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Title: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: -FiniteZero- on September 13, 2012, 01:56:42 PM

Exactly what the name implies. However, cannot be a main objective or side mission, and the maximum level of award has to be an achievement. For me, there's two main things.

-Sonic R: Doing every mode (Grand Prix, Time Trial, Reverse Time Trial, Find 5 Balloons, Tag 4 Characters) of every course (Resort Island, Radical City, Regal Ruin, Reactive Factory, Radiant Emerald) with every character (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Eggman, Metal Sonic, Tails Doll, Metal Knuckles, Egg Robo, Super Sonic).
-Sonic (2006): Getting every single silver medal (In Progress)

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: BiscuitSlash on September 13, 2012, 02:28:31 PM

Back when I was really young I did a lot of stupid and pointless things in video games.

The one that I remember really well though was in Ocarina of Time where I would mess around in Death Mountain crater as child Link, repeatedly dying and falling into the lava. Iunno why I was doing this. I died really a lot and it did bring that game over count up quite a bit. I even remember waiting until the timer reached about 1 second, jumped off into the pit, and see what would happen if I got timer killed while in midair. I remember my health going to zero and hearing the fire sound effects, until game over'ing by falling into the pit.

It was dumb, and I don't know what it was about my child mind back then that made me do this dumb shit.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Turbodude on September 13, 2012, 02:41:11 PM

Playing Modern Warfare 3.
Going in weakness order on Mega Man games when doing buster only runs, if that counts.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Laggy Blazko on September 13, 2012, 02:47:22 PM

In Quake, typing impulse 9 in the console (to get every weapon, ammo and keys) then shooting everything (and with everything I mean walls, floors, decorations, etc.) in the introduction map (Which doesn't even have enemies).
Yeah, I did that for hours. I think I thought everything looked dirty and I tried to clean it with rockets.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Russel on September 13, 2012, 06:01:50 PM

Collected every mask in LoZ: Majora's Mask on my first playthrough.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Red on September 13, 2012, 06:35:40 PM

...i thought everyone did that

speaking about MM, trying to get past the clock town guard as deku link

i kept trying, and trying, and trying

until i did it and i figured out how silly that was

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Knux on September 13, 2012, 08:45:34 PM

In Super Mario World for the SNES when I was 7-8 years old. I looked all over Chocolate Island for a shortcut to Bowser's Castle tower because a kid I saw playing once showed it to me. I never found said path. I can only assume now that someone used a cheating device on his game or something.

I still wish I could've done that, though.  :(

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Tengu on September 13, 2012, 09:26:06 PM

I devoted a whole entire evening to backward-long jumping around Super Mario 64 to see what kind of glitches I could trigger.


I found quite a lot.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: JaxOf7 on September 13, 2012, 10:35:56 PM

As a young un playing my pokemons, I would only use TMs on pokemon that could already learn the move through level up. I considered any other use to be cheating.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Atticus on September 13, 2012, 10:48:51 PM

Everything I've ever done in GTA4 after beating the story was pointless other than side missions.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Jman on September 13, 2012, 11:29:11 PM

trying to jump inside the master hand's glove in sb64.
a friend convinced me there was a secret inside the glove >.>

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Orange juice :l on September 13, 2012, 11:57:55 PM

Crafting spells and magical armor in Oblivion.

Frenzy spells cause random civilians to attack people.
Damage fatigue spells with target: self can make your limp ragdoll body fly spectacularly.
Damage spells with a radius of 100 make items fly around the room, because explosions are fun.
I have made several pieces of clothing that light the wearer on fire.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Gumballtoid on September 14, 2012, 01:05:59 AM

The Simpsons: Hit-and-Run

Going out of my way to crush Flanders between my car and his garage.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: WheelieCarbonate on September 14, 2012, 01:29:41 AM

saving twice in a pokemon game because i think someone puts a note over my screen saying "Swiss has saved the game!"

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Jennifer on September 14, 2012, 01:58:39 AM

Giving myself every weapon in MM8BDM, then wasting the ammo for every single weapon on a wall.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: ice on September 14, 2012, 04:27:41 AM

Doing karma runs (only attacking enemies that go after you (unless mandatory))
Passivist runs (go through the game without attacking anything)
CURSE YOU MARIO SERIES AND YOUR CUDDLY INOCENT KOOPA TROOPAS!!!

