Submitted 3 months ago by blusterydayve26@midwest.social to games@lemmy.world
As per title. Most computer games these days are made with such unnecessary padding that I want to murder the devs or myself by the end. See, for example, Hyrule Warriors, the 100% 1000 Hour Nightmare, the Review.
The second game I ever 100%ed was Arceus and I still can’t stand the thought of picking it up again, years later. The first game was Horizon Zero Dawn, which is still fun.
Batman Arkham Asylum
Elden ring. It’s atmosphere and exploration just draw you in. Huge areas that are technically secrets. I haven’t 100% it because of being locked out of certain questions but I’m sure I’m close. The gameplay is just so addicting to me I’ve got over 700 hours in it.
If you mean 100% achievements on Steam for example, I really enjoyed doing that with the following games:
Slipstream (2018): arcade racing game, 7.5h to 100%
SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated (2020): platformer with some collectathon elements, 13h to 100%
Polyball (2017): think Super Monkey Ball, but a bit faster and stronger momentum iirc, gets quite difficult later on, and although the amount of content isn’t ridiculous, it’s very very hard to manage the requirements for 100%. My playtime is 59h, but I kept playing after 100% to get into the top 10 leaderboards on a bunch of levels, so I think it was more like 30-40h for 100%.
The Stanley Parable (2013): narrative game with some unconventional puzzle elements, 40h to 100%, but not really: one of the achievements is “play the game for the entirety of a Tuesday”, so that adds over 24h. Another achievement is to not play the game at all for 5 years. Some people love this silly stuff, some hate it, up to you :)
Firewatch (2016): narrative game with exploration and some puzzles, 6h to 100%.
Bioshock trilogy
Any doom
Solitaire.
I don’t think that’s possible. I’m fairly certain that unlike free cell, solitaire has unwinnable hands.
Helltaker - I got hooked on the awesome music and fantastic silliness. (It’s free btw)
Citizen Sleeper, Chants of Sennaar, Papers Please, The Curse of the Golden Idol.
South Park: The Stick of Truth. You can 100% it in one run and it takes around 20 hours. Super fun game too :)
Ace Attorney games.
Only games I ever 100%ed were…Assassins Creed 1 and Rocket League, strictly by achievements only. Like I never made it past Champ in RL, and AC1 was really just beat game and collect flags. I never have the urge to 100% a game cause usually it’s just a grind for grinds sake and that isn’t fun to me
Champ is already pretty high, well done!
Thanks! I spent years in Diamond, and had a mini goal to get to Champ. Never really been one to practice mechanics, it was just sheer rotation and positioning. Like I can’t hit off the wall with any kind of consistency. Hit it in like…2019 and haven’t played much since, I actually played last night prior to this comment for the first time in probably a year.
I 100%ed Factorio recently, and I still play it, and I’m looking forward to the expansion that’s about to drop
…you can 100% that game? I thought it was like tetris, where it just keeps going on and on and on and on, stripping your sanity away, until you even see the game when you close your eyes. Soon you forget you have a wife and kids. Must grow the factory…must…grow…wait, was my son 11 months old, or 11 years old? He’s in college???
Must grow the factory…
There’s achievements and you can also “beat the game” when you launch your first rocket. The expansion is going to make it way longer though.
Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2…the exploration of the wilds while so vulnerable in the first game is something I’ll never get bored of while the second game just takes it to a whole other level with your power growing so immense. They still totally hold up with the extended editions!
Those games are so littered with trash mobs that I definitely didn’t have the stamina for 100%.
Armored Core 6 is pretty easy to 100% and it’s really enjoyable the whole way there. Just don’t bother with PvP.
And my favorite 100% grinding game that I keep playing just because I enjoy it so much, is the Earth Defense Force series. The game encourages you to play each mission with each of the 4 classes in each of the 5 difficulty levels. Even though clearing Hard also gives you Easy and Normal completion too, you’re still looking at over 200 hours of gameplay, easily. The games have over 100 missions, tons of weapons to gradually improve, and at higher levels become true combat puzzles to solve with said weapons. Cheese is a way of life, in an enjoyable way.
Sable was a perfect open world that I 100% in about 30 hrs. Totally didn’t overstay it’s welcome. I think they added a fishing quest after I played it so not sure how much that changed things.
I really liked that game and got to 100%, but damn the frame drops. Did the devs ever fix that? It was excruciating anytime you took the hover bike anywhere
The only game I’ve ever done 100% Mario 64
I burned myself out of many a game as a kid attemtping (and usually succeeding at) 100% them, so I learned my lesson. Nowadays I just play for fun and maybe go after the platinum if I liked the game enough.
My time has value and I’m not going to squander it to “look at the minimap, go to waypoint/marked location, collect random collectible, rinse and repeat for 10-15 hours”, nor am I spending dozens of hours grinding some random activity.
For example, I did almost 100% all Yakuza Kiwami. Did all side quests and enjoyed most of the random activities! Iirc those I had most trouble with were karaoke and billiards, but I still had tons of fun learning them and gradually getting better at them. But fuck me I’m NOT going to grind the coliseum for hours just to buy random weapons that I don’t need but are arbitrarily required for the 100% completion.
I’ve also learned not to rush it. I frequently replay games that I like, so if I miss an achievement, that’s fine. Maybe in five years I’ll pick the game up again and grab the random achievement I missed the first time around. There’s no need to sweat it, no need to read guides before/while playing the game and potentially spoiling me some major story events, and no need to immediately replay the game just to reach that random achievement.
