When do you consider a game beaten?

[twilightmoon777]

I've been playing videos games all of my life and I've noticed that I don't feel like I've truly beaten a game until I've done everything 100% (I feel like I'm ocd or something). Just beating the main quest/mission/or whatever usually isn't enough. How about you guys? :)

Comments

[ipitydaf00l]

To me it depends on how much I enjoyed the game. There's some that I'll just play through just to say I finished it and then never touch it again. Then others that I did actually like I'll go back to try to unlock anything I can, fully explore, etc. For example just lately I played several of the PS2 like Rule of Rose, Fatal Frame, and Haunting Ground.

Out of the three Haunting Ground is the only one that I wound up really enjoying and have since been replaying it to fully explore the castle and attempting to unlock all endings/scenes/play types. The other two, I just completed them to say I did finish them, even though while I don't know about Rule of Rose, I know you can unlock various things in Fatal Frame...I just had no desire to attempt it.

[dawning_horizon]

I'm the same.. it depends.

Some games I won't want to complete 100% as I'm not enjoying them enough or it just seems like it will take WAY too many hours.
Others I don't even enjoy enough to complete the main story.

But mostly I do complete the main story and try to knock off the xbox achievements just for an extra challenge, if I enjoy the gameplay enough.
Doing this on Assassin's Creed Brotherhood at the moment, 100%'d DNA and all but one of the single player achievements, have to get onto multiplayer soon for the rest and to check that out too.

[ipitydaf00l]

It might take me forever to finish them (I'll play other games for a while before returning to them...) but I do try to finish all games that I buy. So at least there's that. It took me ages to finish Kingdom Hearts because after a while I just got bored with what I thought were mindless "go and fetch this!" quests.

[dawning_horizon]

Heh heh!

All I can think is that you're really:
A: dedicated toward completion of tasks
B: want value for money
C: mildly OCD
D: good at choosing games you're going to enjoy

:P
All of the above stated in a jovial, friendly manner.. of course :)

[a_grumble_cake]

I'm also ocd about beating games, which is why I can never understand people who start games but never finish them!

I think of myself as a "sane" completist. I finish the main quest, side quests and collection quests but only if it's not too tedious and doesn't involve hours of pointless grinding. I don't create goals for myself like having one of every item in the game in my inventory or leveling up to max level.

[paeroka]

I get distracted too easily... look! Shiny new game over there! *runs off* ;)

So, I am one of those who can never finish games. Even if I want to!

[a_grumble_cake]

Well, I think it's good that you're able to do that because sometimes I get stuck playing games I don't like because I feel the need to finish them. It's such a waste of time when there's so many other games out there....

[monkeyspheres]

You are not OCD about beating games. This goes for the OP as well. Apart from your sentence not making any sense, it's a serious mental illness that takes over peoples lives and causes unimaginable pain, often requires psychiatric drugs in order to lead a functional life and can lead to suicide, and I'm so sick of people not having any idea what it means and trivialising it ('oh I'm so neat, I must be OCD!'). It's sick.

[paeroka]

I've only ever finished one game (plus MMORPGs where you can't finish ;) ). So, totally opposite of you. ;) I either lose interest or format my PC and then I either forget to save the games or I'm too lazy to reinstall and play again. In some games, I hit a point where I just can't get further and then I give up (in "Black & White", I had that one mission where I had to follow some guy without him seeing me and even after reading countless guides, I couldn't do it... so I uninstalled the game and never looked back ^^).

I'm now mostly playing games that don't really have an end. I don't get through them anyway. ;)

[twilightmoon777]

Well with those kind of games I feel like its kind of impossible to get 100%. In those cases you just keep playing until you get tired of it. I'm talking about those types of games that lay out clear goals for you. Like in Mario 64 where you can get all of the stars or the Zelda series where you can get all of the heart pieces and items.

[paeroka]

I don't play that kind of games. But even with the games I'm playing, I can't even get through the main campaigns/storyline. ;)

[gs_disaronno]

When I get bored of it xD (So FFXIII is completed even though I played it for 2 hours)

Generally after I finish the main story I'll dick around and do anything else there is to do that's fun, but I don't have the patience or time to complete most games 100%, like completeing every virtual training mission on AC:B and stuff like that.

[dawning_horizon]

Haha.. agreed with FFXIII!

And I wrote above about AC:B .. it got a bit OCD for me which is the only reason I've pretty much done it :P
Dunno if I'll bother with all the virtual training missions, but I want to go for the multiplayer xbox a'ments.

[x_crash_into_me]

It depends on the game. If a game is really good I want to play it to 100%, but if I didn't get super into it I'm just playing until I beat the main story/whatever.