Five 100%s I Gave Up On
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- Talking about a few of the games I couldn't be bothered to finish the 100% on, even with all the reviews.
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00:00 Intro
01:22 Gloomhaven
03:07 King Arthur: Knight's Tale
04:38 The Waylanders
06:10 Alaloth
07:45 Spellforce: Conquest of Eo
09:07 Wrap Up
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I think "Review after n%" is actually good idea for videoes.
It would let us know how hard or fair the game to get 100% done.
Not every games really worth 100% achieved.
Just wanted to mention that the algorithm blessed you and started showing me your videos around the beginning of March. Had never seen you before then, but now I've watched around half of your channel and even bought a few of the games solely based on your review. No idea why it started blowing up, but it has been very entertaining finding games I had either ignored or never heard of.
He is great! I love his videos.
This channel is a hidden treasure for RPG fans. I have never 100% a game in my life, yet here I am, with most of Mortim's videos watched lol. And yes, I also bought games based on his reviews, like Wasteland 3, which I loved.
He's clearly getting more and more popular.
His most watched videos are all pretty recent.
He posts very regularly, to a point i wonder if he has a lot other than work going on in his life. I hope he is well and happy
@@alexterieur8813 he talked about this several times in his videos. He said he loves his work, even if it can be quite hard at times because he releases videos every day. He also said he never thought he can play games for a living.
Considering the pace at which he finishes games, his schedule must be pretty wild. But as long as he's happy, there's nothing wrong with it. And it gives us viewers something to be entertained by regularly.
I think this kind of video is just as helpful as your reviews in helping us decide if a game is for us or not
Agreed, Alaloth removed from witshlist here
@@Shikao87 Thirded...and same about Alaloth.
not all games are intended to be 100% completed.
I love how candid you are about both a game's shortcomings and those of your own. Nice job and keep up the good work. I really enjoy your videos.
That Spellforce game was great. Didn't expect much but holy hell did it scratch a itch. It was like Thea mixed with Age of Wonders.
Love Age of Wonders. So this definitely makes me more intrigued. No idea why it didn't register with me before.
@@shawngillogly6873 its more akin to the newer entries in the age of wonders series, nonetheless its an amazing game, managed to beat it three times already and had a really good time with it. Cant wait for a dlc.
It's ok to let go, if your mental constitution can't deal with it then it's a healthy choice.
Well said
If I had just gave up a game and read your comment my toxic brain would think "he just challenged my mental constitution! I'll show him". Almost like your comment is the world's nicest way of calling someone a b!tch lol.
I really appreciate that you reviewing games after 100% them. And I rather see you enjoying doing it so don't push yourself too much. But also if you can please do first look kind of videos it's really helpful. Cheers!
You are the only gaming related Content Creator that I watch everything you post. Even got the notification on not to miss stuff.
Our gaming group played Gloomhaven as a boardgame and the Jaws of the Lion campaign online. It was a very fun experience for us and incredibly challenging, forcing cooperation. We optioned to play Solasta next thanks to feeling it was the closest choice.
How do you structure your personal life/diet/sleep to be able to maintain these extensive play sessions?
Mortym, the guy that is such a completionist that he made it his work to complete games... and that couldn't find five game he didn't 100% without including a DLC.
You, sir, are a legend.
I'm along for the ride. Love your reviews and content in general. I hope you hit 500k subs by the end of the year. 🖤🤘🏻
I don't comment often (bad habits of watching on mobile) so I better start fixing this cuz your content is awesome:
Considering how not only do you consistently upload videos daily, but you ALSO manage to review and release so many 100% completed games, I say it's still amazing how you can still pull it off even when you gotta drop a few games here and there!
I love your channel man, keep up the great work!
I watched that other video in March. Watching this one now. Love your channel dude ❤
I'd love to hear about 5 games you COULDN'T 100%, that's what I thought this video was going to be
NO.
Pretty sure hes done that video
@@jmmywyf4lyf He has
That would probably more accurately be named as "5 games to broken to 100%". E.g. Waylanders. Everything else, it's just a matter of willingness to invest the time.
