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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 63 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would do this on Fallout and Silent Storm. And I resumed the main quest, my character was so overpowered and overgeared the main game became "almost" too easy. To compensate, I would wreck havoc, chaos and mayem at every chance I got.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is exactly why so many of us end up as murder-hobos on so many play-throughs of various games. It sucks when the devs fail to catch that an early side-quest reward makes the game too easy, or on the flip-side insanely difficult for failing to complete it.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago (7 children)

That murder-hobo part. I never really understood the expression.

Yes, I would willingly deviate from the main story line the moment I could but I wouldn't go on a murder rampage, killing everything and anything in site.

On Silent Storm I would go on a random encounter spree, killing enemies as supppsed, but I never targeted NPCs. And in Fallout I'd roam the map for random encounters as well but, again, hostiles were fair game, NPCs weren't.

And to my understanding, the murder-hobo thing was coined because some players would destroy and kill anything in their path.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That murder-hobo part. I never really understood the expression.

It stems from the typical RPG dungeon-raiding parties since the times of Dungeons and Dragons. You have a group of homeless people (hobos), traveling from place to place, killing (murder) almost everything that crosses their path in order to collect treasure.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Today I learned.

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[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

For me it's more that I no longer reset to try the stealth option again. Technically still stealth if there are no surviving witnesses.

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[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 23 points 10 months ago

Main questline? What main questline? What do you mean I'm supposed to find my dad/son/attempted killer?

[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You better pray for a cut-scene to save ju after i completely destroy you in a manner of second.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I read that in an Austrian accent. In my head, of course.

[–] ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah baby, just the way I like my games. Side quests with a...side of main quests.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

One day I will finish Skyrim main

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I kinda doubt I'll actually finish Fallout 4. I know how it ends, and the fact that nothing I do matters is unsatisfying

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[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago
[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

The World Eater swiftly put in its humble place by the Cheese Eater.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

"You have all the power in the world, can slice through a steel army like butter, but tell me adventure, can you break a locked door?"

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 10 months ago

"You will never defeat... MY WAIST HIGH SHRUBBERY!"

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Aw, damn it. I'm the legendary hero saving the world from an unprecedented threat, but I just can't seem to get past this TREE in the middle of the road! This immovable obstacle is the one thing halting me in my quest!

...What do you mean, "just go around it"? Blasphemy!

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Level 100 on all six Pokémons

Some even learned HM01, CUT

Press A on the road block

[–] NotADharkInAManSuit@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This made me think of Crisis Core.

My stats could literally go no higher, even after breaking the stat parameters, every attack I did inflicted every status ailment including death, I killed the god of the life stream, I was the apex of stats, skills, and equipment. And then a bunch of Shinra chaff kill me. I literally killed god, and other gods, and Sephiroth at his prime, but was taken out by frontline infantry. #justiceforzack

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Or when the characters forget about their bag full of revive potions as they watch their beloved companions die. It's not like the potions are rare or unique, every store in the world sells them, even your car sells them in FF15.

The enemies clearly know about them too, how else would you explain the unlimited supply soldiers and monsters we use to grind levels?

[–] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This is how I play Elden ring and every Zelda game ever known to man. You just don’t want them to end.

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't even remember the end of Skyrim. Maybe I never did.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's pretty memorable. You go to Skyhalla, kill a bunch of dragons.

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Got vague memories of riding a dragon, that's probably the one. Daedric quests were more memorable. 500+ hours of side quests washed over it ig.

[–] Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's the dragonborn dlc you're remembering I believe

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago

Ah damn, never finished the game ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

You do have to capture a dragon in Whiterun before you get to Valhallarim, I think you ride him towards the whatever it was temple before ascending to the next plane of existence

AFAIR, the dragonborn DLC got you fighting the OG dragonborn in a place that really looked like a daedric quest, with one of the dungeons being green/black slime and books or something like that

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

That would be Solstheim, connected to Morrowind.

[–] Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's correct, with the dragon born dlc you also got a shout called bend will (or similar name) which allowed you to make dragons land for you and ride them, they just sorta fly around in circles and attempt to attack things on the ground if you tell it to. But yeah that's what I was referring to, I'd actually forgotten abt the captured dragon whenever I play I avoid the main questline the entire time

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've got a ridiculous amount of time in Skyrim and never finished the main quest.

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago

The only reason I finished the main questline 15 years late was because I got a house in the anniversary update that had a display case for the Dragon Priest Masks

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Exactly. The postgame gets so boring after a while, it's more fun to just make a new character and do all those side quests again.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 15 points 10 months ago

This is why I like games where you can finish the main quest and keep playing.

[–] MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's always really funny to me when games try and have NPCs talk about the main story or something. Like in every far cry game the first thing I do when given control is go and absolutely Max out my character and get all the unlocks and fast travel points I can before I start hitting stuff that's locked behind main story progression. The whole time I'm running around and unlocking towers and guns you'll get passing NPCs talking about the urgent thing that needs to happen right away.

Some devs are getting smarter about these things and only giving you a few side quests per main story quest finished so you have to progress through the main story to get all the powerful shit you want.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I love getting overpowered early on and coasting through the rest of the game. I'm also a junk collector and try to get as much stuff as I can so that whenever a new recipe opens up, I can make whatever my team needs and continue the coasting.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

In the skies above the mountain, darkness overcame pale
Then Mannimarco, Big Worm, felt his dismal powers fail

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

"Hey! Listen! Listen!" ~ I've survived entire lifetimes with that twittering into my ear to no avail. I am going to climb that mountain and will use every levitation hack that I know to make it happen.

[–] vin@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] galanthus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Vive le dirt!!!

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