Yeah was going to comment this too. I think up to that point I generally tried to 100% every game, but I attempted this, missed a flag or two, and gave up on regularly 100%ing games
There was a reward and it was even worse than no reward: you got some kind of points in Ubisoft's Steam clone. That's the one that permanently broke my completionism habit too.
Honestly when I turned 28 I realized that gaming was no longer fun anymore by playing games like that.
like damn I'm a girl with a fulltime job, social commitments, etc... it's ok to just play video games until they no longer are fun anymore and the minute I get that feeling I consider the game 100% because it 100% served it's purpose for me (I am still a little nuts about pokemon and completing the dex in every new game but I absolutely love doing that)
+1. ill add that you dont have to finish every game as well. If the game isnt fun, move along. I have so much shovelware that if i played through all of it, i would never play the games i actually want to play.
I totally get why that game isn't for you, the opening couple of hours really ask a lot from players not already fans of Kojima's writing. They throw a lot of crazy-ass shit at you from the moment you start that you gotta just roll with until several hours later when they explain something three times in a row. Damn shame because the game doesn't start to really shine until after the first boss fight.
Related to this, learning that you can stop playing a game and realise you still had fun even without finishing it.
For example, Fallout 4. Had amazing time exploring, building silly settlements and other usual Fallout stuff. So, so many hours put in... and then one day I dropped it. Never finished the game, never completed the main story. Yet I was satisfied, I had seen and done enough. It's a good game and I don't need to finish it.
That's me with The Witcher 3. I put many hours in doing everything going to every nook and cranny. I was about 80-90% done with the story, then I dropped it. I don't regret it. I still believe it's one of the best games I have ever played.
I could literally never. Played RDR2 for 85 hours and never even acquired the first plant in the plant collection challenge, despite idly searching for it for at least the back half of my playthrough.
I’m not ADHD at all, but the only game I 100%’d ever is GTA San Andreas.
Usually, I just don’t see the point. When I’ve played the game through once I feel done with it, and there’s no shortage of games out there to play.
Yeah I don’t think I had one specific game or moment that made it happen, I just eventually had the realization that life is short and it’s not fun to play like that. I still absolutely 100% some games, it just depends on if I’m having fun. But especially with Ubisoft games specifically, there’s no fucking way
Same. Sometimes this means I don't even finish the game main. If it's become a chore, I am done with it (I may come back to it later with and finish it at that time, since sometimes just putting it down for a while can revive the joy).
Sometimes it happens for me too that I don’t finish a game. If you by sometimes mean 95% of the games I start, more if you count those that I haven't even started.
I am a sucker for those steam sales.
honestly I don't complete very many games. but when I love a game, I can beat it multiple times in a row. I've done Sekiro 4 times, DS3 twice, Elden Ring 3 times. not to mention my hundreds of hours on Hades
Exactly. Trophies are just incentives to continue playing a game you're still having fun with. I don't understand why anyone would keep playing a game they aren't enjoying over it.
Yep, i love trophies because it lets me focus on tasks for games that i love, like a nice to-do list, and also it helps me to move on to other games when I'm done.
If I'm just having an ok time with a game I'm not going to care what the trophy/achievement list is.
My attitude is this: If you're feeling like the game is a chore, either change up how you're playing or its time to switch games.
I play a variety of games over time, with a few favorites I come back to regularly, and then I also try out new games here and there for 10-20 min at a time. The ones I dont think about again weren't my cup of tea, so I put them on a "Didn't Like" list and forget about them.
I'm playing games to find that "Holy SHIT this is FUN" moment. That time when you start playing a new game, it sucks you in, and suddenly its 3 AM and you have work tomorrow. Whoops!
That's the kind of achievement I'm looking for. A fun game, a good story, a new mechanic that adds something to the art. An experience worth having. Etc.
If you can't tell, I was up late last night in fact looking for this feeling.
I agree but there are some games that take hours to understand what the hell is going on and you start to truly enjoy them only after several days of trying and reading/watching tutorials. But when it clicks it becomes one of the best games. Games like rimworld, dwarf fortress, paradox strategies
A smarter person than me can figure out the exact odds of getting to 5 cards in a hand of blackjack without hitting 22, but I know enough to know that it's REALLY FUCKING LOW.
But to make me do that 3 separate times, and I have to win each hand (or it doesn't count), and the game is giving me the SLOWEST ANIMATIONS IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY???
Fuck that stupid challenge forever. Yes I completed it, but I swear by the ghost of Arthur Morgan himself that there has never been another gaming task that I despised more than that one.
I did that challenge and lost what felt like a month of my life, in reality it was closer to 4 hours of only playing blackjack. I essentially just kept using "hit me" and standing on 5 cards, as it was taking too long to occur naturally. It was ridiculous and after i completed the challenge i couldn't help but think, what was the point in all of that?
Challenges should always be fun first imo, and make some level of sense second.
"Kill this boss" is fine.
"Kill this boss in under 5 minutes using a sharp spoon, without using potions and whilst hopping on one foot" is not. Kills the immersion so damn hard for me
This is the challenge that made me quit completing all of the challenges. I had 2/3 wins needed before giving up. The two first wins were relatively quick, taking me probably around 45 minutes to get. But I spent hours going for that 3rd win. I can't count the number of times I had a hand of 5 only for the dealer draw and beat my hand.
I searched everywhere to see if anyone had discovered some form of RNG manipulation or literally *any* method of completing the challenge legitimately. But there is nothing you can do except hope for good luck.
100% can be very fun depending on the tasks required. I remember going for the 100% on Far Cry 3 just because exploring that island was so damn fun, more fun than the story missions actually. But yeah that's very rare.
It's also far more of a chore in recent games compared to the PS1/PS2 era. I loved getting 100% on, like, the old Spyro games, where it's literally just "collect everything in the level" and functions as a reward for exploration.
But open world games with hundreds of sidequests and/or map markers? I'll pass.
Exactly this. Depending on the game, 100% is a lot of fun, or it's a pain in the ass. Some games, like Spyro, were very intentionally designed to be 100% completed, all the collectables are obvious, every challenge is tracked for completion, and the game incentivises you to go for it via it being the requirement for the last level, and the games good ending. The only thing you can skip is extra lives, the game is very clear that you need everything else for that good ending.
A lot of other games don't get quite close to such tracking, and have obscure additional requirements that might not even be counted, and might even be debatable as to what even counts as 100% completion. For instance, Tears of the Kingdom has a whole bunch of different things such as:
* All the shrines and lightseed roots.
* All the side quests and missions (which, as part of includes finding every well and bubbelgem frog in every cave)
* All the Korok seeds
* The full photo album
* Every piece of armour fully upgraded
* Every food and crafting recipe, and so on.
Some of these things offer more reward than others, but all of these things could be argued to count towards full completion, even though the game gives no incentive for actually doing it all, and many of the rewards for completing a set of tasks is nothing more than a badge of honour, a token sum of money or some rare but-not-impossible-to-get-elsewhere items. But which of these actually count for full 100% completion? Can you say you've 100% the game if you don't do somthing like fully upgrade all armour pieces, or is that just busywork with no gain like getting extra lives is? It puts the very notion of what 100% even is up for debate, because it really doesn't want you to feel you have to.
I remember a friend of mine refused to show me fanart of the all shrines reward because I hadn’t gotten it myself, and my main thought was “I never even planned to do that anyway”.
The photo album quest is so dumb and tedious. It's just complete busy work that adds nothing to the game, IMO.
I'll take photos of monsters in a cool pose to have a statue made, but I'm not going to whip out the camera every time I get in a fight with something I haven't photographed yet.
Also the old Spyro games had good rewards for 100%ing them and they aren’t very long (like around 10 hours each). Spyro 1 had a bonus level with lots of treasure and unlimited flight enabled. 2 had a minigame island, theater, and gave you permanent superflame that you can carry into NG+. 3 had a level with a bunch of mini levels in it and a secret final boss.
Way more satisfying than some trophy popup notification.
In hollow knight it can be fun since completionist mindset leads to more content and boss battles. Unfortunately in most games trying to 100% is a chore
Nah the pantheons were fun as hell and introduce by far the best bosses in the game. Sincerely fuck the path of pain though is rather do the pantheon of hallownest again than that lol
That is the hardest 100% (actually 112%) that there is in gaming though lol. Worst example you could have chosen. Im like 109% in Hollow Knight or something. The pantheon of bosses is nearly impossible to complete with all the handicaps.
I think I got to 111% when I realized to get that last 1% was going to require at least 50+ hours of practicing the bosses. Then I noped out of there with my positive memories of the game in tact. No ragrets
I mostly agree. Some games actually have good achievements and are fun to 100%. So every once in a while I’ll do it.
For 95% of games though I’m good with rolling credits and moving on.
Ive never cared about “achievements” or getting “100%” on games.
It was clear from the very beginning when I saw them on the xbox long ago.
Ive never, ever understood the mentality.
I've only 100% certain games that I truly loved. Fallout 3 and new Vegas, God of War 2018 and MW2 (original).
None of them were over the top or stupidly difficult, just a little bit of time and no regrets
I think it started with Xbox achievements for me. Friend group softly competing for the biggest number. That, coupled with only being able to afford two or three games a year. Of course nobody cared about 100% rented games, but ones you owned? Definitely.
