I've been a completionist for most of the video games that I play ever since I started playing video games. The first home video game I remember was a hand-held Space Invaders-ish LED game. I played that game until I could max out the score. I did the same for some construction rivet game on the Apple 2+. When our family purchased the original Nintendo, the only game we had for six months was the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartridge it came with. I played Super Mario Bros. over and over again until I could play the game straight through without using any warp pipes.
This tradition has continued. However, most games today are too big for me to truly find everything in them. Many games include a completion percentage that I tend to use, even if I know that 100% does not necessarily mean that I've found everything--especially in open world games. Sometimes, I set goals for myself based on what I learn about the game. As I have been busier these past few years, I'm usually content to simply get to the game's ending credits.
Many game systems now include special trophies that have a separate (harder to reach) percentage of completion. I do not believe that I have reached 100% for any of my games with those kinds of trophies--until today. The Spider-Man: Miles Morales game was short enough, and its trophies reasonable enough, that I finished a new game plus playthrough today to win the final few trophies that I did not earn on my original playthrough. Honestly, it was worth doing just to play through the story again.
It was nice to play a game to full completion again--not just beating the game, but finding all (or most) of the extra goodies.
This tradition has continued. However, most games today are too big for me to truly find everything in them. Many games include a completion percentage that I tend to use, even if I know that 100% does not necessarily mean that I've found everything--especially in open world games. Sometimes, I set goals for myself based on what I learn about the game. As I have been busier these past few years, I'm usually content to simply get to the game's ending credits.
Many game systems now include special trophies that have a separate (harder to reach) percentage of completion. I do not believe that I have reached 100% for any of my games with those kinds of trophies--until today. The Spider-Man: Miles Morales game was short enough, and its trophies reasonable enough, that I finished a new game plus playthrough today to win the final few trophies that I did not earn on my original playthrough. Honestly, it was worth doing just to play through the story again.
It was nice to play a game to full completion again--not just beating the game, but finding all (or most) of the extra goodies.
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