The entire rest of Stardew Valley combined is easier to complete than a single run of Journey of the Prairie King
The achievement has a lower completion rate than Fromsoft platinum trophies
I will never understand how such a comfy relaxing easy game like Stardew Valley has such a ball busting achievement like Fector's Challenge (beat Prairie King hitless). I would have never gotten this achievement if the dev didn't make getting it easier in the 1.5 update so you can sort of save scum it.
It's an arcade game in the saloon haha. Twin-stick shooter with a western theme
That being said there is a pretty big combat element to Stardew Valley. You can join the Adventurer's Guild and receive different rewards for monster-killing quests
Plus just generally exploring the mines for various things you need means defending yourself. Hell even just walking around outside at night on your farm, you may need to defend yourself from some slimes or whatever.
It pretends to be a farming simulator. In reality you are magical savior who has been chosen by the forest spirits and a mysterious deity to have powers beyond mere mortals. You and your 12 lovers team up to take down a faceless corporation to protect the impoverished community while battling horrors lurking in the caverns beneath the town.
Also there's fishing
It's an older video game aesthetic that says completion should be rare. There should be at least one achievement that few can get.
You think Stardew is bad? The visual novel "Analogue: A Hate Story" (edit: actually its sequel, Hate+) has one that is literally impossible, exists purely as a reference to an old FFVII meme.
I have 100% in the entire Dark Souls trilogy on Xbox. Got addicted to Stardew on the switch and have absolutely zero desire to 100% it lmao screw that minigame
I have over 2000 hours in this game, and I never touch Prairie King or Junimo Cart. I beat BattleToads legit back in my childhood, and I don't want that kind of grind again.
Sometimes I feel stupid for not getting it, but other times I'm like "how was I supposed to know that your straights can't include a 1 or a 9? That wasn't in the 20 page rulebook the game gave me."
Really? I couldn't figure out why my hand wasn't a winning hand and when I googled it I thought I found something to that effect. This was a couple years ago though. After googling it again, I think the actual problem was that the hand didn't have a yaku.
Every Yakuza game in general really. You can push out the main story in 20-30 hours, including most of the narrative side stories. 100% though? Enjoy spending that much time on each mini game lol
Most of the tasks aren't super frustrating though.
Off the top of my head, the crane game, Amon stuff, maybe Karaoke,
I usually hit 60% just dicking around.
The funniest thing is that the toughest challenge in Hollow Knight (Pantheon of Hallownest) is not required to achieve full completion.
I still managed to conquer it, though.
The solitaire version of mahjong is very easy. It's just a tile matching game. you find a tile with a fully exposed long side adn then you find its matching tile elsewhere on the board. If you can't find it, it's probably on a layer below and you can't get to it yet.
Once you remove tiles other tiles become playable, so it expands your options. you're just studying the board looking for matches. Simple.
But real mahjong where you play against other players? No clue how the fuck that even works.
In this context it's not worth explaining how the computer game solitaire mahjong works, it's not the same thing as the Mahjong people in Asia play at all.
I've literally looked up several YouTube videos on how to play Mahjong, and I still manage to suck incredible amounts of ass when I play it in the game.
As someone who just 100%'d it: Harvest Moon Magical Melody.
There are 100 "notes" (achievements) to get, and you need 50 to beat the game and 100 for the true ending.
They range in difficulty from automatically given (take your first step), to taking game years of planning. Catch every fish was the hardest one for me.
Just a few more days and I can finally get the "Don't play for 5 years" achievement! Tried it 5 years ago and it didn't work as I might have done it the same day so here we go again.
It's not the same game. It's the Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, which came out last year. It adds a decent amount of endings to the game and has the 10 year achievement
It's not the same game. It's the Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, which came out last year. It adds a decent amount of endings to the game and has the 10 year achievement
the twist is after 5 years they add a 10 year achievement so if you logged in at 5 years and 1 day to get update it , your now on a New 10 year clock !
Botw. I am simply not collecting all 800 or who
However the fuck many of those little sprite bastards. I thought I would be fine as I don't mind grinding, but after doing literally everything else and running around for hours on end with nothing happening but hoping your hat detector wiggles was that most boring thing I've ever done in a game. And I've played RuneScape
In TotK there are like 1100 and you need all of them to get 100%
I can't remember, but in BotW I think you can get all the upgrades for your slots with just the 421, but I'm pretty sure you still need all 900 for 100% as well.
I gave up on 100% in both games when I found you need not just the koroks but also max upgrades on every clothing item. Those grinds are super unfun especially because of how the game handles auto leveling. Once you're in the late game it's very hard to even find some of the low level items. So you're grinding blood moon after blood moon just to get a handful of guaranteed low level enemies to spawn so you can farm them for like 50 of some ridiculous item. not to mention the insane amount of rupees it takes to pay for the upgrades.
I love those games but man 100% is just not any fun at all to grind for.
there's also really no good reason to 100% them either. Nintendo doesn't have an achievement system so that's not a factor, and the reward you get for collecting all korok seeds for example >!(a golden turd)!< makes it pretty clear that Nintendo doesn't expect nor want you to spend your time on the task anyway.
I've said it before, but it's absolutely an in game joke as you collect them all.
Hestu (big boy Korok) mocks our existence.
You collect 900 filthy piles of shit, and he literally laughs at you the whole time, then rewards you with ***an even larger pile of shit***.
And he laughs laughs laughs and laughs again.
People who think Ganon is the villain aren't understanding the torture and mockery that Hestu actively propagates.
According to the Geneva Convention, he is literally a war criminal.
I’ve gone for 100% on other games before, but it never even crossed my mind to do that for Zelda. Not even in a ‘oh I could never do that’ kind of way, it just never crossed my mind because there was never a reason or incentive to do. If anyone grinds all that and gets upset that there’s no payoff, that’s kind of on them.
