2:45 A third way to defeat The End in MGS3, but this one requires you to be really, really quick. When The End first makes an appearance, you're some distance away and he's in his wheelchair. You get control of your character just as a minion takes the chair and wheels him away -- but if you're really quick with your sniper rifle, you can shoot an explosive barrel near them. Time it just right, and you blow it up (and them with it), and the game totally skips the fight.
If you do that, the game spawns a bunch of soldiers in the area that the boss fight would have been in. I seem to remember that it was generally considered harder than fighting The End, but you could do it if you wanted.
I think they were limiting the list to “in game rewards” as apposed to trophies. If we’re taking trophies you may as well include the Stanley Parable achievement for not playing the game for 5-10 years
Not sure how you figure that, @@tonywoodard3717. You have to leave Dead Rising on and open for _EIGHT_ hours. That's, like, soooo much more effort than just "one"🤣🤣
Stanley Parable has a couple of endings/trophies for waiting around doing nothing on different places, like the ending for never leaving your office at the start, or the easter egg interactions for waiting around on the broom closet. Also, there's a trophy for not even playing the game for 10 years
13:05 *Mike:* You'd think such an important enemy would put up more of a fight, but I guess his heart just wasn't in it. Sorry. *Narrator:* In fact, he wasn't sorry.
The World Ends With You. You get different kinds of experience depending on what you're doing and you get Shut Down Pin Points (SDPP) for turning the game off, letting time pass, and it's actually key to evolve pins to specific other pins.
Also, there are special enemies (noise) called “Pig Noise.” Each one is invincible aside from a single specific attack. They say it in a word bubble what you have to use. Except two; one Pig Noise is asleep, having the “sleeping Z” bubble instead. You beat it by putting your device to sleep.
The GameBoy game WarioLand 2 started the first level with Wario asleep in bed and an alarm-clock going off. You're supposed to get up and spend the first level tracking down the clock to smash the clock, but you could instead just not press anything for a couple of minutes, leaving Wario asleep. Doing so gets you not just a unique ending, but a path of 5 whole levels you can't reach in any other way leading up to that unique ending!
@pyrotempestwing me and my cousin spent days trying to find that route, we found it by accident. One day, we tried it for the nth time, taking turns in finding it, at his next turn I got an (semi wrong) idea and asked to play again, he denied it, and we started arguing, trying to yank the Game Boy from each other's hands, somehow not pushing any button, till we heard the jingle of "course clear" and both stared incredulously at the screen for a couple seconds. 😂😂
A great example is Final Fantasy V, the battle against Gogo the Mimic. He talks about you mimicking him, and then he mimics you, all the while a timer ticks down because the whole dungeon is underwater and your party is all holding their breath. So, how do you mimic a guy that is mimicking you? Do nothing! Eventually, let the timer just tick by for a couple minutes, and he'll congratulate you for showing the true essence of mimicry, and banish himself, granting you the mimic class, one of the two most powerful classes during the endgame.
I'm surprised no one has brought up the fight with Gogo in Final Fantasy V. You're supposed to beat him by doing literally nothing and then you get a crystal shard and the mime job. In fact, if you choose to fight normally, he's the strongest boss in the game.
He's definitely not the strongest boss in the game. 5 is when the series first introduced superbosses with Omega and Shinryu. Gogo is definitely tough but he's not even in the same league as Omega and Shinryu.
In undertale there's a three way branching path to choose from. One you pass by fighting monsters, one you pass by solving puzzles, and one that requires nothing of you, except that you wait for a full minute to unlock it.
Thank Goodness You're Here has an ending (and probably an achievement on consoles that have such things) if you wait in the Lord Mayor's office for 15min.
Fun fact: in order for dead rising to have a speed running community, the community uses a mod that allows you to fast forward time and make completing the story the goal. Otherwise, everyone would tie for any % world record by just standing still on the helipad
@Catheidan still, the way dead rising is designed just about any "reach the end of the game" category, the only time loss would be triggering too many load zones.
In Bug Fables, the bank awards you interest on your account every 15 minutes. Leave the game running long enough and you'll have enough to buy everything you could ever want with 90% of the story left.
The Witch’s House has an ending that can only be reached if you wait in the starting area where Viola wakes up from her nap for one real life hour so that the roses blocking the exit die.
I love Magical Melody, but it has 3 fairly silly notes you can get. You can get one for being broke (i think you have to wake up with less that 500g in your wallet), one for not talking to anyone for several days, and, obviously, the one you get for standing around and not touching the controller for several minutes
I call it the "buying something at the end of the day that needed every penny I had" note. As that's how I usually got Poor. I also generally got Lone Wolf without trying in the beginning when I'm more focused on pure profit and time saving.
I got the one for not talking to anyone because I'm not a social player, even with NPCs, I just like the farming and mining, etc. and unless I need to talk to someone, I don't bother.
3:11 I like how after he confirms he’s dead and drops him he goes back to putting both hands on his pistol and aiming at him like he doesn’t believe he’s really dead
That achievement is the only reason I haven't gone back to get any other achievements; I'm most of the way there. (Scratch that; the other reason I haven't gone back to play The Stanley Parable is because my computer broke, and this Chromebook I'm using can't properly use Steam, which is where my game is.)
