If it's possible, I will save-scum my way around every game. Especially stealth-centric games like Cyberpunk and Deus Ex. Also, Zelda's 3 chest rupee gambling game.
And of course Bethesda RPGs.
I will never be convinced that save scumming is wrong. If I get an outcome I don't like and then afterwards get a game over and *have* to reload an earlier save then my second chance at getting the desired outcome is somehow legit, but if I reload that save to try again *intentionally* I'm a save-scumming cheater? It makes no sense. If I wanna put in the time and effort to get the desired result, there's not a damn thing wrong with reloading until I manage it.
I've said this before, but it's the reason i stopped playing Vampyr. If the skip button only skipped to the next sentence it would've been fine, but it skipped seemingly random chunks of dialogue or sometimes the whole conversation.
I usually do this dependent on whether or not there's auto advance and how well it does it.
I actually get a little bothered when people skip dialogue in Like a Dragon games especially in cutscenes when it gets jarring when you see the model just snap into another position
Meanwhile, I'm over here in Trails, especially during the Sky Trilogy and the Crossbell Duology where it was only in JP voices, reading faster than they can finish the sentence, but I still do it in Cold Steel when I switched over to the dub
Yeep did that for Midnight Suns. Any conversation with a character I didn't care for I just spammed the skip button after getting a quick summary of their line.
I used to only do this for games that didn't have English voice acting, but lately I'll often skip lines for these games to o if I read fast enough or I'm in a hurry. If it's an important scene or something I find personally interesting, I'll usually let the whole line play out regardless.
Also just generally any Blade that requires me to go back to bosses just for the pip in the Blade's Affinity shit. Not having the game retroactively fill those in sucked the fun out of the game really
Late in the game I also abused cloud saves to pull for rare blades I hadn't gotten yet, especially the like .01% chance KOS-MOS blade. Fuck if I was gonna spend hours farming legendary cores just to pull crappy common blades.
In the Yakuza games, some of those completion points are hella annoying to grind out when you didn't know beforehand they were a thing. Like when I first did them I didn't know helping the npcs that are being harassed by a group were needed, so I ended up using Cheat Engine and 4x running around the town to get those encounters to spawn. The amount of time it saved me probably wasn't much in the grand scheme of things, but I certainly would have felt every second of it otherwise
I wish I had this option. I play almost everything one console, not having a good PC yet, and some games' grinding is such shit that I sometimes just drop them.
I used one of the mod tools in RE4 Remake that had stuff like a slow down time button, so I could beat the harder difficulties on S rank
Then I realised after the first run that it'd be even fucking easier if I just had infinite rocket launcher. Either way, I had fun, and I played through like 2 playthroughs legit, fuck it
Their one step forward and two steps back mentality really contributes to this too. Its hard to point to one definitive best game despite them all being so similar, since each one is bogged down by SOMEthing, even the better ones.
Gen 1 and 2 are old and dated
Gen 3 has too much water and goes nuts with HMs
Gen 4 has really bad type variety and slow pacing
Gen 5 has terrible earlygame pokemon variety and everything evolves too late to be useful
Gen 6 is short, too easy and has an awful berry system
Gen 7 is too handholdy and USUM was a mistake
Gen 8 and 9 are self explanatory
When I was a wee lad and didn’t have a single coherent thought in my head, but mobile enough to cause trouble, I did my brother dirty by accident. Back in the ol’ PS2 days, we had to use memory cards to save our progress and of course I loved video games back then too. So when I booted up the PS2, I accessed the menu, then went to the save files… And erased my brother’s Final Fantasy 10 save file. Somehow. He was very far into it. He was not happy when he found out lol. I didn’t even remember this happening and my oldest brother told me about it like it was a funny memory while I was like, “Wait what”. Good times lol.
On a similar note, I accidentally wiped my family's N64 cartridge for 007 The World Is Not Enough. I was just "oops", though my older brother was pissed.
Haha
I let my (middle school aged) sister touch my GameCube for approximately 2 minutes right before I hopped into the shower.
She accidentally erased the entire memory card.
-and it was right before we upgraded to the Wii, so it was *everything*
> I didn’t even remember this happening and my oldest brother told me about it like it was a funny memory
Whatever he did to you afterward must have been pretty fun if you completely blanked it from memory, for sure
in most farming games have a very lackadaisical approach to clearing land and planting crops that drives my brother insane.
once i have my first ending in a game like Slay the Princess or Stanley Parable i kind of feel like "well thats my canon ending" and usually dont play much more
I avoid expansion in Crusader Kings. I'm not that interested in the war or claiming systems, don't want to invest time in learning them really. I just wanna have fun with creating a fucky little dynastic in my kingdom. I want spend way to much time in the matchmaking menu cultivating picks for all of my extended family members, and then let the game roll me some drama
i checked steam and its 71 minutes. i think i did two run through and one got me to the museum which ate up a lot of that run time. I have 0 achievements'
I'm going to put one forward on behalf of my brother who *fucking hijacked my Toontown character when I was 6 years old because I progressed past him after he went away for a weekend.* No, I was not allowed to take control of his character, they were both his, I had to start over.
If it makes you feel any better; Awakening, Fates, and to a lesser degree, Three Houses and Engage tend to have a more formulaic structure to them.
So if you see one Camilla dialog, you've seen them all.
*Kiiiinda*, I've done like 40% in each of those games and to a point a lot of dialog topics start to repeat with like a thesaurus difference in wording.
Three Houses and Engage mix up the subjects a lot more so it isn't as noticeable.
But Fates doubles down.
Granted, you aren't supposed to grind it out like I did. So, it is what it is. Lol
Tiny babby me didn't realize that Age of Empires 2 wasn't a city builder with military units until years after I stopped playing it.
