I’ve played the game around seven years ago for the first time on my laptop and enjoyed my time a lot. Back when I got my first PS4 around a year later (2017ish), I got the game on there too but ended up not playing the game at all because I couldn’t get used to the controller gameplay.

A couple of days ago, I started the game up again for lack of other games to play right now and have, as many probably, started a low-chaos ghost run. For the uninitiated, “ghost” means that you go through the entire game without being detected once. To achieve this, you’re either cracked at the game and know what you’re doing, or you resort to save scumming, which I also did.

However, I seem to have fucked up in the last mission (saving Emily, getting rid of the two Pendleton twins) and have been detected somewhere without noticing it and loading a previous save. When I ended the mission and was shown the statistics, I contemplated starting the mission over because I didn’t ghost through to mission but opted not to.

While I do feel kinda bummed about “messing up” the achievement, I feel like this’ll prove to be beneficial for my overall experience with the game since I won’t have to keep reloading the same passages for 15 times just to get some arbitrary achievement that doesn’t even bear any meaning.

I’ll still go for a low-chaos run (not killing anyone), but I won’t be bothered to keep reloading saves now: If I’m detected, I run away and hide and take the game on naturally.

How have your experiences with the game been? Which playstyle do you prefer? What games did you ruin for yourself in hindsight because of save scumming?

  • caut_R@lemmy.world
    3·
    10 months ago

    I‘m also an achievement hunter and I found the low chaos Ghost run immensly satisfying and actually not too difficult. It just felt like it‘s the right way to experience the game. What soured me a bit was the challenge DLC. That one was lame as hell. The base game and story DLCs were great.

      • caut_R@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        It‘s been too long for me to have any personal tips, but trueachievements (website) has a walkthrough for it and their walkthroughs are usually an easy ticket to platinum. Just google „game name trueachievements“ and look for the „Walkthrough“ link on top. If there‘s an asterisk next to it, it means someone‘s posted a full achievement walkthrough.

        It also helps gauging how long it‘ll take since they give you number of playthroughs required and estimated time in the overview.

        You can also look up specific achievements on there where people post different strategies and/or cheese.

        The site‘s for Xbox but big games usually have achievement parity across different versions so it‘s the same for PS/PC.