Depends on the game. Some games have interesting achievements that require you to do interesting, difficult things, and I like to have a personal record of having done it. Some games are just fricking pointless and I couldn't care less.

But even for the former, I only consider broken achievements to be an annoyance, not a deal breaker. I would much rather play with mods than have achievements, if it was mutually exclusive.

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Posted by Thundercles

Mars

Member since Sep 2010

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Posted on 9/17/23 at 2:12 pm to Joshjrn

Agee with you here. I think I used to enjoy them when they were for off the wall things. At some point they just started giving you trophies and achievements just for going through a game’s story and that’s when it lost me.

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Posted by Dave Worth

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Member since Dec 2003

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Posted on 9/20/23 at 2:32 pm to Joshjrn

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Depends on the game. Some games have interesting achievements that require you to do interesting, difficult things, and I like to have a personal record of having done it. Some games are just fricking pointless and I couldn't care less.

Pretty much the same here. Getting an achievement for finishing a chapter in a story means almost nothing to me. Getting a hidden achievement after I tied a nun up and left her on the tracks to get hit by a train is enjoyable. A lot of those types are either discovered accidentally or lead me to do something I may not have considered otherwise. That's fun to me.

I do like getting an achievement on my second or third play through a game. Outside of the types you can only get with repeated playthroughs it lets me know I just did something I didn't do the first time I played, meaning I got a slightly different experience.

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