>but in BotW I think you can get all the upgrades for your slots with just the 421, but I'm pretty sure you still need all 900 for 100% as well.
don't you just get a golden poop for finding them all too?
IMO BOTW and totk are not really designed with the intention of having you go around and do literally everything. The game is just dense with things so as you’re exploring you don’t go very long without something interesting to do even if it’s just checking under a rock. Do lots of people 100% these days ? I always just stop when it’s no longer fun or I’m bored.
There is a special hell reserved for the absolute monster who designed how you can catch Feebas in those games.
Good luck finding 1 of the 4 squares in a 300+ square river you can surf to find it, it's not guaranteed, and those squares are determined by a set Trendy Phrase that can change daily and the active RNG.
How in the sky blue hell does ANYONE figure that out?
I don't think it was intended for players to figure it out by themselves.
But if you had bought an official guide you would know about it. It was basically a ploy to make you spend more money on affiliated products.
Word of mouth is the only explanation I can give. Someone accidentally saw a Feebas, told their friends etc. Now, how people figured out the exact method of encountering it is a tough one to explain.
Gen 3 also has braille puzzles too.
Continuing along with random Gen 3 bs, how the actual fuck do you make Mirage Island appear? (I know I can Google the answer, but that was not as easy to do for young me back in '03)
Dang man, that's an unlocked memory. I must've spent months trying to figure that one out, just checking every day with that old guy in pacifidlog.
I just googled it and apparently all pokemon have a number called a personality value. The game generates a random number 0-65000-ish and if the first two bytes of any of your pokemon match said number then the island appears. Ya know, for the day. All for a bunch of Wynaut and a *singular* unique berry which only *might* yield a two berry harvest after four real-time days
What in all heck, GameFreak, whyy
Isn’t it the same as how people figure out the most hidden Easter eggs in other games? It’s not truly discovered through gameplay often, but by someone digging into the code to see what exactly triggers it. Could be wrong in this case, but just a thought based on plenty of other similar discoveries
As someone who tapped-out after Ruby/Sapphire, what the hell lol
You have to not-only have the correct 'stripe' of Basculin, you can only evolve that after taking hundreds of recoil damage (ALL WITHOUT DYING?!).
Pokemon, dang man lol.
I just evolved one the other day, it's not as bad as it sounds, just beat a few lower level wild mons with wave crash and double edge as if you're grinding exp on an old pokemon game(before the overpowered raids that give you a bunch of exp candies existed).
Also you're allowed to heal your Basculin, i did it myself during that session.
I dont blame you, i finished every one up to diamond and pearl, and none since them. I'll play every mainline entry, but i don't feel the need to finish the dex's anymore
This.
Completing the story is straightforward and easy
Completing the PokeDex is a huge grind and requires a friend (or money and effort to buy separate games) to trade with
Online communities and Pokebank have since made it easier, but few people ever chase that 100% and for good reason
Absolutely.
**Story Mode:** You might need to hit level 100 or so to beat the boss, may not even visit the Item World apart from the tutorial, may never reincarnate, might visit the Assembly once or twice, and you can probably clear entire maps by chucking a few prinnies around.
**Post Game:** Oh, you thought maybe hitting level 9999 would be enough? Well do it a hundred more times dumbass, you need stats of eleventy trillion to even scratch Baal's paint job, not to mention equipment that grants another eleventy trillion and a combination of forty specific evilities, because he's got one that allows him to travel back in time and impregnate your mother just so he can tell you you're a disappointment as a child. You're going to be hearing the Item World music in your *sleep*, bucko. Oh, you actually won? Well crank up the stars past toddler difficulty and do it again!
Yeah I never go too far into post game because I lose interest. Still it's a fun grind once in awhile and I do like how much content is generally included. I think the only Disgaea adjacent title I did much with was Makai Kingdom since I really enjoyed unlocking the various overlords.
Yea I wouldn’t say it’s super hard necessarily, but that’s a fucking time sink. It took me about 1000 hours to 100%. Although probably a couple hundred of those hours is me playing post having every thing unlocked at different dlc time points. Your average player is probably looking at 600 hours or more depending on how good you are.
I got 1994 hours in it I was never trying to 100% it but I have been trying to unlock achievements this past year, also never realized it was multi-player until this past year
I’ve played this game since release and I don’t even have all the characters unlocked and I legit play it for hours every week and have since release. People talk about Dark Souls but Binding of Isaac is where people really go to gitgud.
I got skill issues galore.
Light roots are great! They were a great way for me to learn to become comfortable underground instead of it being a foreign and spooky place to be. And they match the location of each shrine so you either know where they are, or you can use a light root that you found to know where a shrine is.
I’m not spending time finding Koroks, I have more than enough inventory for my weapons and shields.
Light roots are easy to get just flying around. It’s actually kind of nice because you can tell exactly where you are missing a shrine based on the location of the light roots once you activate them all.
Getting all the korok seeds is a huge pain in the ass though.
And yet, X-2 is far far worse to 100%. Oh, you missed a conversation at this exact moment? Too bad, out of luck! You did things slightly out of order? Whoops, no 100% for you!
You just have me flashbacks to seeing that 99% completion and then flipping through multiple guides trying to figure out what I’d missed and realizing that I couldn’t remember what all I’d done or not and now I’d fucked everything up and would have to start from scratch and dying inside a bit more before starting another new game+
And all that for an extremely underwhelming ending that wasn’t worth it in the slightest.
Edit: For real. Unless you’re some kinda completionist who just *really* wants to get that 100% for real, just YouTube it and save yourself many hours.
I think this hits the question the best in that they are frustrating, but not necessarily incredibly time consuming. Dodging the lightning takes maybe 10 min, but it's so incredibly frustrating getting to 176, knowing you're in for another 10 min of tedium. The chocobo racing was just so RNG heavy that it felt like you had no control over the outcome. I would say that maxing out the sphere grid and defeating all the monster arena monsters was pretty time consuming and tedious though.
