I feel ya bro. But it’s best to just do that at the moment of getting to the choice so you don’t spoil anything far ahead. Just put in something like “Which is the best choice at *_insert choice in game here_* no spoilers”
Oh... if there’s a game I don’t want to spoil for myself, I’ll lock myself in my room, exile myself from social media until I finish it. It’s easy, fellas.
1. I did not know you could make hidden trophys visible... Thanks for that... 2. Overlevelling. I totally do that. My friend and I call it FFS or Final Fantasy Syndrom :-)
Especially if you're playing FF8 since enemies scale with you, so you can deff make your playthrough a nightmare. Diablo becomes one of the hardest bosses if you're overleveled or just decide to wait until later in the story to fight him, that's why I pop the battle as soon as I get his lamp.
I thought it was a requirement to start grinding early on in FF games :p yet the area just before the final battle in 7 is the fastest way to max out, assuming you found the w-item materia : /
2:06 0.0 That moment you just found out you could press square to reveal hidden trophies, how have i never known this? -,- I now wish i never did because ill be revealing them all.
I ruin branching RPGs (like Witcher 3) by looking up all the results of each choice you can make... really wish I didnt, but I cant live with myself unless I get the most good endings.
That is the most accurate thing, i gave the video a like because it was good but i was very surprised that reading all possible out comes of branching RPGs wasn't in it.
That's why I never played Detroit Become Human. Everytime I make a choice, I do that. It would have taken me 4 or 5 months to finish it bc I would keep looking up the outcomes of every choice.
I'm so guilty of the leaving games mid way through when a new one comes out then come back to it months later not having a clue what's going on or even the controls 😂😂😂
One way that I ALWAYS ruin games for myself is by being an obsessive completionist. (It's important to note that this doesn't the effect game itself so much as prevent you from wanting to go through it a second time, especially if it's a really long game.)
I feel that. Before I start a new game, I often look up: time on howlongtobeat for a rough time, and if there are any missable trophies in the game, and have a look into them if the game is longer (doing a second play-through of a 20 hour game is much more okay than a 200 hour game.)
True. Many people do not have enough free time to finish a game multiple times so it is good idea to try finishing as much as possible achievents/trophies on the first play through. :)
So true I always check the internet if there are missible trophies. If Not: lets's Play! If there are any I will check them, cause who has the time to play a 200+ hour RPG a second time for one Trophäen?
I noticed how I was ruining upcoming games for myself by obsessively looking up tons of videos akin to "50 things you missed in the trailer" or "newest info on mechanics and character for (game)" for any and all of the smallest tidbits of info that the internet could possibly provide. Then when the games came out I was surprised at how there wasn't as much surprise and novellty and wonder as there used to be in the olden days. Thankfully I realized what I was doing, and now I avoid information about games I like like a plague. I want to go in fresh and clueless as to what to expect. Every game that has burned itself into my memory was a game I played with 0 idea of what it is. I suggest you all do the same.
Hidden button options...i didn't know that was a thing either. I want a game where the hidden trophy requires you find a hidden option with button presses not named. Trophy: "find the secret feature"
I got all the way up to the last secret dungeon of FFXV. I've even landed the damn car and done the secret dungeon so I have the dodge item. I did all the prep, levelled up, got the items, and then... went and played God of War. I have no idea why, and now I really don't want to go spend hours on the peak challenge trying to remember the controls and enemy attacks.
@@kev1nno Yeah the no health items one. I had no idea a 100 floor dungeons existed until 2 hours into it and I realized it wasn't ending. I looked it up online and then had to cancel plans because like... I'm not bailing at level 60 of 100.
See and hearing about a new game you want, that’s my biggest problem. I got Horizon Zero Dawn when it released and sadly 2 years later still haven’t beaten it. My backlog of games it epic! Not sure I’ll ever finish some of the games I have. Thanks for the reminder Rob, great video by the way.
Not that I can talk, having an ever growing, never shrinking backlog of my own, but HZD doesn't deserve to be in anyone's backlog. Outstanding game. Please play it.
Agreed, I loved how virtually every final fantasy game seemed to have a spot you could max out levels on. Iirc, ff9 had one where you climb up onto this plateau and fight dragons in the middle or early part of the game and once you manage to survive a couple fights and gain some levels it turns into a huge boost for quite some time. Or getting a turbo controller for ff6 and setting up the narshe river run to an endless loop of auto attacks while you go and spend the rest of the day doing anything else. Come back and be 30 levels higher.
I did this near the start of FF12 (well it's a little into the story) on the ship part where you fight constant soldiers (no spoiling). You can keep farming for loot, XP and LP. It's great for getting a good earlyish start. I ended up really overleveled after spending a few hours there. Plus you can sell what you get from fight to make some gil.
I'm very guilty of watching my favorite RUclipsr do a walk-through a game I wasn't interested in getting them got it because it looked good and enjoyed it but already had it spoiled for me
Rob you have managed to blow my mind. I have nearly 8,400 trophies, including 85 platinums and I never knew you could see the hidden trophy descriptions by pressing square.
