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I like challenging achievements if it's in a game that I really like. I don't like the "challenge run" type achievements. I don't don't really want to play the game like a speed runner.
Closest I like to those style achievements are things like in game completion medals for speeding through individual levels.
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Challenging achievements are fine in my book so long as they ain't ridiculously difficult. I'd never wanna get an achievement for beating a game or extremely difficult section without making a single mistake because those types of achievements ain't fun. No I am not gonna speed run every level one after another without getting hurt just for an achievement.
I tend to view those achievements as ones you pick up by accident rather than something you strive for. It turns them from something I absolutely have to get into a nice surprise when I do particularly well at a level I didn't realize was supposed to be hard.