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

[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.

[fiercereaper]

+1. OCD makes me wash my hands 42 frigging times in a day. Having a lot of fun makes me complete games.

[twilightmoon777]

Using the term OCD the way I did in my original post might have been a little careless so I apologize for that. I know OCD is less about neatness and organization and more about feeling the need to repeat certain actions over and over again until if feels right.

[a_grumble_cake]

Ah, sorry I didn't mean to cause offense and I accept your correction. What I should have said was that my need to complete games is compulsive.

[monkeyspheres]

thanks, I appreciate the apology. I get very angry about people saying these things but it has, unfortunately, became a fairly common thing to say, so I try to make people aware of what it is they're saying for future reference.

[twilightmoon777]

Haha, I'm one of those people who juggle several games. Right now, I'm working on Double Dragon II, Phantom Hour Glass, Silent Hill the Room, Resident Evil 2, Assassin's Creed, and Mass Effect. I just beat Super Mario 64 (100% completion) and I could have beaten Phantom Hour Glass like a year ago but I'm still trying to get all of the ship parts. I also technically beat Double Dragon II but I haven't beaten the version of the game where you face the boss. That bastard is hard to beat!