Why do gamers do this?

I play my single player steam games offline most of the time.

I hate when people interrupt my games so I just go into offline mode which disables achievements.

its fnv, all that tells you it half the players used the console to fix something broken or use cheats

Ugh don’t remind me
>finally play the game again for the first time in years
>get a bug when I first start
>fix it in the console, realize I can fix my fov
>fix it every time I play with the console since cfgs don’t work
>30 hours later I realize there are achievements and I didn’t get any because of it

Fuck Bethesda and fuck obsidian fucking niggers

>Bethesda game
>Didn't install community patches
dumbass

What's really fucking stupid is that it doesn't even do something like flag the save file or something that makes sense.
You can open up NV, cheat your character to ridiculous OPness, save the game, close and restart and you can set yourself up for easy achievements.

I did actually, the unofficial patch or whatever, it didn’t prevent the achievement thing

I don't even know what to say to this, just turn off notifications or go invisible. Literal nuclear offline option, wtf

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I hate how even with dnd on it shows a ton of green notification things

It's actually really depressing when you look at global achievement statistics for many games. So many people just buy whatever games they can on sale, and they sit in the library forever not being played, or they play the game for a few minutes and then never touch it again.

I've been going through my library and clearing out my backlog over the last few years instead of buying newer games all the time and I've already completed ~75% of my total library and only have about 40 games out of ~250 or so unplayed / completed. Damn depressing when you click on the global achievement stats and see how few people make it past the very start of most games.

Witcher 3 is a good example, only 67% of players left white orchard, how the fuck is that even possible? I know it's a very long game, taking like at least 100+ hours to beat even if you're just rushing through the story and sidequests, but damn it's sad.

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Offline mode doesn't disable achievements. You get the achievements and they get added to your account the next time you go online.

>don't pay the debt
>get raped by germany

when the game came out it was broken beyond redemption and to my knowledge refunded the game. Like me.

>You get the achievements and they get added to your account the next time you go online.
This has never happened on steam games, GOG works like this though.

boring as fuck button masher game with sexy girls and 0 substance
playing on hard is just easy mode with damage sponges
I don't blame anyone for dropping the game in the first 30 minutes

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I believe that has to be installed separately. Anyway, FNV isn't any better than FO3.

I'm part of the 8%
i bought it after putting all the hours into the pirated version

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Why does a single player game need to be online? Offline mode is like turning off your phone when you go to a movie.

console commands disable achievements

remove your friends if you dont want friends you fucking autist

>make good food

to get cheevo's? to log play time?

it works with some games under some circustances but it's a bit random

I do this a bunch too

>buy game
>quickly realize it's shit
>refund game
woah

I did install it separately idiot

that's gay and useless

Who gives a shit about either?

yeah haha who cares about that! what a l-loserrr...

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Just because you don't want people to interrupt your single player game doesn't mean you don't want any friend. Are you such a retard this needs to be spelled out for you?

nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/59133/?
This is a mod that lets you use the console without disabling achievements, if you give a shit about that

I want my irl friends to know what I'm playing so it creates conversation for later.
>I see you were playing... How's that going?
I don't add random fags, and if I do it's so rare I must have like 3 that aren't irl friends.
The only time I go invis-o-bill is when I don't want to bother them restarting some shit game over and over for whatever reason.
You're gay, you're old, you're a friendless losertard

I like how one trophy calls people out on this

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100% of GOG games I've played work like this.

I've never encountered a steam game that does, but I guess it's possible.

I think you have to restart steam in offline mode before playing offline, so it will be correctly synched next time you get online.
And older games are less compatible than newer games

you're fucking retarded if you don't know steam has a normal offline mode that keeps achievements enabled

very based

Man, just imagine having such superficial relationships with people that the only things you talk about is what games you've seen eachother playing on steam. Utterly pathetic, I can see why you're so desperate for other people's attention.

old

Yet why would I use it if I can just go offline entirely? I don't understand you zoomers and your pathological need to be constantly distracted by social media and insipid bullshit. If you're going to play a game just play a game for the sake of the game and your own enjoyment of it. It shouldn't be about showing your peers what games you're playing or how many achievements you have, it should be about enjoying it because you want to play it.

with your attitude I'm surprised you think anyone wants to talk to you regardless of going offline lmao

well a lot of times the sales come up and you're like "I want to play this game sometime" and it's like 75% off so you just buy it. You get around to it when you get around to it. I just started playing a game I bought a good year ago in a sale and I have about a dozen more backlogged games. I almost never buy games full price when they're new because I rarely ever feel like playing them right away so they'd be a waste in my backlog, but I do buy games on sales anticipating that I might play them within the year and if I have to wait for being in the mood to play it AND it being on sale those 2 things may never coincide.

