100% or Complete

[linktothefuture]

Do you like to try to compleat a zelda game 100% or just try to compleat the story. I try to compleat the story. if im stuck or board or done the game i will do all of the sidequests and get the collectibles i didn't get before

[Locke]

100%. OCD
I refuse to finish ST until I get all the train parts and find the last heart container.

...except the last time I played WW (the 3rd/4th time). It got WAY too boring trying to find those heart pieces. And the pictures... ugh

[SirenOfTheSea]

I only try to complete the story.

I hate trying to get every single thing in the game, as I find it to repetitive and time-consuming, like playing an RPG. I may have a couple Zelda games where I try to get all the heart pieces, but other than that, I just finish sidequests and continue with the story.

[Evil Space Fish]

I just played thru GBA ALttP 100%. That's one of the easier ones to complete though imo. Cept for Palace of the Four Sword, that place was a bit intense fighting the Helmasaur guy the second run thru.

[jbkarate9]

See i have OCD so i have to even though i realy dont like to!

[Apple]

I don't have the uncontrollable urge to complete the games 100%, but I do anyway. I like seeing everything the game has to offer and it makes it more fun.

[Kazumi]

I almost always try and get 100% in a Zelda game. Especially a new one. Unfortunately, I often fail. So I get ALMOST everything, but I miss a couple things, or just don't get them. This happens quite a lot when I play through Majora's Mask. Mostly because some of the Heart Pieces are hard to get. Especially the Shooting Galleries.

The only time I don't try for 100% is when I'm doing a 3-Heart Challenge... Mostly because you can obviously not beat it 100%, because you can only have three hearts... Do you get what I'm saying? Also. It's COMPLETE. Not compleat..

[Sparky]

Yes. I attempt to get everything in every game. It's the only way to experience the games in the series to their fullest.
I'm still down a couple of archery related minigame heart pieces, but I have everything else in all the games I currently own at the moment.

I do need to get a copy of Wind Waker soon though, so I can do a 100% run on the first run, and a three heart challenge on the New game+

[Locke]

You can't 100% WW the first time if you include the pictographs/sculptures.

[Sparky]

Yeah you can. I've seen a guide for it online.
It's just RIDICULOUSLY difficult and painful as one slip up and the whole file is a waste.

[Axle the Beast]

I voted "sometimes". I do generally try, although not always. But I've never actually gotten 100% on a Zelda game. I always go for all of the items, upgrades and bottles, but I've never gotten all of the Heart Pieces. :(

Not for the lack of trying though. I've just never had the patience to complete any of them, at least without a guide (which I rarely ever use). I'm sure I'll do it sometime.

[Shadsie]

No.

Story is the most important thing to me - seeing the quest play out. If I can do that without all the heart pieces or without getting all the token kill- bonus critters (skultula, poes), it's all the same to me. I'll do sidequests for fun, but I'm not sure I've ever done a Zelda game 100%, even on multiple play-throughs. When I start a new file, I'm pretty much there to enjoy the world and am pretty relaxed about it.

I was always like that - even as a kid, I never played video games to get the high score, what drove me was getting to see the landscapes and enemies of the next level of the story.

[Zarom]

My answer is yes.

Everytime I play a Zelda game, I always try to get 100%. I don't always succeed. Because I can be missing a few heart pieces here and there, but I collect every items, equipments and things like that. I'm not even sure if I have ever gotten 100% yet. Maybe in some of the 2-D games...

By collecting everything, you can enjoy the game more, fully enjoy it to the max, and also, it makes the adventure more longer. :)
Longer = More fun ;) So yeah, I always try to do everything in any game in general.

[Chrono]

When I am able to do a sidequest I usually get that completed while Im completing the main quest itself. I however don't bother to go out of my way to get every single heart piece all the time or gold skulltula and such.

