Achievement hunting question

I haven't found myself in that situation yet, so I don't know. Although I do own Payday 2, so what you say scares me a bit, there are new achievements on a daily basis? But if a game has dead multiplayer, BLAEO has been a great place to deal with that, since I have in many occasions received help from other members in getting some multiplayer achievements.

Your average gets influenced only with games that has +1 achievement, if you dont get one from game it won't count to your average :) but yeah some games are there just to ruin your conquest, but that's why you need to find many better ones and keep up the fight!!! ;)
I personally hate those games with 1+K meant only for idling achievements, but I activate any game I get for free :P:P

Play what you want to play. There is nothing else to consider.

"So how do you motivate yourselves to go back to these games" - i dont...i set myself a border knowingly i wont bother anything above it - for me its the 50%.

the reason for that is as i do have games i like and enjoy spending time on, there are also games i dont - so why punish myself?

50% is a balanced border between games i like and those i hate, i recommend you do the same for yourself - that way you will focus more on enjoying the games instead of worrying on a score you keep chase :)

I think it depends on where you want to raise your average completion rate. If it is 80 % or lower don't bother for the moment with older titles as you just have to play enough games to counter it. It will of course go faster if you revisit started games. For those with MP achievements you can try using BLAEO which may help. Other than that I think there are whole groups dedicated to such games and helping with them.

As for motivation I don't have that problem to much as nearly all games in my library have something in them which interests me. I have occasionally a game which is either to hard to get more achievements, to grindy or added new achievements later.

Maybe the current monthly theme in BLAEO may help. Search someone who has some of the games and play them both and then talk a bit about them. Maybe they can see something more and show you an interesting side you missed so far.

You could also use the strict rule method like only starting a new game after you gained a 75 % rate in an older title. But this often makes gaming a chore. I wouldnt recommand that.

There is no reason to bother with that, achievements don't reward you with anything. Unless game specific.

Especially if you are collecting every single game like me such as all those trashy asset flips and achievements spams.

I only have a 38% avg. completion rate, but it just bothers me that I still have a couple of achievements that I haven't unlocked. So I try to get all the achievements. Recently however, I haven't been too focused on getting all of them.

Do you know Astats?

You don't. I have like 2-5 achievements in counter strike source. It has hundreds of achievements. Never going to do anything about it, so so be it. Be more focused on number of 100% achievement games. Some, like Payday 2 should just be ignored. Achievements can be quite fun, but it's not work. Don't turn it into work.

Down the line you might want to play an old game for nostalgia. Look up the achievements you are missing and find a guide for them. You can do them then, if you want to.

I generally don't start playing any games without first making sure none of the achievements are impossible or broken (because that would bug me forever, lol). And then I usually do one or two games at a time and don't start another until I'm done those. Exceptions being clickers etc where you know you oughta be in for a long-haul and can only progress in increments. Those give me something to do for in-between.

Also I try to get games with fewer achievements out of the way first. As someone who hates PVP I also tend to avoid games where you need multiplayer mode for achievements XD That's about my strategy for keeping my completion percentage high, but I have not been on steam for long so I don't have a lot to show for it.

If your achievement stats per se are bugging you, there's a few guides for free and paid games with easy 100% but I haven't taken the time to look into those yet. A bookmark for when I run out of fun with my current games I guess XD

I don't care about completion anymore. When I'm done, I'm done.
Don't want to chase achievement just for the sake of 100% perfect game (arbitrarily decided by the devs)

Sorry, disregard this. missed the first line of the sentence.

I play games to enjoy them. Games should be a way to forget about the stress of the real world and relax for a while, it should not be a chore. My backlog is too big to worry about finding achievements and I don't find it enjoyable, so I just ignore them. If someone wants to consider my games not played because I don't have enough achievements, they have a problem, not me.

"I've become even better, time to return to this hard achievement"
Usually it works.

I do not even start those games if I see achievements which I will never unlock.

i don't go back to the old game,
when some achievement become a chore to do/the game start to feel boring, i stop doing that,
even if i love achievement, i am sane enough to not do the same thing over and over again just to get an achievement
if i really love that game, then sure, why not

to increase your average, if you want the fast way, maybe search for a game that just have a small amount of achievement that can be easy to get, and complete it 100%

another thing to consider, don't play game based on "is it going to increase my rate ?" thought
instead, choose a game you love, play it, and maybe if you really love the game, check it's achievement, and try to get all you can while enjoying the game
trying to get an achievement just for the sake of increased rate without enjoying it is like putting a cart before the horse

I don't, since your average ratio will climb nonetheless. I have removed games like the ones you ponder about, and they drag down my average with their 1-10%, yet I am likely reaching 95% this year nonetheless, as I add more and more casual games with almost guaranteed 100% completion.
Heck, I am actually thinking about reactivating my Pixel Puzzles, so I can do a 1/997 on Ultimate to drag my average down, but I think even that would put me around 92%.

You forgot about those games, specially the ones like payday or those ARPGs with 'complete hardcor extreme mode' wich is completing the game 3 times without dying, etc.

