Guild Wars 2

… because you don’t “achieve” anything. You just do activities over and over again til you are bored and quit.

Tasks are things you need to do. They’re not tasks, cause you don’t need to do them.

I would like to know what games you’re playing where none of the achievements are just do a lot of X. Kill things in Y way, or with Z weapon. Or better, do a part of the game that you have to do to finish the game at all.

That’s what achievements are, and have always been.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Tasks are things you need to do. They’re not tasks, cause you don’t need to do them.

I would like to know what games you’re playing where none of the achievements are just do a lot of X. Kill things in Y way, or with Z weapon. Or better, do a part of the game that you have to do to finish the game at all.

That’s what achievements are, and have always been.

At the same time, a lot of the achievements are quite pointless, and add absolutely nothing to the game that achievements that reward the player for doing something difficult, or discovering a hidden place.

Getting a certain amount of skill points, doing a certain amount of DE’s. These are pointless achievements, since you’d accomplish them anyway, the Slayer titles; you don’t need to actually do anything special to get them. It’s like giving a person a well done for getting through college, regardless of the grade they recieve.

TheDaiBish.9735:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Tasks are things you need to do. They’re not tasks, cause you don’t need to do them.

I would like to know what games you’re playing where none of the achievements are just do a lot of X. Kill things in Y way, or with Z weapon. Or better, do a part of the game that you have to do to finish the game at all.

That’s what achievements are, and have always been.

At the same time, a lot of the achievements are quite pointless, and add absolutely nothing to the game that achievements that reward the player for doing something difficult, or discovering a hidden place.

Getting a certain amount of skill points, doing a certain amount of DE’s. These are pointless achievements, since you’d accomplish them anyway, the Slayer titles; you don’t need to actually do anything special to get them. It’s like giving a person a well done for getting through college, regardless of the grade they recieve.

I’m going to have to ask you the exact same question, apparently. What games are you playing where this is not the case?

Kal Spiro.9745:

I’m going to have to ask you the exact same question, apparently. What games are you playing where this is not the case?

Mark of the Ninja.

These types of achievements are minimal.

Most of the achievements look at looking at alternative ways to get through the content (not being detected, getting the guards to kill themselves, not killing any guards whatsoever, only using Ninja Tools to kill; some of which can be quite difficult to pull off) as opposed to kill 5 / 10 / 15 guards, use ninja tools 5 / 10 / 15 times ect.

And, regardless of whether other games use them or not shouldn’t have an impact on whether this game uses them or not.

Kal Spiro.9745:

TheDaiBish.9735:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Tasks are things you need to do. They’re not tasks, cause you don’t need to do them.

I would like to know what games you’re playing where none of the achievements are just do a lot of X. Kill things in Y way, or with Z weapon. Or better, do a part of the game that you have to do to finish the game at all.

That’s what achievements are, and have always been.

At the same time, a lot of the achievements are quite pointless, and add absolutely nothing to the game that achievements that reward the player for doing something difficult, or discovering a hidden place.

Getting a certain amount of skill points, doing a certain amount of DE’s. These are pointless achievements, since you’d accomplish them anyway, the Slayer titles; you don’t need to actually do anything special to get them. It’s like giving a person a well done for getting through college, regardless of the grade they recieve.

I’m going to have to ask you the exact same question, apparently. What games are you playing where this is not the case?

Guild Wars. Titles could be considered tasks/achievements

At one time, achievements were supposed to be challenging.

The titles are achievements the rest is a pure mix of tasks and achievements.

You can’t call it tasks nor achievements. However now a days there are many achievements that are easy to achieve. (Look at the Flash Game Achievements Unlocked)