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The majority of gamers adjust their playstyle with unlocking achievements in mind, however there were some gamers who purely played for the fun of the game and were not too worried about adding to their gamerscore. To some though it is a matter of course, playing a new game involves firstly checking what achievements are available to unlock and then setting the difficulty to the hardest setting
Yet another article? These were old years ago. I like achievements and now that Steam has achievements I find myself avoiding games without them. They are so common that I think games without them have corners being cut. Do I unlock every one? No, not even close. I've also never gotten a platinum on PS3 or PS4. Achievements/trophies are just satisfying to unlock. I don't go hunting for every one. Things I won't do for achievements: find every item, clear out every area, go off every ramp/jump, MP achievements, or anything involving completing every challenge. I am not going to play a game past it's finish just to get achievements however getting them while going through a campaign is a nice bonus.
Agreed and dude seriously play through the walking dead season 1 by telltale games and u r garunteed a host of trophies and ur first ever platinum!
Seriously all u gotta do is finish it, no special conditions etc its gotta be the easiest platinum.
That way u will have atleast one lol, i know like me u dont care, but may aswell grab it!
Many do care (myself included) but there are always the casual gamers and the regular gamers that only care about playing with their mates online. I think more people do care about them than not but I base that on no facts at all, just assumptions :P
I take issue with the description where it says "most gamers". I think that's a bit of hyperbole and exagerration. It's impossible to quantify, but I'd wager that the vast majority of gamer's don't care one iota about getting trophies or achievements, and it's usually just for those that want to be able to compete against others in some way...or use it as some sort of status card.
I personally don't really care about them...but my OCD makes me try to get 100% completion for games I enjoy...or am very close to getting 100% on. For initial play through though, I usually just play normally. In the past, once the game was done, I'd move on without doing all that extra stuff. now i'll go through and try and clean up...so to speak. I remember getting a plat for Murdered:Soul Suspects on my first play through without even trying....did it in about 7 hours in one sitting as I recall.:)
i think the only thing that it changed in my playing habits is I now do try to do all that extra stuff in my initial play through, but that's because it just is something that the devs put an effort into to put into their game, so I've come to appreciate them by going through clean up while getting plats.
I will admit I did play The Walking Dead on three different PS platforms for three easy plats...but probably would have played it twice anyways to see how the different decisions played out(mostly inconsequential as it turns out). Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered, and since I didn't have to pay for 1 of the versions, it worked out good.
"I take issue with the description where it says "most gamers". I think that's a bit of hyperbole and exagerration."
No, that's a mistake. As you say, it's hard to quantify, it's not impossible though. So much opinion for zero references to sustain the whole article.
OT though... I don't care about achievements, Nintendo consoles don't have them, never bothered to get them on 360 and neither now that they are available on Steam.
@jam
I like going for them in games I enjoy, but if I don't, then no biggie. Maybe saying I don't care was the wrong terminology. More like they don't consume my game playing habits.
@Metallox
It's not impossible no. One could go and do surveys or poll user's trophies or whatever. I based my assumption on the fact that in most games I've seen the trophy percentages for trophies that lie outside the main game(all that side stuff that people do to get achievements) all tend to be in the teens percentages unless it's something that just comes naturally with the main game.
I do agree though, I have just as much fun with some Nintendo games on the Wii U or 3DS without thinking about them. also play plenty of retro games without giving them a thought.
I love achievements. It adds replay ability to some games because I can go back get the achievements I try to get as many as I can in a game as long as they aren't insanely difficult than I won't even bother
I don't care about it. It feels like a chore..
"go here, do this" .. nawh Why don't you leave it to my imagination? I turned off achievement notification. Best decision I ever made.
Have to keep games in check for what it is, fun.
I could have used a better example ehehe.~
"kill three mutants whilst hanging off tree"..
"complete the intro"
lol
Xbl is better if u don't like hunting because it's numeric, beat the game and that's it whatever points u get is what u get, but on psn on the other hand it's not numeric, if u want that coveted platinum you have to get every single damn bronze, silver, and gold trophy, imagine being at 99% completion of a game and having one stupid impossible bronze trophy standing in your way,
compare trophies with other players and you'll see a lot of them in that situation. Funny, probably why so many of them sony fanboys are so bitter, forced to play a game you're sick go to get a little blue cyber trophy. A flawed system, although infamous 1, mafia 2, and crysis1,2,3 were fun as hell platinuming.
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