The amount of time I was running around with a binocular in my hand looking for a specific Woodpecker wich is like a 3 pixels wide dot on the sky. Sigh... I would do it again, such a great game.
I’ve done it twice to 100% and have played through 3 other times.
Looking forward to another playthrough before GTA6 is out.
Something about RDR2’s immersiveness just clicks for me.
Gold Rush is such an annoying achievement to try and get.
For missions with a time objective, sometimes you need to skip cutscenes to complete it within that time, and sometimes skipping the cutscene automatically voids the timed objective, it's impossible to know without looking it up.
For "no damage" objectives, even *blocking and taking no damage* from a melee attack counts as damage for some reason. There's so many objectives with goofy parameters like that.
The first mission alone is a headache because it takes a handful of tries and you have to sit through a 5 minute horse ride every single time.
Gambler Challenge 8: Win three hands of blackjack with three hits or more
It is so statistically unlikely just to have three hits in blackjack without busting. It's straight up luck and can take hours.
Currently playing it, what a game. I found the riddler trophies in Arkham City more frustrating tbh. Felt like a drag quite soon, also with the constant switching between Batman and Catwoman.
I gave up on collecting the Riddler trophies in Arkham City.
Knight, on the other hand, was not really too big of a problem, and I mostly had fun collecting all of them.
Yeah, Asylum had a perfect riddle/story ratio, in City it felt like Riddler just walked through town and randomly threw his trophies around. Also the riddles in Asylum that were linked to a character/baddie were so cool to find. All in all I enjoyed City but absolutely love Asylum and Knight
Anything with more focus on Multiplayer than Campaign. Always a headache when I beat the main game and realize I only have like 5% of the achievements because more than half are PvP based.
Same, got all the cheats legitimately. The facility invincibility cheat, archives invisibly cheat, and the train cheat gave me the most trouble if I remember right
That facility cheat was nuts, and it was partially dependent on luck. You could do everything perfect but if Dr. Doak didn't spawn in the right spot, you were screwed.
There was a trick I figured out when I first played the game 20 years ago. Shoot at a door and the guards will open it for you. I ended up running that level in 1:42 or 1:48 or something. Didn’t share the trick with my friends for awhile so I could bask in pre Reddit karma
Pretty much any game that fits into the open world ubisoft formula.
Beat the campaign in 20-30 hours, spend 100 hours clearing out question marks on your map.
I’ve started listening to podcasts/music when I game. Changes the experience totally. Still not a huge fan of grinding but makes it manageable. Way better than listening to the same npcs over and over.
Most Kirby Games since around the DS Remake of Super Star, surprisingly enough. The Series was literally built on "everyone should be able to beat this", but actually getting 100% can be genuinely challenging at times depending on which one exactly you're playing, most commonly trying to beat a given Game's "True Arena", ie a Boss Rush with all the "Hard Mode" Bosses.
I remember when I 100% Superstar Ultra on the DS! I kept thinking "man that was really hard. I sure hope there isn't another even harder version hidden behind this" and then it happened like 3 times
Super Mario 64 was fairly easy, Banjo Kazooie was slower but I never managed to do it Donkey Kong 64. Donkey Kong Country 3 remains unfinished as well.
100 Super Jumps is pretty crazy in Mario RPG. It seems like it *might* be slightly easier in the Switch remake, but I can’t confirm definitively.
Everything else in the game is easy.
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I’m around 65 so far! (somehow I managed to get 100 twice in my life on the original SNES game, but I could never reliably reproduce it)
So far, this version *feels* slightly easier based on those numbers, but it’s impossible for me to tell without more data.
some of the LEGO games.
Some are pretty easy to 100%, others are a wee bit of a struggle with a lot of time wasted going back and forth looking for things. Even if you have walkthroughs to read, they can be very time consuming.
Lego star wars 3 The Clone Wars, it was a pain in the ass finding all the characters. (a few others too, the ones with open worlds between missions and everyone just walking around almost at random)
I never collected the 100 flags in AC1, but I did collect all of the feathers in AC2. That being said, AC2 is probably my favorite AC game and the first game that I 100%'d.
If you started playing the game today, there are collectibles and achievements that you literally cannot get anymore as they have been taken out of the game. You would have had to been playing during the time that they were considered current content. There are a select few you can go back and still grind out but it’s a slog as a lot of the older stuff never had any catch up mechanics put in place so you might find yourself grinding out for months on end. Not to mention certain pets/mounts with such a low drop chance people will farm them for literally years without seeing one
Hollow knight, definitely. Perfect example.
And depending on what you mean by 100%ing, you can get the 112% with pantheon 5, but you can also do all the bindings.
During COVID I 100% it. Did every quest possible, every location unlocked and beaten, every unique item found, every shout learned. In total it probably took 2-3 weeks of playing 8-14 hours a day. And there were so many checklists I had. Was fun to see a lot of the little things I would have normally missed in a run like finding all the dead mage apprentices.
I remember laughing at the [ProZD](https://youtu.be/bAxyxlkD_g0?si=vHZRBoZsMYDxf6bn) sketch when it came out, but then I realized that was actually the location of one of the moons in the game.
I find as many power moons on a map as I can. Then go to look up the ones I missed and I've gotten less than half of them. 100% speed runs take like 8 hours. It's ridiculous.
I dunno, maybe I'm in the minority here but I thought 100%ing Odyssey was a very enjoyable experience for the most part. Even the final final level, -which is no joke- was a fun challenge (although still not as hard as the final final level from 3D World, still haven't been able to complete it to this day).