That being said, the game I had the most fun with was CrossCode. Movement is fluid, combat is snappy, story and characters are fun and puzzles are actually challenging. It’s the most charming experience I’ve ever had playing a game, and it’s why it immediately jumped straight into my top favourite games ever. There is technically a “completionist list” within the game with some abdurd and missable requests, but it’s not required to 100% the game and it’s basically just a pile of challenges that you can tackle if you feel like. If you don’t, you can just play the story, do the side quests and collect all the treasures, which is a lot of fun. The platinum only requires you to beat the story iirc, so you don’t even need to do any of that; I did it because I liked the game and wanted to do it. Twice! I bought the game on PC and console and 100% it both times.
Most other games that I enjoy completing are platformers/collect-a-thons, such as Spyro, Crash (except Crash 1, never managed to finish it, but had tons of fun nevertheless), Ori, Celeste, PS1 Oddworld games, etc… and metroidvanias, if they are not overly long (basically every one I’ve played except for Hollow Knight).
The longest run I had was Final Fantasy XIII. I liked the game so much that I kept going back to it over the years, slowly chipping at the side content and grinding my way to max level. I got the platinum almost ten years after starting the game, and I wouldn’t have enjoyed it nearly enough if I attempted to rush it all in one sitting.
Sekiro
Bump for Sekiro. There is not one other game that plays as satisfying. It’s souls crack, I cannot get enough of it
The skill point grind is awful though
Super Mario World (I 100% it multiple times) New Super Mario Bros Wii (I 100% with friends and we still play it time to time via Dolphin Online) Mario 64 (Also did 100% multiple times) Mario Galaxy 1 and 2 Super Mario Bros Wonders (I also 100% two times already) Super Mario Odyssey Super Mario 3D World + Bowsers Furry
Super Mario Sunshine defiantly NOT! HOLLY MOLLY to 100% this game you must be a real masochist!
Besides Mario Games: Zelda Majoras Mask, I love this game Ocarina of Time Elden Ring (I 100% The Base Game a few times, once Singleplayer a few other times with Seamless Co-op)
Factorio
It was tough, but I had an absolute blast 100%'ing Neon White and Hades
Two games I have platinumed on PS4 that I still go back and play are Subnautica and Kerbal Space Program. Not sure if you mean 100% as in like scan and collect every item, or get all the trophies, cause I don’t think I’ve ever 100% a game in that way.
Escape velocity (1996, ambrosia software game for macOS). My favorite computer game of all time I think.
Check out Endless Sky if you haven’t heard of it
I heard about it when it was in development but hadn’t followed up! I still have escape velocity on my 2024 Mac but maybe I will check I out the loving homage.
Yes!
Love that game, and the sequels; EV Override and EV Nova. I was looking for a game that played like Starflight, a PC game from the 80s, found EV and was pleasantly surprised.
Though I do hold Starflight in higher regard than EV. It deserves a solid remake.
FF7, I replay the game every 4-5 years.
I don’t think I’ve ever 100% a game. I don’t care about achievements and I’ve finished the campaign/story on many but I rarely go back to any.
I had a ton of fun 100%ing Super Mario Odyssey. There’s a big amount of post-game content and a good amount of variety in exploring the different levels. Some of the moons need a guide though since they can be reallt vague.
I felt differently, so many of those stars and collectibles are uninspired filler. Trying to 100% it led to me significantly disliking it. They could have cut so much and it’d be a much tighter experience.
Fuck that jump rope moon, though.
Pokemon Uranium. The (in)famous(?) banned fan game that is still being developed. Minus a couple pokemon, it follows the Black and White philosophy of having no returning pokemon.
I’ve played through the game multiple times, beating the final fight for the main story and calling it there, without hating myself or the game.
Hell, I’ve even gone through the trouble of completing the pokedex once and struggled to find an early route bird for the last two entries I needed. Pokedex for that game can be hard because when it comes to 2 of the pokemon, you can only get one per save and must online trade to get the counterpart and 1 line is a trade evolution with no in game trades for it or trade evo items. Obviously starters require online trade, too.
Only problem I have with it is the fact I’m still waiting for the rest of the post game to be developed and released so I can hopefully get the unreleased legendaries you can find on the fandom wiki.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Elden Ring and most other soulslikes.
Other games are unbearable to try 100%, for example: Cities Skylines where you have to wait for a generated special natural disaster that may or may not appear after X hours in your current savegame.
toddestan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I got all but one achievement in Subnautica, and all of the achievements in Below Zero (the sequel) in my first playthrough of both games, just from taking my time and thoroughly exploring both of the worlds and completing the story.
With that said, they are open world games and at times don’t really give you a whole of guidance as to what you need to do next. So you are kind of left to explore and figure it out on your own. If you don’t like that sort of game you might end up hating them by the end too.
olafurp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Do you recommend Below Zero? I loved subnautica so much but I generally think buying another game instead of an expansion is usually a better deal.
Absolutely magical game
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Subnautica is AMAZING, an 8/10 for me. Absolutely stellar.
I enjoyed Below Zero. I gave it a 6/10, a good solid game. I absolutely recommend it if you enjoyed the first.
(I use the real rating scale like I rate movies, where 6/10 is a good game… not the bullshit “scale” that starts at 5/10 = shit game)
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
It’s made by a different team, but it’s still Subnautica. I liked it, just understand it’s not as good as the first.