They're still around, but it feels like no really cares all that much about them anymore.
Personally: I used to work my ass off for certain achievements, and will still try to get at least most of them in a given game, but I'm not willing to put myself through the level of hell that I used to for that one fuckin' achievement almost every game has.
Achievement design is an underappreciated art. So many games have two types of them: ones you get by just playing the game through, and ones that are like "do this unfun extra thing 100 times". Achievements have such potential to make people play games in new fun ways, but it is rarely utilized.
Basically, just copy what Crusader Kings 3 is doing.
Then you have the absolute CHAD of achievements, King Kong, where you get 8 achievements worth 100G for beating each level, then a final 200G one for beating all levels.
https://www.xboxachievements.com/game/king-kong/achievements/
Honestly the whole scoring achievements and tracking an account wide score thing is kinda dumb, especially since AFAIK the devs can set whatever values they want.
Yeah, the majority of achievements are shit now. Ideally they should prod you in a new direction or to try some strange strategy or something you wouldn't have tried for.
I pretty much stopped when every game had a load for online multiplayer. Screw that.
earned by playing through the game normally
These aren't achievements, they're metrics that the devs track in order to see at what point players stop playing the game.
Occasionally? Steam achievements are pretty noticeable. Pretty much every time I get an achievement I check what it's for and peek at my total progress in the game.
[Playstation user here] If I really like a game, I will attempt to get the Platinum Trophy as long as it's within reason (looking at you Stardew Valley). Otherwise I don't sweat it too much. Although on the PC side, I use achievements as ideas for Europa Universalis 4 runs because otherwise I'd play the same nations over and over again
I have so many games to play, I really don't care to just check boxes. Once I get the most of the experience, I'm off to something else. The games I truly love I'll revisit again but I don't need to do any grindy completionist tasks to check a box somewhere
I never cared that much about achievements in the past. Recently I've been getting the urge to 100% games I like, but pretty much every single one has really terrible achievements that I have no desire to get. The main offenders are usually:
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achievements that require you to play the shitty multiplayer/co-op mode in a primarily single player game
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achievements that require you to own a dlc that I have no intention of getting.
I did recently get all the Hades steam achievements and I think they were pretty well designed. The "difficult" ones were not too hard/grindy, but I still had to go out of my way to get them.
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Sometimes, I really appreciate achievements, they can make me play a game differently than I normally would. I remember Half Life 2: Episode 1 had an achievement for firing only one bullet throughout an entire playthrough- I enjoyed being "forced" to use the Gravity Gun creatively so much that I do that basically whenever I replay the game now (which is not very frequent anymore, but still).
Also, I've been playing Crosscode recently (which is good, you should all get it ), and some of its achievements seem at first glance to be really poorly designed grindy shit. But the actual numbers are pretty low, and some of them are for actions I basically never did, like guarding. Looking at that achievement made me go "oh shit, I can totally do that if I just try a little bit," and that in turn made me realize that a Defense build was actually very strong, and it made me have a much easier time with some fights I had been struggling with. Plus, as an added thing, achievements are worth points that can be used to make your New Game Plus runs increasingly ridiculous, and that's pretty neat.
The only time I've ever gone after achievements is when a game is really good and there's only a dozen or so left after a normal playthrough. It's a pretty small list of games that satisfy those requirements, in fact IIRC there's only three in my steam library, but as if to drive the knife home about how worthless achievements are two of the three games I got 100% in fucking added achievements later on, taking my accomplishment away.
I actually go for platinums more now than I did when they first were a thing.
If it’s a reasonable plat I’ll do it for games I really like and if it’s easy I’ll do it for games I only play once.
If it requires multiple play throughs, I won’t do it.
Could not give less of a shit about achievements when I’m playing on PC though.
I actually don't like them, a lot of times, they are grind based, which majorly takes away from the enjoyment of the game. I should be able to ignore it but I'm too much of perfectionist. The best games are ones that don't have grinds.
If I really enjoy a game I'll 100% it. In most games I like though the achievements are well designed and will result in me doing something I might not have thought of and seeing something cool I might not have otherwise.
Exactly this. I love 100%ting games, but only good games or just games I am thoroughly enjoying for some reason (I 100% the main game of ff15)...
I like achievements, they are the only reason i have so many hours in eu4, otherwise i would get bored with it
Yeah, Paradox achievements are a pretty good way to give me an idea of wth to do instead of picking a country and winging it.
If only I had those for programming maybe I'd actually end up with a real project.
I have every achievement in Trials HD and it genuinely might be one of my greatest achievements
I also have 1000/1000G in Avatar: The Burning Earth
I sometimes go out of my way to plat a game if I really enjoyed it and want to get everything I can out of it. Or if it's easy enough to get everything anyway (like horizon zero dawn)
