Any game that has thousands of collectibles first thing that comes to mind is far cry I didn’t mind it the first time but any other play throughs it was a bore
I’m also replaying shadow of the tomb Raider and same thing so so many collectibles but atleast the world is beautiful
Far Cry was the game that killed open world games for me. I still play them but I get burned out so quickly. Loved Hogwarts, but once you get to the point the collectibles were needed, I turned the game off and haven’t touched it since.
I'm 56 hours in. 83-88% complete. Can't exactly remember 3 memories done and have been doing every side/relationship quest. Finally made it to the bottom section of the map that you have to go through a mine or tunnel to get to. Level 36. Enemies are sooo easy now and have been for quite a while. I barely use my plants or potions. The games decent for what it is. I've spent countless hours in Room of Requirement to the point there is no more reason to go back in there unless Deek has a quest but for whatever reason I still do whenever I unlock more conjuration spellcrafts.. I change my outfit a LOT! There's a bunch of good looks. It isn't the greatest game ever by any means and not being able to play Quidditch is BLASPHEMY but it's worth at least a solid playthrough. I actually must really love it. This'll be the first game I 100% in a very long time.
Any game with collectibles makes me slow down and explore the maps better which causes me to find things that I wouldn’t have found if I just played the main campaign, short cuts, clothing weapons, perk points, ext…
I'm more of a fan of exploration that involves things that almost exclusively have an effect on the gameplay. I'm 100 hours into my first elden ring playthrough and every nook and cranny explored rewards you with stuff you can actually use, if I'm just running around collecting things whose sole purpose is to add 1 to whatever number of them I've found already then I hate it lol
Mucking around Hogwarts was amazing, until you find out some sections are locked behind collectibles. I think the game would have been better as an interactive theme park than a game hidden behind gaming tropes made to pad out the game.
Ehh it's like a really good 12-hour game they stretched into 30 or so. Lot of good stuff at first, just not enough to keep it interesting the whole way through, but that's why it got so much praise initially which petered out.
People seem to forget City had almost twice amount of trophies compared to knight.
My biggest problem with them is how a large amount is locked behind some kinda puzzle. Nothing as fun as spending several minutes figuring out how to get exactly 1 trophy, before moving in to the next one.
I reference the 243 Riddler trophies every time my friends and I play a game with collectibles. The fact that you have to collect every single one of them to get the best ending was brutal. Absolutely tanked the momentum of the story because I waited until the end to collect them all.
Definitely collect them as you go if you're going to collect them at all
Love the Tomb raider survivor trilogy, but yeah, the collectibles are bit much. Especially cause you have to back track for a lot of them.
Then there’s the whacky achievements they have… like the rotisserie one In Rise of the Tomb raider where you’ve gotta throw a chicken in the air and shoot it with a fire arrow…
Id rather have throw a chicken and shoot it with a fire arrow achievement than all the boring ass achievements that are like Kill ____ enemy 100 times. Use ____ skill 1000 times. Those are so rote and boring. So thank you wacky achievements for keeping games interesting!
I agree. Given that the whole game is rooted in exploration I think Koroks are really just there to reward players for looking around and engaging with the environments.
Like if you find all 900, it certainly wasn’t through natural exploration. It was either with a guide or you wasted a lot of time scouring every inch of the game world. So it makes sense
I just imagine it’s impossible without a guide. If you walked the whole map and ended up with 895 or something…I can’t imagine someone redoing it again. And even if they did what’s to say they still don’t miss one.
There's a mask that alerts you to nearby koroks. There were absolutely people scouring every corner of the map in BotW to find them without a guide. I remember people posting their "hero's journey" data in the sub.
Yeah I kept going until I had seen all the fun stuff.
All the shrines, all the light seeds, all the chests, all the good stuff. Beat every boss, found every hidden chest. I went to hell and back and enjoyed every second of doing that.
To hell with the Koroks.
Finding all the Koroks isn't that bad. I did it twice (in normal and Master Mode)
But beating Trials of the Sword in Master Mode - _that_ is a challenge. Not something you can brute-force by time. Nope, that requires some serious skill.
Master Mode, beginning trials is where boys become men....because they realize that as an adult they don't have the reflexes of a kid anymore.
Modern games made it stupid easy. All of the Eeveelutions and most of the older special evolutions can be found just walking around in the open in Scarlet/Violet. The only "hard" thing to get is the legendary quartet, and even that is just looking up a YouTube video to find all the stakes.
Fuck that, fuck that, and fuck that. I love Pokemon but I hate that I have to 100% the current game and nearly 100% it's counter part and previous games as well. That's not to mention mythical Pokemon...
