Gamers - Do you care about achievements?

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LadyOfReason@reddit

My friends all call me an achievement whore. Some games I play strictly for the gameplay, and don’t follow the achievements, but after big games like Witcher or assassin Creed, or, say, red dead redemptions, I’ll play easier games like I just played lies of P or a plagues tail Requiem. I found those achievements were easy to get, so I went after them and got 100%. If I’m close in the game to getting 100%, I’ll get all the achievements. I also have games pass, so little indie games are also good to play, but also high on the achievement list too. So yes, I do care about achievements I guess. 😂😂😂🙈

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GamingGaidenPod@reddit

Yeah, they’re a nice meta-game. They often encourage me to try different things that I wouldn’t have otherwise, but I won’t go to too much trouble for them. I love the sound of an achievement popping, and it’s also often a “chapter complete” marker of progress.

I don’t really care about things like getting platinum or having them to show off, but I love that they’re time stamped, so I can look back and know when I played through a game.

I think Sony’s trophy system is weird and obtuse, definitely an “Oh crap, we need to do this too” kind of thing. Nintendo doesn’t have a system. Steam is cool with them as a log too. It’s Xbox that does it best, though. Having a cumulative score is pretty clear. Again, I don’t care how many points anyone else has, but it’s pretty easy to look at my own score and have a sense of how much I’ve played. I’ll just get them for playing through and maybe I’ll get a few more for exploring and experimenting. They’re pretty simple positive reinforcement.

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Hurt2039@reddit

Not at all. I play games that are story driven and I love getting immersed in the story as if I’m actually there. Kinda like a good book. I put the difficulty on the most laid back setting and go where the story & open world takes me. It’s my release after a tough shift & the last thing I wanna do is play a game on extra super fuck you hard mode just so I can have an achievement that says I did it.

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Masterhaynes86@reddit

The only grinding I do is to unlock items. If achievements are associated with that goal, so be it. My favorite grind was for the Hyabusa Armor in Halo. Twas a good time

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dndhdhdjdjd382737383@reddit

No, they are stupid and useless, and very much a mistake to ever include them. I mean I guess if they were for doing something cool or achieving something hard then I might be cool with them, but no; most often your first achievement is opening the menu or going outside or some stupid bullshit like that. Just get rid of them entirely

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therealRustyZA@reddit

I'll pick up an achievement of it's on my way. But I won't make a special effort for it. It means nothing really.

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SalukiKnightX@reddit

Not really. One of my most played games is Cities Skylines but I have not one trophy in the game. I just love building cities and wonder how big or unique I can make them.

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Sugar_Fuelled_God@reddit

There's only one way to Platinum a game, find everything on a level like we did with Doom, all the kills, all the items and all the secret areas, beyond that nothing else matters. ;)

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daphuqijusee@reddit

At this point, just finding the time to game is an achievement in itself... sigh

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Mind-of-Jaxon@reddit

Depends on the game. And what they are. I’m not trying to get all the racing and timed trails . But collecting certain loots or killing x amount of enemies. In a game I love is okay.

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Nonsenseinabag@reddit

Depends both on the game and the achievements, but I definitely don't care about clout in gaming. I game to have fun which seems like a foreign concept in some parts of the internet. The few 100% games are ones I enjoy enough to explore the full breadth without any "gotcha" crap like finding 200 pigeons in locations around the city.

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Wild-Word4967@reddit

This is me with breath of the wild. I explored ever inch of that game and nearly found all of the koroks. I didn’t set out to find them. It just kinda happened. Loved that game.

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jinsaku@reddit

In a similar vein, I care nothing about achievements except those that make me play the game in a different way. Not collecting or anything, but stuff like “best the game only using the starting weapon” or stuff like that.

Ring of Pain has over 100 of these types of achievements. Without them, I probably would have put 40ish hours into the game. Going after many of those achievements (I have about half now) put me over 200 hours.

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UtahItalian@reddit

I'm with ya. I refuse to grind just for an achievement. This means something because I am fairly confident I logged over 1 year on EverQuest.

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CharlieMorningstar@reddit

For clout? Nah.

