Do You Consider Yourself an Achievement/Trophy Whore? (DP11)

[isturbo1984]

Achievement/Trophies. As a self described hunter of Achievements myself, its a bit hard to be biased here. But I will do my best to give tiered poll options. But I wanted to pass the question to everyone here, do you consider yourself an achievement hunter in video games, or rather do you care about achievements in video games at all? Drop a reply and tell me and everyone how you game surrounding achievements, did you used to be a fan of them and lost interest, or maybe just don't give a crap about them.

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Poll History
Yesterday: What Feb 15th Release Are You Most Excited For? (10)
Thursday: What Games Are You Most anticipating from the Nintendo Direct? (09)
Wednesday: Exactly How Many Platforms (2+) Do You Own Out of PC, XBO, PS4 and the Switch? (08)
Tuesday: What is Your Opinion on Bullet Sponges? (07)
Monday: What is Your Favorite Telltale Game? (06)
Sunday: Are You a Pokemon Gamer? (05)

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Daily Poll 11:
Do You Care About Achievements?

[SirenaBeach]

Their nice but my main objective is to play and experience the game. Then I go back and try to get as many achievements as possible.

[Jokerthefoolio]

I really enjoyed getting all the achievements in Stanley Parable but other than that and my plat in Spiderman I don't actively achievement hunt

[Thomas_JCG]

I don't really care about them. Some games have Easter eggs or secrets that give you achievements and those are the only ones I go out of my way to get, but I'm actually interested to see the secrets and not in the achievement itself.

[Musou Tensei]

It really depends on the game, how much i enjoy it and how difficult the trophies are, like I love Tales of games but their trophies are often pretty bad so i don't really bother, right now with Tokyo Xanadu eX+ though I think it's worth a try, but I'm not obsessive about it, if I realize that it's too much I will just stop, I did so in many games before, like most Yakuza games, .hack G.U. etc.

[MadMummy76]

Achievements are a trap. They can distract you from the game. Instead of experiencing the game the way you should, you try to scrounge every last corner of a building to find every meaningless loot item, so you can get the "collector" achivement or something similar.

So I don't structure my gaming around them. They only bother me when they make an achivement out of things that you can't avoid even if you wanted to. How is that an achievement? I understand making some kills an achievement, but some games make achievements out of picking up your first weapon or doing your first customization. That's pointless.

[isturbo1984]

I disagree with your "trap" argument. Nobody is forcing people to go out of their way to collect them. And people have been intentionally going out of their way to get collectables before Achievements existed. Not only that, but do you feel speed runs, hi-scores and other schools of game mastery are equally traps that detract from experiencing the game? It's all optional for the player's enjoyment, just like everything else. Also, why ignore the many people who do enjoy them for exactly what they are?

[MrFine]

Ehhhh yeah. It doesn’t feel like i’ve truely mastered the game unless i’ve got all the achievements. But then again, I’m not gonna spend days on end doing stupid achievements. (Play the game 14 different times and do 1 thing different each time at various points in the story to get different endings X_X)

[isturbo1984]

You don't need to feel anything weird for saying it. Achievements are part of games these days. A person can't shoot to get 100% game completion and then just cherry pick what parts of the game they don't complete in order to say so, lol. I see people doing this when it comes to all sorts of things. "I completed the game 100%, except for a few collectables," or "I completed the game 100%, just not on the hardest difficulty," or in this case "I completed the game 100%, but i didn't get all the achievements." There are 99 other ways of describing one's completion percentage that haven't done everything in the game, lol.

[shinkai]

When I first got my PS3 yeah I was a trophy whore. I played some terrible games all to get the platinum. After playing Damnation... I was done playing shit games just for a platinum. Now I only go for platinum for games I really enjoy.

[teawithaura]

Whether I strive to get achievements or not depends on the game. Let me present three different examples.

1) Lately I have been playing Euro Truck Simulator 2 to try and get achievements in addition to just relaxing.
2) I want to get every achievements in Just Cause 2, but the game has a DirectX error I cannot fix, so my progress there has grinded to a halt.
3) Spec Ops: The Line leaves me no desire to play again after completing the campaign once, so achievements is out of the question.

[Imnotanybody]

I like having a goal to go towards, but if it goes against my playstyle or would involve un-fun grinding I don't go for it.

[Inzoreno]

I use to like Achievements, but it eventually became a compulsion and no longer became fun for me, so I dumped the XBOX for the Switch in order to break myself from the habit.

[Hyperweasle]

Only if they come with a reward, just getting a little comment telling me I got an achievement isn't enough. However if it unlocks something worthwhile in game, then i care.

[Hyperweasle]

I don't really care about them. Some games have Easter eggs or secrets that give you achievements and those are the only ones I go out of my way to get, but I'm actually interested to see the secrets and not in the achievement itself.

That's the way I feel, to a point I just find achievements with no in game reward to back them up with kinda pointless and lazy. Anyone can make a snarky comment about the player doing something special. Taking the time to give the player something special and interesting when accomplishing something I feel shows the dev is more creative and cares more about the precious time you used. I seen people spend weeks on achievements to get what? A jpeg of maybe a trophy and fancy comment that usually boils down to "good job".

[twidget]

Achievements hunting can be a lot of fun.
If I like a game and didn't/couldn't get all the achievements in one play-through, I'll play-through again.

If you're trudging joylessly through a game to collect achievements, you're doing it wrong.