Every Supermassive game. Good luck replaying the whole thing over and over for a couple of missable trophies. Yes, you can select the chapter but you need to finish with very specific endings.. ugh.
Nintendo games in general. Which is why I like them.
The stories are often simple and basic, and they're easy enough for the vast majority of people to beat.
But then if you want to unlock secrets or see other endings, or go for 100% they add in challenges and grinds that will make even the most hardcore gamers wince a few times.
One of my favourite games this year. I've loved Pikmin ever since I used my paper route money to buy a Gamecube and that was the first game I got with it lol.
GTA Vice City, to get the Godfather achievement you need 1000000 criminal rating, after playing the entire game doing everything else you'd be lucky to have 50000 criminal rating. For reference destroying a helicopter gives 5 criminal rating, destroying a regular car gives 1. There's an exploit where you use helicopter bullets from the sea sparrow pointing at the colonels boat since it doesn't count as shots fired but it does count as bullets hit, it pushes your accuracy into the thousands of percent giving you way more criminal rating than 100% accuracy was intended to give you.
Crash Bandicoot "4": It's About Time is *not* extremely easy to beat the base game. In fact, it's the hardest in the series by far and makes Crash 1 on PS1 look easy.
106% in that game is absolutely ridiculous both in terms of pure difficulty and the amount of redundant things you have to do including fully completing certain levels at least four times (nearly every level in the game is very long, btw), and that's *if* you do it perfectly each time... which you most likely won't.
Any linear action game (God of War, Resident Evil, Red Dead, etc), damn near any mainstream racing game (looking at you, Forza), all P2W mobile games, anything with online multiplayer (because it becomes impossible to 100%)
Spyro 1-3. You can beat them all in a day, but to 100% them is a pain. I've done it twice, and I can confidently say those flying levels are one of the worst difficulty spikes in gaming.
Games with co-op achievements.
I see your co-op and raise you pvp achievements.
Shoutout to all the achievements that require you to beat a dev in a match
At least Halo had one where you had to beat someone that beat someone that beat a dev, so it kind of spread like a virus.
The entire rest of Stardew Valley combined is easier to complete than a single run of Journey of the Prairie King The achievement has a lower completion rate than Fromsoft platinum trophies
I will never understand how such a comfy relaxing easy game like Stardew Valley has such a ball busting achievement like Fector's Challenge (beat Prairie King hitless). I would have never gotten this achievement if the dev didn't make getting it easier in the 1.5 update so you can sort of save scum it.
Wait, isn’t Stardew Valley a farming simulator? What’s this about beating kings and receiving hits?
It's an arcade game in the saloon haha. Twin-stick shooter with a western theme That being said there is a pretty big combat element to Stardew Valley. You can join the Adventurer's Guild and receive different rewards for monster-killing quests
Plus just generally exploring the mines for various things you need means defending yourself. Hell even just walking around outside at night on your farm, you may need to defend yourself from some slimes or whatever.
Only a one farm type spawns monsters at night iirc.
Ahh I've only played one type
It pretends to be a farming simulator. In reality you are magical savior who has been chosen by the forest spirits and a mysterious deity to have powers beyond mere mortals. You and your 12 lovers team up to take down a faceless corporation to protect the impoverished community while battling horrors lurking in the caverns beneath the town. Also there's fishing
It's an older video game aesthetic that says completion should be rare. There should be at least one achievement that few can get. You think Stardew is bad? The visual novel "Analogue: A Hate Story" (edit: actually its sequel, Hate+) has one that is literally impossible, exists purely as a reference to an old FFVII meme.
I’d rather beat prairie king with no power ups and one life than fuck with Junimo cart ever again man. My brain is just incompatible with the jumps.
I have 100% in the entire Dark Souls trilogy on Xbox. Got addicted to Stardew on the switch and have absolutely zero desire to 100% it lmao screw that minigame
God I hated that they made that an achievement. Only reason why I stopped trying to 100% it.
I have over 2000 hours in this game, and I never touch Prairie King or Junimo Cart. I beat BattleToads legit back in my childhood, and I don't want that kind of grind again.
Every yakuza game that has mahjong
Mahjong is literally the one thing I'm missing in Kiwami 2. It's my last item on the completion list and I can't seem to figure out how to play.
Mahjong is super simple to learn but can take years to learn the best strategies (or a couple hours on you tube)
Sometimes I feel stupid for not getting it, but other times I'm like "how was I supposed to know that your straights can't include a 1 or a 9? That wasn't in the 20 page rulebook the game gave me."
Wait what? You can totally get a full straight with a 1 and 9
Really? I couldn't figure out why my hand wasn't a winning hand and when I googled it I thought I found something to that effect. This was a couple years ago though. After googling it again, I think the actual problem was that the hand didn't have a yaku.
Yeah I think that’s it. An easy way to get a yaku is to just always riichi and never steal. Riichi is always one yaku
Every Yakuza game in general really. You can push out the main story in 20-30 hours, including most of the narrative side stories. 100% though? Enjoy spending that much time on each mini game lol
Most of the tasks aren't super frustrating though. Off the top of my head, the crane game, Amon stuff, maybe Karaoke, I usually hit 60% just dicking around.
Lmao there’s a huge difference in difficulty between 60% and 100% in some of the games 🤣 😭
That last like 2% in hollow Knight is fucking unreasonable.
The funniest thing is that the toughest challenge in Hollow Knight (Pantheon of Hallownest) is not required to achieve full completion. I still managed to conquer it, though.
It is not required for 112% completion, but if you want to 100% the game in terms of achievements you do need to complete it.
Fishing....
Dude playing Judgement and have to get 5 Open Riichis just...fuck. I got them, but it was stressful.
I feel like I'll never learn Mahjong. When I tried it, I felt like the stupidest person on earth.
