Poll of the Day > i am in a video game slump

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i don't want to play anything, nothing interests me for more than a couple minutes, ect.

and i blame skyrim for it. i was enjoying going for the achievements, until the end where i had to seek out skill books. at one point i was considering just stopping and not doing it, and i only needed like 3 books to get. it took like four minutes to find those, so it's not like it was considerably long. it was just...it killed something.

afterwards i got back into resident evil 5, beat it, went back and shaved time off of what i've done to get the infinite rocket launcher with the express purpose of going through the professional difficulty...only when i discovered that i had to rebeat the game again on a lower difficulty to unlock it.

why do i have to unlock a difficulty even after having played through the game? that's fucking stupid. it's not like i played through it on easy. just normal. but noooo, you gotta beat veteran to unlock professional, and that's horse shit.

it's not like it'll be hard to beat, or even very long, it's just the fact that i have to beat the game to unlock the privilege of beating the game again, after already beating the fucking game.
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So don't play games for achievements. You realize they call them that so you get a minor feeling of accomplishment for doing nothing.
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i got mad yesterday after halo wars 2 didn't give me an achievement for beating a story mission

so no, that's not gonna happen.

i went for the achievements in skyrim because they were easy and i wanted to finally be able to say i've finished a game i've put several thousand hours into.

resident evil 5s, just because i wanted those achievements. i know i'm never going to get all of them, but i want to get the ones i can.

i know they're stupid, but if i do something that makes me get one, i want it. it's there, i did the thing, give it to me. if i don't get it, that i get irrationally upset because it's like the game is being a fuckass.
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achievement =/= completion
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and i can easily say

achievement = completion.

it's just as valid, if not moreso.
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helIy posted...

and i can easily say

achievement = completion.

it's just as valid, if not moreso.

if you think random tacked on tasks are somehow more relevant to the game than actually going through the game that developers spent years designing and programming then go ahead

it sounds like you're insisting on going through with something that feels like a chore
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you literally go through the game, doing the things the developers put time and work in, and for doing that you get an achievement saying you did it

not a hard concept to understand, but i can see how you'd fail to realize that
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helly being wrong, like always.
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they're usually tacked on things you don't have to do to play the game.

the only hard thing to understand is you're complaining about how annoying it is to get the achievements when you don't have to get the achievement at all. if getting the achievement isn't fun then don't get it. not a hard concept to understand, but i can see how you'd fail to realize that

go ahead and sink your hours slogging away at meaningless things in a game or better yet start arguments on the internet
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

the only hard thing to understand is you're complaining about how annoying it is to get the achievements when you don't have to get the achievement at all. if getting the achievement isn't fun then don't get it. not a hard concept to understand, but i can see how you'd fail to realize that

or maybe you could read what i said about it

helIy posted...

i went for the achievements in skyrim because they were easy and i wanted to finally be able to say i've finished a game i've put several thousand hours into.

herp derp.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

go ahead and sink your hours slogging away at meaningless things in a game

if you want to put it that way, then literally playing a game for any amount of time is meaningless.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

better yet start arguments on the internet

you started it, though. all i did was beat the shit out of it
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I am too. At this point i have a pretty considerable backlog of games I bought and only played for 30-40 hours and then moved on.

So far I have to finish:

- Trails of Cold Steel 2 (Will most likely wait until Zero gets localized)
- Trails in the Sky the 3rd (Got to a very hard fight in Ch 6 and quit)
- PUBG (Kinda fell off for me)
- ESO (Honeymoon phase has ended, gotta level to 50).
- Half way done a FFX Playthrough

Still haven't finished most of the stuff I got for Christmas.

But hey, I love my PC. That's good right?
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Feelin the slump, too.

