I've been replaying shadow the hedgehog this week, and I forgot you needed to play through this game 10 times to achieve the last story. It don't help the game is a very dull collectathon either. Either way, padding in the worst possible way.
What is the worst padding you’ve ever seen in a game?
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FFVIIR
this is how it feels to me
edit: I really like FFVII R for what it is peeps... no disrespect... It just feels like square put 160% when they could have done 115% and no one would have complained.
if we're talking about just general filler... I've felt the xenoblade games hava a lot of fluff in the sidequests... and also FFXV... I feel like it's a modern game problem
this is how it feels to me
edit: I really like FFVII R for what it is peeps... no disrespect... It just feels like square put 160% when they could have done 115% and no one would have complained.
if we're talking about just general filler... I've felt the xenoblade games hava a lot of fluff in the sidequests... and also FFXV... I feel like it's a modern game problem
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It would be an exaggeration to bring up stuff in Final Fantasy 7 Remake, but it's fresh on my mind. It's not the worst though....
Would Bravely Default count? It's at least part of the plot, so I don't know.
Would Bravely Default count? It's at least part of the plot, so I don't know.
Awful backtracking and an even worse escort mission to artificially inflate the length of Silent Hill 4.
LOL Wow. Although the 2000s was also the time of FF10-2. Not necessarily padding, but the conditions to get the real ending were just absurd!
Skyward Sword had a awful amount of the worst I've seen.
- The tears trials
- The Scrapper escort mission
- The Imprisoned
- The tears trials
- The Scrapper escort mission
- The Imprisoned
Most egregious offenders:
1) Guarma section of RDR2. Ranch hand busy work at the start of Epilogue One in RDR2. Both dreadful episodes that made me want to drop the game.
2) Walking sections and Nate As A Child sections of Uncharted 4. Absolutely fucking awful and not what I signed up for.
1) Guarma section of RDR2. Ranch hand busy work at the start of Epilogue One in RDR2. Both dreadful episodes that made me want to drop the game.
2) Walking sections and Nate As A Child sections of Uncharted 4. Absolutely fucking awful and not what I signed up for.
FFVIIR
this is how it feels to me
if we're talking about just general filler... I've felt the xenoblade games hava a lot of fluff in the sidequests... and also FFXV... I feel like it's a modern game problem
Xenoblade games are awesome, outside X for obvious reasons. But most of the side stuff is optional, they're all killer no filler in terms of main story.
FFXV just isn't complete, if anything the game needs padding lol
Can't really think of any. Since i usually like 95% of the games i play, padding just means more of the game i like to play for me lol.
When that water dragon made me find those goddamn music notes for no reason I knew that someone at Nintendo was giving me a middle finger.
Hate to say it, but there is a lot of completely needless padding of quests in the Witcher 3, that feel put in there just for the sake of being long. The thing that sticks out in my mind is when you finally
find Ciri in the island, you have to first find like 5 dwarves on the island or something for no reason. It never comes up again and has no bearing on the plot. Plus it really kills the moment of finding Ciri.
May not be the worst but close to the end of Wind Waker, having to find those Triforce pieces felt real unnecessary.
Triforce Shards and Charts in the original GCN version of Wind Waker.
[EDIT: lol, the post above!]
[EDIT: lol, the post above!]
Lightning Returns is almost entirely filler/padding.
It has about five hours of main quests and 30 hours of doing silly underdeveloped side quests and creature farming for drops.
It has about five hours of main quests and 30 hours of doing silly underdeveloped side quests and creature farming for drops.
I love the xenoblade games Especially X haha
Maybe I misunderstand the padding then... if we're talking main story then I guess I'll stick with FFVII remake
People complaining about FFVIIR don't know what padding means.FFVIIR
this is how it feels to me
if we're talking about just general filler... I've felt the xenoblade games hava a lot of fluff in the sidequests... and also FFXV... I feel like it's a modern game problem
Come to think of it, I'm surprised SE haven't used remasters of the FF XIII trilogy as literal padding of their games lineup this gen.
FFVIIR
this is how it feels to me
if we're talking about just general filler... I've felt the xenoblade games hava a lot of fluff in the sidequests... and also FFXV... I feel like it's a modern game problem
Someone needs to tell whoever made this image that the original FF7 remastered is on the PS Store, Steam And Switch right now and they can play it wherever they want. Seems like thats what they're looking for.
While I've my issues with BotW, I honestly can't say that all that is padding. It's totally optional.
I think most people refer to padding to activities you're forced to do in order to advance the story/plot.
BotW is the literal antithesis of padding. You can run straight up to the final boss right after the tutorial.
unnecessary new characters and weird nonsensical battles? ... look some of it is even really enjoyable but it's 5 hours of filler between getting off the train and getting to tifa's place... lol... somehow they managed to turn 5 minutes into 5 hours... amazing really. This whole game is a pad so they can buy themselves time in making the rest of it... haha... I'm not how anyone could think that it doesn't have padding when it's whole existence is to pad out the experience across multiple releases.
Like I said I like it... but its all over the place.
This. I really enjoyed ToX and I wish ToX2 never existed (or that I didn't waste my time playing it).
The Library is probably most people's first reaction, especially from Halo itself, but I'd pick Assault on the Control Room first (at least, I think that's the one).
Something like half a dozen copy/pasted bridges and room segments that you get to go through - and then in a later level you replay the same goddamn thing but backwards.
Something like half a dozen copy/pasted bridges and room segments that you get to go through - and then in a later level you replay the same goddamn thing but backwards.
Arkham Knight Riddler boss fight. You solve all the side mission challenges then the boss fight starts. He takes like one hit and leaves and goes "haha! I won't ACTUALLY fight you until you find all my trophies!" Go fuck yourself, Riddler. Fight me.
Besides, the added content does add important stuff so it's not like it's not enjoyable. What can anyone tell me about Biggs from the original FF7?
I wouldn't call FF7 filler heavy. The same sections are there, they're just much longer than they were originally (like the junkyard and the 2nd reactor being a couple of screens as opposed to half hour to an hour long actual levels). There are side missions sure but you could skip most of those if you really needed to. If the game was the exact same length there would be so many more complaints.FFVIIR
this is how it feels to me
if we're talking about just general filler... I've felt the xenoblade games hava a lot of fluff in the sidequests... and also FFXV... I feel like it's a modern game problem
Besides, the added content does add important stuff so it's not like it's not enjoyable. What can anyone tell me about Biggs from the original FF7?