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what's the freaking point of getting achievements?
>>318300545
>volf4321
>>318300545
Capturing the growing autism population in first world countries.
>>318300608
the hacker 4 chan is coming to get you boogieboogieboogieboogie
On XBLA/PSN it's fun if you're a scorefag. On Steam there's no point.
Fun incentive
>>318300545
Pretty old screenshot there OP
yes, i think that's the answear i wanted to hear. thanks anon.
to feel a sense of achievement
https://www.reddit.com/user/volf4321
Every time someone posts their steam account name, I feel fucking awful, because mine is the most cringey shit you could think of.
I can't change it.
>>318302014
>>318302065
mine is dumb too but i have the excuse that I didnt make it since I bought it from a friend that wanted to buy weed but had no cash
Fuck knows, its not even just gaming now
I bought an xbone and was watching some series on amazon prime or netflix, one of the two, and every other episode i kept getting goddamn achievements for things like "watching 1 episode of horror, watching 5 episodes of drama, watching a film"
It's stupid
>>318300714
There's equally no point on any fucking platform.
>>318302014
Pizza anyone? :P
>>318300714
>fun on XBLA/PSN because you have a number that goes up
>I love showing 'em online, it's the social aspect that really makes games enjoyable
You're pathetic.
>>318300545
Sometimes it's nice if the dev throws in creative achievements to give you a challenge run. Like doing a run where you only use pistols, or beating a game without saving or stuff like that.
But usually it's just boring shit like "kill 50 enemies", "beat chapter 1/2/3/4/5", "beat the optional boss"
99% of the time I don't care for them but I have defenetly done shit I would have never done in a game in order to get them, I've also used them as an excuse to replay certain games. Xcom for example, all my playthroughs have been based on getting the achievements for it. I use them for my own interest not to show others
Showing off your ability to get actually hard ones like seven day survivor in Dead Rising.
So how do I join the PC master race /v/?
>>318302867
save money and be able to assemble $300~ pieces of legos
>>318302454
>beat chapter 1/2/3/4/5
These are more useful for the developer than anything else.
They can use them to determine stuff about the players or the game.
Like, if there's a huge drop off from chapter 3 completion to chapter 4 completion, maybe the difficulty jumps too much in that part of the game, or the quality just goes to shit at that point.
>>318302960
What's a good cheap build?
>>318303058
no such thing, theres no point if you arent going all the way
>>318303058
http://www.logicalincrements.com/
>>318303032
I think more devs should do what AC4 did, and let you rate the missions.
But you still can't get rid of e-peen points, I guess, or else all the 12-year-olds will throw a bitch fit.
>>318300545
I wish my steam game list was this small.
>>318303032
I like to look at those global stats on steam to see how many people actually finished the game or reached a certain point.
>>318302178
That's kinda a better excuse than mine. For me I just tell people "I was literally twelve years old when I made it"
>>318303564
It's just his installed games
>>318304002
Some of them are just sad
The first time I found out about how many people actually finish the games they play was an article that said only 10% of players had the achievement for completing the final mission in Red Dead Redemption
>>318300712
it's more that this is steam and you don't need to have numbers in your name so you just look stupid
>>318300545
>what's the freaking point
>freaking
get back to reddit faggot
obligatory
>>318301379
If you need this then you don´t feel a sense of achievement anyway.
Bonus for people who want something else to do. They are pretty easy to ignore if you're not autistic.
>>318301379
>I need a game to hand me an imaginary trophy to feel like I've done anything
>I don't play games to play games, I play them for a fake sense of achievement
>>318300836
isn't this some guy who actually got trolled here years ago?
>>318304239
this pic made me rage. no wonder MGSV was praised so much, i bet most people didn't even finish act 1
>not making up your own goals if you like the game enough and reaching them
Achievements are shit. They often don't target what actually matters and vice versa.
>get 10000000000 gold even though you absolutely don't need that much
Fucking waste of time.
>>318302245
Oh no! The evil hacker known as 4chan is going to get me! xDxddxddxDddd
Grow up, faggot.
