Games you have to 100% if you're replaying it - When just getting to the end isn't enough

[Prophetic Spirit]

GTA. It's not enough to beat the story, now if you want your money's worth, do everything that the game provided.

Same shit, but not about the money.
It's about the insane benefits of doing side missions, mainly the taxi/paramedic/firefighter/police ones.

 

[Leaded Gasoline]

Burnout 3. it takes just a bit over 20 hours for 100% completion and it's fun all the way through

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I 100% Super Mario Sunshine at least once a year, even though the most fun you'll have is probably just going through the required levels. The extra secret levels and replays make the game go from "Wow, how delightful!" to "Holy fucking shit I want to drink myself unconscious"

 

[Boiled Pizza]

I 100% Super Mario Sunshine at least once a year, even though the most fun you'll have is probably just going through the required levels. The extra secret levels and replays make the game go from "Wow, how delightful!" to "Holy fucking shit I want to drink myself unconscious"

"I'm a Chuckster!" or that fucking Pachinko mini-game...

 

[Ventrue]

Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain requires 100% completion to unlock everything. This game was one of the hardest games I played but I had fun playing it. The hard part about getting 100% is speed running the objectives and not dying on each map.

MediEvil I and MediEvil II are the first games I got 100% and it was also the easiest games to achieve that. It is easy to collect each chalice you just have to kill every enemy in each level before you can get the chalice.

GTA Vice City you get a T shirt and some goons to recruit that are weaker than Hilary King's self-esteem. The hard part is getting the collectibles (Hidden Packages, Rampages, Unique Jumps).

 

[Rapier Ape]

I've had a few games that I went through with a fine toothed comb last year and into this one.
The Shin Megami Nocturn Remaster.
The Crono Cross Remaster.
The Castlevania Collection.
Dark Souls Remaster went on sale so there's a quite a bit of activity. Trying to do a full dried finger run and collect all miracles on a cleric. The absurd amount of Giantdads in the Undead Parish at level 20 is still a thing. Also ran into a guy in undead burg at level 10 that spammed WotG 19 times and my roll/backstab with a dagger didn't even knock off 5% of his lifebar. So the kiddies are out using Save Editor still.
I still have yet to start Star Ocean the Devine Force.
I ended up snagging the entire Saga Frontier and Romancing Saga collection on the Xmas sale because every title was 75-90% off. So yeah picked them all up for roughly 40 bucks total.
One of my problems is that I'll find stuff on sale on PSN or Steam when it's on sale. I'll but it and put it in the to do list. Then never touch it.

 

[Mimic]

Zelda games. Gotta get all the items, all the hearts, all the masks, and all the upgrades. I recently replayed Majora's Mask and rekindled my hatred of being a Goron on the moon.

And because I'm a masochist apparently, NieR Gestalt/Replicant.

 

[Shidoen]

Anyone replayed Need For Speed: Most Wanted because cars going vroom vroom with heavy music is great?

 

[Billy_Sama!]

Pikmin for me. Just finish 100% Pikmin again and it was wonderful

 

[Pissmaster]

Never ever? What about lore heavy games? I liked playing Borderlands 2 because there was a lot of lore I missed through the first play through, plus it was fun to kill enemies at a higher level and with more skill than I did during the first time I beat the game. Same with Fallout New Vegas, though I still haven't completed that game yet.

What do you consider 100% completion? Let's take Borderlands 2, for example: does 100% entail getting to max level with all six characters? Clearing all the DLC with all six? Clearing every single side mission, so you don't miss a single line? The thought of it is overwhelming and sounds horribly repetitive, since you have to do everything six times over.

I never 100% any game. I got very close in Final Fantasy IV PSP, doing the Lunar Ruins and ending up with every single party member at level 99, but I didn't beat Brachioraidos, because the way to beat him is tedious and stupid. I think you get a special shield that's essentially useless, because he's the hardest superboss. I gave it a couple of shots and I just didn't wanna go step-by-step through a walkthrough.

 

[ZipDisk]

I'm trying to get all of the exo upgrades in Advanced Warfare and holy fuck it's a slog. I locked out headshots, I locked out kills, I'm too stupid to find the intel, so I have to go for grenade kills for the last six upgrade points.

It's a slog. I don't even know why I'm doing this to myself. I do love Spacey as the bad guy though. Aside from being completely insane, he's so fucking petty.
"Pull me up or we both die".

