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{{quote|"''... [[It Must Be Mine|I have to have them]]! Achievements... are important... even though they're completely '''useless'''!''"
|'''[[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]]'s''' ''[[StarCraft II]]'' ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}ab57yAUCO80 review]''}}
A reward that serves no purpose other than to serve as proof of accomplishment. These don't change gameplay in any aspect; thus, they are entirely cosmetic. The only thing really gained from achievements is that they're often named after certain in-jokes, [[Ascended Meme
In [[Role
▲A reward that serves no purpose other than to serve as proof of accomplishment. These don't change gameplay in any aspect; thus, they are entirely cosmetic. The only thing really gained from achievements is that they're often named after certain in-jokes, [[Ascended Meme|Ascended Memes]], and the like, depending on how geeky or savvy the programmers are.
▲In [[Role Playing Game|RPGs]], this might be a title or rank that player gains upon defeating the [[Bonus Boss]]. Computer military-themed games often have an internal award system that will give your character medals, promotions, and other such rewards for completing certain goals, but are entirely meaningless.
Different from [[Bragging Rights Reward]] in that you do not receive any at least nominally useful items; these have no other function than looking pretty.
Heavily overlaps with [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]], since the clothes only rarely give in-game benefits.
Compare and contrast [[What Do You Mean
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== Action Game ==
* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'' unlocks artwork for getting the [[Rank Inflation|"S" and "SS" ranks]].
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== Action Adventure Game ==
* Completing ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]'' unlocks skins that allow the player to change Amaterasu's appearance. These range from simply altering her coloring (such as a skin that removes her [[Facial Markings]] or makes her black) to shape (such as the skins that turn her into various breeds of dog).
* Completing the 1996 PC version of ''[[Rainbow Islands]]'' put a colored star on the title screen. Completing it seven times got you a complete rainbow set of colored
* Completing ''[[La-Mulana]]'''s [[Bonus Level of Hell|Hell Temple]] rewards you with the treasure of Hell Temple, the {{spoiler|Skimpy Swimsuit}}. On top of having no effect on your gameplay, collecting it {{spoiler|exposes you to a [[Fan Disservice|picture of Lemeza wearing it]], followed by the sage Duracuets making fun of you. After all, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|didn't he warn you that you might regret seeing the treasure?]]}}
* Upon completing the [[Bonus Level of Hell]] and defeating the [[True Final Boss]] in under [[Speed Run|six minutes]], ''[[Cave Story]]'' rewards you with ''a different cursor on the main menu.''
** And different music to go with that cursor.
** The game also does similar things with the Alien Medal, the Mushroom Badge, and the Clay Figure Medal.
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== Action RPG ==
* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series of games is famous for rewarding [[One Hundred Percent Completion]] with the [[Sequel Hook]] after the ending, but the [[Updated Rerelease|Final Mix version]] of ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' also has three crowns for Sora: a bronze, silver, and gold crown, awarded after [[That One Sidequest|beating the minigames posed by the XIII Mushrooms]], [[Bonus Boss|defeating all thirteen of the Organization XIII data battles]], and [[That One Boss|defeating Terra]], in whichever order the player accomplishes the tasks. The crowns serve absolutely no
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* ''[[Dragon Quest IX]]'' has its Accolades. Some of them are mutually exclusive (like the ones for beating the main story in a certain amount of time), making [[One Hundred Percent Completion]] impossible.
* ''[[Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals]]'' has the Iris Treasures. An optional dungeon at the end game resets your characters to Level 1, has 99 levels of randomly generated geography, chests, and monsters, and there's a small chance that the chests (and the incredibly hard final boss) contain pretty-but-useless treasures that you can take out of the dungeon and put on display in a trophy room.
* Most of the emblems in ''[[Tactics Ogre]] Knight of Lodis'' are this.
* Defeating the members and the Master of the Dojo in ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' gains you increasingly better Degrees until you get the Diploma. These only activate different dialogue with three NPCs: one in [[Hub Level|Toad Town]], one in Dry Dry Outpost, and one in Shiver City.
