Most pointless thing you did in a video game?

[Number86]

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.

[Doctor Jughu]

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

[Caprice]

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.

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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.

[Captain Barlowe]

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.

[BiscuitSlash]

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.

[Geno]

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)

[Doctor Jughu]

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

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

[*Alice]

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

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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

[Beed28]

I assume many people who played Aria of Sorrow had a similar experience.
Attention: possible spoilers and enraged conversationing.
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It's not entirely pointless.

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

[Swordkirby]

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

[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.

[Jman]

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...

[Geno]

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)

[PacManFan]

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

[skully]

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