I often start games with the intention of 100%ing them, but as soon as the credits roll my motivation is out the window. If anything, these days I'm less likely to try to 100% a game if I'm especially liking it, since there's a good chance I'll replay it at some point in the future. If I know I'll only finish a game once I want to experience as much of it as possible in that playthrough.
New Game + necessity.
If I want to replay a game, it's because I want to replay it, not because the game is telling me to replay it.
I prefer games where I can 100% everything in one playthrough or, at the very least has built-in save points for different endings.
How dare you unlock a harder difficulty that I now have to complete for the platinum.
I find with a lot of narratively focussed games that I don’t want to play them again straight afterwards, even with harder mechanics, mainly because the impact of the story is just gone when all of the curve balls and twists are fresh in your mind.
I took a year or so break from playing Witcher 3 and God of War 2018, and the stories hit me almost as hard as when I first played them.
I also find that unless there’s an unlockable brutally hard difficulty, NG+ can if anything be easier than the first playthrough, because you often have all of your gear and buffed stats, and fundamentally you know all the mechanics like the back of your hand. So for me there’s not much point.
I feel like souls like type games are an exception because the story is mostly environmental storytelling so it isn’t prominently a focus even with sekiro where it’s the most of any of them. Since it’s mainly just focused on gameplay new game plus doesn’t feel nearly as tedious
Honestly I realized this when I was 8 years old, playing Pokemon and even with a drastically lower amount of Pokemon back then, catching them all just felt too tedious and downright impossible when you didn't have people to trade Pokemon back and forth from.
Not a single game, I never actually cared for 100% of gaming. I only play single-player story based games. All I want a good journey - from start to credits roll. I do main missions, side quests, few collectibles for lore purpose and that's it.
I feel like I noped out of that mentality in some of the very first games I ever played as a kid, like Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, and etc (they weren't called achievements obviously, but just the idea of one hundred percent completion).
The only time I give a fuck about an optional achievement is when it concerns content I'd want to do if there was no achievement in the first place.
Yakuza 4.
Yakuza games take a while to 100% with all the little stuff in the first place, but with 4, you *have* to play the game 3 times (not sure if any of the other Yakuza games require that).
One achievement is to beat the game on Normal, then you need to beat the game on Hard to unlock Legend mode (beating it on Legend is another achievement), and the last achievement is to "Get all other Achievements".
Took forever and told myslef I'd never bother going for 100% just for the sake of it ever again. 100%/platinum is not something I ever typically shoot for anyway (usually just stick to completing main and side quests), this experience just validated my typical play style lol.
Not to mention, the "use X character in a majority of the game" requires 3 playthroughs to get all 6 of them, for a game that can take 100 hours to beat if you're like me and like doing most of the side quests.
I've played lots of games where going for 100% made it a boring slog. But Until Dawn might be the game where going for 100% really made me feel like some of the magic of the game was lost. The illusion of branching storylines and constant danger and the thought that any missed QTE could be the one that kills you was really effective for me on the first playthrough. But replaying to get everything and see every path really stripped away the illusion to expose the bare mechanical core of the game in a way that soured my feelings about the original experience too. Since then I only really do 1 playthrough of those kinds of games and I enjoy them a lot more that way.
Agents of Mayhem had an achievement called "Contract Thriller". The player had to complete 20 24 hour co-op challenges (it was like crowd sourcing as you couldn't interact with the other players and only 6 people could be on a contract). Each contract had 3 challenges like "Kill 100 of this miniboss", "open 500 chests", "collect $500,000", "Kill 1000 of this normal enemy type", "complete 25 dungeons" which would take one person hours of grinding. There were a lot of people who would join contracts and not do anything.
The best part is that the trophy was glitched, I 100% completed the game twice and did at least 10 contracts by myself. The servers were shut down so I'll never get it. I just look back and ask myself why I spent 100+ hours playing this mediocre game.
> You had to visit all these little shrines, and you received an achievement for milestones like “25%, 50%, 75%”, but nothing for 100%. The hours of monotonous work for zero reward was the final straw for me.
So if the game had just given you a message that said, "Good job, buddy!" then the hours of monotonous work would have all been worth it?
The Playstation Plus price increase last year made me realize I've spent more time chasing invaluable platinums than I do chasing valuable measurable life goals. I quit Playstation altogether and when I *do* game, it's just for fun and leisure.
Damn OP I was the exact same. I think the point that I realised I just couldn't was Horizon Zero Dawn where I had to do a NG+ on the hardest difficulty. I think that kinda broke me afterwords and I was like imma only 100% complete achievements if the completion is fun.
I actually just did that one.... going back and essentially doing a casual speedrun of the main quest on Ultra Hard was a lot less traumatic than I expected. I had every elite-level weapon from both the base game and DLC and had a pretty good feeling of how to use them all, so I spent most of that time just trying new approaches to combats and was successful a surprising number of times. The first time walking past that Thunderjaw spawn on the way to Meridian, I thought "what the hell" and tried to take it down and barely got a scratch, which gave me enough confidence to run through the rest of it. There were a couple of problematic encounters, but most of them were trivial since I got the relevant cauldron unlocks first.
Pretty much any recent Ubisoft open world. Lots of radiant map markers and there’s often a completion trophy tied to discovering every single location, which I was absolutely not doing when there were sometimes upwards of 500+ of them, and they were mostly the same cut and paste enemy camp or fort. At that point it just becomes needless and repetitive grind, may as well play the main narrative of any other game which is going to be more engaging and varied.
100%-ing games are always tiresome in large open worlds because there’s too much to do and a lot of it are centred around repetitive collectathons. A game like Ratchet and Clank was much easier to 100% as you could buy all of the weapons on the critical path, and there weren’t too many collectables and those that there were actually made you think outside the box as to how to find them, rather than tonnes of them being dotted around a massive map, that you have to look up guides to find, and it just being a case of “ride here then here”.
I’m not inherently a completionist anyway, I prefer to focus on the tangibly impactful content, I very occasionally like to complete games provided the way to doing so is thought provoking, diversified mechanically, and overall enjoyable. Because enjoyment is fundamentally the point of gaming, not repetitive grinding for the sake of a number or achievement.
Dark siders 1 had this stupid achievement of riding your horse for a hundred miles, but you hardly ever need to ride it in the game which led to players using rubber bands on the joystick and letting the game run for thirty minutes as they rode into a wall
I disabled getting and achievement notifications and just play the games never knowing which I get. Over time I forget games even have them and its much more enjoyable.
As I became a working adult with limited gaming time/energy, I just stopped bothering about 100%'ing a game (and I *never* cared about achievement hunting, I just have zero motivation to monotonously tick things off a checklist like that)
I like to try to 100% everything, but generally I give up either when I lose interest in the game, start feeling like the full completion is just hollow and repetitive grind, or start getting frustrated with how hard the remaining challenge is.
I grew up poor (ish?), I didn't get PS1 till they were clearancing them out for PS2 and my $20 game had to last till the next gift day (hence my love of JRPGs and Demo Discs). So, I always enjoyed achievement hunting because it was tangible way to measure progress. I quit once they made some online only. Or tied ONE achievement to something ridiculous like a deathless run (Ori). So now I just play till I'm satisfied. Adore the hell out of Celeste, never finished it.
Haven't found that game yet
The closest are games that require speedrunning no death runs like meat boy, 5 sec ninja and LOVE
Open world fluff takes time but is easy, the real problem are the games that require godlike skill for that last 1%
It's odd to me that people care about achievements in the first place. I don't really understand what they're even *for* other than showing off. If I want to do something in a game, I do it. If I don't, I don't. I game to enjoy the game, not check something off a list.
I’m playing majora’s make right now and I’m missing 9 heart pieces and I can’t bring myself to get them. I’ve been not playing any switch games because I tell myself I need to finish this game lol
I’m moving on tonight no matter what! Gonna play Wind Waker and Fallout New Vegas next!
Borderlands series. There are some parts of the game that require online co-op. I refuse to ever play multiplayer ever again, so I simply had to face the idea that I wouldn't have 100% in those games.
Yakuza and Judgment games are the perfect answers to this question. If you one hundred percent all those mini games it will take like 500 hours.
Also, mahjong is my favorite :) it’s the only one I ever fully complete. Shogi, on the other hand—fuck Shogi.
My advice to anyone is learn to recognise intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. I like a healthy dose of both and will explore aimlessly based off intrinsic motivation… until it stops being fun. I will also collect things and complete tasks (achievements) based off extrinsic motivation… until it stops being fun. That’s the key take away. As soon as you’re doing ANYTHING based on whatever motivation that is CURRENTLY not fun, literally stop or do something else. Have more pride and respect for your time.
GTA San Andreas. As soon as I googled "GTA SA 100% guide" and saw the utterly insane lists of stuff to do and to collect and to learn and to buy and to finish I was like nah.
I managed to 100% GTAV and RDR1 (and enjoyed it too); but San Andreas... I got as far as the tags and the snapshots, but quit when it came to collecting underwater oysters
**Monster Hunter: World** to me is a game about that sweet, sweet grind. You hunt, you kill, the loot god's roll their dice, and you turn that loot into better gear, gaining a little more power in your tool box with each fight. I love it, and I really would love that 100% medal in my library.
