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GoOnKid on 01 September 2019
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Hiku said:
GoOnKid said:

Do people really exist who give a fuck about what trophies someone has achieved? Do people really look into other peoples trophies and appreciate how awesome that person must be? Really? In reverse, do people really believe that anybody looks into their trophy lists?

I just gave an example of something I found to be interesting by looking at a friend's trophy list in my post above. And one that helped me figure out something that was bothering me.
And I can give you two more.

I checked the Trophy list of a friend recently to see what game's he's been playing lately.
One particular game that caught my eye that he recently started and finished was a game that came out quite a few years ago. 
I thought "Oh, good to see he finally got to playing that game, even if it took him a few years to get to it. I see he liked it enough to play it all the way through."


In another situation, I checked the Trophy list of two different friends for a certain game, and I could see that they both finished the game, but only one of them had realized that the ending they received wasn't the true ending, and that there were in fact more days in the game than it let on.
(The game is calendar based with days passing, similar to Persona games, and the new Fire Emblem, and a set 'end date' is announced when you start the game. But there's a way to go beyond it.)

That that particular friend of mine hadn't figured that out really checks out with the way he usually thinks, from my experience. He's not very perceptive to put it mildly...
That the other friend realized it however was interesting. Assuming no guide was used. But I knew that I could talk to them about the full game, spoilers and all, to find out later.

And so on.
In case you don't know, each Trophy has a time stamp attached to it, as well as a screenshot of the in-game moment.

I think there are a lot of applications for achievements that go beyond just bragging rights, but it seems some people don't consider that, which is a shame.

Well okay. My very own gf is a trophy hunter. Whenever she plays a game she is going for 100%, and she will use guides to not miss relevant stuff. She goes for the first run with no guides and to just enjoy the experience, after that she will do a second run for trophies. Recently she did this with Beyond Two Souls. She didn't even like the game at all but still played several sections multiple times just to get those damn trophies. So who am I to talk bad about them, right?

Another example: We have a friend who likes to talk about how she enjoyed certain games (Ni No Kuni in particular) and how she became such a huge fan of them and so on. So my girl checked the trophies and it turns out that this friend only played the first chapter and then quit.

But 'd like to pick up your second example. If you are already talking with another person about a game then you could simply ask if s/he already finished it, no? Then you would know if you could talk spoilerfree or not.