I remember in Castlevania: Circle of the Moon for GBA, during the summer of 2001, I got up to Lv 99 by sliding in and out of the last room of the Battle Arena over and over again to fight the Devils there, since they gave a shitload of EXP. I spent whole days doing nothing but killing those same few enemies. Keep in mind this is a game where you're pretty much invincible at Lv. 50 or so.
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Most tedious thing you've ever done in a video game
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Ninja Kn1ght
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It's got to be that lightning dodging game in FFX. Spent hours and hours at that. Can't believe I had the patience for it back then.
angerous is pretty tedious.MapleStory grinding is probably close. Endless hours of mindless grinding. Walking and attacking back and forth in a single area in a channel with the fewest amount of players, hearing the same music on loop, going back to town when I was low on resources and going back only to repeat it for hours, just to level up.
Fun times.
Fun times.
RamaTheVoice
Member
Christ I remember spending an entire afternoon doing that with a buddy in high school. So fucking tedious!
Also in Castlevania Aria of Sorrow: killing that piece of shit lightspeed fish thing over and over again for hours to get its soul...
Hell of a great game though.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Codec trophy in Metal Gear Rising
milkybar1983
Member
buying every building possible in fable 2 and maxing them out with best furniture
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Blast Shards
Feathers
Need I say more?
Feathers
Need I say more?
feint_ruled
Member
Proably levelling up my factions in vanilla WoW. Kill creature x to get 5 faction points. Repeat until brain dead.
Holy shit, came to say this
Snkfanatic
Banned
Farming Netherwing Eggs in WoW for a mount...
I don't think I would have the patience to do that kind of thing anymore.
I don't think I would have the patience to do that kind of thing anymore.
ClivePwned
Member
the trading sequence in MM. Main reason why I didn't bother getting the 3DS version for a replay.
Sheriff_Battlesnake
Banned
Lightning dodging for Tidus' Ultima weapon.
Totally beaten!
Blood vial grinding in Bloodborne? Maybe?
Totally beaten!
Blood vial grinding in Bloodborne? Maybe?
firebricks3
Member
My Kung Fu Is Stronger, MK9
Shift Breaker
Member
Getting a full party to Level 99 in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. That was tedious and unnecessary. And yet there are people who managed to do it in the first game, with less exp exploits. Where fighting the last boss at level 50 would be considered being overpowered.
Never again.
Never again.
60EffPeeEss
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I did yew log farming on Runescape to make money, back in 2003 or 2004. There were only a few trees, so everyone was fighting to get them claimed before the others. Then you'd just sit and watch your character chop for ages.
This was before the put random events in stop bots. You'd just sit and be ready to click super fast. Nothing else. Couldn't even browse the internet or do anything else because my pc was so shit.
This was before the put random events in stop bots. You'd just sit and be ready to click super fast. Nothing else. Couldn't even browse the internet or do anything else because my pc was so shit.
What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been in WoW. took a year.
getting 100% in DS2:SotFS was pretty close to what I imagine hell to be like. I'll never go for 100% in a game again.
getting 100% in DS2:SotFS was pretty close to what I imagine hell to be like. I'll never go for 100% in a game again.
Eclectic Jabber Monkey
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Planet scanning in Mass Effect 2. One of the most ill conceived "gameplay" concepts I've had the misfortune of encountering in my 30ish years of gaming. It literally made me fall asleep. I'll take driving a Mako around over that garbage any day of the week.
DeployThatPizza
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Probably grinding for skills and maxing out stats in FE:A and Fates.
backflip10019
Member
That was pretty tedious, but I didn't hate it.
For me, it was probably doing a lot of the side stuff in Mad Max to get territories to 100%.
Captain_Reasonable
Neo Member
In Mafia 2 there's a section where your character stacks crates in a warehouse for a minimum wage.
Videogames.
Videogames.
Got every item drop off every enemy in both dawn of sorrow and portrait of ruin just to fill out the bestiary. I'm sure i've done worse, but that's the most recent one I can remember.
Edit: Oh yeah, doing pretty much any form of monster camping in FFXI, ugh ugh ugh leaping lizzy ugh ugh ugh.
Edit: Oh yeah, doing pretty much any form of monster camping in FFXI, ugh ugh ugh leaping lizzy ugh ugh ugh.
Darryl M R
Member
Max grimoire in Destiny
level 99 woodcutting/fishing/firemaking in Runescape.
level 99 woodcutting/fishing/firemaking in Runescape.
capitalCORN
Member
Resting in later Wizardry games.
wild wild rice
Member
Simply playing MGSV was possibly the most tedious thing I've endured in a video game.
mrmickfran
Member
Bayonetta:
Clearing 100 chapters to unlock a weapon.
Clearing 100 chapters to unlock a weapon.
DrGonzo615
Banned
play Assassins Creed 3.
DrunkShogun
Member
Ac2 feathers. I was ill and was my first ac game. Stopped playing ac4 when I saw the amount of collectibles present in the game.
Ranmo
Member
As a vital part of a game that isn't anything that's grinding for exp or anything extra.
I'd say that one segment in Bravely Default.
I mean I still like the game, and I get what they were doing, but no. Just no.
I can think of things that I've spent much more time on in a game, but I feel this is a good one because it's actually important and is tedious.
As for bonus stuff. Probably end game grinding in Disgaea games. It's a blast and super rewarding, but man. You basically spam the same map that takes you 10 seconds to clear over and over and over into oblivion.
I'd say that one segment in Bravely Default.
I mean I still like the game, and I get what they were doing, but no. Just no.
I can think of things that I've spent much more time on in a game, but I feel this is a good one because it's actually important and is tedious.
As for bonus stuff. Probably end game grinding in Disgaea games. It's a blast and super rewarding, but man. You basically spam the same map that takes you 10 seconds to clear over and over and over into oblivion.
Strangelove77
Member
Lightning dodge in FFX.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
FOB farming on MGSV was painfully tedious and I eventually gave up to instead leave my console running for 6-8 hours a day while riding in the back of a truck so that it automatically gathered resources for me.
I've completed FFX like 3 or 4 times, 2 of those close to 100%, and I feel that lightning dodging is way less tedious than things like chocobo racing, capturing every monster in the game and getting Wakka's overdrives and celestial weapon.
Transistor
Banned
Pure bladestone farming in Demon's Souls
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