Thread 723733945

Can you explain why people enjoy unlocking achievements in games?

>>723733945 (OP)
Shows progression or gives some people bragging rights

The sensation of rewarding give your brain dopamine

>>723733945 (OP)
Same reason I love hearing the Zelda secret chime

Achievement hunters are deranged, but I think there's definitely some merit in developers recognizing a particularly interesting accomplishment within the game. Achievements being a standardized way of doing this wasn't an inherently terrible idea, but most devs use it wrong (i.e. achievements for completing a story chapter).

>>723733945 (OP)
By not feeling like a shitter.
My steam profile has maybe been seen by 300 people but I need at least 50% on games I like. Simple as. Don't talk to me if your average completion rate is sub 40%

>>723733945 (OP)
it fun
notification go beep hehe

I never understood that either. Guess you'd have to be a retarded kid to give into Microsoft's scam.
At least give people something worthwhile to spend their achievements points on. It could have been so much more addictive but they chose to cheapen out instead

>>723734346
You actually get microsoft reward points for getting achievements and playing games. And you get even more if you play game pass games.
and then you can buy games and subscription with them.
If you're hardcore and get everything you can finance a gamepass ultimate and have some more. The downside being that gamepass games fucking suck

>>723733945 (OP)
I never used to understand it but then I discovered RetroAchievements and I'm enjoying earning them on my emulators. The reason achievements suck is because it ties you to one platform, I have a consolefag friend who refuses to buy games on Steam, GOG, or Epic because he won't get PSN trophies or Xbox achievements for it, he also won't ever buy a Switch 2 because Nintendo don't have them. It's a scam for retards, but they can be nice if it's not attached to DRM or any specific platform.

I wish I had the drive achievement hunters have for like anything in life really.

>500 flags? Heh, no problem, that's just one afternoon Big D Darrel has the video guide.
>level 99 in multiplayer let's BOOST UP add me on Discord!

>>723734551
Your misrepresenting this a bit. It isn't like "you get an achievement you get points". Sometimes your "quests" will reward you if you get X achievements with in Y time period, either tied to a specific game or not. And you need to claim them when you are done.

>>723733945 (OP)
Can you explain why you beat games?

>>723734762
Better achievement hunting than being the average mouthbreather who is the counterpart demographic to
>Completed the Tutorial : 24%

>>723735012
Yea it's not directly liked to your score though I remember that having a certain G score gave you some better rewards or something. I swear they also tried to do g score conversion at some point but I can't remember

>>723733945 (OP)
its a matter of games, some games it sucks

>>723734073
>(/v/) Achievement Unlocked: First Post... Best Post?
>Be the first person to comment in a thread

>>723734281
>(/v/) Achievement Unlocked: The Best Policy
>Post a refreshingly honest take

>>723735185
>(/v/) Achievement Unlocked: ACKSHUALLY
>Correct someone in a harsh and condescending manner

>>723733945 (OP)
Because I am compelled to "complete" games so that I don't have to worry about completing the games in theoretical future playthroughs and I can just enjoy myself.

>>723735012
I just remembered, it was Sony that decided you could use your trophies to buy games.
And then Phil Spencer said xbox would let you do the same and then ever did anything as always.
And then sony killed the program anyway.
God I hate video games

>>723733945 (OP)
Here is a recent example. I got the urge to play XCOM 2 again but knew that I didn't really have the urge in me to finish a campaign. So instead I opted to try for the 4-man squad limit achievement and thus I had a more defined reason to play a full campaign.

>>723736857
It was gonna be abused anyway.

it's fun
gives me a reason to 100% complete a game and do everything in it as long as the achievements / trophies require me to, even if they don't I still do.

I like playstation's system the best. Steam is a joke because the achievements mean nothing and people cheat to unlock them anyways. Xbox is dead but that's what I grew up unlocking shit for in the 3360 era, I have like 100k gamerscore on xbox even though I haven't played a game on xbox in almost 15 years.

Honestly I didn't even really use playstation until now either. I've been playing so many older games I already played on steam / xbox years ago on the PS4 / 5 and getting all the trophies, it's a lot of fun to do and gives me a reason to revisit games I might not otherwise play again on PC.

