What, to you, is completing a game?
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Beating the main story is certainly part of it (in my humble opinion), but it is possible to beat the game's main story without feeling like you've completed the game. Mind, this isn't a "the only way to complete the game is to do EVERYTHING" rant. Instead of one or the other extreme (just the story or do everything possible), I fall somewhere in the middle. To me, a game is complete when you have progressed to the end of the tale through your own means; if that means diverting from the story to take on some side quests (or, hell, just fish for a couple of hours), then you have completed the game once the end credits roll.
Story mode is completing a game for me...but I admit that I often go back and do all the extra things for shits and giggles nevertheless.
Getting all the single player trophies/achievements.
Beating a game is just the campaign, for me.
Beating a game is just the campaign, for me.
Sometimes depends on the complexity of the game.
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If I get to the end of the main part - e.g. done the last dungeon of a Zelda game - I say I finished the game. If I have done everything in the game I say completed, but sometimes I use these words synonymously by accident.
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If I get to the end of the main part - e.g. done the last dungeon of a Zelda game - I say I finished the game. If I have done everything in the game I say completed, but sometimes I use these words synonymously by accident.
To me its all about playing through the story. I'm very seldom interested in doing the optional side crap unless its either a well written accompaniment to the story offering a minor story of its own (and ideally gives me something extra to play with in the main story other than just xp)or is genuinely good fun.
The rest of the time sidequests can go die. If they have no plot and no particular value, then I'll always ignore them. Particularly stuff that is of the 'fetchquest' variety, since they mostly take you back to the same exact place you just were and although probably give you money or items, I just can't be bothered with repetition.
Sometimes completion means getting to the max level too. Certainly in mass effect 1, I loved running through the single player mode 5 times, and in fact I enjoyed those play throughs so much more, simply because I didn't have to worry about much just enjoy the game.
The rest of the time sidequests can go die. If they have no plot and no particular value, then I'll always ignore them. Particularly stuff that is of the 'fetchquest' variety, since they mostly take you back to the same exact place you just were and although probably give you money or items, I just can't be bothered with repetition.
Sometimes completion means getting to the max level too. Certainly in mass effect 1, I loved running through the single player mode 5 times, and in fact I enjoyed those play throughs so much more, simply because I didn't have to worry about much just enjoy the game.
Depends. Not even just varying that much from genre to genre.
if i were to play Metal Gear Solid 4, then i think i'd see it as complete when I finished watching the last cutscene (having just done the last battle of course before i get youtube linked the final cutscene
)
However, i didn't consider myself done with Metal gear Solid: Peace Walker until i had gotten S rank on the majority of the missions.
Another example would be Final Fantasy 4 and Final Fantasy VII. I beat Sephiroth. I beat FFVII. I'm not too worried about the emerald weapon raging around under the sea. Final fantasy 4 on the otherhand, i wasn't done with until i had done everything i knew was possible on the game and could literally pick the four characters with the lowest attack and beat the final boss by closing my eyes and pressing 'a'.
So basically, until i'm bored with it or see no point to play anymore. technically i'm still not done with my FFIX or X, because i'm still picking those up every so often.
oh, and note that whilst playing Pokemon Pearl i did say "There, i've completed the game. The End. No more for me" after beating Team Galactic. I saw little need to continue, I had saved the world and had heard my last Team Galactic Admin music.
if i were to play Metal Gear Solid 4, then i think i'd see it as complete when I finished watching the last cutscene (having just done the last battle of course before i get youtube linked the final cutscene
)However, i didn't consider myself done with Metal gear Solid: Peace Walker until i had gotten S rank on the majority of the missions.
Another example would be Final Fantasy 4 and Final Fantasy VII. I beat Sephiroth. I beat FFVII. I'm not too worried about the emerald weapon raging around under the sea. Final fantasy 4 on the otherhand, i wasn't done with until i had done everything i knew was possible on the game and could literally pick the four characters with the lowest attack and beat the final boss by closing my eyes and pressing 'a'.
So basically, until i'm bored with it or see no point to play anymore. technically i'm still not done with my FFIX or X, because i'm still picking those up every so often.
oh, and note that whilst playing Pokemon Pearl i did say "There, i've completed the game. The End. No more for me" after beating Team Galactic. I saw little need to continue, I had saved the world and had heard my last Team Galactic Admin music.
Completing the game is when the main mission-story ends. If the game is good enough to try and complete sidequests (like in Vampire Bloodlines. ok RPGs are diferent but again not in all of them I complete everything) I will finish every mission. But in general since they put things up with no actual reason, only to extend gameplay, I'm not bothered while I want to see what will happen next in the story.
For me, unless the game was so utterly terrible that I never want to play it again, there is no "completing" it. Games, unlike books and movies, allow the player to explore their world and have a different experience each time they revisit it, and because I very much doubt that I've experience everything that I could possibly experience in any of my games, I don't feel that they are quite "completed" and simply consider each one to be an ongoing adventure for me to come back to at some point.
I beat Minecraft.
Seriously I look at a game as beaten once the challenge or mystery is gone. Sure I might not take it to conclusion, but why bother if game runs out of fun. Sure it's the pure definition of completing a game, but it is "beating a game" in my opinion.
Seriously I look at a game as beaten once the challenge or mystery is gone. Sure I might not take it to conclusion, but why bother if game runs out of fun. Sure it's the pure definition of completing a game, but it is "beating a game" in my opinion.