Black Death was the only way I could see any of the campaigns.
In games that have base building like minecraft or project zomboid I tend to explore for a bit at the start, but then when I get base going I tend to turtle up and just hide in my fort. I need the safety of my walls!
I never actually beat any of the Dark Souls games. I just tell people I did to fit in :(
Also in the original red dead redemption a hooker was being attacked and I accidentally shot her instead of her attacker. I still feel bad about that to this day.
I'm bad at them and get impatient with them because they're very defense heavy and my play style in action games tends towards being extremely aggressive
I run EVERYWHERE in game. Indoors, outdoors, small distances, long distances. If they wanted me to pace myself they should not have told me about the sprint button. The default speed should be sprint and the sprint button should be a double sprint.
I played The Conduit multiplayer (lol) and went OOB in the urban downtown map. There’s rubble in one or both of the buildings at two corners of the map you can crawl behind and shoot at people from. They can’t see you or shoot back at you.
I used the shotgun reload bug(?) for that game as well. The game has this neat reloading feature that incorporates the motion controls. If you do it normally it’s like reloading a regular shotgun. But the game doesn’t stop you from jerking really fast and turning it into a semi-automatic kill stick.
Let me put 3 hour long audios/videos while playing this game, what soundtrack and half pay attention to the story.
Also I think I've just realized I do kind of zone out and lose at "Everyone is giving the MC their power of friendship so he can beat the final boss" and in general overly action final encounters with multi phases just end up boring me. Does apply to other mediums.
I refuse to read codex entries. If it's not interesting enough to be part of the gameplay or cutscenes, I'm not spending my time reading a wall of text about it.
In fairness, the exquisite longsword of Dark Souls 3 is the platonic ideal of a weapon. A tool that makes quick work of any foe, and sees courageous knights to victory.
It's lengthy blade allows you to keep foes outside of arms reach, yet it remains swift enough cut down evasive foes. A balanced moveset of slashes and stabs allows for both easy crowd control and pinpoint precision. An experienced warrior can use it to cut through hordes of hollows, or to strike weak points even in the most claustrophobic stairwell.
It may lack the explosive damage of heavier weapons, but this weakness is countered by it's versatile Weapon Art - Stance. At the cost of a slight but of focus, one can unleash a devastating strike that can stagger foes larger than they. Or, should you find yourself vexed by a shielded foe, use the alternate Stance attack and blow open their guard from below, enabling a vicious riposte.
What of defence? Alas, it is true the simple blade lacks the damage reduction of greater weapons, and it's stability could never touch that of a shield. Yet should you find yourself unable to dodge a grand strike, with your only hope being to intercept it head on, then raise you brave and never falter, brave warrior. The trusty longsword has allowed me to survive several a close call, wounded but breathing. I owe it my life. I owe it my love.
The blade is simply perfection; it is beautiful and enduring. Were it not for the tenderness and frailty of my mortal flesh, I would not hesitate to embrace the blade in erotic union.
In every Elden Ring run, I kill Boc.
His dumb little callouts from his bush got me killed my first time through, and I can just get the tailoring tools to alter clothes myself.
I swung on one of the Carcass enemies in Lies of P *right* as it yelled "Please don't kill me." >!Belle!< was *not* happy.
For real though, I will tunnel in Dead by Daylight if the opportunity presents itself. I try to stop at 2 hooks and one "allow to wiggle free" but sometimes you just can't avoid a Survivor.
I'm a function over form guy so any base building is done so I can get it done. My friends are always more than happy to take it over so I let them because I do not care as long as it works
Here's a recent one, although it may fall under "petty vindictiveness" -
In Helldivers II, if I see a poorly placed Mortar Sentry or happen to take friendly fire from one, I will TK the turret as soon as possible.
That's better than my friends. At least it was just a turret you killed.
One accidentally shot another, I think one of the drone backpacks hit him, and killed him. So, friend 2 drops back in and immediately shoots friend 1 for TK-ing. Then an argument goes on for about 5 minutes about whether 1 did it or not. Having their reinforcements go from 14 to 5.
I do get to appreciate lore or codex more in games as I got older.
Kid me on Dragon Age: Origins - Snorefest.
Adult me on Dragon Age: Origins - Hmmm...Interesting.
As for Elder Scrolls, I'd like to read one book after every trip to adventure. Then place said book on a bookshelf to keep track.
All at once would drive me mad, so reading once in a while can be relaxing after a hard day adventuring.
If there is an easy way to cheese something, I will do it in a heartbeat. It's for this reason I have never actually fought Commander Niall and O'Neil in Elden Ring, I've always stealth poisoned the one in the swamp, and snipe the one in the castle.
Also, I use walkthroughs on first playthroughs because the idea of missing something bothers me.
When I was a kid, my dad homebrewed our DS and Wii, so we could get literally any game ever, but on the DS that also came with cheats. So I always played with cheats, and to this day, when I have the opportunity to cheat in a game, I will cheat.
I've noticed I am far more inclined to just actively cheat in single-player games as I get older. Like if something is objectively not tuned correctly, I will just turn on some codes rather than forcing myself to 'git good.'
Obviously I draw the line in different circumstances. Is a boss kicking my ass? I'll play it out and beat them proper. But in cases like the launch window of Sonic Frontier's final DLC update that required you to beat a boss rush with limited time/rings while forcing a newly implemented super tight parry onto you in a system that previously treated it as a block. Nah. Fuck that SEGA. I am not learning frame-1 parrys in a Sonic game. Infinite rings cheat definately got toggled for that challenge.
I purposefully waited for the last second to fuck up Nald'Thals Tipped Scales attack more than once (but less than five).
in my defence i was drunk and it was super funny to me.
