Poll: How important is getting the 100% completion to you?

[StriderShinryu]

There are some games where I find myself caring about 100%, but they are few and far between. I'll only keep playing something if it's really appealing to me and is still fun. For most games, that ends with a single difficulty level run and some of the extra stuff, even if I actually like (or even really like) the game in question.

 

[skywolfblue]

I try for it for as long as I enjoy it. I don't ever feel forced to complete 100%, so if it gets boring I stop.

I annoys me that so many gamers feel "force" themselves to get 100% and then complain about certain achievements being "too hard" or too out of the way. Achievements are suppose to be fun, if you're treating it like a grind YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

 

[Littaly]

Getting 100% completion is one of those things I could see myself have a hangup on, if I had more time one my hands and more disregard for my sanity.

 

[Johnnydillinger]

If it's possible to do in offline singleplayer, then I might have a crack. The second a game requires multiplayer, I don't care.

This. I also tend to lose interest in them if there are an unreal number of collectables, like in Odyssey to the West and the first Assassin's Creed, and then there are games like Final Fantasy XIII and Star Ocean 4 which I don't even attempt for that exact reason. But if a game seems fair with its 100% completion, and it seems like fun to actually do it, I'll go with it. Games like Assassin's Creed 2, GTA Vice City, The Binding of Isaac and Deus Ex: Human Revolution pulled it off pretty nicely for me. Hell, even Duke Nukem Forever did.

 

[Risingblade]

No I'm way too lazy to even try that unless it unlocks something pretty cool

 

[Raggedstar]

If it's not difficult or time consuming then I'll usually do it repeatedly. But if I want to platinum something or if it's the first time going through, then I try. If I don't like the game, then I never bother with it.

That being said, platinuming Jak 2 right now. Bloody impossible x___x.

 

[Rascarin]

Depends on how attached I am to the game, or how easy they are to get. Mass Effect, I got all the achievements cos I loved that game. Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands was shit, but really easy. If it's too difficult or I don't like the game enough, I won't bother.

 

[Ekit]

If I really like the game and there aren't too much extra stuff. It has to be humanly possible. I would never try to get 100% in games like Team Fortress 2 since there are too many achievements.

 

[The_Waspman]

Oh god! The horror, the horror!

*sits in corner shuddering*

I have a serious problem with this. As a massive trophy whore, then I will more often then not go for 100%, even if doing so turns into a torturous grind. I know its stupid, and pointless, and a waste of time, but I just cant help myself. Games like Assassins Creed (2 and onwards) I'll go get all the viewpoints, buy all the stores, gather collectables, do every sidequest whatever. Sandboxes I dont mind so much, because I do enjoy them. Saints Row 3 I did the same (except for the jumps/barnstorming. No trophy- no point). Hell, I even went for the platinum in FF XIII which meant going for that frigging treasure hunter trophy. In my defence though, that was also to unlock the Fang xmb theme. But damn, I must have killed that Eden Plaza Adaman over 100 times.

I'm trying to get better though. There are some games I will refuse to grind out, just for the sake of it.

 

[AD-Stu]

It depends very much on the game.

By default I'm a completionist and I feel like I haven't gotten my money's worth or had the complete experience if I don't do everything. But the original Assassin's Creed broke my spirit when it came to that: I'd started trying to collect all the flags when I asked my brother (who'd completed the game long before me) if I actually got anything for finding them all. When he told me no, something just twigged and I didn't bother to look for any more.

These days if there's something in it for me in terms of new weapons, abilities, additional content, whatever, I'll probably go after it. But I'm definitely not interested in the pointless / repetitive busy work type stuff. There is no way I'm ever going to bother going back to try to get all the achievements in a game like Dragon Age: Origins, for example.

 

[Eventidal]

Some games I love 100%ing but it really depends on what it is and how much I like it.
Dark Souls, I will spend plenty of extra time experiencing every bit of it. Metroidvanias definitely get 100%s from me as well as extra playthroughs, too. Many games, like RPGs usually, I won't even try for side content. Usually just main mission and done. Of the RPGs I've played, Golden Sun + GS:TLA and Etrian Odyssey 1 stand as the only ones I've beaten 100%.