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>>318300545
>freaking
>>318304994
If you play just to play, why ever finish a level? Why kill a single enemy? Why collect a single coin?
Games are inherently driven by achievement, retard.
>>318305091
>38.4% have completed the Sahelanthropus mission
wow you're right.
Some people were calling the ending the "secret ending" because so few people actually played the game enough to unlock it.
>>318300545
simple psychic trick to keep you playing
>>318303180
Anything under 700 dollars is shit and that doesn't even include Windows.
>>318305361
Yes, I agree.
That's why they don't need cheevos.
>>318305091
>>318305414
It will be the same with every game you look up, even short games
>>318304656
>Please let me buy your game Jade
>>318305435
>not buying sketchy registration keys cheap as fuck on r/softwareswap
>>318300545
I guess poorfags probably get a bit of extra play time out of it
In a way I hope one day Steam will implement a use for them like they did on a summer sale years ago.
But considering how easy is to cheat for them that may never happen again. You'd think that would encourage them to implement better anti cheating methods but fuck that.
Maybe one day or maybe never. But I’ll be waiting. I also like some of the challenges they provide, but no doubt they are useless most of the time.
>>318304239
I'm part of this. Game crashed a couple times and I just lost motivation to play.
Sometimes I like achievement hunting just to give me something to do if I'm bored. Otherwise there isn't a point.
>>318300545
achievements on steam are probably the least exciting thing ever
somehow, getting them on xbox is really rewarding
because pic real
>>318303180
Why does it recommend an AMD 6350 at 700 dollars, switch to an i3 at 750 and then go back to a 6350 at 980 dollars? I smell bullshit.
>>318300545
I was one of the first people on my WoW server to get the Over 9000 achievement, as well as Battlemaster, and I got the Violet Proto on the first day possible. As an achievement whore who had 100 mounts and killed all of the rare mobs... I can say that achievements are FUCKING RETARDED.
WoW is the only game I was a real achievement whore in, and the feeling is completely empty. It is really just something for you to put time into. The only achievements I would say are worth trying for are things that require a great amount of skill. Any time sink achievements are just garbage and should be avoided.
>>318305702
steam has no sound for getting them
that is the problem.
>>318300545
It just gives people some objectives in games they feel they've already exhausted or need something to do in. It's just a fun challange, but some achievements are ridiculously hard or straight up bullshit like world conquest as Ryuku in EU4.
>>318304194
Well....what is it?
>>318305705
>tfw get stuck and bored on a puzzle
>too proud to cheat
>but want the letter achievements
>>318305574
>this entire post
>>318305642
>wanting MORE gamification bullshit
>>318305503
>>318304239
>>318305414
>>318305503
Plenty of people play in offline mode where achievements aren't counted.
Granted, it's still a large percentage that buy the game and never play it.
makes me feel good when I do the thing
They're not necessary but I like getting them when they're available
>>318305819
its also a boring pop up notification
its just a fucking square
It's even worse when they are in-game achievements.
>You beat the game at highest difficulty? Well we could give you this new cool outfit for your character OR you can have this lovely meaningless tiny icon and we'll sell you the outfit as DLC later
Fucking jews.
>>318305705
what game?
>>318305702
Yes, the notification ring sound on the PS3 is pretty satisfying, and the icon looks like a badge or something nice. The steam ones look like some system update notification.
>>318300545
Rarest achievements thread?
>>318306018
>the unlocks are also cheevos
>game spoils biggest unlocks by having the locked achievements with descriptions of the thing in plain view
>>318300545
to get you to buy steam games. Its skinner box manipulation and you are the rat.
ALRIGHT YOU FAGGOTS POST YOUR 3 RAREST ACHIEVEMENTS AND THEN FUNPOST ABOUT THEM
1. Insurgency - Stronghold IV (0.21%)
2. Insurgency - Stronghold III (0.63%)
3. New Vegas - Combat Veteran (1%)
>>318305876
unless the in-game achievement system also unlock you something special which is how they should implement this, they are fucking worthless
>>318306264
Nice proof there, faggot.