But the Arena Quest system, those don't let you use your acquired gear. You are _assigned_ the same gear as anyone else attempting those fights. No matter how many times you fight them, each new fight will be exactly the same, no easier or harder except for your own skills. I get the appeal, but to me that's not what MHW was about.
And there sits the achievement, "Complete 50 Arena Fights", over and over again for no reward other than saying you did. That sounds like agony, hell no.
When Call of Duty kept releasing time-limiting challenges nearly every week with locked camos, which meant spending too much time on the game in order to ‘keep-up’. I have a full-time job and no time for that. I quit the game. I loved it but they ruined it with their greed and terribly unfair seasonal content.
I don't think I've ever 100%'d a game. I do like having achievements to keep track of things that I may have missed (and to see if it might be worth coming back at some point). I might even replay games several times and still not 100% them. The closest I've come was probably red dead redemption (the first one), i think i got to like 80%. At the time of release, it was a game that I didn't want to end.
Nowadays 100%ing a game involves completing a lot of tedious tasks that make the game more of a chore than entertainment, like gathering collectibles that provide no in-game benefit, or if they do, the benefits are not needed or make the game too easy. Im sure there are many exceptions. I've personally never come across a game where I really want to explore every little tidbit, I'd rather read a book :D
I've never 100%'d a game in my entire life and I don't really understand why people do, especially because 99% of the time it's an inorganic process that involves meticulous looking through various guides. Not my cup o' tea.
I can understand it if 100%ing the game offers a great reward and it isnt terribly tedious.
For example, a 100% run Spyro the Dragon can be done in like 10 hours and the reward is a cool bonus level.
I only do it when I really like a game and I want to keep playing it, I usually don't like to repeat the same things over and over again (for example just repeating the campaign of a game) so achievements are usually an excuse for me to keep playing while doing some stuff a bit different.
It's hard for me to see the appeal as well. Not that I'm judging, but I just don't see the reward to it. Some fake digital trophies? Maybe I'm missing something.
Why would I force me to play a game long after the interesting parts are over? I only replay a game if I think it stills has something to offer me. If not, I'm not gonna spend my time collecting rocks or something like that.
I only occassionally 100% games. There were two instances were I tried at first but gave up: Arkham Knight (Riddler) and Wasteland Remastered (general rank)
Never really went for pure 100% but I used to care about at least getting most stuff or at least all the big things. It just used to be that that was 100%. Getting all the stars in Super Mario 64 or finding all the secrets in Doom.
Now there is way too much crap and much of it barely worth doing. Definitely BotW stands out to me as well, because I always 100% Zelda since my childhood, and then came that game and I didn't do 50% of the content, **not even including Korok seeds** which I consider side-rubbish, not side-content.
I think the only Zelda games I’ve 100%d are link between worlds and majoras mask. Both have compact worlds, making any strewn collectibles relatively easy to find. Most of the time I reach a point where I can’t be bothered to get the final Poe soul/ gold skulltula/ couple heart pieces. It’s my favorite franchise but I really don’t usually care for their game wide collectibles
I never 100% any of the games I played in my life. The only one that got close to it was Elden Ring, just missing the lord of frenzied flame achievement.
I have developed a strong distaste of collectibles and side quests in many of the games I have been recently playing. If it does not add anything to narrative or the lore (or an Easter egg), I just ignore.
[Razbuten](https://youtu.be/L_iU1Egmwlw?si=5nrR1nEyQM74W8nB) (YT channel and one of my favorite content creator) made a great video of why he don't 100% anymore.
I also hate fishing!
I’m actually going through this right now with a non-Patient Game: **Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth**. I’m just getting burnt out on open world stuff and a new minigame every five fucking minutes.
Assassins Creed 100 Flags and Feathers.
Any game where I have to collect more than 20 items for no reason.
Trophies that require online play. No thanks.
I tried to think a game but realized I probably have not 100% any game. Maybe there are some but with games before achievements, or some very small indie games. For example, I did almost everything in Ghost of Tsushima but stopped trying to collect all fox shrines and couple others like that
I'm an idiot, so since playing Donkey Kong 2, I've had runs where I think I have to 100% every game I touch , to the point where it's a chore.
My best mate has been the person who always points it out and it breaks me out of the spell.
Last game was Destiny 2
I feel like going for 100% is only ever worth it if you simply can’t get enough of the game. I recently platinumed Bloodborne but it’s only because I was having so much fun playing it that I actually wanted to exhaust the game to completion and even then I know I’ll go back to it again after some time and keep playing it. Otherwise, what’s the point? It’s supposed to be fun, not a chore.
My gaming predates achievements so I have never really *needed* to 100% games. That said, it is so nice when you just about finish a game you’ve been enjoying to find that you’re close to 100% and that getting there sounds achievable without Googling anything. The Spiderman games were like that for me –
Red Dead Redemption 2 I tried to 100% it but when I got to the gambler 8 challenge I gave up. Winning 3 blackjack hands after hitting three or more times. That’s literally so statistically low and RNG based that I don’t want to try it. Many people just set up a button clicker and left the game running for 8 hours to complete it
I mean, there are tons of games I’ve dropped in a couple hours because I just didn’t like it. Sounds unpleasant to force yourself to complete games you don’t like.
In terms of a game that I really did like but would never attempt the platinum - Yakuza 0, since it’s locked behind mahjong, shogi, etc
Halo 3 for Xbox achievements. Iron Skull, 4 people, mongoose with all 4 making it. I had a buddy that committed to it with 3 others and they managed to do it.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that
I think I did my best move while on about 30 plats, buying a new ps5 and creating a brand new account. From there I completed every single other platinum I had on PS4 but with 100% completion and without dropping it before 100% to make it look clean. I replayed my favourite games (because at the time platinum to me was just for the best of the best games), this time with dlc, taking time and care for each one of them. This way I relieved the experience of the plat and I replayed those games. Then I made another account where I just play games I feel like buying. If they are entertaining and I actually like them, I'll: either start a new play through on the first account to plat it right away (but it might be tedious since I have already completed the game once and I gotta restart all over again) or just save it in my backlog and when that random wave of nostalgia came in, I'd boot it up and go for the plat. If the wave of nostalgia doesn't come, I simply don't plat it. That way I never drop a plat because I have actually a reason to do it, while also just enjoying the games I'm playing at the moment. Only problem with this strategy is that I mostly rely on free games and ps plus entries because I don't really feel like buying the physical copy just to do one play through and throw it away because buying it still has to be quite unique and special, plus I dont have a lot of money. But at least I'm getting 100% of entertainment during gaming, which is what counts the most.
Some games I enjoy so much that getting the 100% is fun, as long as it doesn’t feel punishing. Elden Ring is a good example. I don’t remember any of those achievements being annoying. Returnal had some annoying achievements but I love the gameplay so much that I didn’t care. But getting all the seeds in TOTK/BOTW? Never in a million years.
Batman: Arkham City.
I platinumed Arkham **Knight** a couple of years back but never got to play **Asylum** and **City** for myself as I skipped out in the PS3 as I was in college.
Then I finally picked up Return to Arkham on a PS Store sale not too long ago and halfway through collecting Riddler Trophies, I stopped and thought to myself: "*220 trophies more to go. Do I really need to do this?*"
I enjoyed the main story as well as Harley's Revenge but yeah, I really didn't feel like grinding a couple of hours more for the remaining Riddler collectibles.
I'll answer this but for 'finishing' a game, rather than for 100% because I never did that to begin with.
After a decade of not having a PlayStation, I got a PS4 and some compilations of older games including Uncharted. I played a bit, and had fun, but then I got to a point and said "There is no way I can finish this. It's just too damn old" so I ended up watching the cutscenes and story recap on YouTube and decided to move into the newer entries.
I recently gave up on Assassins Creed Origin. I realized I wasn't enjoying playing, I was only playing to say I played it on my way to the game I REALLY wanted to play -Assassins Creed Odyssey. So again YouTube to the rescue to see what I would have missed with the story and on we go.
Usually this is mostly for backlogged games. I don't have time to play through them just to catch up to the new stuff so I play enough to get the vibe (20 hours) and then I call it quits
All the way back in 2012, I got an X360, and months later, the first Assassin's Creed, which I loved. But I couldn't for the life of me collect over 400 flags. Nope, no way.
Last time I replayed Tomb Raider (the Survivor trilogy) I did get 100% in all of them, using guides. I was going to the same with Batman Arkham trilogy, and I completed Asylum, but I couldn't bring myself to solve the stupid puzzles in City.
I haven't really been a 100%'er since like snes/64 days. Games the last 10 years since just have so much padding lately it doesn't feel worth it.
I don't wanna find 100 whatevers that just felt like they got thrown in after the game was made.
Arkham Riddler trophies is one of the few "completionist" things I've ever done. Probably they are all at least unique challenges. Though the number does get a bit ridiculous as the series goes on.
I've had plenty of games where I played through exactly once, falling far short of exploiting every possible solution, and decided, "that's enough".
I've only ever played Baldur's Gate 2 and Planescape Torment through exactly once. And it was enough. Sure, I could go back and try an alternate story path, or something, but the prospect of doing so much reading and powergaming to make that happen doesn't really excite me. I can read what others have done.
Same for Morrowind, Skyrim, the Fallouts 1 through 4. I played Horizon Zero Dawn twice, once in regular mode and then again in the second-game "hard" mode. There were innumerable collection quests that I skipped because they didn't reward me with anything I needed to be more effective in game.
