GTA5 100%

GTA5 100%+ / true 100% / everything category definition\

Game Version: New Gen (PC, Xbone, PS4) with returning player
To adjust to your own version: Simply exclude everything that isn't present in your version.



Definitely required: (Category 1)
-Everything on this page: https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/games/gtav/pc/career/checklist*
-All USJ + Flights, not just half
-All properties purchased
-All epsilon tracts
-27 peyote plants
*This page includes missable stuff, like Simeon's random event, and all of Michael/Trevor's S&F missions.

I think these should be required, but if you have a good reason I might be convinced**: (Category 2)
**"It's dumb" is not a good reason and I don't fully agree with it. Paramedic in GTA3Dera is dumb too.
-Getting gold medals on all missions/races/shooting range/etc
-Clearing the altruist camp
-Michael's three family missions, triggered by phonecall
-The last therapy session, where you can kill Dr. Friendlander
-Talking to all the special characters which appear with a white blip on the map (these can be used in director mode after)
-A 28th bonus peyote plant
-The Murder Mystery thing for returning players
-Completing all the challenges for the hunting minigame.
-The silly children of the mountain website minigame which gives a t-shirt

I really don't want these to be required, because they're dumb (some more than others), but that's not a good reason, so they should be required. Please convince me otherwise: (Category 3)
-Unlocking all the golf opponents. (Involves playing golf 3 times.)
-Getting a checkmark next to all weapons in the shooting range. (involves starting the challenge with all of these then backing out immediately.)
-Max Stats. In GTAO these decrease over time, however they don't seem to in SP. Someone confirm/refute this, it would be a good reason to exclude this.
-Purchase every weapon non-DLC weapon (4 pistols, 2 melee, all weapons on the left wall), upgrades & clothing

Tracked, but I don't think these should be required: (Category 4)
-Purchase every weapon that is DLC. New weapons are added every month. If a weapon is not on display when not in the buying menu, it isn't needed.
-Have all strippers like you enough that they are cool with double dances (this involves staring at polygon boobs for like half an hour). Not sure if Twitch/Youtube will like this. It also is just pressing a button repeatedly, very dull.
-Acquiring all phone contacts. Involves doing aforementioned thing.
-Unlocking 'the beast' in director mode. This was added later, is too easter eggy, and is as of yet not known to be possible without cheats.

These should NOT be required, because at the end of the game there will be no evidence that these have or haven't been done. Unless I am wrong and there is some evidence to be found. Please point me to it if that's the case***: (Category 5)
***Some of these are in this list because gta wikia (lol) deems them important enough to mention on the '100% requirements' page that these are NOT required.
-The first four (missable) therapy sessions.
-Beating every different tennis/golf opponent
-Doing tennis/yoga on every possible location
-Landing a helicopter on every roof
-Purchasing every tattoo. They can be bought then 'unbought' leaving no trace that that specific one has been bought ever.
-Watching all tv shows and cinema movies
-Hidden packages (who named these even?)
-Picking up all medkits
-Taxi Driver (honking the horn while in a cab, no purchase of the company required.)
-Property Management missions
-Robbing all 19 stores (trevor's crack lab cannot be robbed)
-Doing all ATM robbery hero rescue missions. They respawn.
-Visiting any of the easter eggs.
-Steam/R*SC achievements, these don't get reset on a new game.

Things I am unsure about:
-Exploring the entire map so it all shows up in the map menu. When I started my 2nd playthrough, the map was the same as at the end of my 1st playthrough. I may have glitched it in some way though, and it may be possible to reset this by deleting a file in the save folder. Also this is kinda hard to track anyway since some 'blank' spots on the map are very subtle.




Issues:
1) Ending: I think Ending C should be the 'true 100%' requirement since the other endings take away a third of the content and 100% is about having content. (Not to mention that Trevor has post-finale S&F missions so his ending is out of the question anyway.)
2) Heist setup missions: Some choices will yield certain setup missions while others don't, while in some cases the setup missions are entirely different. Example: Carbine rifles vs BZ Gas Grenades. I don't think the amount of setup missions for a heist should be factored in the definition, since you're going to be missing out on some of them regardless of what you choose.
3) Three characters: Having three characters means certain things being doable three times. For example: If you pass the flight school or Shooting Range as Michael, all its challenges will still be locked for Franklin. I don't think doing these few things three times will be a problem, so might as well.
4) Classic rules, NMS rules or anything goes rules? I think we should go with anything goes, since the gold medal requirements for all the missions are voided by missions skips + taxis anyway. There will still be some opportunity for missions skips & taxi, but I don't think it'll make a big difference.
5) Certain updates added extra content. I'm using the PC steam version. I think everything I listed has been available since the release of the PC version, unless mentioned otherwise. The only thing I'm not sure about is the golden peyote plants.
6) I may have forgotten stuff, this game does have a fair share of content, most of which is hidden.



The name of the category & leaderboards:
I think 'true 100%' is not a good category name, because what does 'true' even mean? I vote for the name '100%+' with maybe a varying amount of +'s depending on the game version (which affects content) (old gen, new gen, returning gen). As far as leaderboards go, I think it's too early to even consider making those right now. If in the distant future one does end up being made, I think the use of variables and flags should be a necessity to differentiate between different game versions and possibly different definitions of 'the category that involves doing more than 100%'.



My approach:
To come up with this definition, I took a list on GTA wikia (things not required for 100%), added stuff to it that I know existed but wasn't on there, then proceeded to do those things in a casual playthrough to see if they were tracked somehow. If after I did them there was evidence that I've done them, I would mark them as required. If there was no evidence, I would mark them as not required. This seemed to me to be the most solid definition with the least amount of gray area, however it does also come with a lot of silly shit, like buying all the clothes. At first i considered 'what would R* have decided if this was GTA3?', but it left too much grey area. If you're interested in seeing my raw notes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wd-jNw4xVd2vpln7vVlEx6T41qLg4VGUhv3Cl4smdLQ/edit#gid=222099081


TLDR:
-If at the end of the entire playthrough, there will be evidence that you have done a thing, that thing is required. Otherwise, it's not.
-If you can load any save and somehow figure out that that save has done a thing or not, that thing is required. Otherwise, it's not.
-There are 4 exceptions to this: Strippers, phone contacts, dlc weapons, and the beast.