I like fun, funny, or memorable achievements. Hidden things that only a few people get for doing something unexpected or wild.

For example, "Mind Blown" from BG3.

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Sunchinethewerewolf@reddit

Mario Party Jamboree has joined the chat.

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dwreckhatesyou@reddit

Not at all. It was a fun idea when it started could be a fun excuse to squeeze every little bit of content out of your favorite game, but then they started hiding them behind paywalls and forcing online multiplayer into everything and now it’s only important to the prohibitively hardcore crowd.

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BRUISE_WILLIS@reddit

Zero care. My achievements are in the real world

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Anarch-ish@reddit

I did until Skyrim.

I have an actual memory of saying "... I'm never gonna 100% this game..."

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rooks1999@reddit

Not even for a second. When I get them inconsequential, I say whee. Achievements are a way to pad gameplay without adding content and that I am vehemently against! Please just make more game!

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SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit

To a point.

If it's something utterly fucking stupid like Gears Seriously? achievement. Not a fucking chance.

If it's something like getting all crowns in Monster Hunter? Ya, I'll give it a shot.

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MrTitius@reddit

Totally depends. I have been playing a game online with friends for about three years and will unlock a new achievement soon that is very hard to get. Because I play with my friends I do care about it. Any other game I could care less.

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jackfaire@reddit

I don't personally care bout the achievements. I'm not bothered if others do. But if some little shit tries to tell me I didn't find all 200 Golden Skibbidi Toilets so I didn't beat the game they can fuck right off.

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JagarHardfart@reddit

Nah i have something like 2800 trophies on Playstation and not one of them is a platinum. I've never completed a game 100%. I've beat plenty of games just never took the time to 100% them.

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threefeetofun@reddit

Is the achievement finding the warp whistles in Super Mario Bros 3?

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Famous-Somewhere-@reddit

Never have. We’re Xennials. We play to see the ending and to consider ourselves a hero. Achievements are for Milennials.

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karma_made_me_do_eet@reddit

Was literally playing COD today and what sounded like a grown ass man, spending the whole round whining about everything.

I turned on my mic and just said for him to chill, he isn’t getting paid for this and just play the game.

Dude went off on me, mocking my K/D or whatever.. and I’m like dude ,, it’s a game, none of this matters.. just chill.

Had to mute the guy.. he was insufferable…

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threefeetofun@reddit

That is why the first Star Wars: Battlefront for PS4 was so great. No mics. All the fun of the team, no hearing weird or racist shit.

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rowdymowdy@reddit

Not at all . But I'm coming up on 100,000 on the box and I do feel pretty cool there

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ALT3NPFL3G3R@reddit

I've got around 1000 games, 800 or so on Steam. I've got one with 100 percent achievement, and just because the game has one, wich you get for starting it.

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tweakin_casually@reddit

Only achievement I care about is a studio releasing an actually finished game, without patches or updates.

Cause back in my day.....

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Transplanted_Cactus@reddit

Hahahahahahahahahaha

cries in the corner

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HereWeGoAgain-247@reddit

cries in lower back pain and eating less spicy food

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Transplanted_Cactus@reddit

Twinsies!

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Kryptin206@reddit

Most games were still filled with bugs and those would never be fixed. The games then were usually not the perfect things you remember them being. You still had rushes to the release dates and depending on the company could have had just a little bit of play testing or nothing at all. There were only a couple of companies that actually cared much about the products they were releasing.

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CactusHide@reddit

Back in my day we had games with bugs that could never get fixed.

At least there weren’t many game breakers. It’s a little wild to just release a buggy game and leave it up to Satan knowing you can patch.

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lostBoyzLeader@reddit

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miku_dominos@reddit

I've played 10 Yakuza games after installation from the disk with no updates, and have had 0 issues.

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Zagmut@reddit

Goddamn right! May I join you yelling at clouds? I've got a spare half hour while I wait for my game to ~~unfuck~~ itself

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tweakin_casually@reddit

Didja try blowin on it? That always used to work, back when we bought games... and hey have I told about how they used to come in boxes..

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Zagmut@reddit

Hell yeah! Back in our day, we used instruction books and maps! And you couldn't gOoGLe cheat codes, you had to know a kid whose cousin bought a magazine subscription. Consarnit!

