What Pointless Thing Do You ALWAYS Do In A Video Game?
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- We gamers always get up to dumb stuff when we boot up any game. What pointlessly weird stuff do you get up to? #ChattyFaces.
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Repeatedly talking to the same NPC to figure out how many voice lines they have
I do that in Warframe sometimes XD
I relate to this
Absolutely
Same!
I'm with Jules on not trusting autosave
We all never trust it fully
I save in two extra slots just in case.
Infinite death loop
It seems to save right when you are in a bad situation.
So relieved to see that I am not the only one who does this. I began to do manual save after autosave in every game after my autosave got caught in death loop in one of the early Tomb Raider games.
Manually saving then 2 seconds later thinking "Did it save... I'll save again just to be sure"
This! Especially when you are about to log off and you know it autosaves when you quit but you still manually save, save again to be sure and still have that anxious feeling.
Sounds like me locking my door 🤣
100% me, If I save then look away to read something online, "Wait...did I save or just pause..." *saves again*
Me when locking house door
I save 3 times in a row in most pokemon games just to be sure sometime 6 times if I just got a shiny cause better safe then sorry
I need to do EVERY SINGLE SIDEQUEST. The world can be exploding but if a random rabbit needs a carrot i WILL get that carrot
I dont care if a giant demon riding a dragon from beyond time to steal everyones souls. This random peasant wants me to pick up a scroll from a sunken chest that has his grandmothers cookie recipe and he is paying with a tomato
He will get that chest
I don't actually find this pointless. That's how you platinum a game
@@lawrenceporter6301 what about before there were trophies and achievements
yeah and also some sidequests lead to the real ending especially if there is a game with multiple endings.
I always look down to see if I have legs in any FPS game 😂
It's not just me? Thank fek for that! 😁
Dan Fitzpatrick haha same here dude
Just saddens me when I realise my character is basically slimmer from ghost busters with a gun just floating around 😩😂
Dan Fitzpatrick first game I played that had legs for your character was halo 3, and I've checked every FPS ever since haha
Good thing im not the only one lol
Turns on subtitles so I don't miss anything important but also skips past dialogue when it gets boring.
Ariel Gonzalez spot on
Samesies!
Same
I turn on subtitles when I watch movies and tv as well.
Same here
Manual save is hardwired into you after the video games of our childhood traumatized you when the system crashed, parents/ siblings turn off the game an all your progress from the last 2 hours is now all lost.... The horror oh the horror
2 hours? Laughable. Try having your Nintendo turned off after three days of working thru some truly awful game by a spiteful sibling.
Or when there's a power outage. Those just made think of the last time u saved
When your ps1 memory card was misplaced but you NEED to play that 30 hour game with perma-death... but die 29 hours in.
Accidentally kicking your N64... Those were the nightmares I had as a kid
Try failing miserably all your childhood trying to finish Sonic 2 then finally once you become a man revisit the virtual bully of your childhood memory and making it all the way to the final stage and having your (then) one year old niece come by and kick the Genesis and freezing the game which spirals you into a fit of rage which you can't release on such a youngling so you sit there and shed one single tear and vow never to touch the game ever again...
Kills room full of bad guys reloads. Kills one bad guy reloads. Accidentally shoots once... reloads.
And on and on and on and on it goes... I know exactly what you mean
@Nub93 Escape from Tarkorov. i think thats the game you were talking about right?
Used to be the same until I tried the Tediore Axton build in Borderlands 2. That taught me to not reload before 50% of the magazine was gone. Unless I had a target I could throw my gun at of course.
"It's super necessary"
Could mean life or death. Has to be done.
Before I quit a game, I need to make sure that my character can find a place to sleep. So that he or she can relax until I get back to him or her.
Replaying a game for the billionth time and still making the exact same decisions as you did the last billion times you played the game
life is strange
With Witcher 3!
I always end up choosing a Khajiit as my character in Skyrim...
