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Nintendohas always marched to the beat of its own Donkey Konga bongos.
Take the companys disinterest in generative AI.
Don’t waste your money on nostalgia, waste your money on good nostalgia instead.
Achievements And Trophies Turn Gaming Into Meta-Gaming
I dont like trophies and achievements.
I dont actively dislike trophy and achievement hunting; mostly, I don’t think about it at all.
But I think that achievements and trophies unnecessarily gamify the act of gaming.
That can turn gaming into a chore.
I’m not an achievement hunter, but I sometimes need to track them down for a guide.
I often notice that most don’t encourage you to play the game in a fun, challenging way.
Sometimes, they’re needlessly time-consuming, like whenGrand Theft Auto 4asks players to shoot 200 pigeons.
Sometimes a game makes you play it all the way through, multiple times, to get the Platinum.
All of this makes the experience less interesting, not more.
But these kinds of challenges can be implemented within the games themselves.
The recentHitmantrilogy included a ton of optional objectives within each level.
I didn’t care about earning the achievements on my PS5, I cared about completing the objectives in-game.
The real trophy was the guards I knocked out along the way.
If developers want to include objectives inside the actual game, that’s great.
More power to them.