In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex in the level Ghost Town, you have to race Crush in a minecart. If you don`t press any buttons at all the track takes you to the end faster than if you were actually trying.
In Bendy and the Dark Revival, there’s a different ending if you don’t stand up to get coffee in the very beginning of the game. It takes a lot of patience but it’s a thing
I can't remember which installment it is, but one of the Uncharted games has a trophy called "stage fright" you get it by not moving in a specific location for 15 minutes, named after a similar unfortunate freeze during a live demo during the launch media blitz - though that one was down to a technical glitch
How about collecting rent in Fable 2? Buy a house, rent it out to someone, and then just... do whatever. Play the game, don't play the game, Fable 2 doesn't care -- just like my real landlord, you get paid whether you fulfill any actual responsibilities or not. To say nothing (see what I did there?) of that game's final "boss fight"....
Fable 2? That's literally the best way to to save the world in *Fable 3.* Either do oddjobs and screw around, or just start collecting rent to pay for your army while keeping all of your promises/deals.
One slight inconvenience… you had to register your avatar with an Xbox account… The only reason I created a free Xbox account for that free Fable money, back in the day! 😂
There have been at least two expeditions in No Man’s Sky where there’s at least one milestone that’s just “look at the stars” or “reflect on being alone in a vast universe” or something.
I'd love to see Link on a night out in Newcastle. Gan doon the Bigg Market for a pint and a curry. I've seen him eat a dozen spicy dishes in a row when I'm trying to stack buffs, I know he's good for it.
Back in the 16-bits platformer days, not moving for a while only gave you impatient looks by the playable critter, and sometimes funny animations. Sonic was hardly the only one.
True, in ToeJam and Earl 1, you could just not push any buttons for awhile and they would literally fall asleep waiting then you'd need to keep pushing buttons to wake them up 😂
MIke on methods for killing Erich Soders in Hitman: "I'm not judging you. Do it in whatever way you feel comfortbale with killing a defensless old man" Says the man who tore Soders's internal organs apart with a robot spider!
In Portal 2 after Wheatley takes over, in the first test he's talking to you you can stand around for about a minute not doing the test for the achievement "You've made your point"
No The Stanley Parable, you get an award for not playing the game for TEN years! I seem to remember that you could get a pin that made things easier in the DS version of The World Ends With You by leaving the game for a week(?) But it's been a LOOOOooooong time since I played that game on the DS when it came out.
There's a part in Undertale where you have to choose a path to open the way forward. There's the warrior's path, which puts you through several fights, and the scholar's path (I think), which has a couple of puzzles. There's a third option hinted at by a sign nearby; if you just wait in that room for a few minutes, the pathway forward will open on its own.
The game "The World Ends With You" would reward players for turning off the console for long periods of time. Provided you had the proper pins in your inventory, they would give you massive amounts of exp for the amount of time you had the DS off, allowing you to be able to evolve special pins.
Props to the players who choose to do some of the time intensive rewards like in Dead Rising. It might seem trivial, but so much can go wrong when leaving your console, or PC on for days at a time. Unexpected shutdowns and reboots, power outages, etc.
At one point in Danganronpa, the only way to progress toward the games true ending during a trial is letting the timer run out without saying anything.
My friend made a game with an achievement called This Is The End... For Jim. To get it you have to own the game, but not play it for 27 years, 6 months, & 26 days, which is the length of time that Jim Morrison was alive. He's a strange guy.
It's a bit of a minor one, but in Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi for the Genesis there's a between level minigame where you're falling down a building and have to throw ninja stars at as many ninjas as possible. You COULD do your hardest to hit them for points or even a life up or 3 for doing it perfectly. Or you can just do nothing, wait for the minigame to end with 0 points, and you get an extra life.
Oh, that reminds me! In arcade games _Galaga '88_ and _Galaga Arrangement_ there's a secret bonus to be had if you do nothing during their "That's Galactic Dancin'" bonus rounds. Instead of shooting the waves of bugs as they move around, just watch them dance and you get a guaranteed chunk of points. If you have low firepower going in (just a single ship), it might even be more lucrative doing that than firing back.
The Hitman series has another do-nothing reward in Absolution. There’s an entire mission where you get a trophy for not killing the target at all and leaving him to die in the desert where you drop him off after the previous mission.
In Honkai Star Rail, the Let Her Cook achievement is given for listening to all of Hanya’s Idle Voicelines it’s not something you’d probably do unintentionally, and is a lot of waiting around to do
it's theoretically possible to get high tier weapons in Bravely Default/Second before the party fills out by just keeping the 3ds in sleep mode and only logging in to reorder your villagers in the reconstruction. while not fully doing nothing it gets pretty close
In The Stanley Parable there's an achievement for not playing the game for 5 years. 9:39, I ultrahanded my way towards the fire and used it's warmth, For the daytime, I just stayed in the shade I did have to move a bit but it was still hardly anything.
