Have You Ever Got a 100% on a Video Game?

[feiyen]

Castlevania: symphony of the night
Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask (time travel is a pain)
Legend of Zelda windwaker
Metroid Prime

Almost got Metroid Prime 2 but I always missed something.

currently working on Bayonneta

[Mofo Rising]

You can get that last bit of Castlevania: SOTN, but there's a trick. I did it. I think it has something to do with the wolf/bat/mist form.

I think I'm a part of the last generation of gamers. It used to be easy to get 100% because the games themselves were small. There was only so much you could fit in a cartridge.

If a game requires you to collect random things, I will do it. I finished Psychonauts at a 100% value.

Thing is, I don't enjoy it. I'm just trained for it by all the games I've played. Essentially it's just a nervous tick for me to seek out these meaningless parts.

New games are so much more advanced than that. But I'm still caught in my old man way of playing games. I think I would enjoy games much more if I could just play them to play them.

Then again, the only game I've spent a lot on in the past few days is the remake of Monkey Island 2.

[retrorussell]

You normally can get up to 200% on Castlevania SOTN, by finishing both normal and upside-down castles.  But by using the Soul Brothers trick somewhere in the church area you can turn into a bat and fly OUTSIDE the castle, increasing your total to over 200%!  You can get stuck, though; so if you can come back and save your game after exploring a little bit you should.

[BeyondTheGrave]

Silent Hill 3 got all the costumes and endings.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare did everything.
GTA Vice City.
Most of the Resident Evils I did everything.

Theirs probably more but thats all I remember off the top of my head.

[Joe the Destroyer]

Hmm... Lemme think...

Saints Row
Jak 2
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Galaxy
Plus I did all there is to do (pretty much) on Final Fantasy 6

Other than that, I usually don't bother with full completion.  It all depends on how much of the game I want to experience.  I found that some games (Final Fantasy X-2, especially) have really pointless, irritating, boring, and unrewarding extras. 

If there's one thing I have to say I love about the Saints Row games, though, it's that they're actually worth playing to 100%.  Some of the extras you get actually help you out in the game immensely.  For example, completing all the hit lists in the first game will give you powerful unlockable weapons, or completing the Base Jumping with a triple gold star in the second one will make you immune to falling damage.  Yeah, even if you jump out of a plane at the highest point and hit the ground, you won't take damage. 

[Jack]

I'm working on getting a platinum in Fallout 3 now.  Even though I really disliked the game at first, I dunno...it sort of grew on me after a while    The gaming media really overhypes certain games, and that always leaves me very disappointed.  I have to get past the sky-high expectations before I can really start enjoying it for what it is.  Anyhow, I'm using a trophy guide just to find all the quests.  I don't know how you could ever do it without one, it would take you literally hundreds of hours just to FIND all the quests otherwise. 

[The Gravekeeper]

Lessee...I think it was either Pokemon Blue or Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. I played them both a lot when I was a kid, so I had nothing better to do with my time back then. Nowadays when I play a game I just go through the main plot because I've got more important and interesting things to do with my time than to look for every single piece of random crap in a game.

I don't mind doing all the side quests in Majora's Mask, though. I quite like the minor characters in the game and I don't mind lending them a hand (especially since doing them all nets you the Fierce Deity mask, aka: the Make-the-Final-Boss-Cry-Like-A-Little-Girl mask).

[Starsky]

Back in the day yes, but these days I'm just not interested in collecting achivments. I just want to finish the main story and move on