For some reason, having complete strangers connect with me on a personal level with video games is such a heart warming feeling, knowing I'm not alone in doing these things.
Something about Falcon's delivering of lines and also dry humor that makes me binge watch these top 10s . Also a good way to de-stress. Never change, Falcon
Number 5 speaks to me specifically. I remember kinda rushing through FFX (my first rpg), mostly blitzing tougher bosses with summons rather than levelling my characters. By the time I got to Zanarkand I already knew enemies were way too tough to fight normally. Then I hit Yunalesca and the game became impossible. I realized I had messed up and decided to start the entire game over and actually grind a bit more. Now I always over-level in everything. I will never allow myself to be underlevelled in any game, ever again.
Regarding #2, I've been burned in some games where if you don't do all the side quests before you progress with the main story, those quests get locked out, so I've just learned to do all the side content first.
Same here. Enough games have side quests that are limited to where you are in the story that we've been taught that if you want the items from that quest, you'd better do the mission before you continue the story. Also, there's probably an achievement for completing all the quests so we better do it for the achievement as well.
When i played Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl, i remember having 2 quests , i started one and it was the final one and couldnt go back so i got one of the bad endings.I had to do the other one first for the good ending
I have refined my sleep habit I don't fall asleep to playing games anymore, I know better, it's falling asleep to watching streamers. I know i'm tired after work, put on a youtube playlist of Gopher, Gameranx, ManyatrueNerd, Oxhorn, Cohhcarnage, 39Daph vods, Lorerunner, thespiffingbrit, etc.
@@markysumm72 I suggested this on a different video and they acknowledged my comment by replying to me. The next video had timestamps with the actual names of the games instead of number 10, 9 and so on. I was impressed with how quick they took the suggestion but following videos just reverted back to numbers in the timestamps. Lol.
The most obvious "go this way" in a game for me was in The Evil Within. You see a T intersection with your partner Joseph running from Safeman. When you finally finish the evil kitchen you're in and get to where you saw them, you HAVE to see where they came from. Sure enough, there's ammo and Green Gel just sitting there right before the barricade. One other one is I HAVE to check behind every waterfall even though TLC told me not to.
what is the name of the one on the first clip? oh! No.. it's the second one, the second clip i mean.. sad, sorrys. One with the seemingly invisible parachute
The ammo hoarding really spoke to me. In the original Metro 2033, I kept on saving the good ammo for "when I really needed it". Never used it. Beat the game without ever shooting a single pre-war bullet.
@gameranxTV actually there exists lava where you actually can walk on. I visited the Etna volcano 2 years ago and the tour guide explained to us that there are different kinds of lava and it depends on the amounts of minerals and elements that are in it. He explained that the lava at Etna is kinda special because the surface of the lava cools down way faster than the lava under the surface. The movement of the lava then actually takes place under the surface. He said when the surface gets cool and hard enough, you can walk on it. But he also said that you absolutely need good and solid shoes for that and they probably still take some little damage from it. The tour guide called it "quicksand lava". Basically as long as you keep moving, the surface of the lava wild hold you up, but if you stay still, the surface would give in. Sadly i didn't got to see it because i missed the last vulcano eruption which happened like about 12-14 hours before i went up there. So i guess it kinda makes somehow sense in videogames to be able to walk a short time over lava 😂
Did you ever play PSY-OPS on the original x-box? Jedi powers are very similar to what you get in PSY-OPS, you get fire powers and mind control too but you can’t beat being able to slam your enemy into a wall like a bouncy ball with your mind over and over again. There needs to be more games with telekinesis.
Fun fact for #4. In Dragon Age Inqusition, the speed boost for your mount just adds speed lines and changes the camera effect. You dont actually move any faster.
So the reason many of us end up doing all the side missions first is because some games basically FORCE you to if you want to actually experience everything. A perfect example: mafia 2. Once you complete the main mission, everything from the chapter you are in is gone forever. You cant get any of those collectibles or experience those side missions and events ever again on that specific playthrough, unless you old an old save or go through chapter select to rewind time. And its not the only game that does this, but its the one i remember the most. And when that sort of thing happens, and you have no idea which type of game it is, if any of the missions you complete will lock away old content or not, you just kinda start doing absolutely everything you can before starting any story missions, just in case.
One of the best, most relatable videos I have ever watched. I literally spent 2 hours yesterday finding a copy of the Resi 4 remake for PS5 (whilst also 'working'), I got home at 11pm, installed the thing.... and promptly fell asleep while still messing with the settings. I just could NOT keep my eyes open. I am just as guilty of nearly the entire rest of the list too. Good work Gameranx!
I am guilty of many of these charges lol. Item hoarding: check. Overleveling; been there done that many a time; as a JRPG enthusiast and gamer, this is the bread and butter of ensuring one sided victory in my favor. Exploring and doing side-quests before going where you’re supposed to so story/plot can advance? I took that to the extreme when playing Forspoken. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was part 2 to this video topic.
Same here. In games that you've played a long time exploring goes from just finding things to trying to discover glitches that let you see how the devs chose to handle particular tasks or seeing if you can do something that the devs didn't expect you to try. Recently in Sea of Thieves, I did the Pirates Life tall tale and when we got on the back of the Ferry I stayed on the balcony to fish while the rest of my crew continued the tale. I learned that yes, you can fish during the battle portion of the tale and when I got knocked off the ship I found out that the ship was actually stationary and the water texture is what is moving giving the illusion of the ship moving.
A variant of #3 "Holding on to your favorites" would be "holding on to the vehicle after the vehicle sequence is clearly over". Trying to get a vehicle in a building or over a barrier because you can use it as a ram, or because it has a mounted machine hun you want to keep using.
As someone who grew up in the JRPG era of the SNES and fell in love with that genre, I am constantly grinding, doing side quest first and now that I am almost 40 turning a game on after the kids go to bed and falling asleep.
To #2’s point, this is why I particularly liked the quest system in The Witcher 3. Not always, but it usually led me to do as many quest as I could find in each new area I hd access to. For a while each piece of story came with a new area and new jobs and the story relevancy to doing random shit made wandering around new towns and surrounding areas feel like the in game story context correct thing to do
Oh I finished so much side quests without even accepting it by doing a dungeon, freeing a village or killing specific enemies XD Or just doing a cave backwards because why not? Like I got so much gear that I wasn't even able to use yet, so I had tons of it waiting until I am high enough to use it.
On mostly any RPG games where you make some very important choices like, you have to choose side with Team A or Team B where you can't have both of them. I always want to save them both! ;w; PS: Bonus, always saving your game or have multiple saving profiles when you have many dialogue choices that matters on endings or the story.
what is the name of the one on the first clip? oh! No.. it's the second one, the second clip i mean.. sad, sorrys. One with the seemingly invisible parachute
That mountain climbing one is too relatable, me and my friend went over the mountain in sons of the forest because we could even though our target would have been easier accessed around it 😂
No kidding I felt that one on a spiritual level. Spent so much time trying to climb over terrain when it would’ve been so much easier and quicker to just go around lmao.
Doing everything else BUT the main story (#2) for me was Breath of the Wild. It was all about exploration, and I was all about it. I actually discovered the whole map before I even touched any of the divine beasts
#5 It happened to me so often that I got stuck or underleveled fighting a boss. So yes, now I just clear rooms or grind mobs in dungeons to get that sweet exp level up. If the mobs feel hard in a new area, I'm grinding before I move more.
