Depends on the game now, doesn’t it? I did 100 % of all content on Spider-Man. For some reason I didn’t finish Spider-Man: Miles Morales and I didn’t even start Spider-Man 2.
Hmm, maybe I should at least try Spider-Man 2. But I’d have to finish Miles Morales first to get the full story. Spider-Man 1 was so good, maybe I’ll play that again. Spider-Man
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As somebody who enjoys all 3 games immensely, you don’t strictly have to play Miles Morales. You’ll be missing some of his character growth that continues throughout 2, but a lot of the broad strokes you can pick up from context.
That said, I highly recommend playing Miles Morales.
Seconded. You don’t need to have played Miles Morales at all, but I personally think it’s the best story of the three
I haven’t done 100% on any of those, I burned out on them around the 90% mark. All three games are great, you should play them.
It’s got to be one hell of a game for me to do it. Maybe one in 100 will I touch post game content and I don’t think I’ve finished any
Outer Wilds, for example, is a game you can only play once.
That has not stopped me from downloading a randomizer mod to squeeze more hours out of it.
Been sitting on this one for over a year. I really enjoyed Tunic, and it seems Outer Wilds is a similar experience, relying on the player not knowing what’s coming.
Still haven’t played this one through, just downloaded it for like the third time.
I don’t know why it hasn’t hooked me, it’s just the sort of game I should enjoy.
The solution to the puzzles are extremely clever and you’re given just enough hints to be able to solve them, but this game demands your attention and every bit of your concentration to be able to fit it all together. The payoff is massive though, the final 30-40 minutes is one of the most memorable and emotional moments I have ever had playing video games.
It’s a great game, but the hoops you have to jump through in the last loop to get the “good” ending are a massive pita. After my 6th or 7th try, I got burned out, uninstalled, and moved on to something else. At some point, I’ll go back and give it another shot.
Friend of mine recommended it to me, and it was already on my radar as it did look very interesting. Bought it, played about an hour and proceeded to ask for a refund. It didn’t do it for me at all.
The funny thing is that on paper it should have been a slam dunk for me, but literally nothing in-game felt like I liked doing it. Weird.
Welp, not every game is for me, and in this case I know I’m a rare outlier. :P
Depends on the game.
One thing I usually won’t do is reinstall a game to play content added later.
Depends on the game, depends on the content.
For example, Skyrim, I could easily continue playing (or just ignore most of the main storyline).
Compared to something like Assassins Creed 1, where any “additional content” would be the most boring/repetitive task. I was done with this as soon as the credits rolled.
Does Skyrim even have an ending? Like, a roll credits and play music ending? (I’ve got ~10k hours in that game and I can’t say that I’ve ever “finished” it!)
Usually once I hit the end, I hold on to see if finishing the game opened up anything new to investigate.
Some games it’s hard to tell where “the end” is.
Borderlands 2 required finishing the story twice before you could BEGIN the end game.
As I get older, I care less about doing EVERYTHING.
Path of Exile runs credits at the end of act 3, but the whole campaign goes to act 10. And soon after that, you receive the quest line that leads to the game’s famously vast endgame. The endgame is what Path of Exile fans play for.
Depends on the game. Often post-game there’s just a checklist of chores and I’m not doing that.
i think it depends on the game, imo post-game stuff is especially cool in sandbox-y games where there’s many things to do, whereas games that are more linear don’t really need it
but what i hate more than anything is a game that won’t acknowledge you finished it. credits roll, you load your save and you’re back in front of the final boss. i hate that, it makes me feel like the game is in a perpetual state of never being completed. at least put a pretty medal on my save file or something
Completely agree. It’s a very immersion breaking move. Looking at you, Cyberpunk.
Depends on the game. Most times it’s not even worth it because post-game after beating the game, usually means another round with only tiny differences.
I’ve done Super Mario World multiple times, completing the Star Road and changing the koopas to have the mario heads. I’ve done The Messenger to get the Wind Shuriken, which honestly in my opinion, wasn’t worth gathering all the power seals for.
Elder Scrolls II Daggerfall, didn’t really feel like there was anything post-content that is there to it, after doing everything. You just continue until you’re bored, which you could already do anyways by ignoring the main quest after getting the letter to meet that lady in a tavern so you wouldn’t be soft-locked out of it.
It just depends, if there’s more meat to the bone there is, then maybe, if not and it’s just going another round of everything again then no.
Currently playing Morrowind.
Had to even remind myself recently to do some main quest for a change.Completely and immersively lost myself in sidequests before. :-)
Sooo… post-game-content seems to be just game content here…
Im one of those folks who tend to not finish games. I sorta actively avoid the ending if there is more side quests that I have not done and such.
I rarely even finish the main part these days. There just aren’t that many games that can hold my attention for the time they take to beat. Especially since I just don’t have as much time, as I get older, so beating a big narrative game could take months.
Entirely up to the game & how interesting the post-game stuff is.
I have 100%'s eg. Batman: Arkham Asylum (on normal, not gonna try-hard it). The amount of collectibles was within the toleranse and it was fairly fun to hunt the items with the hints provided.
Now, few years forward with Arkham City and Arkham Knight? Hard nope. Too many collectibles/activities/timewasters, stupendously huge areas, too obscure hints, nah, nopety-nope-nope. And the good ending in AK was tied to finishing “optional activities” which I just could not be bothered with, watched the ending on youtube and uninstalled.
Diablo-likes I can grind for hundreds, if not thousands of hours, as the “click go brrrr, get item of +1 betterness” after campaign is fun for surprisingly long periods for me. But at the moment I have the problem that I have pretty much played all of the available ones.
I played the Hogwarts game and beat the final boss or whatever?? I don’t remember now because it was rather forgettable. Anyway, the gameplay itself was pretty fun with casting spells and stuff, so I kept playing after the main quest was complete. I started doing some of the side achievements like solving all the Merlin puzzles and performing specific spell attack combos. Then I looked into what some of the achievements actually required and noped out fast. Turned off the game and never looked back. Some were crazy things like “perform this 4 spell attack combo on a group of 3 people with at least one rogue… 10 times.” Or “find all 86 hidden carrots in Hogwarts,” which even if I could find a tutorial walk through on that I wouldn’t which ones I’d already found and would have to go step by step. That’s awful design.
Then there are games like Elden Ring or Ghosts of Tsushima where I played post-credits A LOT.
Always, always, always. Ever since beating my first game in ‘93, Kirby’s Adventure (NES), I’ve watched the full credits every time that I finish a game. It might be the only time that I ever see the developer’s and other miscellaneous team members’ names, and I want to know who they were, having just dedicated 30-1000+ hours to their labour of love.
Only games I can think of that I still playing after rolling credits is a multiplayer game that also has a single player campaign.