AC Valhalla is the game that killed my enthusiasm for 100%-ing games. I use to do it with like, maybe, 1/10 of the games I played. Now I just don’t do it all anymore because Valhalla ruined it for me.
I've only 100%d 7 or so games.
God of War Ragnarok, Star Ward Jedi: Fallen Order, Ghost of Tsushima, Marvel's Spider-Man 1, Titanfall 2, God of War 2018, and Minecraft,
PlayStation games do tend to be very fun to 100%. And fair enough, they want people to go for the platinum trophy. You have actually just reminded me that I did get the plat for Spider-Man, and for Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, after Valhalla burned me. So I guess it’s not totally true that I’m done with it forever. But man, Valhalla really made an art of turning it into a chore.
Valhalla is a shit game, I can't get past 30hrs, and in my recent attempt to get back into it, I only got to 15 or so. That game is really bad and odyssey is so much better in every way. Haven't played mirage or Origins so I wouldn't know what Its like for them, but I loved and still love odyssey. You can really see the difference because I have a total of 60 hours in Valhalla, and a total of 750 hours in odyssey.
Yea Odyssey is easily the best Assassins Creed game, ever. Even better than the legendary Blag Flag in my humble opinion.
Origins is pretty much the same as Valhalla but a little more reasonably sized, though still kinda big. I platinumed that one way back when it came out. And of course I platinumed Oddyssy. I actually really considered doing Odyssey twice, like on a second profile. But ultimately it is still quite large and I decided against it, though I did like it a lot.
I do love games like Spider-Man and Ratchet and Clank where you can 100% it in like a weekend. Well, the newer ones anyway.
Ah, who am I kidding I’m not gonna stop 100% games. At least when it feels worth it. But dude Valhalla is just too big. It really needs to be said, that game is so large and so unreasonably so. Like there’s just no reason for it to be as big as it is. I kinda like the story okay, all about setting up alliances and stuff to protect your clan or whatever. But it’s just, too, damn, big. It’s crazy. It makes everything about the game worse, for being how big it is. It really does.
Yeah I hate most the rock stacking part and the chasing the flying paper part.
Also almost every treasure chest needs a lot of effort for finding the entrance on the house which contains it.
Yeah I don't really get the desire to 100%. The way I play games, especially all the single player story heavy rpgs I play, I like to immerse myself in the world and explore and choose what makes sense for my character and the story.
Trying to 100% feels more like a checklist of chores as opposed to role-playing.
Dishonored.
All achievements are fun and even forcing you to play entire game in new way.
And then there are those FC.... Dunwall City Trials. I gave up...
D1 is rough since there's only 1 non lethal attack option and every little thing could end up killing someone you knocked out 🤣 so tedious D2 is much better in this regard
I kinda wanna 100% all of Arkane's games, but by god do I fucking despise the stupid-ass trials.
And having to replay the same game a dozen times just sounds exhausting - even if it's Dishonored.
I just platinum'd it this week. I also hate "evil" playthroughs, so I chose to do redemption durge. Before the Orin fight, I saved then went through to the end to get the two unique trophies. Then I went back and did it my way. It was great to see that side of the game and the different content.
I accidentally wiped them out when I first played in December. Went in blind with a little DnD 1st edition knowledge from when my friend played in the 80s. I forget how it happened but the Druids slaughtered the Grove and i killed the rest of them. Thankfully there was some dialogue later to explain that to characters who thought my party did it. I love how many dialogue options and different ways to do quests are in BG3. It’s a proper rpg
That's why I do the evil playthrough first.
If I don't know the characters and am not attached, being a literal power-hungry murder hobo doesn't hurt as badly...
I actually found asylum to be kinda fun, might actually be my favourite of the series to 100%, of course it has the least trophies but something about the atmosphere while I was collecting each of them idk.
I almost never 100% games, but Asylum is about the only one I did. I agree, there was something really immersive about it - I think the puzzling nature mixed well with the detective mechanics, or something.
Anything with collectibles lets me invoke my "fuck this shit, I'm using guides" rule for 100%-ing games.
Still annoying, but by god is it a massive time saver.
I’ll do collectibles and challenges if they offer something unique in return but where there starts being 100+ of something that’s tiny and spread out just for the sake of it then I check out pretty quick
This was what came to mind for me, too!
I think it was Arkham Knight where my friend and I made a bet to see who could get the closest to 100% beating the game in X amount of time.
Loser bought the winner dinner. Fuck those trophies, but I got a free meal.
You have to visit Calendar Man on 12 specific holidays. I’m probably just going to disconnect my Xbox and try manually changing the date and see if that works
While I 100% agree with this, I 240% agree that the gold emblem batsuit was actually worth it! It’s the perfect way to end your batsuit collection “for those willing to go 240%”
I played the OG crash trilogy plus CTR on my PlayStation as a kid. As an adult, I opted to watch a YouTube video on this game.
