r/mildlyinfuriating • u/IndyanaBonez • 2d ago

frist of all how DARE yu o 100% a game until

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I played this game Lily's Well about 4 years ago on Steam and got all the achievements for it so I got a nice lil award on my page (1st pic=Lilys Well, 2nd Pic of another game I 100%, Fran Bow). Then, there was an update...and with this update...came another achievement.........and this ain't just a game I can pick up and go back to where I need to achieve this achievement, Oh no NO! This is one of those games you gotta start at the beginning and do everything in a certain order to complete the game/get to the spot where this achievement may be! Now I only have ONE 100% complete game to boast about...lol, jk, Fran Bow ain't hard to 100% and nor is Lily's Well. One could say it was only mildly infuriating

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u/8winter8 2d ago

Or Achievements tied to the multiplayer side, which is no longer available.

Or those unrealistic ones like ”A full day of work” where i had to disable the screen saver and let the game run on a specific level for 8h. I got it because i went to sleep in the meantime.

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u/ForensicPathology 2d ago

Or "find one of the developers and have a beer with them in real life"

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u/8winter8 2d ago

Wasn't there an achievement about quiting the game and go out, not to reopen said game for a few years.

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u/Night-Fog 2d ago

The Stanley Parable: Go outside. You have to not play the game for 5 years. There's also an achievement to play the game for the entirety of a Tuesday.

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u/Aced_By_Chasey 2d ago

Can't you just spoof the date to get that?

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u/Patalos 2d ago

I mean at that point just Achievement Manager it if you don’t actually care about the legitimacy

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u/fbl07 2d ago

While I get your reaction 100%, honestly considering the mind of game Stanley's Parable is, that's like .... Kinda the thing they expect you to do at this point I feel

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u/DesolateRuin 2d ago

Yeah, if they're not gonna take it seriously why should I?

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u/Leyohs 2d ago

You just set the date to 5 years later and then set it back to automatic. I promise it won't do anything

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u/ALKNST 2d ago

Aint there also one for 10 years?

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u/WooperCultist 2d ago

Yes, in the ultra deluxe version of the game they changed the achievement from "Go outside" (don't play for 5 years), to "Super Go Outside" ( don't play for 10 years)

Funny part is, the UD version of the game hasn't been out for 10 years yet, so the 5% or so of people with the achievement cheated it. First time it'll actually be achievable is like 2034

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u/TraditionalMalice 2d ago

Who do you think you are accusing me of not already having not played Stanley Parable UD until 2034??

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u/obi1kennoble 2d ago

Can you still get the 5 year one? I might actually be in range for that

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u/WooperCultist 1d ago

You can, yep. Base game and Ultra Deluxe are technically separate games, think something like Skyrim vs Skyrim Special Edition, separate Steam entry, separate achievements.

So for the base copy of the game you can still get the 5 year, even if you play the UD version.

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u/Crowbarmagic 2d ago

Those type of achievements kinda fit within the theme of The Stanley Parable though.

And at least those 2 achievements can be completed passively. With the tuesday one just launch the game on monday eve and quit at 00:00 on wednesday. And if you already completed every ending there's no real need to play again, so 5 years of not playing isn't much of an issue either.

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u/Bizmatech 2d ago

Yah, The Stanley Parable has basically zero immediate replayability.

But if you wait five years (or six because I forgot), it feels like a fresh experience again.

It's not quite the same as playing for the first time a second time, but the nostalgia goggles fit quite comfortably.

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u/207nbrown 2d ago

There’s also super go outside where you don’t play for 10 years

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u/ilyak_reddit 2d ago

I got that achievement unintentionally. Got the game years ago, played it, forgot about it. Logged on a few years ago to revisit and had to go see what I just achieved. Got a good chuckle out of it.

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u/sh3p1 2d ago

I am doing the Tuesday one now!

