large missable content in video games
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The Golden Sun series has a single missable dungeon in the form of the Anemos Inner Sanctum in Golden Sun The Lost Age, on the GBA. Here you will find the last two summons of the game, Charon and Iris, as well as the strongest boss in the series, Dullahan. You can see the entrance to the dungeon normally but, to get into it you need to have collected all 72 Djinni throughout both games. There are 28 Djinni in Golden Sun and 44 Djinni in Golden Sun The Lost Age. Of the 28 Djinni in Golden Sun, only two are acquired automatically during the story, you meet the first when you leave your home town at the start of the game and the other comes with the Mercury/Water Adept that joins your team. The Djinni you do collect can be transferred over to Golden Sun The Lost Age through either a password or the GBA Link Cable. If you did not collect all 28 Djinni in Golden Sun, four random Djinni(one of each element and from those you missed) will be placed in differing spots in The Lost Age, so technically you can only transfer 24 Djinni over and still get access to the final dungeon.
However, there is also an item in Golden Sun called the Orb of Force which is required for a Djinni that is unique to Golden Sun The Lost Age. Now, while the game does push you extremely hard to getting the Orb of Force, it is actually entirely possible not to get it and the rest of the game is beatable without it. There is also no replacement for this item in Golden Sun The Lost Age. So if you, somehow(you'd almost have to be doing it intentionally in my opinion), miss this item in Golden Sun, you are straight up locked out of the final dungeon.
Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon, on the DS, is infamous within the fanbase for having several side chapters that require you to have let a lot of characters die and one of the chapters requires you to either not have recruited a specific character and/or not acquired Marth's best weapon. Each of these chapters comes with a replacement character and all but the first side chapter also has additional items, fairly good items at that, in them.
Is that really missable, though? It's the continuation of the story. I guess if you stopped playing after you beat the Elite Four the first time and never picked the game up again...
However, there is also an item in Golden Sun called the Orb of Force which is required for a Djinni that is unique to Golden Sun The Lost Age. Now, while the game does push you extremely hard to getting the Orb of Force, it is actually entirely possible not to get it and the rest of the game is beatable without it. There is also no replacement for this item in Golden Sun The Lost Age. So if you, somehow(you'd almost have to be doing it intentionally in my opinion), miss this item in Golden Sun, you are straight up locked out of the final dungeon.
Fire Emblem Shadow Dragon, on the DS, is infamous within the fanbase for having several side chapters that require you to have let a lot of characters die and one of the chapters requires you to either not have recruited a specific character and/or not acquired Marth's best weapon. Each of these chapters comes with a replacement character and all but the first side chapter also has additional items, fairly good items at that, in them.
Is that really missable, though? It's the continuation of the story. I guess if you stopped playing after you beat the Elite Four the first time and never picked the game up again...
Shadow Hearts constantly does shit like this.
There is an optional dungeon which further fleshes out the story and has a cool item that you don't normally get until much later. It's only available once you enter the mid-point dungeon, which also serves as a point of no return so you have to exit that dungeon and go find the optional one. And the optional one is unlocked only after answering a series of questions in a specific way, and you won't have any hint or idea you just unlocked it unless you look up a guide.
Some of Yuri's transformations too. To get the best one you need the penultimate one, which is also only available shortly before another point of no return, and is incredibly easy to miss.
There is an optional dungeon which further fleshes out the story and has a cool item that you don't normally get until much later. It's only available once you enter the mid-point dungeon, which also serves as a point of no return so you have to exit that dungeon and go find the optional one. And the optional one is unlocked only after answering a series of questions in a specific way, and you won't have any hint or idea you just unlocked it unless you look up a guide.
Some of Yuri's transformations too. To get the best one you need the penultimate one, which is also only available shortly before another point of no return, and is incredibly easy to miss.
Order of Eeclesia is kind of like this too. Other then it being a castlevania game, there's no reason to expect there's any more to unlock besides a good ending if you find all the villagers, some of whom are quite well hidden. The first time I beat it, I nearly didn't bother going back. Then I did, and was like… holy shit there's an entire castle section left!
