To start off, yes I play every game that I have to completion,unless it is not possible with discontinued things (ill get to that later).I cannot even remember the last time I had fun playing a video game.
The first game I have dug into is Yakuza 5. Last time I played it my save file was over 230 hours long and I am not even halfway to the platinum I would say, Every session I play of it is extremely boring repetitive trash, because I am going for all the trophies.
The next game is cuphead. Yeah, havent played this since launch because it was difficult and I wasnt proceeding till i got A ranks on every boss. Dont even know when I will get back to that. Although, I would much rather go play this than what im currently playing....
...motherfucking overwatch. I have never seen such an archaic achievement system in my life. How in the fuck are you going to have timed achievements that go away after a few weeks and can never be gotten again(the junkenstein ones are not obtainable from last year). Whats worst about this is that PS4 does not get timed trophies, in fact they only recently got the character trophies that xbox has gotten at each character launch. Why are they fucking over xbox users when xbox literally has a feature built in for this exact thing: CHALLENGES. Why is xbox getting these achievements when they are nowhere else? I have been playing this every night since it started trying to get them done to remain at 100%, it is misery.
I know there are bigger things to complain about, but fuck man. I have ruined video games for myself by being such an achievement/trophy whore. How the fuck do people break this addiction. I want off this ride.
I used to be a 100% completionist. I even went so far as planning which games to play to land on 500,000 gamerscore, with exactly 500 games on my gamertag, with exactly 18,500 achievements, with 100% completion including DLC.
While I am still proud of the planning and dedication it took to attain that obsessive compulsive goal, I broke my addiction shortly into the 500k's by putting a game on my tag I knew I would never complete. It isnt unobtainable, per se, but like 2 or 3 people on TrueAchievements have finished it because it is broken as fuck. Havent touched it in like 2 years.
And you know what? Best decision I ever made. I was a slave to achievements, but moreso to 100% completion. I still complete most games I play, almost all of them really, but I dont play games just for score anymore. I only play games I LIKE, and that makes the achievements enjoyable.
Neverwinter just recently added an achievement that is a big fat "fuck you" to dedicated completionists. This single achievement takes 300+ hours to get, amd that is IF you power grind it buy spending about 20 milliom AD buying lures for hunts, AND gettinng some REALLY good RNG in the process. Most players dont even have 10% of that 20 million, let alone 300+ hours (can be triple that or more with bad RNG).
Thank god I said goodbye to obsessive completionism 2 years ago. That achievement was the easiest thing to say 'fuck off Neverwinter, and fuck off Perfect World for this achievement'.
I will get achievements in my games, but I wont play a game JUST for them and if they take the fun out of it (like Neverwinter), I can now walk away.
Do it OP. WALK. AWAY.
