Acheivements and Trophies: addiction or humorous ways to keep the player gaming?

     The gaming industries have our number when it comes to trophies and acheivements. No one can deny that when you pull off some killer move in a game and hear a noise with a notification in our games that we did something worthy of noting we don't get a thrill. This has been one of my own personal amusements to games lately. I'll admit I've personally racked up over 2000 trophies (PS3 has trophies Xbox has Acheivements for those not in the know) Some were just because the challenge was there and I could do it. Others happened and I didn't even know why.  The best trophies I think are the ones that go off for the weirdest reasons..... for example:

• "Hey, Get back here" Eat Lead the Return of Matt Hazard - acheived by pressing the pause button

     I'll admit before I buy most games I look into the trophy list to see what may lay in wait for the player to either go for or what I should see if I can find possible in a game I've never played. The trophies that seem to ruin games for me are those that you get for beating the game and *bing* come up right before the game ending... Really the game is over already? What there's no point in watching the animations cause well I know I beat the game. The bonus here is with games that bored me it made the feeling I already beat it good. The part that gets me is the Epic games it totally ruins the ending.

     The mixture of good and bad is where alot of the issues lie. I'm all for you letting me know when I've collected all the weapons of the gods or pulled of a really challenging arena battle, but when I happen to die enough times that I'm about to throw my controller is not the time to patronize me. The innumerable kills ones as well get me. I've had enough trouble getting 50 kills in your game and I can't complete the trophy list till I get 5.9 billion kills..... WTF!!!

     So to the point are trophies and acheivements addicting.... Yes when done right you can never truly get enough, but when they are either impossible or just dumb..... I start to put down my controller to watch cartoons or look for something on TV.