Did this with mass effect
Talk to the same npcs in a town each time I enter even if they don't say anything new.
In Skyrim, there are some caves with lighting coming from holes in the ceiling, but those are false holes. I still try to find where those holes would be above ground and expose Bethesda's lies.
I always keep the first weapon that I get in RPGs for sentimental value even if it takes up inventory space.
Rene Guerrero I keep the BB gun your dad gives you on Fallout 3 even though its crap
I always organize my inventory depending on the game- much easier to find what you need in the heat of battle when every thing is organized... Also, Rach seems to use the Luke Westaway Hoarding System of not using something in combat because you might need it more later.
I am also use that system and I also love Oxtra and Oxbox
Thats what he wants you to think, he really doesnt use it in battle so he can later throw it into the nearest body of water
...the nearest 'medium sized' body of water.
Walk in fire to see if it'll hurt me or not
Chatty faces is my favorite thing about WCGaming
I always manual save because I have a history of my game auto saving at times when death is unavoidable. I can't remember which game it was but I remember being aboit 30 hrs in relying on only auto and then the game saving while I was falling from a cliff. I had to start the whole game over.
Same
Even if I fired only one round, I HAVE to reload before moving forward.
That's just good life advice
Bloodborne and Dark Souls taught me that I will forego the statistically best armor or most optimal of weapon loadouts just so that I can look really good or really silly in my adventures.
Just Some Random Guy my little brother and I made really meesed up funny characters and doing a bows on play through in souls 3
Just Some Random Guy yasssss Fashion Souls for LIFE!!!
Rapidly pressing "x" to make the loading screen go faster.
Sees dog*
Approaches*
speak*
"Woof!"
every...damn...time
well never know if the dog will speak or something better to check same with any animal really
In the RPG "Divinity: Original Sin" you could interact with the animals and they'd make normal animal sounds, but if you had a trait called something like "Animal Friend" you could talk to the animals and they'd tell you secrets or help you solve quests.
Grab every valuable item and consumables in any RPG and never use any of them
I had like 10 different storage things in my house in skyrim. I used Hjerim in Windhelm and took the time to transfer my stuff from whiterun. The cupboard in the secret room had all my alchemy ingredients, insane amounts. I would drop my soul gems from inventory and arrange them on the shelves in the secret room. I dumped all my gems into a weapons display case. There was so many the game would lag when I'd add new ones. Jewelry went into a bedside table. Just on and on. The amount of stuff I collected was mind boggling, especially since I did so many radiant quests over and over again. What a great game. I love collecting loot just to see how much I can get.
Same
I save constantly. Renew health save. Finish a mission save. Walk 10 ft save 😂😂😂😂😂
I do that a lot 😅
Reload after every shot and save constantly. And try to throw my enemies corpses off a hill or into water or anything else
I've died so many times in online multiplayers because of compulsory reloading.
In games where possible always hide the bodies, I mean litter is wrong
Nice pic m8, there’s at least 3 of us now
The collab no one asked for, (but deep down want) Scott WCG and Rob Playstation-access: Top 50 water mechanics in first gen consoles!!
That will be you most viewed and highest like spike video EVER
I thought of Rob when Scott was talking about the water also. That would be a great mashup video.
First gen? Ah yes, Pong's lauded water mechanics
Following NPCs to figure out their paths, if they have somewhere to go or are just walking till their feet bleed
Oblivion was good for that.
NPCs would travel between towns and if I happened upon one in my wanderings, I'd feel obliged to escort them safely all the way.
Unless they were tagged as "essential", in which case they were OK on their own.
After a few dozen times doing that, it got tiresome...so I just made a list of all non-essential traveling NPCs and made them essential via console commands.
Please do top 10 best water mechanics in gaming
I would say uncharted has to be up on there on that list
Rdr2s water is beautiful. Especially the waves when your hit the island in story mode.
Mario Sunshine.
Sea of thieves oceans are pleasing to look at.