* The "Vyse the Legend" title is the ultimate reward in ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' for [[
** Of course, [[
* Defeating Nemesis, the [[Bonus Boss]] of the [[Monster Arena]] in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', gives you the Mark Of Conquest.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'', defeating Omega and Shinryu nets you nothing but the "Omega Badge" and the "Dragon Seal", shiny badges with descriptions that praise you for beating the [[Bonus Boss
** Though at least the treasure chest Shinryu was in gave you the Ragnarok sword.
* Defeating the infamously powerful Omega Weapon of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' gives you a "Proof of Omega" in the Tutorial section of the menu, as well as a Three Stars item.
* ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' has loads; the Rank S medal from treasure hunting, the Master Hunter from the Festival Of The Hunt, the King Of Jump Rope and the Athlete Queen.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VI|Final Fantasy VI Advance]]'', completing the Soul Shrine, a massively challenging [[Bonus Dungeon]] (which one has to clear the similarly challenging bonus dungeon Dragon's Den just to even get ''access'' to), nets you nothing more than an item called the Master's Crown, described in the item menu as a "ceremonial crown awarded for overcoming the challenges of the Soul Shrine". And what's worse, you don't even get to actually ''see'' the crown- you only possess it in the sense that it has a listing in your item inventory.
** One could argue that the point of the Soul Shrine isn't the final goal, it's all the rare and powerful items you can pick up as you work your way through the monsters. Of course, since reaching this point requires you to have already beaten the hardest areas of the game already, that would make this more of a [[Bragging Rights Reward]].
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** Your Trainer Card changes color? In Generation I we got was a certificate, and you had to go get it yourself!
*** You don't even get to keep the stupid-ass certificate; you have to keep going back to that asshole just to see it.
***
*** In ''[[Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'', Lt. Surge offers to trade his French Pikachu for your regular Pikachu. What's so special about a French Pikachu? If you agree to the trade, you can read its PokéDex entry in French!<ref>In the original version, it's an American Pikachu, and trading lets you read the entry in English.</ref>
*** Similar to the French Pikacu example is the Meister in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]''; if you trade your Finneon for his Magikarp, you can read Magikarp's PokéDex entry in German.
* In ''[[The World Ends With You]]'', completing your item collection, getting all the secret reports, or doing secret tasks will get you new save screen icons. And...well, that's it.
** For every round of battle ("reduction") you win and for every item that costs over 10,000 yen you buy, you get a point on the save screen. Certain numbers of points grant you certain titles, like Reaper, Conductor, Composer, and even Angel. Feel like fighting a ton of battles and buying a load of items? Your title changes to ''[[A God Is You|God]]''.
* In ''[[Jays Journey]]'', the item you get for beating the "[[Bonus Boss|Optional Boss]]" is a "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Worthless Trinket]]". Literally.
* The Records system in ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]: [[Strange Journey]]'' is a list of tasks the player character has done like mapping out dungeons completely, defeating certain [[Bonus Boss
* Beat ''[[Fire Emblem]]: [[Fire Emblem Elibe|Blazing Sword]]'', the second-to-last boss gives a speech. Beat the game again, raise a support character to level 7 in the first chapters of the game, beat a ridiculously fast miniboss in one turn, three times, and endure two extra, grueling chapters? The boss says a whole three extra lines of dialogue, unrelated to any of that.
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* ''[[Neptunia]]'' seems to be playing with this trope. When you start a new game, you get a trophy. When you first used Neptune's hammer, you get a trophy. Pretty much ''doing anything'' seems to give you a trophy.
== Fighting Game ==
* Collecting all 290 trophies in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Melee'' is an incredibly difficult and time-consuming task. Many of them require insane amounts of skill and patience that only the most die-hard [[
** ''Brawl'' ramps up the "time-consuming" part of the above paragraph by a lot with too many "Complete <mode> with all 35 characters" tasks but slacks down on the difficulty otherwise. Well, except for the Liquid Snake sticker, which requires killing 10 foes on Cruel Brawl and the Galleom Tank, demanding completion of [[Boss Rush|Boss Battles]] on Intense. [[Difficulty by Region|Unless you live in Europe]] and haven't wasted your Golden Hammers, in which case you're able to quickly claim the latter with one. And that's not counting the random trophies, which are even more random due to the lottery being replaced by the Coin Launcher.
