Powergamers Anonymous

[MusicalProgrammer]

"Hi, I'm Tim, and I have a problem..."

Anyone else an admitted powergamer who feels the need to find all secrets as well as attain uber heights and smash through a game unimpeded?

This is generally an RPG phenomenon, but it can probably apply to most genres.

Games like Diablo and Dungeon Siege especially have brought out the worst in me, although I think it started way back in the Dragon Warrior/Final Fantasy days on NES.

 

[Lithium Hobo]

Hi Tim. Yes, I have the same problem. There's beating a game and completing a game. Alot of people can beat a game, but completing one, which is getting everything, is a skill all itself. I sometimes can't even put up a game until I complete it. Fullfilling...yet time consuming.

 

[Windmill]

Amazingly enough, once I beat the storyline, I generally loose the drive to play the game, though two notable exceptions to this rule are kingdom hearts and disneys extreme skate adventure.

 

[steverock]

i also have a problem:
Pro Evolution Soccer 4 - i had to go a whole master league season being undeafeted before i could stop playing it whenever i had any free time!
Gand Theft Auto: San Andreas - i had to get the 100% before i could stop!
Final Fantasy X - i had to build my characters up so they were UBER!
Final Fantasy VII - i had to beat all the weapons!
Sonic (any of them) - i had to get all the emeralds!

its a very irritating thing to get into as there are so many more constructive things to do with my time!!

 

[Crono]

I'm definitely a powergamer myself. I can't put down a game until I've found every little secret and completely maxed out my characters. It takes me forever to really complete a game after I've started. Recently, many games have been designed in a way to make it virtually impossible to do this, and that has really frustrated me.

 

[[toj.cc]Phantom]

Yeah, I do the same thing to Tim. Expecially in RPG games like Morrowind, NWN, and Dungeon Seige!

 

[MusicalProgrammer]

Hmm, more evidence of my problem:

I scored 100% on Abbadon's Munchkin D&D quiz...

 

[mikef14020]

I have that problem, I will beat a game but i want to go back and get maximum amounts possible. Like on FFVIII, I had to have characters all 6 of them on level 99 with maximum stats. Speed included, the only stat I did not maximize was Luck, that would probaly take years.