Bioshock would have to be in there somewhere.
I'd like to apologise for burning everyone's eyes with the shirt I bought Jules. I beg forgiveness 😁
Dude. It's covered in cats. It's all good.
No apologies needed, my dude! that's a bad ass shirt!
I’ve got a top like that but where can I get that shirt?
Bro I'm trying to get one. Where did you find that
It was glorious.
Jumping into portals so I can see myself freeze-framed for half a second.
The last entry is just Ash saying "pussay" over and over 😂
Assassin's Creed: brotherhood, I would be matching different colored capes with different colored outfits.
I was obsessed with Venicean wine. But went back and forth with some others. I compared how each one looked in sunlight vs shade vs night AND when wet after swimming.
Did it again in AC: Revelations to a lesser degree (no cape selections)
Making a character for a hour or so and then walk in the sun and see that the shadow makes my character not look perfect. So even if i was playing for hours i will still remake the character. 😆
I don't know how many times I did that in Dragon Age 3. The wierd lighting in the character creation dream thing drove me nuts time and again after entering the sunlight.
@@tylerryancoleman I know and after you did it you think WTF is wrong with me. 😋
Thats why i believe you should always be able too change your character whenever you want.
in any game with a map with fog of war that you have to clear or otherwise manually fill in through exploration, I will do my absolute damnedest to fill 100% of it in leaving no corners or gaps unexplored even if i know theres nothing left to find. Theres nothing more satisfying than a complete map, and equally nothing more infuriating than one with blank spaces you missed.
Games like FF14 for example really serves you this a lot, and I gotta check the whole map asap
Diablo 3. Can't. Cannot. Can NOT! Leave a patch of fog. Drives me nuts but there could be a chest with a Legendary in it right? 😅
I do this too, in world of warcraft or in diablo, or anything that has a map you have to "discover" or "uncover" area of it. I need a full map cause I gotta know what's there!
Guild Wars i was busy for so long too 100% a map for a title. 😆
Original Balder's Gate: I spent weeks clearing all that lovely map fog.
Im the same and I gotta clear as much as the game allows before any "priority missions" just so when i look ata map everything but the mission location shows up and I know i got everything in the area possible
I save constantly when pickpocketing in Skyrim on Switch, don’t judge me dammit! XD
Same. Sometimes after stealing each item, even with the 90% chance success
the end with Ash talking about Miss Pussycat with a messed up neck killed me XD
If you're walking along, maybe during a mission, and you have to stop for a minute and listen to some NPC exposition, or maybe you're watching a cut scene but you still have some control over your character. The one thing I always have to do? Spin the camera around really, really fast.
Bonus points if spinning your character around at the same time doubles the speed of the camera's spinning.
Absolutely with Jules. I'll go mental when the game only had the autosave feature and no manual...
With jules on the save thing.
Also I will sit in some game menus for the music....final fantasy X for example 😍😍
Skyrim.
I always check to see if fire damage is a thing. I thought it was funny that you could stand in the middle of that big forge in Skyrim with no consequences.
I'm also a big fan of breaking glass in video games. Resistance 1 had me in awe when the PS3 was brand new. I had to shoot every window I came across.
Oh man the Create-A-Character boss always takes me hours and hours sometimes days to defeat lmfao
Always sticking to the law in GTA and driving normal, no running traffic lights
Always jump through the boss door in Megaman.
Investigators: “hey Jules, show us exactly where the game hurt you”
Jules: *points at the autosave animation*
Investigators: “sweet mother of god!”
You guys are amazing. I never get tired of chatty faces :)
Love spinning in circles and see if the character will react to the constant spinning like in Animal Crossing
Jules literally just pointed out my biggest fear I'm terrified of the ocean and that moment in GTA5...I was a child again lol I'm surprised he knows my pain it's great cx
Edit: Scott has the same habit as my friend Jon haha
He needs to play subnautica.
