by Psychotic » Mon Mar 26, 12 12:17 pm
My first playthrough of a game tends to be on Easy/Normal, this is so I can get a feel for it and so I can enjoy the storyline. Any subsequent playthroughs, if any, is where I'd perform anything else. Unless the game has shit to do after the main campaign, such as Bethesda's titles, though these tend to have difficulty sliders (though I play Bethesda's games on Master simply because it's pathetically easy otherwise, and still easy anyway).
I'm not a completionist in the sense that I have to have everything completed. I like to do achievements, for example, but I'm not going to bother unless I consider the reward worth it. I did all of Human Revolution's achievements (not listed on my Steam account but whatever -- Steam blows) but this was because I was planning on replaying it anyway, and I wanted to try it in the hardest difficulty (hardest difficulty + Pacifist achievement + no setting off alarms achievement = a fun challenge, in my opinion, if not a bit too easy).
Essentially, if I like the gameplay enough to warrant playing again or continue playing after the initial campaign then yeah, I might shoot for some of the missed side-quests or unlockables like achievements, but if I probably won't play it again then I'm less likely to do so.
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