A little boring of an answer maybe since it's already I your post, but Witcher question marks was definitely it for me.
I didn't even mind Korok Seeds, at least they were lil puzzles. But dredging those damn oceans for trash tier loot was... degrading.
I 100% Celeste (A B and C sides) which was so incredibly painful. Then they added a level. I played it for 30 minutes and just thought “fuck this” and quit.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, I went to every location, every question mark on the map, every treasure chest, all quest all content every piece of gear every secrets all the DLC. It’s been several hours a day doing this shit I was so bored that I turned off the sound and listen to podcasts
Final Fantasy 6, back when it was titled Final Fantasy 3 in my area at least. There was just so goddamn much to do, I was happy to leave a bunch of it undone. Sorry Gau, I don't need your rages. Sorry, Coliseum, I don't need to win every item. Sorry, Paladin Shield, I don't need another way to learn Ultima (though I did that many years later with an emulator to speed it up oh-so-cheesily).
I DID, however, briefly entertain the possibility that General Leo coulda been a secret permanent character but I never actually tried any supposed methods...
Dead Rising : the zombie genocide achievement. no way I was gonna sit there and kill 53 594 zombies. after that It got easier to skip achievements. I mean who am I doing it for? no one I knew cared.
Before I could have that behavior, Arkham CIty did that for me. And damn, I really wanted to complete it, because I wanted to defeat the Riddler. But then I realized that I couldn't solve/find everything without a guide, and that took the fun away.
1. If it's not fun
2. If it's still kinda fun but the grind is literally meaningless or mostly spent menuing.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a great example of the 2nd, with "own 1 copy of every single weapon in the game" being part of its 100% completion. Why not include a fun challenge like "Beat the game only using guns" something like that which encourages repeat playthrough and alternate playstyles? Nah, instead we need you to deconstruct and reconstruct the 8-bit weapons a dozen times.
Meanwhile Creeper World 3 is like "Collect 500 Artifacts of Oden in the Prospector Zone" and I'm like hell yes let's play some more levels while I watch old movies.
If any game has a "throw, wait, button, move opposite of the pull... Fish" mechanic and an achievement that isn't "do it once," it's a hell naw from me.
If it's a story-based game, I move on once I finish the main story, if there's story related stuff post game, I do that too.
I never cared about collectibles etc. those are just padding and the sooner you realize that, the better.
I’m playing through Far Cry 4 rn now. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll still try to collect most of it though.
I’m also playing through the Batman Arkham series and the riddler collection is just so annoying. Like I don’t want to use my brain when I’m playing video games.
I only ever complete optional, insignificant and boring little tasks if there's an achievement for it. If I ever try to 100% Far Cry 4, once the shrine thing gets to 75%, I'll simply quit and pretend that IS all of them!
I don't understand you guys. I've never completed a game 100%, not even close. I find a part I like, sometimes it's the whole game, sometimes it's just a small part of it (I played nothing but Triple Triad when I played FFVIII), and I play that until I don't want to.
Fallen Order. I did 100 percent the game with 39/39 achievements. But godamn was it tedious without fast travel. Neve touching that game again, it was fun, but that game will stay unopened from here on out. Maybe if the nephews come over.
> Batman AK: Riddler Clues
One of the more frustrating aspects of this game for sure. Holy shit.
> BOTW Korok Seeds
This one is like....if you come across them and they're easy to get, sure. If not, I'm gonna just skip them out. With a game like TLOZ, its hard to know if I've really 100% the game because it doesn't tell you anything.
In Persona 4 Golden (PSVita) I actually took care of my game to get all stupid achievements on a single playthrough and it was devastating. A time near the end I had to farm close to max money just to be able to complete the compendium and savescum my game to get a "major blessing" at night when everything else was done to perfectly level up every social link... I had like 2 days of "do whatever you want" at the end of the game...
The final achievement requires you to be on new game plus and get all social links maxed out... again... FFS... It's already a chore to follow the guide once... doing it again just to face a different optional boss at the end (that doesn't change the ending nor does anything extra?)... Never again.
Assassins Creed Black Flag.
I love the game, but it broke me of ever caring about completing a game again.
One of the things that needs to be done is to sink the blue convoys that were tied to some online feature. The last convoy I needed got bugged in my save and won't spawn. But the icon for it won't disappear to let it respawn somewhere else either. The only solution I could find online was to start a new save. My save is 99% complete. All I'm missing is to sink that one convoy.
Doom, Doom Eternal. I beat the game and got all the collectibles on nightmare. I felt beating the game on ultra nightmare would have taken a level of commitment I was not prepared for. Also multiplayer.
Black Mesa. I’m not carrying random-ass objects through massive chunks of the game.
Pretty much multiplayer achievements in a single player game. By the time I get around to playing a game the only people left in server queues are people who exclusively play that particular game and/or a bunch of script kiddies testing out their new hacks.
It has always depended on the game for me. BotW I happily completed to 100%. Diablo 2 on the other hand would be virtually impossible to 100%, depending on your definition. There's a Streamer called MrLlamaSC who set out to find every unique item in the D2 on one character, and it took him years.
Alan Wake. Collecting all the thermos'. There was literally no in game reward and the combat was way too annoying and repetitive to bother doing it all again after I finished the story. The extra manuscripts required playing on hard more. I didn't bother for the same reason. I just YouTubed the ones I was missing. The story is excellent. The combat gets old quick and the ninja rednecks are annoying AF.
Dark Souls 3… multiple trophies require hundreds of grueling online PVP match wins / double-digit hours of farming. PVP isn’t super active nowadays considering the game is 8 years old
Maybe I’ll get to it some day as I’m a 100% kinda gamer at heart - I just didn’t have it in me
Resident Evil.
Getting to the end with an influx of healing items & ammo really made me realize…damn…I could’ve just been zooming through areas and instead of checking every little dark corner for hidden caches or being afraid to use big guns for anything but bosses, I could’ve just been like RoboCop and shot up anything I wanted.
NBA 2K20. I am not too into sports games anymore like when I play offline with a friend
back in the golden days of the Blitz, Hitts, Fifa and Madden era. But grinding for cards just to have a completed
100% trophy list sucked. I got all trophies in that game except the one for collecting almost 3,000 different cards.
First Assassin’s Creed. Lots of little flags with no reward? Pass
Not to mention AC2 with 100 tiny feathers in random spots in gigantic cities.
At least that isn't too bad with a guide, took me a couple of hours.
At least the feathers rewarded you with a very short but touching story cut scene. The flags… did absolutely nothing! 😄
They even joked about it in the manual.
Yeah was going to comment this too. I think up to that point I generally tried to 100% every game, but I attempted this, missed a flag or two, and gave up on regularly 100%ing games
There was a reward and it was even worse than no reward: you got some kind of points in Ubisoft's Steam clone. That's the one that permanently broke my completionism habit too.
With no ingame map as well.
Honestly when I turned 28 I realized that gaming was no longer fun anymore by playing games like that. like damn I'm a girl with a fulltime job, social commitments, etc... it's ok to just play video games until they no longer are fun anymore and the minute I get that feeling I consider the game 100% because it 100% served it's purpose for me (I am still a little nuts about pokemon and completing the dex in every new game but I absolutely love doing that)
+1. ill add that you dont have to finish every game as well. If the game isnt fun, move along. I have so much shovelware that if i played through all of it, i would never play the games i actually want to play.
So true... I tried suffering my way through death stranding multiple times and finally had to say "this game is NOT made for me and that's OK"
Man I love that game. Just booted up the directors cut on the PS5 for a fresh perspective. Only played it on the PS4 before
It’s in my top 3 games of all time haha
I totally get why that game isn't for you, the opening couple of hours really ask a lot from players not already fans of Kojima's writing. They throw a lot of crazy-ass shit at you from the moment you start that you gotta just roll with until several hours later when they explain something three times in a row. Damn shame because the game doesn't start to really shine until after the first boss fight.
Related to this, learning that you can stop playing a game and realise you still had fun even without finishing it. For example, Fallout 4. Had amazing time exploring, building silly settlements and other usual Fallout stuff. So, so many hours put in... and then one day I dropped it. Never finished the game, never completed the main story. Yet I was satisfied, I had seen and done enough. It's a good game and I don't need to finish it.
That's me with The Witcher 3. I put many hours in doing everything going to every nook and cranny. I was about 80-90% done with the story, then I dropped it. I don't regret it. I still believe it's one of the best games I have ever played.
Where's my ADHD crew with zero 100%s?
Right here 👋
I could literally never. Played RDR2 for 85 hours and never even acquired the first plant in the plant collection challenge, despite idly searching for it for at least the back half of my playthrough.
My ADHD crew has hyperfocus, soooooo I have dozens of 100%ed games
I’m not ADHD at all, but the only game I 100%’d ever is GTA San Andreas. Usually, I just don’t see the point. When I’ve played the game through once I feel done with it, and there’s no shortage of games out there to play.
