I can 100% say that going full completionist will ironically make you lose out on other experiences. Imagine the game having a great story and you love it. Now you see this sidewalk alley in the game but you know you must save someone from whoever. Do you follow the false sense of urgency, manifesting the feeling the devs wanted you to have, or do you downplay the entire part by ignoring the story for some time? If you follow the story, you're engaged, characters matter to you personally and it all feels important. If you go into that sidewalk alley, read some newspapers in the search for Easter eggs and find a funny text when searching a bin that might be funny, but it trivializes the story. It's your choice. What do you choose? Neither of the choices are bad of course, I just wanted to point out how losing out on content can be a positive experience.

To The Moon 🌙

Good question. Probably wouldn’t think twice about them if I could disable them. Seeing them pop up periodically does make me wonder if I’m missing out on some of the experience by not going after more.

Rickety Cricket

I know, but it felt wrong not to include him

“The animatronics here do get a bit quirky at night” phone guy

Oh total agree they are definitely optional. It’s a me thing, but wasn’t sure if anyone else felt the same way. I guess I sometimes wonder if missing out on certain ones will detract from the overall experience.

Technically, Atreus is not an NPC since you do play as him.

Garrus and Zaeed start a security company.

Never got to play part 2 YET

I want a Last of Us 2 DLC where you play as Abby's boyfriend and see the events of the game through his eyes leading up to the point where he bangs her.

as a perfectionist who is also an achievement hunter, I honestly hate achievements because the large majority of games have achievements that are either online/competitive based, and I cant be doing with that, and/or get all of x item, and I feel like I need to do it, so I spend hours doing 1 singular achievement.

It's also ruined my experience with games because I cant just play a game, I instinctively think of getting all the achievements before I've even finished the tutorial.

They're already optional. You just pay them no mind. Rather, if there was an option to turn them off, wouldn't you continue wondering if you missed anything?

But achievements are optional? It seems like you noticed a problem in your behavior which kills your enjoyment. Instead of wanting other people to fix your personal problem try to work on yourself. If you know that's a bad trait and you're having less fun, then force yourself to NOT finish that part 100%. Don't wanna get the minor upgrade because you don't feel like it? Don't do it.

I don't particularly care either way, but sometimes I feel like it would be fun to have the option to reset the achievements and trophies I've earned, just for the thrill of unlocking them again. If I like a game enough to play it more than once or twice, I’d be down to unlock everything again. That was actually something I did in the PS2 days. I deliberately deleted save files off of my memory card even though I had plenty of space, just for the thrill.

Of course, this probably won't work well with games that have online components or even just not having the complete game in the first place unless you pay extra, and if you do pay extra, there’s no “unlocking thrill” anyway.

Idk, I couldn’t care less about 100%ing a game. I stop playing when it becomes boring. You may be the minority.

not 1 game over 1k hours? dissappointing

Personally I've just always considered them optional and I largely don't care about them. Especially the ones that are the "collect all the things" busywork almost never get done.

I've never 100%'d a game in terms of achievements.

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You only have 900 hours on PoE, you haven't even started playing it yet.

https://youtu.be/i-b2KL4MFtE

only 900h in poe

Shouldn't you be ashamed of this?

Those are rookie numbers

Guessing you didn't get much detention.