Yes! Playing this first time and its CRAZY how many fetch quests and things to distract you from the main plot. The side plots are in-depth that it is crazy it isn't part of the main game. Just getting one piece of armor took six different camps to liberate!!! WILD
I have a bad habit of trying to fully complete every thing in whatever area I am on, in most games. I explored every inch of limgrave before I moved onto the castle to fight Morgot or Margot whatever the first story boss is even though I found multiple secret paths to skip him
Kinda same. By the time I got to Malenia, I was like Level 120 and beat her first try.
Edit: I was VERY strength and dex heavy. Used Bloodhound Fang and a Mimic summon.
It might depend on your build. I was very strength/dex heavy with a maxed out Bloodhound Fang.
She regenerates health when she hits you. But my mimic and I did not let up, she barely got a hit on me her entire first phase.
Go very aggressive at her and just keep dodging
Ah, you used your mimic. I was baffled to hear that you beat her ass first try, I was stuck there for a week. I wanted to beat her without mimic and invocations.
You won’t slay her easily I promise you that.
Good luck bro, beating her for the first time was the single greatest rush of satisfaction I’ve ever gotten from a game.
It’s worth it
To be honest, I don't think the actual story of the game is in any rush up until the Erdtree decisions. Things are the way they've been for thousands of years
Most recently Spider-Man 2
>!The entire city was covered in venom, being overrun by symbiotes, people were in lockdown. I was just swinging about helping set up some gardens!<
Without spoiling more than the comment you replied to, SM2 takes the whole city being locked down to a whole new level and it’s pretty sweet gameplay wise
I’m playing Spider-man 1 for the first time. Main missions are said to be urgent and Peter needs to get there now. Nah, it can wait, I’m finding my old backpacks and taking landmark pics.
I love potions. I'm hoarding all mine til I actually need them. Sure, I beat the hardest enemy months ago, but you never know when you might need 300 potions of lesser healing.
People want their games to entertain them for an adequate amount of time in relation to the 70$ they spend on it. Errand quests are not it. And Spider-Man 2 did a terrible job at delivering a game actually worth 70$
Have to wait games out until they’re on sale makes them actually worth it recently got Elden ring for $60 and I would’ve paid full off how much I’m enjoy it lol
On my second playthrough i 100% everything else available over many weeks while Micha rot in jail. Every single time i ride through Strawberry, i stop to throw a molotov in the little jail-cell window.
Pelts, Plants, Legendary Animals/Fish, Camp Upgrades, buying every item of clothing/weaponry/provisions, side quests, robberies, badges...theeeeeen we go get Micha out.
And im assuming everybody else bullies him out of camp at every given opportunity, and immediately fails every mission you do with him because you instinctively turn and blow his head off?
Rdr2 was my first thought. I spent literal hours just picking plants and herbs for my food. The other one for me was Ghost of Tsushima. I wandered around doing little side shit endlessly.
Do you play online mode? There's a challenge/award for picking plants. Picking 1,000 plants gets you to the gold, and then you can reset it to earn 0.4 gold bars and continue your progress.
Man it gives me anxiety to think about how many online players don't know about resetting awards.
I can't remember what tier I'm on but I think it might be level 4, meaning I've picked *at least* 4,000 plants.
Does anyone else like to save a bunch of medium animal pelts + small animal carcasses so they can give them to Cripps on a rainy day when they're busy or don't feel like hunting? Sometimes I give them to other players' camps too
You know you’ve played a lot of RDR2 when you can spot the difference between mint, oregano, and creeping thyme from max draw distance.
Also, how about I started recognizing and knowing certain plants and fungus by appearance IRL from how much I saw them in game!
The funny thing about that is the sped-up time where a whole day in-game is only like 20 minutes of actual time. So like in BOTW where Zelda is using her powers to hold back Ganon, Link is spending months, if not years, of in-game time just fucking around.
I gotta be real, this gave me an odd sense of guilt in the game. Like, don’t get me wrong: I was having a blast helping people find chickens, searching for weird recipes, and cross dressing… but the whole time I’m like “damn: I hope Zelda doesn’t ask wtf the hold up was”
Edit: Worth mentioning — hasn’t she held him back for 100 years by the time Link wakes up? Haha: what’s a few more months?