"oh no this is the part where he kills us"
"hello this is the part where i kill you"
chapter 9: the part where he kills you
achievement unlocked: the part where he kills you
>>318306308
fuck that shit
>mass effect
>get damage bonuses for cheevos
>can't turn them off
>>318306181
fucking Lost
>>318306156
my proudest cheetoh
How does this even happen? It's the very first time you do in the game. You literally only have to play it for seconds to get this. Do people just start up games and then immediately exit them again, only to never play them again?
>>318306028
LYNE
>>318306471
woops wrong pic
>>318306485
Very first thing*
E-peen
>>318306485
Some people buy a game on sale then never wind up playing it.
Some people play in offline mode.
Some people buy games to idle with the launch screen open to get steam trading cards
Some can be neat like kill a boss this way or something, but most of them are just ways to show how autistic you are like collecting all those feathers in assassins creed or some shit.
>>318306579
The game only has one achievement? bold.
desu
>>318306654
If you buy a game but never install it you don't count. Only if you actually launch the game.
>>318306264
Red Faction Guerilla Steam Edition - ARES' BLOODLUST (0.79%)
The Evil Within - Fumbling in the Dark (0.79%)
The Evil Within - You Had This Coming (0.84%)
>>318306485
I just hope, people are not buying games for steam cards
>mfw i make money using sam
>mfw I think achievements are the stupidest shit ever
>mfw no face
>>318306505
>$0.89
time to start selling those cards
>>318306156
It was fun
>>318301379
Before achievements the sense of achievement came from doing something on a whim. I still find things like that to do. It doesn't matter if there was a reward, but it gave you bragging rights. When it lead to an easter egg or hidden bonus, it was even better.
This is was why I hated achievements from the beggining. It meant the developers intentionally designed something and egg you on to do it, rather than natural curiosity.
>>318306796
They are. That's the power of gamification skinner boxes
>>318306485
They could have gotten it as a gift or in a bundle but don't give a fuck about it.
Or it's such a buggy piece of shit they can't get it to run.
they're a tool for publishers/developers to learn how much of the game gets played an how much content they can cut out for the sequel so less money is spent making it and more money is gained from being a successful game
they are seriously there to dumb down the game
>>318306669
only .3% of gotten it. you have to SS every level, which means you basically have to do a perfect run at a somewhat fast pace. it's not easy.
>>318306505
And of course it's on sale. Just nabbed it.
I like it when I do something out of the ordinary in a game that I didn't expect the developer to think of, but when I do said thing an achievement pops up.
>>318306505
This game pisses me off because it has no cloud save or at least it didn't work for my account. So every time a re-install, or install on another system I have to start from the beginning and they force you to complete like 75 easy puzzles again before you get to the interesting ones.
>>318306156
just complete any Total War campaign, or do anything of slight significance in a Grand Strategy game and you'll find yourself with a cheevo that's around 0.6%
>>318306156
no rare enough
>>318302236
>You cant manipulate them on Ps or XBox
>You can easily do it on Steam
to me achievements are just a simple checklist to see if you've done everything the game has to offer
>>318306654
do you have to be in game to get a deck? I dont understand this?
>>318300545
I see them as post-ending challenges.
I usually only take a look at achievements after I finish a game, then I check them to see if there's anything interesting that I should try.
If nothing catches my attention, I just go to the next game.
>>318306929
But did you try SS+ing the levels above giga difficult, you scrub ?I didn't. Fuck that. By the time i completed my SS+ run, a whole 10 people on average managed to complete each of these levels on SS+.
>>318305702
The most autistic thing I've read all day, thanks anon.
>>318307028
lel this.
>>318306264
All my "rarest achievements" are only rare because they were added after the game's popularity phase was over. I got them for essentially just playing the game in its hayday, and then launching it after it was dead.
>Overheated
>Extinguish 40 fires on engines, Set 20 fires to engines
0.1% of players have this achievement.
