Poll: Game Completion

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Syphonz

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I'm some what of a perfectionist. I like things done a certain way, and done right all the way to the end. So when I say I'm going to finish a game, I usually beat it 100%. Sometimes test my own patience and sit there hours on end frustrating myself on 'Dante must Die' mode in DMC just because I want the game really done.

How 'bout you?

EDIT: It seems i can't re-edit a poll if my butterfingers have slipped and hit the 'enter' button. I apologize for the 2nd thread.
 

Fenring

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Syphonz said:
EDIT: It seems i can't re-edit a poll if my butterfingers have slipped and hit the 'enter' button.
You'd think you would be able to, odd.

Any way, I consider being done with a game different for each genre.

For shooters I think of it as finishing the campaign on the hardest difficulty, unless I really like the multiplayer, in which case it will be after I finish the campaign on the hardest and have gotten a substatial amount (bout 50%) of the online achievements.

For RPG's and most open world games it's once I've completed every quest in the game (Mass Effect and Oblivion are the only games in which I've done this).
 

Lord Krunk

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I like collecting all collectibles and whatnot before I sit back and say 'done!'

Achievements, however, give a whole new meaning to it, and I tend not to get everything.

(I only got 4/5 stars in Pokemon Pearl, I'm a sham...)
 

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NXMT said:
When I see the end credits.
This. Unless I want to complete the game fully - 100% and all - I will, but there's not all that much satisfaction for me unless the game was the most funtastic experience of my life. I achieved the Platinum trophy in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and quickly realised that I had wasted several hours to get a virtual pat on the back. Then I ate a bowl of cookie dough, watched a marathon of Ellen, and cried myself to sleep.

Oh, like you're any better.
 

insectoid

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It's finished when I finish the main campaign. 'Truly' finishing a game is completing every quest (including side-quests), unlocking all extras/alternate endings etc, and pretty much doing everything in the game.
 

Vault_101

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Depending on the game it's usually when I complete it on the hardest difficulty. The only exceptions are Call of Duty (Until I get max prestige) and Fallout (Side quests).
 

Erana

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Whenever it has fulfilled all the experience it can. I don't play games for completion, I play them for the experience. If a game is good enough, I'll play it over and over, 'till it ceases to be enthralling.
Which can take a while with my patience.
 

Flour

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100% completion without achievements.(achievements are not part of the game)
 

Acaroid

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Indigo_Dingo said:
Where's the "when I realise I have no desire to play it anymore" option?
agreed, I took the trade store option as closest to that...but ive never traded a game in my life :|

I tend to go and replay games anyway... I never throw out games, you never know when your bored and want to play through hogs of war again XD
 

rossatdi

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Normally when it's beaten on its hardest difficulty, not really into collectibles and such. But I'll only do that if I really like the games.

Roster of hardest difficulties beaten:

Half Life 1 (no crosshair)
Half Life 2 and Episodes
Serious Sam parts I & II
Far Cry
Deus Ex
Gears 1 (co-op with my bro)
Painkiller

Working on:
Left 4 Dead (Death Toll and Blood Harvest to go)
CoD4 when I get round to it!
 

Jharry5

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For me, it's when the credits roll. 100% completion is something I've never been able to do, mainly because I am a lazy gamer. I'm happy enough to say I did the main campaign...
 

Graustein

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Erana said:
Whenever it has fulfilled all the experience it can. I don't play games for completion, I play them for the experience. If a game is good enough, I'll play it over and over, 'till it ceases to be enthralling.
Which can take a while with my patience.
This, but depending on the game one playthrough is usually enough. Then there's a few like Metroid Prime or Pokemon which I can play over and over again.
 

NeonZombie

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The game should impress me enough on one campaign run through to be fully finished imo I don't really have time / cba to get 100%
 

Frizzle

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I go with beating it on hardest difficulty. That, or if the game bores me to tears and I throw it in the bottom of my dresser until it realizes what it did wrong.

I just ordered Oblivion, so I'll let you know how that goes :p
 

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Tattaglia said:
NXMT said:
When I see the end credits.
This. Unless I want to complete the game fully - 100% and all - I will, but there's not all that much satisfaction for me unless the game was the most funtastic experience of my life. I achieved the Platinum trophy in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and quickly realised that I had wasted several hours to get a virtual pat on the back. Then I ate a bowl of cookie dough, watched a marathon of Ellen, and cried myself to sleep.

Oh, like you're any better.
Erm, right, so after I've finished Drake's Fortune do I have to do those things?
 

scnj

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When I've seen the ending to be honest. I do eventually go back and replay games, but I rarely go for full 100% completion. I did complete GTA3 100% and realised I'd wasted countless hours of my life performing taxi, ambulance and police missions that are nothing more than repetitive grind tasks.
 

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CountFenring said:
Syphonz said:
EDIT: It seems i can't re-edit a poll if my butterfingers have slipped and hit the 'enter' button.
You'd think you would be able to, odd.

Any way, I consider being done with a game different for each genre.

For shooters I think of it as finishing the campaign on the hardest difficulty, unless I really like the multiplayer, in which case it will be after I finish the campaign on the hardest and have gotten a substatial amount (bout 50%) of the online achievements.

For RPG's and most open world games it's once I've completed every quest in the game (Mass Effect and Oblivion are the only games in which I've done this).

I agree, generally it depends upon the genre for me as well. Like Cod4 on the ps3, i consider it fully completed now, ive completed veteran mode (even the aircraft end mission) but it has no trophies, see i dont know if i include multiplayer modes towards completion, im the final rank of the final prestiege. I still incist i have completed the game though. With games such as final fantasy 10, i spent so many hours making sure i had the final weapons, completed the sphere grid for all the characters, captured and defeated all the monsters in the arena, unlocked all the secret aeons. So i guess i have to go more towards the 100% area
 

ProfessorLayton

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I think a game is fineshed when I'm sick of multiplayer. If there is no multiplayer, it's until I beat it on the hardest difficulty.