The Steam achievement in Darkchaser is quite interesting—one of them requires you to travel the distance equivalent to circling the Earth once, and another requires the distance from the Earth to the Moon. However, I still want to complain: is anyone actually able to complete this? I know it’s a game that requires you to run around all the time, and I’ve already played for 100 hours, but it’s still far from enough :D
These achievements are just filler, preying on the people who feel bad if they don’t get them all.
You can see in your own screenshot that 0.1% of players have completed it. So yes, it’s possible.
Worth it? No.
You can use certain programs to give yourself achievements. Could be that
I mean, it’s like a hobby. If you are unlocking them with a program you’re just cheating on yourself. If you feel like you need to cheat to make yourself feel better about something that doesn’t impact anyone else, then I think you should reflect a bit on that and ask yourself why you wanted it in the first place.
But that’s just like, my opinion, man. It doesn’t really harm anyone in the end. I just think achievements are used as carrots on a stick, exploiting the human psyche of “number go up = dopamine” to make the player think the game has more value than it does, or is “worth the price” because you got so many hours out of it (grinding for those last shitty achievements).
I did it for the original Killing Floor because they had class features locked behind achievements.
Some games just put in bs achievements like these to tempt people who care about that to cheat or waste their time to a degree that would make anyone shake their head.
I think achievements should be a framework that ensures the player has the ability to verify whether they have seen all the content the game has to offer (think secrets or easter eggs, hard to find sidequests) and as such had the full experience. You got platinum? You’ve seen it all, thanks for playing, see you in the next one! They shouldn‘t be frustrating or disrespectful to the players time.
Arguably even difficulty achievements aren‘t great in terms of accessibility, although I do understand that those are quite literally „achievements.“
This is just my own stance on them.
No one is forced to do achievements to enjoy a game. I understand achievement hunting, but since they can easily be cheated (on steam at least) it really is only a personal goal. If you are not enjoying one just forget about it.
100 hours for only 0.1%. I don’t particularly like achievements anyway but these ones are just stupid.
That 0.1% is the number of players who have the achievement, not OP’s completion progress. But it’s also probably very small.
My mistake then. I guess that shows how uninterested in achievements I am…
Still a fan of the player mocking in The Stanley Parable around achievements.
One example has the narrator taking you on a chain of complaints starting with “…Are you seriously just doing this for the achievement??”
If you were traveling at a constant 100 mph, it would take you 249 hours to travel around the circumference of the Earth, and 2,389 hours to reach the Moon. If the distances are actually accurate then these achievements should be nigh on impossible to get in any reasonable amount of time. That now 0.2% of players have them means the distances aren’t accurate, that they used an achievement unlocker, cheated in-game, or have a fuckton of playtime.
Never underestimate the “fuckton of playtime” option. Some people just get really into a game.
Is it not possible to just run in a circle endlessly in the game?
Not every achievement is meant to be attainable (by everyone)
Unattainable achievements aren’t achievments, they are lies.
Some might be extremely difficult or tedious though.
I should qualify it as unattainable for most, though these two are just grindfests.