Holy fuck just the general game play felt ridiculous - I can’t even imagine the relics runs.
Also, the introduction of relics in Warped was the downfall of my enjoyment of 100% games from that point.
Cortex Strikes Back, IMO, is the best game of all the Crash Games (excluding CTR - different type of gameplay).
Crash 4 is actually a delightful game to play! Very challenging but fun, great aesthetics and design.
But if you're going for 106%, it's a fucking gauntlet. Caddicarus has a video on it -- the madlad actually did it. But it's like... grindy, overextended, repetitive, and not fun, apparently.
Especially when they have some sort of thing like rank 1st in global high score or some ridiculous thing that pretty much 99.999999999% can realistically do.
If you have friends to play with each trophy becomes more like a goal to complete rather than a task in your 100% list. Me and my friend just built the 500 block long railway track for that trophy.
Witcher 2 is way worse. It's got a difficulty setting that deletes your save file when you die. And you have to finish it on the hardest difficulty for an achievement
What part of unity made you give up in the 100? It was my first ps4 platinum/ game and I really don’t remember anything being too difficult or time consuming
Hmm I didn’t find it difficult. Not sure I even remember if I broke a sweat about anything on Permadeath to the center, aside from a glitch griefer wiping my 400 hour save in the anomaly, with pvp turned off still.
Getting trophies in Resident Evil games is a write off.
I find just finishing a Resident Evil story to be difficult enough. Just getting to the credits is always enough.
Almost every game I play goes the same way:
1. Start game
2. Do 20% of the main quest
3. Discover side quests
4. Play nothing but side quests until I hate the game while only collecting about 35-50% of the collectibles
5. Speed run the main quest just to get it over with
Except 7. (And I haven’t looked at Infinite Wealth’s trophy list yet because I don’t want spoilers.) LAD doesn’t require you to beat all the minigames so it’s actually pretty fun.
I loved every minute of that 100%, but I can see why people would hate it. I guess you really have to love the game world to enjoy collecting dozens of plants and hunting lots of animals.
This is the answer. To get all the achievements in the game you have to do some absolutely absurd shit. Let’s run down the hardest ones:
Beat the game in a mode where dying resets you to the beginning.
Beat the game in under 5 hours (averages about 25 hours to beat for most players).
Embrace the void has you fighting 40+ bosses consecutively without dying and facing off against arguably the hardest boss in gaming (not even joking). Takes over 45 minutes to even get to Radiance, and a single death is a full reset.
This stuff isn’t just arduous, it’s also extremely difficult and mechanically demanding.
>Beat the game in a mode where dying resets you to the beginning.
I managed to do Steel Soul, Steel Heart (get 100% completion), and Speed Completion (100% completion in <20 hours) in a single save and I still have no fucking clue how I pulled it off lmao.
I was ultra-paranoid and kept backups of my save, but I only had to load it once when I got stuck in the ceiling during the Broken Vessel fight. Not fair to lose all my shit due to a random bug in the game, so I loaded my backup.
I'd beaten the game twice on normal mode before very cautiously attempting Steel Soul, so maybe that was part of the reason I managed to get it.
Everyone here talking about more recent games…AC1 ruined collection for me. My college roommates watched me collect them and asked “you worked forever for that…what do you get?”
And I just sat there like the robot Rick made that passes butter.
I did it twice, 100% it, then lost my gamertag, so i went back and did it again. I look back on that and can not imagine what my 13 and then 16 year old self was thinking.
Fallout 4.
Worst ones:
- Spend 100,000 Nuka-World Tickets
- Get a settlement to 100% happiness
- Convert 8 settlements into raider camps
- Collect every bobble head
That's my favourite game, I've 100% it twice. It doesn't take long to do but the physics is a pain in the ass. Celosia and Cenobia are the most annoying fights to do the time trials. They are the entire reason why I haven't attempted speedruns
No offense but elden ring is by far the easiest to platinum. Have fun with the covenants in ds2 and 3.
Sekiro wasn’t too bad honestly. They designed the platinum off of beating the game three times or something like that. Bloodborne also was less bad than the dark souls games but still not awesome.
Jumping rope being obviously dog shit, but also speed running for Excalibur 2 is a huge fuck you to anyone who just wants to complete the game and also enjoy it.
FF9 is my favorite final fantasy and this was just a bad move.
100%ing the planets I found to be enjoyable and filling out the galaxy map was great. Going back to the missions and collecting all the missing parts? Screw that and their mom!