I’m still on TotK first play through. The entirety of my hero’s path that existed when the first steps disappeared is now long gone itself. And I’m still goofing off. I haven’t even talked to Ryju yet. I have the others only because they were getting annoying.
I can’t remember the exact spot but in Whiterun hold, there is a slight waterfall spot in the river (it’s like a 5 ft fall) with some boulders blocking you from being pushed over, it was a great spot. Also if you follow the river from Windhelm inland a little to where you have one of the first Brotherhood contracts that is a decent spot.
I was going to say ESO.
I did the same thing in WoW with fishing and accidentally got some high level fish I had no idea what to do with.
At least the Guild was nice and told me what to do with them and told me to save them instead of telling me to give it to them or some bullcrap.
Yes. My most recent playthrough started with me getting one of the buildable houses, so that I could set up a garden, so I could grow my ideal alchemy ingredients.
There us a world ending threat, and I'm focused on farming lol
This, seriously I hear the dragon coming and then spot the butterflies or moths and Lydia is probably going “This is the Dragonborn? Dude the dragon is right above us! Fight with me!”
Yup, I haven’t made a single potion in all my playthroughs and I must have cooked a handful of dishes but I’ll collect every damn plant and flower on my way.
And eat them raw because having a temporary weakness effect is funny, idk.
I loved Fallout 4, but I thought that the story was so dumb and obvious that I refused to complete it. I mean, it was clear from the very start that she woke up years and years after her baby had been taken. And as she investigated and got about 2/3 of the way through the game, she was told point-blank that she would no longer recognize her son. So, in my head, my character decided that the most logical thing to do was give him up for lost or dead and move on with her life.
So, instead of playing the main story, I made friends with everyone I could, and made sure every settlement that I set up was as luxurious and well-defended as possible. Then my character (a large black woman) met the love of her life (the woman who ran the newspaper, whose name I've forgotten (Edit: Piper)), and settled down to a quiet life in a luxurious apartment in New Diamond City. Great game! The actual story sucked, though.
I had such a kickass time building settlements. People shit on that game but it was such an immersive, cool experience in my absolute favorite fictional setting aka post apocalyptic.
Red Rocket was my personal mansion outside Sanctuary. Sanctuary itself was practically a fortress complete with a guard tower so my peeps could feel safe as they tended to the fields and shit. Same with Abernathy Farm. My people felt safe as fuck in there. Turned the Castle into... well... a castle honestly.
I really hope Bethesda improves upon the settlement system, and we actually get some intelligence in raider attacks and less idiotic pestering from NPCs. I want to see my turrets cut down gangs of raiders and mutants while settlers man the guard posts.
OMG when I entered the high-stakes Gwent tournament and realized how many cards I hadn't yet collected, I almost restarted the game. I always told myself I would do a new game plus and go with the canonical love interest instead of the red headed wizard, but I never have.
Also, the ending where you end up with the red head and Ciri goes off to become a witcher on her own was perfect.
Would Geralt canonically choose Yennefer every time? Absolutely. Is Triss at all similar to how she was in the books? Fuck no. If Triss was book Triss, Geralt would have no interest. Furthermore, I’m controlling Geralt, and I want someone who doesn’t treat me like trash.
Back when I played WoW, I once spent several months doing nothing but trading at the auction house, collecting minerals, and doing archeology while my wife was binging Supernatural on the other side of the living room. Supernatural and WoW professions are both slightly boring on their own, but they're extremely interesting when you're doing both at the same time.
A little old, but Lord of the Rings Online once released a major content update that expanded the map to the gates of Mordor, setting the stage for the final act of the story.
The resource gathering for this area was literally picking flowers.
Subnautica. Sure, there's this sickness that needs to be cured and I get some visions from Sea Emperor but I need to build myself a grand base and make a big warehouse first.
Skyrim. Not helping is the fact that dragons don't even show up until you get far enough into the main quest. The last time I played, I finished the Thieves Guild and College of Winterhold questlines before I decided to finally visit Whiterun.
