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

[GiantRaven]

I never bother to strive for 100% completion as it usually involves doing stuff I find completely and utterly dull. The closest I've ever come was 98% on GTA: Vice City. I never could do the target practise at the gun shop in order to get it to 100%.

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.

I would love to complete Future Perfect enough to unlock all the characters. Just to see what little statements they would say when you chose them in multiplayer. Doing it was far to hard for me though.

 

[crudus]

There are a few games I have gotten/aim to get 100% on. I don't really try to anymore. I just like to explore and if I find hidden things then it means I was exploring correctly.

 

[Damura]

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

Do you use a guide or do you have to do it all by yourself?

 

[Leemaster777]

In order for me to even ATTEMPT 100% completion in a game, I have to genuinely love it.

So far in this generation of games, the only games I've gotten 100% completion on are:

Bioshock
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Smash Bros Brawl
Katamari Forever

There's a few others where I came close, but could never reach 100% on (like LittleBigPlanet and Blazblue).

So, yeah, in order for me to consider it worth my time to go the extra mile, the game has to really impress me, and motivate me to try and get everything.

 

[redisforever]

I tried to do that for Lego SW II, but then my sister deleted my save file by accident, when it was around 83%, and then I gave up on that game.

I am trying to get 100% on Timesplitters: Future Perfect. Yeah, only because of the amount of content I feel like I'm missing.

 

[necromanzer52]

I rarely go for 100% in a game. Last one was assassin's creed 2.
I've also done the spyro trilogy, ratchet and clank and I attempted spider man 2 but that is unbelievably difficult.

 

[Sabiancym]

Perfectionism. Some form of OCD.

Although I don't do it on every game.

 

[BoredDragon]

There are only two games that I have ever got 100% on which are Stuntman: Ignition, and Jack and Dexter. The latter was because I was still young and had not discovered the world of renting yet so I only had a few games (plus it is one of my favorite games of all time).

The former, however, I was just OCD about for some reason. Something about being a stuntman meant I had to do everything perfectly or I could not walk away. I have never worked so hard on a video game in my life, with the exception of Guitar Hero.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

I dont. I play through the campaign. Then i may replay it if there is some possibility to replay it from a different angle. (fallout 3 good/evil. Dragon Age with the different Races/Classes)
But i wont try to get any achievements. I dont see why.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

there are only a few that i have actually 100%'d, and thats because i loved them and couldn't get enough of them. but besides that, no, i play games because i enjoy them and the stories/gameplay they deliver.

but beyond that most games can fuck off with those 800+ fetch quests or finding a trophy by doing a double back flip while sticking your pinky finger out and having the sun glisten off your male pecks to shoot the trophy out of the side of the cliff.
fuck.that.

 

[Caligulove]

Only happens with games that I really start to love. Start to feel compelled to look for and do everything the game has to offer. I think I've only ever 100% 6 games, though-

*Hitman: Blood Money
*Donkey Kong Country 2
*Zelda Wind Waker
*Mass Effect 2
*Donkey Kong 64 (never again...)
*Red Dead Redemption

Some of the things to see or collect are a pain in the ass, but I'm driven to finish what I start with the "but I've come this far" argument. Such was the case in playing some of the mini-games in Red Dead Redemption, Five Finger Fillet and Arm Wrestling not being very fun to play. Donkey Kong 64 was an absolute murder to get 101% (technically) never want to do that again, but still see it as a feather in my cap, and a testament to how much free time I had back in middle school with friends.

 

[JokerCrowe]

I only do it occationally, and only then it's because I love the game and I want to experience ALL it has to offer. THen i'm usually dissapointed when I'm done...

 

[Siuki]

For the love. If I love the games I play, why not show my dedication by completing challenges the developers have set in my way? Plus, you might get something out of it.

 

[Wolfram23]

I had to choose "I only do it on games I love" but that's not true. I only do it on games that it's fairly easy, and that I love.

Ok, back in the day for example Legend of Zelda OoT, I did 100% completion (hearts and skultulas etc). Well the reason for that is back in those days I relied on gifts to get new games so there wasn't really anything else to do, plus of course I loved the game.

