Yes, as long as most reviews are 100%, I don't feel like they all need to be. A "Review After 83.7%" would actually be quite eye-catching, since I'd want to hear why you didn't do 100.
Honestly, I don't even like that much to 100% my games. Most times the game is pretty fun, but what you need to do to get the remaining achievements are boring and menial tasks. Like, a fun action-adventure game with cool combat? Great. But now you need to collect 1000 flags or whatever? Not so great. Those tasks are so boring that I avoid doing them in order not to sour the experience. Better to move on to other games.
Same, I only do it for games I really enjoy and am not ready to let go of yet. I do enjoy achievements as an extra to regular in game objectives but when it becomes tedious I value my time over 100%ing. So it becomes a case by case decision.
I only ever 100% FromSoft games because I feel like they design the trophies in a way that you already collect most of them on a normal playthrough and can easily collect the rest when going for other endings. I don't think most games are really designed for 100% because it usually involves a lot of tedium and busywork.
Yeah except for the covenant item farming. You could play through the game over 10 times to get those and still not even be half way done collecting. Lol
The only game I decided to 100% was Dredge, and honestly it took some of the enjoyment out of the game and makes me look back at it with PTSD. I really appreciate what Mortismal does because I couldn't do it. The 100% is generally a gimmick I don't care much about since he can rate a game by not pushing himself to do every achievement, plus his reviews are just high quality and objective about the game as a whole; if anything I'm surprised it doesn't ruin his opinion on the games after such slogs to do everything who knows how many times. Also, because Dredge got more content the 100% for the game is gone...
Mortym, I don't think you should worry about 100%-ing games you're not enthusiastic about. You always mention in your intros that "I 100% games to differentiate myself". But your viewers are not just here for some random 100%-ing, but also to get your personal perspective, including your taste and biases. So if you don't feel like 100%-ing something, that's already valuable information for us...
I agree seeing him 100% a game should be a badge of honor for the game he’s reviewing that he liked it so much he wanted to 100% it, not a thing he does all the time. We know his reviews of the games he doesn’t 100% would still be very in depth.
At this point Mort reviews are worth it even just for the simple fact that he's honest about what's in the game. Even ACG lately has been putting out reviews that just misrepresent objective facts about some games and it drives me nuts. I play something and listen to someone else review, and it's like... "What are you talking about? That literally didn't happen when I played that part three hours ago. Am I being gaslit?"
2:15 For those who don't know ultimate achievement is about finishing the game on 100 % (finishing story, killing all optional bosses, stuff like that) on the hardest difficulty with iron mode AND solo without any companions.
Its absurd the requirements, i like that its possible and there's some recognition for it but i don't think stuff that extremely hard should be asked of the player for 100%.
Oh yeah. The good ol' Triple Crown Solo (Pillars of Eternity ultimate achievement). I remember looking at it and thinking "Yeah, thanks but no thanks". That being said, playing the game on its highest difficulty is actually pretty fun and something I would recommend if you're into tactics and number crunching.
I've owned Pillars 1 since it shortly came out and it's always been sitting in my backlog. Despite finding the lore of the world and gameplay right up my alley, I never put the hours into it much. Now since Avowed it fast approaching, I've been playing it more. Its a very fun game! I can't wait to get to Deadfire as that seems like it very much my thing as well.
0:55 - Honestly, I don't blame you for not 100% SMT 5 right now. The game is massive and there's a lot to do in order to even come close to getting 100% achievements in this game. You can always chip away at it a bit at a time if you get free time.
mostly for me, playing games is fun. hunting through games to try to get 100% is work. like cutting the grass with a mower vs snipping every piece with a pair of scissors and a ruler. you're a real one for making it through these in totality #respect
As someone who did 100% Against the Storm (about 150h), I think the issue is the games can last 4-6 hours which is hard to do in one session if it's a working day. It also becomes quite repetitive because once you figure out the right strategy, you will use the exact same one everytime. The roguelite part of the game isn't as complete as other games
Didn't 100% yet but I agree. If I get the things I want - run is basically won. If I don't it is either a loss or way too long/annoying/dicy to care. I have no idea how people play without some cornerstones/buildings on high prestige.
The only one I gave up on was the Charlie Brown Field Goal Challenge. Every year I found myself going back for another attempt only to wind up flat on my back promising myself in vain that I would give up. Well, I finally did. At least until November.
The most brutal platinum trophy ive ever seen was from the Gran Turismo series (driving simulator) in GT Sport. RPGS have some insane challenges but GTSport just blows them out of the water; 2 of the gold trophies you require for Platinum are "Win 250 online ranked races" (remember the game is ranked ladder leagues, so as you win, you get put into harder lobbies) and "Get Pole position qualifying in Online races 200 times" For context, I played the game quite regularly and was a tier A/A+ driver (S being the best) for about a year and a half, and only won about 15 races, and got pole about 7 times. Literally about 5 people out of thousands had the platinum trophy, and all of them were either real life professional racers or were youtube streamers who played it 6+ hours a day for years straight.
Well I can tell you that I finally got one game (Hades) done to 100%. Idk how you have patience to 100% all these games lol! But that's what makes this channel so entertaining for me.
@@Catheidan tbf, I game a lot (I work from home). Like 30-40 hour a week a lot. I just think that instead of chasing achievements I could be playing some other cool game. Besides, 100%-ing RPGs always requires preparation, as achievements are very missible, and I don't even look at them usually. I did Hades because there's no ending to it, and I since I loved the game so much I decided 100% will be my ending.
@@Exxy6965He doesn't just 100% games. He looks up what he needs in advance and creates a strategy based on what he knows and online guides. It's quite optimized, but not really a casual playthrough like we would usually do. But he enjoys it, so fair enough.
@@Exxy6965 that's my reason for almost never 100%'ing a game. I can do these super boring, chore-like acheivements after I've already beaten the game.. or I could go do something that's actually fun, whether that be a different game or whatever it is
With SMT V: Vengeance, there’s a secret boss where you can only unlock if you complete canon of Creation on true neutral ending then go on to do Canon of Vengeance which essentially means playing the game twice just to unlock the boss.
You don’t need to beat true neutral in CoC to unlock that boss. You just need to beat the game and can immediately reload your old save and attempt him. There is an upgraded version of a super boss that requires you to get an item in CoV and then go fight him in CoC. But it doesn’t give you anything for doing it.
You need to do all 6 endings anyway for 100%, and you can’t reload old save. That being said, you need 1.5-2 full runs with all the side quests, and the rest is speedruns that’s much shorter. It would still take 150+ hours though.
This year I 100% my first game on Steam and I have exactly 1 on GOG too. Only because it's just finding all the stuff in those 2 games, no "hardest difficulty with your hand tied behind your back" or "complete this boss before your toast is done" kind of a achievements. If I made 100% reviews like Mort, every single one would finish with "... but the game really overstays its welcome and I hate it now" ^^
Yeah, it's a good idea to keep in mind that a lot of achievements are optional. I've been playing Shadow Gambit, a game I greatly enjoy and it has achievements for completing missions under a certain time. Maybe there are some mad people who do all that and only use one character on each mission, but it's not me. Though I did just complete a mission with two characters when three is the default.