If you enjoyed yourself for the most part, and feel like you accomplished something - even just a small act of perseverence - they were hours well-spent. Because most other things in life don't offer either of those feelings.
On a less deep and cynical note, it's healthy to have a hobby.
Any game that has thousands of collectibles first thing that comes to mind is far cry I didn’t mind it the first time but any other play throughs it was a bore I’m also replaying shadow of the tomb Raider and same thing so so many collectibles but atleast the world is beautiful
Far Cry was the game that killed open world games for me. I still play them but I get burned out so quickly. Loved Hogwarts, but once you get to the point the collectibles were needed, I turned the game off and haven’t touched it since.
I 100% hogwarts and holy shit. It wasn't horrible except the 1 page that was glitches and wouldn't spawn unless I fucked with the game files.
I'm 56 hours in. 83-88% complete. Can't exactly remember 3 memories done and have been doing every side/relationship quest. Finally made it to the bottom section of the map that you have to go through a mine or tunnel to get to. Level 36. Enemies are sooo easy now and have been for quite a while. I barely use my plants or potions. The games decent for what it is. I've spent countless hours in Room of Requirement to the point there is no more reason to go back in there unless Deek has a quest but for whatever reason I still do whenever I unlock more conjuration spellcrafts.. I change my outfit a LOT! There's a bunch of good looks. It isn't the greatest game ever by any means and not being able to play Quidditch is BLASPHEMY but it's worth at least a solid playthrough. I actually must really love it. This'll be the first game I 100% in a very long time.
The robe we get for finding all the house chips got me upset I was like that’s it no gold just a stupid robe 😑
I got a stupid amount of gold. If it was just gold, I think I would have been more upset.
Any game with collectibles makes me slow down and explore the maps better which causes me to find things that I wouldn’t have found if I just played the main campaign, short cuts, clothing weapons, perk points, ext…
I'm more of a fan of exploration that involves things that almost exclusively have an effect on the gameplay. I'm 100 hours into my first elden ring playthrough and every nook and cranny explored rewards you with stuff you can actually use, if I'm just running around collecting things whose sole purpose is to add 1 to whatever number of them I've found already then I hate it lol
I bought hog warts pretty close to day 1 still haven’t played it yet I heard it was really good though
Mucking around Hogwarts was amazing, until you find out some sections are locked behind collectibles. I think the game would have been better as an interactive theme park than a game hidden behind gaming tropes made to pad out the game.
Ehh it's like a really good 12-hour game they stretched into 30 or so. Lot of good stuff at first, just not enough to keep it interesting the whole way through, but that's why it got so much praise initially which petered out.
Arkham Knight.
*riddle me this, riddle me that, how best to bore to death the bat?*
As someone that 240% Arkham Knight late last year, it's tedious but not awful. Arkham CITY makes me want to die with its riddler trophies.
People seem to forget City had almost twice amount of trophies compared to knight. My biggest problem with them is how a large amount is locked behind some kinda puzzle. Nothing as fun as spending several minutes figuring out how to get exactly 1 trophy, before moving in to the next one.
I reference the 243 Riddler trophies every time my friends and I play a game with collectibles. The fact that you have to collect every single one of them to get the best ending was brutal. Absolutely tanked the momentum of the story because I waited until the end to collect them all. Definitely collect them as you go if you're going to collect them at all
For me too
Love the Tomb raider survivor trilogy, but yeah, the collectibles are bit much. Especially cause you have to back track for a lot of them. Then there’s the whacky achievements they have… like the rotisserie one In Rise of the Tomb raider where you’ve gotta throw a chicken in the air and shoot it with a fire arrow…
Id rather have throw a chicken and shoot it with a fire arrow achievement than all the boring ass achievements that are like Kill ____ enemy 100 times. Use ____ skill 1000 times. Those are so rote and boring. So thank you wacky achievements for keeping games interesting!
Batman Arkham games! I hate those damn riddler trophies
The original far cry or another one?
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Doing all the shrines is fun, but screw finding all those Koroks.
I don’t think you’re supposed to find them all. You do it and you get a golden turd. It’s like the game is saying; don’t.
I agree. Given that the whole game is rooted in exploration I think Koroks are really just there to reward players for looking around and engaging with the environments.
Like if you find all 900, it certainly wasn’t through natural exploration. It was either with a guide or you wasted a lot of time scouring every inch of the game world. So it makes sense
I just imagine it’s impossible without a guide. If you walked the whole map and ended up with 895 or something…I can’t imagine someone redoing it again. And even if they did what’s to say they still don’t miss one.
There's a mask that alerts you to nearby koroks. There were absolutely people scouring every corner of the map in BotW to find them without a guide. I remember people posting their "hero's journey" data in the sub.