Although i'd argue 100% Grand Strategy games is kinda missing the point.
@@Llortnerof Yeah, almost all the people I know or watch play GSGs (including me) only pay attention to achievements if there's a narrative value to them. Or they're especially opaque and require a specific run to unlock them.
A game that surprised me was Brigandine: Legend of Runersia. I could tell the achievements were just a ton of replaying the game, so I never thought I'd 100% it but it hooked me so much I sunk hundreds of hours into it. Really fun tactical RPG
Thats a game I've been expecting since the ps1 era, really fun game, though a bit repetitive, im glad they made a PC port.
Gloomhaven is a game that flopped hard on me and my friend at first, but after giving it a second try we got bit more into it and got around to understand the mechanics bit more. But I am a person who does enjoy card based mechanics myself. It is definitely a game that wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea for sure and I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone. I don't think I'd personally want to play it solo either.
What about card mechanics in general do you not like? For me I loathe card based games, as usually it means an added RNG component. There are no such thing for Gloomhaven cards, so for this it doesnt bother me.
Spellforce: Conquest of Eo hits the right spot for the fans of the genre (HoMM, Disciples, Age of Wonders.... hell, even XCOM)
100% recommended if you are into those types of games
One of the most fun games I played in a while, cant wait for a dlc 😂
Glad to hear the King Arthur difficulty complaint echoed by a seasoned RPG/CRPG player such as yourself. I LOVED that game but the difficulty spike left quite a bad taste in my mouth. Ultimately I had to switch from Hard down to Normal difficulty because my characters were all level 12 or lower while my only remaining mission options were level 14+.
Just picked up High on Life and Spellforce - Conquest of Eo this weekend. Not entirely what I expected, but not bad games overall. Still trying out both of them 😂 At least something to do while i wait for releases of games i'm significantly more excited about.
I very seldom 100% games. There always seems to be a point after which it just ceases to be fun, no matter how much I enjoy it until then. I respect greatly the fact that you do this for your reviews (mostly) but at end of day it has to become work not play. This begs a question (and perhaps a suggestion for a video). Which games would you 100% if you were not getting paid to do it, so to speak. In any case, good vid
Just so you know, that's not what begging a question is. Begging a question is a statement that only proves itself by assuming the validity of its own conclusion.
@@michaelsatterfield3040 I'm not completely sure but my thought was that it also was a statement that inferred a conclusion that was otherwise unmentioned or not referred to the first statement. I could be wrong, though. In any case, take care
@@bigego503 I don't believe so, but perhaps I'm mistaken. The only use I know for it is naming the aforementioned logical fallacy.
Of course it sounds like it should mean "brings up the question." But, alas, I am not in charge of such things.
Just found your channel from this video, algorithm gods bless u, new sub!
4:57 Honesty is the commodity of a reviewer. Onward to 200k. All glory to the algorithm.
Been watching your stuff for a while now since I purchased D:OS2( about October 2022) and I had gotten Pathfinder:WOTR and ever since then have warched many videos. Glad to know you by choice are willing to say "Yeah not this time" for some games. P.S I spent about 149 hours on just act 3....Idk if thats good or not.
Love your content brother, thanks for all the great reviews
Ironically, I found you through your 100% review of The Waylanders as I was trying to figure out how many of those second string achievements were actually unlockable. If you ever do decide to dig your way through those bugs, I'd love to see a video of that journey.
That would be an incredibly niche video lol but as far as I know 7 of them are unobtainable due to bugs which are all side quests ones I believe
I also gave up on King Arthur’s Knights Tale. The difficulty spikes were too much for me
Control was great, loved every but of it, SnowRunner is such a chore though it's like an unofficial job to 100%. Love your content.
I enjoyed King Arthur: A Knight's Tale, despite the difficulty spikes. But when they announced the DLC, it left me cold. That was pretty much what I did not want in a DLC. It was a game that needed more side quest content to smooth out the spikes and put more RP in the RPG side. But instead, it went the other way, and really it has enough tactical combat already.
