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Beginning to End: Being a Completionist

I'm not the most successful guy when it comes to unlocking achievements. My full score is less than 50,000 but I take great pride in knowing most of those points come from completed games and not just games that I've beaten the campaign and moved on. And I think there's something to be said about what a gamer can learn by completing a game 100%. #achievements #complete

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MrAmazing3437d ago

I think my want to understand the whole story of the game is what determines if I want to complete it 100 percent, and I only end up 'completing' certain games because of it. But the ones I do completely beat turn out to be my favorites.

JMRamee3437d ago

I highly recommend you go back and try to 100% games where you didn't enjoy the story. I was one of those gamers who didn't enjoy ACIII. I thought Connor was a bland protagonist and the overall story started out too slow and ended too fast. When I went back to the game to 100% it, I was forced to play all the side missions. I saw sides of Connor I never did before and interacted with some truly fascinating characters. ACIII isn't my favorite Assassin's Creed by any means, but going back to grab all the achievements in the game has raised the game's worth in my eyes. I'm not saying all games are like that but a few stories are vastly improved when you're searching for all the goodies to unlock everything.

ziggurcat3437d ago

I try to get everything as much as I can, but there are some games where it's far beyond any reasonable amount of effort.

JMRamee3436d ago

I hear you on that. ACIV's "reach level 55 in multi-player" and Dark Souls III's "Learn all Pyromancies" achievements come to mind. Both were brutal affairs for very little payoff other than being steps on your quest to unlocking everything.

ctmaudi3437d ago (Edited 3437d ago )

A look at Trueachievents and you can find plenty of people with 90%+ completions and hundreds of thousands of gamerscore. Your gamerscore or number of trophies has almost no bearing on how good of a gamer you are. Just how much time you have to devote to a game.

I'm an achievement hunter but mostly because my back log of games is so huge. I try to maintain a 75% completion ratio so I don't feel so bad about buying a new game that ends up sitting unplayed for a year. I used to do that play for a few minutes or hours then it would get traded. I hate doing that and now find I get more for my money if I try to make myself get most, if not all of the achievements. Except for games I really like and care about, I go for completion for them. Just a hair under 200k now while keeping 75% since I started tracking that.

JMRamee3436d ago

I'd argue a degree of skill is necessary. Take a look at TrueAchievements again. True (haha, puns) there are plenty of people with a 90%+ completion rate but how many of them are 99%+ completion rate? And are also gamers with plenty of AAA titles on their list? There are not many. And those who do have it typically don't exist in the 150,000+ gamerscore bracket. There are some to be sure (like Brownman) but there are not many. Even you yourself claim to only have around 75%. I imagine if you went for a 99%+ completion rating, you wouldn't have the 200,000 gamerscore that you do.

So yes, there are quite a few games that you can 100% just through persistence and enough time (like Assassin's Creed Unity) but there are also just as many that take a degree of skill, patience, and experience in playing video games to 100% (like Dark Souls III).

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Games Done Quick is coming to Europe for the first time with 3 days of Gamescom speedruns

The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.

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Take-Two CEO Once Again Side Steps Grand Theft Auto 6 Price Point

Strauss Zelnick says price of GTA 6 is being carefully considered and that Rockstar is focused on "making the most spectacular piece of entertainment on Earth."

Kuma13d ago

If GTA 6 abandons everything that made GTA 5 great, it will crash and burn right out of the gate. GTA 5 was funny and not at all PC. My worry is that they will cave to the PC crowd and ruin the vibes.

Eonjay12d ago

They got freaking BBLs twerking on the top of trucks for the gram, the freaking Flordia joker, and dude running down the stree in their undies and you are worried about it being 'too PC'? The internet has runied gamers. It doesn't matter how non-PC they make the game, you will all listen to the grifters telling you not to believe your lying eyes lol.

gigoran812d ago

"Rockstar Games’ co-founder and former VP of Development Jamie King said he envisions GTA 6 as a game that’s “maybe not quite as edgy or quite as funny” as its satirical predecessors."

oh yeah, totally internet grifters spreading rumors...

blacktiger12d ago

That's part of the plan, they destroyed you but they need to destroy the shareholders? Only 1 shre holder is the true elite that don't care

1nsomniac12d ago (Edited 12d ago )

Meh.., if it’s above £55 I ain’t buying it.

Rockstar are genuinely not half the company they used to be. I was a die hard GTA fan I’ve purchased every game and expansion and spin off day 1.

My opinion of GTA6 is that I can take it or leave it. Not bothered. They burnt too many bridges.

DaReapa12d ago (Edited 12d ago )

So they're actually leaving the door open for an L.A. Noire sequel? Nice!

VaNdAl12d ago (Edited 12d ago )

He should just come out and say it already it's getting stupid it's going to be a 100 bucks $200 for the special edition🤡🤡; 29315;🤣♿

Storm2312d ago

I won't be getting this game until I can get it for $70. SHoot, I could wait for it to be even lower. I don't need the game that badly as my backlog is still huge and I am enjoying playing other things.

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Microsoft Lowers the Price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate And PC Game Pass, But What’s Next For Xbox?

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is getting cheaper but Call of Duty is leaving day-one access. Here’s what we think the price drop means for Xbox, PC Game Pass, and the future of the service.

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VaNdAl12d ago

Phil Spencer killed the Xbox Let It Go move on to PC

Jingsing12d ago

They would be better breaking up what valued assets they still have and put them out to auction for the competition.
There is no more financial gain for them on any trajectory in the entertainment space.