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* ''[[Battlefield (series)|Battlefield 1942, Vietnam and 2]]'' all had medals for winning in the top 3 of a round which really didn't do anything.
** The awards in ''Battlefield 2142'' would give points if you achieved them. The medals wouldn't however.
* Getting all the medals in the original ''[[Medal of Honor (series)|Medal of Honor]]'' for [[
** ''[[Medal of Honor (series)|Medal of Honor]] - Pacific Assault'' (for the PC, anyway) gives you souvenirs from your various missions (canteens, a scrap of Japanese flag, an altimeter, etc.) for fulfilling a bonus objective. Selecting one will replay a nice, echo-ridden version of the audio from the time it was presumably picked up. Military scrapbooking!
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has randomly-dropped [[Nice Hat|hats]], most of which serve no purpose other than pure aesthetic customization (and possibly making it easier for a sniper to shoot you). They are one of the most [[Broken Base|base-breaking]] things in video game history. "Unusual" versions (which can only be obtained by paying a $2.50 item for a very low chance at one) are the exact same hats but with various particle effects attached, and can be worth 30-2000 USD
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* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has badges, which track a wide range of achievements; everything from beating a [[Bonus Boss]] to spending half an hour total immobilized to reaching level 10. A few of these actually ''do'' confer additional powers, however.
** And the ones which are the most prized and sought after are invariably the ones which ''don't'' do anything. The devs did make the rewards cosmetic-only ''precisely'' because they may be impossible for certain characters to get.
** One of the most sought after badges was given for killing 200 enemies that only spawned in the tutorial zone, which was completely unavailable after said tutorial was completed. When players clamored for a way to get the badge anyway, especially for characters that had been around for a while, the devs responded that they would make it possible, but not easy. They then had ''one'' of the target enemies spawn in a very high level area once per ''hour''. The players moaned, the devs snickered.<ref>No longer a big deal, as with the time-travel storyline that was introduced, the tutorial zone is available again.</ref>
* The web-based [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' features a whole series of trophies which can be collected by players to display at their campsite. They must be purchased with game money after earning them, and typically are awarded for feats that diverge sharply from the game's standard quest. The "Boss Boss" trophy, for example, requires one to defeat a quartet of specific [[Boss Battle|bosses]] under conditions that both ramp up the difficulty of the fight ''and'' prevent you from gaining special bonus treasures they might drop.
** Annoying to collectors is that it's impossible to achieve 100% completion on any level, as KoL's style of humor means event items and trophies are also affected. One such example would be the Pantsless trophy, which was only gained through pure luck, not having worn pants at rollover on a particular December
*** In fact, there exists absolutely no account that has every one-time trophy, barring a sudden re-implementation of said Pantsless trophy.
* ''[[Guild Wars]]'' has a long list of titles that can be awarded to your character for various in-game achievements. Some of these do have some practical use (many of the faction reputation titles, for example, give you access to exclusive skills), while others (e.g. the Cartography or Vanquishing titles) give you nothing but bragging rights.
** This is not entirely true. While these titles do not reward the character with anything but bragging rights ''individually'', the collective achievements of the realm in a given time frame will grant it the favor of the gods which will grant [[Status Buff|status buffs]] and access to the two [[Bonus Dungeon|bonus dungeons]] to every player in the realm.