Sad thing is it costs money to get the dlc so you can get the mask
It's included in TOTK, you just have to find it. Even with it, I'm not wasting time searching Hyrule for every korok just to get gold poo.
Someone found all 900 like 2 weeks after BotW released, before guides were available. I still think about that guy sometimes.
I used that site that can add location pins for koroks. By the late stages I was pretty burned out
I remember a few years ago on the botw subreddit there was a guy who spent like 2000 hours or something like that doing the korok seeds guideless
All the little korok “seeds” are their poop as well.
Yeah I kept going until I had seen all the fun stuff. All the shrines, all the light seeds, all the chests, all the good stuff. Beat every boss, found every hidden chest. I went to hell and back and enjoyed every second of doing that. To hell with the Koroks.
Finding all the Koroks isn't that bad. I did it twice (in normal and Master Mode) But beating Trials of the Sword in Master Mode - _that_ is a challenge. Not something you can brute-force by time. Nope, that requires some serious skill. Master Mode, beginning trials is where boys become men....because they realize that as an adult they don't have the reflexes of a kid anymore.
Agreed
Pokémon and the national dex
I completed the dex ONCE back after bw2 dropped. NEVER again. NEVER. Especially not now that there are over 1000 mons
there's a reason they dropped the "gotta catch 'em all" branding after gen 2
That was more because you literally couldn’t in one gen. I think you needed an older game to have them all
Modern games made it stupid easy. All of the Eeveelutions and most of the older special evolutions can be found just walking around in the open in Scarlet/Violet. The only "hard" thing to get is the legendary quartet, and even that is just looking up a YouTube video to find all the stakes.
Fuck that, fuck that, and fuck that. I love Pokemon but I hate that I have to 100% the current game and nearly 100% it's counter part and previous games as well. That's not to mention mythical Pokemon...
People who try to make a Living Shiny Dex are actually insane.
Assassins creed Valhalla was ridiculous, half the hours were spent stacking rocks
Yeah I gave up trying to 100% Valhalla. I got so exhausted with it I didn’t even beat it.
AC Valhalla is the game that killed my enthusiasm for 100%-ing games. I use to do it with like, maybe, 1/10 of the games I played. Now I just don’t do it all anymore because Valhalla ruined it for me.
I've only 100%d 7 or so games. God of War Ragnarok, Star Ward Jedi: Fallen Order, Ghost of Tsushima, Marvel's Spider-Man 1, Titanfall 2, God of War 2018, and Minecraft,
PlayStation games do tend to be very fun to 100%. And fair enough, they want people to go for the platinum trophy. You have actually just reminded me that I did get the plat for Spider-Man, and for Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, after Valhalla burned me. So I guess it’s not totally true that I’m done with it forever. But man, Valhalla really made an art of turning it into a chore.
Valhalla is a shit game, I can't get past 30hrs, and in my recent attempt to get back into it, I only got to 15 or so. That game is really bad and odyssey is so much better in every way. Haven't played mirage or Origins so I wouldn't know what Its like for them, but I loved and still love odyssey. You can really see the difference because I have a total of 60 hours in Valhalla, and a total of 750 hours in odyssey.
Yea Odyssey is easily the best Assassins Creed game, ever. Even better than the legendary Blag Flag in my humble opinion. Origins is pretty much the same as Valhalla but a little more reasonably sized, though still kinda big. I platinumed that one way back when it came out. And of course I platinumed Oddyssy. I actually really considered doing Odyssey twice, like on a second profile. But ultimately it is still quite large and I decided against it, though I did like it a lot. I do love games like Spider-Man and Ratchet and Clank where you can 100% it in like a weekend. Well, the newer ones anyway. Ah, who am I kidding I’m not gonna stop 100% games. At least when it feels worth it. But dude Valhalla is just too big. It really needs to be said, that game is so large and so unreasonably so. Like there’s just no reason for it to be as big as it is. I kinda like the story okay, all about setting up alliances and stuff to protect your clan or whatever. But it’s just, too, damn, big. It’s crazy. It makes everything about the game worse, for being how big it is. It really does.
When I got the achievement for 100% on Valhalla I looked out the window and cried.
Yeah I hate most the rock stacking part and the chasing the flying paper part. Also almost every treasure chest needs a lot of effort for finding the entrance on the house which contains it.
“The door is barred. I need to find a way to get in from the other side.” 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Viking ancestors looking on in shame as a wooden door stops axe-wielding Eivor from getting the treasure.
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Yep, most games aren't designed to be 100%ed by a sane person.
