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Post #3398213
2026-05-23 16:21 UTC
Who cares about achievements? Play the game and have fun. To put it another way: if it’s no fun without achievements, have you considered that could just be a bad game?
Also, me expressing my personal philosophy = “holier than fucking thou”? Man, grow up.
Right, needlessly dismissive and patronizing = personal philosophy. Very grown up of you, mighty adult.
I’m talking about optimizing for fun instead of letting a game hand me a list of chores to do on my weekend. The specific games in question aren’t really relevant are they?
They absolutely are fucking relevant and you’re ignorant for not knowing they are, and arrogant for thinking you’re qualified to question why OP needs achievements.
If you think of achievements as a “list of chores” then you simply do not play enough genres to have encountered achievements that meaningfully interact with gameplay in any sense, which’s fine if you’re minding your own business, but you’re not.
Action games exist, shmups exist, fighting games exist: games that cleverly use achievements to push you to up your skill level, add replayability value, or discover hidden mechanics.
If you think everyone who picks up a controller is looking for a sandbox to fuck around in, you’re so disconnected from this medium, I don’t even know why you decided to comment on this thread.
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“Qualified to question”?
Bro I got bad news for you, even the smallest child is qualified to question anything. If you get angry and start pissing your pants instead of giving a good answer, nobody will respect you, but you might scare a small child away from their natural curiosity.
I’ve been playing video games of every genre (as I already said, good job reading my comment before angrily ranting that someone doesn’t care about a thing you like), including fighting games and shmups for decades. I have yet to meet a single person who needed to earn an achievement in order to learn how to perform a hadouken.
Seriously dude, you just came in here all immediately butt-hurt because I exist and don’t agree with you? They’re games.
If you need a trophy for playing, you might not actually be having much fun. I don’t understand an attitude like that hurts you so deeply, but for what it’s worth I’m sorry and do hope your day gets better.
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