A thread for Achievement's Hunters/Completionist Gamers

1) What's the harderst game you beat in your gaming career, and the longest?
longest MultiVersus 530 hours to 100% achievements
hardest, i dont recall at the moment. Indivisible??? had some crazy hard bosses and platforming at the very end. every single jump would be some 7 thing combo where you couldn't miss anything
2) Is there a game you give up to 100%? If yes, which one and why?
Awesomenauts. those last few take ages!!!! and the game died so no way to do it now..... i came back to the game every few years to play more. such a shame its dead now
3) What's your meaning of "completionist"? Just beating the game or achieving all the achievements in it?
i count a game as compete when i uninstall it.
if i enjoyed the game and it gives you a NEW extra thing at the end to help you 100% i will often go for full achievements.
but if its now go find every last crumb i usually bail after finishing the story and grabbing all the easter egg/FUN achievements

1) What's the hardest game you beat in your gaming career, and the longest?

• I remember the old Mario games that had no save file, those games were super hard to finish!
  Oceanhorn is an example of a game that was 'harder' to beat because of the horrible fishing which mostly required luck, there are enough games where 100% means some luck ones that can be done fast or take forever, also Purrfrect Dates because there was an achievement issue that it didn't count the 100% when I did everything so had to redo the whole game multiple times which was a lot of work since I had to write every step down!
  2) Is there a game you give up to 100%? If yes, which one and why?
• Yes, enough, I love to get 100% and do my best for it, but I suck at hardcore modes and speedruns and they ruin games for me so I rather just ignore these achievements when it's too much to ask, also have a few games that are so hard, like Chronescher, that I can't even finish it!
  Also have games I started but didn't finish yet, usually because they are very long or got bored so tend to 100% them one day or at least try!
  3) What's your meaning of "completionist"? Just beating the game or achieving all the achievements in it?
• To me a completionist means you did everything in the game that you could do, so don't rush through a story or leave places unchecked, 100% a game is great, but some games have achievements that are basically spamming until done which adds nothing to the game, not a fan of those to be honest and wish games wouldn't add those.

(you wrote hardest wrong!)

I play games for fun in the first place, therefore I get achievements while it's still fun.

1. I think it's Horace. I'm not much into such hardcore games but the plot was captivating so I stiffed my teeth and played it to to the end with all secrets and stuff.
2. Sure there is. A single example - Batman Arkham Asylum, I've missed one achievement there but consider it too bothersome to try again.
3. I think it's a synonym for perfectionist. And what is considered as a perfection is a matter of a personal taste.

1. Hardest : Styx: Master of Shadows, longest : Warframe.
2. For me will be Sandbox Univers (or how it's called now...), you have to play the game for 1 year, literally...
3. "Just beating the game or achieving all the achievements in it?", why not both, since in some games getting all cheevos doesn't mean completed (I personally like to explore all what game has to offer, unless it's a really boring game for me).

I fluctuate between wanting to be a completionist/100% achievement guy and just wanting to play games with no achievements. That said:

1) The original Demon's Souls PS3 had achievements tied to RNG and grind as well as world tendency and other wild stuff. I love that game and the series it spawned but some of those weapon trophies took an age to get the materials for and I had to do an extra NG+ cycle because I missed one thing to do with world tendency one time... Compared to some games it didn't take that long, just frustrating.

2) I've just gone back to it, but Monster Hunter World (and Iceborne), mainly for the gold crown achievements. I'm BACK IN but I don't know whether I can stomach it or not. I just wanted to play more MHW and this was a good excuse.

3) Completionist, to me, is doing everything interesting within the actual parameters of the game - achievements/trophies as meaningless (but usually fun!) digital records are secondary. I will throw my hands up and say I have used SAM on some of my Steam games where I have 100%'d them on PSN or Xbox to make the achievements match (I have never used it to trigger anything I've not achieved on a platform), and that really throws things into perspective. Achievements/trophies are best when they are fun to achieve and add to the game experience, not if they are frustrating and artificially add to the playtime.

1)
I don't bother with games that are TO difficult to 100%, if I finish a game and see there's just a few missing achievements I will try and get it, if it's to much of a bother I just ignore it haha.

2)
I gave up on 100%ing the Attack On Titan game, played about 35 hours, got all the achievements apart from 2. 1 being for completing the gallery, which requires you to create 1 of each type of equipment at each level, and the achievement for getting all the other achievements.

To get that last achievement I would need to grind resources for about 20 hours... so f that haha

Oh and Mad Max as well, got all the achievements apart from 1, after I finished the game and all the side content I noticed the missing achievements, and it requires me to do all these stupid little challenges in the game, there's a BUNCH of them, and at that stage I just couldn't be bothered haha.

