Completing games

If a game has a % complete rating i will always try to get 100%...may take some time but i like to get the full %.

I have a issue with RPG's with regards to having to get every single skill, chest, weapon, extra side quests everything.

I usually only complete on Normal settings too cause i'm often rubbish on harder difficulties lol :?

I always start games and NEVER finish them, its a pain.  I like lots of game and I onlt have so much time to play them all and before I know it I have 5 or so games just sitting there like paper weights.  There's just not as much time at this age.  When I was a kid we'd stay up all  night 2 nights ina row an beat all the games we could rent, no I'm lucky if I can get a couple hours in a week  : (

When they get "too hard" I get all like "games are supposed to be fun, not hard!" and give up.  lol. laserone

I tend to finish games - if I don't that's odd. I also only tend to buy I 'know I'll like" so that could have something to do with it. ;^) Usually when I don't finish it because the game just didn't grab me - and most times I just can't figure out why. I never finished "Metal Gear Solid 3" or "Fatal Frame" or "The Thing" even tho they're all really pretty good games that I would say I liked - but they just never caught me. Then again there are games like "Enter the Matrix" that just plain suck. Also games like "Doom 3" that definately don't suck but are annoying (the whole flashlight thing) or just plain dull ("Doom 3" looked amazing but is really just plain dull).kiwidust

Wow, you do finish a lot of games!  You're very good!

Honestly if I like a game then quite often I won't finish the game just because I don't want it to end, lol .....

- dc
dcgames

That's my problem exactly.  I hate doing it, but it's almost a subconscious reaction....

Actually I need to add something .... there's this one game, FFTA. Now finishing this game is getting under my skin, because you have to complete 300 missions, and I have yet to do it. I honestly WANT to finish it (really and truly), but this is my 3rd time through and I am finding it next to impossible. Has anyone else played (or is playing) this game? It's driving me nuts....

- dc

Actually I need to add something .... there's this one game, FFTA. Now finishing this game is getting under my skin, because you have to complete 300 missions, and I have yet to do it. I honestly WANT to finish it (really and truly), but this is my 3rd time through and I am finding it next to impossible. Has anyone else played (or is playing) this game? It's driving me nuts....

- dc

dcgames

I bought it a little while ago (1/2 price I was so happy), but there are just too many missions!  I've only cleared a little over 80 missions, and those battles where you run into people on the map suck up 20 minutes and don't even count towards your mission count.  A lot of the missions you can't do because you don't have the items, otherwise dispatching would be so much easier.  I'm sitting on probably 25 missions that I can't do cuz I don't have the jerky/used, or whatever, or I failed to properly level up a gunner....yeah.  And of course, sometimes you spend 1/2 an hour fighting then you die.

Somewhere along the line, I'd say hour 20, I slowed down because you're really just doing the same things with different scenarios added as a footnote, and I play it once in a while in between games.  I can't play it for too long in one sitting.  Believe it or not, I still do play it cuz I like the gameplay a lot, it's very chess-like, I keep it in my DS slot.  I'm in my 30ish hours.  I spent an hour on it a few days ago.  At that rate, I should be done half past next year!

You can beat the game without having to trade anyone for anything. That I know. But it does take a while. Jerky you get as a reward for completing a random mission, so keep doing those sub-missions. You said you keep it in your DS slot? Is there a DS version of this game?

- dc

You can beat the game without having to trade anyone for anything. That I know. But it does take a while. Jerky you get as a reward for completing a random mission, so keep doing those sub-missions. You said you keep it in your DS slot? Is there a DS version of this game?

- dc

dcgames

Oh, no.  The DS has a GBA slot.  I guess I worded that wrong.  I should have said the DS's GBA slot....but that's a lot of acronyms :P

>>>>> ((( ***** DS Envy ***** ))) <<<<<

- dc

I don't bother getting every single little secret that might require hours of repetition to get.


Ontain

I obsess over it!  I finished Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance yesterday and I debated over running around the castle to find that last furniture piece for Juste's room.  I fought the urge though, I knew if I did, I'd never finish the game.  I can't express how incomplete it feels....

[QUOTE="Ontain"] I don't bother getting every single little secret that might require hours of repetition to get.


Angelbabe531

I obsess over it! I finished Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance yesterday and I debated over running around the castle to find that last furniture piece for Juste's room. I fought the urge though, I knew if I did, I'd never finish the game. I can't express how incomplete it feels....

I have this weird habit of almost completing a game and then buying a new one, thus never finishing the first game. either that, or I'll try to keep two different games going at once, only to eventually focus on one over the other and then never complete the other. every now and then, by some magic, I'll actually finish a game.metalgeekguy

I tend to "complete" every game, even on the hardest level.  My problem and growing niggle is that, as I work, I usually pick up games late which means the majority of the MP achievements I can´t get because someone has turned off the server, or there simply isn´t anyone playing them anymore.

So they sit there, half completed, goading me... Grrrr!

Dev's should have some sort of update which removes achievements if they turn off the server - if not, how can you get 100% on a game if, like with MOH:Airbourne, the servers no longer exist?  It´s like asking a cop to resist a donut - it´s never gonna happen!

Luckily, I am not eaten up with the obsession for completing games, there are a few that I would love to get 100% acheivement on, ME2 being the primary one, Red Dead also, but I find that my interest wanes if I have finished the main storyline and am just wondering around to find an acehievement. I have many games that I have finished the campaigns on, but I don't have one single game that I have hit 100% on as to the acheivements.

I don't know if that is good or bad to tell the truth...

The good thing about achievements is that in games like ME or Fable, it forces you to explore "off the beaten path" as if you just follow the storyline, you get to half the level etc.  With ME I managed Lvl 50, something the Gamespot game guide said was tough on the first attempt, mainly because I explored every corner of every planet and opened EVERYTHING I could find...

My problem is that the dev's seem to be inviting gamers to jump straight into MP because if you don´t, after a few months there´s no one playing online which means there´s no way the average player like me who works & plays will have the time necessary to unblock achievements before the server is pulled.

It´s frustrating, but not an obsession.  Just seems unfair on players who buy the game late (eg in the sales) only to find their "glory" is limited.  I was shocked to go back to Battlefield Bad Company 2 and find so few players online...  I was playing late for Spain (eg early for the US) and it was hard to get more than a 5-a-side match.  Shame really.

As I also play mmorpgs, I'm seldom able to finish games. I do like achievements, but only rarely go after specific ones. Bioware and Blizzard are possibly the only developers who's games I've had multiple play throughs. On the other side of the spectrum is Rockstar, I have yet to see the final chapter of any of their games. I play them because of the atmosphere. But as there is too few diversity in the mission structure, it often feels like a déjà vu. So I get easily bored with it.

Edit: typo

Yes its never easy to get 100% completion. : /

Multiplayer is most time consuming all that rank 50.