Total completion

shift6 · 06-09-2006, 10:11 AM

So we've all gotten the power-up and won the game before. But how many games have you beat where you completed (or nearly so) every single aspect?

For instance, I'm currently playing through all seven Tony Hawks again on the XBox. Besides just beating the story modes, I am attempting to kill all the gaps I can find, get all the hidden money, do all the combos, beat all the secret levels, etc. As another for instance, in Painkiller I beat the game but then went back and replayed each level until I got all the black tarot cards, etc.

This would be hard for RPGs where there are so many lines of dialogue and so forth; but for most games, which ones have you played and played until you found or passed every possible challenge and secret?

Becoming · 06-09-2006, 10:16 AM

The first ones that pop into my brain are the zelda games. Over the course of the years I've done them all (every heart piece, jar, etc..). The real bitch was all the photos in Wind Waker. It got to the point that I'd fire it up to play just to...snap more pictures. It was devious and evil and I'll gladly never do that again, but at the same time it was strangely addictive. I just had to see all the little statues.

LesJarvis · 06-09-2006, 10:17 AM

Symphony of the Night is the only one that springs to mind.

Edit: Oh yeah, Zelda: TooT also.

Edit: Final Fantasy 7 also. And a few of the Mario games.

Jab2565 · 06-09-2006, 10:19 AM

I beat ratchet and clank deadlock 100%, Also the original super mario world and yoshi's island. Could never beat the zelda games 100% though. I don't think I ever beat a rpg 100%, unless illusion of gaia counts.

Fugitive · 06-09-2006, 10:31 AM

I came close with Psychonauts, finding all of the psi challenge markers and cards, vaults, cobwebs, scavenger hunt items, and mental baggage. I went back and got nearly all of the figments in each level, but there were some that I just couldn't be bothered to hunt down before I gave up.

Otherwise though, I tend to start working on clearing all those secrets, but never quite get them all. In Super Mario World I think I got as far as Tubular on the secret star road levels before giving up. In New Super Mario Bros I went back and opened all the levels for the two-star rating, but gave up on trying to get every single star coin. I started working on the Monster Arena in FFX, but there was just way too much grinding necessary.

I'll have to look through my collection to remind myself of any older games that I might have fully completed though...

Gendal · 06-09-2006, 10:42 AM

I never, ever do this but the gf? She is psychotic. A short list of some of them:
Psychonauts? 100%
Metriod prime 1 & 2? 100%
Zelda Ocarina of Time? 100%
Zelda WW? All hearts etc, though not all of the little statue thingies or whatever
Beyond Good & Evil? 100%
Eternal Darkness? 100%

Number of games where she defeated the end boss? uh... zero? Obviously her idea of 100% and my idea of 100% differ, but it's still pretty impressive. She has me beat the last boss most of the time, but she does 99% of the rest herself. Psychotic I tell you.

It's funny how easy the final boss fights are when you have everything the game has to offer. Prime was a totally different fight from my anemic weapons loadout to her completionist philosophy.

Coca Cola Zero · 06-09-2006, 10:53 AM

The Zelda and Mario games (I currently have all the star coins for the first 7 worlds in NSMB!) are the only ones that consistently get me to go for all the secrets. I did do "everything" in the original GTA3, but didn't bother in the sequels. I also remember being home sick from school for a week when I was a wee youngin and playing Pitfall II over and over until I beat it with a perfect score.

By and large, though, I'm not one of those people that absolutely has to finish a game 100%.

Xemu · 06-09-2006, 11:06 AM

I'm slowly plugging away at a 100% playthrough of San Andreas on the PC (without cheating, of course). I'm at like 89% now.

Alex Handy · 06-09-2006, 11:12 AM

Spyro the Dragon. I don't know why, but collecting all of those Gems was hypnotic, and I just had to do it. I think this is the only game I ever 100%'d.

Chris Woods · 06-09-2006, 11:14 AM

I think FF7 is the only game I could claim this on. Made level 99, defeated all the weapons (even defeated Ruby without KotR; I got my Golden Chocobo by killing Ruby instead of breeding it), had one of every Materia at the "*" level, etc.

I am working through FF X-2 to get basically the same, but I'm using a walk through to get the 100% because you have to do some silly stuff (like "talk to this random guy") to ensure you get it.

Chris Woods

roguefrog · 06-09-2006, 11:17 AM

I unlocked everything in F-Zero GX. Took about a month. Zelda's usually are completed 100%. I might miss one heart piece and just decide it's not worth looking for (WW). I did kill all of those spider things in OoT for 100%

GTA never. Doing all the side stuff is just not that fun.

scharmers · 06-09-2006, 11:22 AM

PAINKILLER 100% CARDS

stupid, stupid

slantz · 06-09-2006, 11:27 AM

I almost have 100% on Kingdom Hearts II (I had 96% as of last night). Some of it's pretty obnoxious, though. Like getting 20-40 of every synthesis material, killing sepheroth, beating the 50-round (8th) hades cup, and getting rediculous scores in some of the mini-games.

