Poll: Why/Do you aim for 100% completion?

[TheModWolf]

I always strive to get 100% completion on every game I enjoy, and I always extensively search for collectables (no matter how useless). I was still playing Assassin's Creed when all my friends were playing AC2, because I still had some Acre flags to find and I didn't want to use a guide. I think my habits for collecting stems from my perfectionism, but the trophy system definitely fueled my search for collectables.

Do you always go for the full 100% completion of a game and if so, why?

 

[Klumpfot]

I do on some games, for little to no reason. Mostly in platformer titles. Speaking of which, I am convinced that it is impossible to get 100% completion in LittleBigPlanet, and that the developers are just teasing me.

 

[anthony87]

The only 4 games I've ever been arsed to get 100% on:

God of War 3

Devil May Cry 1,3 and 4.......THE SECOND ONE DIDN'T HAPPEN!

Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VIII

I was gonna go for 100% on Final Fantasy X but the fucking Dark Aeons pissed me off too much.

As for why I strived for 100% on those games......I have no idea. It certainly wasn't for the trophies as only one of the games I mentioned even HAS them in the first place.

 

[Diceman]

I gotta play for the achievements unless I really really enjoy the game.

Something like Mass Effect, I'll simply just do everything, because it adds to the immersion (fucktons of text, aside) but for most other games, I get the achievements and... unless I love it, I'm not gunna bother with much else.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Only if it won't drive me insane trying to get it.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Only for the games I really adore. I rarely manage it always though. Still it's a bit of a built in target. Gonna try to 100% Bully: Scholarship Edition next.

 

[GeorgW]

I'm a perfectionist, but I usually don't have the energy it takes for every game. How close I get to perfection is my way to measure how I feel about a game. For example, I 100%ed arkham asylum, and therefore it was my GOTY.

 

[Sun Flash]

Only for achievements, or if the game is super good. I always begin by trying to 100%, but it rarely ends up that way. This is mainly because, with a stupidly high number of collectables, I can quickly get bored and annoyed, ending in a rage quit.

Example: AssCreed II, 99/100 Feathers. that one feather could be anywhere in any of the 3(?) huge maps. Even using a guide wouldn't help me find it, becuase I'd have to traipse through however many locations with no avail. Needless to say FFFFFFUUUUUU'd

 

[Drummie666]

Only on games that I love, like Assassin's creed 2 and Brotherhood (Brotherhood bugs the crap out of me because I didn't leave the animus like I was supposed to. There's one achievement for getting an artifact in 2012, but I missed it so I have to play the whole game again, which I will probably do at some point.) It's really just an excuse to play more of the games I like.

 

[TheModWolf]

I'm a perfectionist, but I usually don't have the energy it takes for every game. How close I get to perfection is my way to measure how I feel about a game. For example, I 100%ed arkham asylum, and therefore it was my GOTY.

Arkham! Don't get me started. I have been stuck needing the gold freeflow trophy for over a year now, and I just can't crack it to get my 100%. If it weren't one of the most brilliant games I've played on next gen, there'd be heck to pay I tells ya! Heck!

 

[dstreet121]

Extreme OCD. If the game isn't 100% completed then I can't stop playing it until it is.

 

[DustyDrB]

I don't ever for for 100% completion. If I enjoy a game I will scour it for any ounce of content just to extend my time with it, but I don't go for achievements. The last time I checked on my completion of games, I'm generally in between 40-60% on games I've finished. Mass Effect 2 was my highest at like 90%, which is mostly the result of having played the game 8 times so far. My Mass Effect completion was lower than I thought it would be considering I've played it like a dozen times. I think I may have only played it three times on my DustyDrB Xbox account, though.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Only game I have ever completed 100% was Timesplitters Future Perfect. Then 2 days later the save file corrupted and I did it all over again.

 

[Andrew_Mac]

I usually try to complete games 100% but i eventually get bored of the same monotonous stuff and get little enjoyment out of things. If i get to the end of a game and it asks me to go back through levels to find things, I do to an extent. if i'm above 80% i tend to finish it, but under 70% and i don't bother unless its particularly fun.

70-80% it depends how i feel.

 

[kampori]

As someone else said, the only games I've ever 100%-ed are BioWare games- Jade Empire, KotOR I&II, Mass Effect I&II, and Dragon Age: Origins.

Purely because I -WANT- to, and because it makes the game on the whole better. It adds immersion, IMMENSE levels of detail and realism. Just makes the game seem so much more real, and about 300% bigger.

Games such as World of Warcraft, I've started achievement hunting, purely because there is a lot of waiting around and doing bollocks-all in that game, so it adds a level of fun/something to do.

 

[Vhite]

I probably did it only with Ahrimans Prophecy which I love far more then it deserves and first two Gothic games, there wasnt any indications but I have finished them several times and played them long after I was done and they are now basicly core part of my nostalgia.

 

[Void(null)]

Thanks to the massive Winter/Summer Steam sales for the past 3 years I have way too many games to try for 100% completion, these days I am happy if I can get to the end credits so i can fire up a new game.

 

[Yuno Gasai]

Although I would love to 100% every game I own, I really don't see it happening. Some of them involve certain things happening in multiplayer, and/or unique circumstances. I dislike relying on other people to accomplish things in my games, because I use my trophies as reminders of things that *I* have accomplished.

I'd like to 100% my favourite games because I feel that would represent my commitment and love of that game, and may make my friends look through my trophies and think, 'Shit, Kitty got 100% on this game? Kitty's so lazy that there must be something worth playing for in that game, think I'll take a look into it myself.' I like being able to share certain experiences within games with other people, which I guess is why I played MMO's for so long.