I'm lucky to even finish RPGs these days - staying with them for achievements is something that I could not do... and some of them require good skill and I barely remember what happened before I paused the game... which can take days, weeks, months.
These occasional "games I gave up on" videos you do really are a good addition to the site. They round out the overall picture and give a nice bit of perspective. I just laughed when I saw the PoE ultimate challenges, I never had the time to invest but I love both games to death and wish I had the fortitude to do them.
I feel the same about Against the Storm. Clocked 61 hours, halfway through with the achievements, but had to take a break because due to the repetitiveness of its roguelike nature and the long game-length at higher difficulty. However, now you have brought this up, it has certainly renewed my interest so ill probably give it another few rounds this weekend!
I love how this video doesn’t have an overwhelming negative tone. You give genuine reasons (mostly time) of why you haven’t finished these games and time is extremely valuable so it is completely understandable. And with the other games you still make sure to differentiate between your personal opinion / taste and genuine faults of the game. While I’m not subscribed because your taste in games drastically differ from mine you have my respect (if it is worth anything) for being a great reviewer.
I really like beating games, completing stories and then having this moment where you sit during the credits, reflecting on your journey. I would 100% some games, but I am, unfortunately, a mortal.
You'd be a legend if you 100%ed PoE. If you try, please stream it! For the triple Crown SOLO achievement. Btw I just looked and I don't see any achievements for being a backer. What's it called?
You are one of the first people I look up when I’m looking for game reviews because you present the information factually without a lot of opinions. There is a small but - to strife for perfections of course, is to make the story section of your reviews even shorter and less revealing even though it’s a 100% review. Mainly because it’s still a review and 100% is almost always a given for some OCDs like myself. So looking to hear if it’s worth 100ing without knowing too much about the story. Other than that, great content and keep up the good work!
0:14 "...simply to remind everybody that I am, in fact, a human being and not a sophisticated AI designed to 100% games for seemingly no reason..." That's exactly what an AI designed to 100% games for seemingly no reason would say.
SMT VV shouldn't take that long to 100% I just got finished with mine and I'm at about 90 hours total most stuff can be done pretty quick since you can just drop the difficulty for content you've already seen and fly through everything
Are you a fan of roguelikes in general? If not that might explain it. On the other hand the game is quite mechanically complex and it can take a while to figure out what everything means so that might be another factor
I feel like Songs of Conquest is for people that loved Heroes of Might and Magic 3. That's why I love it. I also play it against my best friend though so that is an important caveat
I did The Ultimate in PoS1. I've watched guides, went through excell loot tables (for Raedric's Hold, each day you have different loot in some of the boxes) and I've learnt to kite like a god. That being said: I've kind of save-scummed too. I've realized that if you drop to zero HP, there's actually like five seconds before the death screen. You can hit ESC and reload the last save, game only deletes your save after death screen. If things went sideways during fight, I'd reload. If you panic, you can still ALT+F4. It's not 100% legit, but by the end of the Ultimate run, I clocked close to 370 hours (85 of which were my first playthrough years ago, 120 PoTD and around 10 for "less than 10 rests") and my estimate was that to do it absolutely legitimately, I'd need 300 to 400 more. Some fights have such a specific positioning that it takes dozens of tries to figure out how to solo it. Alpine Dragon, Lathander. I did have a lot of fun, though and was kind of disappointed that PoE 2 does not have this achievement. (Yeah, I need my digital shiny trinket :P ) Shout out to this channel: www.youtube.com/@Ultrabuu85 Absolute madlad! Spent a lot of time watching his runs.
I understand wanting to differentiate yourself from other tubers by 100%ing games. However, i think a lot of us that have found you would watch normal reviews just as much. You've carved out a space for yourself and created a unique voice in the hubbub even without that aspect of your channel. One of my go tos for deciding whether or not to buy a game. No matter what, ill keep coming back. Keep up the good work man.
Look I don't actually review games with %100 as my stock and trade so I tend not to %100 a whole lot. What puts me off some achievements is that they require so much grind that I worry it will just spoil my enjoyment of the game (in fact I have had this happen in the past when I was younger and getting %100 seemed more important). These days I will look at an achievement list and decide pretty much in advance if I think its doable. To be honest Mort, I know %100ing games you review is like your signature move so to speak, but you are a good and thorough reviewer and I would watch your reviews regardless, but man, sometimes I look at the games you %100 and just wince as I know how much work it might have taken. Just to close, skipping %100ing the PoE games is the right move. I like both those games but the %100 requirement was a "Nope, not going to try that, it will make me hate the game". I mean you pretty much how to cheat to %100 PoE 1 at this point anyway and if you are faffing about with other peoples save files and stuff.....it takes away you %100ing anyway. (Fun fact I actually have the backer achievement because a close friend of mine backed the game to the tune of two copies and gave one of them to me)
There was definitely a hefty dose of survivor-ship bias when I was doing games journalism for a gamer website. If I didn't like the game I usually wouldn't want to waste my time putting the effort into the review. I liked drawing attention to games I enjoyed and growing a community on that site to play them together with.
Against the storm is so good. It is one of the few games I keep installed because I can play a level when I am in the mood and then put it down for a period of time and come back to it.
To counter your last point, i think i rather watch reviews on games that the reviewer likes. This way the critique is more often good instead of "its not my thing" or "its boring". Aside from that i rather watch something positive 😊 nice videos, keep it up :D
I agree with your review of Songs of Conquest 100%. It's got a lot of really cool systems and I should love it, but there's something tiring about the actual game that prevents me from sitting down and really getting into it.
I've played PoE1 several times at the highest difficulty. I have about 1k hours logged. I know PoE1 very well, but I absolutely can't do an ultimate run. I don't blame you for not 100%ing this game lol. That's an absurd achievement.
love the 100% gimmick because it's something i'd never strive for. however, you need to be realistic and make sure that your "100%" is a realistic "actually 100% achievable". an award for kickstarting a game is not an actual achievement, you can safely ignore those. reminds me of that old Halo 2(?) achievement where you could only get it if you killed someone in multiplayer who already had it - that's an insane thing to hold yourself to as it has no impact whatsoever on your ability to review the game. stick to your 100% but within logical bounds, imo. your BG3 stuff was pivotal for getting me deeper into the game, much love
I never 100 percent a game and I finish few. I am happy if I get 2 hours per euro/dollar spent. I could play more but choose not to. Been playing since 87, Sun Tzus Ancient Art of War being the first addiction I had. Mort fills a need for me. He completes what I cannot. Thanks, man. I appreciate it. Good luck for the future.👍🖖
I did 100% PoE, and it was honestly a lot of fun to do, as a relatively reasonable challenge. But it is also one of my favorite games of all time. I noped out on those challenges in PoE2 though. Against the Storm is a ridiculously well designed game. Probably never going to finish it. It does get a bit repetitive after a 100 hours, and I literally got a 100+ other games I want to play. Which is okay when you deliver near perfection before that.
