Poll: 100 Percenting

[Darth Rosenberg]

Well, my first character I just played the game and beat it. I made a new character just to do the Civil War questline, and a character for Companions and for Dark Brotherhood. This was all on the 360.

So you didn't RP that first character? RP's generally become more interesting if you're familiar with the game, at least that's how I feel, but I always try to RP all characters - I just couldn't be motivated to play it through just to 'do' stuff in (not that I'm criticising anyone who does, obviously - TES's give the player agency, so all ways are valid).

I kind of hope the new version has different achievements. But if its the same list, I will 100% it too...eventually. But I plan on taking my time. Hell, I try to not even use fast travel most of the time even.

Not sure how much I'll play the 'new' version - it depends on how it's supported, mod wise, on console. Mods'll disable achievements, so I'll probably match my [non-]amount on Fallout 4.

Really though, I like achievements that are fun and interesting. Milestone ones are good, like ya know "Beat the game" ones, but I like ones that make you do fun things you might not have otherwise. Dead Rising usually does a good job of that.

Sure, offers of distinct little challenges can be nice (e.g. the idiosyncratic tea delivery achievement in Elite. and Little Rocket Man in one of the Half-Life 2 episodes was a bit of a classic), but these days I find I abandon games or just take ages to getting around to playing them, if at all, and so those kinds of challenges and quirky asides just take up too much time.

I think Dark Souls [1] was the last game I felt deserved all that attention and time.

 

[Saelune]

Well, my first character I just played the game and beat it. I made a new character just to do the Civil War questline, and a character for Companions and for Dark Brotherhood. This was all on the 360.

So you didn't RP that first character? RP's generally become more interesting if you're familiar with the game, at least that's how I feel, but I always try to RP all characters - I just couldn't be motivated to play it through just to 'do' stuff in (not that I'm criticising anyone who does, obviously - TES's give the player agency, so all ways are valid).

I kind of hope the new version has different achievements. But if its the same list, I will 100% it too...eventually. But I plan on taking my time. Hell, I try to not even use fast travel most of the time even.

Not sure how much I'll play the 'new' version - it depends on how it's supported, mod wise, on console. Mods'll disable achievements, so I'll probably match my [non-]amount on Fallout 4.

Really though, I like achievements that are fun and interesting. Milestone ones are good, like ya know "Beat the game" ones, but I like ones that make you do fun things you might not have otherwise. Dead Rising usually does a good job of that.

Sure, offers of distinct little challenges can be nice (e.g. the idiosyncratic tea delivery achievement in Elite. and Little Rocket Man in one of the Half-Life 2 episodes was a bit of a classic), but these days I find I abandon games or just take ages to getting around to playing them, if at all, and so those kinds of challenges and quirky asides just take up too much time.

I think Dark Souls [1] was the last game I felt deserved all that attention and time.

To be fair, I RP'd that character the best probably. I was a stranger to a land I did not know, just doing what I felt was right.

Now when I play, I plan my reactions and even order of events.

Achievements motivate me to play games more. Plenty of games I wuld never give a second (or sometimes first) chance to. Hitman Blood Money is a prime example. It was a gift cause I offhanded mentioned I wanted it (based on very little info). I was awful at it and hated it. Only because I was even more an achievement whore then did I bother trying to squeeze what few points I could get to make it more worth it. Since then, Ive 100%'d it 3 times and love the game to death. (Wish I had some good sequels to play though...)

 

[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.