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Citizen Cook 20 Sep @ 7:22am

Achievements

How do you feel about achievements? I have a love/hate relationship with them. On the one hand I'd prefer not to deal with them at all. When I play on my Switch 2 I find it liberating to only play as much of a game and in the way that I want to without feeling pressured to meet specific criteria.
On the other hand i do get that dopamine hit when I unlock an achievement. Then there's the fact that achievements don't mean all that much on Steam as opposed to the closed platforms of Xbox and PlayStation since they can be cheated.

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Mad Scientist 20 Sep @ 7:25am

Never cared about achievements, they're meaningless, the game being enjoyable is all that matters.

Chika Ogiue 20 Sep @ 7:35am

Personally, couldn't care less. They bring nothing to the table for me.

Myrth the Plague 20 Sep @ 9:14am

Originally posted by Citizen Cook:
How do you feel about achievements? I have a love/hate relationship with them. On the one hand I'd prefer not to deal with them at all. When I play on my Switch 2 I find it liberating to only play as much of a game and in the way that I want to without feeling pressured to meet specific criteria.
On the other hand i do get that dopamine hit when I unlock an achievement. Then there's the fact that achievements don't mean all that much on Steam as opposed to the closed platforms of Xbox and PlayStation since they can be cheated.

It depends for me honestly. For some games I will hunt for achievements because I love the game and I think that plus my playtime shows my live for it. For others I want to show that I have done as much as I can and can say with a certain authority that its garbage. Regardless they don't matter really, the only ones I hate are the ones that require a bad multilayer portion in a single player game *cough* *cough* far cry.

Mr. Smiles 20 Sep @ 9:16am

Kinda fun to get as they entice me to do things i wouldn't normally do in a game, thus extending my playtime.

But i am generally indifferent to their existence. I don't even care enough to SAM the ones I'm missing.

Kargor 20 Sep @ 9:29am

Originally posted by Citizen Cook:
How do you feel about achievements?

I might do the achievements that are simple enough to do, and ignore the rubbish ones.

Princess Luna 20 Sep @ 11:39am

Why need Switch 2?

om namo 20 Sep @ 11:49am

when i finished cyberpunk i was very happy with myself and looking at the achievements afters gave me more of a reason to have dopamine. or whatever.

Sony called them trophies back in the ps3 era (idk about now) so, achievements/trophies either way you spell it. they are a good idea