There's also the hidden training grounds area which is easily missed if you can't be bothered to do the complicated puzzle section leading to its entrance.
If you ever go back to NSMB DS, you need to beat certain end-world bosses as Mini Mario. :)
I'd like to say star ocean 2. There are characters you can recruit along with their stories you'll never experience depending on whether you select Claude or Rena as the main character. Star Ocean 2 is a pretty big game that also has a lot of side content so it's not a trivial matter to start a new game with the other character you didn't choose.
Yeah, I feel like I have to use guides to not miss side areas. Typically I don't replay many games and I want to make sure my first play though is as comprehensive as possible.
There's a very important cutscene in Trails of Cold Steel II that not only you have to get some very specific items in very specific areas, but you also have to do it on New Game +.
Cold Steel III just assumes you've seen that cutscene and goes on it's way without explaining anything lol
Cold Steel III just assumes you've seen that cutscene and goes on it's way without explaining anything lol
Dragon Quest 11 S. Don't assume that after the credits roll that it's just some "post game content". It's literally the third act of the game.
This. Tales series is notorious for this, like Tales of Abyss.
Love the game, but you can easily miss stuff like artes and powerful weapons due to not backtracking at various times in-between story progress.
It's so sad how cdpr basically watered down what happened in the witcher 2 story when the witcher 3 came out. Like only a few characters you get to see again. A couple of big omessions are Iorveth and the Saskia.It's gotta be Witcher 2 - based on your decision in Act 1, the whole Act 2 is different and I mean DIFFERENT = different area, different quests, different characters, dialogs, choices, monsters, etc.. and based on that, Act 3 can look different (the same area, but the environment/map can have some differences) based on your decisions in Act 2.. and from the whole story you only get like 2/3 and if you want to knew all about the story and characters, you must play the game atleast 2 times and play through the two different Acts 2
You can be either in this military (Kaedweni) camp in Act 2...
... or you can end up being in this town - Vergen
And based on your choices in that act, the environment in Act 3 can have some interesting changes
The Trails in the Sky series does this in a subtle way. Almost every main plot action you take in the game ticks time forward, and all the NPCs in the game who you can reach will have new things to say - seeing every line of dialogue in the game is a truly herculean task.
i think hidden easter egg items are fine to be missable, but i absolutely despise "good vs evil" choice games
just give me everything you want the game to be please
just give me everything you want the game to be please
In addition, right during the huge mid-game cataclysmic event, if you don't select "No" a couple of times at the end of the escape, you won't be able to get back a certain character later on.
the first play through, I didn't even any idea you could wait for Shadow…. So I didn't.
played the entire back half of the game sad one of my guys died.
optional character deaths 🤣
Freaking retro games that punished you by not giving you the full game for playing on easy the thread.
You need a C+ support with Edelgard and talk to her in the monastery in a specific month to unlock it. Say yes to what she asks of you, and you get the option later in the game to switch to Crimson Flower.
So, basically, if you hang out with Edelgard, or fight by her side a lot, she gives you the offer to join her. If not, she won't. C+ is an easy enough rank to reach if you use meals to restore Motivation, anyway.
But yes, if you miss talking to her in that one month, or say no? You're stuck going to Silver Snow.
Agreed. Many Tales games are absolutely awful with that stuff, since it's not always entirely clear that a sidequest has a cutoff point, and that can lead to missing a lot of stuff (since some do build off of each other).
Abyss had a lot of this as did Vesperia from what I remember.
NieR: Automata after Route A (I.E. the first playthrough). 😭
The story isn't even close to over until you complete Routes B - E. Yet plenty of players are like "I beat that game and it was whatever" after seeing maybe 1/3 of the story.
The story isn't even close to over until you complete Routes B - E. Yet plenty of players are like "I beat that game and it was whatever" after seeing maybe 1/3 of the story.
The only characters that I'd really qualify for this are Stefan, Jill, and two characters that are only available on your second playthrough of the game. All the others are pretty standard Fire Emblem fare for recruitment.
