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  1. Be it on PC or console who owns the achievements/trophies? Why can't the individual request the removal of there achievements & or trophies upon deleting their game & or account? Mods disable achievements, especially on gaming consoles, so are they even important? Should you at least have a choice? Back in the day, there were no achievements/trophies, you played the game because you liked the game, no account platform owned you either.

    #Achievements #Consoles #PC #PCGaming #Trophies #VideoGames

  2. Be it on PC or console who owns the achievements/trophies? Why can't the individual request the removal of there achievements & or trophies upon deleting their game & or account? Mods disable achievements, especially on gaming consoles, so are they even important? Should you at least have a choice? Back in the day, there were no achievements/trophies, you played the game because you liked the game, no account platform owned you either.

    #Achievements #Consoles #PC #PCGaming #Trophies #VideoGames

  3. For anyone wanting to clear out some cupboard space…

    #Trump
    #USPol
    #Trophies
    #TheTrophiestPresident

    (Original probably by Derek McCabe, per image)

  4. ...we a11 know their #trophies are a #lie to self #worship how well they cheat...

    ...most ignore the #cheating as excuse to do their own...

  5. :blobcatgamer: Ello sweet gaming Friendos :purple_heart_sparkle:

    I've just checked my trophies for March till now and wow, it did not disappoint! Some months I get none, some months I get some... 😊

    I hope that @altbot 🤖 will be able to capture this, as I've no clue how to describe this best...

    But I've mostly been playing Lost Records and The Devil in Me this month. And I've been able to capture some trophies 🏆 along the way. I still don't have them all, as the games both have collectibles that one needs to find, and I need some guides to help me with that... 😊

    Hope you're all having a good time! I'll CW the image because some trophy titles/descriptions can be spoilers for those that haven't played the games yet...

    Catch you later folks :squirtle_jam:

    :playstation: 🧚🏼‍♀️

    #ShareYourGames #Gaming #PS5 #Playstation #Trophies #TheDevilInMe #LostRecords

  6. The Scourge of Toluca Lake | Silent Hill 2

    Absolutely gripping trophy.

    Sit in the boat for 10 minutes. That’s it. That’s the trophy.

    #Gaming #PlayStation #SilentHill2 #PS5Share #Trophies

  7. Via Punch Cartoons ... and more @PunchBooks
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    By the inimitable John Donegan. “I’m none too proud of that one. He thought I was taking his picture.” From 1986 #portraits #hunters #biggame #trophies #heads #moose #deer #antlers #shooting #game #smiling #plutocrats #guests

  8. Buenos Aires, #Argentina

    #Antlers and #trophies on display as authorities deal a blow to the trafficking and illegal hunting of endangered species by dismantling a criminal gang that operated with foreign tourists

    Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

    @photography

  9. In the Soundbytes section of Edge magazine, issue 397 from June 2024, there’s New Blood Interactive CEO Dave Oshry’s commentary about achievements  – “I actually hate achievements and what they’ve done to games and our ability to enjoy them without needless gamification and meaningless rewards…” A reply from a gamer followed in the next issue, expressing how hating on something “entirely optional and easily ignorable” is a waste of energy and then there’s something else about dopamine hits. He ends with “achievements are a positive, harmless and utterly optional aspect of gaming that many players enjoy.” I agree in part and this made me think a bit about my way of seeing achievements and how important (or not) they are in my experience with video games.

    When I was playing on Steam many years ago it barely had achievements. Most games didn’t have them but the feature was gradually introduced for new games and now almost all games have it. When I played Skyrim I wasn’t aware that the achievements were popping every time I did something in the game. When I recently came back to the platform I saw that I had almost 100% (let’s use 100% as a verb) the game naturally. When I finished the game I was pretty much done with it. I explored a lot, did all side quests and the main story. I went out of the beaten path as I usually do and unlocked some very rare achievements. It didn’t do anything for me because it went unnoticed at the time.

