock ingame things...like the Laptops in CoD4 or the Skulls in Halo3, because they make the game replayable...or more fun in the case of the Laptops (yay for Slomotion-supergrenade-tirerain sessions!)

Singing Gremlin:
Because I love the noise they make when it flashes up that I've unlocked it.

Yeah, I like that too. But whenever I see my controller lights flashing I immediately think I need to plug it in.

However, the only time I really concentrated on acheivements was for the free, pre-loaded game, Hexic HD. For some reason I got really good at that game, so I liked going for the acheivements.

I go for them only if they're not absolutely ridiculous and unattainable (getting 100% in GTA 4 is a prime example.) They tend to give you a goal that you otherwise wouldn't even think of. A good achievement adds to the game, instead of taking away from it.

Because it lets you do things in games you wouldn't normally do.

Same reason people want to beat the high score.

Because it's there, and you want to beat the game/someone else to PROVE YOU ARE!

That and the chicks.......

Does OCD tendencies count?

If not, then because I prove my worth as a gamer one achievement at a time

stompy:
This:

Strafe Mcgee:
Usually because they're fun and it gives me different challenges in games I enjoy that I want to complete.

thebobmaster:
to prove to myself that I am capable of it.

and

GloatingSwine:
Because they are shiny. And I like shiny things.

yep, that about sums it

I get them by accident I don't really care about getting them, just want to play the game.
My friend who shall remain nameless (JAMIE) is an Achievement madman, but its his pride and glory so I let him boast about it