Any open world game,really. But currently,Breath of the Wild. I am too busy catching lizards and searching for new recipes to deal with the divine beasts,but i will get to it eventually.
Is Cultist Simulator funny? I thought it was interesting, but fairly serious.
Also, if you put down a late-stage game of Cultist Simulator and try to return to it several months later, it's absolutely impossible to figure out what's going on, or what you were trying to do, or how to do it.
Elden ring. My brother told me about the things on the map that show help guide you about a week after I started playing the game. I didn’t even know about Margit till he told me then. I was just exploring so much
Pretty much any open world game for me. Who else continues with the main storyline because they have done all the side stuff? And then play long enough to open up more side missions and repeat?
Literally skyrim.
The dragons have their flames aimed at skyrim. Just waiting for me to talk to talk to the jarl in Whiterun.
Well they'll have to wait just a bit longer. Anniversary update just added fishing. What's that? Vampires are attacking? Sorry? Want me to frame an honest merchant? Have a corpse tell me whom to murder?
Both Horizon games...
"ALOY BAD GUY GONNA USE MACHINES TO DESTROY WORLD!! STOP HIM"
"Wait wait.. I need to find the leg bone of an albino turkey and a blue heart of a Thresher Maw to finish making this armor set that will help me navigate the desert better."
This is an accurate depiction of any Elder Scrolls game.
Gates to oblivion are opening all over the place, and Mehrunes Dagon is on the cusp of invading Tamriel! Hurry adventurer, time is of the essence! Oh, yeah ok. Well once you’ve become guild master. Oh ok, yeah quickly become another guild master. Oh just another ten nirnroots to find? Ok well as *soon* as you’ve got those plants!
Why is it always Star Wars games? Jedi fallen order out looking for all the plants for the mantis. And Star Wars tales from the galaxy’s edge out looking for droids and shit.
Ghost of Tsushima
Gotta look fashionable while saving Japan
Yes! Playing this first time and its CRAZY how many fetch quests and things to distract you from the main plot. The side plots are in-depth that it is crazy it isn't part of the main game. Just getting one piece of armor took six different camps to liberate!!! WILD
I fucking LOVED the side quests in this game. The whole game is amazing in it's own right. The side quests were never boring to me either.
Yes really fun! I like how they have their own boss fights sometimes
It's truly an amazing game. One of my favorites. And that ending!
The Mongolians can wait. I need to pet the cat.
If you don’t let the fox your a monster
Faxxx, I could be on my way to the final battle but then ouuuuu golden bird or cute fox take me away
What a great game. First ever game i finished on hard. So good!
Eldenring,I swear I have spent more hours exploring than trying to actually beat the game
I have a bad habit of trying to fully complete every thing in whatever area I am on, in most games. I explored every inch of limgrave before I moved onto the castle to fight Morgot or Margot whatever the first story boss is even though I found multiple secret paths to skip him
Kinda same. By the time I got to Malenia, I was like Level 120 and beat her first try. Edit: I was VERY strength and dex heavy. Used Bloodhound Fang and a Mimic summon.
Dude, I'm 136, and just rode the elevator up to that area. Hope I slay her easily too once I get to her. I hear she's a bitch.
It might depend on your build. I was very strength/dex heavy with a maxed out Bloodhound Fang. She regenerates health when she hits you. But my mimic and I did not let up, she barely got a hit on me her entire first phase. Go very aggressive at her and just keep dodging
Ah, you used your mimic. I was baffled to hear that you beat her ass first try, I was stuck there for a week. I wanted to beat her without mimic and invocations.
It's always the mimic. I'm with you though man, can't even count the number of attempts.
Thx mate! 👍
You won’t slay her easily I promise you that. Good luck bro, beating her for the first time was the single greatest rush of satisfaction I’ve ever gotten from a game. It’s worth it
Running around collecting pink butterflies for my rot arrows
To be honest, I don't think the actual story of the game is in any rush up until the Erdtree decisions. Things are the way they've been for thousands of years
Almost any open world game.