And unlike P5R it's decidedly not one of the game's shining moments. It's also locked behind an absolute dumpster fire of a social link.
It's gotta be Witcher 2 - based on your decision in Act 1, the whole Act 2 is different and I mean DIFFERENT = different area, different quests, different characters, dialogs, choices, monsters, etc.. and based on that, Act 3 can look different (the same area, but the environment/map can have some differences) based on your decisions in Act 2.. and from the whole story you only get like 2/3 and if you want to knew all about the story and characters, you must play the game atleast 2 times and play through the two different Acts 2
You can be either in this military (Kaedweni) camp in Act 2...
... or you can end up being in this town - Vergen
And based on your choices in that act, the environment in Act 3 can have some interesting changes
I thought you could visit both camps?
All of the protagonist's characterization in Assassin's Creed 3 is relegated to optional side-quests. If you just blast through the main quest line, he's the most bland protagonist in the franchise.
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Oh, you right, I just replayed the game so I completely forgot I made this ;pI though I was going crazy lol:
What’s the biggest thing you’ve accidentally missed when playing a game?
This might be more so for choice based games, though even single player experiences allow you to miss the odd weapon or even a cutscene, curious to see if anyone has any. I’ve missed out on weapons many times, and in dragon age inquisition I even missed a companion at one point, without realising.www.resetera.com
Final Fantasy VI's World of Ruins is probably one of the best fit for this question. The strict minimum required to go reach the final area is to get the airship and that's kind of it, which needs only Celes, Sabin, Setzer, maybe Edgar (been a while, I forget)? And literally everything else is technically optional.
From's games often have entire areas hidden behind secrets such as illusory walls or convoluted side-quests:
Dark Souls: Great Hollow + Ash Lake, Painted World of Ariamis, the entire DLC
Dark Souls 2: Darklurker side-quest + boss, Vendrick boss fight
Dark Souls 3: Untended Graves, Archdragon Peak
Bloodborne: pre-Rom Yahar'gul, Cainhurst Castle, Upper Cathedral Ward
Sekiro: Ashina Outskirts in the end-game + Demon of Hatred boss, Hirata Estate v2 + Owl Father boss
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From's games often have entire areas hidden behind secrets such as illusory walls or convoluted side-quests:
Dark Souls: Great Hollow + Ash Lake, Painted World of Ariamis, the entire DLC
Dark Souls 2: Darklurker side-quest + boss, Vendrick boss fight
Dark Souls 3: Untended Graves, Archdragon Peak
Bloodborne: pre-Rom Yahar'gul, Cainhurst Castle, Upper Cathedral Ward
Sekiro: Ashina Outskirts in the end-game + Demon of Hatred boss, Hirata Estate v2 + Owl Father boss
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I'm afraid you heard wrong. The 3rd semester is some of the best content in the game.
I'm eagerly awaiting to replay it on PC, too. I liked the game a lot, but the frame rate and image quality on PS4 was nasty.
I missed a ton of content when I played FFVII as a kid. I didn't get Vincent, missed most of the good materia, missed a lot of limit breaks, totally skipped the chocobo breeding and racing (aside from the required bit), missed most of the ultimate weapons, etc. I basically had to spend hours and hours grinding in the crater just so that I could beat Sephiroth because I didn't have jack shit lol
I finally redeemed myself earlier this year and 100% completed the Steam version.
I finally redeemed myself earlier this year and 100% completed the Steam version.
You can and do, as part of each arc's narrative, but the visit is framed accordingly to the earlier choice and only permits access to a specific quest arc. Geralt does have to visit both, but whichever you start in provides specific narrative, characters, and quests that will not be accessible for people who started elsewhere. They both have their own narrative reveals too that aren't accessible in the other. For example, if you start at the Kaedweni camp instead of Vergen, you can never find out that
Saskia is the dragon
The last trimester is the best part of the game.
Yeah this was among the many issues I had with the game.
I'm really curious if ANYBODY found that level on accident. The circumstances for finding it are so specific that I really don't think it's possible that anyone found it without being told. If I remember right I don't think anything in the game actually points you in the right direction of completing that quest