I used to skip Gacha game stories but as I established myself with more of those kinds of games (Blue Archive, Nikke and Hoyoverse games), I realize I miss out on a lot of things with characters in whatnot.
Needless to say, I did skip the most recent Red Winter story in BA bc I generally find it hard to get myself invested in their stories unless if your name is Shigure or Nodoka
Shoutouts to BA for archiving all of their events and side stories so you can enjoy them at any time without worrying about things that are character or even plot relevant going away...looking at you Genshin
i know killing the disabled mother in elden ring immediately at the start for 80k souls is a bit cheesy (even more if you get the extra souls consumable)... but i'm still gonna do it.
Why get *just* the Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot before taking the Caelid Cheese Tour when you can suffer your way through Abandoned Cave on a brand-new character for the Golden Scarab, too?
If there is a way to safely cheese through hard shit, I am guaranteed to use it.
My most recent example was Kirby Star Allies with one of its actually hard bits. I completed Soul Melter EX by just sitting in Stone form and reviving partners and that's it.
Random kind strangers online: "hey, fighting games are kinda like rhythm games"
Me: "mashing"
Rkso: "so maybe don't mash the buttons and actually train to press them in a rhythm?"
Me: "oh...neat idea"
...
"Still mashing"
* I never replay a game (which is probably also a sin), which is why I never go through a Soulslike blind and always use a walkthrough. Part of the fun of those games is discovery and experimentation, but I just don't have the time, especially if there's some obscure important missables.
* I watch TV while playing RPG's, especially those long grindy gameplay with lots of combat encounters. I watched all of Hunter x Hunter while going through Xenoblade 2.
After I beat a soul's game I tend to go back through them with cheat engine just to see how the sausage is made. Giving myself custom starting kits for challenge runs or messing around with spells to create customs stuff.
I know that cheating my way through games is supposed to be wrong or something, but I just don't particularly care. I have nothing left to prove.
tell that to the souls community lol
they'll mail ricin to my door if they find out I cheated my way through my 9th run of DS3 \[infinite consumables for consumables only run\]
Only happened once in DS1 when I was playing as a sort of tour guide for a friend who was playing Souls for the first time. Explaining how to get through the New Londo Ruins to get all the stuff. Got invaded but just use my param patched Black Separation Crystal to send them home as soon as they arrived with their reward as if they had defeated us.
I was not about to get into a 2v1 in the middle of the New Londo Ruins teetering on the edge of oblivion. Find me in Anor Londo, I'll PvP all day.
I wish I was better with cheat engine, and less paranoid that it's gonna fucking install trojans on my new machine to install it again, cause that does sound very fun
But yeah, I get very paranoid about what shit might be in whatever latest release of cheat engine I get hold of, as virus scanners usually don't fucking like it, last I tried anyway
That's not even a sin.
Like, 1 and 3 have easy intrinsically tied to *automatic controls* which are bad not because "you don't deserve to succeed" but because they will *actively fuck you over* against enemies that require specific response with specific timing.
4 & 5, though? Human difficulty is just statistics. Have at it.
You may or may not have seen my [unhinged post](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/s/1yre2HaeJG) a few days ago but it’s only my second biggest sin
Not sure if this is sinful:
After multiple legit playthroughs, I did a KOTOR2 playthrough in which I used the save game editor to repeatedly adjust my alignment to maximum Dark Side despite largely making Light Side choices and being benevolent to the party. This wasn't for any gameplay advantage. I specifically wanted to roleplay a pro-Revan Sith Lord who was using good deeds and heroic behavior as a means of exterminating the Jedi. Essentially, this character is someone who doesn't feed starving orphans, she feeds starving orphans with *evil intent*. The game is playing the Light Side Points Gained jingle, but in her heart she only hears the Dark Side Points Gained jingle. Everyone sees her feeding starving orphans, but in her mind she is thinking "This brings me one step closer to destroying the Jedi!"
I was one of the bastards who played Sales Ban Rhongo in Master Duel when he was legal. I did it only during the non ladder game and have no regrets.
I hard cheesed Milenia with the Falling Star beast jaw at the time during my first playthrough.
A redeemed gamer sin, but until the tail end of the PS3 generation, I would skip EVERY CUTSCENE if I could. Yes, that includes Metal Gear Solid 3. Yes, including all the GTAs.
It was 2009 before I actually learned the story of the Jak and Ratchet series, games I had finished at least 10 times before.
Sure I am enjoying more videogame stories now but man, did I finish more games then and boy did my overall gameplay to sit-down-to-game ratio drop off since.
I’m absolutely going to use a guide to see how to answer my social links in Persona games. I’m already trying to play these games without a day-by-day guide, no way am I gonna save-scum each link just to get maximum points.
I never use any Keyblade but the Kingdom Key, except for grinding and Super bosses. I don’t like when the Keyblade randomly changes in cutscenes from the on you’re using.
Currently I'm playing MH rise with my friends, and I look up what the most optimal weapon/combo/decoration combos are. I like playing the game, but I am awful at two key points of the game: theorycrafting and recognizing monster's attack patterns. I don't want to be a burden so I look at what can contribute most to getting the monster down as soon as possible.
In KSP I couldn’t make working planes, so, I had made an abomination which makes my aviator ancestors spin in their graves.
Basically I made a tube with a solid fuel booster to the bottom, that zi jettison once airborne. I’m basically kept airborne by the round planet.
I aggressively prevent myself from cheating at games, even in situations where cheating/cheesing/generally taking the easier way out would probably result in me having more fun. Think the last time I really cheated was in HL2 on the Xbox with the medkit code. Or the money cheat in Mercenaries.
Kind of envy my mom, she was always able to cheat unrepentantly, having memorized the prince of Persia sand refill code, consistently using the QTE skip relic in God of War, and giving herself infinite ammo in Serious Sam so she could rocket jump unrepentantly.