Spellforce interests me, since I *do* like GSGs. I don't know why the Check Out video didn't register with me.
Any thoughts on "The Banner Saga"-Trilogy? The games might not best suited for 100% completion, but I would be interested in some thoughts.
I like Gloomhaven as a tabletop game multiplayer. It definitely does not require specific solutions to each map as the chaos of MP shows. However solo the difficulty is set higher & I found it pretty unfun - too much pressure to try to play optimally. This is exacerbated in the pc version because it's a bit of a chore. I've "given up" on the board game several times due to my play groups collapsing :(
King Arthur as well I found not too hard and the power only one power spike really tough but I managed that (not on top difficulty) and they have nerfed the baddies there now. I felt you get ahead of the game in each level then the next one spiked to something manageable not something overwhelming (not on top difficulty). That sounds really odd as you are obviously far more stoic with these things than I am.
Spellforce I gave up on really fast as it felt neither one thing nor another. I was busy at the time & mean to go back to it. Age of Wonders 4 which fits the same niche will probably put paid to that though.
I do have to say that Gloomhaven is one of the best boardgame to PC conversions I've ever seen. I think it's primarily because Gloomhaven itself really has a lot of meat on its bones. Many boardgames are lightweight enough that players can keep the rules in their heads and breezy enough to play together on an afternoon. On PC, we usually want more dense mechanics because the software is helping us keep track of the correct application of the rules and we often play the games by ourselves so we can take as much or as little time as we want. And Gloomhaven is the rare kind of boardgame that actually does feel like PC adaptation makes sense. In fact, playing Gloomhaven as a boardgame with your friends is a pretty daunting task since it's a challenging and massive game. Honestly, playing the PC version might be preferable over the tabletop version.
The "non-100% column" he says.
LOL!
That's a short list you could probably write on the back of a stamp, if you're careful with the glue...
Thanks for your videos!
It is 18 games long currently, like half early access stuff
@@MortismalGaming
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I wouldnt even want to imagine to 100% 4X games like spellforce or endless legend. Some achievements are just made to drag out the amount of time spent in game.
I really liked King Arthur, although I'm not 100%-ing any game, I'm satisfied with beating them. I really like that type of tactical combat, I think it's my favorite combo of mechanics, with heavy melee, abilities on cooldown and how ability progression is done (not making old moves absolete, but adding new options). That being said I'm not that interested in DLC, I didn't even try it. I'm good with just beating the main game.
Great channel. Just interesting and a good perspective.
I play games for fun. If im not having fun, i move on to something else.
I couldnt possibly blame you for doing the same thing.
I saw this mentioned a few times, but it would be great if your reviews included at least in short what the 100% experience was like; rspecially compared to "regular" gameplay ie how did ypu find the game after beating the main content. Still love u
Gloomhaven is my favorite boardgame! But I also played the game and also felt like it didn't translate that well to PC. That combined with don't liking cards and the expectations I assume you bring from other strategy games, I totally understand that feeling
But it's an amazing board game!
well you should definetly try to play it in multiplayer, I find it most hilarious when you lower the difficulty to something like normal but everyone plays selfishly for their battlegoals and retirement goal with minimum communication
the whole experience becomes like working in an office with dickish coworkers and passive aggressive small talk
I think that captures the intention of the game very well, afterall you are just merceneries forced to work together with your own end goals, not friends
but in all seriousness, what this game succeeds in, if you follow the minimum talk rule, is that one player doesnt direct the whole team (a problem most coop board games have)
@@maxmustermann-zx9yq yeah it definitely doesn't suffer from the problem of other players telling you what to do which is nice
I think a mercenary group can have honor and work together among themselves
I don't think what you described makes it a better experience overall, it's the first time I see someone describe that as a plus 😂
Lower difficulty = normal? I feel like a noob now 😂 I play the boardgame on normal
I think it's perfectly balanced and it makes the experience enjoyable for everyone at the table, both hardcore and casual players
@@joaopedromorais4711 well I find normal pretty relaxed in the sense that I can through out some burn cards just for fun and also pick up almost every gold pile
of course actual difficulty varies alot with each scenario and depending on your party commposition
I still remember going into a scenerio duo with scoundrel and mindthief and realizing upon being wounded that we didnt bring the any heal cards, forgot about long rest heal xd
Funny, I'd consider the conversion of Gloomhaven to PC so good that it kinda makes the boardgame redundant. Like, it's essentially the same game, but it gets rid of all the hassle involved with the boardgame, does some of the more notorious parts of the board game out of itself (trying to figure how the fuck Monster AI works) and cuts some of the unneccesary fat (Envelope X). I'd honestly tell everybody interested in the board game to just buy the digital edition at this point.