Not so funny story for Pillars of Eternity 1. Had to use Console commands to finish the last boss. Typed the Invulnerable(GOD) command and... no joke, went afk for like 5 mins, that last guy was healing indefinitely and I was no close of killing him. Forgot what commands I used to kill him. Never got the achievement that proved that I finished the game. Kill the statues no problem and suddenly he wipes my party, forgot how many times I loaded the save file. I was so over it.
The fact that "The 100% Guy" gave up on 100%ing a game is a very valuable piece of information. If it's too much even for a pro such as yourself, the game must be incredibly tedious.
While I can't speak about most of them, I 100% agree about pillars. The amount of time you spend kiting things in the early stages is absolutely mind-numbing at that diffculty.
SMT VV is actually a game only slow on first playthrough (and second playthrough if you just switch to the other campaign), but you could pretty much speedrun on later playthroughs (unless you like more challenge and want to do newborn/godborn mode). I've seen people finish 100% of the game around 120 hours, so it won't touch 200 hours, unless you just want to play around with the game like I did.
I loved the game and I even bought the re-release but I put the switch game on pause when I realized I was like...half way through the game when I thought the plot was winding down. Maybe if you see this you can tell me how far I was...it was basically the first legit dungeon feeling place with traps and stuff. I finally glanced at a guide at this point and it seemed like there was a ways to go.
@@ataridc you are 3/4 of the game at this point. The game has 2 dungeons per Canon. The first dungeon is always a break time of the game before you step into the final Da'at. Depend on your pace of playing the game (I played the game in quite slow pace), you could finish the game around 5-20 hours. The hardest thing is mostly optional superboss, which could take a lot time to figure the strategy beat those boss if you don't use guide.
I started to hide achievement notificafions on steam for about a year. It feels like Im free. I just play games, do whatever I want. Nothing I do has a pop up on screen. I played Elden Ring for about 400+ hours. Then I realized I had a single trophy left. And I did not care Eventually I got it by just playing.
You do this for a living, and have optimised 100%ing games, so if you’re skipping these games because they’re taking too long to 100%, god bless the regular folk that do this and decide to 100% one of these games casually. That’s a lot of time and dedication
I totally get the Songs of Conquest take. To me it's the same, it was super cool on paper but after a while into the campaigns I got really overwhelmed by all the juggling between resources, cities, heroes, armies, and stuff. I don't know how I did to play a lot of HoMM 3 back in the day.
"I don't know how I did to play a lot of HoMM 3 back in the day." sounds like me - all those games that have different degree of complication and working, then you reach older age and lost all patience and focus on them
@@SpecShadow yeah its exactly that. I enjoy Songs of Conquest, but I have enjoyed HoMM3 more as a kid. And it has nothing to do with quality of the games, but with my age and attention span. I feel the same about RTwP RPGs such as Pillars or Pathfinder. I enjoyed playing BG2 and IWD back in the day, and nowadays RTwP is just annoying compared to proper turn-based combat.
Last game I 100% completed was Unicorn Overlord. I'm not one to really 100% many games but if the games hook me good enough and the achievements aren't stupid or overly time consuming, I'll go ahead and get the job done. There aren't many out there though but this game was EASILY 1 of them
Wolfenstein II has a achievement called Mien Leben. Which is to play the ENTIRE game on the hardest setting, without dying in a single session. To make things even better, the game is littered with bugs, including CTD and Steam Achievements that failed to pop bugs. I try to 100% everything but....f***k that.
Massive fan of you sir, and I dont even have a pc lol but your very in depth and can clearly tell your passion for what you do. Thank you man no idea how much it helps.
"...to remind everybody that I am in fact a human being and not a sophisticated AI designed to 100% games for seemingly no reason" is exactly what a sophisticated AI designed to 100% games for seemingly no reason would say!!
I'm happy you enjoyed SMT V, I recommend the series as a whole and with persona games being as famous as they are today I'm hoping you'll cover those as well when a new one comes out, at least a main line one and not one of 29474 spinoffs lol
This video really caught me off guard when you started talking about Pillars of Eternity 1. I thought surely you had played through that game and completed the side content. Only to realize that when you talk about 100% 'ing, you mean something far more complete than I do. I am glad that if you aren't enjoying a game or you think trying to 100% it will make you dislike it that you don't push yourself.
I am not going to bitch. I am stunned at how many games you do 100%, I'm impressed, I have only 100% maybe two or three games in my whole life. Keep up the good work, I love your channel.
I didnt finish Songs of Conquest becaufe of similar reasons. I liked that game and its unique look really much. The OST is also amazing but the game has some difficulty spikes that are first really good to handle and in the next mission it gets ridiculously difficult. And then i lose the motivation to play it further. If they balanced the difficulty better i would like to play it more often. But i don't regret buying it because i like the game and what the developer created.
In the early days of achievements, getting most or all was quite fun. Nowadays, I feel some achievements border on unethical and are designed to keep people in a game way past the amount of time which it takes get most of the enjoyment out of it. If a game lasts for 10 hours, don't design achievements that take 50+ hours
I realise this is not a game that would (probably) be your cup of tea, but BY FAR the hardest achievement I have ever come across is one called "Pathfinder" in a game called "Euro Truck Simulator 2". On the surface it doesn't sound all that bad... travel every single road in the game. Uh huh... 3000+ hours in and I am 76% complete. If that is not enough the map gets expanded every year, and a few times a year old sections get remade, which wipes your progress in those areas. The fact that 2% of players have this achievement is incredible, and even then I suspect most of those got it sometime after launch when the map was much smaller, 12 years ago.
This is why I feel I could review movies but not streaming shows or video games : I don't feel like I could power through with something I don't feel like finishing.
How about an unfiltered list of games you absolutely hated? I know that's not really your shtick, but I'm genuinely curious. Realms of ruin was one of these for me. I play and collect the Age of Sigmar tabletop game. I eveb have a nicely painted Stormcast collection. I also really liked the aesthetics and character design of Realms of Ruin. But I genuinely despised playing it and I gave up three hours in. I can't remember a game from the last 20 years that felt so infuriating to me.
I cannot imagine playing a contemporary RPG to 100% completion. I only have so much time, and there are far too many games to play. I don't even care to track achievements, and I don't like to torture myself by playing at hard difficulty levels, so there isn't a chance that it will happen. I probably have reached 100% on some old RPGs, but achievement tracking wasn't a thing at the time, so it is impossible to know for certain. I'm almost certain that I have seen all there is to see in the Ultima games from IV through VII, including Savage Empire and Martian Dreams. This would include talking to every NPC (with the exception of the multiple generic guards who all have the same dialogue), fully exploring the land mass, every town, and every dungeon and cave, hoarding all available unique loot, and completing all of the quest lines. In Ultima I through III, there probably are some dungeons I haven't entered or fully explored, but they are all rather generic, so when you have seen one, you have seen them all. I have fully explored everything else in those games.
These videos make me think about achievements and how people think about "completion" etc. Sometimes achievements can be like a way for the game to suggest special challenges to players- like say, an RPG with dozens of achievements for playing a game with various limitations, like soloing as a thief, playing as a party of all fighters, playing without using any potions - something more dedicated players might dip into and try one or two, but where it would be extremely tedious to do every single one. How can a game highlight various special challenges without creating a special kind of hell for completionists? Maybe grouping challenges together, and making a point of not tracking them individually? Anything tracked individually is an implied invitation to complete all of it, I suppose.