Here are two great pointless things in GTA: Sometimes I sit in my car and my house just to listen to the music or watch the TV. I don't even play the game. I also love watching the rain in Red Dead Redemption 2.
Plating with water physics is always great. I agree with Rich, so many times I opened Deus Ex Human Revolution and left it on the menu screen for hours listening while I did something else. And I have yet to complete TLoU to this day because I got stuck for days watching the rain on the window glass early on in the game when escaping the town and then I finally made it outside to find I refused to move forward because I was so entranced by the rain on the character models and the ground and everything. And I've never managed to get passed there because it's just so beautiful to watch.
Stare at the water physics.
In the Arkham games, I have this very bad habit of reloading if my characters get seen in the predator sections or if they take a hit hit or lose their combo during the combat sections. I hate it but I just can't shake it off.
You MUST be Batman
When I'm very experienced in a game that I've been playing for forever, I always try to play it cinematically or like how it would present itself as a demo showcased in E3
I like to see what idle animations game devs come up with. Anything from, rocking back and forth on their heels while clapping their hands together, to checking their wrist for the time, or making an itch on their nads. Good times all around I'd say.
I also am one to listen to, and in most cases, appreciate a good soundtrack. Looking at you Funky Flights! Haha
Switching on the console by hand like a god damn peasant because I refuse to believe that the Sega Master System has been bettered by wireless streaming
Same here mate. I'm so old that I class that manual switch on as exercise!!! The Master System was the very first console I ever played, so I think it truly was the pinnacle!!! (I'm so old that my home gaming began on home computer!)
u ever got a fast car, went down to the beach in gta 5 and just started a massive driveby
Drive by? I just find a crowded sidewalk and plow down it. See how many I can kill before they scatter.
Or if you're on the online part, take an arena vehicle with a massive saw in the front and on each side and plow through the populated areas, back and forth, over and over.
I just hope you're not like that in real life.
@@fbi1819 if i was id let u get on the case so u can get some cash
The Hitman Contracts main menu theme and ofc the first Deus ex. Those 2 games have such good main menu themes. Very immersive
I love listening to menu music to hear the entire song, as well as sitting around to view characters idle animations
Isn't everything you do in video games technically pointless in the context of irl,
Watch out boys and girls, we got someone who is endlessly deep over here.
That's like saying everything you do in life is pointless because you'll end up dead in a matter of years anyway, with all your hard work eventually getting undone. Not gonna get very far with that attitude.
Manual saving I think is an older generation of gamer. Back when we had dedicated memory cards.
or those of us even older where you had to finish a game in one playthrough cuz there wasn't any on board memory for a save file or having to use passwords like in the original megaman (rockman) games.
@@vampjoseph haha now that's some nostalgia right there!
Yeah, older generation gamer here, so I'm very familiar with memory cards and passwords. Plus auto save can wreck a playthrough on Fallout 3 as it would either glitch out or save just after you'd done something wrong/stupid/murderous. You would then have to resort to a previous save some 20 hours previous!!! Proper nightmare!!!
These are all so relatable. And Benjamin, I'm with you on the rain thing. I've spent an awful lot of my time in Skyrim watching rain.
Hearing Jules talk about saving after an autosave makes me feel that much better about my compulsive need to save after an autosave
Benji has tapped deep into my soul. Claiming the end of level reward in the most extra way possible is the only way to go.
Sea of Thieves has the best water. Hands down.
What about Uncharted season? One in 3 got best ship physics
Marc Jaxon
What about Uncharted season? One in 3 got best ship physics
Brother I agree with the rain! Nothing I love more than a thunder storm in Oblivion, Witcher 3, Two World's 1, and in Morrowind I spent hours figuring out the console command for each weather effect and would make it thunderstorm all the time.. so beautiful and realistic
The most memorable invisible wall for me was the one in motocross mania where you get launched into stratosphere with a loud bang!
I listen to menu music too!! Thought I was the only one! Horizon Zero Dawns' is my favourite by far
FarCry 5 had some great menu music. I remember I paused it a few times just to listen.
