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Do you care about achievements and trophies in your games?
- Thread starter TheGhost
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I don't care at all, i will do a challenge if i find it interesting, not because there's a trophy attached to it...
i wish doing these would unlock rewards or cheat code like before though! The most recent exemple was red faction guerilla who did exactly that
i wish doing these would unlock rewards or cheat code like before though! The most recent exemple was red faction guerilla who did exactly that
I care about them for the games I like the most, it's nice to have extra challenges and incentives for a game you really enjoy playing.
Otherwise they're useful as progress indicators to see how far your friends have progressed in a game compared to your own.
Otherwise they're useful as progress indicators to see how far your friends have progressed in a game compared to your own.
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It's getting rewarded twice as I see these things pop at the same time as the in game notification. Don't see the point.
I love my trophies.... but seriously they suck on the PS5.
The quick screen with the cards is awesome to jump into some trophy hunting.... but the visualization is terrible. I can't read the entire trophy description without opening them... seems like 3-4 words and nothing else appears on the card.
The quick screen with the cards is awesome to jump into some trophy hunting.... but the visualization is terrible. I can't read the entire trophy description without opening them... seems like 3-4 words and nothing else appears on the card.
I enjoy them. While I see why others may not care, you can easily disable the notifications on PS5 so you never really need to think about them if you don't want to.
by themselves i never did, but with ms rewards/gamepass quests and the daily 50 ms points for getting a cheevo, they're more useful for me now
I didn't vote. Most of the time I don't care, but I've turned my platinum list into a rare badge of honor for games I'm loving (and for which there is no bullshit trophy). So far, only Don't Starve Together, Spiderman, and Death Stranding have made the list, but it's fun to me that it's so exclusive.
When I get around to playing through BB again, I will be very close to getting the platinum and will probably go for it. If they don't remaster it first 🤞
When I get around to playing through BB again, I will be very close to getting the platinum and will probably go for it. If they don't remaster it first 🤞
Most games have annoying achievements (collect x number of y) just to pad out the time, which I ignore. I like boss-/story-related achievements the best.
Overall, I don't really go out of my way to get the more ridiculous trophies.
Overall, I don't really go out of my way to get the more ridiculous trophies.
Some people get enjoyment out of the challenge of fully completing a game, and I get that. If it gets you more play time out of a game you enjoy then great.
I've never been bothered about them, and I find in order to get 100% achievements/platinum it's often a chore.
Finding well done trophies/achievements is really rare.
I prefer to play a game because the core gameplay keeps me engaged, not doing random things to unlock a pop up.
Spider-Man remastered is a recent example for me, I enjoyed the game so decided to take a look at the trophies and noticed you get one for having to find 50 secret photo locations, that's just not fun for me.
I also find often people cheese trophies/achievements which I've never understood.
I've never been bothered about them, and I find in order to get 100% achievements/platinum it's often a chore.
Finding well done trophies/achievements is really rare.
I prefer to play a game because the core gameplay keeps me engaged, not doing random things to unlock a pop up.
Spider-Man remastered is a recent example for me, I enjoyed the game so decided to take a look at the trophies and noticed you get one for having to find 50 secret photo locations, that's just not fun for me.
I also find often people cheese trophies/achievements which I've never understood.
I really only care about two things when it comes to achievements:
1) Can I personally do any of them, beyond just "Beat game on X difficulty"? I don't feel like getting my character to level 99 if it means playing the game for much longer than I thought I would, for example.
2) Do any of the achievements give you a weird gamerscore that isn't divisible by 5? If yes, I will almost certainly avoid that game.
Other than that, they're mostly just optional tasks that don't have any bearing on whether or not I'm actually enjoying the game.
1) Can I personally do any of them, beyond just "Beat game on X difficulty"? I don't feel like getting my character to level 99 if it means playing the game for much longer than I thought I would, for example.
2) Do any of the achievements give you a weird gamerscore that isn't divisible by 5? If yes, I will almost certainly avoid that game.
Other than that, they're mostly just optional tasks that don't have any bearing on whether or not I'm actually enjoying the game.
I do to the extent its nice to have a record of which games I've played/completed, and for minor incentives on the side of games I'm already playing. But I'm not going to go too far out of the way to get them.
The poll doesn't seem to have my answer.
I do care about Achievements, because they give me more to do in the games I love. Many of the tasks that I perform to earn them would not have been things I tried doing on my own, so they lead me to enjoy the same games in new ways.
I don't really care about my total Gamerscore.
I do care about Achievements, because they give me more to do in the games I love. Many of the tasks that I perform to earn them would not have been things I tried doing on my own, so they lead me to enjoy the same games in new ways.
I don't really care about my total Gamerscore.
I really don't care. I like the idea of mini-incentives outside of what the main game presents to you, maybe they provide weird incentives for you to complete (e.g. avatar clothes, new themes, etc.), but they're not essential to me.
I like having them as an easy way to track and list all of the games I've played over the years. Occasionally I'll come across a game I want to 100%, or an achievement that I think adds a nice twist to a game, but something I really enjoy is being able to compare the different ways I've played games compared to my family and friends. For that reason I really appreciate games that have achievements for pacifist/stealth/whatever types of runs, so I can see how people I know played the game.
Trophies / achievements are cool, but I really don't pay much mind to them. As a matter of fact, I usually turn off or silence most notifications when playing games. This is especially true for cinematic or story-heavy titles, where the notifications just get in the way.
no, i hardly ever even look at them. if i do and there's one i can easily get i'll do it but i'll never go out of my way for them
Sure. I have 11 Platinums and I think 5 full 1000 on the Xbox side, so for games that I really really like I try and get them all. Otherwise, I still enjoy doing something in-game and ping, oh what did I do? quick check, and back to the game.
Not in the past, but lately it's achievements to get me some reward points to get me some games and a controller, so sure!
Early today I hit 100% on Ori, but I have all achievement notifications turned off. I was curious if I had knocked everything out, so I pulled up my score and saw that I saw that I had a bunch of dumb, arbitrary challenges that would undoubtedly make for a worse experience. I get why people like them, but they're just the antithesis of what makes the game fun in the first place. I figured that naturally knocking out everything, seeing everything, and unlocking everything would be enough. Guess this is why I don't chase these kinds of things.
I like it if the game makes unique-playstyle achievements, if that makes sense. I don't go out of my way to 100% though.
I remember playing a visual novel that requires all the endings, but most of the ~40 endings are just premature game overs from choosing incorrectly (yes, it's a bad visual novel to begin with). At that point I realized 100% completion can get dumb.
I remember playing a visual novel that requires all the endings, but most of the ~40 endings are just premature game overs from choosing incorrectly (yes, it's a bad visual novel to begin with). At that point I realized 100% completion can get dumb.
When implemented correctly they offer you the chance to experience areas, features or playstyles of a game you might not have experienced otherwise and actually end up enjoying. It's a welcome addition that has the potential to enhance the replay value of all games.