When is a game 'completed' for you?

[Improfane]

When is the game complete for you?

do you need to have
...caught every single Pokemon
...team trained to level 100
...breed Pokemon
...grow and possess all berries
...complete highest rank contests on multiple Pokemon?
and so forth.

Do include examples from other Pokemon games!

Completion means when you stop trying to accomplish a goal within the game, from your perspective. For me, the game is complete when I've visited every area and beaten the league.

Why?
I get bored with the side quests or tasks with diminishing returns.

• If you have 100 caught Pokedex, it is no different if you catch another 50 more. It's another statistic. If a Pokemon is needed, I go catch it.
• Growing berries, breeding and contests feel pointless to do to unless you need something from them.

I find games more fun by extending it through artificial challenges, such as the ones discussed in my game challenges topic.

Inspired by Waker of Chaos' reply to Celebi XD's post.

 

[Eruption]

For old games, completing E4.

For D/P, its never complete.

 

[Virtual Headache]

Usually it's over after the E4 for me, unless there is another quest in the game you can do, then that counts aswell.
Maybe also catching all of the available legendaries.
I never bothered to train my whole team to level 100 and a full Pokedex is just a bonus to me.
I also don't care about berries or contests...

 

[Waker of Chaos]

Well, at least it's not a "let's flame Waker of Chaos because the mods won't care" thread, like other forums would likely do.

The game isn't really over for me. Becoming Champion is just the first step.

 

[Firebird306]

With the older games I do admit it got a little boring after the E4. But since I completed the E4 on D/P I've been doing nothing but chaining, I'm a chaining addict. =P

But personally I feel they can never really end.

 

[♥~*Abby*~♥]

do you need to have
...caught every single Pokemon
...team trained to level 100
...breed Pokemon
...grow and possess all berries
...complete highest rank contests on multiple Pokemon?
and so forth.

1. Yes
2. It depends
3. Not really
4. No
5. Maybe after you do everything else

That's my thoughts.

 

[Oni Link]

For a game to actually be 'complete', I'd say you'd have to have obtained everything possible in the game, but for me, I feel the game is complete once I've defeated the Elite Four and completed my Pokedex.

 

[Haruka of Hoenn]

For me, a game is completed when the storyline is finished, when I've completed the pokedex (ENTIRE thing), beat every contest, raised all my pokemon to lv.100, collected all the items possible, and have been to every single place possible in the game. (I've never actually went this far in any of my games, and I doubt I ever will...)

 

[~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~]

for me when the game is done when I max out my Pokemon card to whatever is the highest one



:t354:TG

 

[MissMegano]

For me, I have to have completed the storyline and major sidequests, completed the pokedex, and trained two or three pokemon to lv. 100.

 

[splosh]

A physical sign of completing the game is to max out your trainer card, which means:
1) Defeating E4
2)Master Rank in all contests
3)Do the 'Capture the Flag' game underground
4) Completing the National Pokedex (excluding event pokemon)
5) 100 consecutive wins in the Battle Tower

Only the Dux of Pokemon could achieve all this.

 

[Bejesus]

The E4 is just the first step! What if you stopped playing after the E4 in the second gen ;)
I've completed every E4 in every Pokemon game i own (Bar Blue which i got in a sale about 3 years ago) and i still have things i wish to do in them. The most complete being my broke second gen games.

EDIT: These are the things i managed up to the second gen and am hoping to do in the rest. Beat elite four many times, many times with one pokemon, also with no or few items. Train many pokemon to lv 100 and catch all the legendaries.

 

[Ayano Katagiri]

Since I don't have access to all the games, finishing the Pokedex is completely out of the option. And therefore, completing a game, for me, is simply beating the E4 and getting as far as I can get ingame like catching as many Pokemon as avaliable in the game.

 

[The Dash]

When I have done everything.. But that takes me a very long time.

Sofar in the.. What, 11 years? I've loved Pokémon now I have only finished Red, Blue, Yellow, Green (Yes I actually took the time to finish that Japanese version 100%. I'm sad, I know.),Gold, Silver, Stadium, Stadium 2 and Snap.