Do many people here use RetroAchievements?

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I'm a big fan of RetroAchievements (find me here: https://retroachievements.org/user/dodgykebaab )
I feel they help breath new life into older games that I played years/decades ago. Games like Castle of Illusion which I beat many time on the Mega Drive back in the 90s is still a good game but I feel little need to go back and revisit. But with RetroAchievements I feel that I have a reason to blast though the games again.

Also ports of retroarch to consoles that leave out Retroachievements (like the PS4 and 360 ports) just annoy me.

Do many of you guys use Retroachievements? If so post those profile links here!

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no, I never truly cared about achievements, often they feel more like work than fun even though its always tempting to go after then, so its kind of a relief to me old games don't have then. besides I don't really have that much time nowadays to play the whole game again because I missed something
 
I use it primarily for tracking games i've played\beat. The achievements are neat but I really love the fact that it chronicles stuff you've played and how far you got.
 
I wanted to try it a while back but the service didn't recognise any of my games as legit to track.
 
On paper I understand why many people use something like RetroAchivements, but at the same time I don't get why you need achievements in retro games to begin with. Its something that got popular during more recent console generations so the idea of shoving that into retro games is kinda weird to me. I suppose its a more rewarding reason to replay old games, but personally I never needed that.
 
On paper I understand why many people use something like RetroAchivements, but at the same time I don't get why you need achievements in retro games to begin with. Its something that got popular during more recent console generations so the idea of shoving that into retro games is kinda weird to me. I suppose its a more rewarding reason to replay old games, but personally I never needed that.
from the regular user standpoint it makes sense, but RA is more than just a community of nostalgic gamers... some folks there are more interested in coding the achievements and tinkering around old games/systems
 
I proactively disable anything related to trophies or achievements. I started doing that with PS360 but I only could when hacking the consoles because Sony and Microsoft enforce it without any option to disable or remove it. Retroachievements are personal, and they belong to your own criteria, if you want to have them. Nobody should tell me what to achieve lol.
 
I just got into them a few weeks ago. It’s a nice little fun set of challenges to give yourself for games you’re familiar with already and sometimes encourage you to play the game in different ways.
 
No, but I use HowLongToBeat to document my progress (and occasionally write short reviews on my blog only once I completed a game).
 
On paper I understand why many people use something like RetroAchivements, but at the same time I don't get why you need achievements in retro games to begin with. Its something that got popular during more recent console generations so the idea of shoving that into retro games is kinda weird to me. I suppose its a more rewarding reason to replay old games, but personally I never needed that.
I also like retro games because devs didn't need achievements to make their games compelling to replay.
 
Never got into it. Never will after the way they handled clover.
 

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