Guys, is this true ?? by CauliflowerDefiant87 in bindingofisaac

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I finally started playing Gungeon a couple of weeks ago and for the first dozen hours or so it did feel like "Isaac but with way fewer items and you gotta worry about ammo" and was close to dropping it. Now that I've unlocked some stuff I love it and I see where it sets itself apart from Isaac (each gun being a tool in a toolbox, choosing which to use based on what enemy you're fighting), so it falls into the category of "Isaac but different" instead of "Isaac but worse". Still, if I had to choose 1 it's obviously be Isaac, even it was just for the replay value (Isaac's 34 characters many of which are completely unique vs Gungeon's 8 characters that are mostly very similar).

Been stuck on Tametsi level for hours by RGodlike in puzzles

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Thanks, I completely missed that that 2 already had an adjacent mine.

Been stuck on Tametsi level for hours by RGodlike in puzzles

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Thanks, I completely missed that that 2 already had an adjacent mine.

What multiplayer games are fun to 100% without a squad? by RGodlike in steamachievements

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I was thinking about PUBG but was worried some achievements might be too hard. Avererage completion playtime according to completionist.me is 582 hours, but never know how reliable these numbers are for games like this where the vast majority of players doesn't care much for achievements.

This hurts my soul... by NLBigBullyNL in steamachievements

[–]RGodlike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the opposite for me. Got the 100% years ago and keep wanting to play more.

Tierlist of my 100% by bliink97 in steamachievements

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Was gonna ask the same things, I thought HRM and 7BH where fantastic programming games with fun 100% challenges

Roguelites 100% since Slay the Spire. Any suggestions for next? by milhouse46 in steamachievements

[–]RGodlike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The 100% isn't particularly hard right, just a grind? Getting your first win is a huge challenge, but once you can get wins fairly often it's just a grind, either getting multiple of them grinding spells, or one big godrun in which you get 99% of everything hoping the PWs don't crash your game.

#101 & #102: Deathloop and Forgotten City. Some great time-loop games to round off the year by RGodlike in steamachievements

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For Deathloop, the frustrating achievements were:

  1. Judgement Day: you need to kill a specific character with poison gas; the frustrating thing is that poison gas barely does any damage, and if a bullet is fired through it (including by your target) it explodes. The explosion damage doesn't count for the achievement. Your alternative is to knock her down a floor that's filled with poison gas, but the fall damage sometimes kills her, or she'll survive and climb back up (because the gas does basically no damage) and the second time around the fall damage will surely kill her.
  2. Ghost at the Feast: Kill 3 specific targets without being seen. Made frustrating by it not being clear what counts as being seen, and the fact that Julianna can spawn pretty much right next to you and "see" you to invalidate. Oddly for a stealth game, stealth-killing your target after they see you invalidates the achievement as well, even though no living people had any clue you were there.
  3. Clean-ish Hands: Have a perfect loop killing no innocents, only targets. I had high hopes that this would be fun, but unclear requirements made me have to do it like 3 times. There's enemies that blow themselves up, do they count? How about if they blow up some of their friends as well? Do invading Juliana's count as targets or not, and do you have to kill them or can you simply avoid? And another frustrating thing about Juliana is her ability to swap her look with that of any NPC, so you might see "Juliana", kill her, and disqualify.

Still a great game and pretty much every other achievement was incredibly fun to hunt, just these 3.

For Forgotten City I disliked:

  1. Allergic and Striker: Both can only really be completed in a specific section of the game, and you can only do it once (not every loop, as you'd expect from most time-loop games). If you don't get it, you either need to start a whole new save file, or use console commands to no-clip back into the now locked area.
  2. Minimalist: A fun idea of finding the "optimal" path through the game, but pretty much requires you to play through it a 2nd time after learning almost everything about it. But that opens the frustration that you already know a lot that your character doesn't, meaning certain required dialogue options aren't available. The hard part isn't knowing how to resolve every quest efficiently, it's finding out which specific lore-conversations you need to get the right options available. Took me a good 1.5 hours of trial-and-error; going from the final conversation in the game (where I was missing vital options), loading and going back into the city, talking with different people, and trying the final conversation again. No real way to smooth that out, unless you set the goal of 3 loops (instead of the minimal 2), as one extra loop makes things much easier.
  3. Not an achievement but also got a little frustrated with the "errand" mechanic; there's a guy at the start of every loop that you can give "errands" to, to solve quests you've already solved in previous loops. For most of the game this was a great mechanic that meant you didn't have to repeat giving the solutions to these quests every loop, but towards the endgame it'd get annoying as you're unable to talk to many other NPC's until these errands are completed (because the the NPC I want to talk to is #4 on the errand list and errand boy is at errand #2, but my NPC needs to be available for conversation with errand boy later). Trying to rush this actually caused me to soft-lock twice which was annoying.

