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Mind-numbingly tedious things you did for no real reason
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John Kowalski
Banned
Well that's depressing
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
Runescape was cruel with kids, I remember to work my ass off for a full set of Adamant Armor by this same dude that duped me with a bronze armor.
Anyways, my answer to this day is still runescape. The time i spend fishing alone is ungodly stupid
Vampirolol
Member
I wanted to take the total score in New Super Mario Bros (DS) to the limit, so I played hours and hours just because of that.. if NSMB2 existed at the time, I would have probably hit that stupid million coins thing.
There is also this thing I'm a little ashamed about: No More Heroes was the first GTA-like game I've ever played. So I spent a lot of time in Santa Destroy, just walking instead of running, doing pointless tasks just because. Mind you, that city is empty and depressing. There is nothing to do, really, I just had time to waste, never had fun with it. Total playtime ended up being like 30 hours for a game that I could finish in 4 hours.
Oh and I did all the Riddler's puzzles in Arkham Knight. That was stupidly pointless.
There is also this thing I'm a little ashamed about: No More Heroes was the first GTA-like game I've ever played. So I spent a lot of time in Santa Destroy, just walking instead of running, doing pointless tasks just because. Mind you, that city is empty and depressing. There is nothing to do, really, I just had time to waste, never had fun with it. Total playtime ended up being like 30 hours for a game that I could finish in 4 hours.
Oh and I did all the Riddler's puzzles in Arkham Knight. That was stupidly pointless.
M
Macapala
Unconfirmed Member
I got my party up to level 99 in Final Fantasy VI grinding the same enemies over and over again for numerous hours. When I defeated Kefka at the end of the game in one round I truly realised I had wasted my time...
Diprosalic
Banned
Getting a living Pokedex... twice.
terencecah
Member
I wrote down all the different characters/skins in goldeneye 64 and rated them 1-5 stars.
Siberian special forces was obviously the best one
Siberian special forces was obviously the best one
Feathers were in 2. 1 had the flags, which were even more useless (no achievement)
HeisenbergWW62
Banned
Got almost all the feathers in Assassin's Creed 2
Sho_Nuff82
Member
I've beaten 156/157 side ops missions in MGS5 despite the lack of any meaningful post game content.
I once played Ogame during summer break, but quit it midway through the break when I realized I was trying to time at least some RL activities around game timers. I'm glad I learned my lesson after a month and a half or less, though.
Back in the days when the DS was new-ish I remember beating a thousand or so old axe armors in Castlevania Portrait of Ruin to unlock old axe mode, which eventually led to the "strategy" of going to an enemy rush dungeon, clearing a room with several of them in it, toggling sleep mode on and off so that I'd respawn back in the same room with respawned enemies and repeating the process many, many times. Man, that stuff sure was mind-boggingly repetitive and dumb as hell, but the extra game mode was worth it in the end, IMO.
But the cake probably goes to EV training pokémon. Beating hundreds of pokémon just to give yours some extra stats is still quite tedious nowadays, but back when all you had was Pokérus to boost your EV gains and wild pokémon often gave you one or two EVs at most it was an even bigger pain in the ass. Breeding mons was also boring, but alternating two directions was easy enough to do that you could be doing something else in the meantime, compared to having to find and battle hundreds of underpowered mons over and over just to get 1/4 of a stat point at level 100 at a time.
Back in the days when the DS was new-ish I remember beating a thousand or so old axe armors in Castlevania Portrait of Ruin to unlock old axe mode, which eventually led to the "strategy" of going to an enemy rush dungeon, clearing a room with several of them in it, toggling sleep mode on and off so that I'd respawn back in the same room with respawned enemies and repeating the process many, many times. Man, that stuff sure was mind-boggingly repetitive and dumb as hell, but the extra game mode was worth it in the end, IMO.
But the cake probably goes to EV training pokémon. Beating hundreds of pokémon just to give yours some extra stats is still quite tedious nowadays, but back when all you had was Pokérus to boost your EV gains and wild pokémon often gave you one or two EVs at most it was an even bigger pain in the ass. Breeding mons was also boring, but alternating two directions was easy enough to do that you could be doing something else in the meantime, compared to having to find and battle hundreds of underpowered mons over and over just to get 1/4 of a stat point at level 100 at a time.
Why didn't you do the last one?