I don't know why they make so many people asshurt, It's a nice completion tool if you don't have 'tism and can say "NO!" and filter the extremely boring grinds
Hearing that *ding* of a Platinum trophy after you're completely done with a game is a great feeling

>>723733945 (OP)
Your brain likes progress, even if it’s an illusion - it’s the same reason why almost all modern games include damage numbers.
Number go up = “progress” to the mind.

>>723733945 (OP)

Some of them their neat. Halo 3 had some very specific ones in multiplayer. Or specific co-op ones. That was a game worth getting them all. But then nowadays you get gay full autism ones like Wolfsteins "Mein Leben". Which is beat the game on very hard difficulty with permadeath. Or everygame just has to have a speerun beat the game under this amount of time. Again thanks to those ocd autists.

>>723735959
kek

>>723733945 (OP)
>Is an extra 100% checklist on top of the in-game list.
>Usually pushes you to do things you might not want to do like higher difficulties or challenges causing you to see more of the game or experience more of it than you naturally would have without them.
I would have never touched Proud or Critical on Kingdom Hearts without 1.5 and 2.5's trophies. Now I only play on Critical.
>In some games it can work as a way to mark progression through a game and note what is coming up next to prepare for.
This specific point is more for RetroAchievements as they have their achievements ordered in when they would be achieved during a playthrough instead of randomly grouped together.
>Gives you proof you did something which greatly helps when discussing or arguing certain things about a game.

They don't harm anyone, they're fun to go after most of the time, and as long as you're not the kind of nutjob who buys games only to get achievements in them or avoids games because they don't have achievements they're not really doing anything to you. If they bother you that much you can always turn their notices off, and it's not like it takes much effort for devs to add them either.

>>723733945 (OP)
I seriously don't give a damn about achievements in gaming.

>>723739290
>Some of them their neat. Halo 3 had some very specific ones in multiplayer. Or specific co-op ones. That was a game worth getting them all.
Halo 3's were terrible and the example of why you should never do multiplayer achievements.
>Mongoose roadkill on ranked FFA which basically means your opponent has to be standing still and you hit them dead center with the thing or it just flings them away while also avoiding anyone else in the map shooting at you or each other.
>Spartan Laser a Banshee which the autoaim loves to fight you from doing.
>Get a Splatter Spree on a very specific set of DLC map when it's already hard enough to get one or two roadkills in a game.
>Go 10 kills without dying when most people survive for like three kills before dying from a stray grenade, RL, sniper, or BR to the head.
>Go 15-0 on a specific set of DLC maps that never show up and also win the match.
Then 343 made the Halo lists even worse by adding in LASO to every game.

It's like Girl Scout badges I guess. At the start they made some sense to chase since they could give indications on how to unlock secrets, but that hasn't been a factor for generations now.

>>723733945 (OP)
Substitute for actual IRL achievements

>>723734346
that image is 20 years old.
Holy retro!

>>723740338
>IRL achievements
Like what?

>>723733945 (OP)
Pp go up.

>>723741389
Impregnating a hot bitch. Cheating on the hot bitch so that you can impregnate other hot bitches.

>>723733945 (OP)
Achievements and Trophies didn't always have this but more recently they attached stats to them, so you can see what % of other owners of that game have earned them. Helps give the perception of a bit more value or sense of accomplishment if it's a rare one.
Xbox made it so every achievement unlocks a high res 16:9 image, a screenshot or piece of concept art etc, which you can set as your home screen background. So you can customize it to remind yourself that "hell yeah, I beat that game on the hardest difficulty" or whatever

>>723742380
It's not worth looking at the global statistics because they count everyone who has ever launched the game. It's why you use sites like TrueAchievements/Trophies or PSNProfiles because it gives you an actual view of how difficult/rare what you went for is because the sites are filled with people actually going for them instead of everyone.

>pirate Metaphor fit girl
>suddenly achievement unlocked

What the fuck since when do pirated games have achievements?!
Never cared for them to be honest.

>>723733945 (OP)
Cheevos are fucking gay. I'm here to play a game not collect retarded useless digital points. Nintendo has it right. Snoy and Xbox need to get rid of them.

>>723742380
It is slightly amusing seeing 70% of "gamers" drop a game half way.