Well technicly my bro did this but, pummeling a robo kemling as Chunky Kong in the toy factory in DK64

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Beed28 on September 14, 2012, 07:44:51 AM

Minecraft; creating an experimental GLSL shader and going into Creative Mode with the difficulty set to Peaceful to watch my character bump about and get shook up as the world around and underneath him jiggles and wobbles like jelly. Yes, really.

Most FPS with togglable infinite ammo, including MM8BDM; shooting at walls all the time. In MM8BDM, especially when it creates a small explosion mark, such as Magnet Missiles or my Missile Barrage.

Any 3DS Virtual Console game; creating Restore Points at nearly every second and reloading it every time I get hit.
(although it's futile against some bosses in Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge; I'm looking at YOU, Elec Man)

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: TheBladeRoden on September 14, 2012, 07:57:33 AM

Picking up every single thing that wasn't bolted down in Fallout 3 to sell for caps, walking through the whole subway over encumbered with rusted soup cans, using corpses for makeshift lockers.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Kage on September 14, 2012, 04:03:05 PM

Chibi-Robo: Collecting and maxing out every piece of garbage in my inventory just to collect them all.

The Simpsons: Road Rage: Continously playing free mode and knocking down everything I see in every stage.

Sonic R: Making several different save files and doing different combinations of unlocking stuff (Ex: Collecting every single emerald without unlocking any character, completing the game unlocking only Tails Doll...etc)

Pokemon Sapphire: Continously returning to the space station and checking the number of rockets launched thinking I would be able to go to the moon on one of the rockets to catch a bunch of wild Jirachi and Deoxys.

Mario Party 3: Continously reloading a save file on the last turn of a game in story mode thinking I would be able to make a difference without having to start the game all over again.

Ah those days were carefree and fun ^^

Title: why wouldn't you let me cap
Post by: Hallan Parva on September 14, 2012, 04:09:46 PM

Team Fortress 2: Harvest

 :ugeek:  :ugeek:  :ugeek:  :ugeek:  :ugeek:

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Mr. Sean Nelson on September 14, 2012, 06:02:11 PM

Playing Super Mario Brothers 2.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Geno on September 14, 2012, 10:08:35 PM

Quote from: "Mr. Sean Nelson"

Playing Super Mario Brothers 2.

:evil:

Anyhow, the most pointless thing I did might have been trying to cheat into Sparkle Land (World 4) in Wario World, before beating Thrillsville (World 3).

I just kept Corkscrew Conking, untill, after about an hour, I actually did it! But I then noticed that none of the level doors were open.  :(

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Jakeinator on September 15, 2012, 02:43:56 PM

Whenever i play Okami sometimes i wait for Night/Day without using Crescent/Sun Rise and chase my tail why doing so.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Turbodude on September 15, 2012, 03:40:17 PM

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention this:

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Geno on September 15, 2012, 06:03:30 PM

I could never activate cheats on mame.

Another pointless thing I did, was in Yoshi's Island. Basically, every time I have to wait for something or stand still, I make Yoshi repeatedly crouch. I also do that in SMB2, SMB3, SML2, SMW, and even SM64 and SMG.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: WheelieCarbonate on September 15, 2012, 07:39:39 PM

Quote from: "geno"

Another pointless thing I did, was in Yoshi's Island. Basically, every time I have to wait for something or stand still, I make Yoshi repeatedly crouch. I also do that in SMB2, SMB3, SML2, SMW, and even SM64 and SMG.

doesnt everyone do that?
because i do it too

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Tengu on September 15, 2012, 07:41:21 PM

Quote from: "Swiss"

Quote from: "geno"

Another pointless thing I did, was in Yoshi's Island. Basically, every time I have to wait for something or stand still, I make Yoshi repeatedly crouch. I also do that in SMB2, SMB3, SML2, SMW, and even SM64 and SMG.

doesnt everyone do that?
because i do it too

I do this as well.


Another pointless thing I do is on Super Mario Sunshine. That one sunglasses guy thats under the umbrella at the beach, I like usint the rocket nozzle on top of his head so you keep bouncing between him and the umbrella, quite entertaining.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Atticus on September 15, 2012, 07:43:44 PM

Fruit and lizard hunting in Shadow of the Colossus.