3)
Generally I just do all of the content I can in one play through, if I finish all the games contents and side contents then I'm happy to see it as "I completed this game" , and won't bother with achievements unless if it's not to much a pain to 100%

Some achievements are just ass, like "A Story About My Uncle" all the achievements are challenges really, so I finished the game and didn't get a single achievement haha.

I am a 50/50 person.
I really love achievements in games, and I think a game without achievements always lacks that little extra spice. However, I play whatever.
Now, I say I'm 50/50 because I will get all the achievements as long as I consider it viable. Otherwise, I quit and play something else. Some games involve you playing multiple times to get them, and I usually prefer to move on to something else. I would only highlight Graveyard Keeper. Actually I'm missing 3 achievements out of 125 I think. But I lost one without realizing it and it requires me to start over. At some point I will. So it isn't complete yet.
Of the games that I have completed 100%, I don't think I can highlight anything. They weren't that difficult, maybe just tedious. For example: there is a freebie that is not among my completed games: "Hidden Lands". It's a game of finding differences. It's cute, but repetitive. The achievements are few, but I had to play 500 levels to get the last achievement.
Edit to finish answering.
There are several games I abandoned without all the achievements. But there is one that I wanted to complete because it is one of my favorites: Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition. Unfortunately I suck at landing blows and doing combos.

Monster Prom was probably the worst I think... since you need to get every single little interaction in the game. You need so many tools and spreadsheets to keep track of where you are.

1) What's the hardest game you beat in your gaming career, and the longest?

• Longest : Horizon Chase Turbo -> All achievements of the base game + everything that can be unlocked get (bonus skins for cars with 2022 final main update) = 45+ hours
• Hardest : Don't really like hard game, so often play on easy difficulty, but hardest game i have bet will must me Furi on normal difficulty (the easy difficulty for this game just remove 50% of the interested, by removing full part for some boss), bet in in around 7h, but still stuck on the 2 extra free boss dlc.

2) Is there a game you give up to 100%? If yes, which one and why?

• Many, for exemple Remnants of Naezith, got stuck on final World 4, just too hard for me, but at last bet World 3 where only 3% of the player finish it.

3) What's your meaning of "completionist"? Just beating the game or achieving all the achievements in it?

• Just bet the main part of the game, and discover all useful secrets (Secret world / extra levels / New unique weapon ...), but never 100% finish, often the game ask to finish the game on hardest difficulty, and that a no for me ....

1. Hardest to 100% was Rabbit Hole 3D: Steam Edition. I teamed up with another achievement maniac like me ad we divided game stages between us (50/50) and each of us made txt file with step by step isntruction for each stage. I took 1st, he took 2nd and so on. Last achievement was to beat whole game in one run - so we took our instructions, glued them together and put next to screen, and then followed them to get whole playthrough.
   It was fucking tiring. This game opened my eyes when it comes to achievement hunting - if it's no fun, its pointless.
   Longest?
   Probably
   The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut - because it's actually 3 games glued together. Also I almost completed it with online save... And then it broke xD And there is no way to recover save from server... so for 100% completion achievement I hat do complete game from the beginning second time xD And yeah - save broke at about 99% of completion. It broke literally at door to last boss battle xD

2. First game I gave up to 100% was "140". I beat about half of it and decided that it's not the king of game that I enjoy. Literally learn stage by heart and execute with 100% accuracy to beat. Just no. After that I started to abandon more and more games. If they are not fun, then why bother?

3. Completed means 100% of achievements or seeing all content. Beaten means - seeing ending screen. At least for me.

1) Longest game to 100% is Bloons TD 6 with over 850 hours of gameplay, it was not the hardest but the one required the most grinding.
Hardest game to 100% had to be ReignMaker, it is a Match-3 Puzzle game with some extreme difficulty and unfairness that requires lots of retries to beat several bosses.

2) Recently I've given up on VVVVVVV because of how ridiculously hard and unfair it is. I'd like to complete other games in my library first and then come back to it... 5-10 years later maybe?

3) I've always been a completionist even before Steam days, and I think being a completionist makes you appreciate the game more in its every flaw and every aspect. I'm extremely picky when it comes to buying games or joining giveaways, so almost all of the games I complete are things I mostly like. If you can replay a game with different characters, or on harder difficulties with different endings, I feel like I get my money's worth.

I'd have to say viva pinata. Its not a hard game to do or even complete but back when I played it we didn't really have any access to google or anything. So it was basically completing the game and then working out what could possibly be one of the secret achievements. I mean I'm looking at the list now and there's some you won't get without knowledge before hand

I've pretty much given up on 100% Orange juice. I had it 100% until the co-op achievements hit. I don't like the mode so I basically avoided the game since. Every now and then I'll unlock a few achievements but I don't even keep up with the dlcs anymore

For completion its always 100% achievements. Anything else is beaten. I mean there's many games that can be classed with completed even without achievements but unless its like a visual novel I probably won't bother doing all that. Or I'm never gonna look back and remember that yeah I did everything.

