These Video Game Achievements SUCK!

Ok so not to harsh on anyone too much in particular, but if you have any of the Seriously achievement line that was squirted out into the face of gamers via the Gears Of War franchise, then you my friend have a problem.

The Xbox 360 was still in it's infancy and just playing around with the very concept of 'cheevs when it launched and was having fun rewarding players for finding secrets or going that little bit extra to unlock them, yet when Gears of War barrelled down the way it utterly beat the concept to death with its own hype pipe.

You see with the birth of the "Seriously" Achievement which was popped by killing 10,000 people in Ranked Matches, came the rise of "are you actually !*$% kidding me?" Trophies, ones that required huge time investment, to the point that collecting just one of them meant that gamers would have played nothing else that year.

These trophies aren't fun for anyone involved, they're not fun to grind for as you become very aware of your "rat in the maze" situation and they're not even fun to display to others because it's usually met with contempt and comments of "well that's just sad how long you spent on that mate" so I ask you, what's the !*$% point?

With Gears taking this meme-cheev and upping it with every iteration the time investment only grew and grew to unlock them, to the point now where it's killed it's own joke stone dead and we're just praying they stop as soon as possible.