Specially the ones where you have to find stuff.
I usually attempt and manage to get them without looking up any info, but other times I miss something and I don’t want to go thru the tedious process of re-combing whole sections of the levels, or even starting over, just to find some stupid note that I overlooked. Yet, I want the achievement, so I end up looking a guide and I feel like I haven’t truly earned the achievent.
Yes, I know that playing a videogame shouldn’t become a task and that I simply should play it the way I enjoy it the most, but I want too see what others think.
If that’s what brings you joy and how you like to play games, more power to you.
Seriously, it’s a game. There’s no wrong way to play if you’re having fun. One time I got stoned and zoned out to the start menu of ATV Off-Road Fury 2 for 30 minutes, it was one of the best gaming experiences of my life.
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Play the game in whatever way is most enjoyable to you.
With the exception that if it’s a multiplayer game that your enjoyment is not to the detriment of other players.
I ran Game servers 20 years ago and people used to get upset when they were banned for cheating. They ‘have the right to play the game the way they like’ was a legitimate argument directed at me.
Eh, who cares really. As long as it’s offline, you play however you want, mod and cheat the game, use a walkthrough… Or don’t, up to you.
Let me answer the headline with a couple other questions: What’s your opinion about consulting a GPS or map when going somewhere you haven’t been before? What’s your opinion on not cooking every meal from scratch?
Some of us have cognitive impairments that lead us to otherwise getting completely lost and abandoning the game altogether. Others just want to get past an annoyance like in your case.
What I’m trying to say is that it’s ok to achieve things with help, especially in a medium that’s supposed to be about enjoyment and an escape from the drudgery of real life.
I gotta admit I’m a GPS cheater lol
Before getting a phone with GPS, I’d be late for everything because I always got hopelessly lost, sometimes more than an hour of just desperately trying to find somewhere that was easy for most people to find.
I’m never trying to find my way without GPS and mass transit apps again if I can help it!
Doesn’t matter if you used one or not. You still have to do it yourself with the help of the guide. I still find satisfaction in doing them.
I never got the appeal of achievements in the first place. I see them more as friendly reminders than something actually worthwhile pursuing. Chasing them is only making things stressful and tedious, oftentimes annoying and grindy. That’s kinda the exact opposite of any of the reasons I play video games for in the first place. If you want to use guides to get that 100% completion badge, do it. But if you ask me, your question means that you’re letting other people tell you how to play your games on 2 different levels: first by the devs in telling you what “completing the game” has to mean for you and now, secondly, by strangers on the internet in their opinion about which ways to get there are appropriate. Play it the way you want! If you want to hunt achievements because it’s fun to you, do it! And if you feel like referring to guides to get there, then do that, too!
In the realm of video games, do whatever makes you feel happy.
I dunno. In the broader sense, I feel like I achieved many things in life with guides. The things I did without guides were significantly worse and are more embarrassing via their poor outcome, than they are satisfying through their sheer difficulty. For example, I learned broken Vietnamese out of sheer necessity by just staring at words long enough – but the fact is that I’m an adult that speaks with the eloquence of a child. Overcoming difficulty sometimes masquerades as success, but it’s not he same.
I don’t see why video games would be different. If it helps you be the hero in your story, why not? That’s what we all want, isn’t it?
Or maybe the real accomplishment is writing guides, in guiding others to be the hero? It’s dangerous to go alone ;)
Or maybe the real accomplishment is writing guides, in guiding others to be the hero? It’s dangerous to go alone ;)
Absolutely! If not for these unsung heroes, I wouldn’t complete 99% of games, since I have very little sense of direction and other ADHD-related issues!
Aside from the fact that people in your life may like that these things because they bring you pleasure. No one will ever really care about your video game trophies/achievements but you.
If no one else cares about them, then no one cares about how you got them.
If you think using a walk through or guide lessens your sense of achievement, then don’t do it and accept you may never 100% the game in question.
In the end, do whatever brings you the pleasure.
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My opinion is to not have opinions about how other people enjoy their games. For myself, I’m not above using a guide but I’m also likely to just move on when it starts to feel like a study guide for a test.
Your lack of outrage is outrageous. Is this a game to you?
It’s the same as those people yelling at others for not enjoying the sunset right. Everyone has their own way of enjoying what they enjoy, we just need to let them do it as long as it’s not harmful.
There have been several achievements I could only get with a guide for Forza horizon 5. A few shortcuts that were required to make it with a 3 star time. I have no issue with using guides but you do you.
You do you …
Sometimes getting an achievement shows you some unique bit of content you wouldn’t have seen otherwise. In those cases I am 100% for it.
Usually I tend to want to try things myself until I get extremely frustrated. I enjoy games more when I have to figure it all out myself. But at some point, when I’ve achieved most of the main game and I’m on to the extra stuff, I tend to look some stuff up. Some extra content like sidequests or achievements are just silly and don’t really bring me any joy to solve, so I make them a bit easier by looking up parts of it.
I don’t care how anyone else plays the games though. They should play a game however they like