Number 2 can really burn you if you buy a game that's been out a while and you buy it bundled with all its DLC. In my own experience: When I bought Horizon Zero Dawn (Complete Edition), the first chance I got, I went for the Frozen Wilds...an expansion specifically designed to be a challenge for players who've already finished the base game. Somehow I managed to power on through and unlock everything the expansion could give me before going back to the main story, which ended up being an absolute breeze to play through in comparison.
I feel a little called out about the level grinding and doing the side missions before completing the main story. However, definitely do that ever since I was a kid playing kingdom hearts for the first time. I got stuck hearing Riku say "giving up already, come on Sora you can do better than that". Those words will forever be etched into my soul. I eventually beat it without having to restart the game. But man did it take forever. Ever since then, I naturally level grind every video game.
Not sure of anyone else does that, but for example in GoW:Ragnarok, when I had to move my camera, I did it very slowly, cuz it looked fluent and cinematic😂 this video was so relatable! I was afraid I might be diagnosed with something, now I know I am not alone 😂😂
Have to reload early...even if I don't need it. Have to stockpile the most ammo even if it's unrealistic I'll even need that much. Have to hoard items even if 90% will never get used except for switching place with more junk.
@@haunterdragon4580 The name is escaping me right now, but I played quite a bit of a game where reloading dropped the rest of your mag, so you'd waste bullets. If you weren't careful, you could fire ten shots with reloads in between and suddenly be out of ammo despite having been full when you started. Broke me on that habit.
Number 5 really kicked in for me with ghost recon breakpoint, I met some random guy from xbox looking for groups and after an hour we decided that we should go and beat the final mission, mind you we were only a couple missions in to the game. We ended up killing him because the boss fight glitched and he was stuck in place and got oneshot by an rpg.
I'm a wandering item hoarder, grinder, who uses items sparingly. I proudly admit that. To many games have tought me to always be prepared, because I rather not start the game over again in case I get stuck with a cheap boss, or level obstacles.
This list was absolutely amazing. The voiceover, the dialogues and the entries. We all experienced every single one of these. The falling sleep made me laugh hard because it’s fun to know it happened to others too.
There's an alternative to the number 1 tho: games that don't shut down cleanly, so you can gain extra hours without being in the same room as the computer
Re:Hoarding. I turned Windhelm in Skyrim into my designated trash dump. It started off as a pile of items I didn't want (after the shopkeepers ran out of money) but picked up anyway in a corner near the entrance... Eventually it became a side goal...to pick up EVERYTHING elsewhere in the world and bring it back to Windhelm and dump it in town. Soon everything was knee deep in discarded items and my computer was practically choking while trying to render all of the extra objects. Watching the NPCs try to move around in it was worth it. And moving around the area sent items flying every which way, which for some reason amused me. It was worth it! Kinda. Okay, maybe I was bored at the time and had too much time on my hands.
The number of players that are willing to climb mountains, even if it's tedious, should tell developers that there is real demand for more interesting and more challenging traversal systems. In most games traversal comes down to pushing the stick in the general direction you want to go. If the developers are feeling fancy they'll include a stamina system that occasionally has you let go of the sprint button. Many games even go in the opposite direction and include auto pilot systems. If you are making something like an open world game where traversal is the primary mode of interaction you better make sure that it's engaging even without the context of collectables, quests, loot and world.
I've recently started playing Assassin's Creed Black Flag (which is, by turn, also my first AC game) and I'm absolutely in _love_ with the parkour traversal system. Sometimes I'll actually forego the quick travel and go the long way to an objective marker just for the fun of it. Before I rage quit, that was also my favorite part of Batman Arkham City, just grappling from something, catching air and gliding around the city was an amazing experience ... right up until they put in enemy snipers to shoot you out of the sky and ruined it.
#2 its great when openworld rewards players exploration fueled by curiosity, mostly if its historical or lore significant like Odyssey and recent Hogwarts Legacy or environmental storytelling.
Thought it was funny that AC:Syndicate was the first thing shown for conquering the entire map before doing hardly any story, because that's literally the only game I've done that in. Also, I have way more hours on the clock in certain games than I should, not because I fall asleep, but because I work from home mostly, my TV is only a few feet from my desk, and I turn on a game to just do little things in it here and there between tasks but mostly just stand there afk.
Doing the side-missions first is nearly always a good way to grind and get equipment and learn locations. The problem is games like Far Cry 6 which try to force rush you into the main campaign.
In all honesty, the reason I do all the side quests first is so I can level up my character up for when I fight the final boss. Now granted, he or she is going to be leveled up as well, and that's ok. But I honestly don't like fighting the last boss with a low level character. I like to max my character out first. Anyway, great content Falcon. You're one of the funniest narrators on TH-cam. I honestly appreciate your sense of humor. Very, very funny 😂
I get what you mean. Fighting the final boss, especially when their level scales up with yours, feels like such a massively more epic duel between two titans when you're at max level. Doing it when you're underleveled just feels like two normies having a beef.
One thing i can't stop doing in video games like Skyrim, Sleeping dogs, and etc where you can get health or gear upgrades at earlier points where you don't really need them is just becoming as OP as possible at certain points just so i can single-handedly wipe out what's supposed to be a challenging enemy in only seconds. I don't think I've ever given the first dragon in skyrim a fair fight.
SAME HERE, I used to melt that dragon 😂 I treat the Souls series the same way throughout subsequent playthroughs. In every NG I’ve started in Elden ring since my first playthrough I have killed Margit in at most 5 hits.
Literally me with Hogwarts Legacy. As soon as you learn how to use your Ancient Magic moves (pretty early in the story), it's over for the bosses. Sure, it could take a few hits, but at least you're not sitting there having to actually fight them. Like I just did a side quest that involves a giant spider boss, and I 1-shot them with Ancient Magic. It was awesome, because with the spider enemies you get this move where you magically shrink them down to the size a normal muggle spider would be and then stomp them with your foot. Another time, I came up against a poacher or Ashwinder boss, and again 1-shot them with Ancient Magic. It's hilarious.
@@zyro8188 Yeah, the whole “These games are built to be hard” is really just a lie. There are some difficult sections but you can make their games as easy or as hard as you want to. If you do end up giving it a shot, just look up a few guides on how to get pretty OP early on and it’ll set you in the right direction. Fromsoft is my favorite developer of all time and I really think some of the veterans of the community are cringe as hell.. they purposefully make it sound harder than it is for brownie points, resulting in plenty of people who would love their games missing out on some awesome experiences.
Another top notch video. I do way too many of these things. The sleep one killed me. I too would rather play games instead of getting a good night's rest. Haha I have told myself so many times. "I'm just going to play a couple missions and then go to bed." Only to wake up hours later dead in the game, running in circles, or staring at the sky, the ground or a wall.
2 things i have to add to this list : Testing falling damage : Oh hey, i'm pretty high on this mountain, lets time to jump off. Testing friendly fire : Oh hey, its a game with multiplayer, and i have a mate, can i hurts them?
I remember playing diablo 3 on the ps3. I was at the end of the dungeon and saw on the map that there was a dark spot. I walked all the way across the map to just have the whole map explored. I ended up finding a legendary item, and I checked every inch of every map from that point on.