>>318307028
I just go for achievemnts I think migth be fun, anon.
Never a big fan of Total War, even though I played it a few times before.
>>318307154
Yes, you launch it and idle if you just want cards, dunno how long it takes to get cards though, but you only get half of the full deck for the game, rest you have to trade for it.
>>318306156
>>318307028
This. Especially the case with Civ 5 and EU4 where people either play with mods or with Ironman off.
>>318307154
You only get cards while the game is running through steam. You get booster packs for games that you have no remaining random card drops for
>>318306156
0.1%
I did it with two of my friends. After that wild coop ride we couldn't really play versus anymore.
>>318307382
Is it weird I have had steam for 12 years and I only got one actual booster deck. I have 115 games too and most of them already have all the cards that I can collect without a booster.
>>318307190
I SS'd 2 of them i think. kilo and giga. i plan to do at least 2 more. no way am i gonna do yotta. fuck that. took me 3 hours just to beat the damn level.
>>318307613
You should be getting one each month with that amount of games
Do you log every week?
>>318307613
I've never gotten one
>>318307778
yup.
>>318307613
No, I guess you like to play your games (or idle). Getting boosters depends on your steam level and it's a random drop, iirc every 10 levels is like 1% increase drop rate or some shit.
>>318307613
>>318307778
I'ts also connected to you steam crafting level. If you don't craft cards, your level doesn't rise and your chances of getting booster drops are lower.
>>318307613
It doesn't matter how many years you've had steam because trading cards have only been a thing for about one year.
And I've only received booster packs for games that I've completed all my card drops for. You don't have to be playing the game to get the booster pack, you only have to have played it long enough that you can no longer get cards from it.
>>318307421
>play with mods
This is definitely a thing. I play Cities: Skylines with a camera mod which doesn't impact the gameplay other than aesthetically, but it means I won't get any achievements. Oh well, walking and driving around in my city is far more satisfying than any Steam achievements.
>>318306156
>Rarest achievements
>All of mine are from the same game
I guess everyone sucks at this game or something.
>>318300545
There are people who are boring to play with, who just rush through the game as if they wanted it to end as fast as possible.
Then there are friends who you can just kill time easily, trying stuff out, hang around ingame, achievements too, sure why not, they are not in a hurry and everything is easy.
Achievements are just detail that might sometimes give something to do.
>>318308147
I always play Empire: TW with Darth Mod but I think achievements still count because my number of kills achievements really started racking up when I maxed out unit sizes and start fighting in battles with 10000 or 15000 men.
>>318308148
Forgot to mouseover like everyone else did.
>>318305850
I'm not that guy, but my account name literally has the words "sinnerkiller" in it.
I didn't know you couldn't change the usernames later when I was younger. I didn't care. I had no idea how steam even worked.
At the same time, I have an unironic love for edgy things.
Still, fucking SinnerKiller
>>318300545
Data mining or gathering gameplay metrics.
For example, developers know that only something like 10% of players will finish their game, so now they frontload development.
DA:I is a good example of this. The prologue quest dungeons were beautifully decorated, whereas end game dungeons were sparse and barren.
>>318300545
Achieving them
>>318300545
You know what would have been neat?
If steam trading cards had a game to go along with them, that would require too much work though
>>318307906
I have a lvl 13 character so either I dont play the popular games which could very well be it. Or somone is farming the packs off my account somehow. is that even possible to do without some evidence of a trade taking place?
>>318308927
>Lvl 13
That's small time, anon. 100 at least to get boosters reliably.
>>318309109
lol fuck that shit. Thats a shit ton of cards.
>>318302014
>>318300545
>1 hour and a half later
>OP still not banned for being a reddicúck
Did 4chan remove the underage rule ?Yes, that's what i'm implying and if you disagree then you should get back to leddit
>>318308647
it can't be that bad
my is much worst
so i read that book you know... i really liked it so i tried make my account name based on title of book...
it was occupied so i add some random letter at the end... 1 year later i notice that this book is based on game...