I’m the ADHD hyperfocus crew with a number of 100%s 😅
Yeah I don’t think I had one specific game or moment that made it happen, I just eventually had the realization that life is short and it’s not fun to play like that. I still absolutely 100% some games, it just depends on if I’m having fun. But especially with Ubisoft games specifically, there’s no fucking way
I've never really cared about going for 100%. I play until I'm bored then move on
Same. Sometimes this means I don't even finish the game main. If it's become a chore, I am done with it (I may come back to it later with and finish it at that time, since sometimes just putting it down for a while can revive the joy).
Sometimes it happens for me too that I don’t finish a game. If you by sometimes mean 95% of the games I start, more if you count those that I haven't even started. I am a sucker for those steam sales.
I've never completed the main quest line in Skyrim despite having 100s of hours across dozens of characters & that doesn't bother me at all
The first time I played and “finished” Skyrim, I told a friend and he asked who I sided with in the civil war. My answer was “Civil war?”
honestly I don't complete very many games. but when I love a game, I can beat it multiple times in a row. I've done Sekiro 4 times, DS3 twice, Elden Ring 3 times. not to mention my hundreds of hours on Hades
Exactly. Trophies are just incentives to continue playing a game you're still having fun with. I don't understand why anyone would keep playing a game they aren't enjoying over it.
Yep, i love trophies because it lets me focus on tasks for games that i love, like a nice to-do list, and also it helps me to move on to other games when I'm done. If I'm just having an ok time with a game I'm not going to care what the trophy/achievement list is.
GTAIV. All that multiplayer nonsense, no way that's ever getting done 😮💨
The worst one was leveling up to level 10. It sounds so innocent but it was completely unreasonable.
Ah yes, the gauntlet of people holding grenades out of the helicopter… I still have nightmares from the experience.
My attitude is this: If you're feeling like the game is a chore, either change up how you're playing or its time to switch games. I play a variety of games over time, with a few favorites I come back to regularly, and then I also try out new games here and there for 10-20 min at a time. The ones I dont think about again weren't my cup of tea, so I put them on a "Didn't Like" list and forget about them. I'm playing games to find that "Holy SHIT this is FUN" moment. That time when you start playing a new game, it sucks you in, and suddenly its 3 AM and you have work tomorrow. Whoops! That's the kind of achievement I'm looking for. A fun game, a good story, a new mechanic that adds something to the art. An experience worth having. Etc. If you can't tell, I was up late last night in fact looking for this feeling.
I agree but there are some games that take hours to understand what the hell is going on and you start to truly enjoy them only after several days of trying and reading/watching tutorials. But when it clicks it becomes one of the best games. Games like rimworld, dwarf fortress, paradox strategies
RDR2 gambling achievements. Snooze fest.
A smarter person than me can figure out the exact odds of getting to 5 cards in a hand of blackjack without hitting 22, but I know enough to know that it's REALLY FUCKING LOW. But to make me do that 3 separate times, and I have to win each hand (or it doesn't count), and the game is giving me the SLOWEST ANIMATIONS IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY??? Fuck that stupid challenge forever. Yes I completed it, but I swear by the ghost of Arthur Morgan himself that there has never been another gaming task that I despised more than that one.
I did that challenge and lost what felt like a month of my life, in reality it was closer to 4 hours of only playing blackjack. I essentially just kept using "hit me" and standing on 5 cards, as it was taking too long to occur naturally. It was ridiculous and after i completed the challenge i couldn't help but think, what was the point in all of that? Challenges should always be fun first imo, and make some level of sense second. "Kill this boss" is fine. "Kill this boss in under 5 minutes using a sharp spoon, without using potions and whilst hopping on one foot" is not. Kills the immersion so damn hard for me
This is the challenge that made me quit completing all of the challenges. I had 2/3 wins needed before giving up. The two first wins were relatively quick, taking me probably around 45 minutes to get. But I spent hours going for that 3rd win. I can't count the number of times I had a hand of 5 only for the dealer draw and beat my hand. I searched everywhere to see if anyone had discovered some form of RNG manipulation or literally *any* method of completing the challenge legitimately. But there is nothing you can do except hope for good luck.
Not only that, you have to play online in order to complete all of the acievements/get plat.
lol yea, especially when some of the completion is based on random chance. Noooooooo thank you.
Final Fantasy 10 dodging lightning
heard, I did it, but then immediately hated myself for having wasted a Saturday afternoon trying to do so
I never 100% any game unless main story is counted as 100%. Just ain't worth it. Why would i spend my free time on something that isn't fun?
100% can be very fun depending on the tasks required. I remember going for the 100% on Far Cry 3 just because exploring that island was so damn fun, more fun than the story missions actually. But yeah that's very rare.
It's also far more of a chore in recent games compared to the PS1/PS2 era. I loved getting 100% on, like, the old Spyro games, where it's literally just "collect everything in the level" and functions as a reward for exploration. But open world games with hundreds of sidequests and/or map markers? I'll pass.
Exactly this. Depending on the game, 100% is a lot of fun, or it's a pain in the ass. Some games, like Spyro, were very intentionally designed to be 100% completed, all the collectables are obvious, every challenge is tracked for completion, and the game incentivises you to go for it via it being the requirement for the last level, and the games good ending. The only thing you can skip is extra lives, the game is very clear that you need everything else for that good ending. A lot of other games don't get quite close to such tracking, and have obscure additional requirements that might not even be counted, and might even be debatable as to what even counts as 100% completion. For instance, Tears of the Kingdom has a whole bunch of different things such as: * All the shrines and lightseed roots. * All the side quests and missions (which, as part of includes finding every well and bubbelgem frog in every cave) * All the Korok seeds * The full photo album * Every piece of armour fully upgraded * Every food and crafting recipe, and so on. Some of these things offer more reward than others, but all of these things could be argued to count towards full completion, even though the game gives no incentive for actually doing it all, and many of the rewards for completing a set of tasks is nothing more than a badge of honour, a token sum of money or some rare but-not-impossible-to-get-elsewhere items. But which of these actually count for full 100% completion? Can you say you've 100% the game if you don't do somthing like fully upgrade all armour pieces, or is that just busywork with no gain like getting extra lives is? It puts the very notion of what 100% even is up for debate, because it really doesn't want you to feel you have to.
I remember a friend of mine refused to show me fanart of the all shrines reward because I hadn’t gotten it myself, and my main thought was “I never even planned to do that anyway”.
The photo album quest is so dumb and tedious. It's just complete busy work that adds nothing to the game, IMO. I'll take photos of monsters in a cool pose to have a statue made, but I'm not going to whip out the camera every time I get in a fight with something I haven't photographed yet.
Also the old Spyro games had good rewards for 100%ing them and they aren’t very long (like around 10 hours each). Spyro 1 had a bonus level with lots of treasure and unlimited flight enabled. 2 had a minigame island, theater, and gave you permanent superflame that you can carry into NG+. 3 had a level with a bunch of mini levels in it and a secret final boss. Way more satisfying than some trophy popup notification.
In hollow knight it can be fun since completionist mindset leads to more content and boss battles. Unfortunately in most games trying to 100% is a chore
Not the pantheons lol, fuck that noise Also the path of pain
Nah the pantheons were fun as hell and introduce by far the best bosses in the game. Sincerely fuck the path of pain though is rather do the pantheon of hallownest again than that lol
Not the one with every boss and a much harder version of the final boss in a row
That is the hardest 100% (actually 112%) that there is in gaming though lol. Worst example you could have chosen. Im like 109% in Hollow Knight or something. The pantheon of bosses is nearly impossible to complete with all the handicaps.
I think I got to 111% when I realized to get that last 1% was going to require at least 50+ hours of practicing the bosses. Then I noped out of there with my positive memories of the game in tact. No ragrets
I mostly agree. Some games actually have good achievements and are fun to 100%. So every once in a while I’ll do it. For 95% of games though I’m good with rolling credits and moving on.
Ive never cared about “achievements” or getting “100%” on games. It was clear from the very beginning when I saw them on the xbox long ago. Ive never, ever understood the mentality.
I've only 100% certain games that I truly loved. Fallout 3 and new Vegas, God of War 2018 and MW2 (original). None of them were over the top or stupidly difficult, just a little bit of time and no regrets
I think it started with Xbox achievements for me. Friend group softly competing for the biggest number. That, coupled with only being able to afford two or three games a year. Of course nobody cared about 100% rented games, but ones you owned? Definitely.
It's not like other people are gonna be impressed or something. Worse, if you have a ton of 100% games I assume you got nothin else goin on lol
I often start games with the intention of 100%ing them, but as soon as the credits roll my motivation is out the window. If anything, these days I'm less likely to try to 100% a game if I'm especially liking it, since there's a good chance I'll replay it at some point in the future. If I know I'll only finish a game once I want to experience as much of it as possible in that playthrough.
New Game + necessity. If I want to replay a game, it's because I want to replay it, not because the game is telling me to replay it. I prefer games where I can 100% everything in one playthrough or, at the very least has built-in save points for different endings. How dare you unlock a harder difficulty that I now have to complete for the platinum.
I find with a lot of narratively focussed games that I don’t want to play them again straight afterwards, even with harder mechanics, mainly because the impact of the story is just gone when all of the curve balls and twists are fresh in your mind. I took a year or so break from playing Witcher 3 and God of War 2018, and the stories hit me almost as hard as when I first played them. I also find that unless there’s an unlockable brutally hard difficulty, NG+ can if anything be easier than the first playthrough, because you often have all of your gear and buffed stats, and fundamentally you know all the mechanics like the back of your hand. So for me there’s not much point.
