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Easy achievements that few people have

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Yeah, since the Xbox added achievement rarity that you can compare against sites like TrueAchievements to see the difference between achievement hunters and the general population, and it's surprising.

The number of people who beat story modes/campaigns for most games is extremely low.

SprachBrooks said:
The most valuable factor of achievements is that they elucidate how easily people lose interest in a game. And how few people actually complete them.
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They certainly give an indication why what gamers supposedly want are not big economic priorities.
 
Patryn said:
One of the most surprising figures to me was hearing that the achievement you get for pushing the start button in The Simpsons Game on the 360 wasn't at 100 percent.

That would mean that people either purchased the game digitally or put the game in and then never played it.

Seriously, you get the achievement the first time you hit a button after booting the game.
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I don't trade many games in, but on the rare occasion I have, the dude behind the counter has put the disc into a console and booted it, then taken it out when the dev and publisher logos play. I'm guessing it's to see if it works. I wonder if stuff like that contributes.
 
I don't know... Looking at achievement %-ages that are awarded for beating a game (any or a specific difficulty) is kinda depressing. So many games arround ~30%, while some really well received games are only at ~50%.

Tells me that people are actually not completing games.
 
I just think the majority of people care THAT little for achievements now. They were a novel thing during the 360 days, now they're just a source of annoying popups.
 
shawnbuddy said:
I just think the majority of people care THAT little for achievements now. They were a novel thing during the 360 days, now they're just a source of annoying popups.
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Trophy/achievement community is just as strong now as it ever was as far as I can tell. If anything I see a lot of new people getting in to them all the time on places like Reddit and PSNProfiles.
 
Speaking of Watch Dogs 2, I must have run up and down some of those crowded public areas for a couple of hours and I was never able to get a picture of an NPC vomiting for the Trophy. It's trivial if you happen to have RNGesus line up the shot for you, though.
 
ScaryShark said:
Trophy/achievement community is just as strong now as it ever was as far as I can tell. If anything I see a lot of new people getting in to them all the time on places like Reddit and PSNProfiles.
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Maybe, but judging from the evidence in this thread about how little people care to complete falling-off-a-log easy ones, it's not the mainstream.
 
Most of the Telltale games, just beat it and you'll have a platinum by the end. Specifically the first Walking Dead series.
 
ClayKavalier said:
I haven't done it yet but I'm going to buy a shirt before I sell the game just because I've never seen the "rare achievement" popup before.
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I've seen it a ton, and I don't even chase achievements/trophies.

I hear it pop when my daughters are playing too. It's a neat sound, and my girls will yell "I got a diamond daddy!"

Neptonic said:
Wait on XBOX the YouTube app has achievements? That's cool as hell
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A lot of apps have achievements, :)
 
Iacobellis said:
Not sure about recent games, but I recall a majority of 360 launch titles having absurdly easy Achievements. I'm going to guess that most people missed those, especially those that didn't get a 360 until later in its life.
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Yeah, NBA 2k6 and King Kong are 2 that come to mind. Never played them.
 
shawnbuddy said:
I just think the majority of people care THAT little for achievements now. They were a novel thing during the 360 days, now they're just a source of annoying popups.
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It does look to me that the achievements that are easy but you actually have to bother to do some minimum effort to get them as opposed to easy achievements you'll just get anyway from playing normally are an indication of the real percentage of players that are achievement hunters.
 
Most players have these but I'm always surprised when there's a trophy/achievement for just starting the game and it's sitting at 80% since the game isn't added to the list until you actually boot it up.
 
There's one in Battlefront that requires you to win a match in each mode. Other than Hero Hunt, this is absurdly easy (since every other mode is team oriented), and even Hero Hunt isn't overly difficult to win at.
Fisty said:
Welcome!

- Play your first match in Battleborn
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RoboPlato said:
Most players have these but I'm always surprised when there's a trophy/achievement for just starting the game and it's sitting at 80% since the game isn't added to the list until you actually boot it up.
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Could be a case of the wrong profile is loaded up, noticed after the game has been booted.

Happened me on a few Xbox one games so my little bro will forever have games he'll never pay attached to his profile
 
Jedi2016 said:
And it's baffling to me how the very first achievement you get automatically four minutes into a game only has an 80% completion ratio among players.
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This is what i struggle with as well - achievements at the start of the game that are impossible to miss if you just play the game for a few minutes.

It's often 70%-80% implying that the remainder haven't even launched the game essentially.

They're also fairly low on trueachievements - AFAIK you have to actively register with that site AND launch the game for the site to even know you own it...and then not play the first 5 minutes? weird!
 
Xander51 said:
Yes! I was floored by how few people were willing to play like 20 minutes of the older games to snag all the achievements. Maybe I have a high tolerance for old Spectrum stuff, but come on.
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Or maybe people just don't care about achievements to waste time playing games they won't like? I think people overestimate the amount that actually give a shit about achievements. To me obvious easy achievements like "complete first mission" being rare doesn't really count, that's just padded out with people not actually playing the game.

Anyways, according to TrueAchievement, the easiest achievement I don't have of games I've actually played longer than a minute on my current GT is Black Ops 1 - Death to Dictators Take down Castro with a headshot. Easy achievement but I can't be bothered replaying the game to get it, so I'll probably never unlock it.
 
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