• gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    I suppose but the only reason I use gog is to download games without having to use a goddam launcher

    I’m sure many people want a launcher and as long as I can keep not using it I won’t care

    But not using a launcher is the reason I have a gog library

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
      5·
      1 day ago

      TBH the only reason I even want a launcher is that game achievements require it. AFAIK this is possible with other launchers like Heroic, but I never bothered setting it up for the GOG games I do own.

      • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        1 day ago

        Ah well imo achievements have been a monumentally bad thing for gaming and culture so I have to say I hope they disappear anyway

        • wizzim@infosec.pub
          1·
          6 hours ago

          I like achievements. Outside the feeling of completion, they allow me:

          • to try some challenges I would never have the idea to try (e.g. the great Trine 2 achievements)
          • to decide when I am done with a game and can start up another.
          • to feel a bit proud when you achieve something only 5% or other players did.
        • [object Object]@lemmy.world
          3·
          15 hours ago

          Thankfully achievements can typically be ignored, at least in single-player games that I play. So not sure what’s so radically bad about them.

          But, the funniest achievements system that I’ve seen was in the original ‘Assetto Corsa’, the racing simulator. It goes like ‘win with this car on this track against these other cars’, and then seven hundred of these, vaguely mirroring the pseudo-career mode that the game has. I had a chuckle seeing that, and paid no attention to the achievements again. The cherry on top is that basically no one plays the original ‘career’, driving mod cars on mod tracks instead.