With #2...I eat up every side quest and exploration, etc. It was fine up until I played ME2. I did not realize that there actually was a time limit for you to go through the omega relay and that certain members of your crew could die if you didn't move fast enough to do that.
Three things to check with every new game: can we switch off headbob/chrom ab/lens flare; can we skip the intro videos; can we remove cutscene letterboxing for 21:9. In that order. It's an ongoing source of extreme puzzlement that devs put so much effort into making their games ugly and/or deeply irritating
To go along with kicking things off ledges. I’m on Mass Effect 3 (first time playing the series) and nothing is more fun the using Throw ability once the force is maxed. Seeing bodies ragdoll across the room is too good
For number 2 it hits hard for me. When skyrim first came out i played it and just kept going through it not doing anything involving the main story besides going to whiterun and speaking with the jarell (i think thats how you spell it) once. Never went back to him till i almost hit level 60 complaining about how ive haven't seen a dargon yet while everyone else was saying they were everywhere
Side quests before story: in Falcom's Trails of games, a *lot* (a majority) of side content becomes unavailable once you do the story missions so its trained me to do side content first!
the thing about lights breaking or not in modern games is because in order to get a better environment, you'd have to bake lightmaps and reflection probes. Raytracing helps in that regard, but before that, all light bouncing and stuff was baked into the game, so shooting a light to turn it off would look absolutely weird when there's still some light bouncing off surfaces. Like, being in a completely dark room with a light you just shot, but still seeing reflections in shiny surfaces as if they were still being lit. Old games didn't do reflections and lightmaps like those, so having a real-time light going off was a simple matter of disabling the component, or starting a coroutine for a flicker effect.
As for the hoarding, I think I've perfected this in Skyrim. My Lakeview Manor house is where I keep *everything* I'm not carrying, and I've taken it to the extreme. All the armors except the one I'm wearing are on display, along with every weapon I've collected. In the basement, I have a row of safes, and I have one for just potions, one for dragon bones and scales, one for ingots and other materials for forging, and one for documents that I've found. The potions and jewels are basically there if I need to sell them to get money, which I'm not in short supply of anyway, but I like knowing that I can if I have to. I did the same thing in Fallout 4 at my main settlement.
i used to play my skyrim like this, but with some mods, i made collecting some things not as needed because i had a mod that would make the crafting requirements not needed so i could virtually craft anything at any point in time. which was great because i had another mod that allowed me to craft without needing a crafting station of any kind as it was all contained within one power, that mod was removed from the nexus for some unknown reason, but i still have my copies of the mod because it was damn valuable, especially with one of the other mods that allowed me to dismantle my various swords and axes and armor or whatever.
I do the same. I keep potions in a separate barrel. Ingredients in a separate barrel next to my alchemy lab. Ores next to the forge. Completely organized lol
Number 3 is kinda solved in some of the latest game (hogwarts, ac valhalla/odissey) where you can simply change or customize the standard design from the gear based on the ones you have previously collected.
I just wanted to lead with the fact that I am So glad I found your channel. Simply because you include Console gamers in your content; most channels seem to talk about only PC gaming, and I am strictly a console gamer. Also you are Spot On with your observations about how we react in different scenarios. Love this Channel!
Does anyone else go crazy trying to make cool outfits in games with different gear/armor? Like getting a cool jacket and then changing your whole outfit to match it better 😂
RuneScape and it's endless cosmetic overrides... There are times when I'll spend more time putting together just the right outfit from different bits and bobs of other sets than actually doing anything worthwhile like skilling, quests or dailies, and often it's because of one new cosmetic override they released. As a perfect example, they came out with an "Energized Arm Cannon" override for crossbows a while back and I spent several days unlocking other cosmetic sets and pieces to build a medieval fantasy Mega Man outfit around the cannons.
The shooting a couple rounds to be able to pick up ammo also comes from old games like Doom. If you wanted a hundred percent on the levels you'd want to collect all the ammo.
I'm starting to pick up the habit of clearing any room that I'm in. All treasures, all enemies killed, all secrets found, I will not move on until I'm 99% sure I haven't missed anything. And this goes beyond simple exploration, it takes me forever to get through most games. My first playthrough on the RE4 remake nearly took me 20 hours to beat. Every chapter I'm extremely low on ammo cuz I'd just murder everything.
RE2 remake is what started that compulsion in those games - they practically begged you to adopt that mindset by color coding each room to indicate if you'd cleared it of collectibles or not, and if I remember correctly, they even added hidden map upgrades that would tell you exactly what was left to find in each room. Drove my OCD crazy.
I watched a lot of gameranx videos throughout the years. This is one hit the closest to home for sure. It’s like they read my mind, even all the game clips were from games I’ve played. Does gameranx stalk me or am I just a true gamer?
Watching this, laughing, saying "Yeah I do that" to every one except number 1. Loved the video! The other thing I do with red barrels, when I'm playing coop with my mate, is to shoot them when he goes near. So satisfying lol. He does it to me, so it's fair :)
There's a sunken UFO in GTAV underwater in the northern part of the map, sooooo not entirely maddening. But you did hit the nail on the head with the joker scene. That's the best scene. I'll die on this hill. XD
That number 2 really sounds like me, i did that in far cry 6, i literally went around and collected everything all the while saying this game sucks compared to the other far cry masterpieces, After it i didn't even Finnish the story because of how bad it was and i wished i had more to go collect or more fun stuff worth doing in the world, like deep sea diving exploring, deep sea fishing, wishing there was giant underwater monsters or dinosaurs out there, lol I wish they would have made the fishing more important or added some kind of competition aspect to it like in far cry 5, Same with hunting to make upgrades to pouches etc. That was something sorely missed in far cry 6, I had wished more weapons was available after getting them all in the open world, it just didn't feel like getting as many like it did in the other fc games, Man, i really hope they make far cry 7 or sideline game, more like the other games in the series. Lol
I love that money burning scene with Joker, one of best ones.... :-D Also leveling up thing can be bit of a double edged sword in games that will do level scaling and they overtune it, like Final Fantasy 8, I think, where you would just make game harder for yourself, if you grind. Also button mashing while running for e came out of bunny hopping in old games, where it either made you go faster or was just thing you did to be harder to hit. Hence why I usually play with it whenever traversing in games where you don't get penalized for it with slowdown on landing or whatever. Reason why minimap is so useful is just because it made things simpler. Though I definitely was guilty as hell for just rushing through with car, looking at minimap, oh, there is the spot, hit hadbrake bit too late and splash, mission failed because I hit and killed whatever NPC was waiting for me there... bonus points for game if it gives you second to be like, "he will get back up, it's fine" and then give you mission failed. Also sucks for games where you have to keep the car functional and the way you get to the end point is more of landing than driving there and direction is more upside down than wheels down so you can drive for the next part. And also it sucks if height representation on minimap is poor... like how was I supposed to know I will drive off the cliff because objective is lower... but I bet guys on the roof didn't expect to be killed by the car landing on them. Also one I had from time when breakable objects in games were bit rare, was to just shoot everything to se if it will "break" or have broken model to replace it. That was always great. Soldier of Fortune was also great because you could blast off limbs.... so yeah, wasted a lot of ammo on corpses there too... probably not best thing to put on your CV though. :-D
I'm a huge fan of the knock off ledges you can do in Saints Row, particularly 2 and 3. My record is something like a 500 foot fall when some enemy goon pissed me off and I didn't feel like wasting a bullet- the game even tells you how far they fall.