About half way through my Ultimate run for PoE1, been about 7 hours or so. It's not as bad as I dreaded years ago and just recently biting the bullet on going for the 100%. There's two people out there in the world that I know of that have done The Ultimate with every single class, and @Ultrabuu85 is one of them. His videos are an excellent source on how to do the Ultimate with any class you want in under 15+ hours. Still don't look forward to Concelhaut and Llengrath, but at least the Sky Dragon is dead. Edit: Oh, and there's a way to get the achievement for the Kickstarter Backer without cheating. There's a guide somewhere on Steam with someone who posted a save file of a new character in Glided Vale or something that unlocks the achievement. Load the save file and boom. I backed it back then, but to make it an achievement to of done so was bullshit. Edit 2: Completed the Ultimate with a total of 28ish hours spent on it. It really wasn't that bad. Again, shout out to www.youtube.com/@Ultrabuu85 and their videos!
Upside, the reasons for not 100%ing some of theses can highlight some things that make them a bit more attractive to some of us. I didn't know there were so many layers to Songs of Conquest. Didn't know there was a hall of fame for PoE but I'm also not actually a masochist. But I'm reminded again that SMT5... exists. I've seen some bits of early gameplay, but because people are so darn afraid of spoiling things, I just don't know what the plot is or why I should care? Like, cool, another remix of the demon fusion system I've definitely somewhat tolerated in Persona games. And what else? I'd always rather be "spoiled" on things than have no compelling reason to give them a second glance or hunt down a review that's good and more than just bare bones.
Realms of Ruin was a strange beast for me. I actually digged the campaign story but like you I never finished it for the same reason, it got quite repetitive. Mechanically it had this strange rock-paper-scissors sort of mechanic going as well (like shield was very good against 'missile', which was good against sword, which was good against shield or vice versa or something like that), which felt weird to me personally. In a sense, TWW series had that too, but the bonuses were less obvious. The campaign also sorta just switched between the races as well, which sounds kinda good, except the rock paper scissors thing essentially just meant you were doing the same thing with different skins. The upgrade/settlement system imo was not in my view overly fun. I think I played it for a week or so and then uninstalled it. It's lurking in my game library now. I genuinely think it had the potential to be a really good introduction for players to the AoS game like Dawn of War did for 40k, but it just wasn't to be.
On FF7 Rebirth I did every quest up to Golden Saucer and got burnt out so much that I didn’t touch that game even to this day. It was a bad idea that I also played Remake just before game released so +100 hours straight on those games just tired me out so much.
That’s cool - I had no idea an SMT V:Vengeance review was ever in the cards. If you ever do circle back to it, I would enjoy your take on it. :) I beat the base version a year or two ago and while not my favorite SMT game (I hope they re-release IV for modern platforms one day but right now I play it on my 3DS) I still enjoyed most of V quite a bit and had enough fun that I got the different endings and beat the optional super boss.
The last game to give me that "I like it but 100% would make me hate it" was Wo Long. I still haven't done the DLCs because the base game burned me out so badly. I can't bring myself to just slog through NG++++ of games that are both really long and hard as nails all throughout, even when just going through the world. It's not like Black Myth Wukong where you get breaks between bosses and can just feel powerful for a bit. The random affixes, the enormous list of missions that have to be cleared one by one on each difficulty for completion like it's Borderlands 2... Plus I'm just not a good parrier. So the game just felt tiring past the first two runs. Even though I love the whole premise of just being a dark, twisted take on what is literally Dynasty Warriors (same company, same designs for characters, etc).
Usually I have great fun when playing to ~65-80% at some point some achievements/endings/sidecontent require too much time for too little fun. If for the last push the time investment to reward ratio is worse than watching paint dry, I drop it. I've left amazing games with a bad taste in my mouth because I 100%ed them (I'm looking at you DA: Inquisition)
"I am in fact a human being and not a sophisticated AI" That's EXACTLY what a sophisticated AI would say!
Mortim is Skynet confirmed.
Literally came here to comment that if no one had yet. Thanks for having my back. lol
Should send him a captcha
Mortim- "01001001 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101011 01101001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100011 01101011"
I'd be totally on board for a "Review after 50%" for a game you decided not to finish.
Yes, as long as most reviews are 100%, I don't feel like they all need to be. A "Review After 83.7%" would actually be quite eye-catching, since I'd want to hear why you didn't do 100.
Same, and anyway for me 100% would mean anything that you logically can get (like a pre-order bonus not being available shouldnt count imo)
Honestly, I don't even like that much to 100% my games. Most times the game is pretty fun, but what you need to do to get the remaining achievements are boring and menial tasks. Like, a fun action-adventure game with cool combat? Great. But now you need to collect 1000 flags or whatever? Not so great. Those tasks are so boring that I avoid doing them in order not to sour the experience. Better to move on to other games.
I enjoy 100% if the achievements are the other way of playing the game such as good/bad/neutral endings
Same, I only do it for games I really enjoy and am not ready to let go of yet.
I do enjoy achievements as an extra to regular in game objectives but when it becomes tedious I value my time over 100%ing. So it becomes a case by case decision.
I only ever 100% FromSoft games because I feel like they design the trophies in a way that you already collect most of them on a normal playthrough and can easily collect the rest when going for other endings. I don't think most games are really designed for 100% because it usually involves a lot of tedium and busywork.
Yeah except for the covenant item farming. You could play through the game over 10 times to get those and still not even be half way done collecting. Lol
The only game I decided to 100% was Dredge, and honestly it took some of the enjoyment out of the game and makes me look back at it with PTSD. I really appreciate what Mortismal does because I couldn't do it. The 100% is generally a gimmick I don't care much about since he can rate a game by not pushing himself to do every achievement, plus his reviews are just high quality and objective about the game as a whole; if anything I'm surprised it doesn't ruin his opinion on the games after such slogs to do everything who knows how many times.
Also, because Dredge got more content the 100% for the game is gone...
“Simply to remind everyone I am a human being”
Mort trying to pass the Turing Test.
Mortym, I don't think you should worry about 100%-ing games you're not enthusiastic about. You always mention in your intros that "I 100% games to differentiate myself". But your viewers are not just here for some random 100%-ing, but also to get your personal perspective, including your taste and biases. So if you don't feel like 100%-ing something, that's already valuable information for us...
I agree completely! The quality of the reviews differentiate Mortym's channel enough, that the 100%-ing isn't a necessary qualifier.
Yes, please! You can still review games you don't get every arbitrary achievement in, just include a small blurb mentioning why.
I agree seeing him 100% a game should be a badge of honor for the game he’s reviewing that he liked it so much he wanted to 100% it, not a thing he does all the time. We know his reviews of the games he doesn’t 100% would still be very in depth.
