Do achievement spam games make you an angry, angry person?
I'm conflicted on these games.
On one hand, I love them because they fill my urges of feeling like I've accomplished something.
But at the same time, it fudges the numbers a lot and makes the stats useless.
But then again, they're pointless numbers.
But then again, scummy devs are earning money instead of good, hard working developers.
But then again, who gives a shit since for most people, quality beats this shit any day. Just as long as you have the quality compared to shitty numbers.
Overall, I'm 55% for achievement grinders and 45% against them. It's a close tie, but I still would rather have them than not have them and it's purely for selfish reasons.
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Yeah, I think that I don't mind the games where you actually need to grind some to complete them. 100-500 achievements is still kind of over-the-top, but if you at least have to go kill a lot of zombies or explore for a certain amount of time or whatever, I don't have a problem with the game not being too difficult to 100% so long as some level of effort is required (like Quest for Achievements...you'll have to actually put in 60-90 minutes to get the cheevos, and I actually played it until I beat the boss at the end). But 5K for turning the thing on and exiting out just feels icky...not that I haven't done it, because as I pointed out earlier, if you idle for cards (to trade/sell for ones you actually care about or to buy better games), now you have a 0% bringing down your average so then you need to let the cheevos pop to fix your stats (which are now skewed the other way).
I think there's a way to delete games permanently now, and I think that it will take any achievements with it if you do that. I may choose to clean house in this manner at some point. Or, I may decide that I don't have time in my life for that and just not worry about it. We'll see. π(ββΏβ)
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now you have a 0% bringing down your average
Untrue, actually. I've tested it out and it only counts towards your average amongst the games that you have at least 1 achievement in.
So, if you've played 200 games, 80 of them with achievements and you've only gotten at least 1 achievement in 10 of them, then the average will be counted with the 10 games. :)
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Oh wow, that's good to know. I had thought if the game was even opened then it calculated it as part of the average. I was probably misled since there are some games that pop that first "welcome to the game" achievement, which according to what you're saying would have added it to the average...I made the wrong assumption that 0 achievements would be treated the same as one.
Thanks for the heads-up!
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Thank you for the ride, Grez! ^^
I take spare games for what they are, spare games. ;-)
I do have a lot of those games to +1 on my Steam account but my Steam cheevo numbers are still old school as I don't augment my account with large numbers of perfect games and cheevo's simply by idling, opening and closing specific games. I do have a chuckle now and then when I see people who fingerpoint to others because of +1 for games while at the very same time those very same people idle, open and close large numbers of those games with thousands of cheevo's\game and a dead easy 100%'ing.
I guess people like to boost and e-peen their accounts too with large numbers of cheevo's and 100% games. ^^
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Yeah, and the problem is that, once the games are in your account (and this happens to me since I'll buy like 5 of a bundle and just register one full set for myself before I've really looked closely enough at the games because, you know, life is happening and I'm busy π), and if you idle to get the cards to trade for ones you actually want, then you now have a 0% complete in your profile, which affects your average. So then you need to let the cheevo spam run just to offset that number. It's all very blech. But, I used to get a lot more wrapped around the axle about it, and I've now come to the much more well-adjusted (in my mind, at least) opinion that hey, these are just games and just for-fun profiles, and being too overly concerned one way or the other is just creating stress that doesn't need to exist. In other words, I think that I finally just learned to chillax about it one way or the other. π
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sling some points toward the train and you can get some free profile padding, you dirty, dirty bastard
<3
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Art of Knuckle Sandwich was pretty tedious to play. Felt like a browser game from the mid 2000s.
Thanks for the potential achievement inflation any case.
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Yeah, it's really similar to Vault of Honor and Destination Dungeon - Crypt of Warthallow...both of which I completed (yeah, glutton for punishment, but I had to try to justify all of those cheevos...lol).
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That was a really fun read, Grez! :D
I hope everything is coming along well with your house.
Thanks for the train.
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Thanks! We're back in the house now. Still some things to do, but they're all first-world problems now. :)
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Need to pump up those stats on your Steam profile? Do you embrace an unhindered, uninhibited, unashamed approach to filling your Steam library with utter garbage in order to one-up your friends and enemies alike with false statistical superiority? Well, then look no further, because I bring you this CHEEVO SPAM TRAIN!!!
Yes, the majority of these games are terrible. Seriously, they're freaking terrible games...heck, I think that a couple of them don't even qualify as games. But each title in the list will grant you at least 500 achievements, up to 5,000 for many of them, and often for doing nothing more than just opening the game and then letting your Steam client grind away for a little while.
I know what you're thinking: "geez, Grez, don't you feel a little...dirty for offering this stuff up?" Yes, yes I do. This actually makes me feel like Christina Aguilera (during her rubbed-with-grease-and-wearing @ssless chaps phase) grabbed me by the ears and demanded that I clean her filthy britches with my face. But hey, in my defense, I bought a bunch of stuff on GogoBundle really quickly one night that didn't look that bad...and then like a week later when I actually looked at it more closely, I saw all of these 5K-for-nothing games and was
shockedmildly surprised. [note: this purchase may also have involved alcohol.]But, you know, whatever. I actually played a few of these games...most were horrible, but I'll say that Pain Train 2 is not a total bucket of suck...I beat the whole thing (yep, all 12 levels and all upgrades) one night, which took about 2 hours and was relatively challenging. I mean, it's buggy and frustrating and completely unbalanced (the first two levels are the hardest, and then once you're fully upgraded, you're practically an unstoppable killing machine), but at least it's an actual game and is complete-able. I do like to play/beat the game when possible and feel like I at least halfway earned all of those achievements that dropped.
Hey, I say relax, have a good time with it, and try not to take any of it too seriously. They're just games, after all, and I still feel less ripped off than I did after a couple of really bad Atari cartridge purchases from when I was a kid (Tac-Scan comes to mind). So, sling some points toward the train and you can get some free profile padding, you dirty, dirty bastard. π€£ ( Ν‘β ΝΚ Ν‘β)
π Choo-Spammy-Chooππππ
[27 carts, mostly with multiple keys per cart - you must be at least level 1 - good luck]
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