I'm enjoying a competionist playthrough at the moment.

When finished, it will include:

• Building all the settlements


• Collecting all the magazines


• Building Power Armors in multiple paint jobs

What do you need to include in such a competionist run?

For me it means finishing all the named missions and side quests.

It means whenever I am tired of playing the game.

On a serious note, it would probably mean

Collecting all Bobbleheads

Collecting all Magazines

Unlocking every location on the Map (but there are also many many unmarked instances too, no way to keep track of these.)

See every ending (which requires multiple playthroughs)

Do every unique quest in game, not counting repeatable generic radiants.

Get to level 50, since I think the achievement is at level 50 and it ends there for leveling, not sure.

Get every companion perk

Get at least 1 settlement to 100 percent happiness

I could be leaving some things out, not sure, but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head if someone really wants to "complete" the game.

Well I will never fully complete the game because there is just too much to do and I'm sure to miss a lot of it. I'll explore everything I can with each companion and do all the quests I'm able to find. Then I guess at the point that I start getting bored, I'll stop. I hope I don't get bored anytime soon. I'm having soooo much fun with it.

That's how I feel honestly. I like to make new characters and try different approaches to the game so I actually tried to not burn myself out on any one playthrough, leaving areas unexplored and such to have things to do in subsequent games. Plus as with most Bethesda games, things don't start to get really interesting until official mod support hits, always love seeing the various bits of content the community comes up with. Guess the waiting is the hard part though, I mean I didn't play FO 3 until it was already out for a year or two since I didn't have a decent gaming system when it came out and by then it already had a bunch of mods.

Finding all magazines, bobbleheads and other collectibles.

Completing all quests main and side that can be done in one play. Anything locked out due to affiliation come in another playthrough.

See everything. Truly have been to every location. Systematically go through every building in each area.

I suspect this will be a 1000+ hour endeavour but possibly the life of my main character due to DLC. Typing this gives me goosebumps.

I'm doing at least a semi-completionist run right now. One thing that I've vowed to do is not pick up the SPECIAL bobbleheads until after I have SPECIAL maxed out. If you max a given SPECIAL stat out before picking up the corresponding bobblehead, you get an 11 base in that particular stat. So it's possible to get 11 base points in all of the SPECIAL stats if you wait on them. This of course doesn't apply to the other assorted lockpicking/hacking/whatever else bobbleheads.

Collecting all of the magazines is something that I haven't done yet, so that's definitely on the list. I'm also shooting to build an even bigger power armor collection. I'd like to have an at least mostly complete collection. I'm not counting things like having T-45, T-45B, T-45C etc. or having a T-51 with this torso mod, a T-51 with the next torso mod, etc. I'm mostly referring to the paint job variants. This is a goal that I'm going to be fairly flexible with though. There's a lot of power armor in the game, but it is still a finite resource. To actually complete an entire collection of power armor would almost definitely require judicious use of console commands to spawn all of the missing pieces.

Everything trophy wise (got the plat), probably all the magazines, around lvl 150 (103 at the moment) for most builds to work, all companion perks (missing Curie's), all settlements unlocked (I think I can't do one which is used for the Teagan missions) and of course all unique quests, plus every unique misc. I think I have found every location, haven't found a final number of them.

The only thing I regret is the SPECIAL 11 stat act, but I guess it is okay, I won't throw away 200 game hours for it.

It means coming to a conclusion of a story for me. More about the achievement of getting done what I am satisfied with. I don't play the game to complete objectives, like build all settlements, see all locations, complete all quests or get all the bobbleheads.

I'm done when I feel there is little more that character can do.