CaviarMeths
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Friends can't look at your profile and see you've done something is the main complaint, I think.
Ok, but trophies are like pictures of your kids. Nobody cares except you.
Friends can't look at your profile and see you've done something is the main complaint, I think.
Ok, but trophies are like pictures of your kids. Nobody cares except you.
Nintendo sucks at keeping people playing their (online) games. Achievements and rewards are definitely a part of that.
Touche. Let me start compiling a weekly newsletter to send out to all my friends to keep them updated on my achievements in Nintendo games.Have you tried talking to them?
Touche. Let me start compiling a weekly newsletter to send out to all my friends to keep them updated on my achievements in Nintendo games.
People literally made their own servers to keep playing Wii games online after GameSpy shut down the original servers.
Super Mario Odyssey tracks the date you acquire each moon. I wonder if that will be something shareable, or if it's just assumed you'll take a screenshot and share it if you wanted to.
Tweets, just like games on my Recently Played list, will eventually disappear. That is a good way to share with your friends though, and I'm glad that Nintendo has that feature. I don't want any kind of deep trophy system, just something little to commemorate milestones that I reached in games. I don't care if there is a score connected to it or anything.Just post to Twitter using the Switch's built-in features, then they'll see it. And this way, you also get to dictate what you consider to be an achievement.
Same could be said about time spent playing a game, but Nintendo still has that feature on every profile.Ok, but trophies are like pictures of your kids. Nobody cares except you.
Touche. Let me start compiling a weekly newsletter to send out to all my friends to keep them updated on my achievements in Nintendo games.
For what? Smash Bros?
Ok, but trophies are like pictures of your kids. Nobody cares except you.
It can be fun to look at the trophies for a game to find a new way to play a game or seeing a challenge for yourself You wouldnt have thought of otherwise.I've never understood the appeal.
It would be one thing if you could cash in trophies for cool OS bonuses like themes and avatars and stuff, but they are just pointless. Half of them are just "participation trophies".
I especially do not understand why people play games just because they have easy trophies. Literally nobody cares that you have "X" amount of platinum trophies, or your gamerscore is high.
I'd love them. It's an industry standard at this point, so Nintendo's decision (?) on not implementing such a system is kind of infuriating.
It can be fun to look at the trophies for a game to find a new way to play a game or seeing a challenge for yourself You wouldnt have thought of otherwise.
Calling trophies an industry standard sounds kinda hilarious.
It can be fun to look at the trophies for a game to find a new way to play a game or seeing a challenge for yourself You wouldn't have thought of otherwise.
Because it's a way of connecting socially with friends. Oh I didn't know my friend had played that game, I wonder if he did this random thing I did, oh he did. I'm going to ask him about it when I see him. Oh he didn't, now I can laugh at him mercilessly for not wasting his time on this thing, because that's just what guys do.That I can somewhat understand.
But why would you want to see someone else's trophies? You can google a list of achievements.
Love it.Ok, but trophies are like pictures of your kids. Nobody cares except you.
I personally have never talked about achievements with friends. Wgen it came to enjoying games with friends it was about the experiences, not the little icon. The Souls series is a big one. No one talked about the achievements, you just talked about the game.I mean, okay, it can start a conversation, but so can just.. talking about games. The things mentioned above, talking about if you've beaten a game or done a specific thing, are conversations I have with friends about games that don't have achievements.
I mean, okay, it can start a conversation, but so can just.. talking about games. The things mentioned above, talking about if you've beaten a game or done a specific thing, are conversations I have with friends about games that don't have achievements.
Never enjoyed it but I do wish there was street pass for the switch
Ugh. IMO, this has been the single biggest deleterious effect of the achievement and trophy system: Trophies being treated as if they're content. It started with users viewing them as content but then developers jumped on board. It's made some developers lazy as they use the trophies as crutches to pad playtime rather than adding more compelling gameplay. You don't have trophy X, why don't you play through the same thing a third time for it?!
Meanwhile, too many users use it as an idiotic measurement of aptitude or interest, some going so far as to berate others for having lower gamerscore or trophy counts. Nevermind the fact that tools exist to cheat to unlock them (especially back on X360).
I guess the TL;DR here is:
Achievements were a mistake. Developers choosing to put in achievements on their own was one thing. Microsoft (then Sony) mandating them made the whole thing into a shitshow.
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Yeah but you know the inevitable trophy for ALL the Korok seeds would be rage inducing.
I'm glad there isn't one.
Trophies ruined how I played games, took a break from the PS4 and now I just try to enjoy the games I play.
The activity log is not ideal, but it's something... but why isn't it permanent? It's only for the last twenty games.
Thank god for no achievements here. They make games worse. They take away actually rewards for a stupid popup/picture/checkmark.
Hell cheats and codes went away right at the same time achievements came to be a thing. First because cheating would devalue the achievements then they just took and sold us the "cheats"
Cheat codes went away because they figured out they could charge you for it.
Zelda and now mario make me feel that having an achievement system would just turn finding Koroks/Moons into a chore.
Now, I play as much as I want and dont worry about hitting a threshold for a useless icon in a list.
I am playing Super Mario Odyssey and the least thing I need is an achievement system. If every game could be like this rewarding. 😍