What is your relationship with games achievements?

I occasionally like collecting playstation trophies in a game i enjoy, but other than that i don't really worry about them.

i like getting all of them and sometimes i go off road to get them but i am not crazy about it and its really really weird that i do a second run on a game to get achivments

Achievements actively ruin my life to a point where I have started to look at the achievements list before purchasing a game. If the game has lots of achievements that require stupid tasks then I simply won't play it at all. Examples of stupid tasks would be: kill 1000 enemies with each weapon, or separate achievements for finishing the game on different difficulties. I have couple games that have achievements just like that and it's absolutely terrible. I suppose things like those wouldn't be bad if you really loved the game, but in these cases I really don't. It's not that I'd want to get all the achievements, it's just an issue where I can't... just not get them. I have issues with things being left unfinished/incomplete.

Right now on Steam I have unlocked 954 achievements.

Not a completionist here, not hunting them, what comes around is taken thru regular playing and for the rest, they may be achieved in another session some time later or maybe not.

I do like achievements. I've played games I wouldn't otherwise play because of them. I'm looking at you, Woodle Tree.

But I'm not fanatical about them and I'll play games without achievements.

I would really like an OPTIONAL achievement unlock sound notification in Steam.

I love steam achievements. But because I love Europa Universalis IV too much, I don't have time to play other games.
Currently have 71 perfect games. :D

What's your relationship with chivs? - Obsession.
I am known to not only play, but to buy, a game solely on the premise it has achievements. And there are games I've bought and not played at all before abandoning them only because 100% is impossible.

That being said, in theory, I do play games without chivs, and I don't necessarily feel bad for abandoning a game without 100%. It all depends on the type of the game and the chivs.

I currently have 552, all since Nov 26th 2015.
... okay, maybe had like 10 from CIV V before that.

I try to be an achievement hunter but I tend to play multiplayer games a lot even when I've already gotten all achievements so I don't necessarily grow my repertoire :P

Also some games I doubt I'll ever bother with achievements for like Guns of Icarus. Other games the multiplayer is dead so I'm missing those achievements.

My current stats are: 3,261 Achievements | 52 Perfect Games | 50% Average Completion Rate

At least on Steam games :P

I like achievements when they give a game I like a few more goals, like with Terraria, even though I finished it I can always come back to get some obscure goals. Although at this point it's just a few tedious achievements left. 200 quests for the fisherman? Really? That's 200 day/night cycles, each being 24 minutes, that's 80 hours at least, during which I have to constantly run around the map and catch fish and bring it back, which also requires resources for the bait and once every 7 days you can skip to the end of the day, but that doesn't help much considering there are also invasions and other crap that interferes with fishing every now and then. There are plenty of games with way harder things to do, but still.

I like that you can see how far you've gotten in the game and what part of the game you have explored. I don't really hunt them, it's just a waste of time for the most part.

I usually just play the game and see what I get. After I finished I might check to see if there are some that are doable and don't take a lot of time. The only games I want to 100 % are LEGO games (but those are pretty easy to get all achievements if you 100 % the game anyway).

They wanted to add achievements to dota2 once... God, soo good they haven't done that. Can't play more than I already do.

But in those little point&clicks or hog's? I could go for them ;3
Shame that achievements just simply don't work in some of the games. I will play Edna & Harvey or Wakfu when it gets fixed... Promise!

I do like them, they add another challenge.. but some are hard.. and some destroy my life, like with Bloonds TD5 :D

if you want achievements,try the game Tales of Maj'Eyal out :D

Almost 4500 of them and 39 perfect games, I lost I Zombie recently.... But I stay away from VN and demo that only takes 5 minutes to 100%, I don't see the point in doing these.
On your first post you talk about SAM, if you like achievement hunting, never use it.

It's cool to see them pop up randomly when I achieve them but I don't really care about unlocking them. The only one I actually really tried for was the L4D one "ZOMBIE GENOCIDEST -- Kill 53,595 Infected."

I categorize my steam games into five categories, two of which revolve around achievements

Trial, for stuff that I haven't ever touched.
Ignore, for games that I'll never play again.
Mediocre, for games that I might go back to at some point.
Favorites, for games that I enjoy so much that I want to get 100% in them
Beaten, for games that I have 100% in

Currently, my library is roughly 47% trial, 32% ignore, 13% mediocre, 6% favorites, 2% beaten. Assuming the trial section eventually shakes out into about the same proportions, I guess it's fair to say that I care about achievements in the best 15% or so of games and don't care about them otherwise. But in that 15%, I will go back for the achievements and get all of them.

I wish I could disable the achievements pop-ups, I see no value in them.

7.534 Achievements - 189 Perfect Games - 42% Avg. Game Completion Rate

I might have a problem as well. :)

10,065 Achievements
54 Perfect Games
26% Avg. Game Completion Rate

One perfect game... which has one achievement for finishing the game :)

Quite like the CS:GO ones that push you to messabout with random weapons, there's a few funny ones but beyond that shrugs Just got a few on Democracy for building a nice Socialist place with no debts, felt all happy and genius for a while before getting assassinated by Christian terrorists despite they fact they knew about my Steam achievements. Ungrateful bastards tbh, so really they can fuck off.

I only play for all the achievements if I really like the game, as a way to show my appreciation for the game I guess? At the moment I am trying to get all the achievements for Valkyria Chronicles, it is frustrating how long it is taking me. I know achievements are rather pointless yet I can't help myself :(