** Most armor sets however are most definitely
* ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' has titles, of which very few do anything, out of ''hundreds''. These range from simply being proof of completing nearly impossible tasks (such as the Virtuous Saint title for beating the <s>nearly</s> [[Nigh Invulnerable|unkillable]], makes you wish it was only [[Nintendo Hard]] [http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Virtue Absolute Virtue]), to one that makes a certain type of mandragora cast Regen on you. Some titles from bosses in the Aht Urghan region are used in the Mythic Weapon quest. But the other 99% of titles in the game are worthless.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has an elaborate system of cosmetic awards available throughout the game. First, there is a vast assortment of collectible items, including tabards, vanity pets, clothing, and any mount other than the first at each tier of riding skill. With a very few exceptions, these have no effect on gameplay regardless of the difficulty of acquiring them. Second, an Achievements system was added for the ''Wrath of the Lich King'' expansion, rewarding points for everything from leveling to conquering dungeons to exploring to acquiring large quantities of pets, mounts, etc. These points serve only to compare your character to others; some even award MORE cosmetic rewards, such as titles or mounts. Some Achievements, however, can unlock [[Bragging Rights Reward
** It also has numerous achievements for collecting certain numbers of some ''other'' cosmetic awards... Which usually give you ''another one'' of the same kind.
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] Online: Age of Reckoning'' is a big fan of cosmetic rewards, especially decorative trophies and titles.
* ''[[Battle Stations]]'' has several, from sinking an enemy fort to drinking increasing amounts in the Taverns. They just show up as small icons on the character sheet.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'': Reaching level 20 (15 now as of Siege of Mirkwood) unlocks the Outfit system. Many prizes in the festivals are these, and the titles...well, this game has them by the thousand. You can get titles for anything from eating sausages to killing every single boss in every dungeon of Moria.
* ''[[Mabinogi (video game)|Mabinogi]]'''s "Sword of Gods" update has added an achievement/point-scoring system similar to that of ''WOW''.
* While they are useful ingame, ''[[
** Also, there's the discontinued items, such has Halloween masks and party hats, which are purely cosmetic and have ''no combat stats whatsoever'', and yet are the most expensive items in the game. In fact, they are so expensive, that due to software limitations they can't be paid for in straight coins (the highest amount of coins you can have is 2,147,483,647) and have to be bought with items.
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** On the other side, some achievements for other games play this trope even straighter by giving you a gamerpic or avatar clothing as well.
* [[Steam]] has a similar system for some of its PC games, implemented in late 2007 with the launch of the Orange Box.
** Notably, ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' on Steam has class-specific achievements. Completing set numbers of them unlock alternative weapons for said classes, so these particular achievements are not entirely Cosmetic Awards. They may, however, be [[Bragging Rights Reward
* The PS3 has also introduced a similar system. ("Trophies")
** Due to Sony's policy, there's usually a Platinum Trophy available which always has the exact same requirements to get in every game: get every other trophy for that game. This also has the affect of occasionally dragging down your completion percentage in games for which you don't have all trophies since the Platinum Trophy has the most value.
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** ''[[The Conduit]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Crystal Bearers]]'' and ''[[Endless Ocean]]: Blue World'' also have in-game achievements.
* The patches in the ''[[Compilation Rerelease|Activision Anthology]]'', which are virtual replicas of patches that you could receive in real life in the 80's by sending a high score to [[Activision]], [[Older Than the NES|which therefore makes this trope...]]
* The ''[[Tetris the Grand Master]]'' series has the titular "Grand Master" rank, with each game making the rank harder to obtain.
* Parodied in the [[Red vs. Blue]] PSA "Achievements". "I have so many achievables!"
* [[Newgrounds]] also has an achievement system now, which currently only certain game makers have access to.
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* The effects of [[Yume Nikki]] are mostly this. There are only two which do something, that's necessary to finish the game. Other than that, they serve no real purpose. [[Gotta Catch Them All|However, it is necessary to collect them all to end the game.]]
* ''[[Bloodline Champions]]'' lampshades that:
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* The Flash gaming site Kongregate uses an achievement system for its highest-viewed and/or highest-rated games. The achievements, usually capped at four per game, range from "easy" (kill x number of enemies, beat the first three levels) to "medium" (complete the game, beat the final boss) to "impossible" (beat the game without losing a life, complete the bonus mode, finish game on "very hard" difficulty).