#6 is the reason I disabled the minimap instantly when starting Hogwarts Legacy. I really wanted to be looking at the world and not at the map! Also disabled the in-game waypoints and I had a wonderful time getting lost in the castle :D
I know someone's going to mock me for mentioning the game's combat system but I will admit to falling asleep playing Arkham City and to a lesser degree Arkham Knight because I would play the endless fight mode in those games to try and challenge myself to get a high score because I enjoyed the freeflow combat system. Yeah I COULD just press one button to respond to everything but you're given other options and I find it fun. That being said, any endlessly escalating combat encounter eventually gets to a point where you have no choice but to respond in the most efficient way possible to keep up with the frequency of attack and this has actually put me to sleep on several occasions. Sometimes I was just tired on top of this, but I often found I would reach some sort of equilibrium where I've resigned myself to responding the same way every time and I actually start to nod off because I'm just letting muscle memory respond and I'm not as engaged anymore. I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing, I still like the combat in those games but it has made me show a bit more respect to a deeper combat system that keeps things freeform and also requires you to stay engaged the whole time. I think I've fallen asleep once playing Marvel's Spider-Man and that was just due to being tired.
Going the opposite direction of where the game tells you to go is exactly the reason why I found the ready player one story so unrealistic. Your telling me out of millions over several years of people playing not a single person tried to go in reverse on that race
Ngl in The Division 2 the propane tanks (which is their version of the red barrel) are actually placed in amazing spots that makes them genuinely useful in combat. One of the only games I’ve seen do that
"going left" was first used in the NES Metroid following from mario , everyone would be used to scrolling 'left-to-right' , metroid broke this by spawning the player with a choice , but , ultimately you HAD to go left to collect an upgrade and so , the trope continues , always look behind from spawn
20 - Ever play a game with red barrels that DON'T blow up!? There is something wrong in the world when that happens, another glitch in the matrix! 12 - You used to be able to call me one of those types but with the first Saint's Row way out in the upper left corner of the map, way out in the ocean, was a rock with the Volition logo on it and ever since then I felt justified to go WAY WAY WAAAAY off the beaten path. Looking for that elusive invisible wall. The Flat Earthers were right, man! We live under a dome!! I love how many of these can be done in Skyrim too.
In Dead Island 2, there are certain zombies you can drop kick that kills them instantly, but the pure joy of watching them fly through the sky lifeless and in slow motion is addicting!!!
#16: Having the full FUS RO DAH and a hapless random assassin "finds me" on the side of a mountain. And he goes flying into Markarth (several miles away). Chef's kiss!
I've never fallen asleep while playing a game, I have gotten tired when I use to play runescape back in the day but only because it's so boring.. Lol. But all the rest are pretty accurate
Number 15 is entirely describing me in any videogame with inventory limits and things to hoard. I'm gonna do it. And I'm gonna be encumbered. Quickly. Gets me killed in some games, but I still have that urge to collect everything. I'm that guy who held onto the Master Ball in Pokemon games, even when trying to catch legendaries. Because, ya know... what if there's something stronger and better later that I want to use it on?
No ledge kick will *ever* be more satisfying than fighting The Wolf in AC Odyssey. It's a boss fight, but it's on a ledge. I blocked his first attack, circled around, Spartan Kicked him into Hades. I will treasure that capture forever.
#15 is a HUGE problem! We don't use stuff because we never know if we'll NEED to!!! So much stuff doesn't tell you weather it's actually got any use at all. It's seriously annoying.
the biggest betrayal isn't when a red barrel kills you it's when it doesn't do anything and just decoration.
Lmao ikr
I wish I could remember the game I recently played with Red Barrels that did nothing when you shoot them - it felt weird... Maybe Metro 2033 Redux
@@SuperLocrian I think I've also played a few games with exploding and non exploding barrrels, they look different but a litle annoying too
@@Unknown_Genius lol ! Ikr!
Preach!!😤
Thank god the real Falcon is back
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@@gameranxTV you thought we wouldn't notice huh
Ha!
I know, AI Falcon wont cut it 😅
Phew
For some reason, having complete strangers connect with me on a personal level with video games is such a heart warming feeling, knowing I'm not alone in doing these things.
Something about Falcon's delivering of lines and also dry humor that makes me binge watch these top 10s . Also a good way to de-stress. Never change, Falcon
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Number 5 speaks to me specifically. I remember kinda rushing through FFX (my first rpg), mostly blitzing tougher bosses with summons rather than levelling my characters. By the time I got to Zanarkand I already knew enemies were way too tough to fight normally. Then I hit Yunalesca and the game became impossible. I realized I had messed up and decided to start the entire game over and actually grind a bit more.
Now I always over-level in everything. I will never allow myself to be underlevelled in any game, ever again.
Regarding #2, I've been burned in some games where if you don't do all the side quests before you progress with the main story, those quests get locked out, so I've just learned to do all the side content first.
Old habits die hard.
Same here. Enough games have side quests that are limited to where you are in the story that we've been taught that if you want the items from that quest, you'd better do the mission before you continue the story. Also, there's probably an achievement for completing all the quests so we better do it for the achievement as well.
When i played Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl, i remember having 2 quests , i started one and it was the final one and couldnt go back so i got one of the bad endings.I had to do the other one first for the good ending
Yeah missed a lot of stuff on vesperia because of that
or you can simply not do them, lol
Don’t stop with the time stamps Gameranx! It’s such an improvement for the channel.
I find myself liking the vid before I even watch it because of the time stamps.
I have refined my sleep habit I don't fall asleep to playing games anymore, I know better, it's falling asleep to watching streamers. I know i'm tired after work, put on a youtube playlist of Gopher, Gameranx, ManyatrueNerd, Oxhorn, Cohhcarnage, 39Daph vods, Lorerunner, thespiffingbrit, etc.
It's annoying though when the timestamp just says "number 20" "number 19" etc. I want a description e.g. "Red Barrels" etc.
@@markysumm72 I suggested this on a different video and they acknowledged my comment by replying to me. The next video had timestamps with the actual names of the games instead of number 10, 9 and so on. I was impressed with how quick they took the suggestion but following videos just reverted back to numbers in the timestamps. Lol.
@@markysumm72 I too would prefer descriptions. But like this video, I’d rather have time stamps w no description as opposed to no time stamps at all.
The most obvious "go this way" in a game for me was in The Evil Within. You see a T intersection with your partner Joseph running from Safeman. When you finally finish the evil kitchen you're in and get to where you saw them, you HAVE to see where they came from. Sure enough, there's ammo and Green Gel just sitting there right before the barricade. One other one is I HAVE to check behind every waterfall even though TLC told me not to.
what is the name of the one on the first clip?
oh! No.. it's the second one, the second clip i mean.. sad, sorrys. One with the seemingly invisible parachute
So many games hide something behind waterfalls and then there are others that have plenty of waterfalls with nothing but a cliff behind them
I feel TLC betrayed us with that because....I have to chase them I have too!
Haha so true
To be fair, TLC told you to not go *chase* them, they didn't say anything about looking. Gotta be precise with those instructions, ladies!
The ammo hoarding really spoke to me. In the original Metro 2033, I kept on saving the good ammo for "when I really needed it". Never used it. Beat the game without ever shooting a single pre-war bullet.
