Discussion - Steam Achievements (Also need recommendations)

Steam has an achievement showcase that you can proudly display the achievements you want as well as total count, number of perfect games, and the average completion percentage

If you want to have something more like a gamerscore try signing up with Metagamerscore. They give you a score based off the achievements you've earned and their difficulty and it covers multiple platforms as well so your XBL and PS3 ones would be included in your score as well.

There's also Astats for just Steam games.

It'd be cool if there were a badge that reflected the number of achievements completed, similar to the badge for number of games owned.

I just enjoy getting the achievements. If my goal is to "complete" a game, I'm not particularly satisfied with less than 100% (though I tolerate it because I won't buy DLC or games simply for the achievements, and any DLC I do buy, I wait for sales). Added "incentive" wouldn't change that.

As an ex-360 and ex-PS3 owner... I can't say I miss the gamerscores or trophy levels at all, and I did a lot better achievement-wise on those platforms then I currently am on Steam. I do miss platinum trophies though, it'd be nice to get a pat on the back for at least getting the core game achievements.

I have a love/hate relationship with them.

Well, I'm an achievement hunter and mostly just get them for the extra challenge (usually... nowadays a lot of achievements are just "do this x times" or "solve this thing you'll solve during the story anyway"). Seeing as how all the achievements can be unlocked using some third party program I doubt Valve will add any incentive again. Not after the stunts that people pulled off last time they did that for the Christmas sale.

Sorry but I can't recommend you anything because I don't know much about building computers myself. ^_^

I used to think like this before the achievement showcase arrived. I used to be a trophy hunter on PS3 but when I switched over to Steam I had no motivation to collect the achievements. Now that the showcase has arrived I feel more incentive to collect all these achievements that I've been neglecting for so long lol.

Steam cannot have an achievement score because they cannot prevent people from cheating to get achievements. And I don't mean through SAM, either.

Many achievements can be obtained simply by loading game saves you can get from the internet, or by hacking in offline games.

Personally I like the fact that Steam isn't trying to make achievements into a competitive thing. It makes it much more meaningful to me, rather then a chase the achievement just so you can have a bigger number on your profile contest that serves to undermine any value it might have had.

I occasionally compare achievements in particular games with people on Steam, whereas I largely ignore Trophies entirely on PS3.
I do wish Steam would take the PS3's ability to remove the trophy/achievement notice though, I find it irritating and distract. It just completely rips me out of the game. And the last thing I want when playing a game is to be constantly reminded of the real world.

I'd far rather seeing the achievements gained after I've quit the game.