I completed MGS3 story in one night, up till 7am, when I was at school. That was a time when getting games of my own was a rare occasion. What a brilliant night it was though.
One for me is, when a game has random things to collect throughout the world. I cannot continue with the main story until I collect those random items first. For example, feathers or synchronization points in AC games. As soon it opens up I stop everything until every synchronization point is done. Unfortunately, It burns me out to the point when I'm finally done I stop playing the game for about a month.
SlevinCCX yeah I do same thing up to a point then I’m so tired of it I rush through a bit of storyline stuff and before I know it I missed out on upgrades cuz the beginning bullshit wore me out. Then I go back get it all rush through more and it’s over... 😂😂
Lol that montage of Rob killing NPCs in their sleep in Skyrim 😆😆😆 Also, I really relate to the over-leveling and deserting a half-finished game for a shiny new one
I've got answers to a couple of these. The one about coming back to a game later can be alleviated by just accepting you should restart the game. This way you're back at the difficulty point you belong. Unless it's a game with grinding in it, then you can just go back to some low level zone and brush off your skills. You still might just want to restart if you can't remember the story in the first place. Of course, preventing that to start with ties into the rushing thing. When a new game comes out, don't drop the old one at all. Spread out the gameplay between both games so that you can finish the old one, and savor the new one. I've been playing Kenshi for my channel but I also jump into other games I've had for a while on most nights.
I'm with Dave, I played Metal Gear Solid 2 without playing the first MGS. I had no idea what was happening. I've since replayed MGS2 with MGS1 under my belt...and I still have no idea what is happening!
Richard Matulis it’s okay the makers don’t either😂😂 Replay the first follow along, then play the second and third etc etc. each one has plot holes and such that get answered a whole game or two later. Some are forgotten about because it’s so complicated. Hahah
I tend to play through games solidly because I am a bit of a completionist, and love the detail. This means my backlog of games isn’t getting any smaller. Back in 05 when Tenchu Fatal Shadows came out, I put aside a whole weekend to play it. I did little else. I did just about finish the story in that time, but to then get top scores on everything and unlock all the items and skills and beat all the boss fights on three different levels took months of work. I did finish it, and now I’ve lost the data.
I do that too, to the point that not only am I truly overpowered when I get to the final boss, but I also have max quantities of every object I can carry, in case I need them. My sister often bullies me because of this.
The reason you have to look at hidden trophies is because of games that decide to hide trophies where you aren't guaranteed to get them just by playing through the game. I don't want to have to play through a huge chunk of the game a second time just because I didn't know that I had to do some particularly ridiculous thing, or because I had to go find something that I wasn't likely to know was even a thing without looking it up. Maybe someone who doesn't have a full time job or who doesn't play many games can afford to play through many games multiple times through, but I sure can't. I'm lucky to be able to play through them once. So, if I'm going to get the platinum, I have to look over all of the trophies and probably look up guides online just to make sure that I don't miss stuff. Caring about spoilers and caring about platinum are pretty much incompatible unless you're willing to play through the game once and _then_ play through it again using a guide to get what you missed. The hidden trophy that pissed me off the most though was the one for Red Dead Redemption 1 that required that you not get your horse from a hitching post for 20 missions straight. How on earth is that an _achievement_? It's just weird, and I don't know how anyone would ever end up doing it by accident. You have to plan for such nonsense, and they _hid_ it. And I had stupidly assumed that they just hid story trophies, so I can only get it by replaying something like a third of the game. Of course, I've never platinumed that game any way - and probably never will - because they were sufficiently jerkish to include multiplayer trophies - and worse, some of them require that you be consistently really good against other human opponents, and that's never happening. I might do decently but not well enough to get some of those trophies. If game developers only hid trophies that were story-related and unmissable, then I'd be fine with hidden trophies. As it is, they just piss me off.
I'm so guilty of #5, mostly because I start playing 1 game as a curiosity to a new franchise, then seeing the latest installment to another franchise that I've been hyped up for months finally gets released, then when I finish it, I go back to the other game just to fill the void I gave myself
I have a list of games that I'll never play but would recommend to others, often because I saw a playthrough on RUclips and it was amazing. Spyro, Undertale, Persona 5, Hollow Knight... I already know how it's going to end, what's the point? The streams are too fun to miss as well!
#5 happens to me ALL the time and I bash myself for it, seriously, you come back to the game after months and you are like "who is this", "Where am i", "where do I go", why is he bad", etc etc etc
after taking a break from cuphead (still at king dice level) I tried playing another game and after going back to cuphead ,I had lost all my reflexes and had forgotten boss attack patterns, still haven't played it since.. too lazy to.
Rpgs are the freaking worst for that...Don't want to finish It too quick and play something else?Better not wait too long bucko 'cause there's a lot of details that you'll forget that will make returning to that specific game a living hell -_-.
