Eh, these can be implemented well or badly.

Look at Subnautica’s achievements. There are seventeen total, seven of them are triggered by events required to beat the game, 5 are triggered by non-required but main path “players will do this” story beats, and 3 are “engage in a major advertised featuer that are technically possible to skip.” The last two are “play with this little bonus feature we included.”

I’m quite fond of a couple achievements for Half-Life 2 Episode 1 and 2, which are basically challenge runs. “The One Free Bullet” which challenges the player to beat the game having fired only one round from a gun (the crowbar, grenades, rocket launcher, crossbow I think, and gravity gun don’t count as “bullets”) and Little Rocket Man, an achievement for carrying a garden gnome from the beginning of the game all the way to the end and placing him in the rocket.

Possibly my favorite achievement in all of gaming history has to be in Portal 2. At the beginning of a chapter, PotatOS says “Well, this is the part where he kills us.” And you land on a platform surrounded by spikes and Wheatley says “Hello! This is the part where I kill you!” And then the chapter heading reading “Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You” flashes on screen. And then you get an achievement for “The Part Where He Kills You: This is that part.”

Depends if the achievements are good. A boring and bad achievment is something that is simply tedious, and isn’t hard. Like jumping in a specific spot 200 times. That’s stupid as hell.

I think a good achievement is “beat level without X ability”. Something that forces you to adapt and change your playstyle.

I also don’t think games should have hundreds or THOUSANDS of achievements, cause accomplishisng any of them feels like pissing in the wind.

Id much rather have 50 super difficult achievements, so each one feels impactful and rewarding.

I find achievement hunting to be fun, although it’s better if the achievements are interesting

Achievments are optional tho

I CANNOT agree more. Its just filler. I dont wanna backtrack to the middle of fucking nowhere for this resource that can only be found there. I hate fetch quests in games, and in survival crafting games, the entire game is a fetch quest

how do you do, fellow kid

Oh yeah classic arcade/rental game bullshit.

1st level, easy peasy.
2nd level, okay that was a little tough.
3rd, WHAT THE FUCK!? This level is complete bullshit.

Gauntlet in the arcade was the worst. Not only did enemies reduce your health, so did time. You were effectively bleeding out and propping yourself up with quarters.

I sincerely stopped playing RDR2 when I had to catch a fish. Loved the game otherwise.

You heathen

“Deliberately?” Like they’re sitting there in their scrum chortling over each new feature they can cook up that makes things difficult for disabled people?

When I first started Silksong and noticed my Silk upgrades were gone after death, I first thought they were gone for good. I thought a particular monster had eaten them, sort of like one of the bosses in Demon’s Souls, who can steal your character levels (or so I read, I never got to him).

Thank goodness Team Cherry at least held back here! You get them back when you find and smash the cocoon at your point of death.

And +1 for runbacks, also hair-pulling in Silksong. I never thought I’d be able to get through Bilewater.

metroidvania boss walk backs are the worst kind of unskippable cutscene. Oh yeah I’d love to kill the same 3 ads and ride an elevator for 30 seconds

The Messenger does something similar but in a different way: dying summons a demon that eats any coins that the player collects for the next minute. I already suck, and now the game is punishing me by delaying upgrades.