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Mind-numbingly tedious things you did for no real reason

Just spent the last 2 and a half hours replaying the same race over and over again on the new Ratchet and Clank for a Silver Trophy. It was pretty shitty
 
I woke up at like 4am one night to find my college roommate had been up all night playing Fable 2. He had spent the last 5hrs in the "wood chopping" job trying to earn money for his low level character.

Probably the most tedious and boring activity any game has ever had to offer. And he didn't even flinch. Ended up with a fortune too.
 
Ground every character to a complete list of spells in Final Fantasy VI (The SNES FFIII) by using espers while also attempting to use the esper level bonuses to maximize what seemed to be each character's primary traits. I think I just kept doing the Vanish+X-Zone exploit to the brachiosaurs in their forest.
 
SirNinja said:
In order to go from a five-star profile to a shiny-five-star profile in Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call, I:

Made a StreetPass relay from a Raspberry Pi, which itself involved:
  • Buying a kit and protective case for one, along with an SD card and various other accessories like an Ethernet cable (~$50)
  • Learning how to actually use an RPi (never worked with a Linux-based computer in any meaningful capacity before)
  • Getting a custom-made firmware that would allow the device to function as a StreetPass relay, and finding software that would let me format the SD card so that it would properly load
  • Experimenting with two wireless adapters before I found one that worked
  • Having to then replace my (admittedly old) modem because the relay wouldn't work with it for more than 5-15 minutes
Then I bought another copy of the game (~$15) so that I could, on my other 3DS, play five hundred VS. matches over the internet, and a few hundred more in local wireless mode.

There were a lot of other idiotic grinds, like playing 8+ songs 30+ times each and play for 200+ ingame hours total, but the above pretty much covers the physical expenses of it.

But, uh...yeah, those stars are shiny now.

No regrets though. I'm a huge fan of FF soundtracks and I thought to myself one day, "hey, I finally got close to actually fully-clearing a massive game; might as well go all the way for once". Still proud of it. Plus, hey, I can StreetPass people worldwide now!
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This is the craziest thing someone has ever done for a game in a non-competitive context.

And yet, I really respect the commitment and all the effort you put into it.
 
DarthWoo said:
Ground every character to a complete list of spells in Final Fantasy VI (The SNES FFIII) by using espers while also attempting to use the esper level bonuses to maximize what seemed to be each character's primary traits. I think I just kept doing the Vanish+X-Zone exploit to the brachiosaurs in their forest.
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I've done exactly that, pretty much the same way. Also, Gau's full list of Rages.
 
Grinding up characters in an RPG game, every time. Wasting an hour doing a tedious thing so I can easily blow past the fun battles. Hmmm...

Even worse is that I'm playing an old mmo on a private server again and I wasted like an hour earlier today to get some elemental weapon. Why? I'm probably gonna stop playing within a week and none of it matters, but I did it anyway.
 
Xenoblade Chronicles: got 5-star affinity for all towns. In my defense, I played most of it while riding an exercise bike, so I don't feel completely disgusted with myself.
 
GifGafIsTheBestGaf said:
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
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I also remember two guys once scammed me as a kid, one in one place was saying they'd trade black armour for rune armor or something, another saying they'd trade adamantium armour for black armour....Being a dumbass 5th grader backwith OG runescape I of course took the bait, lol.
 
100% Mass Effect 1, twice.

The Mako hunting is just mind-boggling shitty in that game, but I wanted a perfect file to carry into ME2.
 
Played star wars force unleashed on xb1... Dont know how this game developed a following when good games like kotr and jedi outcast existed at the time....still plan on beating it though..whats wrong with me?
 
Trying to solo higher level instances in vanilla WoW with a character that couldn't even disenchant
Trying to solo Kozzak(the yeti raid boss) in the Alterac Valley battleground in vanilla WoW
Trying to pull powerful monsters into towns in vanilla WoW
Constantly trying to glitch up mountains and buildings in the ass-end of nowhere in vanilla WoW

Basically, vanilla WoW in general.

dragonlife said:
Got all achievements in Nier.
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This too. Fucking Lunar Tear.