Also, in Payday2, more than half of those extremely rare achievement are SAM achieved, so they aren't real.

I have also games with low %. Some of them I really regret (the Showdown effect, ugghhh). Some of them are ok games, but don't want to spend too much time getting over certain % (A Story About My Uncle for example sits at 40%).

If I don't like the game so much to go back and play it then I don't. Maybe if it is really short game or I liked the game so then I revisit it later.
Even with games I like I don't always go for 100% if it is too much grind or it takes a lot of playthroughs to get there.

You can also do the math. Let's say you want to hit 90% average.
If you have a game at 5% completion. It takes 9 games at 100% to get that average (9x100 +5)/10=90,5%
10% game. (8x100+10)/9=90% (it takes 8 games at 100%)
20% game, (7x100+20)/8=90% (it takes 7 games at 100%)
etc
So those games will average out after some time and also raising their completion by 10-20% is already worth something.

Just keep beating games and it will come up. But do also go back to old games from time to time to see if you can add more achievements. Last year I beat over 100 games to 100% and a lot of those were games I'd started long before, including my longest standing uncompleted single player game, which was Batman Arkham City. Sometimes I'd get back to a game I'd abandoned years ago, only to find I didn't need that much more time to beat it. Sometimes people add guides for things you couldn't figure out in the interim, sometimes you're just better at the game then you were. Either way it can be fun to revisit your abandoned list down the road and do what you can to sneak the completion percentage up, even if you still don't beat the game ultimately.
Adding more games won't affect your AGC unless you play them and earn one achievement.
Also as a word of advice, achievement hunting can be fun, but don't let that be the sole dictator of what games you play, or you'll find yourself playing a lot of cheap crap. Like all those people playing those ridiculous games with thousands of achievements, just because they want some numbers to go up. Achievements should be exactly that, a record of something you achieved in a game. And each one should be a memory of a fun time you had in a game. Some of my best achievement memories are in games I can never add to my 100% list, but it doesn't matter, because the time I spent with the game was the reward ultimately.

There are a number of game types you can look at if you're wanting to improve your AGC but depending on your ultimate goals, playstyles and how you view your library not all of them will suit you.

• Demos - There are a number of demos that have achievements that are separate from the main game (rather than carrying over too it when you buy it). These are typically short, have only a few achievements and are easy to complete.
• Visual Novels - Some people may prefer to read them but they're also ideal for achievement hunters as most of them can be skipped through in a matter of minutes.
• Achievement Spam Games - Some of these like Zup and Oik are actually legitimate games, most of them are just piss poor Unity asset flips but achievements are achievements.
• HOGs - Bit of a mixed bag here but the majority of these can be 100% done in 3-5 hours without much difficulty.
• Strategy Games - Having large numbers of achievements compared to other games these may seem like a bad idea at first but due to custom matches they also often have a lot of achievements that can be cheesed by stacking conditions in your favour. Whilst this doesn't always hold true it definitely applies to Civ V and AoE II both of which you own.
• Multiplayer Games - Most hunters least favourite category for a variety of reasons. However it's still a good place to up your average especially for games you've already started. Some games allow achievements to be earned in private matches, some allow you to play with bots and some can even be done playing solo. Even if you have to play legitimately in ranked matches finding a group to play with even if just casually can make a significant difference.

And a few useful links for you

• Completionist.me Absolute stat porn
• 100Pals Achievement hunting Discord
• TrueSteamAchievements Not as populated as the older Steam communities but by far the best features when it comes to organising multiplayer sessions.

Looking through your BLAEO list some specific suggestions that fairly easy to complete (or at least get a decent percentage in): The Valley, The Turing Test, Skyrim SE, The Darkness II, Spec Ops, Prototype 2.

Hopefully amongst all that you find something useful. If we have any games in common and you want to work on the MP achievements for them feel free to add me.

Use SAM, but to lock again the previously unlocked achievements, instead of use it to unlock the left ones.

Play games you want to play and as long as you get at least 60-70% of the achievements you'll improve it. If you don't get above that go back to the other extreme and grab some achievements in the low percentage games because when you get above 70% all you are doing is cancelling out the low 1, 2, 3% games you have like FM, then after that you'll improve it. Basically think of 70% like the next 50% anything lower will not do a thing to your average unless you get rid of those lower ones however don't just play games for the achievements because that's not what gaming is all about!

We are still playing Divinity 2 despite the achievements.

take a little gem, take a good guide, enjoy.
And you can prey i don't get too hardcore.

Caring about achievements/completion too much could prevent me from playing genuinely fun games that have totally impossible (for me) achievements, like Limbo, VVVVVV, In Between (those dreaded "complete game without dying" cheevos). Also I don't like spoiling the gameplay by checking all achievements before playing, and some of them are easily missable, which can effectively force you to replay the whole game just to get them (like the infamous Chatterbox achievement in Tomb Raider). So ultimately I'm torn because I'm a completionist at heart but if it starts to suck fun out of playing, I'm inclined to just move on...