The longest game I have 100% achievements in, there are actually 2 I would like to mention and while not particularly hard, Monster Hunter World and The Binding of Isaac both took me almost 1000 hours each to complete. If you played BoI you know the Character achieves and collecting every item can be a slog. Monster Hunter as well with crown hunting, going into the hunt measuring the monster you are hunting then finish the hunt 15-20 minutes later and its a silver crown is so frustrating. The hardest game being Halo MCC, months and months of learning strats and shortcuts for the hardest difficulty, LASO, for all 6 games and finding a partner who is also willing to go through it so you aren't forced to restart the entire level if you die. I would rather do anything else than play Halo 2 LASO a second time.

While I try not to fully drop a game because of a hard achievement, I see it as taking a break and coming back to it later. However there is one game that I am dreading to go back to and its actually Middle-earth Shadow of Mordor. If there is one thing I hate more than anything as an achievement hunter is a speedrun or timed achievement. While I was able to do the 1 hour challenge, the 45 minute DLC challenge, to me, is a nightmare, and I cant seem to get everything done in such short amount of time so I might have put it on indefinite hiatus.

IMO being a completionist is getting all the achievement, but first playthroughs I usually take my time and enjoy the story and have fun. Only after a main campaign is done I will clean up other achievements or do a replay to 100% using a guide to find the secrets I missed. With that criteria I'm more of a casual completionist.

PS. Good Guy Nick achievement in Left for Dead can die in a fire.

1) What's the hardest game you beat in your gaming career, and the longest?

• Hollow Knight was the hardest, and DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition was the longest, at least, according to Steam. But, I'm pretty sure most of that time was me having fun, and not grinding to get 100%.

2) Is there a game you give up to 100%? If yes, which one and why?

• Sword of the Stars: The Pit as well as Anomaly Warzone Earth. The first, I found too boring and time consuming to 100%, the second, was too hard for me, so I eventually gave up.

3) What's your meaning of "completionist"? Just beating the game or achieving all the achievements in it?

• Getting all achievements, if the game has them, or getting all endings, or exploring all content if it doesn't have them.

I don't consider myself to be a completionist at all, I wouldn't even call myself an achievement hunter, maybe an occasional achievement enthusiast would better describe me as a player.

1) What's the hardest game you beat in your gaming career, and the longest?

Longest? Faerie Solitaire Remastered. It's not much of a question since I can simply check on steam that I played it for over 30 hours, it isn't my most played game in general tho. It also wasn't particularly hard to complete, it just took a while because I was earnestly trying to get through all the content the game had to offer and just sort of getting the achievements along the way (I was grieving and using the game to distract me, that's why I went through both the original & remastered + the mobile port).
Hardest? I guess FEZ, I remember having a hard time completing that one with how obscure some of the puzzles were. If we include games I finished but not completed then it has to be Electronic Super Joy, I can clearly remember that game's difficulty getting downright absurd towards the end, and its sequels are even worse so I wasn't even able to finish those (the games are good tho, just unreasonably hard).

2) Is there a game you give up to 100%? If yes, which one and why?

Too many to count... or more accurately too many to remember since I usually drop a game when I stop enjoying it, I'd rather walk away with an unfinished game but a good experience than force myself to finish it and end up hating it.
But if you want titles I can provide a few: Brütal Legend (fuck that final boss), TrackMania² Canyon (the last two cups are way beyond my skill ceiling), Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair (I'm convinced this game doesn't even expect most players to beat it given the way it's structured), Riff Racer (love this game but the grind for the last achievement is kinda absurd, and then the game's servers shut down), Batman: Arkham Knight (nice game but a bit of an unbalanced mess so as soon as I reached "an" ending I jumped ship), Celeste (I value my sanity. B sides are evil, post-game looks like madness from what I've seen online). Mind you, these are all games I truly really liked, the ones I disliked I would have never even tried completing/finishing.

3) What's your meaning of "completionist"? Just beating the game or achieving all the achievements in it?

As far as I'm concerned "completionist" implies exhausting all content, that includes every single achievement and optional challenge. But I'm pretty sure that many, if not most, games aren't designed to be played that way.

1) What's the hardest game you beat in your gaming career, and the longest?

Hardest had to be Bioshock infinite, 2 words, BLUE RIBBONS. My longest was mad max though it wasn't hard just a bit tedious, I did like the game even tough it was tedious

2) Is there a game you give up to 100%? If yes, which one and why?

