Does it really make you "less of a gamer?"

[Chancie]

Alrighty Escapists, I have an idea to present to you. My friend and I got into a huge debate today and to be honest, it didn't really go anywhere...but this is what it was about.

He had said that if you start a game and don't finish it (unless it was just a bad game, then it's justifiable), then you cannot call yourself a gamer. So, if you get to a boss and it's like a brick wall so you give up on the game, you are not a gamer. If you simply develop a waning interest, you are not a gamer. If you are distracted by another game and play it without finishing the one you already started, you are not a gamer. You get the idea.

He also said that if you do not strive for 100% completion and all trophies (if it's PS3) in a game, you are not a gamer.

By his standard, I might as well play Cooking Mama or something. I've "dropped" games before for one reason or another, though I have gone back and finished some of them later. As far as completion goes, I rarely do it. It's nice for people that have a bunch of time, I guess but I get no extra satisfaction out of a game knowing I have all the items, weapons, outfits, or what-have-you. The only time I really do that is if I finished a game much quicker than I had expected and am not ready to be "done" with it yet, meaning I really like it.

(But the games like Final Fantasy and stuff? Those take forever to get full completion! I don't have the patience for all that.)

Just curious. What do you all say?
If you do not finish all of the games you own/start, are you "less of a gamer?"
If you do not get 100% completion in a game, are you "less of a gamer?"

 

[LivingInStereo]

No way. you can quit a game whenever you feel like it, you're still a gamer. I mean come on does he even expect you to get all those flags in Assassin's Creed?

 

[Ibanez887]

It doesnt make you any less of a gamer. Hes a douche for saying that, and a total perfectionist who needs to die, I mean go learn how not to be 100% perfect

 

[Baggie]

To be honest it sounds like a bad attempt to justify completionism.
Personally I play games because I want to have fun, I've dropped games before because they're not entertaining or I get bored of them.

 

[olee12343]

No way. you can quit a game whenever you feel like it, you're still a gamer. I mean come on does he even expect you to get all those flags in Assassin's Creed?

I got all the flags on Assassin's Creed ^^.

Anyways, I think your friend is wrong in his idea of a gamer. Considering gaming is a passtime, I don't see why a "gamer" MUST strive for 100% completion on every game he/she plays.

Last time I checked, "gamer" was used to name people who played games...

 

[McMarbles]

What's wrong with Cooking Mama?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I think your friend is full of shit. I've been gaming most of my life and there are many games I've started and not finished and I've never gotten 100% completion on a game.
100% completion is for raging psychotics, people with OCD, and/or people with WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on their hands.
A gamer is someone who plays games, whether that be competitively or as just for fun.

 

[Eldarion]

It doesnt make you any less of a gamer. Hes a douche for saying that, and a total perfectionist who needs to die, I mean go learn how not to be 100% perfect

This sum up what I wanted to post.

Elitists suck. End of story,

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

A gamer is someone who plays games not someone who beats games, tell your friend to go to a Linux convention, his retarded elitism will be welcome there.
[i/]OH SNAP I JUST STARTED A PC FLAME WAR EVERYONE GET INTO BATTLE POSITIONS![/i]

 

[VanityGirl]

I used to BEAT everygame I played, but that was when I was young and my mom would only buy my brother and I a new game if we beat out the old one.

Some games are just dumb to beat, like Wheelman, or Far Cry2.

 

[Necrofudge]

No but not playing the games at all definitely does.

 

[Heart of Darkness]

No. You do not need to finish every game to be a gamer, much less complete them 100%. Example: It's alright if you stop playing I Wanna Be the Guy after the first screen. No one's judging.

Also, your friend sounds like a jerk. It sounds like he needs to take the stick out of his bum.

 

[lostclause]

No it just makes you less of an obsessive compulsive one.

 

[Sark]

So if you lose a game of soccer you are no longer a soccer player?

 

[Irishhoodlum]

Other way round. Gamer includes game which are meant to be played for fun. If you're "gaming" solely to get points/achivements it sounds more like a job.

 

[Nmil-ek]

A gamer is purley someone who plays games its not a freaking ranking system and I wish people would stop using it as such its frigging annoying, funny how it only really cropped up around the MMO/online console generation I sure as hell doubt there were any hardcore gamers playing MUDs or Monkey Island >_>

And hell no your friend must be nuts if he goes for 100% thats fine if you have a small collection maybe but counting all my pc/console games together im at around 104 games total I doubt I've ever finished even half nevermind 100%.

 

[IxionIndustries]

Your friend is an idiot.

Tell him to stop talking to you, get a bag of coke, and get back to farming achievements to show off his l337 SK33l2.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Out of the several hundred (if not in the thousands at this point) games I've played, I've likely only completed perhaps 100 or so. Quitting a game that doesn't hold your interest doesn't make you less of a gamer, but continuing a game you don't enjoy does make me think less of your intelligence.