i played gloomhaven both tabletop and steam version, and I think it translates pretty good. What people do not like is time pressure, and leaving loot behind, but it is like it is. Either play safe and leave the loot, or risk exhaustion and finish with more money in your pocket.
I really agree with your view on King Arthur. That game needed a speed up on progression and story. It feels long and eventually that weighs down the fun.
I really liked Alaloth. I thought the developers description of the game was pretty spot on, in that it was Baldur's Gate meets Dark Souls. The combat is like a isometric Dark Souls, but it does have the aesthetics of Baldur's Gate. I'm not sure why some players have an issue with the developers using Baldur's Gate in their description. They make it clear it's not a real time pause CRPG.
If anything (without having played it) it might be more like the Dark Alliance games, rather than the PC Baldur's Gates.
You know, maybe adding the title of the game that you talk about while the clips are rolling would be useful. I personally am interested in the last game you mentioned but missed the name so having it on screen would help
I love Gloomhaven, but I never would have expected to see it on this channel. It's a whole bunch of things that you've mentioned as annoyances to you in past videos - so I'm glad you didn't push through to create content on something that would just be unfun!
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Duuude, Alalloth sounds right down my alley!
I couldn't care less about the RP aspects, I just wanna do combat. Haha.
Be warned that the game is super easy. The AI is terrible
Another Gloomhaven fan… give it a chance if you have a regular gaming group. I am mostly a crpg gamer these days but GH just fills a niche for our regular Monday night group that is both rpg and coop strategy. I am quite sure Mortim that if you had any friends and weren’t 100 percenting your time away that you would enjoy the challenge here 😜 Love your stuff, bud. You are my automatic first choice video every day.
I would love to see some data and check if there is correlation between your videos and games being added or removed from wishlists
e.g. Alaloth - added after 'Check out' video, removed now for me
Wait, you dont just 100% games, but you also tackle 100%-ing dlc as well?!
Wow u are unbelievable 😮👍
I stopped playing King Arthur after the "Action point on kill" nerf. Luckily I was already in the post game when that happened. That change made all my builds useless so I couldn't even continue if I wanted to, without completely restarting anyway.
Gloomhaven PC is a great game if you are already familiar with the rules and pacing of a boardgame and just want your sessions to be shorter and play with a friends online. I can totally understand how this game may seems irritating for someone who expected a classic dungeon crawler
skyrim all day everyday, i could not be bothered constantly repeat thiefsguild random quests until i got enough in each city to have strong influence of the guild in every city.
Do you have Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 100%? Only asking because a couple of the games are similar to that and those achievements are annoying.
Code Vein was the one I gave up on. I found it a couple years after release and loved it, but theres a final achievement that requires playing online with people about 300 times, which was nigh impossible years after release.
@@deetsitmeisterjd Same! Code Vein will forever sit on the shelf of 99% shame for me 😞
Well I’ll just say I really hope you will plan to 100% Baldurs Gate 3 when it releases at the end of August. Maybe not right away obviously but just at some point, I would really love to hear your take on the game, and even would love a play through. Something like what you did with the Last Azlanti challenge for Pathfinder.
It will likely mirror WotR in some ways, that 100% took me like two months
@@MortismalGaming Wow, I mean having recently beat the campaign the first time for myself I can see that, especially with every different mythic path, but anyway I look forward to it thank you!
Only one so far for me this year was Death Stranding, I just couldn't get into it. Only difficult thing about that game was getting the motivation to turn it on.