#FirstWorldProblems
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i refuted what you said

herp derp

I didn't realize your mental deficiency was so severe

You misunderstood me completely. playing a game that isn't fun is a extremely idiotic thing to do. you made a topic complaining about how annoying it is to be required to beat resident evil 5 multiple times to get an achievement when the simple solution is don't get the achievement

the argument started when you started throwing insults when i gave you the obvious solution to your self induced problem.

you: getting the achievement in resident evil 5 is so annoying. i gotta beat it on easy even though i already beat it on hard
me: you don't have to get that achievement if it's so annoying
you: YOU'RE AN IDIOT!!!

pretty stupid to proclaim victory for something that isn't over yet. i suppose some that "herp derps" wouldn't know when an argument was over or even began
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

you made a topic complaining about how annoying it is to be required to beat resident evil 5 multiple times to get an achievement

helIy posted...

why do i have to unlock a difficulty even after having played through the game? that's fucking stupid. it's not like i played through it on easy. just normal. but noooo, you gotta beat veteran to unlock professional

what i said was annoying was that i'd have to beat the game twice to unlock the professional difficulty.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

you: getting the achievement in resident evil 5 is so annoying. i gotta beat it on easy even though i already beat it on hard

helIy posted...

it's not like i played through it on easy. just normal. but noooo, you gotta beat veteran to unlock professional

JOExHIGASHI posted...

me: you don't have to get that achievement if it's so annoying

helIy posted...

i know i'm never going to get all of them, but i want to get the ones i can.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

i refuted what you said

no, you apparently misread just about everything i've said and jumped to a bunch of conclusions that are wrong and since you can't seem to just go "my bad, i read it wrong" you keep trying to misconstrue everything i've said to fit your narrative and insist i've said things i clearly did not
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Achievements/trophies/platinum/rankings/unlocks are overrated menial obtuse distractions of a devs hypnox.
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Getting achievements that aren't fun to get is dumb, unless they offer some kind of reward that can provide more fun than you gave up.
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I haven't misconstrued anything. i understood and refuted just fine. Sounds like you're in denial because you missed an obvious solution.
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Persona 5 and Horizon Zero Dawn are lengthy games that have pretty easy achievements if you put the time into it.
They also happen to be incredibly fun games.

Play Gwent it is fun
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Mead posted...

Play Gwent it is fun

Do they have some sort of ranking system so if you roll up with a bad deck, you can fight people with bad decks yet?

JOExHIGASHI posted...

I haven't misconstrued anything. i understood and refuted just fine. Sounds like you're in denial because you missed an obvious solution.

smh

you can't even muster up the courage to say it even after I shot down everything you've said with preexisting quotes of things I've already said itt

kek


Mead posted...

Play Gwent it is fun

I can't wrap my head around it. I do alright with it in Witcher 3 itself, but in the standalone game I get my ass kicked. honestly, Yu-Gi-Oh is probably the only dueling card game I like
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Did you lose all your GTAV and Skyrim copies in a fire or something?
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- Goes to achievements
- Complains he's feeling burnt out
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helIy posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

you made a topic complaining about how annoying it is to be required to beat resident evil 5 multiple times to get an achievement

helIy posted...

why do i have to unlock a difficulty even after having played through the game? that's fucking stupid. it's not like i played through it on easy. just normal. but noooo, you gotta beat veteran to unlock professional

what i said was annoying was that i'd have to beat the game twice to unlock the professional difficulty.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

you: getting the achievement in resident evil 5 is so annoying. i gotta beat it on easy even though i already beat it on hard

helIy posted...

it's not like i played through it on easy. just normal. but noooo, you gotta beat veteran to unlock professional

You sure showed me. I said multiple when I should have said twice and thought you beat it on normal instead of hard and are required to beat it on veteran to proceed to professional. I'm so wrong. I completely misunderstood your argument because I misread a few minor details. /sarcasm

Don't bring up this meaningless shit and pretend you shot down anything
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helIy posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

me: you don't have to get that achievement if it's so annoying

helIy posted...

i know i'm never going to get all of them, but i want to get the ones i can.

helIy posted...

it's not like it'll be hard to beat, or even very long

What's your problem again? You want to get all the ones you can get and this one sounds like something you can get. But you quoted at me that don't want all of them. You're contradicting yourself
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

. But you quoted at me that don't want all of them

nope. i said:

helIy posted...

i know i'm never going to get all of them,

JOExHIGASHI posted...

this one sounds like something you can get

and it is, so i said:

helIy posted...

it's not like it'll be hard to beat, or even very long, it's just the fact that i have to beat the game to unlock the privilege of beating the game again, after already beating the fucking game.

keep asking things that are easily answered in literally the first two posts i've made
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I already told not to bring up such trivial shit like it proves anything. You're not furthering discussion when you correct me on such minute details.

And you conveniently ignored the post that calls you out on what an idiot you are.