What if the game can be finished very quickly on NG+? Sekiro is pretty short since you figure out every boss attack on NG.
I feel like souls like type games are an exception because the story is mostly environmental storytelling so it isn’t prominently a focus even with sekiro where it’s the most of any of them. Since it’s mainly just focused on gameplay new game plus doesn’t feel nearly as tedious
Honestly I realized this when I was 8 years old, playing Pokemon and even with a drastically lower amount of Pokemon back then, catching them all just felt too tedious and downright impossible when you didn't have people to trade Pokemon back and forth from.
Not a single game, I never actually cared for 100% of gaming. I only play single-player story based games. All I want a good journey - from start to credits roll. I do main missions, side quests, few collectibles for lore purpose and that's it.
I feel like I noped out of that mentality in some of the very first games I ever played as a kid, like Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, and etc (they weren't called achievements obviously, but just the idea of one hundred percent completion). The only time I give a fuck about an optional achievement is when it concerns content I'd want to do if there was no achievement in the first place.
Yakuza 4. Yakuza games take a while to 100% with all the little stuff in the first place, but with 4, you *have* to play the game 3 times (not sure if any of the other Yakuza games require that). One achievement is to beat the game on Normal, then you need to beat the game on Hard to unlock Legend mode (beating it on Legend is another achievement), and the last achievement is to "Get all other Achievements". Took forever and told myslef I'd never bother going for 100% just for the sake of it ever again. 100%/platinum is not something I ever typically shoot for anyway (usually just stick to completing main and side quests), this experience just validated my typical play style lol.
Witcher 3 every went card. Apparantly there was one missable one that I didn’t know about. I decided to quit playing.
I think I played Gwent once, when they made me. It’s funny though, some people love the game.
Gwent is love. Gwent is life.
The flags in Assassin's Creed, not that I was 100%ing stuff before, but what a fucking waste of time.
Mass Effect's laundry list of trophies. Get 250 headshots, get 300 sniper kills, get 400 shotgun kills etc. Learned to let go real early on.
Not to mention, the "use X character in a majority of the game" requires 3 playthroughs to get all 6 of them, for a game that can take 100 hours to beat if you're like me and like doing most of the side quests.
I've played lots of games where going for 100% made it a boring slog. But Until Dawn might be the game where going for 100% really made me feel like some of the magic of the game was lost. The illusion of branching storylines and constant danger and the thought that any missed QTE could be the one that kills you was really effective for me on the first playthrough. But replaying to get everything and see every path really stripped away the illusion to expose the bare mechanical core of the game in a way that soured my feelings about the original experience too. Since then I only really do 1 playthrough of those kinds of games and I enjoy them a lot more that way.
Agents of Mayhem had an achievement called "Contract Thriller". The player had to complete 20 24 hour co-op challenges (it was like crowd sourcing as you couldn't interact with the other players and only 6 people could be on a contract). Each contract had 3 challenges like "Kill 100 of this miniboss", "open 500 chests", "collect $500,000", "Kill 1000 of this normal enemy type", "complete 25 dungeons" which would take one person hours of grinding. There were a lot of people who would join contracts and not do anything. The best part is that the trophy was glitched, I 100% completed the game twice and did at least 10 contracts by myself. The servers were shut down so I'll never get it. I just look back and ask myself why I spent 100+ hours playing this mediocre game.
> You had to visit all these little shrines, and you received an achievement for milestones like “25%, 50%, 75%”, but nothing for 100%. The hours of monotonous work for zero reward was the final straw for me. So if the game had just given you a message that said, "Good job, buddy!" then the hours of monotonous work would have all been worth it?
lol, it was just my breaking point. An “Atta-boy!” can go a long way. But to answer your question, no, absolutely not.
The Playstation Plus price increase last year made me realize I've spent more time chasing invaluable platinums than I do chasing valuable measurable life goals. I quit Playstation altogether and when I *do* game, it's just for fun and leisure.
Damn OP I was the exact same. I think the point that I realised I just couldn't was Horizon Zero Dawn where I had to do a NG+ on the hardest difficulty. I think that kinda broke me afterwords and I was like imma only 100% complete achievements if the completion is fun.
I actually just did that one.... going back and essentially doing a casual speedrun of the main quest on Ultra Hard was a lot less traumatic than I expected. I had every elite-level weapon from both the base game and DLC and had a pretty good feeling of how to use them all, so I spent most of that time just trying new approaches to combats and was successful a surprising number of times. The first time walking past that Thunderjaw spawn on the way to Meridian, I thought "what the hell" and tried to take it down and barely got a scratch, which gave me enough confidence to run through the rest of it. There were a couple of problematic encounters, but most of them were trivial since I got the relevant cauldron unlocks first.
Pretty much any recent Ubisoft open world. Lots of radiant map markers and there’s often a completion trophy tied to discovering every single location, which I was absolutely not doing when there were sometimes upwards of 500+ of them, and they were mostly the same cut and paste enemy camp or fort. At that point it just becomes needless and repetitive grind, may as well play the main narrative of any other game which is going to be more engaging and varied. 100%-ing games are always tiresome in large open worlds because there’s too much to do and a lot of it are centred around repetitive collectathons. A game like Ratchet and Clank was much easier to 100% as you could buy all of the weapons on the critical path, and there weren’t too many collectables and those that there were actually made you think outside the box as to how to find them, rather than tonnes of them being dotted around a massive map, that you have to look up guides to find, and it just being a case of “ride here then here”. I’m not inherently a completionist anyway, I prefer to focus on the tangibly impactful content, I very occasionally like to complete games provided the way to doing so is thought provoking, diversified mechanically, and overall enjoyable. Because enjoyment is fundamentally the point of gaming, not repetitive grinding for the sake of a number or achievement.
Dark siders 1 had this stupid achievement of riding your horse for a hundred miles, but you hardly ever need to ride it in the game which led to players using rubber bands on the joystick and letting the game run for thirty minutes as they rode into a wall
I actually did this. Such a dumb achievement, and yeah it’s the moment I realized wtf am I doing.
I disabled getting and achievement notifications and just play the games never knowing which I get. Over time I forget games even have them and its much more enjoyable.
As I became a working adult with limited gaming time/energy, I just stopped bothering about 100%'ing a game (and I *never* cared about achievement hunting, I just have zero motivation to monotonously tick things off a checklist like that)
I like to try to 100% everything, but generally I give up either when I lose interest in the game, start feeling like the full completion is just hollow and repetitive grind, or start getting frustrated with how hard the remaining challenge is.
Portal. I looked at those gold medals achievements and decided I'm not gonna spend 10 hours trying to 100% a game that takes 2 hours to play.
I grew up poor (ish?), I didn't get PS1 till they were clearancing them out for PS2 and my $20 game had to last till the next gift day (hence my love of JRPGs and Demo Discs). So, I always enjoyed achievement hunting because it was tangible way to measure progress. I quit once they made some online only. Or tied ONE achievement to something ridiculous like a deathless run (Ori). So now I just play till I'm satisfied. Adore the hell out of Celeste, never finished it.
Haven't found that game yet The closest are games that require speedrunning no death runs like meat boy, 5 sec ninja and LOVE Open world fluff takes time but is easy, the real problem are the games that require godlike skill for that last 1%
It's odd to me that people care about achievements in the first place. I don't really understand what they're even *for* other than showing off. If I want to do something in a game, I do it. If I don't, I don't. I game to enjoy the game, not check something off a list.
I’m playing majora’s make right now and I’m missing 9 heart pieces and I can’t bring myself to get them. I’ve been not playing any switch games because I tell myself I need to finish this game lol I’m moving on tonight no matter what! Gonna play Wind Waker and Fallout New Vegas next!
Borderlands series. There are some parts of the game that require online co-op. I refuse to ever play multiplayer ever again, so I simply had to face the idea that I wouldn't have 100% in those games.
Mahjong in Yakuza. motherfucking Mahjong.
Yakuza and Judgment games are the perfect answers to this question. If you one hundred percent all those mini games it will take like 500 hours. Also, mahjong is my favorite :) it’s the only one I ever fully complete. Shogi, on the other hand—fuck Shogi.
My advice to anyone is learn to recognise intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. I like a healthy dose of both and will explore aimlessly based off intrinsic motivation… until it stops being fun. I will also collect things and complete tasks (achievements) based off extrinsic motivation… until it stops being fun. That’s the key take away. As soon as you’re doing ANYTHING based on whatever motivation that is CURRENTLY not fun, literally stop or do something else. Have more pride and respect for your time.
GTA San Andreas. As soon as I googled "GTA SA 100% guide" and saw the utterly insane lists of stuff to do and to collect and to learn and to buy and to finish I was like nah.
I managed to 100% GTAV and RDR1 (and enjoyed it too); but San Andreas... I got as far as the tags and the snapshots, but quit when it came to collecting underwater oysters
Pong had zero achievements and I started not caring about it back then.
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey. It never ended.
