About achievements and trophies

[Wolf]

Well I guess I fall in between, I like certain achievements, those for which you really have to strive for, those who really represent an achievement.
As well as those that have a purpose, like showing your skills in relation to a role, namely if you have the basic skills and how good are yours.

But I also hate the filler ones, like those that are essentially a participation trophy, like those you get for starting a career in a racing sim.
And a lot of the games that I like don't really have achievements or are for several reasons are unfinisheable when it comes to achievements.

I'm in to have fun, so if an achievement makes playing the game more fun, by challenging me to do something I like it, but on the other hand I don't need a game to have achievements.
Certain things in games are achievements in themselves, for which you need no bags.
Like your first kill in a combat Flight simulation, as they don't come easy and require a significant ammount of work, or winning an endurance race.

If you get an "achievement" or a badge for something that is truly an achievement then I like it.
For example finishing a scenario where you drive a steam loco, with 950 out of 1,000 points.
Why?
Well because one second of wheelslip means 30 points deducted, and it's very easy to wheelslip a steam locomotive.
So two wheelslips and you are at -60 points and that achievement is gone, which means you have to string together a perfect run.
Or getting points deducted for being just 30 seconds late.

Or another example from the same pack, getting a steam loco that was rated for a maximum of 100 mph up to 100 mph....with 8 passenger coaches in tow.
As that is actually hard and it took me 50 miles to get up to that speed......most of which was creeping up the speed between 90 and 100 mph.
And it's one where I only know of 11 other people that have it.

I also like those achievements that make me grin or laugh, like the flushed achievement from Half-Life 2......yeah I actually went back to get that one, as it reminded me of a favourite memory of mine, when I killed a Combine Soldier by hurling a toilet at him with the Gravity Gun!

[Magvel]

I go for the platinum trophy if :

1. They're fairly easy, one crazy hard achievement and I'm not gonna do it, it's not a matter of "git gud", I already did irritating trophies (looking at you damn monolith trophy from danganronpa v3). It's a matter of having fun
2. I liked the game. I never played a game again after getting the plat on it so it's kind of a reward for a game I really liked.

Otherwise I don't really care for trophies, if they're indicating that I missed a possible outcome (there's 6 endings in the nonary games, tbf I played the ds version so idk for the PS4 version but there's probably an achievement for each of them) I might go for it but otherwise I'm not.

[Broken Mirror]

I usually don't really care about achievements. I even turned off the notifications for them. Yet, for one game (can't really remember which) I went for all achievements because they demanded things you wouldn't usually do or go places you won't visit during a normal playthrough (maybe it was Bioshock Infinite 🤔). The only other game I've “platinumed” was Life is Strange because it's so easy to do so.

As soon as getting those trophies feels like a chore or a job I couldn't care less. Gaming should be fun and entertaining, not feel like work.

[Florida Man]

If I like a game I'll do my best to 1000/1000 it. I find achievements to be a fun meta game to play.

[SmoothCriminal]

I'll try to get all achievements on a game if I really like it or if I'm reasonably close after a couple playthroughs. I like the challenge of some of them and having to adjust my tactics to complete them is like trying to solve a puzzle.

[JackofTears]

I really couldn't care less about achievements in games, the only I ever acquire are those which come naturally to me during gameplay. More often than not, achievements are just an artificial way to encourage grinding and prolong gameplay.

[MadMummy76]

Achievements are what is partly wrong with the games industry today. Instead of filling the games with interesting content to keep the player engaged, they make up arbitrary achievements with virtually zero effort to make the player grind for some e-peen growth.

I give zero ducks about achievements, in fact it makes me cringe when an icon appears in the corner of the screen "achievement unlocked" for something trivial, that you can't avoid even if you tried. The game should be its own reward, the sense of achievement you feel when you succed in it, after you figured out a good strategy to play.

I feel sorry for people who are conned into hunting down even the last most arbitrary of achievements. They are wasting their time IMO.

[twidget]

This,

If I like a game I'll do my best to 1000/1000 it. I find achievements to be a fun meta game to play.

...and this.

... I like the challenge of some of them and having to adjust my tactics to complete them is like trying to solve a puzzle.

[aileron]

Are people really conned into it? I do think it can be a shortcut for developers rather than putting more interesting content into the game or an ingame reason to do something. However, I also think that the people going after the achievements genuinely want to. They derive some fun or entertainment or sense of achievement from them. Nothing wrong with having them, just let me turn off notifications for them and hide them.

[Spect3r]

Till this day i am still to understand what they are good for.
I couldnt care less about them.

[Bidzin]

For me achievements separates ppl who want to play and feel joy by it, and those who are achievemnts whores that need some purpose to be able to enjoy game. I think they are nice think to ppl who need to max everythink but they are not really hurting those who are not interested in them.

[kpnut]

I generally ignore achievements and trophies, if I get one I get one if I don't I don't I'm not going to lose sleep because I didn't collect all 20 wizard foreskins in a playthrough. Wheren I really get annoyed with them though is when someone judges your worth in a game by how many achievements you get in it (I have a mate that does this, he got so annoying that I left a discord chat with him in it because he was being that annoying about it.)

[Resurrection7]

I am on the far end of the Achievement spectrum as one could classify as an achievement whore. I live for the sound and notification, even my phone text alert is the Xbox achievement unlocked sound. 100 percenting a game gives me sense of joy and fulfillment in addition to that of completing an excellent narrative. One gripe I do have, I believe someone mentioned earlier, is being forced to play multiplayer mode to obtain 100%. I don't care how good or popular the mode is, playing multiplayer is something that the chore/annoyance for me.

[TakahiroSama]

I tend to be a bit of a completionist but I focus more on playing all the game has to offer and less about the achievements. I like to hunt them but some are just boring and badly designed ( hate the "kill X low level monsters" and achievements of that kind). I also tend to buy games way after release while on sale because I don't have much disposal income for gaming so a lot of times if the game has a multiplayer mode and multiplayer achievements, noone os playing it and so I can't really get them. I still try to 100%/platinum games I like and the achievements are reasonably attainable.

[Jeftah]

I rarely play games without them anymore. I love going out of my way and play a certain way to get a few of these.

Hell, I don't even play retro games without them either, lol. Check out Retroachievements.org, they put out some achievement sets for old games. The Megaman X series have some really fun (and challenging!) ones to get.