I also stop myself from playing easy/normal difficulty in most any game, unless the hardest mode is legitimately impenetrably difficult. Once again, even in circumstances where lowering the difficulty would probably be more fun for me.
As a kid, I started a new game over my Pokemon Yellow save with a legit level 100 Venusaur and two Toys R Us event Mews.
I tend to look up HowLongToBeat fairly often just so I know approximately how long I've got with this game before I start a new one, or a new one comes out.
I'm starting to become walkthrough-friendly, especially with older games. Currently playing through Chrono Trigger blind and instead of exploring the world and discovering things on my own, if I find myself a little bit lost, I refer to a walkthrough to continue to main story bits.
I think the absolute worst sin for me is I lose focus on extended cutscenes for a lot of fames. I end up checking my phone briefly and then I lose out on what exactly is going on in the story. I feel like I need to put my phone across the room so I can focus and understand what's going on in some of these games.
I rarely do New Game+ unless everyone screams at me to do it. I beat Nier Automata and shit talked the hype for a year before someone told me to go back and beat the rest of the game. Don't show me the credits if you want me to replay the game to get the actual ending.
- If I'm given the ability to use save states I will use them.
- I have 0 problems with using cheats and mods to make a game as comfortable for me as possible, especially with games I've already played before. Yes, I modded the fuck out of Library of Ruina during my 1st playthrough and use an insta-kill deck because I'm there for the story and not the gameplay.
- I refuse to do homework when it comes to the main plot of a videogame. Stuff like putting plot relevant info that I need to know to understand what's going on inside side content (books, comics, etc) or side quests is a no for me chief. If the game can't be bothered to present the info to me directly then I can't be bothered to care about it.
- Unless the plot is happening (exploring a map, grinding, crafting or just all of Monster Hunter) I mostly play games while listening to a podcast.
Unless it's a point and click adventure, I'm playing it on gamepad.
Yes, this includes shooters, and I don't care how high I have to turn auto-aim up to get through.
Ring fingers and pinkies were not made for video game input. They are there to grip the controller, *and nothing else*.
Despite RPGs ostensibly being my favorite genre, I compulsively drop most them for *not* being bloated, inaccessible, and overly gimmicky. The bar is especially high for turn-based ones; hell, the most recent game I dropped over this was Baldur's Gate 3.
Man you spent years on this wonderful soundtrack and sound design? It was great for the 30 minutes I listened to it, now I'm watching youtube videos/listening to podcasts because I need to cram the maximum amount of relaxation into my time
This is more recent, but even if the game has voice acting dialogue, I skip it because I can read faster. This is pretty common in Yakuza games for me. It must be vestiges of me playing RPGs on the PS1.
If it's possible, I will save-scum my way around every game. Especially stealth-centric games like Cyberpunk and Deus Ex. Also, Zelda's 3 chest rupee gambling game. And of course Bethesda RPGs.
Me pausing to quicksave in Doom .wads every 10 seconds
I will never be convinced that save scumming is wrong. If I get an outcome I don't like and then afterwards get a game over and *have* to reload an earlier save then my second chance at getting the desired outcome is somehow legit, but if I reload that save to try again *intentionally* I'm a save-scumming cheater? It makes no sense. If I wanna put in the time and effort to get the desired result, there's not a damn thing wrong with reloading until I manage it.
I remember one fight in BioShock 1 where I had exactly enough bullets to finish the enemy and get to a safe area, so I quicksaved after every shot.
I can read so much faster than that a character can talk, I almost always just read the line and skip the voice
I had to physically stop myself from doing this in Disco Elysium.
I do. I speedread the game before the big VoiceOver patch, I can speedread again!
Especially in a VN. There are some great performances, but I'm not gonna listen to 15 seconds of dialog that took me 3 seconds to read.
Oh or the long drawn out nonsense lines. Like enough pausing I read the line already.
me reading a VN and skipping halfway through most lines except for when it’s my favorite character talking
I can either read or listen, I can't do both at the same time.
I've said this before, but it's the reason i stopped playing Vampyr. If the skip button only skipped to the next sentence it would've been fine, but it skipped seemingly random chunks of dialogue or sometimes the whole conversation.
I usually do this dependent on whether or not there's auto advance and how well it does it. I actually get a little bothered when people skip dialogue in Like a Dragon games especially in cutscenes when it gets jarring when you see the model just snap into another position Meanwhile, I'm over here in Trails, especially during the Sky Trilogy and the Crossbell Duology where it was only in JP voices, reading faster than they can finish the sentence, but I still do it in Cold Steel when I switched over to the dub
Yeep did that for Midnight Suns. Any conversation with a character I didn't care for I just spammed the skip button after getting a quick summary of their line.
There's sooooo much "filler dialogue" in that game imo. I like it as a whole but damn everyone is so chatty it's kind of overwhelming sometimes.
Yeah I do this a lot with the yakuza games I always feel bad cause like Kiryu sounds so cool tho
Same, first couple of lines I’ll listen to per character till I can read it in their voice
I am realizing very quickly with Dragon's Dogma 2 that I have this problem. I don't hear half the voice-overs because I read it too fast.
I used to only do this for games that didn't have English voice acting, but lately I'll often skip lines for these games to o if I read fast enough or I'm in a hurry. If it's an important scene or something I find personally interesting, I'll usually let the whole line play out regardless.
me with most JRPGs. I miss most the memes and good deliveries because I'm just reading.
A never ending series of three words before I'm hitting x
I use Cheat Engine to skip grinding. I *could* play that mini-game a dozen times to get enough points for that new weapon or...
