Gamers... Do you play for the trophies/achievements?

[hathorcat]

Nah. I just play because it's fun. When it's not fun anymore, I stop.

^this! I usually have as much fun yelling at the television and the console and the controller for purposefully "killing me" as I do with the game.....hmmmm.....I may have some anger management issues I need to think through....

[DakHamee]

Besides Skyrim I play mostly NES games. I make my own goals to keep myself entertained. I have timed Zelda runs. I also do runs of Super Mario Bros as nothing but small Mario. Trying to beat Adventure Island II on one guy is still escaping me. One day I will get there.

[PandoraFox]

They're certainly not a criteria by which I choose games, I pick them for their game play and story. 
Nor do I like really take to collecting them unless really consider the process fun.

I do however like collecting extra's (provided that the process to get at them seems fun to me.)
I like collecting concept art or music tracks to listen too, or even bits of world building trivia.
But once again that doesn't have to be in a game for me to enjoy it, I just see it as a fun extra if it's there.

Nah. I just play because it's fun. When it's not fun anymore, I stop.

^this! I usually have as much fun yelling at the television and the console and the controller for purposefully "killing me" as I do with the game.....hmmmm.....I may have some anger management issues I need to think through....

I admit I'm prone to the same thing. >>
My target is usually the in game characters, either when whatever game hero I playing with doesn't do what I told them to in my opinion.
"I TOLD you to jump darn it, why didn't you jump?!"
Or at whatever enemy is currently doing something I don't like.
"Did you, did you just knock out my favorite team member?! OH. IT. IS. ON!"

[Pokestine]

Well if a game has achievements I'll try and get them all because I'm a completionist but I don't really care about them otherwise. I already spend a ridiculous amount of time on games level grinding and stuff anyway.

[sabathamk]

Not all the games I play have trophies... but they will show what you've got/unlocked, and I gotta DO IT ALL!  Yeah.  For example, Zelda... gotta find all the heart pieces, bugs, bottles, sidequests, etc.  Mario games... not much in that way... but the mario kart game I need to place first in every race, when playing myself. 

[Fezzy]

I've mostly been going for achievements on my main WoW character lately cus there's not a lot else to do since raiding etc would be impossible on this computer. Damn thing lags out on 5 man dungeons
Otherwise, they're not my main aims unless it gives me some fun game content

[okiegurl1981]

Lol, well I stick to Nintendo titles, so no achievements/trophies for me!  I never understood why someone wanted a virtual trophy.  I play just for fun, which is prbly why I have a lot of half finished games laying around.

[EStRanger]

Besides Skyrim I play mostly NES games. I make my own goals to keep myself entertained. I have timed Zelda runs. I also do runs of Super Mario Bros as nothing but small Mario. Trying to beat Adventure Island II on one guy is still escaping me. One day I will get there.

Ahh, the days when "Nintendo Hard" was a valid phrase! I once made it all the way to the final level of Adventure Island II...then lost my last life. I haven't touched the game since, and that was somewhere around twenty years ago. I'm finally starting to want to play again. Good luck to you, because anyone who's playing oldschool NES/SNES games needs it! (Someday, I'll be brave enough to try classic Castlevania....)

[okiegurl1981]

Oh I LOVE classic Castelvania!  Never got very far in in, but loved playing it.

[Taxel]

I was so happy when Minecraft (the only video game I play) added achievements. I love achievements. I won't break my back over them, but they're fun goals for me. However the ones on Minecraft are BAD. Or, more correctly, the system is bad. The achievements reset constantly so its really just sad. ):

[PandoraFox]

Besides Skyrim I play mostly NES games. I make my own goals to keep myself entertained. I have timed Zelda runs. I also do runs of Super Mario Bros as nothing but small Mario. Trying to beat Adventure Island II on one guy is still escaping me. One day I will get there.

Ahh, the days when "Nintendo Hard" was a valid phrase! I once made it all the way to the final level of Adventure Island II...then lost my last life. I haven't touched the game since, and that was somewhere around twenty years ago. I'm finally starting to want to play again. Good luck to you, because anyone who's playing oldschool NES/SNES games needs it! (Someday, I'll be brave enough to try classic Castlevania....)

Oooh Castlevania, one of the few games I gave up on. The jump controls drove me mad. >>

[Lady_Blue_Image]

I do in WoW, I try to get all the achieves i can get  Even though my death knight isn't my main anymore, i still try to get my shammy. Feel free to look shadowimage and rainimage on us.battle.net. I tried to get all the achieves in GTA 4 on PS3 lol. But other then that I play Zelda to find the side-quests, bottles, pieces of hearts.

[SillySmilez]

I play because the games are fun xD Trophies aren't important to me.

[mercynova]

Aha, well that's me told isn't it

[starrypawz]

I generally play because I want too but I don't go out of my way for achievements if they're say time trials or something that would be against how I'd normally play a game (say in an RPG they have a 'side with opposing faction' achievement or 'do something evil' chances are I won't do it). Sometimes I do try to get achievments but I generally prefer just playing and seeing what pops up.