* ''Katawa Crash'', which is a parody of the flash game ''[[
* In the ''[[
== Platform Game ==
* Completing ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]: Warped!'' by gathering all the crystals and gems and scoring either the Gold or Platinum rank from all the levels in Time Trial mode (including the two super secret levels) earns the player an extra gem and a snazzy fireworks
* If you defeat a boss in ''[[Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia]]'' without taking any damage, you collect that boss's medal. This task can be made easier by equipping the Death Ring, which provides a massive stat boost and [[Blessed with Suck|instantly dying when hit]], not that the latter matters when you're going for medals.
* Getting all 120 shine sprites in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' netted you a logo next to your profile on the main menu.
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** Also, when you accumulate 9999 Star Bits, all the coconuts in the game change to watermelons.
*** This also happens in [[Super Mario Galaxy 2|the sequel]], though there is another one there too: {{spoiler|after getting all 242 stars, your reward is that Rosalina from then on stands next to Lubba on the ship.}}
* ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' gives you a third star on your save file for finding all the star coins (the first is for beating the game and the second is for finding all the levels), and a new picture you can use for your bottom screen that references the classic Super Mario Bros. The Wii game goes up to 5 stars, at which point you get the message: "You have completed everything in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''!" and... actually that's it.
** The Wii game also has the reward for getting through without the Super Guide... your stars on the file select screen ''sparkle''. That's about it.
** Not to mention upon getting 99 lives, Mario becomes hatless.
** ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' slightly averts this, you can again get five stars, upon having all 5 you get access to the very-final level, Of course, going through with getting all 5 stars is more of a [[Bragging Rights Award]] seeing as you have to beat all 8 worlds {{spoiler|and all 8 special worlds}} with beating every level and collecting every Star Medal {{spoiler|along with beating the Final Bowser castle again after beating the Special 8's Castle}}, along with getting a golden flag (hitting the top of the flagpole and getting a 1-up upon beating a stage.) and beating every stage ''again'' as {{spoiler|Luigi}}. Beating the game without seeing the super guide will again give you sparkly stars as well.
** Mario can become hatless again as well, but the lives counter goes into the hundreds, so you would think you would need 999, right? WRONG, you need 1,110 lives, after 999 your hundreds digit becomes a crown, so three crowns is your max amount of lives, guaranteeing that even if you are absolutely awful at the game you will never get a game over.
* ''[[Jed]]'': all three rewards.
* The ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'' and ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' series have "Skill Points", which are awarded upon completing certain tasks (like finding a certain hidden area or beating X enemies in Y minutes). In the ''Spyro'' series, they typically unlock the game's FMVs. In the ''Ratchet'' series, you unlock [[In Name Only|cheats]] for getting Skill Points. Too bad they're all useless cosmetic enhancements, such as Big Head Mode or Mirror Mode.
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* The American version of ''[[Ridge Racer]]'' for the PSP has bonus tours called "MAX Tours". The only reward for surviving these hard tours that pit you against opponents with massive [[Rubber Band AI]] is, according to the description for each tour, your honor.
* Completing all 80 stages of ''Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3'''s Story Mode without losing a single stage rewards you with the title "Undefeated Highway Dominator" and a bonus soundtrack. This is in mild contrast to ''Maximum Tune 2'', in which completing all 80 stages undefeated rewarded you with an extra tuning point for your car without having to [[Forced Level Grinding|drive a total of 5,000 km]], whereas in WMMT3, losing in Story Mode has no bearing on whether your car gets completely tuned.
** All versions of ''Maximum Tune'' from ''Maximum Tune 2'' onwards give out special titles for players' cards based on any combination of game variables (performance, mileage, make/model, color, wins/losses, racing conditions, etc.). Such titles are anywhere from cool ("Seeing the Fastest Line"), to [[Badass]] ("Undefeated Highway Dominator"), to hilarious ("Car > Family"), to [[Narmt
* Getting first place in all cups in several ''[[Mario Kart]]'' games earns you a new title screen. In addition, in ''Mario Kart Wii'' and ''Mario Kart 7'', the player's icon is modified during online matches depending on whether they've gotten first-place finishes on all cups, and whether they've managed to clear all cups with at least [[Rank Inflation|one star, two star, or three star rankings]].
