Grinding - the associated Psychology. What do you do?

[Prinny]

Wanted to do this as a poll, but no ability to, so a thread will do.

Just wondering how people do this. In a nutshell, I am currently working on an achievement in ‘Flatout - Ultimate Carnage’ on the Xbox. This requires you to have all cars in the game purchased.

I’ve run the campaign to 100% and so the most efficient way to get the money to buy all the cars is to re-run one of the races, ad-nauseam, until enough credits exist to let me buy the Set of cars.

Do you:
1 - get x-credit, buy car, repeat.
2 - get y-credit, buy all cars at once.

Obviously the total time taken is the same in both cases, but #2 can feel like a long hard slog, where #1 has the feeling of incremental progress along the way.

I am mainly a #2 person (snigger - no jokes please) what about you? (No other reason than I was questioned why I was doing it option 2 stylee, it would appear the Prinny household is a 50:50 split between the two options).

[joshleb]

I think I would save up towards a specific car at a time.

How many do you need to get?

But then again, I would not be bothered about getting that Achievement once the game is complete. So there's a different psychology.

[WolfieBot]

I hold get bored long before either and move onto a new game. The sooner games get away from grinding the better.

[dalzo]

1. 1 for me, I'll grind until I get a car that will decimate everything I come across then use that to get the rest

[vsonix]

WolfieBot said:

I hold get bored long before either and move onto a new game. The sooner games get away from grinding the better.

100% this. This whole model of paying for a game upfront and then being expected to fork out more money on top just to avoid it being so tedious you might as well turn the console off and go to the office is killing gaming.
I'm currently using my one week free trial of PS Now and loving how all the last gen games are 'complete' - no DLC unless it's new content. No microtransactions, no 'pay to win'. Shame they're winding it down apparently.

[CrutyRammers]

I don't bother with completing all (or any, really) of these things. But some people enjoy it, so I expect it will continue.

[Never you mind]

Depends on how much time you have on your hands. I play cod and I try to grind for camos and what not but in reality I simply don’t have the time. Some can be frustrating some can be fun. I think it depends on if you want to impress others or not.

Of course the in game purchases can help but do you want to pay to win?

Edited by Never you mind on Thursday 30th November 18:27