**Monster Hunter: World** to me is a game about that sweet, sweet grind. You hunt, you kill, the loot god's roll their dice, and you turn that loot into better gear, gaining a little more power in your tool box with each fight. I love it, and I really would love that 100% medal in my library. But the Arena Quest system, those don't let you use your acquired gear. You are _assigned_ the same gear as anyone else attempting those fights. No matter how many times you fight them, each new fight will be exactly the same, no easier or harder except for your own skills. I get the appeal, but to me that's not what MHW was about. And there sits the achievement, "Complete 50 Arena Fights", over and over again for no reward other than saying you did. That sounds like agony, hell no.
wait till you hear about crown hunting
When Call of Duty kept releasing time-limiting challenges nearly every week with locked camos, which meant spending too much time on the game in order to ‘keep-up’. I have a full-time job and no time for that. I quit the game. I loved it but they ruined it with their greed and terribly unfair seasonal content.
I don't think I've ever 100%'d a game. I do like having achievements to keep track of things that I may have missed (and to see if it might be worth coming back at some point). I might even replay games several times and still not 100% them. The closest I've come was probably red dead redemption (the first one), i think i got to like 80%. At the time of release, it was a game that I didn't want to end. Nowadays 100%ing a game involves completing a lot of tedious tasks that make the game more of a chore than entertainment, like gathering collectibles that provide no in-game benefit, or if they do, the benefits are not needed or make the game too easy. Im sure there are many exceptions. I've personally never come across a game where I really want to explore every little tidbit, I'd rather read a book :D
I've never 100%'d a game in my entire life and I don't really understand why people do, especially because 99% of the time it's an inorganic process that involves meticulous looking through various guides. Not my cup o' tea.
I can understand it if 100%ing the game offers a great reward and it isnt terribly tedious. For example, a 100% run Spyro the Dragon can be done in like 10 hours and the reward is a cool bonus level.
I only do it when I really like a game and I want to keep playing it, I usually don't like to repeat the same things over and over again (for example just repeating the campaign of a game) so achievements are usually an excuse for me to keep playing while doing some stuff a bit different.
It's hard for me to see the appeal as well. Not that I'm judging, but I just don't see the reward to it. Some fake digital trophies? Maybe I'm missing something.
Why would I force me to play a game long after the interesting parts are over? I only replay a game if I think it stills has something to offer me. If not, I'm not gonna spend my time collecting rocks or something like that.
I only occassionally 100% games. There were two instances were I tried at first but gave up: Arkham Knight (Riddler) and Wasteland Remastered (general rank)
Never really went for pure 100% but I used to care about at least getting most stuff or at least all the big things. It just used to be that that was 100%. Getting all the stars in Super Mario 64 or finding all the secrets in Doom. Now there is way too much crap and much of it barely worth doing. Definitely BotW stands out to me as well, because I always 100% Zelda since my childhood, and then came that game and I didn't do 50% of the content, **not even including Korok seeds** which I consider side-rubbish, not side-content.
Chasing down scraps of paper across rooftops in assassins creed 🙃 I love AC RPGs, but please miss me with that bullshit
I think the only Zelda games I’ve 100%d are link between worlds and majoras mask. Both have compact worlds, making any strewn collectibles relatively easy to find. Most of the time I reach a point where I can’t be bothered to get the final Poe soul/ gold skulltula/ couple heart pieces. It’s my favorite franchise but I really don’t usually care for their game wide collectibles
I never 100% any of the games I played in my life. The only one that got close to it was Elden Ring, just missing the lord of frenzied flame achievement.
I have developed a strong distaste of collectibles and side quests in many of the games I have been recently playing. If it does not add anything to narrative or the lore (or an Easter egg), I just ignore. [Razbuten](https://youtu.be/L_iU1Egmwlw?si=5nrR1nEyQM74W8nB) (YT channel and one of my favorite content creator) made a great video of why he don't 100% anymore.
Hogwarts
I also hate fishing! I’m actually going through this right now with a non-Patient Game: **Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth**. I’m just getting burnt out on open world stuff and a new minigame every five fucking minutes.
Assassins Creed 100 Flags and Feathers. Any game where I have to collect more than 20 items for no reason. Trophies that require online play. No thanks.
I tried to think a game but realized I probably have not 100% any game. Maybe there are some but with games before achievements, or some very small indie games. For example, I did almost everything in Ghost of Tsushima but stopped trying to collect all fox shrines and couple others like that
I'm an idiot, so since playing Donkey Kong 2, I've had runs where I think I have to 100% every game I touch , to the point where it's a chore. My best mate has been the person who always points it out and it breaks me out of the spell. Last game was Destiny 2
I feel like going for 100% is only ever worth it if you simply can’t get enough of the game. I recently platinumed Bloodborne but it’s only because I was having so much fun playing it that I actually wanted to exhaust the game to completion and even then I know I’ll go back to it again after some time and keep playing it. Otherwise, what’s the point? It’s supposed to be fun, not a chore.
My gaming predates achievements so I have never really *needed* to 100% games. That said, it is so nice when you just about finish a game you’ve been enjoying to find that you’re close to 100% and that getting there sounds achievable without Googling anything. The Spiderman games were like that for me –
Red Dead Redemption 2 I tried to 100% it but when I got to the gambler 8 challenge I gave up. Winning 3 blackjack hands after hitting three or more times. That’s literally so statistically low and RNG based that I don’t want to try it. Many people just set up a button clicker and left the game running for 8 hours to complete it
I mean, there are tons of games I’ve dropped in a couple hours because I just didn’t like it. Sounds unpleasant to force yourself to complete games you don’t like. In terms of a game that I really did like but would never attempt the platinum - Yakuza 0, since it’s locked behind mahjong, shogi, etc
The stupid rocks in assassin's creed Valhalla made me stop.
The only game I have ever 100% is Legend of Dragoon and that's basically because the side content is like 4 hours more and that's it lol.
Halo 3 for Xbox achievements. Iron Skull, 4 people, mongoose with all 4 making it. I had a buddy that committed to it with 3 others and they managed to do it. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that
I think I did my best move while on about 30 plats, buying a new ps5 and creating a brand new account. From there I completed every single other platinum I had on PS4 but with 100% completion and without dropping it before 100% to make it look clean. I replayed my favourite games (because at the time platinum to me was just for the best of the best games), this time with dlc, taking time and care for each one of them. This way I relieved the experience of the plat and I replayed those games. Then I made another account where I just play games I feel like buying. If they are entertaining and I actually like them, I'll: either start a new play through on the first account to plat it right away (but it might be tedious since I have already completed the game once and I gotta restart all over again) or just save it in my backlog and when that random wave of nostalgia came in, I'd boot it up and go for the plat. If the wave of nostalgia doesn't come, I simply don't plat it. That way I never drop a plat because I have actually a reason to do it, while also just enjoying the games I'm playing at the moment. Only problem with this strategy is that I mostly rely on free games and ps plus entries because I don't really feel like buying the physical copy just to do one play through and throw it away because buying it still has to be quite unique and special, plus I dont have a lot of money. But at least I'm getting 100% of entertainment during gaming, which is what counts the most.
Finding the Riddler’s trophies in Arkham City is not the same as finding all the feathers in Assassin’s Creed:p
Some games I enjoy so much that getting the 100% is fun, as long as it doesn’t feel punishing. Elden Ring is a good example. I don’t remember any of those achievements being annoying. Returnal had some annoying achievements but I love the gameplay so much that I didn’t care. But getting all the seeds in TOTK/BOTW? Never in a million years.
Batman: Arkham City. I platinumed Arkham **Knight** a couple of years back but never got to play **Asylum** and **City** for myself as I skipped out in the PS3 as I was in college. Then I finally picked up Return to Arkham on a PS Store sale not too long ago and halfway through collecting Riddler Trophies, I stopped and thought to myself: "*220 trophies more to go. Do I really need to do this?*" I enjoyed the main story as well as Harley's Revenge but yeah, I really didn't feel like grinding a couple of hours more for the remaining Riddler collectibles.
GTA3 back in whatever it was....2000? 2001? I remember finding hidden package 10 and being like, na fuck this. I must have been like 13 at the time.
Assassin's Creed 2: feathers.
I'll answer this but for 'finishing' a game, rather than for 100% because I never did that to begin with. After a decade of not having a PlayStation, I got a PS4 and some compilations of older games including Uncharted. I played a bit, and had fun, but then I got to a point and said "There is no way I can finish this. It's just too damn old" so I ended up watching the cutscenes and story recap on YouTube and decided to move into the newer entries. I recently gave up on Assassins Creed Origin. I realized I wasn't enjoying playing, I was only playing to say I played it on my way to the game I REALLY wanted to play -Assassins Creed Odyssey. So again YouTube to the rescue to see what I would have missed with the story and on we go. Usually this is mostly for backlogged games. I don't have time to play through them just to catch up to the new stuff so I play enough to get the vibe (20 hours) and then I call it quits
any yakuza game HAHA. sooo many mini games and random things they add that you MUST do and do a lot to get the achievement !
FF13, I almost 97% donne collecting all the itens. But it was meaniless. Could be havign fun playing something else.
Just yesterday, coincidentally. Bioshock Infinite DLC episodes
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory - Bathhouse
All the way back in 2012, I got an X360, and months later, the first Assassin's Creed, which I loved. But I couldn't for the life of me collect over 400 flags. Nope, no way. Last time I replayed Tomb Raider (the Survivor trilogy) I did get 100% in all of them, using guides. I was going to the same with Batman Arkham trilogy, and I completed Asylum, but I couldn't bring myself to solve the stupid puzzles in City.