Two missed games come to mind after watching this: in the same vein of Far Cry 4, the quickest way to finish the game Thank Goodness You're Here is to sit in the mayor's office for 45 real minutes instead of going outside and doing progressively weirder and harder favors for everyone in town. The other one I think of is similar to Harvest Moon where, to get into a secret (required) base in EarthBound, you have to stand absolutely still for 5 minutes. And you can't touch the controller AT ALL, because even opening the menu will count as moving and you'll have to start the timer over to get in
I just spend the first three days in *DEAD RISING* racking up the *Zombie Genocide* achievement; I kill the convicts, take their jeep, then drive down into the maintenance tunnels, running down all of the zombies in my way. I *_do_* make sure I return to the parking lot above once smoke begins to appear beneath the jeep's hood. After which, I just nab another, which spawns _without_ the criminals in it. _(it does take a minute to run into the center of the park to hop into it)_
Considering the actual endings you get for actually playing FC4, the Crab Rangoon ending is probably the most happy of them. Much like FC5's ending where if you don't do anything when prompted to arrest Joseph, you just leave to come back later with reinforcements and you don't need to deal with the bleak af endings of FC5.
Thank Goodness You're Here has a secret ending by waiting in the mayor's office for your meeting with him, rather than going off to wander around the town.
I'm still amazed at the strength of The End...not only is he over 100 and uses a wheelchair, he's still strong enough at the end of his life to shoulder Snake and drag him back to the prison (multiple times, if Snake isn't stealthy enough) who knows how far away...solo.
Also, if you idle for a bit in Sonic CD, Sonic will shake his finger at you and peace out. Game over. A fun little Easter Egg, as far as I'm concerned.
Also, did you know there are some games where doing nothing is actually essential to winning? In the classic strategy game 'Global Thermonuclear War', the only winning move is NOT to play. Really makes you think.
I was thinking of the 1983 movie _WarGames,_ but Wikipedia's just informed me that it had a spin-off game called _WarGames: DEFCON 1_ in the late '90s. I guess we're both referencing the same franchise after all.
Why is bad guy in quotation marks? Some "Handsome Jack was right" edgelord nonsense? Pagan Min was a brutal dictator, the fact that he liked the player character doesn't mean he wasn't a monster.
I keep saying it. Someone At Crytek/Ubisoft really wants people to stop playing their games. When 3 of the last Far Cry games have all had the "good" ending locked behind, NOT PLAYING THE GAME, it makes you wonder.
It's worth considering that the end of the second game is (SPOILERS!) the main character of the first game telling the main character of the second game that their time is over, and the world is better off without them or people like them, and both characters offing themselves.
The method to enter Regice cave in Ruby/Sapphire should be in the list. And let The End die of old age isn't treated as a reward, inside and outside the game, on the contrary, it leaves you with a sense of emptiness and locks you out of any reward IIRC.
So, if the End lives off of Photosynthesis, why doesn't he ware less cloths like Quiet does? It would make things more efficient for him. Or maybe Kojima had a different reason for it, hmm?
The End's photosynthesis is partially integrated into his clothing, I think? And unlike Quiet, his lungs still work perfectly well on their own. Photosynthesis helps sustain him, but it's not the only force keeping him alive. The real reason, of course, is that Kojima writes women as though he's never actually met one in real life, and instead gets all his knowledge from terrible '80s action movies.
It's because, according to what I've heard, Kojima was attracted to the woman modeling for Quiet and therefore her super-skin "requires" her to be as exposed as inhumanly possible because he's a bit like those anime characters that we're supposed to pretend are funny and do good things to offset the creepy crap. Except for that one who isn't the world's ballerest martial artist old man or King of Frog Ninja or an ex-god or a teacher (to name a few), screw exactly that kid and no one else. In a world where Kojima knew how to write good, The End should be almost entirely covered in his symbiotic moss-stuff (excluding his head, and the palms of his hands for tactile sensation) and be deployed wearing naught but his boots, equipment harness, and a big ol' smile; he can wear clothes when not in the field, because he won't need to rely on his powers when not being active.
@@Amaritudinethe real-world natives who live around the setting for most of Phantom Pain tend to wear breathable fabrics in layers to protect from the elements, so there's literally no good in-universe explanation for Quiet. Unless the guy who had her created was the same horny bugger who decided that the animal mechs from 4 *needed* to be piloted by supermodels.
I need to put it out there that my first attempt at Sonic 1's special stage took over 20 minutes of bring stuck at the first corner, when my friend took over and then promptly missed the emerald at the end (after escaping the dreaded first corner)
An already short, but fun game to play, Thank goodness Youre Here, has a similar do nothing and beat the game thing. Once youve left your boss' office and officially started the game, once youre inside city hall, the receptionist tells you the mayor is busy. Just hang out for about 15 mins and the mayor will open his door and greet you, credits roll
The Braid cloud star piece is a frustrating one of these. There's hidden star pieces all over the different worlds and one of them is behind a cloud formation that you have to wait something like 2 hours to pass by and jump onto. 2 hours real time, no closing and coming back.
Thank Goodness You're Here has one as well! If you just stay in the lobby waiting for about five minutes, the mayor comes out and talks to you, skipping the whole game. You even get an achievement for it
friends from outside Xtra, i have always love your content, but i can´t even tell how many times i´ve heard abaut that moment in metal gear solid on your channel.
I thought Sonic would be the one guy who wouldn't put up with any of your time wasting shenanigans. After all he just quits if you don't push the buttons in a regular stage.
Packy, the robot cat who serves as the second opponent in Bust-A-Move 2/Puzzle Bobble 2, is bad enough at the game that you can win just by not touching the controller. Granted, it isn't a difficult enemy anyway, but still.