Stop complaining about things that are easily solved. And don't be an ass when people give you obvious solutions to your problems. I know that makes you feel like an idiot but you should just say "thanks" and move on.

If you want the achievement go get it
If you don't want it then don't get it

Either way shut up.
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i'm correcting you on every point you bring up, so unless you stop asking them it's gonna keep happening
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helIy posted...

i'm correcting you on every point you bring up, so unless you stop asking them it's gonna keep happening

You don't have a response to the actual argument. You're not proving anything with these trivial points
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it would help if you had an argument.

instead you keep asking the same crap over repeatedly that has already been answered.

you've brought up the same thing four times now just worded slightly different each time.
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Play Skyrim again and download waifu mods.
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helIy posted...

it would help if you had an argument.

instead you keep asking the same crap over repeatedly that has already been answered.

you've brought up the same thing four times now just worded slightly different each time.

Your "answers" are contradicting

And I even offered 2 solutions to your problem. You're welcome
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

Your "answers" are contradicting

they're really not though

JOExHIGASHI posted...

And I even offered 2 solutions to your problem. You're welcome

you really didn't though
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I enjoy achievement hunting, usually they will help extend the life of a game for me especially if it involves making different choices or it's collecting things. I sit tho k I would have gone after all of the flags and feathers in Assassins Creed if there wasn't an achievement to go after.
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Arv knows people who beat mgs 50 times with no whining
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helIy posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

me: you don't have to get that achievement if it's so annoying

helIy posted...

i know i'm never going to get all of them, but i want to get the ones i can.

helIy posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

this one sounds like something you can get

and it is, so i said:

helIy posted...

it's not like it'll be hard to beat, or even very long, it's just the fact that i have to beat the game to unlock the privilege of beating the game again, after already beating the fucking game.

I tell you not to get the achievement you give me a quote saying implying you won't get it

I tell you it's easy enough to do you respond with something confirming it is easy to do

You're clearly contradicting yourself. Maybe if you weren't trying so hard to change the subject and ignore my main point you would read it.

Here are your 2 solutions to your problem:

If you want the achievement go get it
If you don't want it then don't get it

You're welcome again.
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Achievements are for plebs.
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

I tell you not to get the achievement you give me a quote saying implying you won't get it

I tell you it's easy enough to do you respond with something confirming it is easy to do

yes.

pretty easy to understand that, while it's easy to get, I'm not going to get it

I really don't understand why you need that spelled out for you, or why you brought that up for the like 6 time
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https://youtu.be/odRFe80FfQI?t=134
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helIy posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

I tell you not to get the achievement you give me a quote saying implying you won't get it

I tell you it's easy enough to do you respond with something confirming it is easy to do

yes.

pretty easy to understand that, while it's easy to get, I'm not going to get it

I really don't understand why you need that spelled out for you, or why you brought that up for the like 6 time

Because you kept contradicting yourself

i want to get the ones i can.

it's not like it'll be hard to beat, or even very long

Implies you want the achievement

I'm not going to get it

Instead of quoting the same vague things over and over try to actually communicate
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

Because you kept contradicting yourself

not once have i done that. now you're taking things out of context to, again, fit your narrative. you're going to make me say the exact same thing i've said 7 times now.

it's like you're trying to troll, but you don't even know what you're doing.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

Implies you want the achievement

i do. i literally want every achievement. however, that's not a realistic goal. i also never said it was a realistic goal, or even anything that could happen. i said i got all the achievements in Skyrim. resident evil, however, i said that i'm not going to get them all. my issue with that game, though, is that to get one of the achievements i have to beat the game a minimum of three times which is annoying.

helIy posted...

pretty easy to understand that, while it's easy to get, I'm not going to get it

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Do you like the half life 2 episodes? Ive always wanted to get the garden gnome acheivement.

And games that make you unlock difficulty are dumb, most games have difficulty or greater achievement design.
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helIy posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

Because you kept contradicting yourself

not once have i done that. now you're taking things out of context to, again, fit your narrative. you're going to make me say the exact same thing i've said 7 times now.

it's like you're trying to troll, but you don't even know what you're doing.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

Implies you want the achievement

i do. i literally want every achievement. however, that's not a realistic goal. i also never said it was a realistic goal, or even anything that could happen. i said i got all the achievements in Skyrim. resident evil, however, i said that i'm not going to get them all. my issue with that game, though, is that to get one of the achievements i have to beat the game a minimum of three times which is annoying.

helIy posted...

pretty easy to understand that, while it's easy to get, I'm not going to get it

I just gave you examples of contradictory quotes. You're only denying it because it makes you look like an idiot. Please don't repeat yourself. You keep giving me the same vague quotes that don't clarify anything.