This process inspired this comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/05/05

Oh yeah, and I'm playing through the entire game on Hard, which makes it even worse.

Stroker Ace · 06-09-2006, 11:28 AM

I always liked the shells in Zelda: Link's Awakening. That sword upgrade was sweet. That was incidentally my favorite Zelda ever.

Thomas Wilde · 06-09-2006, 11:31 AM

Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 2, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Resident Evil 4 (GameCube version), Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy X (for work), Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII (I'm not sure why, either), Soul Calibur...

ElGuapo · 06-09-2006, 11:43 AM

I WILL get all the acheivements in Blood Money. I mean, I like the game, I might as well try it with one game, because most of the others are too damn hard. Maybe I'll try it with Oblivion too.

Stroker Ace · 06-09-2006, 11:47 AM

Thief 1?

Beating that on the top difficulty was a pain - had to snag every piece of cash in every level IIRC. I remember playing in my dorm room with my two buddies looking over my shoulder saying "bing" "ping" "bling" hoping for another coin to be revealed in each corner.

Becoming · 06-09-2006, 11:49 AM

Oh, I almost forgot I did all the stuff in both Banjo Kazooie games also.

RickH · 06-09-2006, 11:51 AM

101% in DK64. 120 stars in SM64. Working on 120 stars on SM Sunshine.

Tom Ohle · 06-09-2006, 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shift6

So we've all gotten the power-up and won the game before. But how many games have you beat where you completed (or nearly so) every single aspect?

Amped 2.

Coca Cola Zero · 06-09-2006, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ElGuapo

I WILL get all the acheivements in Blood Money. I mean, I like the game, I might as well try it with one game, because most of the others are too damn hard. Maybe I'll try it with Oblivion too.

You're playing Blood Money?? Hardcore!!! Three cheers for pre-GTA DMA Design games!

"First there was Menace... Now, Psygnosis presents... a DMA Design game... Bloooood Moooooneeeeyy!! (Music) There's a whole lot more comin, ya, ya, ya!"

Oh.. wait, you mean that new Hitman game, huh?

foogla · 06-09-2006, 12:56 PM

Quake (all diffs), Baldur's Gate 2 (wtf was I thinking).

tromik · 06-09-2006, 12:57 PM

Tony Hawk 2 (Finished with all characters, all gaps)
God of War (All difficulties, found all easter eggs, eyes and feathers etc.)

What about just all difficulties?

K0NY · 06-09-2006, 12:58 PM

I got all the achievements in Geometry Wars and Hexic HD. Oh, I played Advance Wars 2 until I had unlocked and played all the maps available in it. I also completed the Burnout Legends game on PSP with all achievements, save for a couple of signature takedowns. Back in the day, I can remember completing the gaps list and all on one of the Tony Hawk games, it might have been 3. On the original Playstation, I played Wipeout XL until everything was 100% that was a blister maker, if ever there was one.

Damien Neil · 06-09-2006, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coca Cola Zero

"First there was Menace... Now, Psygnosis presents... a DMA Design game... Bloooood Moooooneeeeyy!! (Music) There's a whole lot more comin, ya, ya, ya!"

The biggest unanswered question is: Where is the money?

TheRock · 06-09-2006, 03:26 PM

I've rarely ever finished a game, let alone gone back and played them again...played 2 or 3 of the Tony Hawk games but got bored after 4-6 hours in each of em...thought about going back through them to get 100% but just couldn't fathom that much time again.

The only game I've every played twice is Doom2...played it on easy, then hard, but didn't care to look for every enemy, piece of ammo, etc.

Alan Au · 06-09-2006, 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by foogla

Baldur's Gate 2 (wtf was I thinking).

Yikes. I've already put in around 500 hours over multiple run-throughs, and there are aspects of the game I have yet to explore.

I tend to be selectively completist, which means trying to milk the most out of a single run-through. This sometimes means skipping content if it's locked away in a branch I didn't explore (e.g. the losing campaign path in Panzer General).

- Alan

Coca Cola Zero · 06-09-2006, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Damien Neil

The biggest unanswered question is: Where is the money?

Heh, heh.

The funny part is I can't remember much at all about the gameplay of that game beyond shooting things and having coins burst out of them, but I can remember the intro sequence as clear as day.

Damien Neil · 06-09-2006, 04:52 PM

The only thing I can remember about the gameplay is that it kicked my ass. Forget finishing the game, I couldn't even start it. Five seconds in, I'd be curled up in a fetal position under the desk, whimpering.

Damned good intro, though.

sluggo · 06-09-2006, 04:55 PM

When I finally put down the PC version of GTA San Andreas, I was at about 97% or something like that.

