/v/ - Video Games

>>13757121

>Batman: Arkham City

Same boat, however I gave up on the fighting challenges. I managed to do the ones from the first game just fine and they were actually quite fun, but for City they just didn't feel the same.

Really wish the combat in that game actually used the depth that it has rather than just allowing you to press one button.

>caring about chevos

I don't give a shit about trophies. They're pointless boy scout badges that do nothing but stroke the ego of children who think they act as a testament to their skill or "gamer cred."

That being said, I have finished games accidentally, by just playing them as I normally would have, and I also have a number of games that I have sitting at 90% just because I haven't gone out of my way to do some pointless collect-a-thon or side quest or something. The first Infamous has a trophy that asks the player to do some special move, but you have to execute it on a certain number of enemies. At the end game, it can be quite difficult to find the enemies to do this move to because the number of enemies diminishes significantly. I also have Red Dead Redemption at around 60% because I was not autistic enough to do all the pointless side activities in single player, and multiplayer is fucked beyond repair by hackers/modders, so it's not even worth it to try playing a dead game just to get some trophies.

There are more examples but who cares.

>>13757324

this so much

>OP makes a thread about cheavos after this news

http://nichegamer.com/2017/11/07/playstation-trophies-now-redeemable-playstation-store-discounts/

coincidence?

>>13757385

>There's an actual reason for trophies now

I'm surprised it took them this long

>>13757385

>bronze trophies

<worthless

>silver trophies

<you need 100 for 100 points

>gold trophies

<you need 25 for 250 points

<platinum

<you need 10 for a 1000 points

>what do you get for trophies

<1000 points gives you a 10 dollar discount

>older trophies that you earned are still worthless, only new trophies that you earn after being signed up to some shitty program will count towards earning points. Not only that, the average game has less than five gold trophies, which means you're going to have to be a good little consumer whore and buy as many as 20 games ore more in order to even be in a position to earn the required trophies that will then net you a 10 dollar discount.

Sounds like even more Jewry.

>>13757324

RE: ORC had an achievement that was basically: "complete 98 games of a certain game mode". I tried 2 times, each time I ended up raped by the enemy team composed at 100% by gook players at max level. I let that achievement go because I didn't want to rage.

>>13757121

Asemblance: I missed one that is time-based.

Wash_Doge: You must use a fake app in-game to scan songs that you hear in the streets, I only needed one fucking song to unlock the achievement but it could take ages since it's completely random.

Red Dead Redemption: most of the multiplayer achievements are nearly impossible to unlock since the servers got hacked.

>>13757385

>A point for achievements that isn't making your e-penis bigger.

Why did it take so long for a company to implement this?

>>13757613

Ubisoft had it for games in Uplay. You could unlock ingame costumes and wallpapers with achievement points.

>>13757169

I'd agree. I've always gotten "the most" out of my games, personally. I've always completed every challenge present in the game. But now to "really" finish a game its a race against time before the multiplayer servers shut down and just printing out guides to locate all 200 of whatever shitty collectible is on offer. Of course there are other annoying achievements too like uploading to youtube and sending challenges to your friends Shit that is not in the game that I don't care about.

So I don't finish my games anymore. Proud casual reporting.

>>13757626

You can also get discounts on the games you buy on their store.

AssCreed 2, because fuck the 100 feathers

>>13757172

> they think cheevos act as a testament to their skill

Some genuinely do take some actual skill to get, challenge wise. Not the online ones (which I never bother with) or the ones that feel like pointless busywork (like those Infamous "perform these moves on an arbitrary number of enemies" you described). I'm talking about game challenges that the noobs generally have a hard time completing.

Personally speaking, if I feel like a difficult vg challenge is realistically within my reach (like trophies given for completing a game's highest difficulty setting), I would usually try to go for it.

>>13757121

>those retarded Riddler's Revenge challenges

I'll give you that, there's just too many of them and it's just busywork at that point.

>There's just no way I'll have the patience to to complete those damn Campaign Maps.

Those however represent the final frontier of your skill in the game.

DK64

That fucking beetle race in the Crystal Caves. Fuck that nigger

<there are large groups on steam who only play games to get 100% achievements then brag about it.

Jet Force Gemini. Those time trials were mostly bullshit to get the highest rank.

All I have to do to get the Plat for Fallout 3 is finish a bad-karma playthrough and finish a couple of side quests I never did, but I'm finding it hard to want to do.

>>13758367

On PS3 it's worse because people tend to brag about getting a ton of platinum trophies but when you look closer at the games they play it's always a lot of shitty games with easy platinum trophies to unlock.

>>13758528

>it's always a lot of shitty games with easy platinum trophies to unlock

I knew someone who did this on the Xbox 360 it boggled my mind to play games you didn't like just so your achievement score went up.

