Most pointless thing you did in a video game?

[Swordkirby]

Playing mmbn4 with paltry hp as light megaman (thanks to codebreaker, I can use the darkchips then cheat back to light). Anyone who has tortured themselves with this challenge like me is a fucking masochist (yes, I'm the type of person who likes cutting open skin to pour Sriracha on it, if the infamous AVGN vs Dr.Wily thread hasn't pointed it out.) .

[arkman]

Recently?
Rayman 2: The Great Escape on Nintendo 64 - collecting all 1000 lums.
[Yes 1000, thanks Blathers.]
It was painful but somehow worth in a really weird way.

I had the PS1 version, that only had 800 lums but once you collected enough of them it did unlock a bonus stage.

learning how to do the combo's in looney tunes acme arsenal... Wii version...

Killing the giant samurai in mini ninjas with caltrops. took longer than the entire rest of the game combined.
crafting a shield bearer in hearthstone
Carrying around the target dummies in fistful of frags

dancing, shooting to the music.

Collecting statless weapons in Kid icarus Uprising

Deliberately skipping Macguffins in countless 3d platformers so that I could see the NPC say "you need more macguffins"

deliberately not finishing a level so that I could see the intro scene again.

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WOOO take it from me Spyro, Never, spend a week, in a cage. Next thing you know your whole island will be knee deep in rynocs, well, gotta go Mr. Laserblaster and I gotta WHOOOLE lotta work to do.
(from memory)

[Nostalgia]

beat qwop

[klimatimo]

The most pointless thing I did in Video Games?
MegaMan X4 : Using a Charged Soul Body on 2nd Battle of Colonel

Thats the only pointless thing I did

[Duora Super Gyro]

Okay so, I have a small story from this one time when I was playing All Out War last year.

I was messing around just doing stupid stuff, the server was small at the time, our base had its defenses and stuff, so it seemed like an okay time to do nothing. Often when I'm messing around, I'll talk about the other teams base, asking if I can check it out and stuff, and if I manage to sneak in, I'll talk about how cool it looks and about their defenses if they have any. This went on for a while. It started to get harder to get in the enemy base though as the server started to grow, and I eventually abandoned sneaking altogether, and did what I called peace charges, which was me just running past everything in a lame attempt to get in their base. It wasn't going well. After about 20 failed attempts, I finally managed to slip pass this guy named An Hero who was really after me, a Gaurdian, and like 8 other people, found a random teleport to hop through, escaped several turrets and the obelisk, and managed to get on the side of one of the buildings, without being noticed, until I started screaming about the peace charge being a success. Eventually someone named JoaoJoaoJoao had found me, and instead of killing me on sight, built defenses around me so I could live in their base for a bit. I sat their for quite a while, and the game even went into sudden death with nobody knowing I was there. I eventually left the base and got killed, but we ended up winning the match by 1 life.

[LarissaFlash]

bind , clear
that command is truly pointless.

[Azure Sky]

Bought a house from that guy in Onett in EarthBound that was all beaten up.

[DoomManFTW]

In the devil may cry reboot i jumped somewhere where i was not supposed to go but i still landed,and somewhere else where it wouldve look like i could land on,i fell through the floor xD

Also beaten Megaman Powered Up on hard mode with Oilman like a year ago ;-;

[CDRom11_2007]

Run around a stage collecting all the weapons and wasting its ammo, only to spectate and rejoin to do it all again until another person joins the server.

[Ghoulitine]

1. You know the Splatterhouse-game for the Turbografx-16?
I tried playing it through while having the jump-button on turbo for the whole thing.

2.  Attempted to find a useful scenario in everystage for Spark Shock in MM3.

3. In Twilight Princess i always put on the Dual hookshot, Iron boots and the magic armor, it looks and sounds cool when you play as
a super-slow tank-like version of link :L

4. Crafting every weapon in CDoS.

5. Playing N.M.H 2 on bitter difficulty *coughjasperbattjrcough* Pointless because there is no reason too D:

[DoomManFTW]

Trying to sing the current song in a megaman game by shooting in such way(both in original and mm8bdm)

[leoalex50]

Using the unlock all levels code in donkey kong land3 (not on emu) just to save the game and finding out that I still need coins to unlock the last set of levels in it.

[Mr. Sean Nelson]

When I played through Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (I didn't play it again due to low replay value and what I saw as a gross inferiority to Morrowind), I closed every Oblivion gate in the world seperately, rather than closing the main gate. The last one took three days in real life to find.

[skully]

I once tried to kill the entire population of Whiterun, with a BROOM.

It went well.

[DoomManFTW]

While waiting on a JC server for players,I noticed Slashman can destroy it's own goo pile,so I wondered if it is possible to do that while it was in the air,and it was not :v