Sooooooo tedious and somewhat pointless.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Gumballtoid on September 15, 2012, 09:21:24 PM

Continually ground-pounding the Toad Brigade at the Comet Observatory.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: NemZ on September 15, 2012, 09:40:46 PM

Making textures for map packs that will probably never be finished.   :cry:

Quote from: "TheBladeRoden"

Picking up every single thing that wasn't bolted down in Fallout 3 to sell for caps, walking through the whole subway over encumbered with rusted soup cans, using corpses for makeshift lockers.

Also this.  Hell, the only reason I even bring the followers with me anywhere is so they can carry extra shit back to town and save me a few trips.  This wasteland will be CLEAN, damn it!  They tend to just get in the way otherwise or kill things when I'm not looking so I don't know where the loot is.  That's why I pretty much tell them to wait outside anytime I go indoors.

In F3 my Megaton house had a room full of teddybears and another full of gnomes just because.  Probably gave the wrong impression to visitors when combined with the heart-shaped bed and golden ceiling lesbians motif the rest of the place had...

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: -FiniteZero- on September 17, 2012, 05:30:53 PM

Ah, I just remembered another thing. I played the Sonic (and Shadow) stages in Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, but without using the homing attack at all, unless I absolutely needed it to continue. I would have done the same with Sonic Adventure 3, but they don't let you just jump into enemies for that game for some stupid reason. I did try this partway through Shadow the Hedgehog, but I grew bored due to enemies having health bars.

Which reminds me, I once went through Sonic 2 without using the Spin Dash. I tried to do the same with Sonic 3, but the Spindash is required in the levels in that game.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Jakeinator on September 19, 2012, 02:08:17 PM

Did you just call Sonic '06 SA3? HFUIUFCHUIASHFUIAHSDUIFASDIOJFIOJIOSJAIOFJASDIJFIOJDSIOAFJIOSDAJFIOJSIODFJSIOA... Sorry, but Sonic '06 is NOT Sonic Adventure 3.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: -FiniteZero- on September 19, 2012, 02:29:42 PM

Quote from: "Eon_and_Rush"

Did you just call Sonic '06 SA3? HFUIUFCHUIASHFUIAHSDUIFASDIOJFIOJIOSJAIOFJASDIJFIOJDSIOAFJIOSDAJFIOJSIODFJSIOA... Sorry, but Sonic '06 is NOT Sonic Adventure 3.

It's a sort of theory I have. I'm not saying it's a good game, I'm just calling it what it is. http://sonicblast.org/topic/7353783/1/#new (http://sonicblast.org/topic/7353783/1/#new)

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Balls on September 20, 2012, 10:04:36 PM

Throwing the baby penguin off the cliff in Super Mario 64.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: ice on September 21, 2012, 02:05:07 PM

Quote from: "Balls"

Throwing the baby penguin off the cliff in Super Mario 64.

if I had a dollar for every time I did that

Also trying to climb the slide....... and trying to do a "luigi code"

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Gamester522 on September 22, 2012, 03:34:29 AM

Beating Bloody palace, Easy mode, Normal mode 4 times, Hard mode, Very Hard mode, Dante Must Die mode, and Heaven or Hell mode with BOTH Dante and Vergil on Devil May Cry 3.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Colonel ServBot on September 26, 2012, 09:57:31 PM

unlocking infinite mode in the original dead rising.
its freakin useless!

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: squidgy617 on September 28, 2012, 07:56:02 PM

The other day I did what may have been the stupidest thing ever.

Me and my brother were playing Borderlands 2, and I nabbed a sidequest to get Bane, a cursed gun. So we started it. We went to Lynchwood, the area you have to go to to get it, and the enemies were WAAAAAAY too powerful for us.

But guess what? Like complete idiots, we tried to fight them off. When that didn't work, we tried to run past them.

After about TWO HOURS and $20,000 worth of dying each, we FINALLY made it to the end and got the gun.

And then we put it in our banks and we haven't used it since.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Sora on September 28, 2012, 08:17:57 PM

Play a bot game on LoL simply so I could go Dunking Yi.  So amazingly ridiculous, I wanna to do it again sometime~

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Korby on September 28, 2012, 09:47:40 PM

Now do it as Hecarim :ugeek:

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Nostalgia on September 28, 2012, 10:48:20 PM

I wasted about 20 minutes trying to solve a puzzle that leads to a Super Missile door in Metroid Prime 2 only to realize I couldn't jump high enough to reach it.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Donutyoshi on September 28, 2012, 10:56:41 PM

Mario: Getting unlimited Hammer Bros. Suits in SMA4 and throwing the penguin around in SM64.