Bit of an oblique one, but Angelo Search in Final Fantasy 8. During battles, Rinoa's doggo will come in and "randomly" dig up items, including some that are rare, late game or great for refining. What and when is determined by one of 32 lists which activate after X number of checks. Each check happens once every 13.3 seconds meaning that if you enter a battle then open the PSX's disc tray (so that enemies cannot attack) and leave for several hours you can rack up some rare goodies in the early game. These are the same checks that are used to determine if Gilgamesh appears mid-battle so you need to get all of your item farming by the end of disc 3 (or just never get good ol' Gil).
In Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows, you can skip the entire fight against the Plague of Shadows, a shadowy form of Plague Knight and the boss just before the final boss, just by standing still and doing nothing.
Blasphemous 2 has an achievement about standing up in front of a specific tree for a while until you hear a voice. Also a quest for one specific and quite powerful spell requires you to stand up doing nothing at one specific location.
In Mass Effect 2, if you just stand around the AI Core room for awhile, doing nothing, you get the game's Ultimate Reward: Legion doing "The Robot" dance.
Mike answering the age old riddle of what sound if any something makes alone in the woods reminded me of Bart making the sound of one hand clapping. 😂😂😂
2:45 A third way to defeat The End in MGS3, but this one requires you to be really, really quick. When The End first makes an appearance, you're some distance away and he's in his wheelchair. You get control of your character just as a minion takes the chair and wheels him away -- but if you're really quick with your sniper rifle, you can shoot an explosive barrel near them. Time it just right, and you blow it up (and them with it), and the game totally skips the fight.
If you do that, the game spawns a bunch of soldiers in the area that the boss fight would have been in. I seem to remember that it was generally considered harder than fighting The End, but you could do it if you wanted.
if you do that keep in mind to move away right away because one of the wheels will fly at you.
The fact that the song playing over the credits after that FarCry 4 decision moment is 'Should I Stay or Should I Go?' is just... chef's kiss.
That's Shapiro's theme song and I can't here it without thinking otherwise
@@theshizl4400 Who?
@@OptimusSledge you're better off not knowing
If I shave, there will be stubble.
It I grow, it will be double.
So come on and let me know:
Should I shave or should I grow?
@@stone5against1
Yeah, Ben Shapiro _used_ to be based and cool, but now he's a whiny pansy...
I thought Stray- Productive Day would be on here. You get a whole silver trophy for letting the cat sleep for an hour
I mean you do have to leave the game on and open for a real hour without doing anything else so it kinda takes more effort than these
I think they were limiting the list to “in game rewards” as apposed to trophies. If we’re taking trophies you may as well include the Stanley Parable achievement for not playing the game for 5-10 years
@@TheWretchedOwlor the one in Uncharted 4 were they recreated the failed controller from the showcase
Not sure how you figure that, @@tonywoodard3717. You have to leave Dead Rising on and open for _EIGHT_ hours. That's, like, soooo much more effort than just "one"🤣🤣
Also for me the game quit on me during that hour. I was so mad. 😅
Stanley Parable has a couple of endings/trophies for waiting around doing nothing on different places, like the ending for never leaving your office at the start, or the easter egg interactions for waiting around on the broom closet. Also, there's a trophy for not even playing the game for 10 years
you dont have stay in office forever in and wait ins tanly parable, just close the door while your inside.
13:05 *Mike:* You'd think such an important enemy would put up more of a fight, but I guess his heart just wasn't in it. Sorry.
*Narrator:* In fact, he wasn't sorry.
I have a feeling that bit was written by Ellen :D
Is it really not doing anything, if you have walk up to him?
I fully expected a booooo. XD
Jane: (makes note on phone) Get Mike first.
Because that was a killer pun
"Patient deceased" straight into cheery Sonic the Hedgehog music was whiplash I was entirely unprepared for
The World Ends With You. You get different kinds of experience depending on what you're doing and you get Shut Down Pin Points (SDPP) for turning the game off, letting time pass, and it's actually key to evolve pins to specific other pins.
Ah, the touch grass feature.
Also, there are special enemies (noise) called “Pig Noise.” Each one is invincible aside from a single specific attack. They say it in a word bubble what you have to use. Except two; one Pig Noise is asleep, having the “sleeping Z” bubble instead. You beat it by putting your device to sleep.
@@Metal_Sign-Friday_Patchouli That sleeping pig confused me so much as a kid
@@shadow81818 SAME.
It also creeped me out a lot because it inexplicably died in its sleep.
Really sucked when you were playing on emulator
The GameBoy game WarioLand 2 started the first level with Wario asleep in bed and an alarm-clock going off. You're supposed to get up and spend the first level tracking down the clock to smash the clock, but you could instead just not press anything for a couple of minutes, leaving Wario asleep. Doing so gets you not just a unique ending, but a path of 5 whole levels you can't reach in any other way leading up to that unique ending!
WL2 has quite a few endings like that. And if iirc, you needed them all to fight the True Final Boss. But that one IS the only one that fits the bill.
@pyrotempestwing me and my cousin spent days trying to find that route, we found it by accident.