I regret nothing.
 
Been clearing out every scavenge location in Mad Max after I just beat Act IV.

Everyone will feel my pain. Nobody gets to live.

antitrop said:
The extra 45 hours of Mad Max that I played after seeing everything the game had to offer in the first 5.

It was just something I did while listening to podcasts, never could have done it otherwise.
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Man, you didn't get amped after the end of Act IV? I was hot and am going to relish the final act of this game.
 
I went over 150 rounds in Black Ops 1 Wii Zombies' Kino der Toten map, wrist was massively cramped afterward.

100%-ing Xenoblade Chronicles might be next
 
Wait, I've got a better answer. This piece of fucking shit right here:

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I probably spent a quarter of my playtime obsessively opening and closing menus trying to get the EXACT RIGHT combination of skills on some garbage demon that would inevitably be replaced by a new garbage demon that needed to have the exact right skills.

Fuck you, Igor.
 
Any building game like Minecraft or Ark. You grind for days for the materials, build for a long time, finish, go "neat" then proceed to smack yourself for wasting so much time.

Tigel said:
Well it's not really for 'no' reason. You guys got a trophy/achievement out of it.
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Well, there's always a reason, whether you want a pat on the back or were just bored killing time.

I'd argue trophies are definitely lower on the list of 'real' reasons though. It's no more valid than "it made me feel good".
 
Father Gascoigne wrecked me the first few tries. So, I spent a few hours running through Central Yharnam over and over and over farming to level up. Maybe more like 5 or 6 hours.

It helped a little.

Then I got so mad at getting dominated by Martyr Logarius, I must have spent a week doing nothing but killing him over and over and over in co-op until I knew him inside and out. I think I did the same with Rom. When I get pissed off it lingers and I get stubborn.
 
I got the platinums in White Knight Chronicles 1 and 2

It was a ton of grinding. A ton.
And the game kinda sucked
 
I had to have every inch of every map yellow for discovered in the first three ratchet and clank games, if I missed a piece I couldn't go back and get, I restarted it.

No idea why.
 
I platinumed Killzone Shadowfall.

DarthWoo said:
Ground every character to a complete list of spells in Final Fantasy VI (The SNES FFIII) by using espers while also attempting to use the esper level bonuses to maximize what seemed to be each character's primary traits. I think I just kept doing the Vanish+X-Zone exploit to the brachiosaurs in their forest.
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I did this when I was younger and really enjoyed it.

Miniature Kaiju said:
I've done exactly that, pretty much the same way. Also, Gau's full list of Rages.
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I never did this.
 
True Fire said:
The Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Platinum trophy.

Digimon fans know what I'm talking about.
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Eh. I have that one and it's pretty straightforward in terms of JRPG Platinums.

I did it in 70 hours ._.

gnexus said:
I got the platinums in White Knight Chronicles 1 and 2

It was a ton of grinding. A ton.
And the game kinda sucked
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Now this is the true face of insanity.
 
Borderlands 2 boss farming. Spent so much time fighting the final boss over and over trying to get a Conference Call. After I finally got it I did the Conference Call + Bee combo a couple of times and got bored of it.
 
The way I play every Pokemon game:
I catch all possible Pokemon in an area, and then grind each one to it's max evolution, and repeat.
I usually grind my main 6 to lvl 100 too.

Also, collecting the flags in Assassin's Creed 1...it was pointless.
 
Gameplay-wise, it was pointless but I looked around every corner in SOTC. I didn't even care about the fruits or lizards, I just wanted to soak in the atmosphere and majesty of it all. That game, along with Wind Waker and, to a lesser extent, RDR, are the only ones to have done sparse open worlds correctly.
 
There was a Mario 64 DS minigame called Mix-a-Mug that made you line up 3 parts of a character face. I'd play it mindlessly for hours watching my coins go up. I think it was the game I'm best at in this world.
 
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