Megaman: Making Megaman step back and forth. So it looks like he's dancing.

Pokèmon: Nickname them to something really random (Yellow, LeafGreen, SoulSilver, Black). The mass breeding of Eevee eggs was kinda pointless when I only actually needed 7 to breed (Black).

For any actually, I would just walk the player around and do random stuff.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Laggy Blazko on September 29, 2012, 02:16:40 AM

Commander keen 4: Using every save slot in a different part of the game so it feels like there are many "keens" conquering different places.
Also Screwing around with the pogo stick. Good times.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Mr. X on September 29, 2012, 03:04:23 AM

Mega Man Zero/ZX series:  Talking to every single NPC at every stage of the game (as in beginning, after major events, end).
Spider-Man 3:  Walked across Manhattan length-wise (God, this game sucks.  Not as much as the movie, but still quite a lot)
Super Mario Galaxy:  Spent 30 minutes doing long jumps around the two Starshrooms at the start of one of the Space Junk Galaxy missions.  I managed to do two full figure 8s without touching the ground with Luigi.
Sonic Unleashed (360):  Crawled my way through Apotos Act 2 (obviously getting out of the crawl when necessary)
Mario Kart DS:  Drove through every single course in reverse (flipped forward when necessary, like for jumps)
Mario Kart Super Circuit:  Drove through Rainbow Road backwards (as in drove against the normal flow of traffic, not in reverse.  Required Mushrooms from Time Trial)

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: squidgy617 on September 29, 2012, 03:38:58 PM

Quote from: "Laggy Blazko"

Commander keen 4: Using every save slot in a different part of the game so it feels like there are many "keens" conquering different places.
Also Screwing around with the pogo stick. Good times.

That reminds me, I tried to use every save slot on all my memory cards to be able to replay my favorite parts in Paper Mario: TTYD. It was kind of pointless though, because I couldn't even figure out which file was which. There was no way to differentiate.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Geno on October 01, 2012, 12:47:08 AM

Trying to see how many glitches I could do in a row in the GBA version of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
I think I got to 5.

Oh, and jumping in EVERY spot in Super Mario Land 2, looking for money bags.

AND trying again and again to use that Frappe Snowland glitch in Mario Kart 64.
I got a 44 second Time Trial record because of it.  :mrgreen:

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Mr. Sean Nelson on October 03, 2012, 04:19:53 AM

Quote from: "geno"

Quote from: "Mr. Sean Nelson"

Playing Super Mario Brothers 2.

:evil:

Anyhow, the most pointless thing I did might have been trying to cheat into Sparkle Land (World 4) in Wario World, before beating Thrillsville (World 3).

I just kept Corkscrew Conking, untill, after about an hour, I actually did it! But I then noticed that none of the level doors were open.  :(

I meant because it was all a dream at the end.
A-N-N-O-Y-I-N-G

Although, when you beat Ozma in FF9 you get an Ozma card.
If that wasn't bad enough, it isn't the only way to get that card...

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: -FiniteZero- on October 03, 2012, 01:53:00 PM

Used an emulator to play the Game.com port of Sonic Jam.

...Completely pointless, that thing is horrible. At least I know where Sonic Chronicles gets its inspiration for the music.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: ice on October 03, 2012, 04:13:26 PM

attempting to get through labrynth zone act 3 in sonic the hedgehog after accumulating 8 lives and 3 continues...

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Geno on October 28, 2012, 10:11:19 PM

BUMP!

Seeing how many live I could get in the first level of Donkey Kong Country (GBC), without exiting the level.

(I got 99, because the balloons respawn after you enter/exit a secret area, which doesn't happen in the SNES version.)

Or, (also DKC) using DK's hand slap move in EVERY SPOT IN THE FIRST WORLD!


And recreating the City Trial ending in Free Run mode of Kirby's Air Ride.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Ceridran on October 30, 2012, 04:53:42 PM

Fighting Metal Face in Xenoblade Chronicles without using a chain attack for who knows how many minutes.