Man, Gloomhaven is just ridiculous in meticulous you have to be in planning every single move. Playing Gloomhaven is like banging your head on a wall. It feels so good when you stop.
what about spellforce 3 ? gonna do a review for it?
I find this video useful because your insights on Gloomhaven make me want to play it more. What you find as a drawback I think is a feature of strategy. While King Arthur I agree. Those things make it not for me.
As a boardgame and video game fan I can say that Gloomhaven feels diferent playing it as a video game vs the boardgame. I enjoy the boardgame a lot but for some reason I get lost in the video game, I just can't play it as effective as the boardgame, so I understand the frustrations with the video game, especially with the people that didn't played the analog counterpart.
I don't believe I've ever 100 percentaged any game. Half the games I try, I quit after an hour. I've got no patience for frustration.
My 5 games:
- Halo 2
- Halo 3 (succeeded until additional multiplayer achievements were released bringing total gamer score up to 1750 if i remember correctly 😅)
- Call of Duty 3
- Grand theft auto IV
- Crackdown
If you do ever decide to take the plunge to physical for Gloomhaven go with the smaller Jaws of the Lion or the sequel Frosthaven instead. They both improve upon the original in meaningful ways, with Frosthaven being the superior (if not also largest and most daunting) of the 3.
Hi Mortym! I've played Gloomhaven, so I know why you feel the way you do about 100%-ing that one.
Hey man, a very niche title that you might enjoy: Roadwarden, a rpg visual novel with very nice art and music
Good content. Subbed.
My favorite Trpg was front mission growing up.
spellforce conquest of eo is incredible, but i tried 3 times before win
Best reviewer is best (even if he gave up on 100%-ing some games)
I feel you. I gave up one Disgaea 3 (after many hours) and Disco Elysium. Have a video about that game (none of you will like my content though so don't watch it, they're long videos).
Ultimately if getting that 100% is too much of a struggle for whatever reason irs very telling the game isn't worth 100%ing
Duuuuuuuuuude.... Everything you said about Gloomhaven was 100% what I felt, and complained on Reddit about (I was looking for a mod to change the burn mechanic)... and man, those typical purists let me have it >_> I really just hated that one mechanic, and it should be changeable by a simple mod.
Trying to get all the achievements from Pathfinder Wrath, I am enjoying the game, also want to do 100% to the second Pillars of Eternity game, I just started it and I 100% the first one... sadly I would never do all the achievements from Tyranny, just got completely bored!
Played and agreed with King Arthur, Waylanders and Spellforce: Conquest of EO; Spellforce being the most enjoyable of the three.
Did you ever play othercide, that seems like the kind of game you'd like, it's a pretty easy plat too
Played and reviewed, it was good
I think it would be fun and still unique if you've posted reviews to this games in a format: "XXX Review - after 99%" ;)
This video is a great reminder that you can get all of the enjoyment you specifically will get from a game without getting 100% in it, you don’t have to get the achievements that are ludicrously hard at risk of your gamer card being revoked. If a game feels like work and you aren’t getting paid to play, it’s time to quit that job and find a new game.
For me it was Witcher 2 due to the hardest difficulty being a roguelike. I even cheesed it stacking traps to insta kill most bigger mobs/boss. But the fight against Letho killed my motivation, even with backing up saves.
Any game that has multiplayer/online achievements since most are dead or offline.
Any "Tales of" games I just play for the story, I am in no way going to farm to 5* every skill, that is way too much of a grind that kills all the fun and interest in the game. The other achievs are pretty cool to do.
Gloomhaven was so ass,I played it multiplayer with my friends,who like all kind of tactical-turn based rpgs;but the card system,running out of cards = death,shitty dice rolls,the fact you're meant to retry until you get enough xp until you level up was so bad.
I know it's based on a boardgame,where you're forced to use a dice,but generally,rng mechanics are so awful in videogames (unless used for something like,decision making). I guess DOS2 spoiled us a bit with the awesome multiplayer gameplay.