[Master Kokiri 9]

Well I usually get everything 100% complete. It makes the game last a lot longer and it's fun. Although I tend to skip the useless stuff like Poe Souls (past 20) in TP, Gold Skultulas (past 50) in OoT, the Figurines in WW I actually want to get because the info on the characters is fun (like for instance Link's Grandma likes to pull pranks I think) but I've skipped them in every playthrough so far, and so on and so forth.

[CZG]

Zelda games are usually the only games I get everything, many others are way too hard or simply not cool enough to play 100+ hours. I 100% completed some Mario's and Goldeneye, but that's about it.

Thank the lord not all games keep track of that! When you look at some in-game screen telling you how much you've done, don't you just have to go for the full 100%?

In Zelda games, I'll name mysef Link in the top file and get 100% on my first playthrough and I refuse to go to the final boss when I miss a heart piece too.

The second time through (unless really long ago, more than 5 years at least), I'll problably skip a good part of the sidequests. I recently played ALttP and I got 15 hearts or something when I went the piramid to beat Ganon. I skipped all the caves in the death mountain, saving me hours of playing I think. I'm also replaying MM right now, but everything seems new again and I can't even remember where I got most masks and things, so I could go for 100% again on this second playthrough.

[bellum]

The first time I play any game I usually just like to not worry about getting the game 100% complete. Once I have played through the game I will eventually try to get 100%.

The only Zelda game I have 100% completed right now is Phantom Hourglass, which was pretty easy to get 100%. Other than that, I only have a few Mario games complete. Okay, now that I think of it, I really need to get some more games 100% complete.

[athenian200]

I don't always go for 100%, but I do try to aim for 90%.

For instance, in OoT... I usually skip getting the Golden Scale, and any Gold Skulltulas after around 50. But I do make a point to get all heart pieces, the Biggoron's Sword, the fourth bottle, all the Great Fairy upgrades/spells, and Epona. Basically, I make sure to get everything that will benefit me, but I don't go out of my way to get things just for the sake of having them. I did complete OoT 100% later on because I had nothing better to do after beating it, and you can go back and get everything you missed.

If the game has a second ending that you can only get if you collect everything, though, that would be enough incentive for me to do so. Otherwise, I pretty much let myself off the hook once I feel like I've gotten everything fundamental to the core "experience" of the game that the developers intended, and beaten the game. I also like to avoid getting everything the first time around so that I'll have a reason to pick it up again later.

[LozzyKate]

I think the whole point of the games is to try and get 100% finished with the game.

[Starchain1]

ive deafeted every single one exept OoT. I cant find

[StrangeWig]

I always try to get 100% in every Zelda game. Sadly, I'm never able to get EVERYTHING by myself. :(
So I try to get 100% for as far as I can, and when it gets boring (like, when there's just a few heart pieces left, and I have absolutely no clue of it's whereabouts) I use a walkthrough. ;)

[Random Person]

When I first started playing Zelda games I never cared about 100%. I thought that there was no way on Earth I could get all the hearts and gold skulluta's in a decent amount of time. After words though I started trying my very best to get 100% before beating the story. It just seemed natural that Link should have everything he could possibly get before the final boss. Unfortunately I have never suceeded. The poes and that fishing game with the marvel are still missing in TP, and in MC I can't find the last heart peace.

[Linky]

I don't bother getting 100% I mostly just complete the story but sometimes there will be a cool side quest like get Biggoron's Sword which also greatly helps you beat the game easier.

[Ikana]

I have to get 100% if I don't it will drive me Crazy!If its the first try beating the game then no if its the second time going through the game then yes.

[DekuLink]

I'm a perfectionist. Especially when it comes to Zelda, I can't take it out of the system until I have completed and collected EVERYTHING.

It's a curse.

[ChargewithSword]

100% is the soul to my experience. I try to get 100% while the story is still going so that way I can build it as an adventure instead of something that is just happening at the end of it all. It adds a more adventurous feel to the game. This is exactly what I am going to do with ST when I get it.