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Steam Introduces Scoped-Achievements (steamcommunity.com)
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A new beta release for the Steam client includes scoped-achievements.

Achievements can now be split into game mode specific, DLC specific and seasonal specific achievements.

In theory, this will now allow players to achieve achievement completion, even though they're not interested in the multiplayer aspect of a game.

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[+] -6 points 6 days ago (17 children)

Achievements fucken suck. Yes, let me do the predetermined thing the devs said and I will have committed achieve!

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  • [–] 11 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    How is that different from completing the game itself?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (5 children)

    Its a checklist the developers made for you. How is that anywhere near completing the game itself? I get this is my unpopular opinion but you dont need achievements to complete a game, or to track a game, or to prove you beat it. You can just play the game. Exceptions to this are things like SoT's commendations that actually give you unlocks. I exclusively only do the ones that lead to some in game reward item or something. Achievement score go up feels like a microcosm of billionaire brain rot.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    In a game with a quest log, you also have a literal checklist. What's the difference between the two?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (2 children)

    Quests give me xp and items? Achievements dont?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Depends on the game. Skyrim, for example, doesn't always give a reward, especially for the main quest objectives, it only advances the plot. And Team Fortress 2 is one game I know that gives item rewards for achievements.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    I get that most achievements are "Completed tutorial!" and annoying crap like that, but I generally find the more challenging ones enjoyable.

    Or for my joke reply: If you don't like them, then just achieve nothing 🙂

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (2 children)

    Fun achievements:

    • Finish the game
    • 100% the game

    Garbage achievements:

    • Collect every hidden object with no help in this giant open world. Yes you will be alt tabbing to the wiki a lot
    • Complete the entire game 3 times
    • Finish the game with no deaths within 25 minutes
    • On a multiplayer server, on a special seasonal map from 3 years ago that nobody plays, enter cinematic mode and snap a photo of a bullet curving in midair and killing 4 enemies at once who are all on your friends list
    • Bugged achievement
    • You finished chapter 1! You finished chapter 2! You finished chapter 3!
    • Claimed a gift voucher from a limited time real life event in Japan 2 years ago
    • Did an obscure activity that nobody would ever do except specifically for this achievement
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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    Kind of but kind of not. I will look at them when I beat a game and it gives me a quick recap of what I might have missed. That usefulness varies wildly from game to game but sometimes I see an interesting challenge I want to try doing.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    I cared when Bungie gave you the Recon armor set for having the vidmaster achievements. That was the last time.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Actually thats my biggest problem anymore but its more a microtransaction thing. You just dont earn cool stuff for doing challenges anymore. I love the few games that do give you something but it is fuckin RARE.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 days ago

    With the down modding, dam and I thought reddit was an echo chamber...

    I totally agree. I encountered them on playstation as trophies and thought there would be a 3D room you could explore all your trophies, maybe 3 or 4 per game total, finish the game and a few hard sub-bosses or quests. The reality was: walk across the room trophy, the save the game trophy, the pause while going to the bathroom trophy... Turned that shit off quick...

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