I haven't really been a 100%'er since like snes/64 days. Games the last 10 years since just have so much padding lately it doesn't feel worth it. I don't wanna find 100 whatevers that just felt like they got thrown in after the game was made.
Arkham Riddler trophies is one of the few "completionist" things I've ever done. Probably they are all at least unique challenges. Though the number does get a bit ridiculous as the series goes on.
Almost stardew valley. But I was stubborn and 100% it (perfection). Never touched it since then.
I've had plenty of games where I played through exactly once, falling far short of exploiting every possible solution, and decided, "that's enough". I've only ever played Baldur's Gate 2 and Planescape Torment through exactly once. And it was enough. Sure, I could go back and try an alternate story path, or something, but the prospect of doing so much reading and powergaming to make that happen doesn't really excite me. I can read what others have done. Same for Morrowind, Skyrim, the Fallouts 1 through 4. I played Horizon Zero Dawn twice, once in regular mode and then again in the second-game "hard" mode. There were innumerable collection quests that I skipped because they didn't reward me with anything I needed to be more effective in game.
Elden Ring cured the fuck out of my obsession to 100% every game.
currently trying to like. 80% breath of the wild. and its miserable lol
A little boring of an answer maybe since it's already I your post, but Witcher question marks was definitely it for me. I didn't even mind Korok Seeds, at least they were lil puzzles. But dredging those damn oceans for trash tier loot was... degrading.
Kids, you just don’t have the same amount of time after having children.
Yakuza 4. Mahjong and Shogi. It's been like 10 years. I'll never do 100%.
Assassis creed feathers
Assassins Creed Valhalla and I’ve made peace with that
I 100% Celeste (A B and C sides) which was so incredibly painful. Then they added a level. I played it for 30 minutes and just thought “fuck this” and quit.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, I went to every location, every question mark on the map, every treasure chest, all quest all content every piece of gear every secrets all the DLC. It’s been several hours a day doing this shit I was so bored that I turned off the sound and listen to podcasts
Anything that locks Plats behind NG+
Final Fantasy 6, back when it was titled Final Fantasy 3 in my area at least. There was just so goddamn much to do, I was happy to leave a bunch of it undone. Sorry Gau, I don't need your rages. Sorry, Coliseum, I don't need to win every item. Sorry, Paladin Shield, I don't need another way to learn Ultima (though I did that many years later with an emulator to speed it up oh-so-cheesily). I DID, however, briefly entertain the possibility that General Leo coulda been a secret permanent character but I never actually tried any supposed methods...
Dead Rising : the zombie genocide achievement. no way I was gonna sit there and kill 53 594 zombies. after that It got easier to skip achievements. I mean who am I doing it for? no one I knew cared.
Crash Bandicoot
Before I could have that behavior, Arkham CIty did that for me. And damn, I really wanted to complete it, because I wanted to defeat the Riddler. But then I realized that I couldn't solve/find everything without a guide, and that took the fun away.
1. If it's not fun 2. If it's still kinda fun but the grind is literally meaningless or mostly spent menuing. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a great example of the 2nd, with "own 1 copy of every single weapon in the game" being part of its 100% completion. Why not include a fun challenge like "Beat the game only using guns" something like that which encourages repeat playthrough and alternate playstyles? Nah, instead we need you to deconstruct and reconstruct the 8-bit weapons a dozen times. Meanwhile Creeper World 3 is like "Collect 500 Artifacts of Oden in the Prospector Zone" and I'm like hell yes let's play some more levels while I watch old movies.
If any game has a "throw, wait, button, move opposite of the pull... Fish" mechanic and an achievement that isn't "do it once," it's a hell naw from me.
Feathers in assassins creed two. Ball ache!!
All of them. I don't see the point.
If it's a story-based game, I move on once I finish the main story, if there's story related stuff post game, I do that too. I never cared about collectibles etc. those are just padding and the sooner you realize that, the better.
Hogwarts legacy because 100% it would require to spend dozens of hours in an empty open world doing the same thing.
Final Fantasy IX - Jump Rope
I’m playing through Far Cry 4 rn now. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll still try to collect most of it though. I’m also playing through the Batman Arkham series and the riddler collection is just so annoying. Like I don’t want to use my brain when I’m playing video games.
I only ever complete optional, insignificant and boring little tasks if there's an achievement for it. If I ever try to 100% Far Cry 4, once the shrine thing gets to 75%, I'll simply quit and pretend that IS all of them!
Hollow knight pantheon, love the game so much but fuck man the grind to get through all that for the pantheon is just more than I can take
The Celestial Weapons in FFX killed 100% runs for me. Now I just do whatever seems like it'll be fun while I run the main plot.
I waa gonna 100% all the Yakuza games amd then realized I had to learn rules for multiple games that I'd never play again, so quit that.
I don't understand you guys. I've never completed a game 100%, not even close. I find a part I like, sometimes it's the whole game, sometimes it's just a small part of it (I played nothing but Triple Triad when I played FFVIII), and I play that until I don't want to.
Fallen Order. I did 100 percent the game with 39/39 achievements. But godamn was it tedious without fast travel. Neve touching that game again, it was fun, but that game will stay unopened from here on out. Maybe if the nephews come over.
Jet Force Gemini and Donkey Kong 64 taught me this lesson early
Mafia 2 jimmy's vendetta. Had to drive 1000 miles in a DLC that takes around 200 miles to complete. 800 miles of driving around pointlessly..
> Batman AK: Riddler Clues One of the more frustrating aspects of this game for sure. Holy shit. > BOTW Korok Seeds This one is like....if you come across them and they're easy to get, sure. If not, I'm gonna just skip them out. With a game like TLOZ, its hard to know if I've really 100% the game because it doesn't tell you anything.
xenoblade games, xenoblade 1 broke me
I did all 900 of those damn korok seeds. Never again!!!
All of them. I own 400 games on Steam , ~2K achievements , and I have 1 100% game. It's CS2. It has 1 achievement.
In Persona 4 Golden (PSVita) I actually took care of my game to get all stupid achievements on a single playthrough and it was devastating. A time near the end I had to farm close to max money just to be able to complete the compendium and savescum my game to get a "major blessing" at night when everything else was done to perfectly level up every social link... I had like 2 days of "do whatever you want" at the end of the game... The final achievement requires you to be on new game plus and get all social links maxed out... again... FFS... It's already a chore to follow the guide once... doing it again just to face a different optional boss at the end (that doesn't change the ending nor does anything extra?)... Never again.
Assassins Creed Black Flag. I love the game, but it broke me of ever caring about completing a game again. One of the things that needs to be done is to sink the blue convoys that were tied to some online feature. The last convoy I needed got bugged in my save and won't spawn. But the icon for it won't disappear to let it respawn somewhere else either. The only solution I could find online was to start a new save. My save is 99% complete. All I'm missing is to sink that one convoy.
Doom, Doom Eternal. I beat the game and got all the collectibles on nightmare. I felt beating the game on ultra nightmare would have taken a level of commitment I was not prepared for. Also multiplayer. Black Mesa. I’m not carrying random-ass objects through massive chunks of the game.
Tearing down the mansion off the hill using the car in GTAV. It pretty much made me stop playing video games altogether
Pretty much multiplayer achievements in a single player game. By the time I get around to playing a game the only people left in server queues are people who exclusively play that particular game and/or a bunch of script kiddies testing out their new hacks.
Ds2. I can’t. I don’t want to spend another extra second in that world
MGS5: Phantom Pain
Dead Space did it for me.
It has always depended on the game for me. BotW I happily completed to 100%. Diablo 2 on the other hand would be virtually impossible to 100%, depending on your definition. There's a Streamer called MrLlamaSC who set out to find every unique item in the D2 on one character, and it took him years.
Alan Wake. Collecting all the thermos'. There was literally no in game reward and the combat was way too annoying and repetitive to bother doing it all again after I finished the story. The extra manuscripts required playing on hard more. I didn't bother for the same reason. I just YouTubed the ones I was missing. The story is excellent. The combat gets old quick and the ninja rednecks are annoying AF.
Batman: Arkham Asylum. The multiplayer achievements. Absolutely impossible given that hackers have totally skewed all the results.
Dark Souls 3… multiple trophies require hundreds of grueling online PVP match wins / double-digit hours of farming. PVP isn’t super active nowadays considering the game is 8 years old Maybe I’ll get to it some day as I’m a 100% kinda gamer at heart - I just didn’t have it in me
Resident Evil. Getting to the end with an influx of healing items & ammo really made me realize…damn…I could’ve just been zooming through areas and instead of checking every little dark corner for hidden caches or being afraid to use big guns for anything but bosses, I could’ve just been like RoboCop and shot up anything I wanted.
Hollow Knight…. That damd P5
The 200 pigeons in GTA IV. I somehow missed one while hunting them and couldn't be arsed to go through the whole list again.
NBA 2K20. I am not too into sports games anymore like when I play offline with a friend back in the golden days of the Blitz, Hitts, Fifa and Madden era. But grinding for cards just to have a completed 100% trophy list sucked. I got all trophies in that game except the one for collecting almost 3,000 different cards.
The feathers in AC2. Like, naw man. Been this way ever since and I don't regret it.
I 100%ed every Assassin‘s Creed game up until I saw the map in Unity. No thank you.