** And what do you get when you get the impossible three-star ranking on all non-retro cups in ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit''? The fucking sky in the title screen changes color.
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* The two most recent entries of the ''[[Nintendo Wars]]'' series, ''Dual Strike'' and ''Days of Ruin'', both feature a medal system that fits under this and medals that require you to [[Do Well, But Not Perfect|intentionally get bad ranks or delete your own units]].
* Age Of Empires III allows the player to customize his Home City by attaining enough points (which can also be used to buy new Supply Cards, which are actually useful).
* ''[[
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== Rhythm Game ==
* In ''[[Rock Band]]'', completing the Endless Setlist (playing all 58 on-disc songs, in a row, in one continuous set) changes the color of your rocker's icon. You get an inverted icon for Medium, a gold icon for Hard, and a platinum icon for Expert (difficulty being determined by the lowest difficulty in your band at the time; with, for example, a Medium guitar, Hard bassist, and Expert drummer, everyone would get inverted if they didn't already have better, an Expert guitar and Hard drummer would get gold; only an all-Expert ensemble would get platinum).
** ''[[Rock Band]] 2'' has the same feature, but applied to the Endless Setlist 2, which is all 84 on-disc songs in a row. Additionally, on the 360 and [[
** ''[[Rock Band]] 3'' is practically made up of nothing but achievements, all of which simply unlock [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|new clothes]] and instruments for your band for getting.
* In ''Videogame/Rock Band: [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]'', getting a good rating on songs will unlock pictures of the Beatles that come with interesting facts about the Beatles' history. Getting several pictures unlocks rare ''movies'' of the Beatles.
* Parodied in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Guitar Queer-O": [[Punctuated!
* ''[[Vocaloid|Project Diva 2]]'' has various awards, e.g. for finishing X number of songs with character Y; for getting Perfect on a song; for earning (and spending) Diva Points; etc. You can choose to display a reward as your title during multiplayer.
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== Simulation Game ==
* The ''Star Wars: [[
* ''[[Ace Combat]]'' , the whole series award you with numerous medals. From the fourth game on, you can also unlock special paint schemes for your planes by shooting down special enemy aircraft.
* The ''[[Free Space]]'' series has medals that players can obtain by completing secondary and bonus objectives. Points are also awarded to the player, which determines his rank. Most of the time, the only consequence to not completing said objectives is ''not'' being able to get the medal or promotion. "5,000 officers and crew on the corvette were lost... sorry, no medal." Mind you, in some missions, it ''may'' appear that a secondary objective is inconsequential... and then the next mission [[Escort Mission|starts with you guarding one weak ship with 20% hull]] if you didn't complete it.
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== Turn Based Strategy ==
* Beating two of the bonus bosses in ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' grants the protagonist new titles -- {{spoiler|"Prism Black" and "Badass Overlord", respectively}}
** There's also the "Lord Master" title, only received when you kill Pirate Uber Prinny Baal in the Item World. By the time you're strong enough to even ''complete'' this task, there's practically nothing else to do in the game anymore.
*** One thing left. Killing Pirate UPB buffs all the monsters on the next map you visit. [[Up to Eleven|You can use it to over-buff the Land of Carnage UPB to being even tougher.]] [[Bragging Rights Reward|That doesn't even give cosmetic award, though.]]
