Poll: 100 Percenting

[sXeth]

Not overly often. Glancing at my playstation, I've only platinumed Second Son, Dishonored, and Saints Row 4.

These are all single-player (putting aside the SR4 co-op option), and generally free of some weird challenge mode/arena/doohickey (like First Light had, or I'd have that one too probably) that exists only to facilitate trophies. While they do all have some form of collectible hunting, they mostly serve to enhance gameplay directly, they aren't just a cosmetic thing.

My next closes is Destiny apparently, missing one trophy for doing the awful Salvage PvP mode no one plays 10 times or so. Didn't check the Taken King ones, since my ingame thing is glitched for those, I'd guess the trophies are equally buggered.

 

[Fijiman]

I like to complete games, but if I can get close enough to 100% to consider myself satisfied without actually getting 100% then I'm fine. I generally just try to do everything that I consider reasonable to do in the game and then will generally move on. The only problem comes in when I consider something reasonable to do, but I just don't have the means to do it. In the first Borderlands game, for example, I basically just have to beat Crawmerax and beat the Underdome to get all the achievements, but both of those are extremely hard to do by yourself[footnote]Unless you're using modded equipment or something, but I don't know anyone I could get those from[/footnote] and I don't have any friends readily available to do those with.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

In games where 100% is achievable within the confines of the game (i.e. complete the main campaign, find all collectibles, and finish all the side missions), then yeah, especially if it's a game/franchise that I really enjoy.

On those games where getting all the achievements is part of 100% completion, I tend not to spend too much time on them. I just complete the above within the game and move on.

 

[Kerg3927]

I don't consider getting the achievements/trophies the same thing as completing the game. They don't do anything and they're more an arbitrary part of the client or console. If I've done everything there is to do in a game, I've completed it. Making yourself think you've finished a game because you have all the achievements is stupid.

This is how I feel. There is a difference. I am an OCD completionist, but I'm not an achievement whore. A lot of the achievements in games are contrived and dumb, IMO. I try to do all the quests and explore every area and experience all the story. I like to beat the game on the hardest difficulty. If I've done all that, in my mind I've completed the game 100%, regardless of how many achievements I have or haven't gotten.

If I like a game, I'll usually play through it twice. Once blindly and spoiler-free. And a second time with careful planning and online research to make sure I do every quest and explore every area I may have missed. But I don't pay much attention to achievements.