/v/ - Video Games

>>15902839

Yeah I was playing Skyrim and, like a few other RPGs, I get overwhelmed and just put the game down entirely. It sucks and I want to stop doing it especially since I'm getting Kingdom Come Deliverance soon.

Games like Banjo-Kazooie, Crash and Spyro are nice to 100% because all you have to do is play the levels properly. Games that require grinding, doing numerous shitty chores or replaying it ad nauseam aren't fun to complete. Some of the latter include GTA, The Binding of Isaac and most, if not all open world games.

I'm becoming less and less of one as I get older. Back in the PS1 days, I tried to 100% all the games I played. Nowadays, I'd have to really like a game to even see all the different endings.

I don't care about different endings, but I generally have hard time finishing the game until I've done everything. If I sense a last boss coming, I'll turn back and won't return until there's nothing else to do.

I don't recall doing everything in Skyrim, if the game is too open ended like that then I'll just do whatever I feel like, though I'll probably at least want to visit every location.

Agree with >>15902986, the good kind of completionism (that's a word now) is where you have to find all the secrets and complete all the levels. The bad kind is where you have to grind levels up or kill every monster in the game multiple times for a bestiary or complete vapid radiant-tier MMO quests that are just padding to hide the lack of actual content in the game.

I'll explore as much af I can and go through all of the content of it isn't a slog, but otherwise I'll just keep going as long as I'm having fun. If there's good content gated behind completion, I'll go for 100%. For example, I 100% just about every platformer I play, but I've never even considered going for 100% in a gta

>>15902839

i dont have time for that gay shit either put all content to make it easy to see or fuck off

Many games you can't really fully complete since every playthrough will be different. Like most RPGs - another character means a completely new experience. Or even something like Jagged Alliance 2 - the amount of mercenary combinations is massive.

Anyway, I'm not much of a completionist these days. It's a success if I even clear a game at all. I never replay them and just look up the different endings on the internet (if I cared about a game that much). I mean, forcing yourself to play for all the endings is kind of pointless. You played the game the way you wanted to the first time - and you got the ending you deserve. Why pretend to be another player?

Now if a game has unlocks like cars or weapons, I try to get all of them. That is if I like the game enough.

>>15903169

>and you got the ending you deserve

I wouldn't mind this, but most games give different endings based on easily missable content or performance/resource management that can only be possible when you already have knowledge of the game.

>>15902839

I always get lost in sidequests and doing shit pretty much like >>15902860

but don't worry man Kingdom Come is amazing I finished it and will probably play again on hardest

>>15903190

You can look that up then. But I meant mostly games like Undertale or Deus Ex Invisible War - you wanted to kill everyone and you got the genocide ending. Why be pacifist all of a sudden? Or you've allied with the Illuminati and that's the ending you get.

I play until I stop having fun. Typically that is before "100%" since a lot of games just have tedious shit I don't want to do to achieve that. If I feel like I'm forcing myself to keep going I just drop it. I'll also keep playing something long after I've done everything if I still get enjoyment from it. Even with most games being shit today, there is so much to play that it's hard to stick with one game for a really long time unless I really love it.

If 100% involves going through new areas or content, I'm all for that. If it instead involves insane grinding for leveling up or enemy drops, I'll pass.

only as far as good as the content to complete it

i have zero interest in completing list of things for no good reason

but if its nice small side quest that somehow ties into the storyline im game

>>15902860

>>15902839

>>15903169

Reddit. Fucking leave.

I'm like you a bit. I prefer to 100% the stuff I enjoy doing in any game. If there is some collection bullshit that is just not enjoyable (like the animal collection in MGSV) I'll ignore it as much as possible. Something like KOTOR, I'll 100% the quests in each playthrough.

And now that I'm playing Borderlands 2 with a buddy while couch cooping, I'm feeling like we need to burn through side quests before moving the story forward. But we're already overleveled in True Vault Hunter mode so the rewards are not worth it for us.

>>15902839

I think I'm more of an explorationist. I always try to go everywhere, see everything, and I will do every sidequest possible, but not really to say 'I've done it', more like just to see what monsters or dialogue or other content I can get from them.

>>15903628

Do I fit in now, Mommy?

I bought all the trophy's in the secret shop in Nier:automata. That's how much of a completionist I am.

For real though. It depends. If the game is really fun obviously I'll go for 100% but even then sometimes the grind gets to be too much and I stop. On the other hand, if a game's platinum is notoriously difficult to get, I'll do it just for bragging rights. For example, every second of grinding in ff10 made me want to violently slam my head through the fucking wall but when I finally beat penance and the plat popped up I felt amazing. And if you talk to someone who has done the same it's like you're comrades who've been though a war together.

When games started becoming more grind than games, I stopped being a completionist. I think it was circa 2010? give or take a fuck or two.

I used to hardcore complete every game I played, I never put a game down unless I was sure I was done with it. Then Achievements and Trophies came on the scene and then, my hardcore obsession was being rewarded with retard stickers. I felt no joy from this nonsense unless I really enjoyed the game and as time passed, the number of games I actually enjoyed started to shrink drastically.