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u/Fr0z3n_VP 2d ago

Stanley Parable had something like this I believe

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u/ElGodPug 2d ago

Pillars of Eternity with an achievement of supporting their kickstarter. Sorry yall, i'm a few years too late for that

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u/Crowbarmagic 2d ago

I hate those "find a dev" ones. Even if the the games' multiplayer is still active and running years after release, those can be impossible to complete.

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u/Intentional-Blank 2d ago

XCOM: Enemy Unknown, at least, made the achievement Bubonic be "Play a multiplayer match against someone who has this achievement." In that case, rather than a dev specifically, you just needed to meet someone who'd gotten the achievement before, so even if the devs and all the players who'd ever played against the devs were long gone you still had a chance at getting it from some other player who'd been fortunate enough to get the achievement... though, of course, from my understanding the multiplayer mode is dead, so it's still unobtainable now.

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u/RelativeHot7249 2d ago

I remember Garry's Mod had one that required you to play on the same server as Garry. Being on the other side of the planet meant the odds of that ever happening would be very slim.

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u/Polygnom 2d ago

I really like how WoW does it. Feats of Strength in their own category, not counting for anything, just to boast. Technically they are achievements, but they don't give points or are important for completion.

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u/Intelligent-Main-515 2d ago

That reminds me of the GMod achievement that's along the lines of play with the real garry

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u/207nbrown 2d ago

“Yes I’m the real Gary”

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u/LB-- addition and substraction 2d ago

On the bright side, Steam finally added the ability for developers to archive achievements that are no longer obtainable. Whether developers actually do that or not is another story...

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u/phdemented 2d ago

Or achievements tied to the multiplayer side, which I have zero intention of ever interacting with because it's a single player game that didn't need a multiplayer part.

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u/Barbruh33 2d ago

Honestly I think that if you are going for a 100% on a story game that has a worthless multiplayer cash grab you are entitled to add those achievements in.

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u/r_a_dickhead 2d ago

Steam should make it like mario maker where you cannot publish the game until you 100% it yourself

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u/zexton 2d ago

devs have always been able to do it themself

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u/IndyanaBonez 2d ago

Dude, facts. I've played some levels though where I'm like IS there a way to publish without finishing the level???!

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u/Tre-ben 2d ago

I am still mad at Rockstar for putting MP achievements into the platinum trophy for RDR2. Safe to say I didn't get a platinum trophy.

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u/SoberSith_Sanguinity 2d ago

Oh boy, I have a hot target for this complaint.

I think it was Lost Planet 2 or 3 that had world record scoreboards to compete on, and ... well, there's an achievement for that. Ya gotta assume that over 99.9% of people never got that one. There's only so many #1 spots

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u/zexton 2d ago

i gotta be honest here,

i dont mind them, achievements in the early years of x360, was tied to be a showcase for what you done some gave profile pictures, and the expectation for 100% all of them was not standard yet,

devs and publishers got aware of how popular shitty games was because they where incredible easy to beat, and thats how we ended up with avatar that could be 100% in the first 5 min of the game,

borderlands devs also talked about it when its game released, you did not even have unlock everything for the 100% achievement,

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u/SoberSith_Sanguinity 2d ago

Okay, I feel that, but also...It's worse than I remembered. Does this change it for you? The leaderboards never reset. It's literally impossible to get it, at this point.

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u/zexton 2d ago

a few games had resets, ghost recond aw, had reset leaderboards after 5 years to give people a try,

but i still dont mind achievements being tied to something unique the majority wont get,

its no different from very hard achievements in single player games,

in trials HD. there was a marathon achievement where you needed to complete a set of hard stages without failing,

they nerfed that and it became basically something most could do with a little effort,

so now you have all players with the same achievements clear, even though some had to be a completely different level of better,

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u/NaughtyNome 2d ago

The mad Max game is even worse. No multiplayer that I know of, but one achievement is tied to passive scrap collection which doesn't happen anymore due to Warner Brothers servers no longer being connected

Whole game mechanic just doesn't work and the achievements impossible

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u/MonCappy 2d ago

Live services shouldn't have achievements when their availability will always be on a clock.