That moment in a nutshell? 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 *30 minutes later* Oh, I have to do a chain attack. *win*

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Swordkirby on April 18, 2014, 09:28:47 PM

Gta 3 going to shoreside vale before clearing the first mission (it is not very practical unless early hidden packages and only way to return is learning to fly a clipped wing dodo)

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Kage on April 19, 2014, 05:38:36 AM

In Super Mario Sunshine, I attempted to get the most Shine Sprites I could possibly get before visiting the first level of the game. I even did the awkward jump to get to Pianta Village too though I wasn't able to fully complete it since I didn't unlock Yoshi yet, which is needed to complete one of the levels.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Swiftphantom on May 05, 2014, 07:33:13 PM

Did implies past tense.

I'm still going on an endless killing spree in Assassin's Creed II. The combat is fun and the guards are limitless.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Dataman on May 05, 2014, 10:15:23 PM

Once I started spamming Boomerang Cutters into one of the enemy spawner things on the walls of Sigma Fortress 4 in Megaman: Maverick Hunter X. It wasn't exactly pointless though, as I was trying to fill up my Subtanks.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: ProtoChestnut on May 05, 2014, 11:04:08 PM

Played Megaman's Christmas Carol 2 on Hard Mode with Megaman and relized I had no hope when I got to the Final Boss.
But I did suprisingly beat all the bosses before it. (And I was surprised once I found out there's a extra boss on Hard Mode.)

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: TheMegaGamerGuy on May 06, 2014, 07:01:36 PM

I beat Hard Mode with Protoman. :P

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Rock on May 28, 2014, 05:29:48 PM

Kingdom Hearts. I saved once, proceeded to boss fight, turned back, saved again.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Blutorus on May 28, 2014, 07:28:18 PM

Why is my first instinct in an FPS to always run in the same direction into a wall for a long time? I don't even expect anything to happen.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: -FiniteZero- on May 28, 2014, 08:07:40 PM

I once tried to beat each mission in Star Wars Battlefront 2 without dying (each time I did, I restarted the mission).

I did not succeed.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Number86 on June 14, 2014, 03:15:02 PM

In C&C: Red Alert I still frequently build huge forces of tanks and aircraft and send them around the map, even though the enemy is stuck in one corner with a tiny base & no credits, and can be wiped out easily by only a few infantry.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Doctor Jughu on June 23, 2014, 06:08:12 AM

Pokemon
Catched 2 magikarps tossed my pokebals away traded my starter pokemon and wasted my money

B-Daman
Keeping b-damans blank

Super mario
Jumpin in pits

super smash bros
SUPAH RUNNING FROM ENEMIES

Loz link.to the pasy
one thing..... POTTERY BREAKING

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Caprice on June 23, 2014, 08:51:35 PM

In The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, there's a shovel you can get that basically digs up grass tiles, occasionally giving you rupees or hearts or something, and really isn't that useful except for a couple puzzles.

(click to show/hide)

That won't stop me from going outside and digging up every single patch of earth I could find, scouring the landscape of grass and other not-ugly things and replacing it with holes in the ground. If the world didn't reset every time I went to another area, the world would be dark and desolate, grass would be scarce and children everywhere falling into the holes I've dug. People's crops would be overturned, cattle starving without the grass they need, and as such entire species would become extinct, and the world would fall into disrepair. Those RPG villains will never have done as much damage as I have done.

I'd get a lot of money, though.

Title: Fighting gutsman was fun though
Post by: Captain Barlowe on June 24, 2014, 01:04:50 AM

I recently found that my BN3 cart was working, and proceeded to finish the virus breeder, as I only had Swordy Omega, Momogra Omega, and the Mushy Omega viruses left. It took me 200 bugfrags to farm in total, since I had enough for the Swordy Viruses. Why is this pointless? I don't use any of the virus chips in my folder, and the Momogra virus chip has to be the most useless chip ever.

It strikes two panels ahead of Megaman, does a lame amount of damage, and is the most annoying virus ever to farm AND obtain, the Omega location being where Bubbleman once was. Ugh.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: BiscuitSlash on June 24, 2014, 11:12:41 AM

In terms of the reward that the game gave me, spending at least 40-50 attempts on trying to defeat BassGS. Getting the Bass+ chip was like getting a crapton of money (at that point in the game, I stopped needing money long ago).

