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.
I liked the road rash title screen, but it’s hard to beat the Madden 92 title music. There has never been a point to buying a Madden game after 92
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
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
It’s a game, do whatever you want. Every achievement is already solved and completed by hundreds of people before you at least so it’s not really that special for you to figure it out on your own anyway.
Obviously, it’s fun, but it depends highly on the game.
It was actually one of my bigger issues with FF7. You had to follow a guide very closely to get things done in that game. There was one moment where you had to trigger a cutscene, and then immediately stop and backtrack halfway around the world with no fast or convenient travel options, then go back to where you triggered the cutscene and go to the next screen to trigger the next cutscene. Nobody, anywhere, is going to do that without a guide.