Call me crazy, but I completely finished Simpsons Hit & Run. Twice. (On Xbox and PC.) For some reason, I really enjoyed that game.

06-09-2006, 10:11 AM	#1
shift6 New Romantic Join Date: May 2004 Location: Phase 2 Posts: 9,630	Total completion So we've all gotten the power-up and won the game before. But how many games have you beat where you completed (or nearly so) every single aspect? For instance, I'm currently playing through all seven Tony Hawks again on the XBox. Besides just beating the story modes, I am attempting to kill all the gaps I can find, get all the hidden money, do all the combos, beat all the secret levels, etc. As another for instance, in Painkiller I beat the game but then went back and replayed each level until I got all the black tarot cards, etc. This would be hard for RPGs where there are so many lines of dialogue and so forth; but for most games, which ones have you played and played until you found or passed every possible challenge and secret?

06-09-2006, 10:16 AM	#2
Becoming Mad Chester Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,164	The first ones that pop into my brain are the zelda games. Over the course of the years I've done them all (every heart piece, jar, etc..). The real bitch was all the photos in Wind Waker. It got to the point that I'd fire it up to play just to...snap more pictures. It was devious and evil and I'll gladly never do that again, but at the same time it was strangely addictive. I just had to see all the little statues.

06-09-2006, 10:17 AM	#3
LesJarvis Social Worker Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Parsimony Posts: 3,313	Symphony of the Night is the only one that springs to mind. Edit: Oh yeah, Zelda: TooT also. Edit: Final Fantasy 7 also. And a few of the Mario games.

06-09-2006, 10:19 AM	#4
Jab2565 New Romantic Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 6,726	I beat ratchet and clank deadlock 100%, Also the original super mario world and yoshi's island. Could never beat the zelda games 100% though. I don't think I ever beat a rpg 100%, unless illusion of gaia counts.

06-09-2006, 10:31 AM	#5
Fugitive New Romantic Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Calgary Posts: 7,603	I came close with Psychonauts, finding all of the psi challenge markers and cards, vaults, cobwebs, scavenger hunt items, and mental baggage. I went back and got nearly all of the figments in each level, but there were some that I just couldn't be bothered to hunt down before I gave up. Otherwise though, I tend to start working on clearing all those secrets, but never quite get them all. In Super Mario World I think I got as far as Tubular on the secret star road levels before giving up. In New Super Mario Bros I went back and opened all the levels for the two-star rating, but gave up on trying to get every single star coin. I started working on the Monster Arena in FFX, but there was just way too much grinding necessary. I'll have to look through my collection to remind myself of any older games that I might have fully completed though...

06-09-2006, 10:42 AM	#6
Gendal Social Worker Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,646	I never, ever do this but the gf? She is psychotic. A short list of some of them: Psychonauts? 100% Metriod prime 1 & 2? 100% Zelda Ocarina of Time? 100% Zelda WW? All hearts etc, though not all of the little statue thingies or whatever Beyond Good & Evil? 100% Eternal Darkness? 100% Number of games where she defeated the end boss? uh... zero? Obviously her idea of 100% and my idea of 100% differ, but it's still pretty impressive. She has me beat the last boss most of the time, but she does 99% of the rest herself. Psychotic I tell you. It's funny how easy the final boss fights are when you have everything the game has to offer. Prime was a totally different fight from my anemic weapons loadout to her completionist philosophy.

06-09-2006, 10:53 AM	#7
Coca Cola Zero New Romantic Join Date: May 2006 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 8,237	The Zelda and Mario games (I currently have all the star coins for the first 7 worlds in NSMB!) are the only ones that consistently get me to go for all the secrets. I did do "everything" in the original GTA3, but didn't bother in the sequels. I also remember being home sick from school for a week when I was a wee youngin and playing Pitfall II over and over until I beat it with a perfect score. By and large, though, I'm not one of those people that absolutely has to finish a game 100%.

06-09-2006, 11:06 AM	#8
Xemu Social Worker Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 2,669	I'm slowly plugging away at a 100% playthrough of San Andreas on the PC (without cheating, of course). I'm at like 89% now.

06-09-2006, 11:12 AM	#9
Alex Handy Neo Acoustic Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Oakland Posts: 1,536	Spyro the Dragon. I don't know why, but collecting all of those Gems was hypnotic, and I just had to do it. I think this is the only game I ever 100%'d.

