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PlayStation Game Completion Stats
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Like The Salt
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I can't help but think that chart was made to torment those of us who are colorblind.
Im not colorblind and am having trouble.
Medal of Honor 2K10: USA vs. The Taliban, did have some feels contained. None of which I felt, but I am sure they were there. Very condensed, also, so I can see the logic in the statistics.
Cryengine 2 ... is the first chapter just the boat section, or just the ass-flavored tutorial? The one where they manage a contextual excuse to stop you from discovering things outside of their schedule?
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More people should have played the Bad Company campaign...
Cryengine 2 ... is the first chapter just the boat section, or just the ass-flavored tutorial? The one where they manage a contextual excuse to stop you from discovering things outside of their schedule?
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More people should have played the Bad Company campaign...
Netrunner2k2
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Same here. I stopped looking at is so I don't go nuts trying to read it. Whoever made it needs to go back into Excel and make a new one.
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I'm not colourblind and I can't tell between the 4 different shades of yellow, so don't worry.
OP this is really interesting, I agree, but there's just too much on the chart
SolsticeZero
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I'm surprised that it's almost 50% for most of those, in all honesty. I expected lower.
Like The Salt
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Good job, though. As a gamer and a numbers guy, I find this type of stuff interesting.
bigbaldwolf86
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I was actually going through my trophy list the other day to see this exact thing. I was just checking how rare trophies were from the beginning of the game to the standard game completed trophy. It's amazing the differences you see and just how many people mustn't finish games
Edit: great idea to gather this data by the OP but I agree that it needs to be better displayed
Edit: great idea to gather this data by the OP but I agree that it needs to be better displayed
ab.aeterno
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Break it out into more graphs so there's fewer per image, and if you can, use lines with various shapes for each line to make them more visually distinguishable.
purpletentacle
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Not surprised most people don't finish games.
Also, yeah, this list really could have been designed a bit better.
Also, yeah, this list really could have been designed a bit better.
Agreed. Great data compilation, poor choice of display
Break up similar colors with different shapes instead of them all being the same little circles. Makes it easier to identify which is which.
Grinchy
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This is really cool, thanks. (Though it's very difficult to read, like others have already said. Many games have such similar colors that I can't even tell them apart)
And I'm going to go ahead and defend Unreal Tournament 3 for a moment since I have a soft spot for it. It got a trophy patch later on in its life. The single player was so bad that it would be shocking to think that anyone played through it again after its trophy patch came out.
And I'm going to go ahead and defend Unreal Tournament 3 for a moment since I have a soft spot for it. It got a trophy patch later on in its life. The single player was so bad that it would be shocking to think that anyone played through it again after its trophy patch came out.
Ditto. I dont think the chart is that helpful honestly, not as good as the bullet points he listed.
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SolidSnakex
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A good chunk of those games can be completed in under 10 hours. And some are only 6 or 7 hours long.
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I'm more inclined to believe that shallow gameplay and too much story are the reasons.
I'll go with this too. Maybe not too much story, but uninteresting story.
Some of those are MP heavy, so SP completion is usually low. Couple that with relatively generic SP campaigns most of the time and it makes sense. Cutscene, few waves of enemies, new weapon or gadget acquired, cutscene, waves of enemies, new gadget, cutscene, revert to a basic weapon, enemies, cutscene, full weapons again, cutscene, fin.
What I would like to see more of is split SP/MP games and lower the cost. Not always needed to subsidize one with the other. I know they create the engines, maps and assets and are used in both, but I feel a more focused approach to both would lead to improvements in both, as they can react to a poor selling SP or MP individually. Then again I guess tracking behavior through trophy completion works the same way.
Callibretto
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I'm thinking that the industry probably couldn't afford it if every single player actually beat all the game they bought. it means they will buy less games because there's not enough time to play the games. backlog are really part of gaming industry.
Parapraxis
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Kinda interested to see what my stats would look like.
Will do some charting, thanks for the sheet.
FaintColt388301
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I'm colorblind so this is a nightmare
Length isn't the problem with most of those games.
IAmRandom31
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Looking at rarity statistics for PS4 trophy's is fun too in a way. Knowing there are say ... 10% of people out there playing Res0gun who have not even thrown a human into a beam .. or 30% or whatever who have not even finished Level 2 in Res0gun is interesting.
Cool I can check trophy's on my Iphone Playstation app.