According to Xbox Live , Steam and PSN, the last time I actually gave any fucks about 100%ing a game was Splatterhouse because it was fucking fun.

Depends on the game. Basically what

>>15902986

said. I'm far more likely to do unique challenges than hit a slot ten thousand times hoping to get every item.

I just play the game until I beat it.

If it's fun and has side content that's not just grinding I might do it. I don't ever play games with the intent to 100% though.

>>15903542

>being this new

>>15905923

Hiroshima did something to piss off some of his retards.

Depends on how much I like the game.

>>15906432

It's more a question of how did you do this to yourself?

Those underwater sections, S ranking them, thrice?

>>15906435

Mission 7 I legitimately thought was impossible for a while.

But after doing some digging I discovered a asain's videos that showed Trish is the only one capable of attacking the Fish "Tateobesu" fast enough to gain style from the boss fight.

Let me tell you it took me hours to do it, but Catharsis I felt getting that S rank on LMD is as though I have that fucking fish hanging above my fire place.

Don't even beat the game if it's bad. Achievements, trophies, etc. never compelled me to reach the 100% mark. If the game's fun, I play. Otherwise it's just grind.

>>15902839

Games that have clear 100% requirements that don't require substantial content recycling I will typically try and go for 100%.

Examples Quake (100% secrets, including hidden levels) and Mario 64 (all 120 stars). Even racing games can do this if implemented properly (F Zero X beat all cups Master and beat all staff ghosts).

Games like RPGs or roguelites are probably the worst offenders here so I would almost never bother to 100% them.

I usually get just about everything in GTA games except a small handful of packages and all the extreme stunt jumps because those are fucking annoying.

I don't see the point unless getting 100% drastically changes the game in a positive way. In my experience getting every last piece of garbage lying around just for completion's sake makes me get sick of the game.

I will do everything in a game as I go along. I hate backtracking so I optimize my routes through the world/level. However, I will start to ignore quests if they start turning into "get 10 wolf pelts for me adventurer because I'm too retarded to go to the pelt shop down the road." Even a simple "go into dungeon x and collect object/rescue person" is enough to get me to go in there.

I got every single achievement in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Which means all collectibles, all unlocks, all time trials, the most 100% a game can be. It was tedious as fuck and I still don't know why I bothered.

>>15919195

WHY

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>had a PSN account since the launch of PSTriple

>grand total of 2070+ trophys

>only Platinum trophy is Nier Automata

>and only because you can buy them

The only game I ever got close to 100% was the second AC, man, fuck those feathers

>>15902839

Only really good games are worthy of a completion.

>>15920097

Filthy fucking phone poster.

>>15902860

How do you get "overwhelmed" playing skyrim it's retard level easy

>>15902839

Knocked out hard campaign on all factions for Dark Crusade, now working on all hard campaigns for Soulstorm. (they call it hard but it's really pretty easy once you learn how the AI operate)

I don't hate it though, I thoroughly enjoy it. If you hate it, I don't know why you punish yourself by still playing it.

I rarely even finish any game I start these days, so I'm as far removed from being a completionist as one could be.

>>15920444 ☑

Same. If the game is full of enough horseshit, I barely play more than a couple hours before I get disgusted and completely disinterested. RetarDed Redemption 2 and DewM 2016 did that to me.

Then again, I'm so burned out and miserable that even good games don't hold my interest for very long, either, but my original point stands.

If there's too much RNG faggotry involved with obtaining 100% (Binding of Isaac for example) I'll just stop playing when I get bored, while if it's simply a matter of gitting gud I won't stop even if I know the reward for doing everything is shit.

>>15920359

Bland repetition can be overwhelming, and Skyrim has that in spades.

You could probably say you'd have to be retarded or extremely autistic to enjoy it without piling on a bunch of mods.

>>15920514

>>15920494

One thing that can keep me interested in a shitty game is the ability to break it over my knee with ingame exploits (not using external cheat programs). Boringlands and Todd's Game only got patches to remove such exploits, not to fix the great and many game-breaking bugs in them. Same with Issuc.

"Players found a way to break the game with a cracked-out combination of items? NERF IT! NERF EVERYTHING!"

>>15920537

shame it takes only around 150 to do everything and get every achievement

>>15920548

I restarted several times.

>>15920551

NO EXCUSES

>>15905923

yiiuh dawg weez need them politics

>>15902839

I used to care a lot about 100% but I just don't care or have the patience anymore

Especially with more games tying completion stuff with online or really boring pointless shit like "kill 50000 of this single enemy type"

Old games are still mostly cool to complete, but only once or twice. 100%ing certain RPGs several times over just feels like torture

>>15903169

I played the Seuz Canal mission for Battlefield 4 all 3 times just to get the trophies for it and the multiplayer guns

>>15920514

I guess i'm retarted then in all of /v/'s eyes becuase i play skyrim DLCless, vanilla on my PS3

>>15924146

Thought I told you to go back to >>>/reddit/, faggot.

>>15902839

I try to do all the side missions and at least try minigames if there are.

If the games has good secrets then i also try to find those but i don't mind missing some, fuck collecting meaningless crap though that i don't care about at all.