>save the game, close and restart and you can set yourself up for easy achievements.
holy fuck, are you joking?

this

bought it for dirt cheap, tried playing it and got bored about 2 hours in

Opening the console only disables cheevos for the current session.

You'd be surprised, I'm actually quite popular. I do find it amusing you think a desire for occasional solitude is a strange thing. Do you seriously never go offline to read a book or watch a movie let alone play a single player game? Are you seriously so conjoined to your inane social media bullshit the idea of going offline to enjoy a game in isolation frightens and confuses you? Kinda sad when you think about it. I pity your generation.

why even have console commands disable cheevos in the first place then?
can't tell if they just really didn't care or it's straight incompetence.

>adjust fov so i don't puke my brains
>achievements disabled
>install a mod
>achievements disbled
well good ridance

mods don't disable achievements in NV

>install certain mods
>achievements always enabled
>want to turn them off because I hate seeing achievements and pipboy's stupid fucking face
>can't
>mod is a requirement for many other mods so can't take it out
thanks

>only achievements in that game I don't have involve fucking Caravan

Good enough.

modding and consoles disable achievements

Some games like Postal 2 add achievements long after the game came out

Semi-related: I've been thinking about this. I believe these percentages are only based on people who have started the game at least once. Not just people that have it in their library. For example, this is my rarest achievement. It took me 240 hours in 1 single game. This is a $5 game that's probably handed out in Happy Meals. There's no way 1 in 500 have this achievement who OWN the game. It would probably be like 1 in 20,000. Because I doubt most people ever start it up.

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noobs.

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Because most gamers are based and don't play games for the story and if you don't give a shit about playing a game for the story you only play until the gameplay gets boring which is usually long before the game is actually over.

I really don't know how this happened. There's 19 achievements I somehow never bothered with after 1300 hours.

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herro

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I played this for 8 hours five years ago and got bored of it.
What do those two achievements stand for?

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ayo hol up

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10% never beat the first chapter in rdr2
30% never beat the cleric beast in bloodborne

lmao

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only console commands disable achievements, not mods

Fucking buggy ass Bethesda spilling their bugs onto Steam's servers.

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What's your excuse? It takes 5 minutes to read the rules.

but piracy equals lost sales....

lol I have 125 hours in Steam version and over 600 before I bought it as a pirate, who gives a shit, as long you buy the game

It's easy to do. Just do it as soon as you get to the saloon in goodspring because the higher level you are the harder it is.
youtube.com/watch?v=AorCJkgie_s

I assume that most of them did it for the card drops

New Vegas has no cards

I'll be damned

I was going to post something similar (I'm sure I have like 2000 hours in Bethesda games alone that were done on pirated copies which I now own) but then I realized I probably bought those games at a discount but played them at a time when they were $60. I have more money now so not really an issue to buy them new, but 5 years ago that wasn't the case. Pic related. Eeeeeeasily 600+ hours.

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it happened to me just recently with crash n sane trilogy. i pirated it, played a bit, then bought it and installed it on steam and it recognised my save and instantly popped up with like 10 achievements, was weird

It depends on where the cracked game stores the save files locally. And some crackers, like Codex, are known to use custom save locations in My Documents or AppData folders called 'Codex' with a numbered subfolder. (I don't know if this is necessary or just how they roll). Where as the REAL game will store its saves in a standard location -- which the Steam version will obviously use. So booting up the Steam version will find the saves from the cracked version IF the cracked version used the default save path.

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I do this a lot. I've rebought a lot of games I've pirated because I had fun playing them, but never ended up replaying them once they were in my library.