    I don’t remember if the PS3 had trophies but I checked that they were introduced in this system around 2008. I played many games that were more story focused and surely I got some trophies but I can’t quite remember. It was only when I got my PS5 that the trophies started getting some more importance in my gameplay. I made sure to check the trophy list and see if I could manage the challenges and tasks. I went out of my way to do everything, even if the task didn’t make any sense. Some trophies were interesting because they opened up some aspects of the game I otherwise wouldn’t have seen, but others were just a time sink.

    After getting the platinum for about 10 games I noticed another pattern in my game choice. I’d only choose games I could get the platinum for, or before picking up something to play I’d check the trophy list first and see if there were difficulty related trophies or if there were trophies that made me play the game more than once. I’d scratch those temporarily and gave priority to games I could platinum more easily. Then, going back to the harder games I’d go for most of the trophies I could unlock and leave the other trophies unfinished. For example in Final Fantasy VII Remake I couldn’t and didn’t have any interest in playing the game again on a higher difficulty or acing at the mini-games. Those kinds of trophies are empty challenges for me because they’re only skill-based. It’s the trophies that make me do something I haven’t done before or collect items I didn’t know existed that I find worth pursuing.

    So by this time I was pretty much playing games with the trophies in mind and not with the game as a priority. I’d choose the games in function of the trophies they had and gave immense priority to trophy lists and guides. Eventually I wasn’t having fun with the games anymore. I feared all the time the trophies I’d miss if I carried on with the main story, or I’d have to save scum to get this or that trophy in one playthrough. It was exhausting. I don’t know why I got so obsessed with it but I think it was a mix of my obsessive nature and the internet. The idea that you’re only finished with a game when you 100% it, therefore all the games where you didn’t get all the trophies for are considered unfinished gave me some sort of anxiety.

    When is a game actually finished? Is it the main story? Main story and side quests? All collectibles? Super bosses? Discovering all locations? Talking with every NPC? Getting all the trophies? Finding all hidden areas? Then why did I get all trophies in Horizon Forbidden West but my game progression in-game was still at 70%? Is the game finished or not?

    Anyway, I eventually got a Nintendo Switch and one of the first things I noticed was that the system doesn’t have achievements, and I don’t know how to put this but the relaxation I felt when I played the first games on the console has lead me to the realisation that this trophy thing isn’t good for people like me. I struggle with the “easily ignorable” part of achievements. I felt free but more than that, the experience helped me rethink what I valued in my gameplay – if it was the story and experience or a trophy list and a bunch of guides. I went for the former.

    Now, free at last from trophies and achievements, I approach the games on PS5 and PC from another perspective. I still check the list out of curiosity but I don’t think about doing all the tasks for completion, because usually that completion is artificial (it’s obvious to me now but it wasn’t then). I’m almost certain that people who got the platinum trophy for Elden Ring did access almost everything the game had to offer. I don’t remember anything left to do when I finished the game on Xbox and got 100% achievements but honestly I didn’t need any of it to enjoy the game. The trophies in that case, however, pointed us in directions and optional areas that could be hard to find naturally.

    Apart from trophies and achievements almost every RPG has much to explore outside of main story progression and to me the completion of the main story is what defines that the game reached its conclusion and the side content is optional. Personally I do every side quest I come across out of habit and explore the entirety of the map. I collect everything I can and it’s nice to have a trophy list to check if I still have something missing. But I try to avoid freaking out if I have some trophies missing when I decided that I explored what I wanted to and considered the game finished. This text is so unnecessary but I’m sick in bed, so I have to keep going. [It was nothing serious and I’m better now.]

    In sum the trophies for me are more of a hindrance than a source of something positive for my gameplay and entertainment. I use them as a tool to track my progression in the areas I value the most: side quests, exploration and collection, ignoring the tasks and challenges that don’t add any value in my perspective. However, finishing a game and exploring most of the side content and still seeing a progress bar at 60% sucks magnificently. I’m all for trophies in games because I see how much people love to see them in their accounts and bragging rights are a thing (if you aren’t a follower of the Law of Jante), but playing on a platform without them has been a return to offline sanity.