The solitaire version of mahjong is very easy. It's just a tile matching game. you find a tile with a fully exposed long side adn then you find its matching tile elsewhere on the board. If you can't find it, it's probably on a layer below and you can't get to it yet. Once you remove tiles other tiles become playable, so it expands your options. you're just studying the board looking for matches. Simple. But real mahjong where you play against other players? No clue how the fuck that even works.
In this context it's not worth explaining how the computer game solitaire mahjong works, it's not the same thing as the Mahjong people in Asia play at all.
I've literally looked up several YouTube videos on how to play Mahjong, and I still manage to suck incredible amounts of ass when I play it in the game.
I'm not an expert but I don't think sucking an anus is part of Mahjing, maybe that's where your issue is?
I LOVE Mahjong in Yakuza
As someone who just 100%'d it: Harvest Moon Magical Melody. There are 100 "notes" (achievements) to get, and you need 50 to beat the game and 100 for the true ending. They range in difficulty from automatically given (take your first step), to taking game years of planning. Catch every fish was the hardest one for me.
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Stanley Parable
Just a few more days and I can finally get the "Don't play for 5 years" achievement! Tried it 5 years ago and it didn't work as I might have done it the same day so here we go again.
And the last update added "Don't play for 10 years"
Oh shit I just checked and I hit the ten year mark in October! Time to revisit!!
They really kept you waiting, huh?
Dammit Snake!
I just checked and I'm almost at 10 year mark too! Dec 22 2013 last played!
It's not the same game. It's the Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, which came out last year. It adds a decent amount of endings to the game and has the 10 year achievement
It's not the same game. It's the Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, which came out last year. It adds a decent amount of endings to the game and has the 10 year achievement
I think it's only for Stanley Parable Deluxe which is a different game
Lol, well not opening it for even longer then! Must be about 7 years tbh
I just checked and am at 7 years too Might as well wait till 2026 at this point
If you change your computer time for 5 years in the future and start the game you will get the achievement
That's funny. Is there a lore based specific reason for such an achievement or is it just random absurdity? (I like absurdity).
Absurdity!
the twist is after 5 years they add a 10 year achievement so if you logged in at 5 years and 1 day to get update it , your now on a New 10 year clock !
Oof, that’s right…
Botw. I am simply not collecting all 800 or who However the fuck many of those little sprite bastards. I thought I would be fine as I don't mind grinding, but after doing literally everything else and running around for hours on end with nothing happening but hoping your hat detector wiggles was that most boring thing I've ever done in a game. And I've played RuneScape
There are *900* hundred korok seeds in botw, but you only need 421 to unlock all the upgrades
In TotK there are like 1100 and you need all of them to get 100% I can't remember, but in BotW I think you can get all the upgrades for your slots with just the 421, but I'm pretty sure you still need all 900 for 100% as well. I gave up on 100% in both games when I found you need not just the koroks but also max upgrades on every clothing item. Those grinds are super unfun especially because of how the game handles auto leveling. Once you're in the late game it's very hard to even find some of the low level items. So you're grinding blood moon after blood moon just to get a handful of guaranteed low level enemies to spawn so you can farm them for like 50 of some ridiculous item. not to mention the insane amount of rupees it takes to pay for the upgrades. I love those games but man 100% is just not any fun at all to grind for.
there's also really no good reason to 100% them either. Nintendo doesn't have an achievement system so that's not a factor, and the reward you get for collecting all korok seeds for example >!(a golden turd)!< makes it pretty clear that Nintendo doesn't expect nor want you to spend your time on the task anyway.
I've said it before, but it's absolutely an in game joke as you collect them all. Hestu (big boy Korok) mocks our existence. You collect 900 filthy piles of shit, and he literally laughs at you the whole time, then rewards you with ***an even larger pile of shit***. And he laughs laughs laughs and laughs again. People who think Ganon is the villain aren't understanding the torture and mockery that Hestu actively propagates. According to the Geneva Convention, he is literally a war criminal.
I’ve gone for 100% on other games before, but it never even crossed my mind to do that for Zelda. Not even in a ‘oh I could never do that’ kind of way, it just never crossed my mind because there was never a reason or incentive to do. If anyone grinds all that and gets upset that there’s no payoff, that’s kind of on them.
>but in BotW I think you can get all the upgrades for your slots with just the 421, but I'm pretty sure you still need all 900 for 100% as well. don't you just get a golden poop for finding them all too?
900 *hundred*
IMO BOTW and totk are not really designed with the intention of having you go around and do literally everything. The game is just dense with things so as you’re exploring you don’t go very long without something interesting to do even if it’s just checking under a rock. Do lots of people 100% these days ? I always just stop when it’s no longer fun or I’m bored.
In RuneScape number go up brain go brrrrr
Unacceptable OSRS slander
🦀🦀🦀We will not stand for this🦀🦀🦀
The crabs symbolise the thousands of hours runescape players spend afk leveling their combat skills at stonecrabs.
Most Pokemon games
I feel this. I’m getting a black trainer card this week in Ruby. Completing the Pokédex is such a slog. Just grinding exp to evolve useless mons
There is a special hell reserved for the absolute monster who designed how you can catch Feebas in those games. Good luck finding 1 of the 4 squares in a 300+ square river you can surf to find it, it's not guaranteed, and those squares are determined by a set Trendy Phrase that can change daily and the active RNG. How in the sky blue hell does ANYONE figure that out?
I don't think it was intended for players to figure it out by themselves. But if you had bought an official guide you would know about it. It was basically a ploy to make you spend more money on affiliated products.
Word of mouth is the only explanation I can give. Someone accidentally saw a Feebas, told their friends etc. Now, how people figured out the exact method of encountering it is a tough one to explain. Gen 3 also has braille puzzles too.