PSA: Google the save file locations for the game version you pirated, and the official save file location, and simply move the folder from the cracked version's location to the official one. Steam will recognize it.

whos that

>caring about achievements

Rin Toosaka

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>Tohsaka.
fixt. Google will fix it, but whatever. grammar nazi.

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Is there a problem with having goals to strive for? Have you ever heard anything positive said about a person that didn't have goals?

Legit get out

have sex

Have kids.

hydrate

most people who buy any video game will never finish it or even get past the first level
even developers are shocked when they discover this and think they're doing something wrong and they actually tried to start making games shorter because of it
but it's just the way consumer culture works
people buy things they're not sure they'll even like because of advertising and hype and peer pressure, then they'll play it for 5 minutes and drop it because they dont like it

Stop playing? Probably because the game is really fucking bad.

Dilate.

>implying games don't have goals outside achievements

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I bought it because I remembered having fun with it on console as a teenager, then I remembered it's fucking boring.

sneed

Because having MORE stuff to do is so terrible. Dude, if you hate games so much, go play basketball or something.

No need for a mod.
It just disables achievements for your current game. Save and restart your game.

backlogs

Same with me
Even when I said I don't like open world games, Yea Forums kept saying it's the best game ever
Then I tried it and quickly noticed that it was just a quick rehash of FO3, another game I didn't like. Boring shooting and not much roleplaying. Dropped it after 2 hours. I hate Skinner's Box open world """""RPG's"""""

Funnily enough, the last few years I have finished more games that I pirated than games I bought, despite having a lot in my library. Something about playing games on steam or other launchers with login, doodads, achievements, community, friends list and so on and so on just makes me not want to play these games.

Open world game and no incentive to really finish the story if you don't want to.

Seethe

did someone say hydrate?

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I've done the requirements for nearly every achievement in F:NV but I barely have any of them because I opened the console to change my FOV when I booted up the game every time for a really long time.
Now I don't even play the Steam version any more, I play the GoG version, so I'm never getting those cheevos.

>I need a record of every thing I've done and a little icon to tell me and other people I did a thing or it doesn't count

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why is water so fucking good bros

>tfw you'll never be able to 100% evry game because some games main server got shutdown
Kinda a real bad selling point there steam

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kekd

Am I the only one that uses the console like every 10 minutes? Even to quit the game - /qq quits straight to the desktop instantly. It's the fastest way. My personal favorite is /movetoqt which warps you to your quest target. Goodbye, walking simulator. It's good for when your game crashes and you hadn't saved in 30 minutes or are just doing a 2nd playthrough.

>live with mom until 40

Men have a natural sense of pride in their accomplish. Bad female comedians bring it up constantly, so I'm sure you've heard about it. If you don't strive to achieve things simply for the sake of knowing you did it, then you're estrogen counts are off the charts.

>It shouldn't be about showing your peers what games you're playing or how many achievements you have

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New Vegas isn't really a shooter

Why do you give a shit about achievements
it's just some arbitrary bullshit some intern had to come up with

eh you seem like a pretty cool guy. eh and doesn't afraid of anything. so here's a tip to the left.

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I hate this software because it makes everyone think I use it despite me grinding my ass for stupid meaningless achievements AAAAAA

>you seem like a pretty cool guy. eh and doesn't afraid of anything
>resurrecting a 10 year old meme that hasn't been seen since the fall of 2011.
holy shit

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Stopped caring about achievements when I learned unlockers are a thing. Even consoles had them back then. Just create your own checklists if you want to extend the life of the game desu.

Aye, it does come in handy for fixing bugs or adding multiplayer achievements for dead games, though. Your playtime will always reflect the truth. Most of those less-than-1% achievements aren't going to be on an account that's only played for 50 hours.

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I am an achievement whore, but they're not even on my Steam profile page. I like achievements because they extend the replay value of a game. If you've gotten all the achievements, then you've probably seen the entire game and can feel confident that you've experienced what you paid for. Achievements are for my autism. I also have no friends, so I have no one to brag to.

Seriously I have 1 friend on Steam. And he passed away 3 years ago.

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If New Vegas isn't a shooter, then why is there a Vegas Shooter?
Checkmate atheists

That's not the point OP is making.