The game name isBaldur's Gates
What the fuck Italy
>>318300545
>there are people who will not buy a game unless it has achievements
I never understood this
Giving you something to work towards while not actually giving you a real reward.
>>318302250
Going for achievements is as pathetic as doing an ironman run
Its just a bunch of superficial, self imposed challenges. Nothing wrong with it, especially if you're having fun with it
>>318308148
in many indie games it's because people get them in bundles and never play, or only play them for a minute and say "fuck it" after five minutes.because every dev thinks they're a real fucking artist special snowflake and has to make some bullshit, slow intro or other boring tutorial, when they could have just thrown the player into the game instantly
in the case of cave story it's probably because everybody's already played the original a dozen times before + with its achievements appeared on steam.
I, for example, don't have any achievements for HL2 and HL2E1, because I played them before they had achievements. I got 100% on EP2.
I also got Heartbreaker in Portal only recently, because for some reason it never unlocked when the game was still fresh, even though I completed it like three times then. I replayed it recently and got it no problem.
also, I had a dozen achievements with 0.5% or less, but apparently people giten gut and now my best is 0.67%
>Be part of the 5% actual hardcore / oldschool players on /v/
>Still like muh cheetos because challenges are fun but i'm not autistic enough to set my own arbitrary achievements (i realize the contradiction) nor i'm doing them without being given evidence that i've managed to do it (even though i won't ever brag or mention).
>>318306485
I've got New Vegas as a gift but it ran like shit on my potato, so I just got it on my 360 instead.
So that's a reason.
>>318308147
For Mountain Blade it's the opposite. If you enable cheats in the launcher you won't get achievements, but some mods have built in cheats and using them doesn't disable achievements.
There are some ridiculous achievements I got this way.
>>318311198
>>>/reddit/
Only liberal pansy ass millennials care about achievements, it's a way for the to gain insta gratification for uselss shit like "collected 5 of this this shit" or "kill all pidgeons on this map".
I don't know why but they probably think this type of shit makes them a better gamer or some shit.
Truth: Achievements is a sly and clever way to do stat tracking. Developers don't actually think starting a new game is an achievement, it's to see who actually bought the game and is connected online, also applies to who actually reached the ending. Too bad most of you are too dumb to realize this and go back to complaining about why developers think starting a new game is an achievement at all.
Achievements don't apply to me, I just don't feel any accomplishment for getting 10 extra points to an arbitrary value or some shitty reward without function that I can show other people.
I have one friend who is a complete achievement-whore and every time he talks about his achievements I ask him "what do you get out of it?" and he has no reply, but he'll still keep on grinding for them.
>having friends on steam
Faggot detected.
>>318302065
But you can change your Steam name?
>>318300545
>steam enables stat tracking/Chieves literally no way to stop them.
I dont want people knowing I binge games like some kind of freak. Can't even log into steam friends anymore for shame.
>>318302014
Wow, what a faggot.
>>318312447
Not your account name. The thing in the top right o fthe window in the OP image. It's what you sign in with, and it can't be changed
>>318312392
What's wrong with someone getting more hours out of a game they paid money for?
>>318312615
Oh. Well that doesn't really matter, does it? Not like anyone else sees it.
>>318312845
>>318302065 this guy sees it every time he logs in
>>318312630
But let's take World of Warcraft as an example. What difference does 5000 or 15000 achivements points make? It's not that they get any enjoyment out of the actual hunt, but it's the completion they chase, the little "you did this meaningless task, have some impersonal recognition and 10 meaningless points" which I don't understand at all.
Achivement points have no intrinsic value, they are inherently meaningless, and I can't see the appeal.
>>318313152
You actually get a mount, minipet or a title if you do enough specific achievements in WoW though
Sure theres a ton of filler achievements too but most of them can be achieved accidentally and it adds a little more oomph to the event that occurred
>>318313152
>"you did this meaningless task, have some impersonal recognition and 10 meaningless points"
Well that's called video games, and contrary to /v/ opinion, it always has being that way, pacman is just doing a pointless task over and over for a high scores of points that don't matter
>Want to use steam achievement showcase
>But it also shows my sub 20% achievement rate which somehow bothers me a lot
>>318313792
You could superficially analyse every task like that. Reading is just a pointless task of reading words in a collection of words. Watching movies is just staring at a screen for extended periods of time.