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== Western RPG ==
* ''[[Fallout 2]]'' has a number of these, in Karmic Titles. For example, if you have awesome sex with anyone in the game, you get the Gigolo karmic title. If you make a porno, you get the Porn Star karmic title, which actually has ''penalties'' within one area of the
* ''[[Diablo (series)|Diablo]] II'' has several cosmetic awards. For completing the game a title will be put in front of your character's name, differing depending on the difficulty level and if you opted to played in the high risk "Hardcore" mode, as well as if you have the Lord of Destruction expansion pack. There is also a Bonus Quest where you get to fight beefed up versions of the three main bosses (the Ubers) ''all at the same time''. Players who manage this feat are rewarded with powerful items, but also a "Standard of Heroes" item that serves no use other than a trophy. There is also a trophy ear you will get if you kill another player in [[PvP]].
** One of the expansion pack's later quests has the purely cosmetic reward of personalizing a single item by adding your name to it.
* ''[[Might and Magic]] 6'''s reward of "Super Goobers" upon passing through a room full of enemies that can cause ''eradication''. Late in the game, of course...
** ''[[Might and Magic]]: World of Xeen'' gave the "Goober" reward for getting to the computer at the bottom of the Dungeon of Death, an optional (and the most difficult) dungeon in the game. The computer is locked with a password ... which is found in the very last area of the game, a handful of steps from the ending. Retrace your steps all the way back through the final areas, all the way back to the Dungeon of Death, and enter the password ... and you are a "SUPER Goober."
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== Non-Video Game Examples ==
=== Comic Books ===
* The famous "No-Prize" from [[Marvel Comics]]. It essentially started out as a sort of "Whadda ya want, a medal?" to readers who wrote in pointing out typos or continuity errors. The No-Prize was literally nothing, arriving in an envelope that said it contained an "official No-Prize"... and was, of course, empty. Of course, you got your name mentioned in the comic where the No-Prizes were counted up, which some saw as the real prize.
** In more recent years, some recipients actually began ''selling their No-Prizes on eBay'', using the empty envelope as the actual item. This prompted an editor's note decrying the practice, claiming that No-Prizes were "non-transferable".
* On [[This Very Wiki]], [[TV Tropes Made of Win Archive]]. Unless someone tries to collect those free hugs, anyway.▼
=== New Media / Web Original ===
▲*
** Worse, there was at one time a clique of tropers who camped the Made of Win pages to find things to ''delete'' for conflicting with their vision of TVT as a "serious academic resource" -- someone earning a made of win could easily find his contribution mysteriously disappearing within ''hours'' of being rewarded for it.
** We of course have our own [[All the Tropes Made of Win|Made of Win]] page, but it's been mostly ignored since the fork.
* Websites have begun this it seems. Flash game websites like Newgrounds and Kongregate have achievement systems for their games, while video game websites like Giant Bomb and Game Trailers now have achievements for watching videos and the such.
* [http://cheezburger.com/ Cheezburger Network] gives out "collectibles" for visiting two of their main website groups ([[LOLcats|I can haz cheezburger?]] and [[Memetic Mutation|Memebase]] daily.
* [[This Very Wiki]], with its "barnstars". One has to do something well and repeatedly in order to get one, and they don't serve as anything other than a "thank you for doing something well and repeatedly" token.
* Even [[Tabletop RPG]] s have achievement system these days. Wolsung, a soon-in-English steampunk pulp fantasy game, has achievements as primary XP mechanism. For each great deed in a game you get an achievement which grants your character a sizable bonus to similar rolls: if your most visible deed was seducing an elven princess you'll get +5 to seducing elves from now on. ▼
=== Tabletop Games ===
▲* Even [[Tabletop RPG]] s have achievement system these days. Wolsung, a soon-in-English steampunk pulp fantasy game, has achievements as primary XP mechanism. For each great deed in a game you get an achievement which grants your character a sizable bonus to similar rolls: if your most visible deed was seducing an elven princess you'll get +5 to seducing elves from now on.
=== Real Life ===
* The ancient Greek Olympic Games gave out wreaths of olive branches as the award for victory ([[Sarcasm Mode|Yay!]]). However, this was generally subverted: the home city of a winning athlete would frequently give him a large cash gift for winning.
** Which carries over to the modern Olympic games and it's gold medals (which actually contain very little gold). The winning athlete then makes a fortune from endorsements.
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