 

[CoolFool]

What do you consider 100% completion? Let's take Borderlands 2, for example: does 100% entail getting to max level with all six characters? Clearing all the DLC with all six? Clearing every single side mission, so you don't miss a single line? The thought of it is overwhelming and sounds horribly repetitive, since you have to do everything six times over.

I never 100% any game. I got very close in Final Fantasy IV PSP, doing the Lunar Ruins and ending up with every single party member at level 99, but I didn't beat Brachioraidos, because the way to beat him is tedious and stupid. I think you get a special shield that's essentially useless, because he's the hardest superboss. I gave it a couple of shots and I just didn't wanna go step-by-step through a walkthrough.

Personally, I consider 100% meaning you finish every quest, get every possible ending, and find all the hidden lore.

I guess that's not technically 100% since you could argue that you didn't play as every character, or you didn't get every possible PS/xbox badge. I don't care about badges or getting every rare item (I think I only got one legendary item in BL2), I guess what I really want is to make sure I complete the game in a way that I get the whole story and I can get all the special moves on my character.

 

[Shidoen]

Personally, I consider 100% meaning you finish every quest, get every possible ending, and find all the hidden lore.

I guess that's not technically 100% since you could argue that you didn't play as every character, or you didn't get every possible PS/xbox badge. I don't care about badges or getting every rare item (I think I only got one legendary item in BL2), I guess what I really want is to make sure I complete the game in a way that I get the whole story and I can get all the special moves on my character.

Well it is something but usually I like to do the achievement hunting because it’s “official”. If not with games like Oblivion with no achievements I just look at all the old achievements that were on Xbox and do them with no visible recognition.

 

[CoolFool]

Well it is something but usually I like to do the achievement hunting because it’s “official”. If not with games like Oblivion with no achievements I just look at all the old achievements that were on Xbox and do them with no visible recognition.

I'm sure on some games achievement hunting might be fun but on BL2 some of the achievements is just doing boring grinding stuff for a long time. Like I can't remember what they were but some were something like "open 1,000,000 chests" or something, I just cannot be bothered to do all that.

 

[Shidoen]

I'm sure on some games achievement hunting might be fun but on BL2 some of the achievements is just doing boring grinding stuff for a long time. Like I can't remember what they were but some were something like "open 1,000,000 chests" or something, I just cannot be bothered to do all that.

It would be good to remember Anthony Burch wrote the writing of that game, I love the gameplay but I could never deal with the writing. Achievement hunting for that game specifically I never bother much with either. That grinding stuff sounds too much like an mmo and I already deal with playing one.

 

[el bandito loco]

I almost always 100% games but almost never in a replay. I mainly play older stuff though it's not like I'm usually playing anything with an insane time investment. I will 100% shorter platformers & kids games on a replay though. I just tend to 100% on the first playthrough of stuff if possible mainly to see/get the whole game experience. If it sucks or is too tedious I probably won't though.

 

[skykiii]

For me its usually the Genesis-era Sonic games, since they lock the "best ending" behind getting all the Chaos Emeralds (Sonic 2 is the exception). It helps that I'm good at the special stages.

Also Master System Sonic 2, because Tails dies if you don't get all the emeralds.

Actually this kept me away from the Sonic Advance series, as I was made aware those made getting the emeralds a fucking pain, so I don't even wanna play those.

But yeah generally I will 100% a game only if there's a good reward for doing so and getting it isn't too much of an ask.

 

[Neet Tokusatsu]

I usually do it with 3d platformers, stuff like Banjo-Kazooie, Mario 64 or Psychonauts. IDK it just doesn't feel right not collecting everything.

 

[Jack Burton]

A couple months back I 100% Death Stranding, which to me is not bad considering its not a very hard game to do it to, only like 100 hours or so, I have friends who who have 100% Fallout NV and its like 500+ hours...no thanks lol. But I would defiantly replay Death Stranding in the future and 100 percent the Directors Cut this time.

However, games I do revisit that I have to 100 Percent would be Psychonauts, Evil Within, Metro series, Alan Wake, Batman Arkham Asylum and even Alien Isolation, but these games take longer with collectables so I mean there are also shorter games that are fun to 100 percent like Medal of Honor Airborne and the OG Turok.

As a few people have stated here, sometimes you have to kind of make your own parameters on some games, like for Dark Messiah of Might & Magic where you try and get as many skill points as possible and find and forge all the weapons in the game till the last chapter. Loved reading everyone else's responses.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

I 100%ed AC IV: Black Flag because I wanted to spend as much time in the pirate sim as possible playing sea shanties and boarding random ships.

Did the same with the Adventure Time pirate game despite knowing nothing about the series or lore.