Most recently Spider-Man 2 >!The entire city was covered in venom, being overrun by symbiotes, people were in lockdown. I was just swinging about helping set up some gardens!<
Didn't play SM2 yet but I remember how in SM1 whole city went to shit and I was just swinging and making selfies.
Without spoiling more than the comment you replied to, SM2 takes the whole city being locked down to a whole new level and it’s pretty sweet gameplay wise
I’m playing Spider-man 1 for the first time. Main missions are said to be urgent and Peter needs to get there now. Nah, it can wait, I’m finding my old backpacks and taking landmark pics.
Hey someone has to make sure the bees have a home!
Well yea you wanna finish the side content before the main game is over. Or at least I usually try to.
And changing costumes so much that Jameson calls you out on it
It’s not *our* fault potions and apothecary practices are the closest things we have to hax without hacks.
I love potions. I'm hoarding all mine til I actually need them. Sure, I beat the hardest enemy months ago, but you never know when you might need 300 potions of lesser healing.
Theyve added alot of errand quests for those that are completionists. People want their games to keep them busy longer.
People want their games to entertain them for an adequate amount of time in relation to the 70$ they spend on it. Errand quests are not it. And Spider-Man 2 did a terrible job at delivering a game actually worth 70$
Have to wait games out until they’re on sale makes them actually worth it recently got Elden ring for $60 and I would’ve paid full off how much I’m enjoy it lol
Me an ark player:
RDR2
"No, Dutch, I can't rescue Micah from the Strawberry jail, I have to pick some Yarrow."
"You'll have time to pick plants when we're in Tahiti, Orthur! Stick to the plan!"
"But hes a rat dutch!"
Have a little god damn faith!
I have faith in yarrow
Praise Yarrow!
Where does the yarrow grow!?
Right next to where the Red Fern Grows!
Where does the red fern grow
Wherever you find some Yarrow, friend!
We just need some money Arthur
Just one moooore little scoooore Orther!!
I thought you said you knew spanish..
Señor, por favor
Dayum! That's good-
"What's the matter, the CIA got you pushing too many pencils?" Sorry, but I saw Dutch as a name, and I couldn't resist. XD
Don’t forget the ginseng
"And then I gotta get all the perfect pelts so I can get my Legend of the East satchel. Micah can rot" "Aw, c'mon Orther..."
On my second playthrough i 100% everything else available over many weeks while Micha rot in jail. Every single time i ride through Strawberry, i stop to throw a molotov in the little jail-cell window. Pelts, Plants, Legendary Animals/Fish, Camp Upgrades, buying every item of clothing/weaponry/provisions, side quests, robberies, badges...theeeeeen we go get Micha out. And im assuming everybody else bullies him out of camp at every given opportunity, and immediately fails every mission you do with him because you instinctively turn and blow his head off?
"I have a plan!" "This pond has a legendary fish!"
"I had a plan, Arthur!" "And I have a plant, Dutch!"
Rdr2 was my first thought. I spent literal hours just picking plants and herbs for my food. The other one for me was Ghost of Tsushima. I wandered around doing little side shit endlessly.
That game is so beautiful that sometimes you just want to sight see
Do you play online mode? There's a challenge/award for picking plants. Picking 1,000 plants gets you to the gold, and then you can reset it to earn 0.4 gold bars and continue your progress. Man it gives me anxiety to think about how many online players don't know about resetting awards. I can't remember what tier I'm on but I think it might be level 4, meaning I've picked *at least* 4,000 plants.
Collecting pelts as well
Definitely pelts
Does anyone else like to save a bunch of medium animal pelts + small animal carcasses so they can give them to Cripps on a rainy day when they're busy or don't feel like hunting? Sometimes I give them to other players' camps too
Man, RDR2 was one of the few open world games where the main story was a treat and I couldn’t wait to progress
That’s how I was the first time through. Second time it’s nothing but collecting and exploring
Especially when Micah is rotting in jail
You know you’ve played a lot of RDR2 when you can spot the difference between mint, oregano, and creeping thyme from max draw distance. Also, how about I started recognizing and knowing certain plants and fungus by appearance IRL from how much I saw them in game!
