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My thoughts on achievement hunting

Achievement hunting is one of those peculiar hobbies that I think people don’t quite get. And I completely understand why, at a certain point it does become somewhat of a “completing a checklist” type of thing. But that’s the whole point.

What’s the point of achievements then?

I think achievements in games serve two different purposes. One is to be a little reward for the player and give them that very teeny tiny bit of dopamine that we all crave. Achievements like these, in general are my favorite types of achievements because they not only serve the casual enjoyer of the game—but are a blast as an achievement hunter. I would consider completely unmissable achievements (such as story achievements) to be in this category, along with silly achievements like—Stray’s Boom Chat Kalaka achievement which has you “dunk” a basketball in one of its levels.

About

My name is Rei, I’m a normal girl that likes to play video games and write about it. I don’t expect most people to read this site. I made this site as a place to post my writing, be it about video games, my other hobbies and my general thoughts on a topic or something like that. At first this site was mainly meant to be a collection of my thoughts on video games that I’ve completed. However, I decided that I shouldn’t limit myself to that since I have a lot of fun writing.

Completion List

This is a list of the games I have completed—not in any particular order. The games in “platinumed” are games I have gotten all the achievements for but have not done enough for me to consider them completed 100%.1

100%

Platinumed

  1. 100% Doesn’t necessarily mean 100% of the in-game completion (if the game has a counter, or something similar) but rather what I deem to be 100%. e.g. I consider getting all of the confidants in Persona 5 to max to be 100%. Even though the game has a lot of in-game achievements with the new thieves’ den area introduced in Royal. ↩︎