One day, we tried it for the nth time, taking turns in finding it, at his next turn I got an (semi wrong) idea and asked to play again, he denied it, and we started arguing, trying to yank the Game Boy from each other's hands, somehow not pushing any button, till we heard the jingle of "course clear" and both stared incredulously at the screen for a couple seconds. 😂😂
For the record, this timeout is much shorter if you've played the game before.
@@henke37 i think the time is decreased significantly if you get an ending before trying this one
This is what I was here for. Didn't know about the timeout reduction before but in retrospect it makes a lot of sense...
In the original Ruby and Sapphire, in order to unlock Regice, you have to wait in the room it exists in for 2 minutes without doing anything
As a kid, it took me two minutes just to decipher the Braille.
Oh this is why I never got Regice
Hey now, waiting is hard.
Sincerely,
An ADHD person.
A great example is Final Fantasy V, the battle against Gogo the Mimic. He talks about you mimicking him, and then he mimics you, all the while a timer ticks down because the whole dungeon is underwater and your party is all holding their breath.
So, how do you mimic a guy that is mimicking you? Do nothing! Eventually, let the timer just tick by for a couple minutes, and he'll congratulate you for showing the true essence of mimicry, and banish himself, granting you the mimic class, one of the two most powerful classes during the endgame.
7:48 imagine if you walked away from the game forgetting to pause, and you come back with 1 more note mysteriously 😂
I definitely did 😹 was very confused when I got back
This
I remember the thought
„Did I pause? Meeh will be alright I just saved!“…
15 min later
„OH how did that happen!?!?“
I'm surprised no one has brought up the fight with Gogo in Final Fantasy V. You're supposed to beat him by doing literally nothing and then you get a crystal shard and the mime job. In fact, if you choose to fight normally, he's the strongest boss in the game.
I came to the comments to add that considering it's one of the earliest examples of rewarding a player for inaction.
He's definitely not the strongest boss in the game. 5 is when the series first introduced superbosses with Omega and Shinryu. Gogo is definitely tough but he's not even in the same league as Omega and Shinryu.
And Final fantasy 6 has the wait for shadow, one of better characters.
In undertale there's a three way branching path to choose from. One you pass by fighting monsters, one you pass by solving puzzles, and one that requires nothing of you, except that you wait for a full minute to unlock it.
Really? Where?
Easteregg!! At 5:54 when the credits roll, the song is "Should i stay or should i go". A reference to the dilema faced at the aformentioned dilema.
I thought Stray would be on here. You let the cat nap for one hour and you get both a trophy and the cuteness of a cat sleeping in front of you.
Thank Goodness You're Here has an ending (and probably an achievement on consoles that have such things) if you wait in the Lord Mayor's office for 15min.
Fun fact: in order for dead rising to have a speed running community, the community uses a mod that allows you to fast forward time and make completing the story the goal. Otherwise, everyone would tie for any % world record by just standing still on the helipad
Hmm, that is a fun fact. 👍
The truest low% run ever.
There's tons of different speed runs, low percent is just one of them
@Catheidan still, the way dead rising is designed just about any "reach the end of the game" category, the only time loss would be triggering too many load zones.
Mike's whole thing when he's re-enacting The End's death made me laugh so loudly my dog gave me The Look.
i don't recall anything in MGS3 about race cars, why is Mike even here? just to give an excuse to keep him on the payroll...
In Bug Fables, the bank awards you interest on your account every 15 minutes. Leave the game running long enough and you'll have enough to buy everything you could ever want with 90% of the story left.
Did you say... Bug Fables?
BUG FABLES MENTIONED
The Witch’s House has an ending that can only be reached if you wait in the starting area where Viola wakes up from her nap for one real life hour so that the roses blocking the exit die.
It's even justified by the plot!
I love Magical Melody, but it has 3 fairly silly notes you can get. You can get one for being broke (i think you have to wake up with less that 500g in your wallet), one for not talking to anyone for several days, and, obviously, the one you get for standing around and not touching the controller for several minutes
I think I got the one for standing around cause I left to go use the bathroom lol
I call it the "buying something at the end of the day that needed every penny I had" note.
As that's how I usually got Poor.
I also generally got Lone Wolf without trying in the beginning when I'm more focused on pure profit and time saving.
I got the one for not talking to anyone because I'm not a social player, even with NPCs, I just like the farming and mining, etc. and unless I need to talk to someone, I don't bother.
3:11 I like how after he confirms he’s dead and drops him he goes back to putting both hands on his pistol and aiming at him like he doesn’t believe he’s really dead
Well, he came expecting a boss battle while the boss was already death, thats pretty disappointing.
@ he got blue balled
I mean hey, you never know when you've strolled into a boss fight that tricks you. Gotta be prepared just in case...
I wouldn't call it a generous reward, but The Stanley Parable wants you to not log in for 4 years to get one of its achievements.
I think Ultra Deluxe bumps that to 10 years lol
@@scottc5675 Yup, I'm on that grind to 10 years right now
That achievement is the only reason I haven't gone back to get any other achievements; I'm most of the way there.
(Scratch that; the other reason I haven't gone back to play The Stanley Parable is because my computer broke, and this Chromebook I'm using can't properly use Steam, which is where my game is.)
Got to load that up when I remember so I can get it.
@@doctorsam9200 ever consider devs just put that shit in to see what a sheep will do?
In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex in the level Ghost Town, you have to race Crush in a minecart. If you don`t press any buttons at all the track takes you to the end faster than if you were actually trying.