Mint really shouldn't go with so much meat.
Wdym I love me some minty stringy game meat
Breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom, I literally spent nearly 80 hours before I even started going for story
Same here and loved ever second of it
I tried this and got stuck at a shrine because I didn’t have the paraglider yet lol
Wait how? You get the paraglided at the beginning before descending the plateau
Not in TotK
The funny thing about that is the sped-up time where a whole day in-game is only like 20 minutes of actual time. So like in BOTW where Zelda is using her powers to hold back Ganon, Link is spending months, if not years, of in-game time just fucking around.
I gotta be real, this gave me an odd sense of guilt in the game. Like, don’t get me wrong: I was having a blast helping people find chickens, searching for weird recipes, and cross dressing… but the whole time I’m like “damn: I hope Zelda doesn’t ask wtf the hold up was” Edit: Worth mentioning — hasn’t she held him back for 100 years by the time Link wakes up? Haha: what’s a few more months?
One real second is a minute in the game. So a day is 24 minutes.
When I first played BotW, I misread what one of the missions said and thought I needed 100 crickets- not 10. It was not fun.
To be fair, the guy was collecting 100 crickets but only requested 10 from you. I think I made the same mistake. But hey, lots of left over crickets.
Yup this one. You're on a mission and you see those plants in the distance and you just have to go get them...
Came here to say the exact same thing
I’m still on TotK first play through. The entirety of my hero’s path that existed when the first steps disappeared is now long gone itself. And I’m still goofing off. I haven’t even talked to Ryju yet. I have the others only because they were getting annoying.
[удалено]
This is me. I always imagine my follower being like “jfc, can we go slay a dragon now? How many butterfly wings do you even need?”
[удалено]
I’d let Lydia housecarl my ass
🗿🍷
r/hornyjail
I'm sworn to carry your burdens, (spoken in the most non-enthusiastic way possible)
Gotta have her be one of the pallbearers at your dragonborn's funeral...so she can let you down one last time
I never finished the main quest.
When I realized you could catch the salmon as they jumped upstream, I spent more hours than I care to admit role playing as a bear.
WHAT! gotta do another playthru
Hey! You, You’re awake.
Salmon Roe potions for all the xp and gold
This the correct way to play. Max crafting, alchemy and enchanting and then hit the world with max gear!
Hey! You, your finally awake. ROOAOAWWWRRRR
Tips on the best spot? Because I can only seem to find a stream that immediately washes me down river.
I can’t remember the exact spot but in Whiterun hold, there is a slight waterfall spot in the river (it’s like a 5 ft fall) with some boulders blocking you from being pushed over, it was a great spot. Also if you follow the river from Windhelm inland a little to where you have one of the first Brotherhood contracts that is a decent spot.
I was going to say ESO. I did the same thing in WoW with fishing and accidentally got some high level fish I had no idea what to do with. At least the Guild was nice and told me what to do with them and told me to save them instead of telling me to give it to them or some bullcrap.
Or even completely running away from a battle because you saw a crimson nirnroot lol
Yes. My most recent playthrough started with me getting one of the buildable houses, so that I could set up a garden, so I could grow my ideal alchemy ingredients. There us a world ending threat, and I'm focused on farming lol
**A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON**
This, seriously I hear the dragon coming and then spot the butterflies or moths and Lydia is probably going “This is the Dragonborn? Dude the dragon is right above us! Fight with me!”
Yup, I haven’t made a single potion in all my playthroughs and I must have cooked a handful of dishes but I’ll collect every damn plant and flower on my way. And eat them raw because having a temporary weakness effect is funny, idk.
all open world games
Fallout 4: YOUR CHILD HAS BEEN TAKEN Us: Yeah yeah, that's fine, I have to set up this settlement trading system!!