06-09-2006, 11:14 AM	#10
Chris Woods Spinning Toe Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 600	I think FF7 is the only game I could claim this on. Made level 99, defeated all the weapons (even defeated Ruby without KotR; I got my Golden Chocobo by killing Ruby instead of breeding it), had one of every Materia at the "*" level, etc. I am working through FF X-2 to get basically the same, but I'm using a walk through to get the 100% because you have to do some silly stuff (like "talk to this random guy") to ensure you get it. Chris Woods

06-09-2006, 11:17 AM	#11
roguefrog Social Worker Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Oceanside, California Posts: 2,835	I unlocked everything in F-Zero GX. Took about a month. Zelda's usually are completed 100%. I might miss one heart piece and just decide it's not worth looking for (WW). I did kill all of those spider things in OoT for 100% GTA never. Doing all the side stuff is just not that fun.

06-09-2006, 11:22 AM	#12
scharmers Social Worker Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: I love this thread so much Posts: 3,895	PAINKILLER 100% CARDS stupid, stupid

06-09-2006, 11:27 AM	#13
slantz Social Worker Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 2,596	I almost have 100% on Kingdom Hearts II (I had 96% as of last night). Some of it's pretty obnoxious, though. Like getting 20-40 of every synthesis material, killing sepheroth, beating the 50-round (8th) hades cup, and getting rediculous scores in some of the mini-games. This process inspired this comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/05/05 Oh yeah, and I'm playing through the entire game on Hard, which makes it even worse.

06-09-2006, 11:28 AM	#14
Stroker Ace New Romantic Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 7,549	I always liked the shells in Zelda: Link's Awakening. That sword upgrade was sweet. That was incidentally my favorite Zelda ever.

06-09-2006, 11:31 AM	#15
Thomas Wilde Neo Acoustic Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Bellevue, Washington -+- GamerTag: TvsWanderer Posts: 1,583	Eternal Darkness, Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 2, Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Resident Evil 4 (GameCube version), Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy X (for work), Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy VIII (I'm not sure why, either), Soul Calibur...

06-09-2006, 11:43 AM	#16
ElGuapo New Romantic Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 9,811	I WILL get all the acheivements in Blood Money. I mean, I like the game, I might as well try it with one game, because most of the others are too damn hard. Maybe I'll try it with Oblivion too.

06-09-2006, 11:47 AM	#17
Stroker Ace New Romantic Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 7,549	Thief 1? Beating that on the top difficulty was a pain - had to snag every piece of cash in every level IIRC. I remember playing in my dorm room with my two buddies looking over my shoulder saying "bing" "ping" "bling" hoping for another coin to be revealed in each corner.

06-09-2006, 11:49 AM	#18
Becoming Mad Chester Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,164	Oh, I almost forgot I did all the stuff in both Banjo Kazooie games also.

06-09-2006, 11:51 AM	#19
RickH New Romantic Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, TX 360/PS3/Steam: tenjackten Posts: 6,418	101% in DK64. 120 stars in SM64. Working on 120 stars on SM Sunshine.

06-09-2006, 12:56 PM	#22
foogla Mad Chester Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Hamburg, Germany Posts: 1,321	Quake (all diffs), Baldur's Gate 2 (wtf was I thinking).

06-09-2006, 12:57 PM	#23
tromik New Romantic Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada XBL Gamertag: tromik Posts: 8,455	Tony Hawk 2 (Finished with all characters, all gaps) God of War (All difficulties, found all easter eggs, eyes and feathers etc.) What about just all difficulties?

06-09-2006, 12:58 PM	#24
K0NY Neo Acoustic Join Date: May 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 1,538	I got all the achievements in Geometry Wars and Hexic HD. Oh, I played Advance Wars 2 until I had unlocked and played all the maps available in it. I also completed the Burnout Legends game on PSP with all achievements, save for a couple of signature takedowns. Back in the day, I can remember completing the gaps list and all on one of the Tony Hawk games, it might have been 3. On the original Playstation, I played Wipeout XL until everything was 100% that was a blister maker, if ever there was one.

06-09-2006, 03:26 PM	#26
TheRock Spinning Toe Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Silver Lake, WA (Oregon born) Posts: 978	I've rarely ever finished a game, let alone gone back and played them again...played 2 or 3 of the Tony Hawk games but got bored after 4-6 hours in each of em...thought about going back through them to get 100% but just couldn't fathom that much time again. The only game I've every played twice is Doom2...played it on easy, then hard, but didn't care to look for every enemy, piece of ammo, etc.

06-09-2006, 04:52 PM	#29
Damien Neil Social Worker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Mountain View, CA; Gamertag: Corvidae Posts: 4,188	The only thing I can remember about the gameplay is that it kicked my ass. Forget finishing the game, I couldn't even start it. Five seconds in, I'd be curled up in a fetal position under the desk, whimpering. Damned good intro, though.

06-09-2006, 04:55 PM	#30
sluggo Social Worker Join Date: May 2003 Location: Stockholm Synthdrome Posts: 3,938	When I finally put down the PC version of GTA San Andreas, I was at about 97% or something like that. Call me crazy, but I completely finished Simpsons Hit & Run. Twice. (On Xbox and PC.) For some reason, I really enjoyed that game.

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