Assassin's Creed Revelations has some really good music as well!
Gta v had some good music too.
Far cry 5 and new dawn, spiderman ps4, ffxv before & after finale, I can keep going
When playing the first 3 tomb raiders i used to stay totally still so that i would see lara yawn or look bored or something!OR delete the original playstation's save file to see if it reacted,in Tekken 3 for example xiaoyu starts crying!
I love these guys so much Lolol they are hella passionate and I love that
The running thing is so true, one of my favourite touches on hitman is the purposeful walk then running when its called for. So few games do this
smashing everything in lego star wars even though i 100% the game already
Rach is the reason we have Bags of Holding (I mean this in the nicest way),
Love this series
Using gestures when defeating bosses or reacting to the deaths of certain characters in the Souls series. I like the RP with my character in an RPG, so I use gestures relevant to how my character would feel when defeating a boss or seeing a character she considers a friend.
For example, using the Bow gesture when defeating the bosses who are legendary warriors such as Artorias or Sir Alonne, implying she's thanking them for a good fight and showing respect for them, doing the Toast gesture to Siegward and the Collapse gesture after Siegward dies at the end of his quest.
The most pointless thing I do in a game is drink alcohol yep once I get let off the leash I got straight for the bar
The Mass Effect trilogy.
Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2.
On Ewan's thing, Skyrim has mods that make layering up not pointless. I forget the name of the mod but it makes weather and stuff actually affect you. Like if its cold you can get frostbite or overheat if your hot, you need to sleep, you have to eat. Things like that.
Though like Scott I check reflections cause its one of those weird things I have.
Also. Not big on menu music as I'm normally caught up in the game. But loading screen music? Digital Killzone on PS3 for instance. When I've highlighted it on the list of games on the hard drive it starts playing the music from the games opening video, Visari's speach to the Helghast, and I can't start the game until the music starts to repeat itself.
I’m a little late to this video, but EVERYTHING that Ewan said he does in games, I DO TOO!!! It’s so nice to see I’m not the only one that plays games like this! If I’m in a situation in a game where walking would be the norm, I will make my character walk. If I’m playing a game that has a warm setting, like division 2 for example, and you can choose your clothing, there is no way i will apply a beanie or a jacket to my character(they might get overheated in that summer weather!) and the same goes for games set in colder temps. I can’t imagine playing RDR2 and being a dishonorable Arthur. Arthur is loved by all his friends and everyone he meets in my mind so there is no way I could play any other way. I can’t imagine playing a game and choosing the bad/aggressive/evil dialogue option. Every character I play in RPG’s has to be the best version of themselves that I can make them. It’s so awesome to hear somebody else who plays the exact same way I do. I love this channel
We love these, thanks for another!
Rich, you're not exactly alone when it comes to menu music. I don't do it intentionally per se, but if I have to do other things, I'll leave the menu playing in a game while I do. Octopath Traveler is great for this; I've fallen asleep to its menu music countless times.
Lol Josh that Skyrim mountain footage is so me. I do that in every single game with mountains.
The #1 thing I instantly check in first person games... If I can't see my legs, the game instantly loses points with me.
I believe multi manual saving is an effect of playing games before auto save was a thing, or when there were specific save points. As if you forgot to manual save or maybe one of those saves got glitched you were screwed. So the autosave icon basically becomes a did you remember to save icon.
I love optical illusions. And video games give me my fix in terms of being bamboozled by all sorts of techniques to make you believe there's more detail than there actually is. My favourite is texture maps. Whenever I see an unusually detailed object or surface I say "That can't be entirely modelled, let me check that out." Whenever a game gives me the opportunity to look at things closeup and at different angles I use it. And in all cases I'll be either amazed by the illusion of 3D structures using texture maps on an otherwise flat or lowpoly object, or impressed by the amount of deteil when there is an actually modelled, detailed structure. Also the same with lighting and water here.