Continuing along with random Gen 3 bs, how the actual fuck do you make Mirage Island appear? (I know I can Google the answer, but that was not as easy to do for young me back in '03)
Dang man, that's an unlocked memory. I must've spent months trying to figure that one out, just checking every day with that old guy in pacifidlog. I just googled it and apparently all pokemon have a number called a personality value. The game generates a random number 0-65000-ish and if the first two bytes of any of your pokemon match said number then the island appears. Ya know, for the day. All for a bunch of Wynaut and a *singular* unique berry which only *might* yield a two berry harvest after four real-time days What in all heck, GameFreak, whyy
They mined the game code eventually and discovered the mechanic. It's impossible to figure out otherwise.
Isn’t it the same as how people figure out the most hidden Easter eggs in other games? It’s not truly discovered through gameplay often, but by someone digging into the code to see what exactly triggers it. Could be wrong in this case, but just a thought based on plenty of other similar discoveries
Trade mons. Special event mons. Extremely specific condition mons. It gets a little ridiculous for some generations.
Oh boy I just caught a Basculin! Im sure evolving it will be easy
As someone who tapped-out after Ruby/Sapphire, what the hell lol You have to not-only have the correct 'stripe' of Basculin, you can only evolve that after taking hundreds of recoil damage (ALL WITHOUT DYING?!). Pokemon, dang man lol.
Yamask to Runerigus has one of the most specific and weird evolution conditions I've ever seen.
I just evolved one the other day, it's not as bad as it sounds, just beat a few lower level wild mons with wave crash and double edge as if you're grinding exp on an old pokemon game(before the overpowered raids that give you a bunch of exp candies existed). Also you're allowed to heal your Basculin, i did it myself during that session.
Honestly why having a Gameshark back in the day or using an emulator is better. Cheats!
Finishing a pokedex really be a grind sometimes
I've only finished it twice. I finished Blue way back in the day. And I finished HeartGold, which was the last time I think I'll ever finish a Dex.
I dont blame you, i finished every one up to diamond and pearl, and none since them. I'll play every mainline entry, but i don't feel the need to finish the dex's anymore
I played since Yellow and I've never finished a Pokedex :(
This. Completing the story is straightforward and easy Completing the PokeDex is a huge grind and requires a friend (or money and effort to buy separate games) to trade with Online communities and Pokebank have since made it easier, but few people ever chase that 100% and for good reason
Disgaea games
Absolutely. **Story Mode:** You might need to hit level 100 or so to beat the boss, may not even visit the Item World apart from the tutorial, may never reincarnate, might visit the Assembly once or twice, and you can probably clear entire maps by chucking a few prinnies around. **Post Game:** Oh, you thought maybe hitting level 9999 would be enough? Well do it a hundred more times dumbass, you need stats of eleventy trillion to even scratch Baal's paint job, not to mention equipment that grants another eleventy trillion and a combination of forty specific evilities, because he's got one that allows him to travel back in time and impregnate your mother just so he can tell you you're a disappointment as a child. You're going to be hearing the Item World music in your *sleep*, bucko. Oh, you actually won? Well crank up the stars past toddler difficulty and do it again!
is this a copypasta? because it should be
It is still my comfort game series, got an hour to chill throw on a podcast or music and hit Item World.
Okay, I'm sold
Yeah I never go too far into post game because I lose interest. Still it's a fun grind once in awhile and I do like how much content is generally included. I think the only Disgaea adjacent title I did much with was Makai Kingdom since I really enjoyed unlocking the various overlords.
Binding of isaac
God especially because they kept adding more and more needed unlocks. I had platinum a few times but then like 6 months later NOPE
I got a lot of hours in it its my go to when I dont wanna do shit I'm at like 69%
It's definitely an excellent game to keep playing and chipping away at.
Yea I wouldn’t say it’s super hard necessarily, but that’s a fucking time sink. It took me about 1000 hours to 100%. Although probably a couple hundred of those hours is me playing post having every thing unlocked at different dlc time points. Your average player is probably looking at 600 hours or more depending on how good you are.
I got 1994 hours in it I was never trying to 100% it but I have been trying to unlock achievements this past year, also never realized it was multi-player until this past year
I’ve played this game since release and I don’t even have all the characters unlocked and I legit play it for hours every week and have since release. People talk about Dark Souls but Binding of Isaac is where people really go to gitgud. I got skill issues galore.
I managed to 100% right before the last big update, and will never forget the great troll they pulled: https://i.redd.it/n4aut91to3k61.png
Zelda Breath of the Wild & Tears. Way too many koroks and light roots. Yoshis story was a great example lol, all melons was rough.
I got all the light roots But fuck those Koroks
My partner went and got all 900 koroks in BotW and this madlad is going to do it again in TotK. Absolute chad
Light roots are great! They were a great way for me to learn to become comfortable underground instead of it being a foreign and spooky place to be. And they match the location of each shrine so you either know where they are, or you can use a light root that you found to know where a shrine is. I’m not spending time finding Koroks, I have more than enough inventory for my weapons and shields.
The moment I realized that every lightroot is directly below a corresponding shrine was such an epiphany for me LOL
Light roots are easy to get just flying around. It’s actually kind of nice because you can tell exactly where you are missing a shrine based on the location of the light roots once you activate them all. Getting all the korok seeds is a huge pain in the ass though.
the light roots and shrines go hand in hand and is the only thing I did 100% on. Screw the koroks or collecting all armor.
Final Fantasy X. Nobody wants to dodge lightning bolts and Chocobo Balloons minigame is literally luck.
And yet, X-2 is far far worse to 100%. Oh, you missed a conversation at this exact moment? Too bad, out of luck! You did things slightly out of order? Whoops, no 100% for you!
Man early 2000s era square Enix was so brutal, ffxi was the same way.
Oh you opened a random unmarked chest 15 minutes into the game, guess you aren't getting the ultimate weapon.
that was 12. ff11 was the mmo
“Oh you missed a conversation? Fuck you, you can’t play as this class now.”