    The more games I have in my backlog the less I care about trophies. I think this goes for most people who don’t have time to hit their heads against a wall and have to move on with the game because of time constraints. I prefer to prioritise 100% visual novels. They’ve made it easier to run through the games several times through the skip-dialogue function in order to unlock all the endings, routes, CGs and other extras, although in this case we’re actually discovering more story and alternate endings, and not just earning a badge. 

    More often than not I’ve seen trophies being used to troll people online, questioning their skills or their investment in a game. Given this, I don’t see any advantage in having them apart from having something to write about on a blog between Xenoblade sessions and Steam Summer Sales.

    https://swordofseiros.wordpress.com/2024/07/06/trophies-achievements-and-anxiety/

    #achievements #daveOshry #edgeMagazine #eldenRing #finalFantasyVIIRemake #Games #gaming #nintendoSwitch #platinum #playstation5 #rpg #skyrim #steam #trophies #videoGames #videogames #visualNovels #xboxSeriesX

  10. Massive navigation improvements!
    Page navigation has received a large upgrade, letting you see more of your records easily while keeping your options after a page reload!
    https://osmium.gg/news/2024/03/38-massive-navigation-improvements.html

    #Osmium #Gaming #Achievements #Trophies #News

  11. By the way, I got my 100th #PlatinumTrophy today with #RoboCopRogueCity, which has taken quite a while over the last few months because I've hardly played any games to the end :blobcatderpy:

    #VideoGames #Gaming #PlayStation #Trophies

  12. After #HouseOfAshes I should head back to #TheQuarry as there's still some trophies to get there as well. 😊
    I would not call myself a hunter, I have way too little trophies for that. But I do love getting trophies as I feel they let me explore the game better. 😊

    #ShareYourGames #Gaming #PS5 #PS4 #Playstation #Trophies

  13. My last few #PlatinumTrophy I got. Some took me long time achieving, due to various reasons. Most proud of these is #ManOfMedan as it required a lot of things to collect and do! And it's more rare than the others, which is cool as well. 😊

    #ShareYourGames #Gaming #PS5 #PS4 #Playstation #Trophies

  14. I did it!
    I got #ConcreteGenie to 100%. Well, 95%, but 5% is for VR and I unfortunately don't have that.
    Yay! First game of February beaten!
    I had hoped it would be #AgathaChristie #ABCMurders but yeah, haven't been successful in getting that last one. 😔

    #ShareYourGames #Gaming #PS4 #Playstation #Trophies

  15. Slowly getting there...
    Another trophy 🏆 for the collection.
    #ManOfMedan is a game with many possibilities. So many ways to play it... I love it!
    I also hate it when I need to redo things but ah... Good to practice my patience 😉

    #Trophies #ShareYourGames #PSNprofiles #Playstation

  16. @[email protected] It’s going alright. It’s not an impossible but it’s my first since so I’m pretty rusty. Trying to complete the game on Veteran while doing as many possible is crazy difficult. I was able to get to 35% in two nights of playing so hopefully I can wrap it up soon! :blobcatgamer: :blobcatfakeverified:

  17. CW: I look at the camera

    Here I go again! Hopefully my last run of this game...
    Don't get me wrong, I do love it!
    But getting all the trophies requires me loads of replays and that's just a wee bit too much. I'd prefer 4 to 5 plays. Done many more already...

    #ShareYourGames #Gaming #PS5 #Playstation #ManOfMedan #Trophies

  18. I'm getting close to the final trophies of #AgathaChristie #TheABCMurders game on #PS4. I'm playing through #PSPlusPremium and found out it will leave the service on February 21st. Meaning if I want to finish it, I have to work on it now.
    I tried to find a pre-owned copy to buy but none I could find that were affordable. 😔

    #ShareYourGames #Gaming #Playstation #Trophies

  19. I wondered why I didn't get any 🏆 trophies yet while playing What Remains of Edith Finch.
    I found its best to play the game without looking the trophies up. When you finish the game, you get chapter select. Then you can replay the chapters and get the trophies with it.
    Yay for the guide. I read a bit but don't want to spoil so I stopped.

    psnprofiles.com/guide/6001-wha...

    #Gaming #EdithFinch #Trophies