@gameranxTV actually there exists lava where you actually can walk on. I visited the Etna volcano 2 years ago and the tour guide explained to us that there are different kinds of lava and it depends on the amounts of minerals and elements that are in it. He explained that the lava at Etna is kinda special because the surface of the lava cools down way faster than the lava under the surface. The movement of the lava then actually takes place under the surface. He said when the surface gets cool and hard enough, you can walk on it. But he also said that you absolutely need good and solid shoes for that and they probably still take some little damage from it. The tour guide called it "quicksand lava". Basically as long as you keep moving, the surface of the lava wild hold you up, but if you stay still, the surface would give in. Sadly i didn't got to see it because i missed the last vulcano eruption which happened like about 12-14 hours before i went up there. So i guess it kinda makes somehow sense in videogames to be able to walk a short time over lava 😂
Totally agree on hoarding… especially in final fantasy. So afraid to use mega elixers and then get to the end of the game and have like 57 of them 😂
Love this. You've covered so many gaming habits and the big ones. I do a lot of these, we all do. You highlighted it with comedy, thank you.
You type. Funny.
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literal AI taking over BLINK TWICE IF YOU NEED HELP @madmatt667
the upgraded force push ability in SW Jedi: Fallen Order is OP as hell. You can push whole groups of enemies off ledges. It never gets old.
Can't wait for the new Jedi game, so close, I bet the force will be even better.
And they'll have new force abilities for us to abuse 😂
Did you ever play PSY-OPS on the original x-box?
Jedi powers are very similar to what you get in PSY-OPS, you get fire powers and mind control too but you can’t beat being able to slam your enemy into a wall like a bouncy ball with your mind over and over again. There needs to be more games with telekinesis.
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that game is a classic, i wish i could play it on my PC.
i recently beat fallen order again and force push was super clutch🤣
Fun fact for #4. In Dragon Age Inqusition, the speed boost for your mount just adds speed lines and changes the camera effect. You dont actually move any faster.
That sucks.
So the reason many of us end up doing all the side missions first is because some games basically FORCE you to if you want to actually experience everything. A perfect example: mafia 2. Once you complete the main mission, everything from the chapter you are in is gone forever. You cant get any of those collectibles or experience those side missions and events ever again on that specific playthrough, unless you old an old save or go through chapter select to rewind time. And its not the only game that does this, but its the one i remember the most. And when that sort of thing happens, and you have no idea which type of game it is, if any of the missions you complete will lock away old content or not, you just kinda start doing absolutely everything you can before starting any story missions, just in case.
One of the best, most relatable videos I have ever watched. I literally spent 2 hours yesterday finding a copy of the Resi 4 remake for PS5 (whilst also 'working'), I got home at 11pm, installed the thing.... and promptly fell asleep while still messing with the settings. I just could NOT keep my eyes open.
I am just as guilty of nearly the entire rest of the list too. Good work Gameranx!
The red barrels add a phenomenal level of comedy in co-op games where your friend was foolish enough to leave friendly fire on.
Oh yeah! My best mate and I play coop a lot and it's always fun to see who's going to get 'caught' first lol.
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I am guilty of many of these charges lol. Item hoarding: check. Overleveling; been there done that many a time; as a JRPG enthusiast and gamer, this is the bread and butter of ensuring one sided victory in my favor. Exploring and doing side-quests before going where you’re supposed to so story/plot can advance? I took that to the extreme when playing Forspoken. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was part 2 to this video topic.
Lol forgot that this for spoken game even exists
Same here. In games that you've played a long time exploring goes from just finding things to trying to discover glitches that let you see how the devs chose to handle particular tasks or seeing if you can do something that the devs didn't expect you to try. Recently in Sea of Thieves, I did the Pirates Life tall tale and when we got on the back of the Ferry I stayed on the balcony to fish while the rest of my crew continued the tale. I learned that yes, you can fish during the battle portion of the tale and when I got knocked off the ship I found out that the ship was actually stationary and the water texture is what is moving giving the illusion of the ship moving.
A variant of #3 "Holding on to your favorites" would be "holding on to the vehicle after the vehicle sequence is clearly over". Trying to get a vehicle in a building or over a barrier because you can use it as a ram, or because it has a mounted machine hun you want to keep using.
Looking at you Halo reach.😂
Oh... oh my god. Stealing vehicles. Stealing horses (Hording stolen horses in the Witcher 3, because why should I use my own horse)
As someone who grew up in the JRPG era of the SNES and fell in love with that genre, I am constantly grinding, doing side quest first and now that I am almost 40 turning a game on after the kids go to bed and falling asleep.
To #2’s point, this is why I particularly liked the quest system in The Witcher 3. Not always, but it usually led me to do as many quest as I could find in each new area I hd access to. For a while each piece of story came with a new area and new jobs and the story relevancy to doing random shit made wandering around new towns and surrounding areas feel like the in game story context correct thing to do
I totally agree with that. I'm actually doing the same thing. And I find it extremely rewarding ! That's why I think this game is a jewel.
Oh I finished so much side quests without even accepting it by doing a dungeon, freeing a village or killing specific enemies XD Or just doing a cave backwards because why not? Like I got so much gear that I wasn't even able to use yet, so I had tons of it waiting until I am high enough to use it.
@@hedgehogshill3522 Same here ! Funny to have lvl 30 items but not even half of the level. ^^
So I had to keep things in the safe.
On mostly any RPG games where you make some very important choices like, you have to choose side with Team A or Team B where you can't have both of them. I always want to save them both! ;w;
PS: Bonus, always saving your game or have multiple saving profiles when you have many dialogue choices that matters on endings or the story.
what is the name of the one on the first clip?
oh! No.. it's the second one, the second clip i mean.. sad, sorrys. One with the seemingly invisible parachute
@@Krotas_DeityofConflicts the first clip once the list starts is legend of Zelda breath of the wild
Manual saving after auto save, and then manual save again after like 10 seconds because you couldnt remember that you just saved lol
@@blackcrow9231 oh! No.. it's the second one, the second clip i mean.. sad, sorrys. One with the seemingly invisible parachute
That mountain climbing one is too relatable, me and my friend went over the mountain in sons of the forest because we could even though our target would have been easier accessed around it 😂
No kidding I felt that one on a spiritual level. Spent so much time trying to climb over terrain when it would’ve been so much easier and quicker to just go around lmao.
Doing everything else BUT the main story (#2) for me was Breath of the Wild. It was all about exploration, and I was all about it. I actually discovered the whole map before I even touched any of the divine beasts
Utilizing Skyrim footage for #19 & 15 was beyond amazingly perfect! I broke out into a big smile the instant I saw it.
"Fool me...can't get fooled again" with the shot of GW made me cackle. Thank you Falcon!
5 is very real.
One you missed, testing fall damage by hucking yourself off any first high spot.
Also subsequent high spots to make sure the fall damage is consistent
more then once at the same spot may i add
Man you just gotta love Gameranx. You guys never miss.
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Didn't expect to see dark messiah of might and magic be mentioned here
Man I love that game, almost as much as I love asura's wrath
#5 It happened to me so often that I got stuck or underleveled fighting a boss. So yes, now I just clear rooms or grind mobs in dungeons to get that sweet exp level up. If the mobs feel hard in a new area, I'm grinding before I move more.
Number 2 can really burn you if you buy a game that's been out a while and you buy it bundled with all its DLC.