At this point Mort reviews are worth it even just for the simple fact that he's honest about what's in the game. Even ACG lately has been putting out reviews that just misrepresent objective facts about some games and it drives me nuts. I play something and listen to someone else review, and it's like... "What are you talking about? That literally didn't happen when I played that part three hours ago. Am I being gaslit?"
@@FelisImpurrator I've ran into that same problem myself before and it ends up making me stop watching other reviewers.
2:15 For those who don't know ultimate achievement is about finishing the game on 100 % (finishing story, killing all optional bosses, stuff like that) on the hardest difficulty with iron mode AND solo without any companions.
Its absurd the requirements, i like that its possible and there's some recognition for it but i don't think stuff that extremely hard should be asked of the player for 100%.
@@zander2758why not? I don't see why a game should LET you hit 100%
Oh yeah. The good ol' Triple Crown Solo (Pillars of Eternity ultimate achievement). I remember looking at it and thinking "Yeah, thanks but no thanks". That being said, playing the game on its highest difficulty is actually pretty fun and something I would recommend if you're into tactics and number crunching.
I've owned Pillars 1 since it shortly came out and it's always been sitting in my backlog. Despite finding the lore of the world and gameplay right up my alley, I never put the hours into it much. Now since Avowed it fast approaching, I've been playing it more. Its a very fun game! I can't wait to get to Deadfire as that seems like it very much my thing as well.
@@NRV0 Deadfire is about 3 times more fun and enjoyable than PoE so that's something to look forward to.
That being said, it is what it is, you know what I mean?
@@scottycheesecake Cap, Deadfire is shit. Blew all the budget getting fucking Critical Role actors on board, forgot to make a fun game as a result.
@@kao123456654 I actually agree. Found the first game amazing, was very disappointed with Deadfire.
0:55 - Honestly, I don't blame you for not 100% SMT 5 right now. The game is massive and there's a lot to do in order to even come close to getting 100% achievements in this game. You can always chip away at it a bit at a time if you get free time.
mostly for me, playing games is fun. hunting through games to try to get 100% is work.
like cutting the grass with a mower vs snipping every piece with a pair of scissors and a ruler.
you're a real one for making it through these in totality #respect
As someone who did 100% Against the Storm (about 150h), I think the issue is the games can last 4-6 hours which is hard to do in one session if it's a working day. It also becomes quite repetitive because once you figure out the right strategy, you will use the exact same one everytime. The roguelite part of the game isn't as complete as other games
Didn't 100% yet but I agree. If I get the things I want - run is basically won. If I don't it is either a loss or way too long/annoying/dicy to care. I have no idea how people play without some cornerstones/buildings on high prestige.
that was my issue with Against the Storm as well. Good game and I enjoyed it a bit, but many of the runs you're doing essentially the same thing
I think picking unusual cornerstones adds a lot of variety.
@@witticisms It does, but at high prestiege you aren't really trying to spice things up, it is already hard.
The only one I gave up on was the Charlie Brown Field Goal Challenge. Every year I found myself going back for another attempt only to wind up flat on my back promising myself in vain that I would give up. Well, I finally did. At least until November.
The most brutal platinum trophy ive ever seen was from the Gran Turismo series (driving simulator) in GT Sport.
RPGS have some insane challenges but GTSport just blows them out of the water; 2 of the gold trophies you require for Platinum are "Win 250 online ranked races" (remember the game is ranked ladder leagues, so as you win, you get put into harder lobbies) and "Get Pole position qualifying in Online races 200 times"
For context, I played the game quite regularly and was a tier A/A+ driver (S being the best) for about a year and a half, and only won about 15 races, and got pole about 7 times.
Literally about 5 people out of thousands had the platinum trophy, and all of them were either real life professional racers or were youtube streamers who played it 6+ hours a day for years straight.
0:13 - nah, you can't fool us into thinking, that you are human, Mortym.
In seriousness, thanks for all your amazing content.
Well I can tell you that I finally got one game (Hades) done to 100%. Idk how you have patience to 100% all these games lol! But that's what makes this channel so entertaining for me.
It's a little different when your full time job is playing videogames
@@Catheidan tbf, I game a lot (I work from home). Like 30-40 hour a week a lot. I just think that instead of chasing achievements I could be playing some other cool game. Besides, 100%-ing RPGs always requires preparation, as achievements are very missible, and I don't even look at them usually.
I did Hades because there's no ending to it, and I since I loved the game so much I decided 100% will be my ending.
@@Exxy6965He doesn't just 100% games. He looks up what he needs in advance and creates a strategy based on what he knows and online guides. It's quite optimized, but not really a casual playthrough like we would usually do. But he enjoys it, so fair enough.
@@Exxy6965 that's my reason for almost never 100%'ing a game. I can do these super boring, chore-like acheivements after I've already beaten the game.. or I could go do something that's actually fun, whether that be a different game or whatever it is
@@enot2140except when he gets an advance copy, there are no guides yet.
With SMT V: Vengeance, there’s a secret boss where you can only unlock if you complete canon of Creation on true neutral ending then go on to do Canon of Vengeance which essentially means playing the game twice just to unlock the boss.
You don’t need to beat true neutral in CoC to unlock that boss. You just need to beat the game and can immediately reload your old save and attempt him.
There is an upgraded version of a super boss that requires you to get an item in CoV and then go fight him in CoC. But it doesn’t give you anything for doing it.
You need to do all 6 endings anyway for 100%, and you can’t reload old save. That being said, you need 1.5-2 full runs with all the side quests, and the rest is speedruns that’s much shorter. It would still take 150+ hours though.
That's most megaten games. Secret boss is usually in the new game plus.
This year I 100% my first game on Steam and I have exactly 1 on GOG too. Only because it's just finding all the stuff in those 2 games, no "hardest difficulty with your hand tied behind your back" or "complete this boss before your toast is done" kind of a achievements.
If I made 100% reviews like Mort, every single one would finish with "... but the game really overstays its welcome and I hate it now" ^^
Yeah, it's a good idea to keep in mind that a lot of achievements are optional. I've been playing Shadow Gambit, a game I greatly enjoy and it has achievements for completing missions under a certain time. Maybe there are some mad people who do all that and only use one character on each mission, but it's not me. Though I did just complete a mission with two characters when three is the default.
I'm lucky to even finish RPGs these days - staying with them for achievements is something that I could not do... and some of them require good skill and I barely remember what happened before I paused the game... which can take days, weeks, months.
I'd love to watch your reviews even if they are not 100% completion rate, specially SMT V
I didn't know about the PoE backer only achievement...that kind of stinks that you can't normally 100% because of that.
I barely managed to get myself the Frozen Crown for PoE1, but the Ultimate ..... I would literally go insane..
These occasional "games I gave up on" videos you do really are a good addition to the site. They round out the overall picture and give a nice bit of perspective. I just laughed when I saw the PoE ultimate challenges, I never had the time to invest but I love both games to death and wish I had the fortitude to do them.
Only an AI would say he's not a sophisticated AI designed to 100% games for no reason
I feel the same about Against the Storm. Clocked 61 hours, halfway through with the achievements, but had to take a break because due to the repetitiveness of its roguelike nature and the long game-length at higher difficulty. However, now you have brought this up, it has certainly renewed my interest so ill probably give it another few rounds this weekend!