48.5% of people have completed Ceres which is lv. 2. 37.2% of people have completed stage 3. 20% of people have completed stage 5. Not bad really.
18.9% of people have completed all levels on any difficulty. 18.9% Rookie, 6.8% Experienced, only 3.9% on Veteran.
25.5% of people have completed Knack it looks like.
71.5% of people completed Journey and returned to the beginning ( wow )\
13.9% of players have completed memory sequence 13 in Assassins Creed 4 ( essentially the end )
Cool I can check trophy's on my Iphone Playstation app.
48.5% of people have completed Ceres which is lv. 2. 37.2% of people have completed stage 3. 20% of people have completed stage 5. Not bad really.
18.9% of people have completed all levels on any difficulty. 18.9% Rookie, 6.8% Experienced, only 3.9% on Veteran.
25.5% of people have completed Knack it looks like.
71.5% of people completed Journey and returned to the beginning ( wow )\
13.9% of players have completed memory sequence 13 in Assassins Creed 4 ( essentially the end )
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
When I was in my first economics class, they told us again and again and again: "label your X and Y axis."
What the fuck, graph?
What the fuck, graph?
NullPointer
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You put words to my bewilderment. I can't read this.
I also never like multiplayer conclusions being raised by looking at how many people never finished the campaign. Not without some way to measure if somebody has "finished" multiplayer. Both campaigns and multiplayer require investment, and its possibly to ditch out of either earlier than expected or without seeing all the content and modes.
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Same. Too many similar colors in too small a space.
OP really should separate them or use a different graph than this.
Parapraxis
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Would it be possible poll ps gamers from GAF and make up a comparison shot of a few games?
(set up a PS account, add a bunch of us and compare?)
(set up a PS account, add a bunch of us and compare?)
Changing the marker shape (circle/cross/square) and the line style (dotted/dashed/solid) helps a big deal with limited colors. And try to avoid yellow
Oh and by the way, Thanks for all the effort and great idea!
ignaciogc
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i'm surprised the drop is not bigger...
it might be interesting to add other linear games, not just FPS, specially those that have only single player campaigns (or mostly)
examples:
- uncharted games
- god of war games
- dark souls / demons souls
- tomb raider
- assassin's creed games
Also, most sites that provide trophy cards have the "rarity" stat on trophies, so it would be easy to get the data for these (although I don't know if they only track users that they have created cards for)
it might be interesting to add other linear games, not just FPS, specially those that have only single player campaigns (or mostly)
examples:
- uncharted games
- god of war games
- dark souls / demons souls
- tomb raider
- assassin's creed games
Also, most sites that provide trophy cards have the "rarity" stat on trophies, so it would be easy to get the data for these (although I don't know if they only track users that they have created cards for)
Trophy rarity reveals some interesting stats - at least interesting to a nerd like me.
COD Ghosts on the PS3: about 50% of the players have bothered to finish the prologue of the single player campaign.
Assassin's Creed 4 on the PS4: about 5% have played the multiplayer enough times to get the first trophy - which you get by purchasing a new ability and modifying your ability loadout. So, at least twice.
Dark Souls PS3: 5% have platinumed the game, compared to an average of about 2% (give or take, I can't remember any other specific game)
COD Ghosts on the PS3: about 50% of the players have bothered to finish the prologue of the single player campaign.
Assassin's Creed 4 on the PS4: about 5% have played the multiplayer enough times to get the first trophy - which you get by purchasing a new ability and modifying your ability loadout. So, at least twice.
Dark Souls PS3: 5% have platinumed the game, compared to an average of about 2% (give or take, I can't remember any other specific game)
Grinchy
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Yeah I love the trophy stats. It's not only fun to see how rare your own trophies are but it's pretty interesting to find out how few people ever finish something.
I was surprised by Dark Souls as well. For a difficult game and a pretty tough platinum grind, a large percent of people have it. I think Demon's Souls was at 2-3%, which is also relatively high for a difficult platinum.
firehawk12
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I wonder if this changes with RPGs, since someone buying an RPG has to know exactly what they're in for.
DS makes sense because the player base for that game is already going to be the super hardcore anyway.
DS makes sense because the player base for that game is already going to be the super hardcore anyway.
Septimus Prime
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I suspect that, with a lot of games, people just play the first chapter or two to grasp the basic gameplay mechanics and then hop right onto multiplayer for the rest of their time.