Summary
- RPGs offer epic stories and fun combat systems, but achieving 100% completion can be a tedious nightmare.
- Games like Final Fantasy 10 and Monster Hunter World require lengthy grinds and RNG to achieve full completion.
- Titles like Yakuza 0 and The Witcher 3 have challenging tasks for 100% completion, requiring patience and dedication.
Fans love role-playing games for their epic scope, keeping players busy for hundreds of hours. These epic stories and fun combat systems make the bulk of RPGs a blast to play as players try to build themselves up to complete late-game challenges. Among these challenges is achievement hunting, where some players try to get every possible achievement a title offers.
If players want to attain 100% completion in these RPGs, then they should sign up for a lengthy and frustrating grind. The challenge, the monotony, or both can make total completion of these games a nightmare to deal with, and understandably so.
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8 Final Fantasy 10
Completing Every Character's Sphere Grid & Defeating Penance Are Nightmares
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Mild Blood, Mild Suggestive Themes, Violence
- Genre(s)
- JRPG
The Sphere Grid in Final Fantasy 10 is gargantuan, but most characters are usually placed on specific points in the grid to build upon their strengths, meaning that players can complete the game well before they even reach the end of their character's grid. However, if players are striving for 100% completion, then they must sign themselves up for a horrid grind.
Maxing out the Sphere Grid for every character is a requirement for 100% completion. It's also something that players should do anyway if they want to defeat the game's superboss, Penance. This foe is no joke and requires both an ironclad strategy and a high-level party if players want a whiff of victory.
7 Monster Hunter World
A Huge Time Investment To Hunt Monsters Of Varying Types
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Blood, Mild Language, Use of Alcohol, Violence
- Genre(s)
- Action RPG
The Monster Hunter games feature a litany of tough challenges, and World is no exception. Players can go through the bulk of this game's content in just under a hundred hours, but they will have to spend way more time if they want to achieve 100% completion.
The worst part about this is the RNG players have to deal with if they want the achievement, where they must fight both Gold Giant Crowns and Miniature Crowns for each base monster. It's a mind-numbing grind, and there will still be more trophies to hunt for after this.
6 Like A Dragon: Ishin!
The Grind To Get All Achievements Is Unholy
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ // Blood, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence
- Genre(s)
- Action-Adventure
The Yakuza games are known for featuring a ton of unique side content for fans to get lost in, and Ishin! Is no exception. To 100% the game, players must complete the Another Life segment and become a master of every combat challenge and minigame, which is no easy feat to accomplish. This takes a long, long time and may not even be worth the endeavor, unless players are hardcore trophy hunters. Even then, the grind that ensues as players educate themselves on how Japanese gambling games work is a mind-numbing experience.
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5 Yakuza 0
There's A Ton Of Grind Involved To Get 100% Completion
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood, Intense Violence, Sexual Content, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol
As one would expect, Yakuza 0 is loaded with so much content that trying to get 100% completion can prove to be a nightmare. Players must steel themselves for hundreds of hours of playtime as they strive to complete every minigame and side activity in sight. Trying to get a gambling profit and completing the lengthy side activities of every protagonist can be a lengthy affair. Thankfully, Yakuza 0 is entertaining enough that players won't mind the grind required for 100% completion all that much.
4 Star Ocean: The Last Hope
A Huge Amount Of Time Required To Get All Achievements
- ESRB
- t
- Genre(s)
- JRPG
Perseverance is key in Star Ocean: The Last Hope. Technically speaking, every achievement in The Dark Hope is realistically attainable. However, to accomplish this, players must invest hundreds upon hundreds of hours grinding as much as they can across every area of the game. It's a mind-numbing experience, and it's easy to see why some players would prefer to just and play another game instead of dealing with something so menial.
3 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Gwent Achievements And Some Combat Challenges Can Be Tricky
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In these circumstances, getting 100% completion can be an absolute nightmare. There's also the need to play on the highest difficulty and some tricky combat challenges, although these are doable with some effort.
2 Disco Elysium
At Least Two Playthroughs Are Required
- ESRB
- M For Mature 17+ due to Blood, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, Use of Drugs, Violence
- Genre(s)
- RPG
Disco Elysium is one of the best RPGs that players can get their hands on. The story-driven RPG presents a tantalizing world and a beautiful narrative that fans will find easy to get immersed in.
However, to attain 100% completion, players must make specific choices that can only happen over the course of two playthroughs. A single mistake can be costly, and following a guide can take away a ton of fun from the game. Players are better off going through a blind run first before taking on the immense task of clocking in two more playthroughs to get the job done.
1 Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Getting The Outfits For Every Character Is A Gigantic Pain
- ESRB
- T for Teen due to Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence
- Genre(s)
- Action RPG
Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a great game, but it has some niggling annoyances that fans may not be huge fans of. While the game's chapters can be engaging to play through, they're not fun to repeat at all.
This is something achievement hunters must do constantly to make progress toward certain achievements. One of the biggest grinds in the series is the work players must put in to get every variant of the outfit possible for Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith, which can be a downright slog.
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