SCP:SL, after 365 hours I decided to retire after the only server I liked closed down, and the last achievement was unobtainable as it is basically just bugged. It says you need to cuff an MTF as D-class or something by that, might come back to the game who knows

3) What's your meaning of "completionist"? Just beating the game or achieving all the achievements in it?

Completionist to me is doing everything possible in the game either all steam achievements, and/or when there's an in-game tracker detailing what needs to be done and giving you that % symbol. I only 100% games that hold a special place in my heart such as the far cry series (just New Dawn, 6 and 2 left!) and the Assassin's creed series which I am yet to begin, but one day...Or basically any game I genuinely have fun in which I find rare these days

1) The hardest was probably dark souls 3. I suck at this kind of games. And the longest... Arkham City thanks to Riddle.

2) Just like Zoomer I tried to 100% SCP SL, but it was night impossible almost three years ago(Got exhausted trying to get those achievements ,mostly because they weren't firing up when I was doing them)

3) This one is kind of 50/50 depending on the game. For example for games with multiplayer achievements, I'll not touch that side most of the times so finishing the game will be more than enough for me. But then there are games like for example : Spirit of The Island, a decent game by my standards, but with a runescape like grinding levels to get some of the achievements.

1. Hardest was horizon shift due to how bad the gameplay is and how bad it is optimized, longest is binary domain since you need to grind in mp.

2. Many. Data hacker corruption because i cant find a way to beat a certain area without grinding a lot of hours in data hacker initiation since you cant save there despite the game saying that you can, serin fate because it forces you on getting that 1% rng in certain condition to fish in a certain area to get a fish (it is not even a fishing game)n japanese romaji adventure which still somehow doesnt grant its achievement after i finish the game (i assume it just force you to buy the dlc for it now), topdee and toodee since it forces you to finish all levels without dying in one go, and many other games with dlc that i dont have

3. It is for beating the game and doing every content that i know.

1) What's the hardest game you beat in your gaming career, and the longest?
According to hours, its probably slay the spire, it took the longest to do 100% but on the other hand it was so enjoyable that it didn't feel long and I did breaks in between so it did take a lot of years. Its probably not the hardest to be fair I just took my time.
2) Is there a game you give up to 100%? If yes, which one and why?
Many unfortunately. Some games simply take it to the next level to get to 100% which feels impossible. To name two, hollow knight (only 1achievement missing the dreaded p5), and Celeste (c sides and moon berry are just insane). It is what it is. Not for all humans. Many games can fall in this category sadly. It frustrates me but I have accepted it.
3) What's your meaning of "completionist"? Just beating the game or achieving all the achievements in it?
Achieving all achievements of course. I do it when I can, but a good number of games is impossible to do, they require robotic skills and/or too many playthroughs or hardcore difficulties. (1 life etc). If there is a game that "shows" how to do it right, its Hades. Gating achievements behind dlc is beyond terrible as well.

Happy new year

• I 100%ed many games that frustrated me a lot, but if I've 100%ed it then it is not that hard anymore
  to me games that have multiplayer achievements that require more than a total of 2 players are the most annoying ..
  Longest is Warframe, but Payday 2 might pass it when I get back to it.
• I don't consciously give up on 100%ing a game, but some games I may stop playing for years before I get back and 100% them
• completionist to me means not leaving a single stone unturned, but most games once I 100% them achievements-wise I lose interest in continuing.

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1) What's the hardest game you beat in your gaming career, and the longest?
Both of those categories probably belong to Hollow Knight. Though Dark Souls 3 is a possible (albeit unlikely) contender for longest. Reaching 112% Completion on HK took a loooong time and many, many attempts. Whereas DS3 doesn't really have anything resembling a boss rush nor post-game achievements, excluding picking up a couple items in New Game+ to complete the set.

2) Is there a game you give up to 100%? If yes, which one and why?
I mean...there's plenty of games out there that are literally unplayable after the servers shut down cough Battleborn cough. But if you specifically mean games I actively chose to quit pursuing, I could name a couple. Just Cause 2 Multiplayer Mod has an achievement for being in the same server as one of the mod's devs and afaik they all disappeared a loooong time ago. It's "technically" still doable, nut damn I'm not that committed. I was also likely going to attempt to get all the achievements in Elden Ring, same as with previous FromSoft titles. I don't know if this is considered a hot take around these parts, but I GENUINELY consider Elden Ring to be a poorly designed game. The only consistency I got out of the gameplay loop was the feeling of "You're not supposed to be doing this thing yet. Go do something else." Eventually, I listened.

P.s. There's a common thread here. Open World games love having extremely tedious conditions for 100% and I'm just not about that life.

3) What's your meaning of "completionist"? Just beating the game or achieving all the achievements in it?
I label it as getting all the achievements.