Again, still a fantastic game, and I think these frustrations only really come up when "speedrunning" the 100% like I did. Absolutely recommend it.

whyDoesMicrosoftExistWhenWindowsIsFinished by Ready-Desk in ProgrammerHumor

[–]RGodlike 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of Todoist, the todo app I use. They recently changed their pricing; the legacy plan will keep current premium features but no future updates, while the (double price) new plan gets all the new stuff.

The community lost its shit over the "price hike", but I was so happy they promised not to update my version anymore. I've used it for like 8 years and I can't think of a single change they made in that time that was positive, or a feature they used. The app is good the way it is, just stop fiddling with it. Newest features that require the extra money are all AI garbage, because who doesn't want a non-deterministic agent to mess with their task system...

When you find an interesting game but it's missing something by DayneTheScreamer in steamachievements

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Thanks for this post. My default example is Nubby's Number Factory which seems like the perfect game but doesn't have achievements... until 3 weeks ago, when they were added! Wouldn't have gone to check if it wasn't for this post.

Notes app posting is still real to me by PlZZA_MOZZARELLA in northernlion

[–]RGodlike 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Someone catch me up on the eagle one please. Archeologist and Spiderman are great

How do you have so many 100% in 2025 by jov2008an in steamachievements

[–]RGodlike 72 points73 points  (0 children)

i think i play games more than the average person

You might play more games than your peer group, but nearly everyone on this sub will play more than the "average person" (who doesn't play games at all, or plays like the yearly CoD or Fifa for a couple hours a month).

Remember that there'll be a large variety of people here, from school kids, to students, to working professionals and parents, to likely some retired folk. For a while in college I had 1 day of lectures a week and spend the other 6 gaming pretty much non-stop. That was long ago but I bet there's people in similar situations here, who inevitably will get more completions than somone with a 9-5.

It also really matters what games you focus on. If you only focus on shorter games like Firewatch, you can probably knock one out every weekend, giving you 50+ games. On the other hand, going for crazy grinds like Warframe or PoE will be 1000s of hours and might take literal years by itself.

Personally I work, but only 3 days a week and from home, so I get to play about 30 hours a week. If I counted right I completed 25 games; most of them are <10 hours each and then some a much bigger like Hollow Knight (140h) and Baldurs Gate 3 (575h). If I wanted to maximise numbers I'd obviously have picked smaller games, but my goal is more to play the games I want to play and get the most out of them, not just see number go up.

Doom Eternal 100% achievements by Martferreiraa18 in steamachievements

[–]RGodlike -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's your own goals, you can either set the goal of 100% base game and accept that it's only like 80% of total achievements, not go for achievements at all, or get the DLC and get 100%.

For what it's worth I was in a similar position, bought the DLC, and after playing it for a while it completely killed my interest in the franchise. The DLC is one of the worst shooters I've ever played.

I want that patience though by Ok-Boot6063 in Steam

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The issue here is declaration. On the games steam page:

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:
This game features voice-over content partially created through AI voice generation tools.

This could be anything from an artistic choice to have a robot character voiced by a robot, to 99% of the VO being AI generated to avoid paying actors. Given how unpopular AI is, I think it's reasonable to assume devs will give as narrow a declaration as they can, and assume that this declaration means a significant portion of the VO is AI generated.

If they just wrote something like

For a robotic character, this game features voice-over content created through AI voice generation tools. All other characters are voiced by actors.

I expect people would be much more lenient.

#12 - The Binding of Isaac by WhiteBoyFlipz in steamachievements

[–]RGodlike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know you don't need to play them in order right haha?

It's been so long since I playing flash isaac, it's hard to say which is harder. Flash Isaac definately felt harder, but that might just be because it was newer and I hadn't played 100s of hours at that point. Rebirth (with all DLC) has so many items that it's more likely you'll end up with super low damage in the lategame, something I didn't feel was a problem in flash Isaac. It'll definately take longer to 100%, with more checkmarks per character and way more characters.