I did get a lot of self satisfaction from defeating him however.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Geno on June 24, 2014, 11:37:09 AM

Pointless stuff? Well, one pointless thing I did was complete all the courses of Mario Kart Double Dash!! in Time Trials with the characters that "own" that course (like for example, Luigi and Mario in the Green Fire for Luigi Circuit, or Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong in the DK Jumbo for DK Mountain)

For ones that don't belong to certain characters, I just used characters that didn't have their own courses in the first place (so things like Toad and Toadette in the Toad Kart for Mushroom Bridge, or Petey Piranha and King Boo in the Piranha Pipes for Rainbow Road)

('course, as it turns out, the game's data shows that Mushroom Bridge is Koopa's, Mushroom City is Paratroopa's, and Dino Dino Jungle is Diddy Kong's, which don't match what I did, but whatever)

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Doctor Jughu on June 26, 2014, 11:27:46 AM

Quote from: "Lego"

Collected every mask in LoZ: Majora's Mask on my first playthrough.

How is that pointless its needed for a 100% run tho

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: *Alice on June 26, 2014, 05:41:45 PM

I assume many people who played Aria of Sorrow had a similar experience.
Attention: possible spoilers and enraged conversationing.

(click to show/hide)

First, some backstory:
[19:55:41] Miriam: I killed 50 chronomages and all i got was this t-shirt
[19:55:42] Miriam: and pudding
[19:56:12] Miriam: and the 51st dropped a soul yay
[19:56:29] Miriam: COMPLAINING ACTUALLY WORKS
Now the actual thing: (after half an hour of trying to find a specific enemy and trying to get its soul)
[21:33:51] Miriam: how do you catch sky fish?
[21:44:18] Miriam: I mean, you need that soul to go through the waterfall, right? //Note: Still trying to get it here
[21:45:26] Miriam: ... oh you don't //Not anymore!
[21:45:28] Miriam: ... FUCK
[21:45:45] Griffin .-.: Are you okay
[21:45:55] Miriam: i i thought
[21:45:57] Miriam: they
[21:46:13] Miriam: they made such a huge deal of timestopping and fast enemies
[21:46:14] Miriam: and
[21:46:15] Miriam: i thought
[21:46:38] Miriam: ... sky fish gave you sonic-tier running skills so you can go through the waterfall
[21:46:52] Miriam: ... but all it does is give you stats
[21:46:52] Miriam: why
[21:47:01] Miriam: ... like
[21:47:11] Miriam: MESSAGE FROM ARIKADO: YOU CAN STOP TIME
[21:47:26] Griffin .-.: It was all a lie
[21:47:32] Miriam: MESSAGE FROM ARIKADO: THERES AN ENEMY THAT CAN ONLY BE KILLED BY TIMESTOPPING
[21:47:56] Miriam: MESSAGE FROM ARIKADO: BLAH BLAH BLAH WATER SURFACE BLAH BLAH THROUGH WATERFALL
[21:48:00] Miriam: ...
[21:48:18] Griffin .-.: Calm down ; ;
[21:49:43] Miriam: i am perfectly calm
[21:49:47] Miriam: perfectly calm
[21:49:51] Miriam: perfectly calm
[21:49:52] Miriam: like
[21:49:58] Miriam: totally perfectly calm
[21:50:06] Griffin .-.: Okay okay if you say so <<
[21:55:38] Miriam: so i assume the pictures of shiva dude, something like a knight or so and the lesser demon from SotN are a hint, then
[21:55:56] Miriam: ...
[21:56:05] Miriam: THAT STUPID SKY FISH WAS A RED HERRING ARRRRGH
[21:56:12] Miriam: and i made a horrible joke
[21:56:47] Miriam: like
[21:56:49] Miriam: herring
[21:56:56] Miriam: fish

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Beed28 on June 26, 2014, 05:59:37 PM

Quote from: "*Alice"

I assume many people who played Aria of Sorrow had a similar experience.
Attention: possible spoilers and enraged conversationing.
-snip-

It's not entirely pointless.

(click to show/hide)

Don't you need to get the Sky Fish soul anyway to finish getting 100% souls and get the Chaos Ring?

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Swordkirby on July 21, 2014, 03:21:00 PM

Terraria: fighting the dungeon guardian.
Oh, and using Zombie Gat in Saints Row 3.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: The Killer Nacho on July 21, 2014, 10:03:53 PM

Megaman 9 and 10 perfect runs. This may not seem pointless at first, but after that many hours of work... trust me, it was pointless.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Jman on July 25, 2014, 03:39:27 AM

In Super Mario Sunshine: I spread the goop across the entire god damned Bianca Hills map... by SLIDING. I probably wasted about 2 and a half hours doing so...