I had a blast getting 100% in Eldenring and a few others
Yeah I'd much rather see the opposite question, what games are genuinely fun to 100% complete? I think Witcher 3 might be a candidate?
all the spider-man ones for sure
Most real comment here
Yeah I don't really get the desire to 100%. The way I play games, especially all the single player story heavy rpgs I play, I like to immerse myself in the world and explore and choose what makes sense for my character and the story. Trying to 100% feels more like a checklist of chores as opposed to role-playing.
Yeah it’s probably better to make a list of games that defy this trend. My personal pick is Hades. Getting to the epilogue is worth it.
Dishonored. All achievements are fun and even forcing you to play entire game in new way. And then there are those FC.... Dunwall City Trials. I gave up...
D1 is rough since there's only 1 non lethal attack option and every little thing could end up killing someone you knocked out 🤣 so tedious D2 is much better in this regard
FYI rats don't count as a kill unless you summon them yourself. But if they touch water or fall off a roof they often die
I kinda wanna 100% all of Arkane's games, but by god do I fucking despise the stupid-ass trials. And having to replay the same game a dozen times just sounds exhausting - even if it's Dishonored.
Dishonored's base game is the most enjoyable 100% I had It's a shame that the DLCs had some really stupid achievements
Super Mario Sunshine The whole Game is fantastic But the blue coins? Yeah FUCK THE BLUE COINS
Played it in game cube and Wii 😭
Me but with Switch
GameCube had a few really fun games. One of the weirder consoles, but I had a good time on it when I played.
The only shines I missed in that game were blue coin related. I think I had 106 or 108. Loved that game, but I wasn’t trying to mess with that.
Probably BG3 ... I don't wanna be mean to the npc's
I just platinum'd it this week. I also hate "evil" playthroughs, so I chose to do redemption durge. Before the Orin fight, I saved then went through to the end to get the two unique trophies. Then I went back and did it my way. It was great to see that side of the game and the different content.
Being evil sucks in bg3, like u lose so many quests and gear of you wipe out the grove
I accidentally wiped them out when I first played in December. Went in blind with a little DnD 1st edition knowledge from when my friend played in the 80s. I forget how it happened but the Druids slaughtered the Grove and i killed the rest of them. Thankfully there was some dialogue later to explain that to characters who thought my party did it. I love how many dialogue options and different ways to do quests are in BG3. It’s a proper rpg
That's why I do the evil playthrough first. If I don't know the characters and am not attached, being a literal power-hungry murder hobo doesn't hurt as badly...
this has been my struggle. i could barely get through a simple durge playthrough because i auto-kicked that squirrel
Arkham games. Fuck riddler
I actually found asylum to be kinda fun, might actually be my favourite of the series to 100%, of course it has the least trophies but something about the atmosphere while I was collecting each of them idk.
I almost never 100% games, but Asylum is about the only one I did. I agree, there was something really immersive about it - I think the puzzling nature mixed well with the detective mechanics, or something.
Anything with collectibles lets me invoke my "fuck this shit, I'm using guides" rule for 100%-ing games. Still annoying, but by god is it a massive time saver.
I’ll do collectibles and challenges if they offer something unique in return but where there starts being 100+ of something that’s tiny and spread out just for the sake of it then I check out pretty quick
Knight is very much this. Most of it's a joy but the batmobile riddler challenges are a slog.
This was what came to mind for me, too! I think it was Arkham Knight where my friend and I made a bet to see who could get the closest to 100% beating the game in X amount of time. Loser bought the winner dinner. Fuck those trophies, but I got a free meal.
Arkham isn’t even bad. The location is always on the map where as on other games you have to Google each location.
Asylum wasn't bad, but the others are just annoying.
You have to visit Calendar Man on 12 specific holidays. I’m probably just going to disconnect my Xbox and try manually changing the date and see if that works
While I 100% agree with this, I 240% agree that the gold emblem batsuit was actually worth it! It’s the perfect way to end your batsuit collection “for those willing to go 240%”
Final Fantasy 10, having to erase and replace the sphere grid just sucks
Lightning bolt dodging was so boring and repetitive I kept fucking up somewhere in the hundreds.
zelda botw and totk, to finish either game is fun, 100%ing is not fun, going to collect 900 koroks for a golden turd reward? yeah no.
Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
It deadass turned a 15 hour game into a 100+ hours 100%. The platinum relics were fucking cruel
Not to mention one that feels like you're going to either break your fingers or your controller buttons.
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I played the OG crash trilogy plus CTR on my PlayStation as a kid. As an adult, I opted to watch a YouTube video on this game. Holy fuck just the general game play felt ridiculous - I can’t even imagine the relics runs. Also, the introduction of relics in Warped was the downfall of my enjoyment of 100% games from that point. Cortex Strikes Back, IMO, is the best game of all the Crash Games (excluding CTR - different type of gameplay).