LMAO i love Smug Ellen so much. That little eyebrow twitch and wave? It's too good 🤣
How did you miss making the cat sleep for one continuous real-time hour in Stray? (Especially looking at you, Ellen)
Because getting you to comment on it drives engagement 😉
In Bendy and the Dark Revival, there’s a different ending if you don’t stand up to get coffee in the very beginning of the game. It takes a lot of patience but it’s a thing
I can't remember which installment it is, but one of the Uncharted games has a trophy called "stage fright" you get it by not moving in a specific location for 15 minutes, named after a similar unfortunate freeze during a live demo during the launch media blitz - though that one was down to a technical glitch
How about collecting rent in Fable 2? Buy a house, rent it out to someone, and then just... do whatever. Play the game, don't play the game, Fable 2 doesn't care -- just like my real landlord, you get paid whether you fulfill any actual responsibilities or not.
To say nothing (see what I did there?) of that game's final "boss fight"....
Fable 2? That's literally the best way to to save the world in *Fable 3.* Either do oddjobs and screw around, or just start collecting rent to pay for your army while keeping all of your promises/deals.
@@BuckyDStickman Just that you could take anyone by they hands and force them to join you (as well as your dog of course).
Also works a treat in Saints Row 3
One slight inconvenience… you had to register your avatar with an Xbox account… The only reason I created a free Xbox account for that free Fable money, back in the day! 😂
11:05 “soders that mean he’s dead?” i can’t lie this made me laugh quite hard
There have been at least two expeditions in No Man’s Sky where there’s at least one milestone that’s just “look at the stars” or “reflect on being alone in a vast universe” or something.
Hitman has another one. In the third game, during the England mission, if you wait too long another family member will kill your target for you.
You need to fix the poison equipment in the greenhouse for that to happen, though.
I'd love to see Link on a night out in Newcastle. Gan doon the Bigg Market for a pint and a curry. I've seen him eat a dozen spicy dishes in a row when I'm trying to stack buffs, I know he's good for it.
Back in the 16-bits platformer days, not moving for a while only gave you impatient looks by the playable critter, and sometimes funny animations. Sonic was hardly the only one.
True, in ToeJam and Earl 1, you could just not push any buttons for awhile and they would literally fall asleep waiting then you'd need to keep pushing buttons to wake them up 😂
I think Bubsy the Bobcat had an impatient animation where he bangs on the screen from inside the TV to get your attention.
MIke on methods for killing Erich Soders in Hitman: "I'm not judging you. Do it in whatever way you feel comfortbale with killing a defensless old man"
Says the man who tore Soders's internal organs apart with a robot spider!
He was a traitor and former assassin so we're not exactly taking out a hit on Mother Theresa over here
In Portal 2 after Wheatley takes over, in the first test he's talking to you you can stand around for about a minute not doing the test for the achievement "You've made your point"
No The Stanley Parable, you get an award for not playing the game for TEN years! I seem to remember that you could get a pin that made things easier in the DS version of The World Ends With You by leaving the game for a week(?) But it's been a LOOOOooooong time since I played that game on the DS when it came out.
Stanley Parable what what I was coming to say!
Oh boy, I can't wait to experience napsterblook's chill sesh again.
There's a part in Undertale where you have to choose a path to open the way forward. There's the warrior's path, which puts you through several fights, and the scholar's path (I think), which has a couple of puzzles. There's a third option hinted at by a sign nearby; if you just wait in that room for a few minutes, the pathway forward will open on its own.
The game "The World Ends With You" would reward players for turning off the console for long periods of time. Provided you had the proper pins in your inventory, they would give you massive amounts of exp for the amount of time you had the DS off, allowing you to be able to evolve special pins.
Props to the players who choose to do some of the time intensive rewards like in Dead Rising. It might seem trivial, but so much can go wrong when leaving your console, or PC on for days at a time. Unexpected shutdowns and reboots, power outages, etc.
10:40 during the heat test you can also just cling to the side of the rock that's in the shade.
I have seen this specific Solid Snake scene on this channel so many times -- and yet I am still not tired of it.
At one point in Danganronpa, the only way to progress toward the games true ending during a trial is letting the timer run out without saying anything.
Danganrompa V3, to be precise.
@@ammendum9044 I don't know what V3 means in this context but the thing I'm referring to is towards the end of the first game.
My friend made a game with an achievement called This Is The End... For Jim. To get it you have to own the game, but not play it for 27 years, 6 months, & 26 days, which is the length of time that Jim Morrison was alive. He's a strange guy.
Oh, what game is that?
It's a bit of a minor one, but in Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi for the Genesis there's a between level minigame where you're falling down a building and have to throw ninja stars at as many ninjas as possible. You COULD do your hardest to hit them for points or even a life up or 3 for doing it perfectly. Or you can just do nothing, wait for the minigame to end with 0 points, and you get an extra life.
Oh, that reminds me! In arcade games _Galaga '88_ and _Galaga Arrangement_ there's a secret bonus to be had if you do nothing during their "That's Galactic Dancin'" bonus rounds. Instead of shooting the waves of bugs as they move around, just watch them dance and you get a guaranteed chunk of points. If you have low firepower going in (just a single ship), it might even be more lucrative doing that than firing back.
