Achievement Design for Replayability

Achievement Design for Replayability

in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

Posted by: Daroon.1736

Daroon.1736

Towards the end of the living world 2 season many threads appeared regarding cut-scenes and dialogue which could not be skipped when replaying for achievements.

Several were reworked to include a quick replay option but others were not, most notably ‘Dodgy Crowd’ which is one of the hardest and which appears right at the end of the instance so retrying requires you to go right through the whole instance again.

With the announcement that many ‘challenging’ achievements would be incorporated into the story instances in HOT – I thought it might be a good time to address this issue again in the hope that the Devs have considered this matter and this time have designed the instances so that replaying the achievements is part of the design and not an afterthought.

No more ‘Dodgy Crowd’ type achievements please unless I can skip straight to the boss fight when replaying.