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“Unpopular opinion: achievements/trophies have been bad for gaming,” Thylander said in his original tweet. “It narrows games down, it disrupts and diverts attention, and it eats resources that could have made the game better.”
Naturally, his stance has garnered a lot of discussion. Elsewhere in the thread, the designerexplainedthat his views on achievements are personal, and that he co-designed the achievements forMirror’s Edgeback in the day. Now, though, he feels “the one-size-fits-all mandate from platform holders to make reward systems that benefit the platform makes games worse”. Responses to Thylander’s original tweet were a mixed bag, with some commenters saying achievements are rarely handled well, and others insisting they wouldn’t have got as far through games without them.
Ubisoft themselvesleft out Steam achievementswhen Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla arrived on Valve’s storefront at the end of last year, although they were still unlockable through Ubisoft Connect. Other devs have enabled achievements in some unusual situations, likeadding them to the Bibleon Steam.
One of my favourite, or at least most notable, achievements from all of games is a secret one fromBioShockcalled simply “Irony”. Spoilers if you’ve not played the game yet or come across it, but this achievement is triggered if you choose to kill dodgy artiste Sander Cohen and then take a photo of his corpse. Cohen is so warped that I thought he should get his just desserts. Then I had to seriously wonder about myself after the achievement popped.