That first entry requires a bit of ENDurance on your part...
The Hitman series has another do-nothing reward in Absolution. There’s an entire mission where you get a trophy for not killing the target at all and leaving him to die in the desert where you drop him off after the previous mission.
In Honkai Star Rail, the Let Her Cook achievement is given for listening to all of Hanya’s Idle Voicelines
it’s not something you’d probably do unintentionally, and is a lot of waiting around to do
it's theoretically possible to get high tier weapons in Bravely Default/Second before the party fills out by just keeping the 3ds in sleep mode and only logging in to reorder your villagers in the reconstruction. while not fully doing nothing it gets pretty close
i like the stanly parables "dont play our game for years" achievement
In The Stanley Parable there's an achievement for not playing the game for 5 years.
9:39, I ultrahanded my way towards the fire and used it's warmth, For the daytime, I just stayed in the shade I did have to move a bit but it was still hardly anything.
Remnant 2's second DLC makes you stand in a seemingly random spot of quicksand for a few minutes. The reward is a whole new character class :D
Two missed games come to mind after watching this: in the same vein of Far Cry 4, the quickest way to finish the game Thank Goodness You're Here is to sit in the mayor's office for 45 real minutes instead of going outside and doing progressively weirder and harder favors for everyone in town.
The other one I think of is similar to Harvest Moon where, to get into a secret (required) base in EarthBound, you have to stand absolutely still for 5 minutes. And you can't touch the controller AT ALL, because even opening the menu will count as moving and you'll have to start the timer over to get in
I just spend the first three days in *DEAD RISING* racking up the *Zombie Genocide* achievement; I kill the convicts, take their jeep, then drive down into the maintenance tunnels, running down all of the zombies in my way.
I *_do_* make sure I return to the parking lot above once smoke begins to appear beneath the jeep's hood. After which, I just nab another, which spawns _without_ the criminals in it.
_(it does take a minute to run into the center of the park to hop into it)_
That fireworks thing was oddly specific. Making plans for the 5th, maybe?
Arguably, the ending for Far Cry 4 in this video is the best ending
Bring it on Rahdo, I went to school when it was -60°F/-51°C!
(I never want to deal with that weather again…)
Considering the actual endings you get for actually playing FC4, the Crab Rangoon ending is probably the most happy of them. Much like FC5's ending where if you don't do anything when prompted to arrest Joseph, you just leave to come back later with reinforcements and you don't need to deal with the bleak af endings of FC5.
Thank Goodness You're Here has a secret ending by waiting in the mayor's office for your meeting with him, rather than going off to wander around the town.
I'm still amazed at the strength of The End...not only is he over 100 and uses a wheelchair, he's still strong enough at the end of his life to shoulder Snake and drag him back to the prison (multiple times, if Snake isn't stealthy enough) who knows how far away...solo.
Also, if you idle for a bit in Sonic CD, Sonic will shake his finger at you and peace out. Game over. A fun little Easter Egg, as far as I'm concerned.
Magical Melody was my childhood. I’m still upset I lost the game disc somehow
What about Goat Simulator 3? It rewards you for doing nothing for 5 minutes. On a specific yoga mat
The Sonic '06 reference had me laughing so hard...
This video was rewarding to watch, and I did it while doing absolutely nothing. Except eating breakfast. A truly meta-referential start to the day!
Also, did you know there are some games where doing nothing is actually essential to winning? In the classic strategy game 'Global Thermonuclear War', the only winning move is NOT to play.
Really makes you think.
Isn't that DEFCON?
I was thinking of the 1983 movie _WarGames,_ but Wikipedia's just informed me that it had a spin-off game called _WarGames: DEFCON 1_ in the late '90s. I guess we're both referencing the same franchise after all.
The Stanley parable achievement for not playing the game for five years
Still working on that one myself
That was spectacular. Mike's The End dying noise had me rolling! Excellent work, guys!
There's that bit in Shenmue where you have a Quicktime event with a stabby barber and you win by...not engaging with any of the quicktime prompts.
8:00 I initially heard this as stationary as in paper and was confused
The Sonic 06 joke came unexpected, but was really well placed :D
In the survivers defence they didn't fail to build a barricade. A crazy old lady broke down the barricade down for her stupid little dog
Oh come on, the dog ain't stupid. Poor traumatized pupper surrounded by those chompy dead corpses. I wanted to save the doggo. Her owner, though, ugh
Sassy Mike at the end screen killed me 😂
Stanley Parable's "Go Outside" achievement - Don't play the game for 5 years
a Far Cry 4 DLC where you join the "bad guy" would be so fun
Razor Ramon?!?
Both endings where you don't just wait for Uncle Pagan see you join the bad guy.
Why is bad guy in quotation marks? Some "Handsome Jack was right" edgelord nonsense? Pagan Min was a brutal dictator, the fact that he liked the player character doesn't mean he wasn't a monster.
@@Veladus Because the other two choices are worse.
Great ending to the video😂
Some Monkey Island games give Guybrush quite literally an ending for doing nothing at a certain point.
I keep saying it. Someone At Crytek/Ubisoft really wants people to stop playing their games. When 3 of the last Far Cry games have all had the "good" ending locked behind, NOT PLAYING THE GAME, it makes you wonder.