I have a lot of quirks for games like these, though several of them probably stem from my OCD. I can definitely relate to the "gather all these items and never use them" and "save instead of trusting autosave" things. There's also:
*Cannot skip cutscenes on a first playthrough (or if it's new to a second playthrough/whatever) and must save after, as if to 'prove' I watched it fully.
*Must talk to every NPC, and do so until I'm sure they've looped, even if I know the game has no variations in lines (because what IF that's the one exception?! I must know!).
*Resetting instead of letting myself die in most games (same outcome but with the added hassle of having to reload).
*Never getting rid of items (such as crummy old weapons) unless there is limited inventory space, and never using healing items unless I'm out of battle (for RPGS).
*Examining everything. EVERYTHING. (The Sea Will Claim Everything is a brilliant game and I almost went out of my mind reading every single book title in it.)
I get the whole 'Wet Pavement' feelings. In Last of Us 2, the drip drying when you get out of water fascinated me. Also, the movement of Ellie's book bag was crazy accurate.
12:49 YES. I even do it in Pokemon Go (I just press and hold the screen where the ball was) I'm utterly convinced it helps. I also like to amass FAR TOO MANY resources. I know I'll need them for crafting/building/cooking at some point *points at the Ferrite line in No Man's Sky* but then I just go out and mine/gather the stuff as I'm choosing to use it.
Every episode is another gem in the collection. ❤
Honestly, if a game has a good soundtrack or if the music on the menu is good, I will just download it and listen to it on my playlist. But I remember when i first set up surround sound when I was like 16 or so in my parents basement on my special box tv they gave me (after they upgraded). When I first got that working, I literally sat downstairs listening to the Skyrim main theme on the menu for a good 20mins...
Jumping DELIBERATELY into an abyss while platforming right after a character says “be careful”, got to make my own fun sometimes
Jules *hates the ocean*
Me:,”good thing you don’t live on an island” 😂
Aren't we all technically living on big islands, if you think about it? There's no land on earth that isn't surrounded by water eventually.
Welcome back Rach!
Please do top 10 best waters, it’s a video I never knew I needed
I used to hoard everything like Rachel speaks about. I've found myself lately not doing that as much, except with health items and ammo, certain crafting resources too. Also, I don't know if you'd call this pointless, but at the start of any game I max dialogue volume, move sound effects volume to about 85%, music down to 25% and I always increase brightness higher than recommended. These are changes I've learned over decades of gaming just make it more enjoyable for me.
Scott, I need you to make that top 10 water video already. This is information I need.
Sneak through a hideout, stealth kill everyone but one person. Basically putting them into their own horror movie.
I feel you there Jules. I have not trusted auto saving ever since I got stuck in a death loop. I always manual save at a certain point too. For example if I’m playing an open world game I will manually save before I start a main quest. Will not save again until I’ve completed all side quests available up to the current main story mission required level. OCD is a beeeotch.
Good to see you Rachel!
I always find myself playing in the most unusual and/or obnoxious way possible, even if it makes the game super difficult. My go-to build for an RPG first emerged in Fable TLC when I was 13, an overweight man in a chicken hat named Piemaster who wields a giant hammer.
I attempt to faithfully recreate him wherever I can. MHW has seen me do that, yay Kulu head!
In Skyrim, I "play tag" with Brinjolf, and in Oblivion I "play tag" with Fathis Ules and Glarthir. I crack up so much, they always catch me.
I also habe issues leaving character creation. I also RELOAD my guns constantly, even if i only shot 1 bullet.
No wonder why I take so effing long to finish a game: I HAVE ALMOST ALL THIS TROPES!!!
- I try everything while customizing a character
- I test boundaries and explore everything
- I try water, watch rain fall...
- I pay attention to menus and sometimes lollygag on them. (ObsCure 2, I'm looking at you)
- I take DOZENS of pictures!! Either with screenshots, or the game's own system.