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Geno on July 26, 2014, 02:08:37 AM

Oh wow, when I was re-playing Super Mario Sunshine, I did that too.

What's funny, is when before you clear the goop from the Grand Pianta Statue, there's this Pianta that walks from near the police station to where the goop is.
If you spread it in the direction that he comes, he'll fall into it.

What you can do after, is  spread it FURTHER, so once you clear him off and speak to him, he'll start walking from where he came.... and fall right back into the goop again.
Their 'Nooooooo!" voice clip that plays EVERY TIME just makes it even more funny to me.

Another funny thing involving falling Piantas has to do with Goobles (those little things that come out of goop and spread it around by exploding)
If you get a Pianta all clear, and leave them to jump around instead of talking to them, get a Gooble to come near and jump right where the Pianta is.

If the goop gets right under the Pianta, they won't fall in...... until you talk to them and stop them from dancing.
It's pretty funny, especially when it happens by accident!

You can also try this with the Toad near the lighthouse in Delfino Plaza before you clear the goop from there!
And also during the first Shadow Mario chase, which if you leave enough of his goop, you can almost spread it around the entire plaza!
And in this case, you can get a ton of Piantas to fall into goop that aren't meant to. Sadly, they still say the "You saved me! Thanks a bundle!" text the rest of 'em do, instead of the "!!!ERROR!!! Message could not be loaded." text of the test room.
(mind you, that's probably because the save Pianta text is saved with the level, instead of with the actual Pianta itself)

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: PacManFan on August 06, 2014, 11:13:45 PM

Eating [pretty much] every Pac-Dot in Pac-Man World 3. The fact there is not a maximum amount doesn't help either.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: skully on August 27, 2014, 01:04:47 AM

Beating the Boss Rush in Shovel Knight with only the Dust Knuckles, because why the heck not?

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Bokan on September 05, 2014, 01:17:40 AM

Fishing in Breath of Fire 4.
It just had a calming effect on me.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: BiscuitSlash on September 07, 2014, 12:21:21 PM

Quote from: "The Killer Nacho"

Megaman 9 and 10 perfect runs. This may not seem pointless at first, but after that many hours of work... trust me, it was pointless.

I remember EVENTUALLY clearing the game on Hard Mode as Protoman. The combo of that difficulty setting and that character makes the Wily stages become hell.

Never again. From that point on it's either Hard Mode or Protoman.

Normally an extremist gamer like me would like this sort of challenge but no, this challenge just isn't worth it. I'd feel better off doing an X6 minimalist run >_>.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: SmashTheEchidna on September 07, 2014, 01:46:07 PM

(click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/kW47uPr.png)

I delayed an entire battle just to get a shot of this statue of a confused skeleton.
Worth it.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Kapus on September 08, 2014, 06:46:46 AM

Miracle Girls: I played the game.

Most pointless thing I've ever done.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Ivory on September 08, 2014, 06:59:38 AM

It isn't pointless, Kappy, it is a way of life.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Yuri Sakazaki on September 08, 2014, 11:21:11 AM

Playing, streaming the Jetsons SNES game to the very end, absolutely nothing rewarding.

Made me want to quit gaming forever, god I got so pissed off.

Especially considering I had previously BEFORE that streamed other Hanna Barbera related games such as the Flintstones games, which were WAY better, geez.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Hilman170499 on September 22, 2014, 02:25:13 PM

The inclusion of the dreaded Cucco to my MUGEN rooster roaster roster.(Is MUGEN even considered a game?)

Because I saw vids of those things. Not only is it funny to put a chicken in the battlefield...

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... but it's also down-right hilariously humilating to have an invulnerable flock of fowl defeat pretty much anyone(even Omega Zero!). THAT'S why they're so dreaded in MUGEN.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: apachegrey on September 23, 2014, 10:38:20 PM

Playing the first disc of FFVII. Really wish I could have skipped everything on that disc.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Nostalgia on September 24, 2014, 05:14:35 AM

Play Half-Life: Blue Shift

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: cybersavior on September 30, 2014, 07:51:00 PM

Some may view this as pointless... I played through Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim without ever using fast travel.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Knux on September 30, 2014, 08:06:02 PM

Maxing out my gold in Shovel Knight. Though really, it wasn't that difficult thanks to Alchemy Coin spam whenever possible.  :ugeek:

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: LarissaFlash on October 01, 2014, 12:56:28 AM

bind k kill ; +use; wait 30 ; kill

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Mr. Sean Nelson on October 07, 2014, 02:42:30 PM

Finding and closing every oblivion gate individually in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Beed28 on October 07, 2014, 02:56:46 PM

In Minecraft, creating a Caves of Chaos world in 1.8 and then destroying as much of the land as you can.