Anyway,awesome video as always,I always check up your channel to check new games to try
GloomHaven is also one I bounced off of mostly for the same reasons. While I enjoy card systems I found GloomHaven just way to boxed in. I found myself resetting way to often. And I get it is it mostly more a puzzle game then anything else. But it put me in a place were I felt if I did not take the exact class/gear load out needed for each mission I would be doomed to failure. This drove me to the forums to try and find what i should be using. Soon I was spending much more time looking up how to play each mission then actually playing the game itself. And that is what killed it for me.
Ooof yeah spellforce is alright but such a grind and only one map is a shame, its a game that needs more maps.
I enjoyed Gloomhaven a great deal! But getting 100% sounds like a nightmare!
Gloomhaven is one of the best board games of all time (i think it was even rated highest on BGG for awhile), The digital version means you get to skip that 30 min set up time too. There's no other game like it and I think it really shines once you get a get grasp on the rules. It's only real downside is the inverted difficulty that gives you a ton of pain in the first 10 scenarios before you get items
Gloomhaven is in a precarious position being in how it was developed and received.
I believe most of its popularity is bot, advertisement and pre nostalgia driven.
As you say it has a large set up time and its difficulty inversion and need to be optimized very early and the simple immersion breaker of when you finish a scenario the money on the ground isn't assumed to be picked up. Its a beautiful gloom world with lots of racial and social variety though it falls short in both places between being a board game and a ttrpg.
It costs far too much and has too many bits most not in use for what it actually provides as experience and its far too gimmicky in that way.
One of the best st of all time? Maybe. Though it being on that site that high for that long is certainly precarious.
@@wizardmanaia4664 How is the gold thing immersion breaking? I think it's very realistic that if you don't pick up gold right away it's gone forever. Try throwing a bunch of coins in the forest, walk around for 2 hours and see how good you do at recovering every coin. Now imagine the forest has 8 foot tall beastmen that take offense to your presence on their land. And you're already tired from fighting like 10 of them.
I think the gold system is brilliant personally.
@@RationalOrc because its taking it out of their satchels and sacks in a dungeon that you cleared. I'm pretty sure I made myself clear.
@@wizardmanaia4664 I understand you. I merely disagree is all. Just because you killed everything in the scenario doesn't mean every bad thing in the surrounding area is gone. And even if that were the case, there's no way a soldier in the battlespace could be 100% certain of that. Generally speaking, you wanna do what you came to do and get gone in real operations.
@@RationalOrc you forgot to mention the bot driven ranking.
Absolutely love Gloomhaven, but it's a lot more fun in co-op, which is what I do. Couldn't see myself playing solo
Also does it mean you'll give barotrauma a shot?
I recently gave up on 100%ing Ring Fit Adventure. Not because I dislike exercise - I'm still going to see the game through to the end of its 20+ worlds - but because one of the minigames required for 100% requires you to hit all Perfects for like 2-3 minutes straight and has bad motion controls that make this functionally impossible. Like, imagine if you were trying to do one of the advanced jumping puzzles in a game like FFXIV and you had bad joycon drift. It's basically like that.
I gave up on 100%ing my job yesterday and quit!
Don't feel bad, multiplayer achievements are the worst. :P
The only game i 100% so far was God of War (the 1st nordic one not the very first one naturally), simply due to the fact that all the stuff i wanted to do in the game also had an achievement with it so 100% it just meant playing the game like i normally would.
I never go into a game wanting to 100% it. If the game is incredible and I find myself wanting to spend more time in the world then I will try to, otherwise its just an unfun waste of time to say you did it.
Crusader Kings 3 is one of the games I will never 100%. I enjoy it well enough and could get it if I tried. I just find it much more fun setting my own goals and challenges.
