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Kemono-san posted:I think retroachievements are an obscenity. i think you cant handle a little challenge in your life
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Kemono-san posted:I think retroachievements are an obscenity. this
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Oct 9, 2025 12:46
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cumpantry posted:i think you cant handle a little challenge in your life Achievement unlocked! Played the first level! Oh wow, such challenge, i certainly feel pride and accomplishment for completing a Herculean task
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Oct 9, 2025 12:49
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Mister Facetious posted:Achievement unlocked! Played the first level! yup thats what they all for sure are
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Oct 9, 2025 12:51
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cumpantry posted:i think you cant handle a little challenge in your life I think you can handle playing old games without being clicker trained by someone writing poo poo like "'Let's Start! 5G'! Picked your starter in Pokémon Blue"
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Oct 9, 2025 12:53
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Might as well have an AI chatbot congratulate/ego boost you while playing a game
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Oct 9, 2025 12:54
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It is obscene, it is TBS colorizing Casablanca, it is anime with a dub.
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Oct 9, 2025 12:54
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Kemono-san posted:I think you can handle playing old games without being clicker trained by someone writing poo poo like "'Let's Start! 5G'! Picked your starter in Pokémon Blue" right so like i said, you are a pussy that cant handle a challenge Mister Facetious posted:Might as well have an AI chatbot congratulate/ego boost you while playing a game also a pussy
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Oct 9, 2025 12:56
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The RetroAchievements bit is stupid and unfunny but it is really funny seeing cumpantry get weirdly mad about people not liking it
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Oct 9, 2025 12:59
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they can dislike it for better reasons than brainless sweeping assumptions
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Oct 9, 2025 13:00
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You're so deprived of dopamine and approval that beating Mother Brain isn't satisfying in itself anymore, you need a computer to give you headpats.
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Oct 9, 2025 13:03
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i can half see the appeal but i feel like people who use it have this compulsion to sculpt a lot of how they play retro games around it and that's not great for a program inherently limited in its possible support where you often have significantly better options or may just be better off with more niche ones that retroachievements can't cover. like it feels weird seeing people emulate games on it that have pc versions that are by default better and where if you're going to play the original version the only real reason to do that would be to play them on the original hardware itself because now emulation is putting you somewhere between a less accurate experience but also one more poorly tailored for the system you're using
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Oct 9, 2025 13:04
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RA is a fun lil bonus for doing something you already wanted to do in playing old games but I'm not so sure it's ever really gonna be a motivator for me to play more old games. Nintendo doesn't really do cheevos the same way but I've had no issues picking up some switch 1/2 games for a long session. Not quite the same thing, I know.
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The Colonel posted:i can half see the appeal but i feel like people who use it have this compulsion to sculpt a lot of how they play retro games around it and that's not great for a program inherently limited in its possible support where you often have significantly better options or may just be better off with more niche ones that retroachievements can't cover. like it feels weird seeing people emulate games on it that have pc versions that are by default better and where if you're going to play the original version the only real reason to do that would be to play them on the original hardware itself because now emulation is putting you somewhere between a less accurate experience but also one more poorly tailored for the system you're using very fair imo, i think it is worth pointing out that there is the factor of money for these pc versions vs roms that are easy to source, and there is the diff of community--playing on steam puts you in the steam community, playing on gog puts you in no community at all, playing on roms puts you in the retroachievements community with all the comment boards and forums that entails. i also think anyone who would avoid playing a retro game because it doesnt have an achievement set is pretty lame too the biggest reason i champion RA is because it's breathed new life into several old games i grew up playing, encouraging me to interact with them in new ways entirely or teaching me secrets i had no idea existed. the kirby series is easy because theyre p much kids games but surprisingly boss design is more complex than i ever realized due to how easy it is to buffer through them in a normal playthrough. ive got new respect for Adventure even the useless achievements Feels brings up have a place in terms of tracking percentage of gameplay completion. like on steam, i like seeing how far your average gamer gets and what stops their feet
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Oct 9, 2025 13:16
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i'm not even talking about pc ports that cost money i'm talking about community ones like the jak, mario, zelda and sonic ports
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Oct 9, 2025 13:17
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fair again though this comes back to the diff in being a part of a community and playing in isolation. if it was someones first time playing mario 64 i probably would direct them to the pc port but for someone who's gone through it a half dozen times, why not try with some challenges hanging overhead?
