I wonder how many Aspies are like me when it comes to games

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I know, back in the days when I used to regularly play video games, I used to make sure that I beat every game I had ... and completely.

That is, in addition to reaching the ending, I had to collect every single item you had to collect, beat every side-quest, beat all super optional bosses, get 100% on everything, and explore all options. If I didn't do any of that successfully with any game I played, even games I found really boring to complete, I was never satisfied until I did, and when there were times I ultimately failed and realized it was too late to 100% complete a game, the world would feel like it ended for me and I would stop playing video games for a while until the next time I got the urge to reset my mind and start from zero and, thus, play video games once again.

It was the reason I eventually quit playing video games regularly altogether. I still play every now and then but without much seriousness. I envy video gamers who can enjoy video games without struggling with the obsessive-compulsive thing that I had.

Can anyone relate to this as an Aspie?

You could also relate to many non-autistics, nickname for gamers like these are "completionists". I almost never complete games, I am too busy exploring all genres that I can get a hold of. Only games I manage to complete: the kingdom hearts series on the PS2, Civilization 2-3-4, Galactic Civilizations 1-2, and Starcraft 2 ( SC1 gave me nightmares so I never completed it)

NOTE: You are not an exact copy of a completionist, not many tend be perfect cut outs of stereotypes.

I do the same thing but with my digital classical music collection. I can't just collect most of Mozart's symphonies. I must have them all. Same thing for the piano sonatas of Prokofiev, the symphonic poems of Franz Liszt, the etudes of Chopin, the violin concertos of Paganini...

<--- Still waiting for somebody to record the 3rd & 4th symphonies of Czerny. He wrote six and the other four are absolutely wonderful.

I am the exact opposite on the majority of games. I rarely ever finish the story campaign on games these days, and when I do I don't care about collectibles unless they give me some sort of usable in-game reward for doing so that I am interested in.

Hm, I'm somewhere in the middle, like most people, I assume. If I buy or rent a game, I usually beat it and attempt to do everything possible before hitting some achievement or trophy that absolutely stumps me. There are a few games that I've absolutely obsessed over (Oblivion, Dark Souls, Metal Gear Solid 4) and completed to 100% but it's the exception.

I'm like that with games I really like, but if it's a boring/bad/whatever game, I either quit and never play it again, or try to get through it as quickly as possible.

I used to be that way when it came to 360 gamerscore. Now I just find myself playing for fun.

I wasn't that into completing games, but more into becoming a master at specific areas of the game. I use to play RS like 7 years ago and back then I just loved to Runecraft, got upto like 50m xp and made over 10bn Rs money making and selling Nature runes. I found the process very soothing i.e. taking rune essence to the nature altar, crafting the nature runes and then returning to the bank and repeat. I also use to play Gear of War 1 back in the day, became a specialist on the Gridlock map, was the only map I played and I eventually got my kills to death ratio to 7:1, when other top players could barely get it over 3:1. Nowadays I'm into chess, and I think I'll be into this for many more years, incredibly fascinating game and very difficult to master.

I'm sorta this way...I used to complete all my games back when I had to pay $20 for them and couldn't afford more than a game per month. Then I got steam and got like 40+ games in a couple months and I still haven't beat most of them, heck anything I bought 2+ games in a series I only played one of so far (examples: Dead Space, Stalker, Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, etc.) I just feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of options I have.

Total completionist here. Still working on TWEWY and I guess P3P. ; w ;

I really like games like in the Final Fantasy games where you can go on and collect stuff long after the game is over. I like that you can go on forever trying to get everything. But I usually end up giving up. Don't know why, not enough motivation for it I guess. =P

Yeah, I'm a completionist in part Though, the degree will depend on how immersed I get into the gameplay.

I still do that a little bit with specific Splinter Cell games. I'll rerun certain levels to see which ways I can get through a level.

Then this escalates to how much I can taunt NPCs and get away with it.

Also add to this that Splinter Cell: Conviction has the Deniable Ops mini-games and I never get tired of replaying them. I enjoy them so much I got more DLC levels.

I am rarely finish a game. But the Elder Scrolls have a new system out that gives infinite quest and scenarios. So even though the main story is the same how I get there will be different. I am determine to finish the main story so I can start new char as Rogue.

I have a friend who would reset a lot of the time in games just because he wanted to play through and finish it in a certain way

I myself tend to struggle through every single moment of even my favourite games to finish. I love games and would love to do so but my attention span and stubbornness gives up after a while :S thus restarting on a later date with the same mind frame as my friend

I have an xbox 360 and am mostly like that. I try to get as many achievements as is humanly possible. If I really don't like the game than I won't. It also depends on how much time I have. Easy achievements first, and if there's no new games coming, then I'll try to get the tough ones.