In my own experience: When I bought Horizon Zero Dawn (Complete Edition), the first chance I got, I went for the Frozen Wilds...an expansion specifically designed to be a challenge for players who've already finished the base game. Somehow I managed to power on through and unlock everything the expansion could give me before going back to the main story, which ended up being an absolute breeze to play through in comparison.
One of the things i had a habit of doing was running during the loading screen in Assassins Creed
I just wanna see how far into the virtual void I can go before the level finishes loading... Also it's good cardio.
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It was always fun doing it
I feel a little called out about the level grinding and doing the side missions before completing the main story. However, definitely do that ever since I was a kid playing kingdom hearts for the first time. I got stuck hearing Riku say "giving up already, come on Sora you can do better than that". Those words will forever be etched into my soul. I eventually beat it without having to restart the game. But man did it take forever. Ever since then, I naturally level grind every video game.
Grinding?
Me: Halfway through Chapter 3 RDR2... 853 hours later lol.
Relatable af. I overdo traverse town so much that i casually reach Level 25 before i ever fly Off of there 😂
Not sure of anyone else does that, but for example in GoW:Ragnarok, when I had to move my camera, I did it very slowly, cuz it looked fluent and cinematic😂 this video was so relatable! I was afraid I might be diagnosed with something, now I know I am not alone 😂😂
Glad I’m not the only mental case who does the dramatic camera pan in games. lol
I think we are so used to the shortcomings of games that we have developed our own subculture of gaming habits.
We have adapted to ocd like urges even if it is mostly worthless
Have to reload early...even if I don't need it. Have to stockpile the most ammo even if it's unrealistic I'll even need that much. Have to hoard items even if 90% will never get used except for switching place with more junk.
@@haunterdragon4580 Yeah because you know the one time you don't do it, it will come back to haunt you
@@Leanzazzy fear of missing that one time it might be useful
@@haunterdragon4580 The name is escaping me right now, but I played quite a bit of a game where reloading dropped the rest of your mag, so you'd waste bullets. If you weren't careful, you could fire ten shots with reloads in between and suddenly be out of ammo despite having been full when you started. Broke me on that habit.
Number 5 really kicked in for me with ghost recon breakpoint, I met some random guy from xbox looking for groups and after an hour we decided that we should go and beat the final mission, mind you we were only a couple missions in to the game. We ended up killing him because the boss fight glitched and he was stuck in place and got oneshot by an rpg.
I'm a wandering item hoarder, grinder, who uses items sparingly. I proudly admit that. To many games have tought me to always be prepared, because I rather not start the game over again in case I get stuck with a cheap boss, or level obstacles.
This list was absolutely amazing. The voiceover, the dialogues and the entries. We all experienced every single one of these. The falling sleep made me laugh hard because it’s fun to know it happened to others too.
There's an alternative to the number 1 tho: games that don't shut down cleanly, so you can gain extra hours without being in the same room as the computer
Re:Hoarding. I turned Windhelm in Skyrim into my designated trash dump. It started off as a pile of items I didn't want (after the shopkeepers ran out of money) but picked up anyway in a corner near the entrance... Eventually it became a side goal...to pick up EVERYTHING elsewhere in the world and bring it back to Windhelm and dump it in town. Soon everything was knee deep in discarded items and my computer was practically choking while trying to render all of the extra objects. Watching the NPCs try to move around in it was worth it. And moving around the area sent items flying every which way, which for some reason amused me. It was worth it! Kinda. Okay, maybe I was bored at the time and had too much time on my hands.
The number of players that are willing to climb mountains, even if it's tedious, should tell developers that there is real demand for more interesting and more challenging traversal systems.
In most games traversal comes down to pushing the stick in the general direction you want to go. If the developers are feeling fancy they'll include a stamina system that occasionally has you let go of the sprint button. Many games even go in the opposite direction and include auto pilot systems.
If you are making something like an open world game where traversal is the primary mode of interaction you better make sure that it's engaging even without the context of collectables, quests, loot and world.
Some games make the thing you're climbing slippery in spots so you're slipping and sliding back.
I've climbed over so many mountains in Skyrim, I could become a real life climber.😂
@@brodriguez11000 in gta you can beat this by walking while aiming at spots like that
I've recently started playing Assassin's Creed Black Flag (which is, by turn, also my first AC game) and I'm absolutely in _love_ with the parkour traversal system. Sometimes I'll actually forego the quick travel and go the long way to an objective marker just for the fun of it.
Before I rage quit, that was also my favorite part of Batman Arkham City, just grappling from something, catching air and gliding around the city was an amazing experience ... right up until they put in enemy snipers to shoot you out of the sky and ruined it.
#2 its great when openworld rewards players exploration fueled by curiosity, mostly if its historical or lore significant like Odyssey and recent Hogwarts Legacy or environmental storytelling.
Thought it was funny that AC:Syndicate was the first thing shown for conquering the entire map before doing hardly any story, because that's literally the only game I've done that in.
Also, I have way more hours on the clock in certain games than I should, not because I fall asleep, but because I work from home mostly, my TV is only a few feet from my desk, and I turn on a game to just do little things in it here and there between tasks but mostly just stand there afk.
Doing the side-missions first is nearly always a good way to grind and get equipment and learn locations. The problem is games like Far Cry 6 which try to force rush you into the main campaign.
The "No health" thing in Capcom games is also for higher rating, which usually unlocks some awesome endgame weapon at the start of the game
In all honesty, the reason I do all the side quests first is so I can level up my character up for when I fight the final boss. Now granted, he or she is going to be leveled up as well, and that's ok. But I honestly don't like fighting the last boss with a low level character. I like to max my character out first.
Anyway, great content Falcon. You're one of the funniest narrators on TH-cam. I honestly appreciate your sense of humor. Very, very funny 😂
I like helping People that why i do every side mission i found and even roaing the world to see if there is any one in trouble
@@Red_dead_Redemption_4_Life I understand exactly what you mean. I'm the same way. I will deviate from the main quest in order to help someone too.
I get what you mean. Fighting the final boss, especially when their level scales up with yours, feels like such a massively more epic duel between two titans when you're at max level. Doing it when you're underleveled just feels like two normies having a beef.
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That's a really great perspective. Funny too. I honestly appreciate your comment. It helped me to see things in a new light.
@@Dargonhuman yeah! I couldn't agree more.
One thing i can't stop doing in video games like Skyrim, Sleeping dogs, and etc where you can get health or gear upgrades at earlier points where you don't really need them is just becoming as OP as possible at certain points just so i can single-handedly wipe out what's supposed to be a challenging enemy in only seconds. I don't think I've ever given the first dragon in skyrim a fair fight.
SAME HERE, I used to melt that dragon 😂 I treat the Souls series the same way throughout subsequent playthroughs. In every NG I’ve started in Elden ring since my first playthrough I have killed Margit in at most 5 hits.
@Seth Wright lol i lack the concentration and patience for fromsoft games. I'm surprised those games even let you do that.
Literally me with Hogwarts Legacy. As soon as you learn how to use your Ancient Magic moves (pretty early in the story), it's over for the bosses. Sure, it could take a few hits, but at least you're not sitting there having to actually fight them. Like I just did a side quest that involves a giant spider boss, and I 1-shot them with Ancient Magic. It was awesome, because with the spider enemies you get this move where you magically shrink them down to the size a normal muggle spider would be and then stomp them with your foot. Another time, I came up against a poacher or Ashwinder boss, and again 1-shot them with Ancient Magic. It's hilarious.