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Bondedknight@reddit

Well..... yeah but on the other hand, finding out that yoh just spent money on a totally bugged game, or terrible controls was really depressing. NES Silver Surfer will always be unplayably frustrating forever.

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scormegatron@reddit

I came up on NES, when it was damn near impossible to beat the games. So I don’t really care about “platinuming” a game — I’m just happy to finish it nowadays. I appreciate that most modern games will hand hold you — but tbh Bloodborne is probably the closest I’ve been to the old 80’s/90’s difficulty levels.

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kremlingrasso@reddit

No

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LaszloPanaflexxx@reddit

Only ones like "Jewel Thief" and "Melon Popper" in Medal of Honour. Silly stuff like that.

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stratusmonkey@reddit

Achievements usually amuse me when they pop up. Like a meta-game version of a side quest. But I'm rarely out to collect them, unless it unlocks something interesting in the game. (Or better, if the achievement tips you off to something interesting in the game.)

Racking up achievements, for achievements' sake? Almost always no. I mostly play single-player stuff, and nobody's coming to look at my Steam or Playstation profile!

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xAlice_Liddell@reddit

I have a switch. So…. I dunno. I have used retroactivements with RetroArch though and that was kind of fun. Your brain kind of likes when the game gives you a little ding and some text to celebrate whatever. It also gives you more goals and a reason to keep playing.

But I have a switch…

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FalseVeterinarian881@reddit

Not at all

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sk3pt1c@reddit

Couldn’t give a flying fuck, never did. When i gamed more, all i cared about was having fun playing the solo mission, don’t care about online gaming either, got friends in real life, don’t wanna get screamed at by some random 15 year old.

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polythenesammie@reddit

I only care about Xbox achievements so I can rub it in my kids faces.

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16miledetour@reddit

I did for a long time and then one day I realized I didn’t give a shit any longer.

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Tsargrad007@reddit

I get very hooked on the achievements / trophies etc. At one stage I was important Japanese visual novels for my 30 mins - 2 hr platinums. I don’t speak Japanese but I was still doing it with a guide.

I was only competing with myself but it did my head in eventually.

I have zero consoles now but jeez the bug resurfaces at times.

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Skate_faced@reddit

My playstation account has over 2500+ trophies.

I have one platinum.

Hard nope. I absolutely love gaming. I have several hundred in a collection and a digital backlog that is pretty fucking close to having a steam account backlog.

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Kryptin206@reddit

I love achievements, it gets me to do things I probably would never do and if done right can show what you have left available to do in the game. With most games, I like to do everything possible within the game. I also like that they create a timeline of all my gaming for the last 19 years. Sometimes I also like to leave achievements to give me an excuse to play the game again in the future.

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LoudAd1396@reddit

Once in a while, they provide a "make your own fun" challenge. I platinum-ed Spider Man 2 (PS5) just because I was having fun swinging around...

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Osi32@reddit

Sometimes, depends on the game and if the achievements grant anything, most of the time they’re worthless

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CactusHide@reddit

I don’t care at all. It was fun when they first started being a thing. Was it Xbox that started it?

I thought it was fun to get weird achievements for doing weird things, but I was never compelled to 100% a game I wasn’t totally into. In the times I 100%ed a game, I would have done 100% with or without achievements.

I’d be totally down with them if I was a parent of a kid who wanted to platinum a game before they got a new one lol

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anomalocaris_texmex@reddit

I'm so glad to be among my people here.

And at my age, with my lack of time and gradually fading reflexes, I consider it an achievement to even play a game anymore.

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Odd_Soil_8998@reddit

The only part I like is how Steam tells me what percentage of players also did the thing. I'm not gonna go out of my way to get an achievement though.

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Cute-Ad1393@reddit

Only in Resident Evil.

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Milksteak_To_Go@reddit

I care when they pop up after beating a boss and interrupt the cutscene.

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Hawvy@reddit

I do one daily achievement purely for Microsoft rewards points. But other than that, I have never cared for achievements. In fact, I have the achievement notifications turned off because the noise is too loud.

