Specially the ones where you have to find stuff.
I usually attempt and manage to get them without looking up any info, but other times I miss something and I don’t want to go thru the tedious process of re-combing whole sections of the levels, or even starting over, just to find some stupid note that I overlooked. Yet, I want the achievement, so I end up looking a guide and I feel like I haven’t truly earned the achievent.
Yes, I know that playing a videogame shouldn’t become a task and that I simply should play it the way I enjoy it the most, but I want too see what others think.
If you enjoy getting the achievements and reach the point of frustration trying to get them, then yeah consult a guide. There’s nothing wrong with that.
When I’m enjoying a game and reach a dead-end like an impassible door that by rights with my huge arsenal I should be able to just break down, I have no problems “consulting the townspeople” to see what particular trick the game has in mind. Sometimes the trick makes sense, sometimes it’s something I would have never thought of and makes no sense. In that case I feel good that I didn’t let the game waste more of my time on it.