Both MGSV and Dark Souls, I was 2~3 trophies away from completion and a friend (who is really into cheevos) said "WOW U ALMOST GOT A PLATINUM ON THEM XD"

It was like a bucket of cold water. I wasn't really having fun at that point but I couldn't see it until pointed out to me.

I 100%-ed Spyro 1 and 2, but never got quite there with 3. Some of the challenges were just… not fun at all.

Almost 100% Bloodborne, just had to fight the Queen of Yharnam at the end of the Chalice Dungeons, but for her particular ritual you need a Living String which you can only get one of per playthrough and it's sorta hidden how you get it. Anyway I did everything right but forgot to pick it up, and when I remembered and went back to get it, it was gone. Didn't feel like doing a whole nother playthrough just for that one fucking thing.

I wanted to 100% some of the Souls games, but they all require full weapon sets that just take to much grinding to seem fun.

On the inverse I think the first Dead Rising is the best example of achievements in a game to date. A lot of them are various challanges you have to go out of the way to earn, and probably won't do over the course of regular play, often forcing different playstyles. Plus a good few of the achievements unlocked cool outfits and super weapons to play with.

The only achievement I actually went out if my way to do was the Lawn Gnome one from HL2: Episode 2.

>Zen Bound 2

>can't 100% a level

>leave it at 99%

>100% the rest of the game

>go back to that level

>still can't do it

>give up

Zen my ass. I felt many intense emotions while playing this tedious piece of shit game, but at no point did I feel anything even remotely resembling 'zen'.

>>13757613

>>13757398

You niggers need to read the article

It doesn't apply to achievements retroactively

So basically nobody gets anything unless they play even more on the thing and get medals for completing new games they didn't already

This is just to extend the life of the hardware and get more sales before it dies and they put out a new one, don't be retarded

None at all. It's mostly stupid grinding and it's not fun so why do it?

>>13757385

Achivements tied to heavy RNG are a nightmare to get.

I like filling my achievements lists on games i like as a sort of post game checklist so that i can have more stuff to do.

I think achievements where in part made popular by the low replayability of modern AAA (almost on rail) games, as a means to add an incentive for doing the boring tasks again. Or performing them a bit better since it's common in modern games to fail a task and still get the same outcome in the game.

Time Splitters Future Perfect.

Some of those platinums seem impossible. I managed to scratch a couple more before i began getting too angry to continue

Super Mario 3D World

At one point, I stopped playing to 100% because of a boss rush but I got faster but then I have to go back to some level and hit the top of the pole. Dropped it, but I came back but then champion road, I dropped it but I will come back once I'm done with all this gay shit

>>13759533

I know it's several years late now but

Did you make sure your TV couldn't do 16:9 via letterboxing?

BlazBlue: Continuum Shift.

Those online ranking requirements are fucking nuts!

>>13757121

Dark Souls. Getting all those weapons is a pain in the ass.

>>13759735

Become proficient

>>13757121

> being too retarded for Riddler's Revenge

hah faggot. Got platinum on that bitch

Anyway you just described most games for me. I don't go out of my way to platinum everything. There is no point, usually. Its not like I'm going to dedicate my life to trophy hunting.

>>13757145

You get $10 games off Sony's network for them now, so they serve some purpose. Momodora is currently $10. Finish up old platinums, download a great game for free.

>>13758631

I never 100% a spyro.

came 7 eggs off finishing 3 then my brother wiped the file

I spent hours and hours on this Mario 64 romhack called Luigi and the Violet Stars. Huge game, but it had some really sloppy design choices, like stars placed right next to each other, and huge, boring, featureless hedge mazes that would cause the camera to spaz out constantly while inside. The very last star I hadn't gotten was the red coin star on the icy river level. I swear to fuck, that last red coin just didn't exist. I spent hours searching for it, used moon jump to comb every last inch of the map, it just wasn't there. Because this hack is sloppy, I honestly think the guy just forgot to put the last red coin down.

>>13760001

>pic

>this is in a fully-priced single player game

>its literally clash of clans/mobile-game tier bullshit where you pay to have wait times cut off

I don't…

My hope for vidya just took a blow.

I think I'm gonna be ill.

>>13760001

Just unlock the achievements with a program. It's what I do with achievements that are too bullshit to get.

>play Betrayer

>fun enough game with some nice atmosphere

>one achievement expects you to kill 1000 enemies

>another to kill 200 enemies without being seen

>finished game and barely got to 400 killer enemies

>would need to pointlessly grind for said achievement

I said fuck it and unlocked it with a third party application. I have better shit to do than waste time tediously grinding.