It sounds more like you're the troll since you're the one who started with the insults.

Telling me you want an achievement that is easy and doable implies you're going to get it.
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

I just gave you examples of contradictory quotes. You're only denying it because it makes you look like an idiot. Please don't repeat yourself. You keep giving me the same vague quotes that don't clarify anything.

helIy posted...

not once have i done that. now you're taking things out of context to, again, fit your narrative. you're going to make me say the exact same thing i've said 7 times now.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

It sounds more like you're the troll since you're the one who started with the insults.

helIy posted...

not once have i done that.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

Telling me you want an achievement that is easy and doable implies you're going to get it.

helIy posted...

nope.

if i was going to get it, i'd have said so. kek.

next plz.
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Giving the quote I just responded to isn't an adequate response. If you're just going to deny it despite proof then don't respond at all

helly

not a hard concept to understand, but i can see how you'd fail to realize that

first insult of the topic is by you. Looks like you're wrong again

nope

Denial again. I guess when you're proven wrong but too stubborn to admit it you have no other choice. You probably wouldn't try so hard to save face if you didn't resort to insults so soon but you just keep looking more foolish
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

If you're just going to deny it despite proof then don't respond at all

the only "proof" you have is your own misunderstanding which was easily waved away



JOExHIGASHI posted...

first insult of the topic is by you. Looks like you're wrong again

not even once.

JOExHIGASHI posted...

Denial again. I guess when you're proven wrong but too stubborn to admit it you have no other choice. You probably wouldn't try so hard to save face if you didn't resort to insults so soon but you just keep looking more foolish

all i've done is consistently prove you wrong, there's not a single instance of you being right in any way, shape, or form here. all you keep doing is bringing up the same-- i've said this before!

.helIy posted...

not once have i done that. now you're taking things out of context to, again, fit your narrative. you're going to make me say the exact same thing i've said 7 times now.

helIy posted...

you apparently misread just about everything i've said and jumped to a bunch of conclusions that are wrong and since you can't seem to just go "my bad, i read it wrong" you keep trying to misconstrue everything i've said to fit your narrative and insist i've said things i clearly did not

lmao
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the proof are your quotes. You're waving them away because they prove you wrong

You have to be kidding me now. I just gave the quote of your insult. Your denial is ridiculous.

"nope" is not proof

Denial isn't proof. Waving things away isn't an argument.

It looks like you hit a brick wall. You have nothing left to say but "nope" to everything you are proven wrong on. You'd have more to say if you were right about anything
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

the proof are your quotes. You're waving them away because they prove you wrong

JOExHIGASHI posted...

You have to be kidding me now. I just gave the quote of your insult. Your denial is ridiculous.

but what insult? not once have i insulted you, even though you have.
you said

JOExHIGASHI posted...

I didn't realize your mental deficiency was so severe

it was you that tried to insult me first.

kek


JOExHIGASHI posted...

It looks like you hit a brick wall. You have nothing left to say but "nope" to everything you are proven wrong on. You'd have more to say if you were right about anything

please, tell me exactly where i was wrong about anything.

i bet i know what you'll poooost

next pls
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i gave you the quote of the insult already

not a hard concept to understand, but i can see how you'd fail to realize that

and I only mentioned your mental deficiency after you said "herp derp"

You actually insulted me twice before I insulted you once

Things you are wrong about:
-first insult of the topic
-vagueness and contradiction in all your attempts of communication

You could probably guess this post since you probably already realized how wrong you are
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JOExHIGASHI posted...

i gave you the quote of the insult already

you think me saying you're trying to troll meant i was calling you a troll?

if i was gonna call you a troll, i would have. so, instead, we have yet another complete misunderstanding by you

JOExHIGASHI posted...

You actually insulted me twice before I insulted you once

prove it

again, you keep repeating the same nonsense over and over. get something new

next plz.
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