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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''' ''[[StarcraftStarCraft II]]'' ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab57yAUCO80 review]''}}
 
{{quote|"''Given to those few, brave soldiers whom stood guard valiantly, without sleep, nourishment, or a social life.''"|Description of the '''Gentle Manne's Service Medal''', ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''}}
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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]]s, 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 ItsIt's Not Cosmetic?]]. For common types of Achievements in modern video games, refer to [[Video Game Achievements/Analysis]].
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* ''[[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, ''[[RunescapeRuneScape]]'''s [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|skillcapes/capes of distinction]] can be TRIMMED for doing more stuff. The trim, unlike the base capes (which have some of the best cape stats), does NOTHING.
** 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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{{quote|Achievement points are gained via earning achievements ingame and are used for bragging to your friends.}}
* 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 ''[[Nanaca CrashNANACA†CRASH!!]]'' with characters from ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]''. Along with the massive slew of random content, events and guest characters, they added an in-game Achievements system which makes this game far more awesome than the original game it parodied.
* In the ''[[Little Big PlanetLittleBigPlanet]]'' games, every possibly action either earns you or scores towards unlocking Pins. These work similarly to [[Xbox]] Achievements and [[PlayStationPlay Station 3]] Trophies, and there are hundreds to collect; the vast majority for trivial things such as logging onto the online network or picking up points bubbles. They serve no real purpose, however the player can choose to display a couple of their choosing on their player profile card.
 
 
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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.
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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).
* ''[[StarcraftStarCraft II]]'' brings an Xbox Live-like Achievement system to Battle.net.
{{quote|'''[[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]]:''' ... [[It Must Be Mine|I have to have them]]! Achievements... are important... even though they're ''completely useless''!}}
 
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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 [[PlayStationPlay Station 3]] versions, there's an Achievement/Trophy called "[[Bladder of Steel]]" that you can get for completing Endless Setlist 2 without pausing or pressing the Guide/Home button.
** ''[[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.
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[[Category:Older Than the NES]]
[[Category:Video Game Rewards]]
[[Category:Cosmetic Award{{PAGENAME}}]]
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