Also, using an empty bucket in Creative Mode to completely drain lava pools.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Russel on October 14, 2014, 06:41:44 PM

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.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Swordkirby on October 14, 2014, 11:17:19 PM

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.) .

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: arkman on December 25, 2014, 08:54:45 PM

Quote from: "Lego"

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)

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Nostalgia on December 27, 2014, 12:32:49 AM

beat qwop

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: klimatimo on December 28, 2014, 02:56:50 AM

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

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Duora Super Gyro on January 31, 2015, 01:18:28 PM

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.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: LarissaFlash on January 31, 2015, 07:31:36 PM

bind , clear
that command is truly pointless.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Azure Sky on March 15, 2015, 05:34:27 AM

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

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: DoomManFTW on April 06, 2015, 08:36:30 AM

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 ;-;

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: CDRom11_2007 on April 06, 2015, 02:20:03 PM

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.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Ghoulitine on April 06, 2015, 04:15:29 PM

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:

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: DoomManFTW on April 07, 2015, 04:15:24 PM

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

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: leoalex50 on June 12, 2015, 04:10:48 AM

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.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Mr. Sean Nelson on June 12, 2015, 08:40:48 PM

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.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: skully on June 13, 2015, 05:59:00 AM

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

It went well.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: DoomManFTW on July 17, 2015, 09:04:33 AM

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

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: GameAndWatcher on July 18, 2015, 12:20:30 AM

I bought the Splatoon amiibo, yet I don't own the game.  I haven't bought it yet, as my parents are a little strict on this due to eventual college debts.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Emmanuelf06 on July 23, 2015, 06:22:29 AM

Pushing all my Pokemons all level 99 (in RED version of the first pokemon game), i had nobody to play with, so it was just for the.....fun.... :x
I noticed, in the red version, if you train your pokemon against a low level, if you do a lot of matchs before the next level up, when you will get a level up, you will get more points for each capacities, i dont remember a lot but it worked like that....so i did a lot of useless matchs before level 99....could be better if i have bought the Silver/Gold version instead...
Well, it's old anyway. x)

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: ice on July 29, 2015, 06:59:44 AM

that's not useless, it's called EV training, all of the MLGs do it

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Emmanuelf06 on July 29, 2015, 08:59:59 AM

when you had nobody to play with this kind of game......finish the game (or at 100%) is enough I think....  :p

Finish the Rockman EXE games to get the new battles like Bass X in EXE4 black earth by exemple, or hard mode in EXE2, is really interesting, but very long.
But doing some level up when you get nothing in the end, is not really fun....

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: AkumaKing on July 29, 2015, 12:34:59 PM

Hurt/kill helpful or good NPCs. I've basically done this at some point in nearly any game that allows it.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Laggy Blazko on July 29, 2015, 01:37:51 PM

Trying to not hurt random NPCs.

In GTA.

Hurting innocent people in games doesn't feel comfortable to me, for some reason.
Except in Blood because they often drop useful stuff, like their life essences. >=P

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: -FiniteZero- on July 31, 2015, 03:35:44 PM

Quote from: "Laggy Blazko"

Trying to not hurt random NPCs.

In GTA.

Hurting innocent people in games doesn't feel comfortable to me, for some reason.
Except in Blood because they often drop useful stuff, like their life essences. >=P

I'm generally the same way.

Title: Re: Most pointless thing you did in a video game?
Post by: Zero1000 on September 04, 2015, 08:59:27 PM

Well, i did something recently.

Catching a Shiny Magikarp on Pokemon Y, without the Shiny Charm, getting a chain of 74.

Title: I initially wanted shiny Hydreigon. I couldn't get one.
Post by: BiscuitSlash on September 04, 2015, 10:02:03 PM

That reminds me.

One of the last things I did in Pokemon Pearl was try to catch Feebas. I didn't end up catching it, neither did I have any reason to catch it other than as a self-imposed torture method challenge.

Though in Alpha Sapphire I was able to chain Feebas and get a shiny Milotic as a result. They sure were generous.