I love how this video doesn’t have an overwhelming negative tone. You give genuine reasons (mostly time) of why you haven’t finished these games and time is extremely valuable so it is completely understandable. And with the other games you still make sure to differentiate between your personal opinion / taste and genuine faults of the game.
While I’m not subscribed because your taste in games drastically differ from mine you have my respect (if it is worth anything) for being a great reviewer.
Thanks for the video. Good to know I can stop waiting for your SMT 100%. Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.
So now I´m eagerly awaiting your "Review after 98%-ing Pillars of Eternity" ;-)
You should definitely 100% Final Fantasy XIV. It'll just be a quick jaunt really, no trouble at all.
My daily mortim video fix. Perfect timing.
Daily?
I really like beating games, completing stories and then having this moment where you sit during the credits, reflecting on your journey.
I would 100% some games, but I am, unfortunately, a mortal.
You'd be a legend if you 100%ed PoE. If you try, please stream it! For the triple Crown SOLO achievement. Btw I just looked and I don't see any achievements for being a backer. What's it called?
The achievement is called Kickstarter Backer.
yea 100% Path Of Exile plz :)
@@cpugwash7085 Ah yeah I see it and I have it. I guess I backed the game back in the day.
I'd love to see you do the Avernum series, or at least one game from the Avernum series, such as Avernum: Escape from the Pit.
Its on my list
You are one of the first people I look up when I’m looking for game reviews because you present the information factually without a lot of opinions. There is a small but - to strife for perfections of course, is to make the story section of your reviews even shorter and less revealing even though it’s a 100% review. Mainly because it’s still a review and 100% is almost always a given for some OCDs like myself. So looking to hear if it’s worth 100ing without knowing too much about the story.
Other than that, great content and keep up the good work!
0:14 "...simply to remind everybody that I am, in fact, a human being and not a sophisticated AI designed to 100% games for seemingly no reason..."
That's exactly what an AI designed to 100% games for seemingly no reason would say.
Yeah he cant fool anyone
When are you going to 100% go on vacation. YOU DESERVE ONE SIR.
100%ing a vacation sounds exhausting and unhealthy "I must do all the activities, all the visits, taste all the food !" etc.
Traveling stresses me out, I avoid it as much as I can.
@@MortismalGaming Take a month off then when you can lmao. Hard with the constant need and your style of videos but do it when you can.
@@MortismalGamingvacation doesn’t necessarily mean travel
SMT VV shouldn't take that long to 100% I just got finished with mine and I'm at about 90 hours total most stuff can be done pretty quick since you can just drop the difficulty for content you've already seen and fly through everything
I really couldn't get into Againt the Storm and I LOVE city builders.
same
Are you a fan of roguelikes in general? If not that might explain it. On the other hand the game is quite mechanically complex and it can take a while to figure out what everything means so that might be another factor
It’s not a city builder, that’s probably why. It’s a production chain game, like Caesar or Anno.
I hope you know you’re the reason I now have a gaming backlog
I feel like Songs of Conquest is for people that loved Heroes of Might and Magic 3. That's why I love it. I also play it against my best friend though so that is an important caveat
I did The Ultimate in PoS1. I've watched guides, went through excell loot tables (for Raedric's Hold, each day you have different loot in some of the boxes) and I've learnt to kite like a god. That being said: I've kind of save-scummed too. I've realized that if you drop to zero HP, there's actually like five seconds before the death screen. You can hit ESC and reload the last save, game only deletes your save after death screen. If things went sideways during fight, I'd reload. If you panic, you can still ALT+F4. It's not 100% legit, but by the end of the Ultimate run, I clocked close to 370 hours (85 of which were my first playthrough years ago, 120 PoTD and around 10 for "less than 10 rests") and my estimate was that to do it absolutely legitimately, I'd need 300 to 400 more. Some fights have such a specific positioning that it takes dozens of tries to figure out how to solo it. Alpine Dragon, Lathander. I did have a lot of fun, though and was kind of disappointed that PoE 2 does not have this achievement. (Yeah, I need my digital shiny trinket :P )
Shout out to this channel: www.youtube.com/@Ultrabuu85
Absolute madlad! Spent a lot of time watching his runs.
I understand wanting to differentiate yourself from other tubers by 100%ing games. However, i think a lot of us that have found you would watch normal reviews just as much. You've carved out a space for yourself and created a unique voice in the hubbub even without that aspect of your channel. One of my go tos for deciding whether or not to buy a game. No matter what, ill keep coming back. Keep up the good work man.
Look I don't actually review games with %100 as my stock and trade so I tend not to %100 a whole lot. What puts me off some achievements is that they require so much grind that I worry it will just spoil my enjoyment of the game (in fact I have had this happen in the past when I was younger and getting %100 seemed more important). These days I will look at an achievement list and decide pretty much in advance if I think its doable. To be honest Mort, I know %100ing games you review is like your signature move so to speak, but you are a good and thorough reviewer and I would watch your reviews regardless, but man, sometimes I look at the games you %100 and just wince as I know how much work it might have taken.
Just to close, skipping %100ing the PoE games is the right move. I like both those games but the %100 requirement was a "Nope, not going to try that, it will make me hate the game". I mean you pretty much how to cheat to %100 PoE 1 at this point anyway and if you are faffing about with other peoples save files and stuff.....it takes away you %100ing anyway. (Fun fact I actually have the backer achievement because a close friend of mine backed the game to the tune of two copies and gave one of them to me)
There was definitely a hefty dose of survivor-ship bias when I was doing games journalism for a gamer website. If I didn't like the game I usually wouldn't want to waste my time putting the effort into the review. I liked drawing attention to games I enjoyed and growing a community on that site to play them together with.
Against the storm is so good. It is one of the few games I keep installed because I can play a level when I am in the mood and then put it down for a period of time and come back to it.
To counter your last point, i think i rather watch reviews on games that the reviewer likes. This way the critique is more often good instead of "its not my thing" or "its boring". Aside from that i rather watch something positive 😊 nice videos, keep it up :D
I agree with your review of Songs of Conquest 100%. It's got a lot of really cool systems and I should love it, but there's something tiring about the actual game that prevents me from sitting down and really getting into it.
I've played PoE1 several times at the highest difficulty. I have about 1k hours logged. I know PoE1 very well, but I absolutely can't do an ultimate run. I don't blame you for not 100%ing this game lol. That's an absurd achievement.
love the 100% gimmick because it's something i'd never strive for. however, you need to be realistic and make sure that your "100%" is a realistic "actually 100% achievable". an award for kickstarting a game is not an actual achievement, you can safely ignore those. reminds me of that old Halo 2(?) achievement where you could only get it if you killed someone in multiplayer who already had it - that's an insane thing to hold yourself to as it has no impact whatsoever on your ability to review the game. stick to your 100% but within logical bounds, imo. your BG3 stuff was pivotal for getting me deeper into the game, much love
Yeah, I just reviewed it normally and moved on in that case
I never 100 percent a game and I finish few. I am happy if I get 2 hours per euro/dollar spent. I could play more but choose not to. Been playing since 87, Sun Tzus Ancient Art of War being the first addiction I had. Mort fills a need for me. He completes what I cannot. Thanks, man. I appreciate it. Good luck for the future.👍🖖
I did 100% PoE, and it was honestly a lot of fun to do, as a relatively reasonable challenge. But it is also one of my favorite games of all time. I noped out on those challenges in PoE2 though.