>>13760040

Achievements aren't really what I'm caring about, it's the in-game %. Also I think I have to redo one of the Huey missions for a blueprint or something because those stupid fucking hangars in afghanistan that regenerate resources are permalocked outside that mission and I might have missed the blueprint there.

>>13759247

>It doesn't apply to achievements retroactively

>>13757476

>only new trophies that you earn after being signed up to some shitty program will count towards earning points.

>These niggas don't have any backlog to speak of

>Library consisting entirely of Naughty Dog movies and Dank Souls and dem batmans

More's the pity, faggots.

>>13760069

>didn't spend a dime

So what did you do, daily play to somehow grind MB coins and play the RNG to see if the daily reward thing gave you MB coins? Or is it some FOB shit that gives you tons of MB coins?

>>13760113

You can Grind MB coins? I thought they literally only made it so that you either have to buy them or they give you 15 a week.

Binding of Issac

fuck rng farming for that last item

Also Banjo Tooie

that race with the NPC on the minecart on the sky on the last level

many years later i figured you have to be behind her until the very end otherwise she speeds and you'll never be faster than her

but honestly fuck that mini game jigsaw puzzle piece

in bayonetta 1 i was really close to 100% but when i learned you had to collect ALL the crows across ALL difficulties I was burned out since I had already replayed the game a few times over at that point

Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine had a fun achievement for completing the first 15 chapters (each 10-20 minutes long) on hard without dying once. Definitely caused me some frustration, especially given how much damage the suicidal squigs caused and inability to restore health during the chapter 15 boss fight, but it was overall quite fun and asked me to do something I never would have considered otherwise.

I wouldn't dislike achievements so much if more of them were like that: encouraging the player to do stuff outside of his comfort zone. Then again, there's no reason that achievement couldn't simply be an in-game challenge with a tangible in-game reward. God knows the fun of it was probably by accident, since that game also had an achievement given for 40,000 LIFETIME KILLS.

Man, now I'm just sad Space Marine had such a short shelf life due to THQ tanking because of their retarded tablets. That game could have been a respectable niche shooter series; it had so much room to grow.

>>13760359

>there's no reason that achievement couldn't simply be an in-game challenge with a tangible in-game reward

I feel that, i'm not against an achievement that actually makes you try a different spin on the game or a special kind of challenge run like "certain weapon only" or "don't get buttfucked even once by the buttfucker", but when all you get is the little "ping" noise for getting it its not as fun as getting an in game reward. Even a new skin or something would be nice and would drive me to get 100% more frequently

>>13760113

I think i got a bunch of the [[[free]]] when they fucked up some shit related to it. And i manage to get my second FOB, that was enough to get most of the weapons.

But i still dont remember if unlocking weapons are related to the complete percentage

http://archive.is/4Spee

>The following tasks count towards 100% Completion:

>COMPLETE ALL MISSIONS WITH AN S-RANK

>COMPLETE EVERY OBJECTIVE FOR ALL MISSIONS

>COMPLETE ALL 157 SIDE OPS

>COLLECT ALL 47 ANIMALS

>COMPLETE ALL IMPORTANT COMBAT DEPLOYMENT MISSIONS

>COLLECT ALL BLUEPRINTS

>COLLECT ALL KEY ITEMS

>COLLECT ALL 10 PAZ PHOTOS

>The following tasks do not count towards 100% Completion:

>Developing of all weapons/Costumes/devices

>Nuclear Development

>Unlocking Demon Snake

>Online Dispatch Missions

>FOB Invasions/Retaliation

>FOB Completion (2nd non-Mother Base platform)

>Capturing guard posts/outposts

Nope, no weapons needed, but the whole combat deployment mission shit is a fucking PAIN to do, takes hours, i think GAME hours to finish, and you can only send 1 or 2 teams depending the number of FOBs you have, also there is a change they will fail.

Mother Russia Bleeds co-op achievements i literally have no one to play with it locally so basically i will never truly complete the game 100%.

All of them because it's not worth it.

>>13759992

I had a little brother who did this for a few games.

I still don't talk to him

Never got all the blast shards in infamous 1. Too much of a pain to find those last few when there's no indicator of any sort of general area.

>>13759533

That trophy is really difficult even if you have a 16:9 TV. It's a lot easier if you play on PC and use M+K though.

>>13760423

>COMPLETE ALL MISSIONS WITH AN S-RANK

>COMPLETE EVERY OBJECTIVE FOR ALL MISSIONS

Well fuck that, any attempt at 100% canceled. Fucking stupid shit.

>>13760831

>singleplayer game has tacked on multiplayer with achievements

>Multiplayer is taken down so you can never get the achievements

>>13757324

>>13760831

>half the fucking game is locked away in DLC you can't actually get anymore without emulating