Endgame in every MMO ever pretty much, but the most tedious was probably FFXI. Camping named monsters for 12+ hours to maybe not even get to kill it because there are 100 people there trying to claim it when it spawns.
Also I did every one of the boring sidequests in FFXV. The travel is the tedious part.
Also I did every one of the boring sidequests in FFXV. The travel is the tedious part.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I maxed out my character in the original Dragon Warrior.
Beat the game and then went back and kept wandering around killing things and leveling up. Eventually I hit the ceiling where the game doesn't level you any longer. I LOVED just wandering around obliterating everything that didn't run away. The final boss was a joke at that point.
Beat the game and then went back and kept wandering around killing things and leveling up. Eventually I hit the ceiling where the game doesn't level you any longer. I LOVED just wandering around obliterating everything that didn't run away. The final boss was a joke at that point.
Miniature Kaiju
Member
I made three complete sets of Master Materias in FFVII.
Also, at one point I had something like 22 Ultimas (for a completely stupid combo with Magic Counters, MP Absorb, Quad Magic and other shit I forget now. Every time I was hit I countered with something like 16 Ultimas.)
Got all the characters to level 99 in Xenogears. I farmed Drives for a really long time and raised Chu-Chu's stats to a ridiculous degree. Since its gear form stats are scaled from the normal ones, it was obnoxiously overpowered.
I had way too much free time back then.
Also, at one point I had something like 22 Ultimas (for a completely stupid combo with Magic Counters, MP Absorb, Quad Magic and other shit I forget now. Every time I was hit I countered with something like 16 Ultimas.)
Got all the characters to level 99 in Xenogears. I farmed Drives for a really long time and raised Chu-Chu's stats to a ridiculous degree. Since its gear form stats are scaled from the normal ones, it was obnoxiously overpowered.
I had way too much free time back then.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Fully leveled archaeology in WoW immediately, well before they nerfed it to make it quicker and easier.
Wiitardation
Member
Getting all the collectibles in The Division.
Probably SOS Shiny Hunting in Pokemon Sun. Tens to hundreds of Pokemon encounters over and over again just to get one that's a different color.
If the chance for perfect IVs didn't increase per encounter, it'd be totally pointless. But as it stands, it's just mostly pointless. xP
If the chance for perfect IVs didn't increase per encounter, it'd be totally pointless. But as it stands, it's just mostly pointless. xP
But I still have a blue Rockruff so WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!
Chobel
Member
I'm interested in why not 157/157?
ElephantShell
Banned
I love Bloodborne but doing all that chalice dungeon shit to get the plat was kind of a waste of time. And the boss of the end of it all is pretty meh.
#157 is "complete meaningful post game content"
KeyBladerXIII
Member
The entire Zodiac Braves Weapon questline in FFXIV...even when the weapon in question was loooong outdated by further expansions. That was weeks if not months of truly wasted time.
letmetrythisname
Member
Maxed muscle in San Andreas.
bennywhatever
Member
Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst, on the Schthack server.
I grinded TTF to the first Dragon roughly 100 times looking for the best Rhianov-5. It's a mediocre rifle in the game that can pierce, and I wanted one with high HIT. Would have been worthwhile if there weren't a ton of other much better weapons. I just liked it.
I grinded TTF to the first Dragon roughly 100 times looking for the best Rhianov-5. It's a mediocre rifle in the game that can pierce, and I wanted one with high HIT. Would have been worthwhile if there weren't a ton of other much better weapons. I just liked it.
FloweryMarston
Member
100% gta iv, which includes getting 200 pidgeons. The rewards are so meaningless that i don't even remember them.
Adam Tyner
Member
I kept grinding one of the challenge stages in Skylanders: Giants to max out the levels/abilities on my figures. Even well after I'd finished the game, I'd buy new figures, do that same battle arena over and over and over, and max 'em out, even though I'd never actually do anything else with those figures. I have no idea why.
Podcasts & Mass Effect 2 mining (plus a glass of red wine) were my chillout thing when that game came out. It was great. Hence I never experienced the intensely negative reaction to ME2 mining that inevitably surfaces in "most boring minigames" GAF threads.
Mr.GingerBeard
Neo Member
I've got level 10 Fishing in FFXV.
Arkage
Banned
Was literally about to say this. Damn that trophy.