The best achievements to me act as hints on how to play the game in a certain way. Such as: * "Find all 25 widgets" I like finding widgets and I've only found

The best achievements to me act as hints on how to play the game in a certain way. Such as: * "Find all 25 widgets" I like finding widgets and I've only found 12 of them. I'll keep looking! * "Beat the game without using System X" Whoa, I thought System X was required! I'll figure out how to rely on the other systems to work around missing this one * "Get ending #3" I hear that ending is neat so I'll play again making different choices Achievements don't help mediocre games improve, they only compliment already good games. They also act as remembrances of games long past, something I can look up in a few minutes without having to install the game or hunt for a save file. Getting all of those achievements ten years ago must have really meant that I liked it.