Against the Storm is a ridiculously well designed game. Probably never going to finish it. It does get a bit repetitive after a 100 hours, and I literally got a 100+ other games I want to play. Which is okay when you deliver near perfection before that.
i love both poe 1 & 2 from obsidian
As long as you continue with your main core principles when doing your work, I will be watching your reviews for a long while.
Not so funny story for Pillars of Eternity 1.
Had to use Console commands to finish the last boss.
Typed the Invulnerable(GOD) command and... no joke, went afk for like 5 mins, that last guy was healing indefinitely and I was no close of killing him.
Forgot what commands I used to kill him. Never got the achievement that proved that I finished the game.
Kill the statues no problem and suddenly he wipes my party, forgot how many times I loaded the save file. I was so over it.
The fact that "The 100% Guy" gave up on 100%ing a game is a very valuable piece of information. If it's too much even for a pro such as yourself, the game must be incredibly tedious.
While I can't speak about most of them, I 100% agree about pillars. The amount of time you spend kiting things in the early stages is absolutely mind-numbing at that diffculty.
SMT VV is actually a game only slow on first playthrough (and second playthrough if you just switch to the other campaign), but you could pretty much speedrun on later playthroughs (unless you like more challenge and want to do newborn/godborn mode). I've seen people finish 100% of the game around 120 hours, so it won't touch 200 hours, unless you just want to play around with the game like I did.
I loved the game and I even bought the re-release but I put the switch game on pause when I realized I was like...half way through the game when I thought the plot was winding down. Maybe if you see this you can tell me how far I was...it was basically the first legit dungeon feeling place with traps and stuff. I finally glanced at a guide at this point and it seemed like there was a ways to go.
@@ataridc you are 3/4 of the game at this point. The game has 2 dungeons per Canon. The first dungeon is always a break time of the game before you step into the final Da'at. Depend on your pace of playing the game (I played the game in quite slow pace), you could finish the game around 5-20 hours. The hardest thing is mostly optional superboss, which could take a lot time to figure the strategy beat those boss if you don't use guide.
@@NemoNobodySMT ok so that's further than I thought. Thanks for the information.
Your one of the best reviewers on you tube, whether you 100% percent it or not. You provide great commentary and critique.
I started to hide achievement notificafions on steam for about a year. It feels like Im free.
I just play games, do whatever I want. Nothing I do has a pop up on screen.
I played Elden Ring for about 400+ hours. Then I realized I had a single trophy left.
And I did not care
Eventually I got it by just playing.
You do this for a living, and have optimised 100%ing games, so if you’re skipping these games because they’re taking too long to 100%, god bless the regular folk that do this and decide to 100% one of these games casually. That’s a lot of time and dedication
I totally get the Songs of Conquest take. To me it's the same, it was super cool on paper but after a while into the campaigns I got really overwhelmed by all the juggling between resources, cities, heroes, armies, and stuff. I don't know how I did to play a lot of HoMM 3 back in the day.
I also found that Songs of Conquest didn't resonate with me, but I've enjoyed playing HoMM 3 countless times without any issues.
"I don't know how I did to play a lot of HoMM 3 back in the day." sounds like me - all those games that have different degree of complication and working, then you reach older age and lost all patience and focus on them
@@SpecShadow yeah its exactly that. I enjoy Songs of Conquest, but I have enjoyed HoMM3 more as a kid. And it has nothing to do with quality of the games, but with my age and attention span. I feel the same about RTwP RPGs such as Pillars or Pathfinder. I enjoyed playing BG2 and IWD back in the day, and nowadays RTwP is just annoying compared to proper turn-based combat.
Last game I 100% completed was Unicorn Overlord. I'm not one to really 100% many games but if the games hook me good enough and the achievements aren't stupid or overly time consuming, I'll go ahead and get the job done. There aren't many out there though but this game was EASILY 1 of them
I would honestly love to hear your views about games you havent 100% completed. Morts 90% reviews is something I would watch without question.
I mean I do usually make videos about them in some capacity regardless
Wolfenstein II has a achievement called Mien Leben. Which is to play the ENTIRE game on the hardest setting, without dying in a single session. To make things even better, the game is littered with bugs, including CTD and Steam Achievements that failed to pop bugs.
I try to 100% everything but....f***k that.
would never permadeath a bethesda game lol
Massive fan of you sir, and I dont even have a pc lol but your very in depth and can clearly tell your passion for what you do. Thank you man no idea how much it helps.
"...to remind everybody that I am in fact a human being and not a sophisticated AI designed to 100% games for seemingly no reason" is exactly what a sophisticated AI designed to 100% games for seemingly no reason would say!!
0:15
That's exactly what a sophisticated AI designed to 100% games for seemingly no reason would say.
I'm happy you enjoyed SMT V, I recommend the series as a whole and with persona games being as famous as they are today I'm hoping you'll cover those as well when a new one comes out, at least a main line one and not one of 29474 spinoffs lol
Gotta start my day with a Mortim video. Thanks for being a part of my morning routine!
0:52 The Time Being loves when you say "I have to keep it moving"
This video really caught me off guard when you started talking about Pillars of Eternity 1. I thought surely you had played through that game and completed the side content. Only to realize that when you talk about 100% 'ing, you mean something far more complete than I do. I am glad that if you aren't enjoying a game or you think trying to 100% it will make you dislike it that you don't push yourself.
I've done everything in PoE 1 besides The Ultimate challenges basically, I even put a regular review of it years ago
I am not going to bitch. I am stunned at how many games you do 100%, I'm impressed, I have only 100% maybe two or three games in my whole life. Keep up the good work, I love your channel.
I didnt finish Songs of Conquest becaufe of similar reasons. I liked that game and its unique look really much. The OST is also amazing but the game has some difficulty spikes that are first really good to handle and in the next mission it gets ridiculously difficult. And then i lose the motivation to play it further. If they balanced the difficulty better i would like to play it more often. But i don't regret buying it because i like the game and what the developer created.
You're doing better than me. I rarely ever 100% games.
I am impressed that you are able to 100% any game. I think I have done that like three or four times ever.
I made it 27 minutes into realms of ruin before my ADHD brain got bored. I can't blame you for not 100%ing it.
In the early days of achievements, getting most or all was quite fun. Nowadays, I feel some achievements border on unethical and are designed to keep people in a game way past the amount of time which it takes get most of the enjoyment out of it. If a game lasts for 10 hours, don't design achievements that take 50+ hours
I gave up on Realms of Ruin after the second mission. I had very low expectations towards it, but it still managed to underperform.
