Sharing because Kayin’s talk about achievements made me think about why do I even accept them in games at all so I disabled them in Steam (the only way to do this is by disabling the whole overlay =_=) and found that I don’t miss them at all.

What’s you opinion on RetroAchievements, and achievements in general?

  • ByteSorcerer@beehaw.org
    17·
    21 hours ago

    When playing trough a game the first time I never care about achievements. I do not disable them, but I just ignore them and don’t check which ones the game has. And if a game does not have achievements then I indeed do not miss them.

    But if I have finished a game I ended up really enjoying and want more, then I do check the achievement list for inspiration for what to do. And sometimes I end up discovering parts of the game I initially missed that way.

    I have never bothered with RetroAchievements, but I also don’t get the hate about them. They are achievements that are not a part of the game, that you need to deliberately install to be able to get them. So if you don’t like them, just don’t install them? Some people clearly enjoy them, so I don’t think it’s a bad thing that they exist even though I don’t care for them.

    • Lucy [she/faer]@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      When playing trough a game the first time I never care about achievements. I do not disable them, but I just ignore them and don’t check which ones the game has.

      I wish I could just ignore notifications and other distractions lol. Unfortunately I tend to lose focus easily from this kind of stuff. It’s particularly bad when developers add achievements to emotional/climatic moments. Like, why? Why do you ruin the moment with an out-of-place pop-up?

    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      14 hours ago

      What gets me so often in retro gaming is the desire of some to “repair” the past.

      This would indicate the ‘hate’ is on ideological grounds.

      I tend to agree, if I’m being honest. I sometimes see the retro modding community excited about improvements they’ve made: new models swapped in for characters, upscaled backgrounds with 10x the detail that was ever put into them, 4k textures stretched over low-poly objects like an animal wearing a skin suit. And these are called ‘better’. This is how new people are told to play these old games: we have added 4 cups of sugar to make the horrible taste easier to swallow.

      I see this and I think… why? Why be this way?

      Can you imagine if we raised new generations to treat paintings the same way? The Mona Lisa is not worth seeing because it is too old and ugly, but it can be made tolerable to one’s senses with the new power of AI?

      This image is profane. It can only be produced by a sick people.

      I worry that people’s desire for this kind of thing indicates a lack of curiosity in life. An unwillingness to do anything not already familiar to them. I would consider this attitude a character flaw in most people, if I met them.