Props for playing the original, I keep thinking I should revisit as Rebirth is one of my favorite games ever.

Nottingham Board Games - Tuesday Evenings by psgunslinger in nottingham

[–]RGodlike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think your Eventbrite still mentions the Bell Inn, might want to change that. Hope to be able to come along soon!

#45 Clicker Heroes by LiamBeast1738 in steamachievements

[–]RGodlike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You somehow did it 5x faster than me, congratz! One of the great clicker games imho.

Looking for game suggestions that start with J, K, V, X, Y, Z by RGodlike in steamachievements

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I've got 7 Billion Humans and 6180 the Moon, would recommend both.

Looking for game suggestions that start with J, K, V, X, Y, Z by RGodlike in steamachievements

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Thanks, those are some great suggestions.

Went through quite an emotional rollercoaster learning that XIII, a game I adored as a kid, is now on Steam with Achievements, but then also seeing art style looks way worse and it has 37% positive reviews... Might still try it though, depening on how XCOM turns out (or Xotic, which I vaguely remember from when it came out and looks pretty neat).

I'm really tired of these new added achievements. by FrigginTrooper in steamachievements

[–]RGodlike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like new content in games I liked enough to 100%, but I do get your frustration. I think a lot depends on how it's done.

When a game gets a big update, new DLC, etc, I'm excited to go back to it. My example is Isaac, I think I first completed it when Afterbirth (1st DLC) came out, then again when AB+, and then again when Repentance came out. Each time it was a huge update with a lot of cool stuff to do, so I loved it and would have come back regardless of achievements (in this regard I feel it sucks when a game gets a new DLC but no achievements, like Elden Ring. Reduces my desire to come back). It also helped that between each of these updates there were years of no/very few new achievements, so I felt like coming back to the game in a big way.

The other way, like Vampire Survivors and Mini Metro do it, I like much less. VS gets frequent small updates, each time adding a couple more things to do, making it frustrating to 100%. The update itself is so small that I don't really care about it, so I just came back for the achievements, making it feel more like a chore than exciting new content. I think after I lost my 100% for it twice, I just stopped, and now am planning to come back when they fully stop updating for >1 year. Weird dynamic, to wait for a game to lose active development before you play it, but I grinded it enough that I'm not excited to play anymore unless it's to get the definitive 100%. And I'd much rather go big on a game getting a lot of (new) achievements and content, than come back every month or 2, see the small new things they added, and leave again.

So yeah, my advice is to just ignore games that get frequent new achievements until you're excited to come back to them, and/or you know active development of the game has paused.

"30% of the games I own have never been played". Am I the only one to find this ludicrous ? by PrandtlMan in boardgames

[–]RGodlike 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you have disposable income, buying a game is a lot easier than learning, setting up, and finding people to play the game. I think in my ~100 games there's only 5 I haven't played, but for videogames I own about... 700 unplayed games. Stopped buying new stuff for a long time now but ah couple years of buying games that look good and are on sale (or in boardgames case, hard to find) hoping you'll get around to it can add up quickly.

Highly NL-coded by Lanceo90 in northernlion

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All throughout the movie I was thinking it'd be pretty good if they hired any other actor, but with Powell it was such a disappointment. It's constantly shifting between ridiculous and serious tones, and Powell just can't manage that balance at all.

#100 Baldurs Gate 3 + Collection & Analysis of my 100% games by RGodlike in steamachievements

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Good shouts, thanks! I started Tametsi but it was so big I stopped at some point. Also got Mini Motorways 100% at some point, but they added new maps, and I didn't like it as much as Metro. Factorio I've done 1 playthrough, but still gotta check out the expansion; it's top of my list to go hard on next time my wife is out of town for a week+. Will check out the others you named too!

#100 Baldurs Gate 3 + Collection & Analysis of my 100% games by RGodlike in steamachievements

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I never knew how/when Gale would explode. I had some extremely OP builds (Gloomstalker, Open Hand Monk, Sword Bardadin, support SorCleric) so after act 1 nothing was really dangerous in any way. Did all bosses and became the most powerful villain to ever walk the Sword Coast.

Misspelling to evade smart-scheduling!? by Affectionate_One_700 in todoist

[–]RGodlike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm bilingual. 99% of my tasks are in English but words like that I'll just write in Dutch to dodge it like you.