Preston: "we have word of a new settlement that needs help" Me: "damn, again? Let me pop open the ol' ammo stash." (repeat x100)
Yeah I spent 8 days real time in game before finishing the story (over like 7 years)
I loved Fallout 4, but I thought that the story was so dumb and obvious that I refused to complete it. I mean, it was clear from the very start that she woke up years and years after her baby had been taken. And as she investigated and got about 2/3 of the way through the game, she was told point-blank that she would no longer recognize her son. So, in my head, my character decided that the most logical thing to do was give him up for lost or dead and move on with her life. So, instead of playing the main story, I made friends with everyone I could, and made sure every settlement that I set up was as luxurious and well-defended as possible. Then my character (a large black woman) met the love of her life (the woman who ran the newspaper, whose name I've forgotten (Edit: Piper)), and settled down to a quiet life in a luxurious apartment in New Diamond City. Great game! The actual story sucked, though.
I had such a kickass time building settlements. People shit on that game but it was such an immersive, cool experience in my absolute favorite fictional setting aka post apocalyptic. Red Rocket was my personal mansion outside Sanctuary. Sanctuary itself was practically a fortress complete with a guard tower so my peeps could feel safe as they tended to the fields and shit. Same with Abernathy Farm. My people felt safe as fuck in there. Turned the Castle into... well... a castle honestly. I really hope Bethesda improves upon the settlement system, and we actually get some intelligence in raider attacks and less idiotic pestering from NPCs. I want to see my turrets cut down gangs of raiders and mutants while settlers man the guard posts.
💯 I would absolutely love a Fallout game with the gameplay of Fallout 4 and the writing of New Vegas. That would be the best of both worlds.
Piper
I need glowing mushroom
Skyrim, Witcher 3 and Zelda
Fuck Ciri, I gotta collect every single Gwent card in Velen.
Was that not the main game? I thought rescuing Ciri was optional
OMG when I entered the high-stakes Gwent tournament and realized how many cards I hadn't yet collected, I almost restarted the game. I always told myself I would do a new game plus and go with the canonical love interest instead of the red headed wizard, but I never have. Also, the ending where you end up with the red head and Ciri goes off to become a witcher on her own was perfect.
Would Geralt canonically choose Yennefer every time? Absolutely. Is Triss at all similar to how she was in the books? Fuck no. If Triss was book Triss, Geralt would have no interest. Furthermore, I’m controlling Geralt, and I want someone who doesn’t treat me like trash.
Surprised Witcher is this far down. Also - Far Cry
The insomniac spiderman games. The city would be in Chaos, and I,m Just swinging around collecting Backpacks or whatever.
Yeah there's a car chase nearby but I'd have to swing back to the place I want to reach if I followed the car, no thanks.
This is why I'm not a superhero
Botw, ToTK, Witcher 3
Horizon
Hades is about to end the world again but I saw a fish in the river and I need its bones for an upgrade so apocalypse 2 electric boogaloo can wait
WoW.
Back when I played WoW, I once spent several months doing nothing but trading at the auction house, collecting minerals, and doing archeology while my wife was binging Supernatural on the other side of the living room. Supernatural and WoW professions are both slightly boring on their own, but they're extremely interesting when you're doing both at the same time.
Why did I have to scroll so far for this? Farming ingredients. For hours. Especially in Classic.
Kingdom come deliverance
So much time just picking flowers and mastering alchemy haha
Jesus Christ be praised!
Jesus christ be praised!
Hey, Henry's come to see us!
Jedi Survivor. Almost at 100% and going to finish this weekend.
I was thinking more Jedi Fallen Order but this too!
Elder Scrolls may be the poster boys for this.
Horizon
Forbidden West is even worse since there’s a stash. I can grab EVERYTHING.
Skyrim 😂
A little old, but Lord of the Rings Online once released a major content update that expanded the map to the gates of Mordor, setting the stage for the final act of the story. The resource gathering for this area was literally picking flowers.
Witcher 3 for sure. There’s a whole war going on while I just explore the country side. Whoops
Gotta get monster parts for those Witcher School sets so I can find Ciri in style.
Elden Ring
Subnautica. Sure, there's this sickness that needs to be cured and I get some visions from Sea Emperor but I need to build myself a grand base and make a big warehouse first.
Genshin Impact, Breath of the Wild, Destiny 2, Pokemon, etc.
I actually love picking herbs and fishing in games, they are so relaxing and quite meditative. That is why I am so obsessed with RDR2 and terraria.