The content matters.
>>318314139
Try finishing the games in your backlog with achievements so that number goes up then.
>>318300545fun
if I enjoy the game I like to go around and 100% it, i've been doing that since I started playing vidya, long before there was any trophy/achievement for the feat. i'd argue that the majority of /v/ does that with vidya they love(d).
i know there are people who play games strictly for the achievements, that I don't understand. but trying to 100% a game you enjoy is part of the fun of a game for me.
The point isnt to get the "congragulations!" but to do the challenge which in of itself is fun. Or should be anyway.
>>318313152
Achievements in WoW actually give you in-game rewards. Special mounts, titles, pets, tabards, recpies, toys, etc.
When I got my Professor title I made a warlock named Plum
>>318314453
>The content matters.
And in the case of most video games the content is really shallow, or you think that pac-man is some incredibly deep experience instead of the same fucking maze over and over?
>>318314139
Maybe you should play your games instead of just building a backlog then
>>318300684
this and only this
>>318312225
>you're all fooled; such sheep; oh my!
Fucking every 4chan nerd ever
I do achievements if it's "get X score" or "do it in X time"
If I consider them as an added layer of difficulty, then I may do them
Whatever the devs may get out of that idgaf
>>318300545
>what's the freaking point of getting achievements?
To trick children into thinking they accomplished something great so the developers dont have to implement actual unlockables. Seriously, the new generation actually go for rewardless achievements and then are supposed to be taken seriously.
>>318300545
Excuse for lazy developers to add inane content.
[ ] Do this boring sit 100 times.
[ ] Collect 1000 of this useless shit.
[ ] Do this extremely hard thing for nothing.
Ad infinitum.
>>318300545
I don't give a shit about achievements, but I do want to get them all on these games.
Shits hard though.
Maybe you'll care when you really like a game.
I'm an achievement whore and I hate myself, thanks for existing 4chan so I can vent this shit.
>>318307124
This. plus I always enjoy achievements that you get when you beat hardest difficulty settings or do some difficult tasks. I also like some fun challenges, like for example carrying a garden gnome from the beginning of the game all the way to the rocket in HL2 Ep2.
Collectible achievements also help you find out whether you have explored everything in the game or not.
>>318314139
>>But it also shows my sub 20% achievement rate which somehow bothers me a lot
get your shit together dude
>>318319553
I love your Achievement showcase.
>>318300714
As retarded as it sounds. I'd really like it on steam if it made a more satisfying noise. Back when I played on 360 that shit was like heroin.
>>318306854
What are secret achievements.
>>318305702
this it's all in the sound.
rate mine
>>318321297
>satisfying noise.
you would do well in life to read up on skinner box manipulaiton. The casino's have these noises perfected.
>>318321297
You buy stuff you don't need because its on sale or because the TV told you to as well?
>>318319553
What game are those achievements from?
It wasn't even that hard
>>318324663
Classic /v/
For guys that pride themselves on their own opinions you sure care an awful lot about how others spend their time and money.
If not for achievements, I would've probably not bothered getting all miracles / pyromancies etc in DaS1 or 2. So yes, they can add some level of replay ability. Make players do stuff they otherwise wouldn't.
>>318302014
>i would buy shadow of the colossus again
>how do i change my fov in cod 4
>he bought apb
>linking spongebob clips
>>318300545
>player experience
>>318310656
Achievements are not self imposed, you don't have to do them, but it's not liking choosing to do a speedrun with no incentive aside from the satisfaction of doing a speedrun.
>>318302014
you do realize that the date of this picture taken was 2013 right? OP probably just grabbed it off of google or some shit
>>318306737
fuck that achievement, shit was glitched on the xbox version