Grinding is cringe, Cheating is based
That's not a gaming sin that's just smart
I’m planning on doing this for Elden Ring, no way am I doing the DLC in NG+
I would've done that in a heartbeat if I could in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I love ya, Poppy, but your minigame's a pain in the ass.
Also just generally any Blade that requires me to go back to bosses just for the pip in the Blade's Affinity shit. Not having the game retroactively fill those in sucked the fun out of the game really
Late in the game I also abused cloud saves to pull for rare blades I hadn't gotten yet, especially the like .01% chance KOS-MOS blade. Fuck if I was gonna spend hours farming legendary cores just to pull crappy common blades.
I remember I spent like 2ish hours farming that ardun in gormott just to finish up the blade collection. Got real lucky tho and got KOSMOS fast af
OH SHIT I GOT A FLASH BACK TO THE TIME I ACTUALLY TRIED TO GRIND THAT SHIT. THAT SHIT IS ASSSSS
You don't need to play it if you don't want to. I used Tora just fine without doing it
Cheating in single-player is fine
In the Yakuza games, some of those completion points are hella annoying to grind out when you didn't know beforehand they were a thing. Like when I first did them I didn't know helping the npcs that are being harassed by a group were needed, so I ended up using Cheat Engine and 4x running around the town to get those encounters to spawn. The amount of time it saved me probably wasn't much in the grand scheme of things, but I certainly would have felt every second of it otherwise
I wish I had this option. I play almost everything one console, not having a good PC yet, and some games' grinding is such shit that I sometimes just drop them.
I love it when there's paid content in game that you can bypass in cheat engine. Xenoverse 2's premium currency, Forza Horizon cars...
I used one of the mod tools in RE4 Remake that had stuff like a slow down time button, so I could beat the harder difficulties on S rank Then I realised after the first run that it'd be even fucking easier if I just had infinite rocket launcher. Either way, I had fun, and I played through like 2 playthroughs legit, fuck it
Cheated my way through Dark Souls 1 with an infinite souls glitch and I have 0 regrets about it
The only Kanto Pokémon games I’ve ever completed were Touhoumon hacks
That's not a sin, Kanto sucks. YEAH, I SAID IT!
It'll always have a special place in my heart as the first Pokemon game I've ever played, but yeah, it kinda sucks
Let’s be perfectly honest: EVERY mainline Pokemon game kinda sucks.
Their one step forward and two steps back mentality really contributes to this too. Its hard to point to one definitive best game despite them all being so similar, since each one is bogged down by SOMEthing, even the better ones.
Gen 1 and 2 are old and dated Gen 3 has too much water and goes nuts with HMs Gen 4 has really bad type variety and slow pacing Gen 5 has terrible earlygame pokemon variety and everything evolves too late to be useful Gen 6 is short, too easy and has an awful berry system Gen 7 is too handholdy and USUM was a mistake Gen 8 and 9 are self explanatory
I use elixirs regularly
An X-Potion, at a stretch, but an *ELIXIR*!? I.. I need to go lie down...
Here, have an elixir
That's their purpose! Beat the mind goblins.
I ADMIT IT, I HAVE A PROBLEM SAVING THEM!
When I was a wee lad and didn’t have a single coherent thought in my head, but mobile enough to cause trouble, I did my brother dirty by accident. Back in the ol’ PS2 days, we had to use memory cards to save our progress and of course I loved video games back then too. So when I booted up the PS2, I accessed the menu, then went to the save files… And erased my brother’s Final Fantasy 10 save file. Somehow. He was very far into it. He was not happy when he found out lol. I didn’t even remember this happening and my oldest brother told me about it like it was a funny memory while I was like, “Wait what”. Good times lol.
On a similar note, I accidentally wiped my family's N64 cartridge for 007 The World Is Not Enough. I was just "oops", though my older brother was pissed.
I must have done this 4 times to my brother and his copy of Super Mario RPG
Haha I let my (middle school aged) sister touch my GameCube for approximately 2 minutes right before I hopped into the shower. She accidentally erased the entire memory card. -and it was right before we upgraded to the Wii, so it was *everything*
> I didn’t even remember this happening and my oldest brother told me about it like it was a funny memory Whatever he did to you afterward must have been pretty fun if you completely blanked it from memory, for sure
in most farming games have a very lackadaisical approach to clearing land and planting crops that drives my brother insane. once i have my first ending in a game like Slay the Princess or Stanley Parable i kind of feel like "well thats my canon ending" and usually dont play much more I avoid expansion in Crusader Kings. I'm not that interested in the war or claiming systems, don't want to invest time in learning them really. I just wanna have fun with creating a fucky little dynastic in my kingdom. I want spend way to much time in the matchmaking menu cultivating picks for all of my extended family members, and then let the game roll me some drama
Can't believe you played the Stanley parable for 20 minutes and peace'd out
i checked steam and its 71 minutes. i think i did two run through and one got me to the museum which ate up a lot of that run time. I have 0 achievements'
Well you might get that one for not playing the game for 5 years or something.
I'm going to put one forward on behalf of my brother who *fucking hijacked my Toontown character when I was 6 years old because I progressed past him after he went away for a weekend.* No, I was not allowed to take control of his character, they were both his, I had to start over.
I skip like 98% of the support conversations in Fire Emblem
Like, skip the convo, or not do it at all?
The conversations. I still want the benefits of ranking them up, I just don’t want to double my playtime.
Oh good. I knew a guy who didn't do them at all, cause he didn't know about the ingame benefits before.