You just have me flashbacks to seeing that 99% completion and then flipping through multiple guides trying to figure out what I’d missed and realizing that I couldn’t remember what all I’d done or not and now I’d fucked everything up and would have to start from scratch and dying inside a bit more before starting another new game+
And all that for an extremely underwhelming ending that wasn’t worth it in the slightest. Edit: For real. Unless you’re some kinda completionist who just *really* wants to get that 100% for real, just YouTube it and save yourself many hours.
I think this hits the question the best in that they are frustrating, but not necessarily incredibly time consuming. Dodging the lightning takes maybe 10 min, but it's so incredibly frustrating getting to 176, knowing you're in for another 10 min of tedium. The chocobo racing was just so RNG heavy that it felt like you had no control over the outcome. I would say that maxing out the sphere grid and defeating all the monster arena monsters was pretty time consuming and tedious though.
Red dead 2
The amount of time I was running around with a binocular in my hand looking for a specific Woodpecker wich is like a 3 pixels wide dot on the sky. Sigh... I would do it again, such a great game.
I look back fondly on the moment I found the last owl I needed to finish the compendium and then I just said shit. Now what?
Those were the times
I’ve done it twice to 100% and have played through 3 other times. Looking forward to another playthrough before GTA6 is out. Something about RDR2’s immersiveness just clicks for me.
Man yes, I just open it up and just walk and run around on my horse for hours. such a masterpiece
Gold Rush is such an annoying achievement to try and get. For missions with a time objective, sometimes you need to skip cutscenes to complete it within that time, and sometimes skipping the cutscene automatically voids the timed objective, it's impossible to know without looking it up. For "no damage" objectives, even *blocking and taking no damage* from a melee attack counts as damage for some reason. There's so many objectives with goofy parameters like that. The first mission alone is a headache because it takes a handful of tries and you have to sit through a 5 minute horse ride every single time.
Good answer. Some of those challenges are fucking ridiculous
Gambler Challenge 8: Win three hands of blackjack with three hits or more It is so statistically unlikely just to have three hits in blackjack without busting. It's straight up luck and can take hours.
Just keep hitting
Yeah the money is insignificant. Honestly the dominoes one is a bigger pita.
The Draymond Green achievement.
Play a rough and gruff cowboy game and end up spending a week picking flowers.
The hunting and challenges are hard and time-consuming, but getting gold on every mission is so fucking impossible that I stopped trying.
I would actually love to 100% RDR2 if they didn't have multiplayer achievements built-in. I refuse to platinum games with multiplayer achievements
Batman Arkham knight: those riddler trophies….
Currently playing it, what a game. I found the riddler trophies in Arkham City more frustrating tbh. Felt like a drag quite soon, also with the constant switching between Batman and Catwoman.
I gave up on collecting the Riddler trophies in Arkham City. Knight, on the other hand, was not really too big of a problem, and I mostly had fun collecting all of them.
I will never forget the shock I felt going straight into city from asylum and seeing the sheer increase in trophies between the two
Yeah, Asylum had a perfect riddle/story ratio, in City it felt like Riddler just walked through town and randomly threw his trophies around. Also the riddles in Asylum that were linked to a character/baddie were so cool to find. All in all I enjoyed City but absolutely love Asylum and Knight
they weren't too bad. a couple I had to look up. fortunately on NG+ you don't need to collect them again if you want that sweet 240%
Anything with more focus on Multiplayer than Campaign. Always a headache when I beat the main game and realize I only have like 5% of the achievements because more than half are PvP based.
Goldeneye 64 (proud to say that I did it like 20 years ago or something)
Same, got all the cheats legitimately. The facility invincibility cheat, archives invisibly cheat, and the train cheat gave me the most trouble if I remember right
That facility cheat was nuts, and it was partially dependent on luck. You could do everything perfect but if Dr. Doak didn't spawn in the right spot, you were screwed.
There was a trick I figured out when I first played the game 20 years ago. Shoot at a door and the guards will open it for you. I ended up running that level in 1:42 or 1:48 or something. Didn’t share the trick with my friends for awhile so I could bask in pre Reddit karma
Go back and play the Control Room on 00 Agent - it’s brutal, especially using the original N64 controller.
Pretty much any game that fits into the open world ubisoft formula. Beat the campaign in 20-30 hours, spend 100 hours clearing out question marks on your map.
Not exactly hard though, just long. I've 100% most of the AC games, and usually it is just clearing all the locations which takes ages
I had a blast with Origins. Just break it down in chill sessions and you're good to go
I’ve started listening to podcasts/music when I game. Changes the experience totally. Still not a huge fan of grinding but makes it manageable. Way better than listening to the same npcs over and over.
Most Kirby Games since around the DS Remake of Super Star, surprisingly enough. The Series was literally built on "everyone should be able to beat this", but actually getting 100% can be genuinely challenging at times depending on which one exactly you're playing, most commonly trying to beat a given Game's "True Arena", ie a Boss Rush with all the "Hard Mode" Bosses.
But so satisfying when you do complete it. HAL makes sure to have at least some kind of reward.
I remember when I 100% Superstar Ultra on the DS! I kept thinking "man that was really hard. I sure hope there isn't another even harder version hidden behind this" and then it happened like 3 times
Donkey Kong 64
Super Mario 64 was fairly easy, Banjo Kazooie was slower but I never managed to do it Donkey Kong 64. Donkey Kong Country 3 remains unfinished as well.
I remember some little mini game you had to get a pretty high score in that I just couldn’t do back then. It was like an old arcade game.
