Well, the title may be a little confusing, but I've noticed that sometimes you feel you'd completed the game when you finish the main questline and then you no longer bother with side quests. I am a little (just a little) obsessed about Skyrim, but after hours and hours of playing, I realised there are some quests that I'm playing for the first time, such as the Whispering Lady and the Peryte shrine (if I'd spelled out the name correctly). I was curious as to when you consider the game done? Once you finish the main story or do you linger and finish the side stories?
There's also the so called "achievement hunting." I wonder if you have collected all the Steam achievements in the games you like. I am still only half-way through Civilisation, but I mostly consider it "complete" - there's very little new I can find out about it, what's left is getting a certain number of victories, which isn't really that entertaining. So, although my achievements are only about 50%, I no longer "hunt" for them.
But can you say that you'd completed one game, done everything there was to do, explored every nook and corner, discovered almost every strategy there was... and if yes, which one is it? If no, what keeps you from doing so?
I think I did one of the GTA's 100% but that was back when trophies weren't a thing. I've completed many games but never to 100%, I don't have the patience for it
Even though ideally I'd love to do so, I don't think I ever will. I play games depending on how I temporarily feel about them.
For example I used to play Civ 5 for hours during the exam period. I didn't play for the achievements, I just played for fun.
I played Skyrim like crazy when I first bought it. I did many many side quests before approaching the main story and I only finished the main quest because people were starting to get spoilerific on the internet so I wanted to "get it over with" before I accidentally read everything about it.
I played FTL almost compulsively so I could just finish it once (I did want to go back and play again).
I was addicted to Crusader KIngs II for a while, I didn't get any achievements because I used the Ruler Designer DLC. I did revisit the game in Ironman so I could get a couple of achievements.
I'm currently replaying Fallout: New Vegas, I may explore and find different things this time around but I don't think I'll 100% it.
In general, I don't really care for achievements most of the time. In RPGs I always do many side quests and don't rush to complete the main story. Even though I do so though, it's difficult for me to stick to a game for the purpose of finding ALL there is to see.
AidsorHIV from the forums is your guy. He plays so many games until he gets a platinum on them. I have only ever managed that with season one of The Walking Dead which is impossible not to platinum if you play the entire story
Unfortunately, I have probably finished only about 10% of all of the games I had ever played. It's a sad fact that the majority of the games I've played don't deserve the time and effort. If I could go back in time and stop myself from purchasing those games, I would have saved thousands of dollars by now. Damn Steam/GMG/GOG/GG sales! ^_^
However, let me think about what I have finished... /ponders/
- Fallout 1, 2, 3 and New Vegas
- King's Quest 4, 5 and 6
- Might & Magic X
- Dune 2, 2000, EBfD
- Bladerunner
- Leisure Suit Larry 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
- Need for Speed 2 SE
- Sleeping Dogs
- Grand Theft Auto 1 and 2
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms 11
- The Walking Dead s1
- Civilizations 1, 2, 3 and 4
- Masters of Orion 1 and 2
- Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3
- Republic Commando
- Wolfenstein Spear of Destiny
- Doom 1 and 2
- Duke Nukem 1, 2 and 3D
- Call of Duty 1 and 2
- C&C 1, 2, Generals + Zero Hour
- C&C Red Alert 1 and 2
I'm sure there are more, but off the top of my head, those are the ones I remember.
Certainly did it with many of the older games where there really wasn't a choice. Don't think I've completely completed any of the newer open world games. I just do the quests I find and the ones I feel like doing, I don't hunt for each and every quest in the whole game.
To me a game is over and done with when I finish it. I play through it just once (with the exception of some amazing games) and then move on to the next one, if I did a lot of the side quests then good... if I didn't then I'm certainly not going to start again just so I can do those.
I think with most of the games that I buy I try to complete them, as I think everybody probably does but when it comes to achieving 100% completion that's another matter.
When you look at the amount of work involved to achieve 100% completion, I think a lot of people won't be able to achieve that without getting either bored of frustrated to be honest.
I think I've only completly completed two games. One was GTA III and the other was Ace Combat 4. In Ace Combat 4 I did all the missions in the main game mode and then went back and replayed the missions on different difficulty settings so I could knock down the various "ace" pilots and get the paintscheme for that respective aircraft.
GTA III, that was the missions, side missions, stunt jumps and secret packages. The hardest of that was taking that Hummer along that cliff path and trying to get to the end of the checkpoints in the alloted time. That mission was evil to complete. The most fun I found was collecting the secret packages. I enjoyed that.