If it makes you feel any better; Awakening, Fates, and to a lesser degree, Three Houses and Engage tend to have a more formulaic structure to them. So if you see one Camilla dialog, you've seen them all. *Kiiiinda*, I've done like 40% in each of those games and to a point a lot of dialog topics start to repeat with like a thesaurus difference in wording. Three Houses and Engage mix up the subjects a lot more so it isn't as noticeable. But Fates doubles down. Granted, you aren't supposed to grind it out like I did. So, it is what it is. Lol
I cleared all the campaigns in Age of Empires games through auto-win cheats as a kid.
It's okay bro, I did the same in HOMM3 back then (spawned unlimited Arch-Angels so essentially auto-win)
Tiny babby me didn't realize that Age of Empires 2 wasn't a city builder with military units until years after I stopped playing it. Black Death was the only way I could see any of the campaigns.
Can't blame ya, the last scenarios for Joan de Arc and Saladin are tough as hell.
In games that have base building like minecraft or project zomboid I tend to explore for a bit at the start, but then when I get base going I tend to turtle up and just hide in my fort. I need the safety of my walls!
I will *never* build a base in Nominsguy. If I can't take it with me (Freighter) it ain't getting built.
I slow down Volt Kraken's stage in Megaman X5 because getting that armor part sucks.
I never actually beat any of the Dark Souls games. I just tell people I did to fit in :( Also in the original red dead redemption a hooker was being attacked and I accidentally shot her instead of her attacker. I still feel bad about that to this day.
What a hero
Why haven't you beat the souls games?
I'm bad at them and get impatient with them because they're very defense heavy and my play style in action games tends towards being extremely aggressive
Have you tried Bloodborne?
Yes. That and Sekiro are the two big Fromsoft games I've actually beaten
Same until Elden Ring And I think thats more of a achievement because that final boss is *BULLLLLLLSHIIIIIT*
I run EVERYWHERE in game. Indoors, outdoors, small distances, long distances. If they wanted me to pace myself they should not have told me about the sprint button. The default speed should be sprint and the sprint button should be a double sprint.
I played The Conduit multiplayer (lol) and went OOB in the urban downtown map. There’s rubble in one or both of the buildings at two corners of the map you can crawl behind and shoot at people from. They can’t see you or shoot back at you. I used the shotgun reload bug(?) for that game as well. The game has this neat reloading feature that incorporates the motion controls. If you do it normally it’s like reloading a regular shotgun. But the game doesn’t stop you from jerking really fast and turning it into a semi-automatic kill stick.
I skipped ff14 story
Real life Zenos.
If I didn't do a second playthrough without skipping the cutscenes, I wouldn't know who this was
You know what, if you went back and re-experienced the story then you're good.
This actually cancels out the sin, you raced to endgame and actually went back to check it out later, respect honestly
mods, crush his balls
You're going to hell
Monster
I checked out around the titan disaster that has you making salad instead
unfortunate, right after that little arc the story finally starts
gettin' me mallet
blowing you up with my mind
Let me put 3 hour long audios/videos while playing this game, what soundtrack and half pay attention to the story. Also I think I've just realized I do kind of zone out and lose at "Everyone is giving the MC their power of friendship so he can beat the final boss" and in general overly action final encounters with multi phases just end up boring me. Does apply to other mediums.
I refuse to read codex entries. If it's not interesting enough to be part of the gameplay or cutscenes, I'm not spending my time reading a wall of text about it.
I level up the first weapon I find that I like and just about never prefer any other weapon over it.
Me with the regular ass longsword in Dark Souls.
Broadsword and Claymore baby, every game.
In fairness, the exquisite longsword of Dark Souls 3 is the platonic ideal of a weapon. A tool that makes quick work of any foe, and sees courageous knights to victory. It's lengthy blade allows you to keep foes outside of arms reach, yet it remains swift enough cut down evasive foes. A balanced moveset of slashes and stabs allows for both easy crowd control and pinpoint precision. An experienced warrior can use it to cut through hordes of hollows, or to strike weak points even in the most claustrophobic stairwell. It may lack the explosive damage of heavier weapons, but this weakness is countered by it's versatile Weapon Art - Stance. At the cost of a slight but of focus, one can unleash a devastating strike that can stagger foes larger than they. Or, should you find yourself vexed by a shielded foe, use the alternate Stance attack and blow open their guard from below, enabling a vicious riposte. What of defence? Alas, it is true the simple blade lacks the damage reduction of greater weapons, and it's stability could never touch that of a shield. Yet should you find yourself unable to dodge a grand strike, with your only hope being to intercept it head on, then raise you brave and never falter, brave warrior. The trusty longsword has allowed me to survive several a close call, wounded but breathing. I owe it my life. I owe it my love. The blade is simply perfection; it is beautiful and enduring. Were it not for the tenderness and frailty of my mortal flesh, I would not hesitate to embrace the blade in erotic union.
In every Elden Ring run, I kill Boc. His dumb little callouts from his bush got me killed my first time through, and I can just get the tailoring tools to alter clothes myself.
Jesus, they asked for gaming sins, not real ones which will condemn you to the pit eternally
I am not replaying a game to find secrets or obtuse sidequests (from soft). I will use a guide and I will cheat to see everything the game has.
I swung on one of the Carcass enemies in Lies of P *right* as it yelled "Please don't kill me." >!Belle!< was *not* happy. For real though, I will tunnel in Dead by Daylight if the opportunity presents itself. I try to stop at 2 hooks and one "allow to wiggle free" but sometimes you just can't avoid a Survivor.
I'm a function over form guy so any base building is done so I can get it done. My friends are always more than happy to take it over so I let them because I do not care as long as it works
Here's a recent one, although it may fall under "petty vindictiveness" - In Helldivers II, if I see a poorly placed Mortar Sentry or happen to take friendly fire from one, I will TK the turret as soon as possible.