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sosomething@reddit

Not even remotely

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RoyDonkeyKong@reddit

This is the way.

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sosomething@reddit

If an achievement pops up on a part of the screen I was already looking at, I might read what it says. Otherwise I don't even register them.

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Tdk1984@reddit

If it’s one I feel I can achieve without having to change my play style drastically.

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caddy45@reddit

I love how the picture posted is the exact emotion the entire culture hopes to invoke by the expression.

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MorrighanAnCailleach@reddit

Not a requirement to enjoy a game, but sometimes it's kinda neat.

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NotScottBakula@reddit

Achievements are a nice way to look at how soon people dip out of a game and don't go back to it. I had at times looked at how many achievements a game has in steam and if possible see the percentages as these go on how many people achieve certain ones. If that percent is in the low tens to single digit just after the beginning of the game that tells me the game was not good possibly or engaging enough that the players left it.

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JamesMattDillon@reddit

Hell no

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mike_stifle@reddit

Sometimes it a fun surprise to see you got a rare Xbox achievement, but I’m not seeking them out.

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Eledridan@reddit

Sometimes I want to 100% a game if I really enjoy the game, like Tiny Rogues.

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counterhit121@reddit

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Duespad@reddit

No, I just want the ending so I'll Game Genie the hell outta a game on easy mode so I can read the story. If Metal Gear Solid had a full book set, I'd never play the game for instance.

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FollowingNo4648@reddit

99% of the time, no. Very rarely if I really like a game that I beat and I want to keep playing it, then I'll try to see if there are any achievements left to earn.

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StuffedHobbes@reddit

No

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4204666@reddit

Sometimes they can be funny, or even informative like in Balders Gate 3, since you could see like only 5% of ppl did the run you did etc

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slappy_mcslapenstein@reddit

I mean, I beat the first three Devil May Crys and Onimusha back in the day. I regularly get 1st or 2nd place in Mario Kart when my wife and I play. That's about it for my video game bragging rights.

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sillyandstrange@reddit

Not one bit lol

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panteragstk@reddit

The only games I try to get 100% on are made by Nintendo

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jb@reddit

I like to think I don’t but I also often stop playing when there are no more realistic achievements.

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Ryeberry1@reddit

fuck no

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NeptuneConsidered@reddit

I like story-triggered achievements that show how far along in the game I am.

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Lovefist1221@reddit

I care about achievements up until the point that they become ridiculously hard or not fun (see Yakuza series).

If the game was awesome, I've got no problem revisiting to grab a few or even try to 100%. If I need to grind the same thing for hours or learn a Japanese card game, I'll avoid.

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DiscoLibra@reddit

Only care when I'm beating my husband with achiev points! It's been a long battle. He just got ahead of me a few weeks ago.

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Dillenger69@reddit

Never have, never will. I'm not in it to compete. I just want a good story and a finished game. Not weekly code updates.

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brainfreeze77@reddit

The only achievements I ever cared about were in WoW. The ones that either gave you a cool reward like a mount or a new title that was cool.

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Bondedknight@reddit

I think the first time I realized that I didn't care was with Lego Marvel Superheroes. Im at like 98% and asked myself, "Do I really want to frustrate myself and try to run these timed races over and over and over just so I get to 100% ?"

The answer was a big No. Plus, I only have like 15 minutes at a time to play during the week.

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robcado@reddit

New pinball machines have achievements and those are really fun compared to vg achievements for me. The physical, kinetic satisfaction is addictive as all hell. the achievements make for good challenges.

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ThereBeDucks@reddit

Yes, for no real reason. I don't brag to anyone about it, but I "need" to get them.

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Less_Likely@reddit

Depends on game and achievements. The game is fun and the achievements reward different styles of play or are fun and challenging objectives, then completing achievements is definitely something that I will start doing to extend my interest.

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broken_mononoke@reddit

I think they're good if you want to add an extra challenge to a game you already enjoy. A sense of accomplishment outside of the game itself can be nice. In some games it can create some fun times just trying to get a certain achievement, but I certainly don't like the grindy achievements...or grindy games for that matter.

