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What's your opinion on getting video game achievements with the help of a guide? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I see it more as a personal question and intention than social or moral.

Given that guides exist, and you can force-unlock (Steam) achievements without installing a game, they're not a curated qualified badge system. There's no guarantees how someone achieved them.

That makes it a personal consideration, and decision how you want to design it for yourself.

Which is elevated by awareness and mindfulness. Not being victim to extrinsic motivation but making a decision on it and whether and how to achieve them, under which burden and help, broadly or achievement specifically.

As such, there should be no barriers. Guides make them accessible for more people.