But these days I have better stuff to do. I'll give it a shot to get most trophies but some of them require silly amounts of effort and it's just not worth it.

I have 2 platinums - Dirt 2 and Assassin's Creed 2. Both were fairly easy to aquire for me.

I have many many games at 60-80% completion but there's a few trophies that are just crazy to get. For example hitting level 40 in A and B spec (Gran Turismo 5). That's just insane. Or in Demon's Souls, needed to get every single upgrade path maxed out. I've already sunk around 150hours on a single character on that game and I'm missing quite a few things. And on top of that one of the paths relies 100% on having good luck. I've heard some people get the drop in a couple hours of grinding, others it takes 20-30 hours of grinding over and over and over again. NO THANK YOU! And I effing love Demon's Souls!

So in summation, I only get 100% completion on games that have relatively realisticly easy trophies to aquire (or difficult in the skill sense but not in the requiring hundreds of hours of grinding sense).

 

[OreWaUsopp]

I only go for 100% if I'm recording a walkthrough, I 'beat the game' usually, that's enough for me. Sometimes I might if I get something for 100%. New mode, hidden cutscene, etc.

 

[mireko]

Very rarely. I understand the satisfaction of beating every challenge in a game, but a lot of it just devolves into picking up hundreds of feathers for your retarded, dead brother.

[sub]I did get all the achievements in Bayonetta though.[/sub]

 

[Skoldpadda]

I try to get as much as possible, but I don't really care about the full 100%. Often, the game will quite simply screw you out of the last 1%, or it won't reward you for your efforts at all.

There was a subquest in Dragon Age, where you had to collect 12 love letters throughout the whole game. So you painstakingly go looking in every hook and cranny, only for the game to fuck you over at the last one.

Because you see, the final one is in a chest in the arl's estate in Denerim, a location which has the same function as your camp, so you don't have access to the skills of your companions. As the chest is locked, you're SOL if you're not a rogue.

I was quite pissed at this, but then I realized it's just one stupid sidequest, it doesn't affect the end of the game, and 100%-ing never yields anything but needless frustration, and only masochists try it.

 

[Dunvi]

I do it for almost every game I play. I'm pretty sure it's related to the OCD my mom is convinced I have. When I've been away from the game long enough (or I get ACB when it comes out on PC), I plan to go back to AC1 because I completed everything in AC2 but not 1 and it really irks me that I didn't find all those flags the first time through.

I do it in part for the achievements if they're available, but not because I want the achievement - because I can't stand seeing that empty square on the map, or that empty achievement amongst the ones you automatically get, or that 98% on your stats screen, or... you get the idea. If I do something, I have to do it perfectly.

A game has to seriously irk me in a signficant way to convince me not to even try completing it 100%. The Witcher (which I'm playing right now) looks like it'll one of those, though - I want to finish out the story, but the combat and the writing pisses me off too much to submit myself to it again.

 

[Dunvi]

There was a subquest in Dragon Age, where you had to collect 12 love letters throughout the whole game. So you painstakingly go looking in every hook and cranny, only for the game to fuck you over at the last one.

Because you see, the final one is in a chest in the arl's estate in Denerim, a location which has the same function as your camp, so you don't have access to the skills of your companions. As the chest is locked, you're SOL if you're not a rogue.

I was quite pissed at this, but then I realized it's just one stupid sidequest, it doesn't affect the end of the game, and 100%-ing never yields anything but needless frustration, and only masochists try it.

Uh, that's not true. That particular chest is not locked. Trust me.

 

[tseroff]

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

I feel your pain, dude. I had about 85 or so and ran through the whole guide to get the last ones. I finished, then looked at my numbers, and I had 99. So I ran through the guide again backwards. Thankfully, it was only like seven back, so it was fine, but the feeling was pure despair.

OT:I don't always go for 100% but it's so much fun that I usually try.
Games Completed:
Arkham Asylum
Assassin's Creed 2
and Brotherhood
Bioshock

Games I gave up on:
Super Street Fighter 4 -Come on, seriously?!
Red Dead Redemption- Not really hard, per se, just SOOOOO much grinding
Black Ops-Just wasn't interesting enough to want to