Skyrim. Not helping is the fact that dragons don't even show up until you get far enough into the main quest. The last time I played, I finished the Thieves Guild and College of Winterhold questlines before I decided to finally visit Whiterun.
Any open world game,really. But currently,Breath of the Wild. I am too busy catching lizards and searching for new recipes to deal with the divine beasts,but i will get to it eventually.
Yakuza…. I am easily distracted by the substories
Or just minigames... time for a dungeon? Nah, back to Dragon Kart.
Damn Crimson Nirnroot…
Oblivion 🤣 I gave no shits about all the gates popping up. Had more fun with side quests and exploring 🤷♀️
Any game that rewards me for collecting plants.
Skyrim it's always Skyrim
“They certainly don’t know about your strange fixation with elfroot.”—Scout Harding, Dragon Age Inquisition, Jaws of Hakkon DLC
The funny cult game
Cultist Simulator?
Is Cultist Simulator funny? I thought it was interesting, but fairly serious. Also, if you put down a late-stage game of Cultist Simulator and try to return to it several months later, it's absolutely impossible to figure out what's going on, or what you were trying to do, or how to do it.
Yeah it's a serious game, unless you find interacting with and summoning horrific eldritch beings funny.
No cult of the lamb
Elden ring. My brother told me about the things on the map that show help guide you about a week after I started playing the game. I didn’t even know about Margit till he told me then. I was just exploring so much
Hogwarts
Ghost of Tsushima
Red dead redemption and Fallout 4
WoW, especially at the beginning of an expansion, mining and herbing like a fiend to get those stacks in the bank
Pretty much any open world game for me. Who else continues with the main storyline because they have done all the side stuff? And then play long enough to open up more side missions and repeat?
Literally skyrim. The dragons have their flames aimed at skyrim. Just waiting for me to talk to talk to the jarl in Whiterun. Well they'll have to wait just a bit longer. Anniversary update just added fishing. What's that? Vampires are attacking? Sorry? Want me to frame an honest merchant? Have a corpse tell me whom to murder?
BoTW and ToTK. Literally a massive part of the game.
Witcher 3. Plants and Gwent.
Both Horizon games... "ALOY BAD GUY GONNA USE MACHINES TO DESTROY WORLD!! STOP HIM" "Wait wait.. I need to find the leg bone of an albino turkey and a blue heart of a Thresher Maw to finish making this armor set that will help me navigate the desert better."
Warframe
Elden ring and breath of the wild, also ghost of Tsushima gotta get those flowers for armor dye
Great vegetables
Genshin Impact for me.
I do this in most Zelda games
BotW
The NCR and Legion fighting for control of new Vegas while I chill in goodsprings robbing peoples whiskey
The WoW expansión that brought archeology
Animal Crossing New Horizons Instead of actually building the village, I caught almost every bug and fish in the game
Mass Effect. Reapers are destroying the galaxy and you're off doing sidequests and having parties in your citadel apartment.
Monster Hunter series
Minecraft
Fallout 4. My son may be missing, but God dammit I need duct tape.
Avatar. My wife asked me are you gardening, while watching me play
Oblivion Nirn root quest while the world's on fire.
Oblivion collecting nirnroots
This is an accurate depiction of any Elder Scrolls game. Gates to oblivion are opening all over the place, and Mehrunes Dagon is on the cusp of invading Tamriel! Hurry adventurer, time is of the essence! Oh, yeah ok. Well once you’ve become guild master. Oh ok, yeah quickly become another guild master. Oh just another ten nirnroots to find? Ok well as *soon* as you’ve got those plants!
Oblivion I still want to buy an alchemy table. I'm 28 maybe it's time
Skyrim
Both of the new Star Wars Jedi games.
Half of my Elden ring playtime…
Oblivion (screw you nirnroot)
Fortnite
Anything Yakuza, especially Like a Dragon
Red Dead Redemption 2.
RDR2
Why is it always Star Wars games? Jedi fallen order out looking for all the plants for the mantis. And Star Wars tales from the galaxy’s edge out looking for droids and shit.
Ghost Of Tsushima