@@zyro8188 the answer is magic. Magic builds will allow you do to do that easy. Even in elden ring bosses just strugle with ANY form of ranged attack.
@@zyro8188 Yeah, the whole “These games are built to be hard” is really just a lie. There are some difficult sections but you can make their games as easy or as hard as you want to. If you do end up giving it a shot, just look up a few guides on how to get pretty OP early on and it’ll set you in the right direction. Fromsoft is my favorite developer of all time and I really think some of the veterans of the community are cringe as hell.. they purposefully make it sound harder than it is for brownie points, resulting in plenty of people who would love their games missing out on some awesome experiences.
Another top notch video. I do way too many of these things. The sleep one killed me. I too would rather play games instead of getting a good night's rest. Haha I have told myself so many times. "I'm just going to play a couple missions and then go to bed." Only to wake up hours later dead in the game, running in circles, or staring at the sky, the ground or a wall.
I was playing Diablo 3 with my gf and she kept asking "Does spinning in circles like that do anything?" "Why are you always doing that?"
2 things i have to add to this list :
Testing falling damage : Oh hey, i'm pretty high on this mountain, lets time to jump off.
Testing friendly fire : Oh hey, its a game with multiplayer, and i have a mate, can i hurts them?
I remember playing diablo 3 on the ps3. I was at the end of the dungeon and saw on the map that there was a dark spot. I walked all the way across the map to just have the whole map explored. I ended up finding a legendary item, and I checked every inch of every map from that point on.
I can't stop bullying NPCs in open world games since 2002.
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Haha I'm playing gta 4 right now and every time someone tries to get in I speed off 🤣
I’ve literally done all of these more than I can count 😅
With #2...I eat up every side quest and exploration, etc. It was fine up until I played ME2. I did not realize that there actually was a time limit for you to go through the omega relay and that certain members of your crew could die if you didn't move fast enough to do that.
Three things to check with every new game: can we switch off headbob/chrom ab/lens flare; can we skip the intro videos; can we remove cutscene letterboxing for 21:9. In that order.
It's an ongoing source of extreme puzzlement that devs put so much effort into making their games ugly and/or deeply irritating
Knocking people off cliffs in AC Odyssey was always fun
To go along with kicking things off ledges. I’m on Mass Effect 3 (first time playing the series) and nothing is more fun the using Throw ability once the force is maxed. Seeing bodies ragdoll across the room is too good
I think the best ability was Slam! Always crashed into enemies and then with the slow mo enabled, just took them out with a gun.
For number 2 it hits hard for me. When skyrim first came out i played it and just kept going through it not doing anything involving the main story besides going to whiterun and speaking with the jarell (i think thats how you spell it) once. Never went back to him till i almost hit level 60 complaining about how ive haven't seen a dargon yet while everyone else was saying they were everywhere
Side quests before story: in Falcom's Trails of games, a *lot* (a majority) of side content becomes unavailable once you do the story missions so its trained me to do side content first!
the thing about lights breaking or not in modern games is because in order to get a better environment, you'd have to bake lightmaps and reflection probes. Raytracing helps in that regard, but before that, all light bouncing and stuff was baked into the game, so shooting a light to turn it off would look absolutely weird when there's still some light bouncing off surfaces. Like, being in a completely dark room with a light you just shot, but still seeing reflections in shiny surfaces as if they were still being lit.
Old games didn't do reflections and lightmaps like those, so having a real-time light going off was a simple matter of disabling the component, or starting a coroutine for a flicker effect.
As for the hoarding, I think I've perfected this in Skyrim. My Lakeview Manor house is where I keep *everything* I'm not carrying, and I've taken it to the extreme. All the armors except the one I'm wearing are on display, along with every weapon I've collected. In the basement, I have a row of safes, and I have one for just potions, one for dragon bones and scales, one for ingots and other materials for forging, and one for documents that I've found. The potions and jewels are basically there if I need to sell them to get money, which I'm not in short supply of anyway, but I like knowing that I can if I have to. I did the same thing in Fallout 4 at my main settlement.
i used to play my skyrim like this, but with some mods, i made collecting some things not as needed because i had a mod that would make the crafting requirements not needed so i could virtually craft anything at any point in time.
which was great because i had another mod that allowed me to craft without needing a crafting station of any kind as it was all contained within one power, that mod was removed from the nexus for some unknown reason, but i still have my copies of the mod because it was damn valuable, especially with one of the other mods that allowed me to dismantle my various swords and axes and armor or whatever.
I do the same. I keep potions in a separate barrel. Ingredients in a separate barrel next to my alchemy lab. Ores next to the forge. Completely organized lol
Bethesda games in general are a hoarder's dream. I actually made my first New Vegas playthrough a "Loot the Mojave" run...
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Especially Fallout games, it's not too bad when it comes to the hoarding and games like the Elder Scrolls.
Number 3 is kinda solved in some of the latest game (hogwarts, ac valhalla/odissey) where you can simply change or customize the standard design from the gear based on the ones you have previously collected.
You forgot to mention the pleasure of using FusRohDa to not only push single enemies off a ledge, but also possibly launch groups as well.
I always check to see if there’s fall damage and, is like woah that almost killed me!
(Tells friends) they jump off the edge too!
13:48 That's what I'm doing right now, playing Nioh 2 while watching this video😂
I just wanted to lead with the fact that I am So glad I found your channel. Simply because you include Console gamers in your content; most channels seem to talk about only PC gaming, and I am strictly a console gamer. Also you are Spot On with your observations about how we react in different scenarios. Love this Channel!
Does anyone else go crazy trying to make cool outfits in games with different gear/armor? Like getting a cool jacket and then changing your whole outfit to match it better 😂
Watch Dog series.
RuneScape and it's endless cosmetic overrides...
There are times when I'll spend more time putting together just the right outfit from different bits and bobs of other sets than actually doing anything worthwhile like skilling, quests or dailies, and often it's because of one new cosmetic override they released. As a perfect example, they came out with an "Energized Arm Cannon" override for crossbows a while back and I spent several days unlocking other cosmetic sets and pieces to build a medieval fantasy Mega Man outfit around the cannons.
The shooting a couple rounds to be able to pick up ammo also comes from old games like Doom. If you wanted a hundred percent on the levels you'd want to collect all the ammo.
I'm starting to pick up the habit of clearing any room that I'm in. All treasures, all enemies killed, all secrets found, I will not move on until I'm 99% sure I haven't missed anything. And this goes beyond simple exploration, it takes me forever to get through most games.
My first playthrough on the RE4 remake nearly took me 20 hours to beat. Every chapter I'm extremely low on ammo cuz I'd just murder everything.
RE2 remake is what started that compulsion in those games - they practically begged you to adopt that mindset by color coding each room to indicate if you'd cleared it of collectibles or not, and if I remember correctly, they even added hidden map upgrades that would tell you exactly what was left to find in each room. Drove my OCD crazy.
It's funny because it's true 😂 It's always good to hear from Falcon.
I watched a lot of gameranx videos throughout the years. This is one hit the closest to home for sure. It’s like they read my mind, even all the game clips were from games I’ve played. Does gameranx stalk me or am I just a true gamer?
