Should I continue my pursuit of 100% completions?
If you like the achievements hunt than you should do that :p
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I don't buy games if I don't intend to play them right away (or at least any time soon). I think it's a good reasoning when you have huge backlog (and you have like 4 times bigger than mine) :P
I don't play the games for achievements. If the game has something to offer I will spend more time on it because it is fun, I don't understand how people sometimes struggle to get all the achievements even though it is just boring. If the dev wants me to play their product for a longer time thay better make it an interesting game. Adding achievements is just a lazy way of increasing the playtime. Unless completing achievements is just a way to motivate you to discover something you normally wouldn't discover if you for example wouldn't visit a particular part of a map to find a new side-quest - but I doubt there are many achievemnts like this, mostly it's just drive every car, catch 1000 fishes, backstab 250 enemies.
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In some respects you are absolutely right but a well thought out achievement list enables you to get more from a game than normal. I am currently playing Alien Isolation on hard difficulty with no deaths or killing anything for achievements. If I played it with the weapons I feel I would get less from the game. The challenge is discovering the games with the "good" achievements without spoiling the game for yourself..
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Yup, that's why I said that I have nothing against if the achievements bring something interesting to the game - for example even backstabbing 25 or 50 enemies can be interesting because it improves your knife skills which maybe you'd never even try but usually it's overused and it's just a crazy number that makes you stay with the game more than it's worth it :) And some developers make fun of this for example by adding achievement of not playing the game for 5 years which shows how ridiculous achievements tend to be :) To wrap it up - give us well thought achievements :D
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Thank you for your giveaways Kwagmire and a Happy New year to you and your family! :3
Hunting chievo's can fun and rewarding, so why not.
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Happy new year, i say continue, when i started dark souls for the third time just to get all the achievements i felt a bit bored, but i carried out and now im president of the united.. oh... no im not thank god, but do carry on.
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[edited my post as it was very self-centred]
My advice would be to do a playthrough without looking at the achievements. Then, once you've beaten the game once, ask yourself whether you'd like to play more of it. Look at the achievements list and try to get those you've missed until it stops being fun.
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I'm finding being a completionist less and less doable the more games I buy. It's always fun to do though but maybe once you first let yourself get just 80% or something you'll find it easier and easier the next time, and actually be enjoying games maybe!? :)
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In my experience as an achievement hunter (I complete all achievements for all my games), you tend to spend more time on fewer games. There's no such thing as "too challenging", it just depends how much time you're willing to spend on it. Multiplayer achievements tend to be much easier than you imagine. Grindchievements are meh, but stupid insane difficulty achievements and time trials are much worse. Downside is that the closer you get to that 100% average completion rate, the harder it is to stop completing games 100%. I'm currently on 98% because the season pass for Fallout 4 is ridiculously expensive for what it is (and I'm waiting for the price to drop to something reasonable), and I only played the first chapter of King's Quest, because I was waiting for all the chapters to be released (which they now have, so I'll be completing it soon).
The real question is do you want to play more games? Or play fewer games but enjoy them more fully?
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Well there's this thing called "reality" and it's kind of a dick about that sort of thing. It doesn't like it when people have their cake and eat it too. Personally I think that's messed up, but what are you going to do? The only person that I know of who has escaped it is this guy named Donald J. Trump ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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i know that feel bro.
just remember "its just a game!" when the achievement is so unfair (super hard), don't get mad at your PC :v
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So I am facing a personal dilemma for the new year. I am a completionist when it comes to achievements, only skipping multi player as it holds little interest to me. The 2 titles I am currently playing to 100% completion will reach me the 100 perfect games milestone on my profile but I am facing an ever increasing backlog. Should I carry on as I am or discontinue my efforts? I do enjoy most of the achievements as they cause me to play the games differently to how I would normally though there are some horribly grindy ones I have completed.
Some bits to take into consideration. My backlog of incomplete titles is 1303 according to Darkadia. Around 2/3rds contain achievements. My installed games (all from my wishlist) amounts to 120. I am subscribed to the Humble Monthly and this is where I get the majority of my new games now. This sale I have bought myself 1 new title as I have plenty already to play (+ any I may win here). All thoughts welcome.
Oh yes and the gifts
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Ending 12pm GMT 31st. Please bump if you enter even if you do not comment on topic. These two should tip me into lvl 6 territoryas a nice bonus.
Happy New Year all.
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