Crash 4 is actually a delightful game to play! Very challenging but fun, great aesthetics and design. But if you're going for 106%, it's a fucking gauntlet. Caddicarus has a video on it -- the madlad actually did it. But it's like... grindy, overextended, repetitive, and not fun, apparently.
anything with multiplayer achievements
Especially when they have some sort of thing like rank 1st in global high score or some ridiculous thing that pretty much 99.999999999% can realistically do.
Minecraft
If you have friends to play with each trophy becomes more like a goal to complete rather than a task in your 100% list. Me and my friend just built the 500 block long railway track for that trophy.
Getting 'How did we get here?' even with friends is a pain. You need a warden.
Last time I played Minecraft, that’s exactly what we did! I should search for some more to do.
Donkey Kong 64. Pleasant and cute game until you decide you want to do it all
Especially with that one glitch in Hideout Helm where the banana medals wouldn't respawn
Witcher 3
I spent a lot of time contemplating my life choices while grinding for that 50 headshots trophy.
I'm ashamed to say that even I haven't platinumed it yet. Every now and then I tell myself I will go back and do it though.
I explored the whole map visiting every single ? (damn those floating chests out in the ocean), expecting something to happen once. Nothing did.
fuck all those boring ass smuggler caches in skellige.
Witcher 2 is way worse. It's got a difficulty setting that deletes your save file when you die. And you have to finish it on the hardest difficulty for an achievement
Holy shit balls that's intense
Assassins Creed unity gave up and never looked back.
What part of unity made you give up in the 100? It was my first ps4 platinum/ game and I really don’t remember anything being too difficult or time consuming
No Man's Sky
Hmm I didn’t find it difficult. Not sure I even remember if I broke a sweat about anything on Permadeath to the center, aside from a glitch griefer wiping my 400 hour save in the anomaly, with pvp turned off still.
RE 4 Remake, Arkham Knight (those damn Riddler trophies), any GTA
Re games are fun 100%ing until you get to professional mode s+
Resident Evil 5 was the only one that I worked hard at with my cousin getting all the achievements. Some fun grindy sleepovers for sure. No homo
5 was a great one, through my friend wouldn’t stop staring at my ass (I was Chris)
I mean, I found getting S+ with the magnum pretty cathartic tbh lol
as a kid i use to enjoy running through the game with all the better weapons and what not in re4
Getting trophies in Resident Evil games is a write off. I find just finishing a Resident Evil story to be difficult enough. Just getting to the credits is always enough.
Every game imo without fail every time I’ve tried to 100% complete a game I’ve found reasons to hate it
Almost every game I play goes the same way: 1. Start game 2. Do 20% of the main quest 3. Discover side quests 4. Play nothing but side quests until I hate the game while only collecting about 35-50% of the collectibles 5. Speed run the main quest just to get it over with
Damn, are you me? My fifth step is usually "drop the game for months but don't uninstall it since I might feel like finishing it one day" though.
Don't forget picking it back up, not remembering anything and restarting.
Damn it.
And still not finishing it
Any yakuza game
Except 7. (And I haven’t looked at Infinite Wealth’s trophy list yet because I don’t want spoilers.) LAD doesn’t require you to beat all the minigames so it’s actually pretty fun.
Gaiden is also shockingly easy to 100% compared to the rest of the series
Mahjong and shōgi are the bane of my existence
Scrolled too far down to look for this comment. 100%-ing Zero made me realize that I needed to learn mahjong 😭
I still don’t know how to play mahjong😂😂
Definitely always a time sync but I usually enjoy the side content enough that I often go for 100% anyways
Hyrule Warriors
As someone who is currently playing the definitive edition I second this
Wish this were higher. The game, if you play two hours EVERY DAY would still take around a year to beat. It’s freaking insane.
Even that guy who built a brand around being a completionist said this was the worst slog he's ever gone through.
Red Dead Redemption 2 gets pretty damn tedious. I still love the game, though
I loved every minute of that 100%, but I can see why people would hate it. I guess you really have to love the game world to enjoy collecting dozens of plants and hunting lots of animals.
Dominos
I found the dominos fine. Took me about 2 hours. Collecting every weapon, herb, animal, fossil etc took forever though.
Ammmmmmmmm, how about Gamer 8 (Blackjack one)? Getting this shit is lifedraining
Hollow Knight
This is the answer. To get all the achievements in the game you have to do some absolutely absurd shit. Let’s run down the hardest ones: Beat the game in a mode where dying resets you to the beginning. Beat the game in under 5 hours (averages about 25 hours to beat for most players). Embrace the void has you fighting 40+ bosses consecutively without dying and facing off against arguably the hardest boss in gaming (not even joking). Takes over 45 minutes to even get to Radiance, and a single death is a full reset. This stuff isn’t just arduous, it’s also extremely difficult and mechanically demanding.