Watching this, laughing, saying "Yeah I do that" to every one except number 1. Loved the video! The other thing I do with red barrels, when I'm playing coop with my mate, is to shoot them when he goes near. So satisfying lol. He does it to me, so it's fair :)
10:41 Illusion of Gaia! I love when you pull out the really fun and overlooked titles, Falcon!
Killing innocent people in GTA...that's one of em
There's a sunken UFO in GTAV underwater in the northern part of the map, sooooo not entirely maddening. But you did hit the nail on the head with the joker scene. That's the best scene. I'll die on this hill. XD
That number 2 really sounds like me, i did that in far cry 6, i literally went around and collected everything all the while saying this game sucks compared to the other far cry masterpieces,
After it i didn't even Finnish the story because of how bad it was and i wished i had more to go collect or more fun stuff worth doing in the world, like deep sea diving exploring, deep sea fishing, wishing there was giant underwater monsters or dinosaurs out there, lol
I wish they would have made the fishing more important or added some kind of competition aspect to it like in far cry 5,
Same with hunting to make upgrades to pouches etc.
That was something sorely missed in far cry 6,
I had wished more weapons was available after getting them all in the open world, it just didn't feel like getting as many like it did in the other fc games,
Man, i really hope they make far cry 7 or sideline game, more like the other games in the series. Lol
I feel both attacked and seen.
I love that money burning scene with Joker, one of best ones.... :-D
Also leveling up thing can be bit of a double edged sword in games that will do level scaling and they overtune it, like Final Fantasy 8, I think, where you would just make game harder for yourself, if you grind.
Also button mashing while running for e came out of bunny hopping in old games, where it either made you go faster or was just thing you did to be harder to hit. Hence why I usually play with it whenever traversing in games where you don't get penalized for it with slowdown on landing or whatever.
Reason why minimap is so useful is just because it made things simpler. Though I definitely was guilty as hell for just rushing through with car, looking at minimap, oh, there is the spot, hit hadbrake bit too late and splash, mission failed because I hit and killed whatever NPC was waiting for me there... bonus points for game if it gives you second to be like, "he will get back up, it's fine" and then give you mission failed. Also sucks for games where you have to keep the car functional and the way you get to the end point is more of landing than driving there and direction is more upside down than wheels down so you can drive for the next part. And also it sucks if height representation on minimap is poor... like how was I supposed to know I will drive off the cliff because objective is lower... but I bet guys on the roof didn't expect to be killed by the car landing on them.
Also one I had from time when breakable objects in games were bit rare, was to just shoot everything to se if it will "break" or have broken model to replace it. That was always great. Soldier of Fortune was also great because you could blast off limbs.... so yeah, wasted a lot of ammo on corpses there too... probably not best thing to put on your CV though. :-D
I'm very tired,but I still want to see the video🎉
manual saving like 5 times to MAKE SURE i saved. usually comes from me doubting i actually saved so i save again. but yeah…
I'm a huge fan of the knock off ledges you can do in Saints Row, particularly 2 and 3. My record is something like a 500 foot fall when some enemy goon pissed me off and I didn't feel like wasting a bullet- the game even tells you how far they fall.
One more thing I can't stop? Watching gameranx!😅
Never stop
#1 Manually saving a game... then manually saving the game in the next save slot.
I will use EVERY save slot before overwriting a save.
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oh, if a game has a "quicksave" function, i will use it a LOT.
in Skyrim, i Quicksave before opening ANY door in a dungeon.
#6 is the reason I disabled the minimap instantly when starting Hogwarts Legacy. I really wanted to be looking at the world and not at the map! Also disabled the in-game waypoints and I had a wonderful time getting lost in the castle :D
The game did bring out how confusing a castles are and the Hogwarts castle would be if it existed like in the books.
I also turn off minimaps whenever possible. They are too useful and always end up dominating my experience.
This is Sparta.... Lol I love that kick on Odyssey Kassandra is fucking awesome
I know someone's going to mock me for mentioning the game's combat system but I will admit to falling asleep playing Arkham City and to a lesser degree Arkham Knight because I would play the endless fight mode in those games to try and challenge myself to get a high score because I enjoyed the freeflow combat system. Yeah I COULD just press one button to respond to everything but you're given other options and I find it fun.
That being said, any endlessly escalating combat encounter eventually gets to a point where you have no choice but to respond in the most efficient way possible to keep up with the frequency of attack and this has actually put me to sleep on several occasions. Sometimes I was just tired on top of this, but I often found I would reach some sort of equilibrium where I've resigned myself to responding the same way every time and I actually start to nod off because I'm just letting muscle memory respond and I'm not as engaged anymore.
I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing, I still like the combat in those games but it has made me show a bit more respect to a deeper combat system that keeps things freeform and also requires you to stay engaged the whole time. I think I've fallen asleep once playing Marvel's Spider-Man and that was just due to being tired.
Throwing the axe and retrieving it in GoW is something I can't stop doing
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Going the opposite direction of where the game tells you to go is exactly the reason why I found the ready player one story so unrealistic. Your telling me out of millions over several years of people playing not a single person tried to go in reverse on that race
Ngl in The Division 2 the propane tanks (which is their version of the red barrel) are actually placed in amazing spots that makes them genuinely useful in combat. One of the only games I’ve seen do that
One game where you MUST be a hoarder: This War of Mine. That game makes me want EVERYTHING that I can get my hands on.
Peak Falcon 💪 Also, I wish they still did the destroyable lights. That was such a nice touch.
"going left" was first used in the NES Metroid
following from mario , everyone would be used to scrolling 'left-to-right' , metroid broke this by spawning the player with a choice , but , ultimately you HAD to go left to collect an upgrade
and so , the trope continues , always look behind from spawn
20 - Ever play a game with red barrels that DON'T blow up!? There is something wrong in the world when that happens, another glitch in the matrix!
12 - You used to be able to call me one of those types but with the first Saint's Row way out in the upper left corner of the map, way out in the ocean, was a rock with the Volition logo on it and ever since then I felt justified to go WAY WAY WAAAAY off the beaten path. Looking for that elusive invisible wall. The Flat Earthers were right, man! We live under a dome!!
I love how many of these can be done in Skyrim too.
In Dead Island 2, there are certain zombies you can drop kick that kills them instantly, but the pure joy of watching them fly through the sky lifeless and in slow motion is addicting!!!
#16: Having the full FUS RO DAH and a hapless random assassin "finds me" on the side of a mountain. And he goes flying into Markarth (several miles away). Chef's kiss!
I can relate to every single one of em, like it's scary how relatable this is XD
I've never fallen asleep while playing a game, I have gotten tired when I use to play runescape back in the day but only because it's so boring.. Lol. But all the rest are pretty accurate
Number 15 is entirely describing me in any videogame with inventory limits and things to hoard. I'm gonna do it. And I'm gonna be encumbered. Quickly. Gets me killed in some games, but I still have that urge to collect everything.
I'm that guy who held onto the Master Ball in Pokemon games, even when trying to catch legendaries. Because, ya know... what if there's something stronger and better later that I want to use it on?
No ledge kick will *ever* be more satisfying than fighting The Wolf in AC Odyssey.
It's a boss fight, but it's on a ledge. I blocked his first attack, circled around, Spartan Kicked him into Hades. I will treasure that capture forever.
#15 is a HUGE problem! We don't use stuff because we never know if we'll NEED to!!! So much stuff doesn't tell you weather it's actually got any use at all. It's seriously annoying.