I realise this is not a game that would (probably) be your cup of tea, but BY FAR the hardest achievement I have ever come across is one called "Pathfinder" in a game called "Euro Truck Simulator 2". On the surface it doesn't sound all that bad... travel every single road in the game. Uh huh... 3000+ hours in and I am 76% complete. If that is not enough the map gets expanded every year, and a few times a year old sections get remade, which wipes your progress in those areas. The fact that 2% of players have this achievement is incredible, and even then I suspect most of those got it sometime after launch when the map was much smaller, 12 years ago.
Mort speaking those facts. Many mixed reviewed games have been some of mt favorites. Batora: Lost Haven comes to mind.of recent memory.
I have 450+ hours in Pathfinder: WoTR and haven't finished it. Still the on the same playthrough. Favourite cRPG of all time.
This is why I feel I could review movies but not streaming shows or video games : I don't feel like I could power through with something I don't feel like finishing.
I only have only 100% bloodborne and Elden ring. But I love this channel for the depth
How about an unfiltered list of games you absolutely hated?
I know that's not really your shtick, but I'm genuinely curious.
Realms of ruin was one of these for me. I play and collect the Age of Sigmar tabletop game. I eveb have a nicely painted Stormcast collection. I also really liked the aesthetics and character design of Realms of Ruin. But I genuinely despised playing it and I gave up three hours in. I can't remember a game from the last 20 years that felt so infuriating to me.
I cannot imagine playing a contemporary RPG to 100% completion. I only have so much time, and there are far too many games to play. I don't even care to track achievements, and I don't like to torture myself by playing at hard difficulty levels, so there isn't a chance that it will happen. I probably have reached 100% on some old RPGs, but achievement tracking wasn't a thing at the time, so it is impossible to know for certain. I'm almost certain that I have seen all there is to see in the Ultima games from IV through VII, including Savage Empire and Martian Dreams. This would include talking to every NPC (with the exception of the multiple generic guards who all have the same dialogue), fully exploring the land mass, every town, and every dungeon and cave, hoarding all available unique loot, and completing all of the quest lines. In Ultima I through III, there probably are some dungeons I haven't entered or fully explored, but they are all rather generic, so when you have seen one, you have seen them all. I have fully explored everything else in those games.
I don’t think I’ve 100% a single game ever, I got all the achievements on Brotato, that was certainly a first for me.
These videos make me think about achievements and how people think about "completion" etc. Sometimes achievements can be like a way for the game to suggest special challenges to players- like say, an RPG with dozens of achievements for playing a game with various limitations, like soloing as a thief, playing as a party of all fighters, playing without using any potions - something more dedicated players might dip into and try one or two, but where it would be extremely tedious to do every single one. How can a game highlight various special challenges without creating a special kind of hell for completionists? Maybe grouping challenges together, and making a point of not tracking them individually? Anything tracked individually is an implied invitation to complete all of it, I suppose.
About half way through my Ultimate run for PoE1, been about 7 hours or so. It's not as bad as I dreaded years ago and just recently biting the bullet on going for the 100%.
There's two people out there in the world that I know of that have done The Ultimate with every single class, and @Ultrabuu85 is one of them. His videos are an excellent source on how to do the Ultimate with any class you want in under 15+ hours.
Still don't look forward to Concelhaut and Llengrath, but at least the Sky Dragon is dead.
Edit: Oh, and there's a way to get the achievement for the Kickstarter Backer without cheating. There's a guide somewhere on Steam with someone who posted a save file of a new character in Glided Vale or something that unlocks the achievement. Load the save file and boom. I backed it back then, but to make it an achievement to of done so was bullshit.
Edit 2: Completed the Ultimate with a total of 28ish hours spent on it. It really wasn't that bad. Again, shout out to www.youtube.com/@Ultrabuu85 and their videos!
I just played SMT5 Vengeance and I gotta say it’s a REALLY good game. Worth playing even if you don’t 100%
Upside, the reasons for not 100%ing some of theses can highlight some things that make them a bit more attractive to some of us. I didn't know there were so many layers to Songs of Conquest. Didn't know there was a hall of fame for PoE but I'm also not actually a masochist. But I'm reminded again that SMT5... exists. I've seen some bits of early gameplay, but because people are so darn afraid of spoiling things, I just don't know what the plot is or why I should care? Like, cool, another remix of the demon fusion system I've definitely somewhat tolerated in Persona games. And what else? I'd always rather be "spoiled" on things than have no compelling reason to give them a second glance or hunt down a review that's good and more than just bare bones.
Realms of Ruin was a strange beast for me. I actually digged the campaign story but like you I never finished it for the same reason, it got quite repetitive. Mechanically it had this strange rock-paper-scissors sort of mechanic going as well (like shield was very good against 'missile', which was good against sword, which was good against shield or vice versa or something like that), which felt weird to me personally. In a sense, TWW series had that too, but the bonuses were less obvious. The campaign also sorta just switched between the races as well, which sounds kinda good, except the rock paper scissors thing essentially just meant you were doing the same thing with different skins.
The upgrade/settlement system imo was not in my view overly fun.
I think I played it for a week or so and then uninstalled it. It's lurking in my game library now. I genuinely think it had the potential to be a really good introduction for players to the AoS game like Dawn of War did for 40k, but it just wasn't to be.
On FF7 Rebirth I did every quest up to Golden Saucer and got burnt out so much that I didn’t touch that game even to this day. It was a bad idea that I also played Remake just before game released so +100 hours straight on those games just tired me out so much.
Hey man you bring out amazing content. It always a joy watching you.
Mortismal, you tricky AI trying to pretend to be human, you almost had me there for a second
"I am not a sophisticated AI designed to 100% games for no reason" he's trying to throw us off the scent people!
“I am a human being and not a sophisticated AI..”
That’s exactly what an AI would say!
That’s cool - I had no idea an SMT V:Vengeance review was ever in the cards. If you ever do circle back to it, I would enjoy your take on it. :) I beat the base version a year or two ago and while not my favorite SMT game (I hope they re-release IV for modern platforms one day but right now I play it on my 3DS) I still enjoyed most of V quite a bit and had enough fun that I got the different endings and beat the optional super boss.
The last game to give me that "I like it but 100% would make me hate it" was Wo Long. I still haven't done the DLCs because the base game burned me out so badly. I can't bring myself to just slog through NG++++ of games that are both really long and hard as nails all throughout, even when just going through the world. It's not like Black Myth Wukong where you get breaks between bosses and can just feel powerful for a bit. The random affixes, the enormous list of missions that have to be cleared one by one on each difficulty for completion like it's Borderlands 2... Plus I'm just not a good parrier. So the game just felt tiring past the first two runs. Even though I love the whole premise of just being a dark, twisted take on what is literally Dynasty Warriors (same company, same designs for characters, etc).
I love your 100 percent but also like that you do them on games you just like
I'm also working on the SMTV V 100% and having to play through six times for the 100% is such a slog. I definitely understand dropping it.
Usually I have great fun when playing to ~65-80% at some point some achievements/endings/sidecontent require too much time for too little fun. If for the last push the time investment to reward ratio is worse than watching paint dry, I drop it. I've left amazing games with a bad taste in my mouth because I 100%ed them (I'm looking at you DA: Inquisition)
I usually always stop a game with the last mission missing to finish it. One day I will finish them all. At some point