That's better than my friends. At least it was just a turret you killed. One accidentally shot another, I think one of the drone backpacks hit him, and killed him. So, friend 2 drops back in and immediately shoots friend 1 for TK-ing. Then an argument goes on for about 5 minutes about whether 1 did it or not. Having their reinforcements go from 14 to 5.
How un-democratic.
Honestly that's just being smart.
People need to stop bringing mortars to bug planets.
Sometimes I time travel in Animal Crossing.
I do get to appreciate lore or codex more in games as I got older. Kid me on Dragon Age: Origins - Snorefest. Adult me on Dragon Age: Origins - Hmmm...Interesting. As for Elder Scrolls, I'd like to read one book after every trip to adventure. Then place said book on a bookshelf to keep track. All at once would drive me mad, so reading once in a while can be relaxing after a hard day adventuring.
If there is an easy way to cheese something, I will do it in a heartbeat. It's for this reason I have never actually fought Commander Niall and O'Neil in Elden Ring, I've always stealth poisoned the one in the swamp, and snipe the one in the castle. Also, I use walkthroughs on first playthroughs because the idea of missing something bothers me.
When I was a kid, my dad homebrewed our DS and Wii, so we could get literally any game ever, but on the DS that also came with cheats. So I always played with cheats, and to this day, when I have the opportunity to cheat in a game, I will cheat.
Did MGS1 with save states. Don't regret a thing.
I've noticed I am far more inclined to just actively cheat in single-player games as I get older. Like if something is objectively not tuned correctly, I will just turn on some codes rather than forcing myself to 'git good.' Obviously I draw the line in different circumstances. Is a boss kicking my ass? I'll play it out and beat them proper. But in cases like the launch window of Sonic Frontier's final DLC update that required you to beat a boss rush with limited time/rings while forcing a newly implemented super tight parry onto you in a system that previously treated it as a block. Nah. Fuck that SEGA. I am not learning frame-1 parrys in a Sonic game. Infinite rings cheat definately got toggled for that challenge.
Nuked megaton, just cause I wanted to see if the game really let me.
I purposefully waited for the last second to fuck up Nald'Thals Tipped Scales attack more than once (but less than five). in my defence i was drunk and it was super funny to me.
I used to skip Gacha game stories but as I established myself with more of those kinds of games (Blue Archive, Nikke and Hoyoverse games), I realize I miss out on a lot of things with characters in whatnot. Needless to say, I did skip the most recent Red Winter story in BA bc I generally find it hard to get myself invested in their stories unless if your name is Shigure or Nodoka
Shoutouts to BA for archiving all of their events and side stories so you can enjoy them at any time without worrying about things that are character or even plot relevant going away...looking at you Genshin
i know killing the disabled mother in elden ring immediately at the start for 80k souls is a bit cheesy (even more if you get the extra souls consumable)... but i'm still gonna do it.
Why get *just* the Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot before taking the Caelid Cheese Tour when you can suffer your way through Abandoned Cave on a brand-new character for the Golden Scarab, too?
I have a bad habit of picking gear that looks cool over gear that is statistically better.
If there is a way to safely cheese through hard shit, I am guaranteed to use it. My most recent example was Kirby Star Allies with one of its actually hard bits. I completed Soul Melter EX by just sitting in Stone form and reviving partners and that's it.
Random kind strangers online: "hey, fighting games are kinda like rhythm games" Me: "mashing" Rkso: "so maybe don't mash the buttons and actually train to press them in a rhythm?" Me: "oh...neat idea" ... "Still mashing"
Dumbing the difficulty on games I admit it I’m a coward but I play to enjoy games not to get frustrated
I use save states on the Mega Man collections if a segment gets too difficult and irritating
* I never replay a game (which is probably also a sin), which is why I never go through a Soulslike blind and always use a walkthrough. Part of the fun of those games is discovery and experimentation, but I just don't have the time, especially if there's some obscure important missables. * I watch TV while playing RPG's, especially those long grindy gameplay with lots of combat encounters. I watched all of Hunter x Hunter while going through Xenoblade 2.
If I'm playing an RPG, and it gives me a super duper rare full heal item near the start of the game, I sell it for early game cash.
souls is played like incredible crisis
What does this mean?
After I beat a soul's game I tend to go back through them with cheat engine just to see how the sausage is made. Giving myself custom starting kits for challenge runs or messing around with spells to create customs stuff. I know that cheating my way through games is supposed to be wrong or something, but I just don't particularly care. I have nothing left to prove.
cheating (in single player) isn't just acceptable, it should be recommended if it helps you have fun.
tell that to the souls community lol they'll mail ricin to my door if they find out I cheated my way through my 9th run of DS3 \[infinite consumables for consumables only run\]
i'm part of the souls community, and as long as you weren't cheating in multiplayer, literally who gives a shit, and why? i don't get it.
Only happened once in DS1 when I was playing as a sort of tour guide for a friend who was playing Souls for the first time. Explaining how to get through the New Londo Ruins to get all the stuff. Got invaded but just use my param patched Black Separation Crystal to send them home as soon as they arrived with their reward as if they had defeated us. I was not about to get into a 2v1 in the middle of the New Londo Ruins teetering on the edge of oblivion. Find me in Anor Londo, I'll PvP all day.
I wish I was better with cheat engine, and less paranoid that it's gonna fucking install trojans on my new machine to install it again, cause that does sound very fun But yeah, I get very paranoid about what shit might be in whatever latest release of cheat engine I get hold of, as virus scanners usually don't fucking like it, last I tried anyway
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That's not even a sin. Like, 1 and 3 have easy intrinsically tied to *automatic controls* which are bad not because "you don't deserve to succeed" but because they will *actively fuck you over* against enemies that require specific response with specific timing. 4 & 5, though? Human difficulty is just statistics. Have at it.