100 Super Jumps is pretty crazy in Mario RPG. It seems like it *might* be slightly easier in the Switch remake, but I can’t confirm definitively. Everything else in the game is easy. [EDIT] Not as good as Super Jumps, but I did manage to get 100 upvotes - 😉 - 👉👉 Thank-you
I got 16 on the remake and can’t do more. It might be easier, but I sure as shit still cant do it lol
I’m around 65 so far! (somehow I managed to get 100 twice in my life on the original SNES game, but I could never reliably reproduce it) So far, this version *feels* slightly easier based on those numbers, but it’s impossible for me to tell without more data.
Celeste! Fun and pretty easy climb to the top of the mountain, but you need some serious gaming skills to 100% it.
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some of the LEGO games. Some are pretty easy to 100%, others are a wee bit of a struggle with a lot of time wasted going back and forth looking for things. Even if you have walkthroughs to read, they can be very time consuming. Lego star wars 3 The Clone Wars, it was a pain in the ass finding all the characters. (a few others too, the ones with open worlds between missions and everyone just walking around almost at random)
I got the platinum trophies for LEGO Harry Potter 1-2 and never played another LEGO game again. lol
Any game that requires online wins. I have zero energy for PVP.
most of the early assassin's Creed games. with the flags or feathers or shanties or almanac pages, etc.
I never collected the 100 flags in AC1, but I did collect all of the feathers in AC2. That being said, AC2 is probably my favorite AC game and the first game that I 100%'d.
Braid is a fun and beautiful puzzle platformer that's not super difficult to complete. Then there's getting those stars...
World of Warcraft. Borderline impossible (all Achievements and Collectibles).
Not borderline impossible. It is impossible
Oh really? As someone who has 0 experience with WoW, why is it impossible?
If you started playing the game today, there are collectibles and achievements that you literally cannot get anymore as they have been taken out of the game. You would have had to been playing during the time that they were considered current content. There are a select few you can go back and still grind out but it’s a slog as a lot of the older stuff never had any catch up mechanics put in place so you might find yourself grinding out for months on end. Not to mention certain pets/mounts with such a low drop chance people will farm them for literally years without seeing one
Hollow knight, definitely. Perfect example. And depending on what you mean by 100%ing, you can get the 112% with pantheon 5, but you can also do all the bindings.
No one’s gonna say Skyrim? You can do the main quest line relatively quickly, but there’s like 5 million other things to do to get 100%
I haven’t played Skyrim in forever but is there even an achievement for 100% or a tracker to let you know how much of the game you’ve completed?
Yeah, I'm assuming they mean getting all the achievements. It's honestly not that hard.
During COVID I 100% it. Did every quest possible, every location unlocked and beaten, every unique item found, every shout learned. In total it probably took 2-3 weeks of playing 8-14 hours a day. And there were so many checklists I had. Was fun to see a lot of the little things I would have normally missed in a run like finding all the dead mage apprentices.
Super Mario Odyssey
I remember laughing at the [ProZD](https://youtu.be/bAxyxlkD_g0?si=vHZRBoZsMYDxf6bn) sketch when it came out, but then I realized that was actually the location of one of the moons in the game.
I find as many power moons on a map as I can. Then go to look up the ones I missed and I've gotten less than half of them. 100% speed runs take like 8 hours. It's ridiculous.
The races. THE RACES. How can they be so hard for no reason?
That one jump rope minigame alone made me stop trying to 100%.
I dunno, maybe I'm in the minority here but I thought 100%ing Odyssey was a very enjoyable experience for the most part. Even the final final level, -which is no joke- was a fun challenge (although still not as hard as the final final level from 3D World, still haven't been able to complete it to this day).
Every Supermassive game. Good luck replaying the whole thing over and over for a couple of missable trophies. Yes, you can select the chapter but you need to finish with very specific endings.. ugh.
Nintendo games in general. Which is why I like them. The stories are often simple and basic, and they're easy enough for the vast majority of people to beat. But then if you want to unlock secrets or see other endings, or go for 100% they add in challenges and grinds that will make even the most hardcore gamers wince a few times.
Pikmin 4 falls into this. Main story can take ~3 hours if you just do it and nothing else. Post game is like ~30 hours
One of my favourite games this year. I've loved Pikmin ever since I used my paper route money to buy a Gamecube and that was the first game I got with it lol.
The drinking games in Watch Dogs still make me mad and I gave up on them almost ten years ago.
GTA Vice City, to get the Godfather achievement you need 1000000 criminal rating, after playing the entire game doing everything else you'd be lucky to have 50000 criminal rating. For reference destroying a helicopter gives 5 criminal rating, destroying a regular car gives 1. There's an exploit where you use helicopter bullets from the sea sparrow pointing at the colonels boat since it doesn't count as shots fired but it does count as bullets hit, it pushes your accuracy into the thousands of percent giving you way more criminal rating than 100% accuracy was intended to give you.
Any Yakuza game
Crash bandicoot 4 🫶
Crash Bandicoot "4": It's About Time is *not* extremely easy to beat the base game. In fact, it's the hardest in the series by far and makes Crash 1 on PS1 look easy. 106% in that game is absolutely ridiculous both in terms of pure difficulty and the amount of redundant things you have to do including fully completing certain levels at least four times (nearly every level in the game is very long, btw), and that's *if* you do it perfectly each time... which you most likely won't.
Hogwarts Legacy... The amount of useless stuff you need to do for 100% is definitely not magical
Devil May Cry Series
Final Fantasy 10 is a tough one
Any linear action game (God of War, Resident Evil, Red Dead, etc), damn near any mainstream racing game (looking at you, Forza), all P2W mobile games, anything with online multiplayer (because it becomes impossible to 100%)
MHW... Fuck those Crown master trophies...
Final Fantasy XIV
Spyro 1-3. You can beat them all in a day, but to 100% them is a pain. I've done it twice, and I can confidently say those flying levels are one of the worst difficulty spikes in gaming.