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Oct 9, 2025 13:19
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i think in game cheevos that reward you with goodies or art etc are cool. not a fan of external cheevos like ra/steam/etc. happy for anyone who enjoys
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Oct 9, 2025 13:21
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cumpantry posted:fair again though this comes back to the diff in being a part of a community and playing in isolation. if it was someones first time playing mario 64 i probably would direct them to the pc port but for someone who's gone through it a half dozen times, why not try with some challenges hanging overhead? You don't need that stupid poo poo to be part of a community. Play the god drat game and post about it.
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Oct 9, 2025 13:22
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Kemono-san posted:You don't need that stupid poo poo to be part of a community. Play the god drat game and post about it. oh my god can you post in any worse faith you moron
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Oct 9, 2025 13:23
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Kemono-san posted:You don't need that stupid poo poo to be part of a community. Play the god drat game and post about it. yup
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Oct 9, 2025 13:24
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personally i will be playing zenless zone zero however.
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Ohtori Akio posted:personally i will be playing zenless zone zero however. Pulchra's big honkers.
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Oct 9, 2025 13:26
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Kemono-san posted:Pulchra's big honkers. i prefer miyabi's big ears
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cumpantry posted:sigh... let's bust the abe assassin out
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Ohtori Akio posted:happy for anyone who enjoys
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Oct 9, 2025 13:34
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every retroachievement ive checked has been entirely *pushed a* type poo poo tbh
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like look at sacred stones lmfao https://retroachievements.org/game/2482   
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Endorph posted:every retroachievement ive checked has been entirely *pushed a* type poo poo tbh Bounce Tales (10) (56) Finish 5-1 with Kirby being transformed into ball form the entire time Never Look Back except when is Needed (5) (16) Finish 2-4 with only a single obligatory left press Bring It On! (25) (148) Defeat all the mini-bosses at the secret path in 7-2 without taking damage (No Stone, No Tornado and No Throw) Just... JUST FIGHT ME!!!! (10) (46) Survive Meta-Knight attacks for 1 minute without hurting him and without flying etc it all comes down to the individual devs. for contrast, the amazing mirror set is extremely boring and is almost entirely 100% completion.
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Oct 9, 2025 13:57
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cumpantry posted:Bounce Tales (10) (56) These sound less like achievements and more like tasks the player would never have done, had they not existed as achievements.
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Mister Facetious posted:These sound less like achievements and more like optional tasks the player would never have done, had they not existed as achievements.
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Oct 9, 2025 14:03
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Mister Facetious posted:These sound less like achievements and more like tasks the player would never have done, had they not existed as achievements. congratulations youve learned what an achievement is
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Oct 9, 2025 14:04
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from what I gather retroachievements are community-made so this mostly just speaks to the quality of the fans making the cheevos
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Oct 9, 2025 14:06
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Runa posted:from what I gather retroachievements are community-made so this mostly just speaks to the quality of the fans making the cheevos yeah but thats my point, its a crapshoot if a game has remotely interesting achievements or not
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Oct 9, 2025 14:09
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Endorph posted:i mean thats what achievements are most of the time It just feels incredibly contrived, since it would never occur during normal play.
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Oct 9, 2025 14:10
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where have you been the last 20 years. dead rising, halo 3, left 4 dead--all of them feature achievements exactly in this same vein
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Oct 9, 2025 14:13
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Mister Facetious posted:It just feels incredibly contrived, since it would never occur during normal play. that's the point
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https://x.com/SuiSui_dm/status/1976227733941387439?t=d-SHp8zDTKPOpkx85EUotQ&s=19 My Dress Up Machu
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Oct 9, 2025 14:14
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congrats to the people who get gifs of that as avs also
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Oct 9, 2025 14:18
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anyway a pretty obvious achievement for an FE would be 'complete the game without resetting when a character dies,' ie an ironman, but its hard for the tracker to see that ig
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dont really have a cock in this squabble but I will say that doing the esoteric poo poo requested by the halo 3 achievements unlocked multiplayer cosmetics and same for the dead rising achievements unlocking op poo poo like the zero saber. cant help but think that if mega man x had achievements one would pop as soon as you unlocked the hadoken
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