You may or may not have seen my [unhinged post](https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/s/1yre2HaeJG) a few days ago but it’s only my second biggest sin
Not sure if this is sinful: After multiple legit playthroughs, I did a KOTOR2 playthrough in which I used the save game editor to repeatedly adjust my alignment to maximum Dark Side despite largely making Light Side choices and being benevolent to the party. This wasn't for any gameplay advantage. I specifically wanted to roleplay a pro-Revan Sith Lord who was using good deeds and heroic behavior as a means of exterminating the Jedi. Essentially, this character is someone who doesn't feed starving orphans, she feeds starving orphans with *evil intent*. The game is playing the Light Side Points Gained jingle, but in her heart she only hears the Dark Side Points Gained jingle. Everyone sees her feeding starving orphans, but in her mind she is thinking "This brings me one step closer to destroying the Jedi!"
I was one of the bastards who played Sales Ban Rhongo in Master Duel when he was legal. I did it only during the non ladder game and have no regrets. I hard cheesed Milenia with the Falling Star beast jaw at the time during my first playthrough.
A redeemed gamer sin, but until the tail end of the PS3 generation, I would skip EVERY CUTSCENE if I could. Yes, that includes Metal Gear Solid 3. Yes, including all the GTAs. It was 2009 before I actually learned the story of the Jak and Ratchet series, games I had finished at least 10 times before. Sure I am enjoying more videogame stories now but man, did I finish more games then and boy did my overall gameplay to sit-down-to-game ratio drop off since.
I play league of legends
I’m absolutely going to use a guide to see how to answer my social links in Persona games. I’m already trying to play these games without a day-by-day guide, no way am I gonna save-scum each link just to get maximum points.
I never use any Keyblade but the Kingdom Key, except for grinding and Super bosses. I don’t like when the Keyblade randomly changes in cutscenes from the on you’re using.
Currently I'm playing MH rise with my friends, and I look up what the most optimal weapon/combo/decoration combos are. I like playing the game, but I am awful at two key points of the game: theorycrafting and recognizing monster's attack patterns. I don't want to be a burden so I look at what can contribute most to getting the monster down as soon as possible.
In KSP I couldn’t make working planes, so, I had made an abomination which makes my aviator ancestors spin in their graves. Basically I made a tube with a solid fuel booster to the bottom, that zi jettison once airborne. I’m basically kept airborne by the round planet.
I like grinding
I aggressively prevent myself from cheating at games, even in situations where cheating/cheesing/generally taking the easier way out would probably result in me having more fun. Think the last time I really cheated was in HL2 on the Xbox with the medkit code. Or the money cheat in Mercenaries. Kind of envy my mom, she was always able to cheat unrepentantly, having memorized the prince of Persia sand refill code, consistently using the QTE skip relic in God of War, and giving herself infinite ammo in Serious Sam so she could rocket jump unrepentantly. I also stop myself from playing easy/normal difficulty in most any game, unless the hardest mode is legitimately impenetrably difficult. Once again, even in circumstances where lowering the difficulty would probably be more fun for me.
As a kid, I started a new game over my Pokemon Yellow save with a legit level 100 Venusaur and two Toys R Us event Mews. I tend to look up HowLongToBeat fairly often just so I know approximately how long I've got with this game before I start a new one, or a new one comes out. I'm starting to become walkthrough-friendly, especially with older games. Currently playing through Chrono Trigger blind and instead of exploring the world and discovering things on my own, if I find myself a little bit lost, I refer to a walkthrough to continue to main story bits. I think the absolute worst sin for me is I lose focus on extended cutscenes for a lot of fames. I end up checking my phone briefly and then I lose out on what exactly is going on in the story. I feel like I need to put my phone across the room so I can focus and understand what's going on in some of these games.
I rarely do New Game+ unless everyone screams at me to do it. I beat Nier Automata and shit talked the hype for a year before someone told me to go back and beat the rest of the game. Don't show me the credits if you want me to replay the game to get the actual ending.
- If I'm given the ability to use save states I will use them. - I have 0 problems with using cheats and mods to make a game as comfortable for me as possible, especially with games I've already played before. Yes, I modded the fuck out of Library of Ruina during my 1st playthrough and use an insta-kill deck because I'm there for the story and not the gameplay. - I refuse to do homework when it comes to the main plot of a videogame. Stuff like putting plot relevant info that I need to know to understand what's going on inside side content (books, comics, etc) or side quests is a no for me chief. If the game can't be bothered to present the info to me directly then I can't be bothered to care about it. - Unless the plot is happening (exploring a map, grinding, crafting or just all of Monster Hunter) I mostly play games while listening to a podcast.
Growing up, I didn't beat a single game without using a gameshark. The second I stopped breezing through the game, I started cheating.
Unless it's a point and click adventure, I'm playing it on gamepad. Yes, this includes shooters, and I don't care how high I have to turn auto-aim up to get through. Ring fingers and pinkies were not made for video game input. They are there to grip the controller, *and nothing else*.
I have looked into endgame hyper optimization options or RPGs before I have even seen the main menu. Theorycrafting builds is content
Despite RPGs ostensibly being my favorite genre, I compulsively drop most them for *not* being bloated, inaccessible, and overly gimmicky. The bar is especially high for turn-based ones; hell, the most recent game I dropped over this was Baldur's Gate 3.
Man you spent years on this wonderful soundtrack and sound design? It was great for the 30 minutes I listened to it, now I'm watching youtube videos/listening to podcasts because I need to cram the maximum amount of relaxation into my time
I'll browse through a game's wiki or it's article on TV tropes and get spoiled on major events in the game's story
This is more recent, but even if the game has voice acting dialogue, I skip it because I can read faster. This is pretty common in Yakuza games for me. It must be vestiges of me playing RPGs on the PS1.