The Completionist in You

[Kosheh]

oh hi omega. i was reading mfgg and started missin you a lot. come back here

If you still have time to beat a game then you certainly have time to eventually 100% a game. You don't have to do it all at once, just little by little when you have the time. And no, 100% won't give you a better credit score or impress your boss, but neither will playing a video game at all! We do it because it's fun.

Yeah but there's this big problem I have and it's my incredibly huge game collection. Part of it's the fun of collecting games, and I realize that's a personal problem. I'll be honest - yeah there's games that I want to 100%, but most of the time I want to fly through a game, beat it, and if I'm really feeling the urge to play it again I'll try to go for the postgame (which is the 100% completion aspect) But I'm not going to play a game front-to-back and complete it multiple times like some of the people posting in this topic, because I've got over 600 video games begging for my attention, and I'd really like to move on to the next video game with its enthralling story that I just picked up.
...I also don't finish a lot of games for this reason. WHOOPS

I've been migrating my PS1 and PS2 saves to my PC so I can continue playing them in emulators (I literally don't pirate games for PlayStation consoles unless they're extremely hard to find, out-of-region or translation patched) so I've been umm...doing that

Also, once in a while you'll have a cool boss or co-worker who's also a gamer so you COULD argue that 100%ing a game will SOMETIMES impress your boss

You still play video games right? So when you say "what's the fricken point" I laugh and ask "What's the point in playing video games at all?"

Funny story, I hate video games because hardcore gaming pretty much throws your social life into the toilet and so many developers are making it that much more accessible - and competitive online games are pretty much the equivalent of hard drugs.
They're such a wonderful, interactive media, though and much more approachable compared to books or film so I can't really blame them (that's why I play videogames, honestly)