that reminds me of TotalBiscuits apt description of a typical quest in World of Warcraft – "collect 10 bear arses" (and I also remember someone pointing out how hilarious it is that in WOW you come to a new village and get greeted by total strangers who immediately trust you and then casually ask you to murder a bunch of people and/or animals; but thats unrelated to achivements, thats just silly video game logic
)Speaking of WOW, the achievements in that game were well implemented at first, giving cool stuff and titles and they were hard to obtain but not always a grind. But of course they kept adding and adding and adding and its now a huge mountain of achivements, grind + stuff. But thats also an ancient MMO, so its to be expected.
Generally, I dont really care for achievements. They can be fun, but most of the time I'll ignore them. If I notice I can do them and they are actually a fun challenge, I might do them–in games I love. I did a 100% of Deus Ex Human Revolution and Elden Ring, for example.
I do know a guy who seems to play just for achievements in a very unhealthy way, obsessing over them. Not great.
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