I just don't have the time to 100% games often anymore, though. So the games I do give that extra chunk of time have to be damn good and well worth it.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Oh god! The horror, the horror!

*sits in corner shuddering*

I have a serious problem with this. As a massive trophy whore, then I will more often then not go for 100%, even if doing so turns into a torturous grind. I know its stupid, and pointless, and a waste of time, but I just cant help myself. Games like Assassins Creed (2 and onwards) I'll go get all the viewpoints, buy all the stores, gather collectables, do every sidequest whatever. Sandboxes I dont mind so much, because I do enjoy them. Saints Row 3 I did the same (except for the jumps/barnstorming. No trophy- no point). Hell, I even went for the platinum in FF XIII which meant going for that frigging treasure hunter trophy. In my defence though, that was also to unlock the Fang xmb theme. But damn, I must have killed that Eden Plaza Adaman over 100 times.

I'm trying to get better though. There are some games I will refuse to grind out, just for the sake of it.

Ya know, I did the same thing with the Archylte Steppe and I was surprised that wild-life kept coming back despite the mass murdering spree I was doing.

OT: I'm a huge trophy whore and if I can I will go after every single trophy in the game that I possibly can. EXCEPT for multiplayer trophies because those are just BS and a waste of my time. I may be a trophy whore, but I have standards.

 

[AyreonMaiden]

It depends. If I love the world and characters then I'll wanna spend as much time in their world as possible. Otherwise I like to leave some things undone as incentive for future playthroughs.

I do this for Zelda games mostly, but I'm thinking about doing this for Tales of the Abyss 3D. What a loving RPG. It feels like whenever I start to lose faith in RPGs in this audiovisual age, I flip on a Tales game and I'm good again.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Its the reason I look at my collection, and just see a pile of incomplete games!! Even if it's just becaus I didn't do the farfetched, wait a year at a certain point to see a certain scene, bit of a game! I also don't like starting a new game until I have finished the last... but I do have a selection of games that I got to the end, and then stopped just before the very end for some reason... Golden Sun and Nostalgia I did this with recently, and now I am mega hooked on FF:TA2 to care!

 

[Vault101]

if its only for the abitraiy "100%" thing then...no..not at all

if theres somthing actually there though, some kind of bonus then yes, I will hunt it down, like unlocking the desmond sections in AC revelations

or even hunting animals for money in red dead

 

[KlassixKAOS]

I've only ever got 100% completion in one game...which was Assassins Creed 2 and it took me absolutely ages....and several hours of reading through on-line help sheets to find all the feather locations...haven't even attempted 100% in other AC2.5 or AC2.75...just not worth the time and effort.

 

[ZehMadScientist]

No, I never cared for 100% completion. No matter how amazing a game might be, to 100% it there will always be some bullshit sidequest of collecting all the Soul Flowers or anything similar. This is a waste of time; everyone can look up a youtube video or Gamefaqs guide to find all locations.

That, and some achievements/trophies are so ridiculously impossible to get it doesn't even feel like the developers were serious in the first place.

100%ing is a huge, unrewarding timesink. I've got other games to play/things to do.

 

[Sparrow]

Depends how easy it is to get/how close I already am to it. Like, in Fable 2 I had to collect three keys because I'd found the main bulk doing other missions. I figured, "why not?" and unlocked me some chests.

Never.

Just strikes me as a waste of time.

Ok, this confuses me. Playing games IS a waste of time. It's fun waste of time, though. This is going to sound like me being pedantic, but don't you meant it doesn't strike you as fun?

 

[Poetic Nova]

I don't really care about getting 100% as long as the story is finished it's fine. Do want to finish Rage 100% though.

 

[MercurySteam]

Depends on how easy it is. I got 100% for AC2, Bioshock, Dragon Age: Origins (The Harvester was a *****, though.) and Dragon Age 2. On about 98% for ME2, Dead Space 2 and I doubt I'll ever get the last achievements for those games.