Extra Punctuation: Pokemon 100 Percenters Are Mad

[Mettking]

I collected all the Gold Skulltullas. I'm collecting all the achevements in Tales of Vesperia. I even collected all the Stray Beads in Okami. But there's no way I'm going after 500+ pokemon when the 1st 150 were bad enough(Yes, I got all 150 in my original Blue file legitly. I'm completely nuts.)

Correction: I'm mad, not just nuts.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

They've lost it. The three times I've beaten a pokemon game, doing the story, but not collecting everyone, I used one pokemon as a powerhouse. I hate collecting in games. You almost never get anything good.

 

[Doc Cannon]

I agree with the "they are not having gun" part. There are a few games in which I can't stop myself from trying to get 100%. Like Just Cause 2 (I'm through 74% now). The hunt for endless hidden objects isn't what's fun, it's everything in between. So it's like a job, you hurry up and try to get all the collectibles or whatever as fast as possible so you can get back to shooting people in the face with a shotgun that fires shotguns.
But hey, everyone is a little crazy in his/her own way, right? Some people might have some sort of obsessive behaviour when it comes to collecting grey boxes scattered all over Panau, some people might not.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Come on... You've never just done something "because it's there"? ...before you answer: remember Minecraft.

I can honestly say, I never have and I never will.

 

[Netrigan]

While I'm not one of those mad 100%ers, I often go out of my way doing things that are fun (or promise fun once I finish with the dreary crap). Currently I'm playing Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and after they gave me a map of all the flags and feathers and stuff, I went around dutifully collecting the stuff... because it was rather fun figuring out how to climb up on everything and there were plenty of chances for random slaughter along the way.

A shame the rewards for this stuff aren't in proportion to how difficult it is to get. The game gave me the best weapons and armor after two fairly easy quests (beating the six Lairs and finishing the Assassin Guild Challenge), so the much harder to finish Shop Quests which require me to locate really hard to find items net me weapons and armor I have absolutely no use for.

If only they had made the rewards something really cool, like Leonardo's tank.

 

[Netrigan]

I agree with the "they are not having gun" part. There are a few games in which I can't stop myself from trying to get 100%. Like Just Cause 2 (I'm through 74% now). The hunt for endless hidden objects isn't what's fun, it's everything in between. So it's like a job, you hurry up and try to get all the collectibles or whatever as fast as possible so you can get back to shooting people in the face with a shotgun that fires shotguns.
But hey, everyone is a little crazy in his/her own way, right? Some people might have some sort of obsessive behaviour when it comes to collecting grey boxes scattered all over Panau, some people might not.

Almost exactly why I'm going through a lot of similar challenges in Ass Creed: Brotherhood. As long as I have a handy in-game map showing the locations of everything, I can have a lot of fun jumping off cliffs and doing an assassination from parachute... then have an enjoyable time puzzling out how to climb up various ruins.

The last game I played was The Sabateur and I was having the same type of fun... although it didn't have the same level of mad thrill, so I got bored with it before getting to 100% sabotage.

For a fun game, having some long extended quest (even without a good pay-off) is a good idea. It gives the wandering show of destruction some vague underlying purpose.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

I think I can safely say I'm not one of the 100% crowd. But on a few occasions, namely
-I'm bored out of my mind but refuse to play another game
-It irks me that others on the 'social network' can see my achievements and they are not all there, especially for a game I profess to really like
-Some meager reward like a ps3 wallpaper [ie FF13]

I go after achievements. And I hate it, because I know it's not fun but it's a compulsive thing, as mentioned in the article. Mass Effect 2 was fun the first time, fun the second time, but the 7th time on Insane difficulty trying not to die once while seducing a character I don't even like just to get the most achievements out of the playthrough -- it seems like a job that I have to finish before I can go back to having fun. So in a way it squeezes a little blood out of the stone of the played out game. But then perhaps it hastened the stone-ening by simply listing the achievements.

 

[Torrasque]

I'm a 100%-er, and I think being a 100%-er makes me incapable of understanding how or why people play games and not fully complete them.
When it comes to games like Pokemon or Metroid, where the 100% completion is not that challenging, just time taking, then yes, I'll complete every little thing. The only Pokemon game I have 100% on, is Silver so far. I caught every single fucking pokemon, and even got myself a shiny Celebi while I was at it!
Games like WoW or Assassin's Creed though, that have extremely time wasting and obscure 100% completion requirements are lost on me though.
I'll spend alot of time playing the games I enjoy in order to get 100% completion on it, like using guns and equipment that I don't always use in MW2, because its fun. But getting every single challenge done, when some of them are completely ridiculous? That to me, is a complete waste of time.