I thought Mort's comments on Gloomhaven were quite interesting and actually have a more general relevance to cRPG design. The issue is slavish adherence to table top rules and mechanics. A lot of folks I know are heavily into authentic reproduction of beloved table top rule sets. Me, not so much. A lot of table top idioms and rules rely on two things that cannot translate to SP video game format IMO: firstly on the table top each player controls just their own character so a lot of table top rules are designed to give players something to do while they're waiting to take their turns, in effect busywork, secondly is the importance of the social dimension of playing with friends in person round the table, something that cannot be reproduced in a cRPG and must perforce be replaced with something else to make up for it - bigger maps, more encounters played much faster, heavy emphasis on exploration, huge dungeons for example.
Often these translation problems arise from the level of complexity in the action economy. Free actions in PF: WotR and Kingmaker are a good example of this, they don't really exist in real play, they are pointless. IMHO unless a game is primarily designed for MP and TB then if you are deriving the rule set from a table top system you need to examine each and every rule to see if it actually works well in video game format and change/adapt it as necessary to make it so.
IMO closer to tabletop = better. It's why ToEE is one on my favorites. Gloomhaven either does not translate well or is not that good to begin with.
When are you going to 100% Grim Dawn HC :)
It's totally fine not to 100% a game, also to just not finish a game at all when you aren't enjoying it. I don't think it is a big deal. I've never tried to 100% a game and I drop a game if I don't enjoy it. Sometimes, getting all achievements just happens naturally as I play a game, but I never go out of my way for it. To me, it just feels like such a massive hassle and even stressful at times. I don't want to go as far as replaying a game I've pretty much experienced entirely and am thus done with, just to get a few of the achievements I am missing. Not worth it. There are still so many games I look forward to playing to want to spend extra time of that caliber on a game I have basically finished. Life is short and time keeps on moving, so my priority lies in experiencing as many great games as I can. Therefore I always rather move on to the next game after I've finished one, achievements notwithstanding.
If someone enjoys achievement hunting though, that's cool. It just doesn't appeal to me, and I think it's good to decide to indeed give up on going for it, even if you like doing it in general, when it's games you don't even enjoy that much. I think it's important to make sure you do enjoy the process. Gaming is supposed to be fun, after all. So I think it's a good call to decide what game is worth it, and to wanna show love for a game you absolutely adore by 100%-ing it, I can understand.
But, I know there's many people who feel a need to 100% every single game they play, and I feel sorry for those who are that compulsive about it, those who MUST do it, who can't rest easy and leave the game, so to say, unless they 100% it. Because I wonder; are they truly enjoying the process of it? Or is it only the sense of satisfaction and peace of mind after they got 'the checklist' done that makes it worth it? But then, I wonder; really, how long-term is that feeling, opposed to the amount of time spent to even get it? Sometimes, I feel, achievements are kind of a curse for those types of people.
Yup, I'm the same with tactics Ogre
I still can’t believe you 100% Tactics Ogre Reborn so fast. There’s like 300+ hours content to go through.
I wouldnt call it fast, I just had a review copy a month in advance. Plus as a remake most of it is pretty easy to look up if I needed too.
I think it'd be nice to have a small video that explains the "May you wander in wisdom" phrase you close every video with. Where's it come from, etc.
He explained this before. It came from divinity or one of the crpg that he played.
I used to cover the Divinity series pretty extensively, and Jahan, my fav character from the series says it in DOS2, so I started using it and it stuck
Good video. Honestly I've played many games that were good fun. But the achievements end up spoiling the experience. Cheers.
King Arthur: Knight's Tale is very good in my opinion but even being an avid fan of the genre I couldn't bring myself to finish it. The game is too long or at least the progression and the story are way too slow.
i couldn't get into Gloomhaven as well. I don't like having pre-determined ways to beat a level. I like to experiment and do things my way. Gloomhaven was to stringent
i keep waiting for you to engage the Monster Hunter games
I also never finished King Arthur or Gloomhaven
I always find the lack of Battle Brothers to be an odd absence on this channel. 🤣
Games that sadly I had to gave up on are the first Ni no Kuni and Bravely Default 2. Despite being an action JRPG, Ni no Kuni combat somehow feels so slow and awkward to me, while Bravely 2, I'm just not a fan of the counter system on that game.
How long of a hiatus do you need to say you dropped something?
No set time, just when I mentally decide its not getting done.