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ThaVolt@reddit

I like to 100% (or close) all my games. I've been doing it for over 30 years. (Max level, best gears, etc)

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meatee@reddit

If it's fun to do and makes sense in the context of the game, then I'll try to get the Platinum. If it's just repetitive grinding or ultra difficult for no good reason, then nah.

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andrewclarkson@reddit

Not really. Maybe if it's something that takes some extra skill or uncommon moves or whatever but the way they just load them up in modern titles just seems silly and excessive.

I have a hard time finding games I like anymore mainly because of time. I don't have time to spend hours a day playing stuff so I never build up enough skill to be competitive online anymore. When I do have an hour or two to hop on and play first there always seems to be a multi-GB update that needs to be installed. Then when I get into the game it's usually changed from the last time I played so I have to re-orient myself.

I just want to hop on and have fun for a bit, I don't care about leaderboards or ladders or any of that stuff. Sometimes the new content can be fun but constantly reworking the game is annoying for someone like me who just wants to just goof around for an hour or two once a week. The last "modern" thing I really got into was Overwatch which I guess has been a while now.... Blizzard absolutely ran it into the ground trying to cater to the whole competitive gaming scene as far as I'm concerned.

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majorjoe23@reddit

I think it’s fun when one pops up, but I never go out of my way to get one.

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GGIAS@reddit

This is pretty much it for me, too. "Oh, neat" and then carrying on with things.

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Scrotchety@reddit

The first time I saw achievements was in Half Life 2 - Episode 2. "Shoot 500 glowbugs?? What the fuck is this bullshit? They're quantifying 'fun' now?!" thought I.

Cut to a few years later where I'm going through the achievements like a To Do list in WoW:WOTLK, pissing away weeks of my life for my Scrotchety the Insane title 🙄

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mundoid@reddit

Nah, not really.

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RyanLanceAuthor@reddit

A little. Normally no but I'm trying to unlock skins in COD Black Ops right now like it's 2004.

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sator-2D-rotas@reddit

No. I want to enjoy the game, not cross something off a list.

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arc_prime@reddit

I think they distract from the game itself and distract from being immersed in the game. I appreciate that Nintendo never implemented them for likely this same reason. Let the game speak for itself without relying on external motivators.

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piscian19@reddit

Only if it unlocks something I want in game.

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FastEngineering5534@reddit

Yeah nah fuck that shit. I play every game on easy now, and if the game takes longer than 15 hours (5 if indie) I opt out. In the 90s I’d play everything on hard and go completist. Ain’t nobody got time for that nowadays.

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PercentageRoutine310@reddit

Nope. Don't care for it. When that culture started to happen by the 7th gen of gaming (PS3, Xbox 360), it was a generation I skipped. I didn't get back to console gaming until 2017, about 10 years from the last time I played my PS2 and Wii.

I did 100% FF7 Remake on my Steam Deck last July. First time I ever 100% a game. Took me about 2 weeks to beat the main story but about 3 months to get everything including 100% for Intergrade. I wouldn't want to do that again. It took me a week and about 10 hours playing time to beat Weiss. Then I figured a setup that I could beat him like 90% of the time. Defeated him over 150x.

I was going to 100% Shenmue III but I don't want to go through catching 1000 fishes. I suggest for people to just ENJOY the game. Trying to platinum it or whatever is only going to stress you like it's work and not something for fun and escape. I hear it's a b*tch to platinum FF7 Rebirth. They made it 10x more annoying than Remake. Tons of mini games to go through. I will probably not plat it once I play it on a Steam Deck or a PS5 Pro if I ever get one. I still won't pay $700 for a PS5 Pro just to play Rebirth properly. What a ripoff just to play one game.

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NoMembership2831@reddit

Not at all, I don't play a game for its achievements!

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gimmeslack12@reddit

Game achievements will forever be a new concept to me.

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MaxPowerrr85@reddit

This is pretty much where I am as well

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SunshineInDetroit@reddit

for a badge? no.

for a new item/armor/weapon? sure.

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Ltimbo@reddit

I care about achievements but only because they are there and I feel like I’m supposed to. Playing retro games feels like a break from that. If I pop in a SNES cart, I can actually enjoy the game and not worry about the artificially created chores I have to do to play the game.

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