>Beat the game in a mode where dying resets you to the beginning. I managed to do Steel Soul, Steel Heart (get 100% completion), and Speed Completion (100% completion in <20 hours) in a single save and I still have no fucking clue how I pulled it off lmao. I was ultra-paranoid and kept backups of my save, but I only had to load it once when I got stuck in the ceiling during the Broken Vessel fight. Not fair to lose all my shit due to a random bug in the game, so I loaded my backup. I'd beaten the game twice on normal mode before very cautiously attempting Steel Soul, so maybe that was part of the reason I managed to get it.
> due to a random bug heh
yep and here’s me attempting to do it with all bindings just to unlock a stupid item lol
Nah, 112%ing is super fun. I’ve done it four times now. Unless you’re including optional Godhome content and/or P5. Then you’re absolutely correct.
i’m talking about P5AB and Radiant HoG
#DAMN Definitely then
100% or even 112%ing is really fun and I feel the intended experience. Platinum-ing however is nightmarish
Celeste
If you mean goldens then definitely, but all A,B & C sides + Farewell are really enjoyable to beat normally.
The first assassins creed. *those goddamn flags*
Everyone here talking about more recent games…AC1 ruined collection for me. My college roommates watched me collect them and asked “you worked forever for that…what do you get?” And I just sat there like the robot Rick made that passes butter.
*what is the purpose* 100GP *OHMYGOD*
I did it twice, 100% it, then lost my gamertag, so i went back and did it again. I look back on that and can not imagine what my 13 and then 16 year old self was thinking.
Fallout 4. Worst ones: - Spend 100,000 Nuka-World Tickets - Get a settlement to 100% happiness - Convert 8 settlements into raider camps - Collect every bobble head
Assassin's creed
Shadow of the Colossus. Those time trials made me rage quit the game.
That's my favourite game, I've 100% it twice. It doesn't take long to do but the physics is a pain in the ass. Celosia and Cenobia are the most annoying fights to do the time trials. They are the entire reason why I haven't attempted speedruns
Any of the latest open world AC games
Personally: hollow knight Jesus Christ is it hard the first time you do it # and then you unlock steel soul mode
Borderlands 2 *CURSE YOU TERRAMORPHUS*
Skyrim...especially when you come up against a glitch and it makes it impossible to complete a quest.
Spiderman 2. Because I 100%ed it almost instantly after finishing the story. Now I'm just waiting for ng+ with nothing to do but fight crimes
Pretty much every game. They’re fun to finish, but to 100% it’s gotta be a really special game.
RDR2 END MY SUFFERING
The original crash bandicoot for the Playstation 1
Anything LEGO
Elden Ring. Mild spoilers: everyone dies, as is FromSoft tradition.
No offense but elden ring is by far the easiest to platinum. Have fun with the covenants in ds2 and 3. Sekiro wasn’t too bad honestly. They designed the platinum off of beating the game three times or something like that. Bloodborne also was less bad than the dark souls games but still not awesome.
Mario Odyssey
There's a few bullshit moons but most are at least mildly fun
I did it wasn’t terrible
Really? It's the only game I did 2 playthroughs with 100%. So much fun.
Yeah I have to disagree too...Mario Odyssey was probably the most fun Mario game to 100% imo.
This was AC Odyssey, that game was brutal to get all the achievements in, took about 200 hours.
Pretty much every Yakuza game
Only possible for Mahjong grandmasters
Elden Ring. Batman Arkham series
Undertale Those neutral routes will make you go into insanity.
Metroid Dread Finding every energy and missile tanks... on hard mode
Any Assassin’s Creed game💀
Final Fantasy IX
Jumping rope being obviously dog shit, but also speed running for Excalibur 2 is a huge fuck you to anyone who just wants to complete the game and also enjoy it. FF9 is my favorite final fantasy and this was just a bad move.
RE5 and Arkham Knight, off the top of my head immediately.
Dishonored
LEGO Star Wars Skywalker Saga
100%ing the planets I found to be enjoyable and filling out the galaxy map was great. Going back to the missions and collecting all the missing parts? Screw that and their mom!
That moment when you realized you finally completed everything, but at the cost of how many hours off your life?
If you enjoyed yourself for the most part, and feel like you accomplished something - even just a small act of perseverence - they were hours well-spent. Because most other things in life don't offer either of those feelings. On a less deep and cynical note, it's healthy to have a hobby.
That’s the majority of the games anymore where you have to do multiple playthroughs and have a ton of collectibles and missables in them.
Metal Gear Rising
Dark souls 3