Throw an egg into the air and shoot it in the air while blind-folded: fun.
Throw an egg into the air while on the back of a moving horse, which is on a moving train, while blind-folded, upside down, and spinning in circles, with the most inaccurate gun in the world: I'll pass.
Even IF it is worth 25 dickhat points.

 

[Saelune]

As a mad person, who is actually currently trying to collect all the Pokemom in Gen III (I just started playing through LeafGreen, and am at the Elite Four in Emerald)
Pokemon though is a tease. As more games come out, the method to catch them all comes more and more conveluted. Mostly because you have to have promotional items, which is beyond lame.

And technically it does make us feel good. If it is to make us not feel bad, then is it not good to do? Even if it doesnt make us feel a "good" status, its still better than bad.

Im not arguing we're mad or compulsive...cause thats exactly what I am. (I probably have OCD, but never been diagnosed or even tested for it, but I have atleast some major symtoms)

 

[Woem]

Extra Punctuation: Pokemon 100 Percenters Are Mad

Yahtzee wants you to reward the sick bastards who must "catch 'em all."

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These statements are very true for me:

1/ 100-percenters are not having fun

2/ They were not trying to complete the bullshit quest because doing so would make them feel good. They did it so that they would stop feeling bad about leaving an assigned task unfinished.

I can't tell how many hours I've spent playing a game not because I enjoyed it but because I had to. I can't just lay a game down before all of its meters reached 100%. This causes so much frustration and headaches and nights spent gaming instead of sleeping.

One thing that aggravates me is that on consoles there is simply no way to turn off achievements. If I could, I would. I don't want achievements, but once I start a game, I need to have them all, up to the platinum trophy. It's an addiction.

 

[Realitycrash]

Is Extra Punctuation currently adhering to a minimum quota of homosexuality in the articles?

You feel offended?

Why would i? Everyone has a right to write what they want.

I was just wondering, since there seems to be a lot of references to fudge-packing procedure lately.

It's quite normal for internet-rants to contain homosexuality-references. It would feel out of the ordinary if it didn't. I don't see why you are surprised.

 

[Marik Bentusi]

Who plays Pokémon for catching them all? I thought we were all just having a blast rampaging through the campaign.
Well, might be because he isn't familiar with the franchise, but catching all Pokémon is about as much of a priority as catching all Lums in Rayman 2 or capturing all flags in Assassin's Creed games.

 

[YodaUnleashed]

"And that's why Pokemon is evil." Amen to that.

 

[Woem]

Yahtzee made a Preacher reference. I'll admit to hundred-percenting in Red Dead Redemption and Vice City, just because it's a challenge to do that in a Rockstar game. I fucking hate that knife-pokey finger game in RDR.

Did you do RDR 100% or did you get the platinum trophy? 100% in itself was pretty hard, but I'm now at 120 hours and counting for reaching the platinum trophy. All that's left for me to do now is get to level 50 in multiplayer.

 

[Dragoon785]

Ha! I laughed when I read this, thus compelled to type it too. I remember when red and blue first came out, I was really into getting everything just so I could see what happens in the end. I followed the rules, played the two games, and traded like crazy until finally I got all 150 (151 if you count missing No.). Then all you get is a simple message that essentially says "Great, you did it!" ....and that's about it.

I remember after each new version of Pokemon came out, I basically said "OH COME ON!". And that's when I quit. I am intrigued by Pokemon White and Black, however I find that I will not go overboard like I did years ago, there's just no point anymore, not even bragging rights. Players that 100% a game should recieve something for their time, like a bigger thank you note from the developer for investing their life in their game...and maybe an avatar item or something.

 

[Laggings]

One summer, I was sitting on the mat in front of my front door, next to my friend who started a new game several times, hooking up his gameboy with mine over a linking cable, swapping rare for rubbish from red to blue, then feeding them rare candies till the last of them evolved to its final form.

It was at this moment that I had become a Pokémon Master.

No fun was had that day.

 

[eeverett2]

Great article, im with you 100% Yahtzee.

I dont know if anyone has mentioned this, but one of the worst examples of this is Jak and Daxter and the power cells. Basically, if you reach the end without finding every last one of them, they pretty much tell you that you are a complete failure... (at least thats what i remember gathering from it)...