It's worth considering that the end of the second game is (SPOILERS!) the main character of the first game telling the main character of the second game that their time is over, and the world is better off without them or people like them, and both characters offing themselves.
That jab at Sonic 2016 and the ending, perfect 🤣
I really enjoyed your jokes in this one, more than even normally. Great job Mike & Ellen :D
Hahahahhaaa loved the outro so much. And the transitions are gold as always xD
The method to enter Regice cave in Ruby/Sapphire should be in the list.
And let The End die of old age isn't treated as a reward, inside and outside the game, on the contrary, it leaves you with a sense of emptiness and locks you out of any reward IIRC.
I am LOVING the new background! I instinctively squinted as i clicked in preparation for the blinding white. Binging at 10pm in the US. Love you all!
So, if the End lives off of Photosynthesis, why doesn't he ware less cloths like Quiet does? It would make things more efficient for him. Or maybe Kojima had a different reason for it, hmm?
The End's photosynthesis is partially integrated into his clothing, I think? And unlike Quiet, his lungs still work perfectly well on their own. Photosynthesis helps sustain him, but it's not the only force keeping him alive.
The real reason, of course, is that Kojima writes women as though he's never actually met one in real life, and instead gets all his knowledge from terrible '80s action movies.
It's because, according to what I've heard, Kojima was attracted to the woman modeling for Quiet and therefore her super-skin "requires" her to be as exposed as inhumanly possible because he's a bit like those anime characters that we're supposed to pretend are funny and do good things to offset the creepy crap. Except for that one who isn't the world's ballerest martial artist old man or King of Frog Ninja or an ex-god or a teacher (to name a few), screw exactly that kid and no one else.
In a world where Kojima knew how to write good, The End should be almost entirely covered in his symbiotic moss-stuff (excluding his head, and the palms of his hands for tactile sensation) and be deployed wearing naught but his boots, equipment harness, and a big ol' smile; he can wear clothes when not in the field, because he won't need to rely on his powers when not being active.
@@Amaritudinethe real-world natives who live around the setting for most of Phantom Pain tend to wear breathable fabrics in layers to protect from the elements, so there's literally no good in-universe explanation for Quiet. Unless the guy who had her created was the same horny bugger who decided that the animal mechs from 4 *needed* to be piloted by supermodels.
I need to put it out there that my first attempt at Sonic 1's special stage took over 20 minutes of bring stuck at the first corner, when my friend took over and then promptly missed the emerald at the end (after escaping the dreaded first corner)
🎉 🎉 Newcastle mentioned 🎉 🎉
Howay!
17:37 I expected it to be the segue into the "here's more videos for you to watch" outro hahaha
An already short, but fun game to play, Thank goodness Youre Here, has a similar do nothing and beat the game thing. Once youve left your boss' office and officially started the game, once youre inside city hall, the receptionist tells you the mayor is busy. Just hang out for about 15 mins and the mayor will open his door and greet you, credits roll
The Braid cloud star piece is a frustrating one of these. There's hidden star pieces all over the different worlds and one of them is behind a cloud formation that you have to wait something like 2 hours to pass by and jump onto. 2 hours real time, no closing and coming back.
Thank Goodness You're Here has one as well! If you just stay in the lobby waiting for about five minutes, the mayor comes out and talks to you, skipping the whole game. You even get an achievement for it
Don't be sorry Mike, that heart pun was great haha
friends from outside Xtra, i have always love your content, but i can´t even tell how many times i´ve heard abaut that moment in metal gear solid on your channel.
I thought Sonic would be the one guy who wouldn't put up with any of your time wasting shenanigans. After all he just quits if you don't push the buttons in a regular stage.
Packy, the robot cat who serves as the second opponent in Bust-A-Move 2/Puzzle Bobble 2, is bad enough at the game that you can win just by not touching the controller. Granted, it isn't a difficult enemy anyway, but still.
I love the pun that is Stationary note
Bit of an oblique one, but Angelo Search in Final Fantasy 8. During battles, Rinoa's doggo will come in and "randomly" dig up items, including some that are rare, late game or great for refining. What and when is determined by one of 32 lists which activate after X number of checks. Each check happens once every 13.3 seconds meaning that if you enter a battle then open the PSX's disc tray (so that enemies cannot attack) and leave for several hours you can rack up some rare goodies in the early game.
These are the same checks that are used to determine if Gilgamesh appears mid-battle so you need to get all of your item farming by the end of disc 3 (or just never get good ol' Gil).
Makes sense. Whenever I play FF8, I immediately get the overwhelming urge to pop the disc out and leave.
In Shovel Knight: Plague of Shadows, you can skip the entire fight against the Plague of Shadows, a shadowy form of Plague Knight and the boss just before the final boss, just by standing still and doing nothing.
Blasphemous 2 has an achievement about standing up in front of a specific tree for a while until you hear a voice. Also a quest for one specific and quite powerful spell requires you to stand up doing nothing at one specific location.
4:12 Everytime I hear "Should I Stay or Should I Go" I think back to Pagan Ming
In Mass Effect 2, if you just stand around the AI Core room for awhile, doing nothing, you get the game's Ultimate Reward: Legion doing "The Robot" dance.
Mike answering the age old riddle of what sound if any something makes alone in the woods reminded me of Bart making the sound of one hand clapping. 😂😂😂