I mean, "trophies and achievements" have been in games since as long as I can remember they were just listed in game instead of on a profile.
No reason to get every dragon/egg/gem in Spyro, you can beat it without doing that. No point in getting every target in Mercenaries, you can buy everything and use everything without that. You can beat Crash Team Racing without any of the bonus race stuff and drive every track. There's a lot of pointless stuff in games people have gone out of their way to get over the years.
For sure. That’s why I qualified all of that with “when they’re well done.”
Sending me on a glorified scavenger hunt in a game about…not scavenger hunts…isn’t good achieves design imho. There may be some exception that don’t feel like a chore, but they’re pretty rare
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u/Commercial_Ad97 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
I mean, "trophies and achievements" have been in games since as long as I can remember they were just listed in game instead of on a profile.
No reason to get every dragon/egg/gem in Spyro, you can beat it without doing that. No point in getting every target in Mercenaries, you can buy everything and use everything without that. You can beat Crash Team Racing without any of the bonus race stuff and drive every track. There's a lot of pointless stuff in games people have gone out of their way to get over the years.