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Who cares about achievements? Play the game and have fun. To put it another way: if it's no fun without achievements, have you considered that could just be a bad game?
This. I strongly believe that achievements killed my passion for gaming and replaced it with a desire to complete, or 100%. Once I realised that I began to shun achievements (turned off notifications, switched to PC, started playing games with them nonexistent or disabled) I renewed my passion and rediscovered the joy of gaming.
Furthermore, the whole reason achievements were created was wholly twofold: a sense of pride and accomplishment for the gamer, which is real and cannot be discounted by the second, which is a metrics and tracking system Xbox offered to game publishers. Since all achievements are dated and timed, Xbox was able to offer valuable insights to publishers as to how their games were played. That’s why most games gave you one for completing the tutorial and/or starting the game. That was the reference point: from there, how long did it take you to do other things?
The best example of this and its effects was Fallout 3 to Fallout 4. In Fallout 4, some players were upset you could only be a good guy. But in Fallout 3, there were none karmic achievements, for having good, neutral, or evil karma at three levels (8, 16, 24?). Since a vast majority of players got those levels at Good karma, they had the receipts to prove players mostly played good. Without achievements, they would not have had those receipts.
The reason GOG isn’t tracking pirates isn’t to spite them, it’s because they don’t want the data from them and can’t or don’t care to separate the data.
When PlayStation and Steam added achievements, I am not sure if they included the metrics for publishers or if they only copied the gamer dopamine feature from Xbox. I did not know GOG had them. I don’t use their launcher; never have.
I like how Animal Crossing did achievements on Switch. Local only and you get tickets for a vending machine for them. Only now I have 189K I’ll never spend. Oh, you also get title keywords you can select from to make your profile title (you can’t just put whatever, e.g. on my old Enya themed island, my title was Wild Child, after the song, because I’d unlocked the title keywords Wild and Child). Silly pointless game. I’m now playing the 3DS version on my MacBook, and it’s way better. Also silly and pointless. Still love it.
What games did you 100%?
Pretty much everything I owned in 2000-2020:
I deleted my first account while reducing my connection to corporations, but here's what I got on my secondary account:
-- And well, any popular game sold on Xbox 360. Call of Duty.. Got WaW and BO1 completed, and BO2 half the camos toward diamond.. What broke me was when I spent - no, worked - 9 hours a day, 6-7 days a week on the Modern Warfare reboot (2019), collecting as many calling cards as possible on my way to 10th Prestige L70(?) and unlocking every weapon and fancy badge.. After overworking full time, and completing the Season Pass, I had four days left until the next season started. Something like two months on for four days' break. It basically turned my passion into an addiction.
I still complete puzzle games on my mobile, but I almost exclusively play Zen or story-driven games on console and PC now
Yeah, that makes sense. Glad you moved on from that.
RPGs tend to have a lot of meaningless collectathons and I see why getting wrapped in that can lead to burn out. Games with FOMO cycles are a whole different breed, almost, or rather straight up, predatory.
I see achievements as a path made by the devs to guide you throught all the game features, I want an official way to know I did something. Kill X enemies with Y gun, ok, they probably want me to experience using some specific gun they worked on it but they don't want to make it mandatory use inside the game.
On the other hand, you could just play the game in whatever way you enjoy and not worry about developer intention. If you feel like exploring all of the possibilities, you can still do that. If you don't, you don't have to.
The game is an art to me, I want to fully experience it and understand every design decision behind it. It can be disappointing, boring, it doesn't matter, it's all part of the process. If I keep hopping between only games I find fun I'll never truly experience anything, I'll just spoil my brain with cheap and easy dopamine and move one to the next cheap and easy dopamine source.
God, the fucking arrogance and ignorance. What games do you play, Mr. Holier Than Fucking Thou?
Hey bud, I play the games I feel like playing the way I feel like playing them at that time. I'm talking about optimizing for fun instead of letting a game hand me a list of chores to do on my weekend. That's a personal preference and all I did was express mine.
The specific games in question aren't really relevant are they? I've played thousands of video games over the last 30ish years, but I'm not a completionist. I just try to have fun.
Also, me expressing my personal philosophy = "holier than fucking thou"? Man, grow up.
Right, needlessly dismissive and patronizing = personal philosophy. Very grown up of you, mighty adult.
They absolutely are fucking relevant and you're ignorant for not knowing they are, and arrogant for thinking you're qualified to question why OP needs achievements.
If you think of achievements as a "list of chores" then you simply do not play enough genres to have encountered achievements that meaningfully interact with gameplay in any sense, which's fine if you're minding your own business, but you're not.
Action games exist, shmups exist, fighting games exist: games that cleverly use achievements to push you to up your skill level, add replayability value, or discover hidden mechanics.
If you think everyone who picks up a controller is looking for a sandbox to fuck around in, you're so disconnected from this medium, I don't even know why you decided to comment on this thread.
"Qualified to question"?
Bro I got bad news for you, even the smallest child is qualified to question anything. If you get angry and start pissing your pants instead of giving a good answer, nobody will respect you, but you might scare a small child away from their natural curiosity.
I've been playing video games of every genre (as I already said, good job reading my comment before angrily ranting that someone doesn't care about a thing you like), including fighting games and shmups for decades. I have yet to meet a single person who needed to earn an achievement in order to learn how to perform a hadouken.
Seriously dude, you just came in here all immediately butt-hurt because I exist and don't agree with you? They're games.
If you need a trophy for playing, you might not actually be having much fun. I don't understand an attitude like that hurts you so deeply, but for what it's worth I'm sorry and do hope your day gets better.
If you're a child, you probably shouldn't be on Piefed unspervised to begin with. I'm not here to babysit you.
How the fuck does a hadouken qualify under any of the categories I mentioned? How do you sound so ignorant every time you type anything?
I don't give a fuck about you or what you stand for, but you go around being condescending to people for no fucking reason, I'll call you out for being ignorant and arrogant. Welcome to open forum discussions.
Literally everything you said so far in this discussion beams with ignorance. Not really sure how you still have the confidence to make judgment or hand out condescending, unsolicited advice. Next time you see a topic you clearly don't care about, consider not butting in, or don't complain when you get called out.
My guy, if you're so steamed that you've got to resort to name calling and bad faith arguments, maybe just take a breath. Like I said, getting mad and pissing your pants in public isn't gonna win you any respect from anyone.
Nice job totally ignoring my point btw. There's no qualifications needed to question anything
Hadouken is an attack in a fighting game, you listed learning how to play fighting games? Have you not heard of Street Fighter or am I missing something?
Oh sorry, did I hurt your feelings? Too bad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If I'm so ignorant, enlighten me: what games are meaningfully enhanced by achievements specifically?
To be clear, I'm not complaining. If anything you're providing me with my entertainment for the day. I've been online way too long to be bothered by randos with an argument consisting solely of cussing me out like I kicked their puppy lmao