That's not only for coming back to games you haven't finished as well - I had that experience a few times with coming back for new content - most recently with Spider-man which I binged near release and then 4 months later finished up the DLC. 😊
I am INCREDIBLY guilty of not finishing games. Especially Metroidvania games. Outland, Guacamelee, and most recently Hollow Knight. All brilliant games, but once I haven't played them for awhile, I completely forget where I was or where I was going. And unlike open world sandbox games, those games rarely tell you where to go next. And you wind up having almost muscle memory for the layout of the levels. So if I take too long to play it again, I've not only forgotten all the survival techniques, but I'm completely lost on top of that.
2:35 So uh....I didn’t know you could actually do that ._. And now I’m going to do this on every new game I buy....why would you do me like this, Rob lmao
I managed to get Sekiro spoiled for me two days after release. And once you've been spoiled a bit, why not look up the rest of the plot on Wikipedia and TV Tropes? How else are you going to know how much of a spoiler the initial spoiler was?
I think all games should scale difficulty for story missions, that way the people rushing though the story and those who have wandered the world doing all the side missions get roughly the same experience. I'm tired of being punished with a lacklustre story mode challenge because I decided to experience everything the game was offering.
over-leveling... as this came on following your most recent Friday Feature, I was spelunking with a level 72 Skyrim character that had yet to even visit the Greybeards.
You can find items in Oblivion that grant a total of 100% damage reflection and 100% spell absorb. Trivializes combat, but allows you to do a pacifist run.
1) I never bother with trophies/achievements, so this one never applied to me. 2) I HAVE killed semi-important NPC's at times, but never the ones that I know I'll need. I've gotten stuck on certain quests before by killing people who I didn't know were important... 3) I use to overlevel a lot when I was younger. But, as I got older, I stopped having the time and patience to waste grinding out for that long. I think the Pokemon games are the only ones where I still do, albeit usually unintentionally. 4) I know I've played sequels before original games before, but they usually aren't ones that are heavy on continuous narratives. I think it comes down to not being interested in the originals at first but then a certain feature in the sequels catches my eye. I may then go back and look at the first one or not, it depends. 5) Yes. All the times, yes. I didn't beat Dark Souls for years because I kept getting distracted. Any long games run the real risk of running that. I still don't think I've actually beaten the story in Skyrim yet, despite sinking over a hundred hours into it. Then again, I also restart games partway through even when I don't get distracted by other ones. It's a problem... 6) Nope. I rarely rush through. In fact, I''m usually the opposite, taking part in every side-quest and spending weeks going through all the little things before ever getting through the main quests. See #6 for example involving Skyrim. 7) I'm usually pretty good at not watching games that I want to play, though I DO watch a lot of games I know that I'll never bother with.
I related to a few of these but entry 5 is so true to me. Sometimes I don't have the time to finish games or the patience. I think I only complete like 10% of my games now. As a kid I completed everything and always wanted more, I had too big an appetite and not enough games to satiate it, now as an adult my appetite is small and my plate overfilled with juicy juicy games, but I have had sufficient and just want to watch tv and fall into a nice food nap.
I honestly didn't know you could see the hidden trophies. I would only look them up after finishing the story of a game. I beat FFX-2 before FFX...but it didn't seem to spoil much about the actual events. Usually, if I return to a game after a break, I end up restarting the entire game over or take hours going through old areas and combing through the tutorials to remember what I'm supposed to be doing. Spoiling through Let's Play I've done a lot. Usually, for games, I didn't plan on getting, but after watching 1 or 2 parts of a Let's Play I decided to give it a shot. Some I watched the entire playthrough before trying. Though in the case of Last of Us, I still was able to feel the emotions even when knowing the conclusion. These are the ones I know I'm guilt of. Some others involve searching for puzzle solutions and how to get past bosses. These aren't huge spoilers but rather than get the sense of accomplishment for finishing on my own I will just find the solution so I can move onto the next part.
rwsthedemonking Mostly why I said this was because I watch the ending of Kingdom Hearts 3 before the game was release in Japan and everywhere else. And I spoiled myself.
Rob, I wait about a month after a game comes out so that i can read all the challenges out of games. Rdr2 I waited for lists of "hidden things to find" so I could "find them" and gloat to my friends about how I totally found them myself.
The Only game I ever really truly overleveled was borderlands 2, going into Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode the first time, you get wrecked, because although you might be level 55-60, your weapons are still only level 50-52, you get wrecked when you start that mode the first time because in UVHM enemies scale to your level, and they have bonuses to health and health regeneration.
I have to play them in order. I learned my lesson with Kingdom Hearts. I beat the first one but not the two after and before part 2. Didn't know what the hell was going on. Who was Rexxas? Lol so am going back to the other two to see what I missed
I know I'm late to this (didn't have wifi when the video came out), but regarding number four on this list, if a sequel comes out I obsessively need to play all its predecessors first, with the exceptions of God of War (I am still ashamed) and Skyrim. I even read all the Witcher novels before playing the games!
Judge Dredd is one of my favourite graphic novels, especially when he teamed up with Batman, kind of. NOT FOR CHILDREN I didn't know you could unhide hidden trophies
when he talked about a feeling of chucking your phone out the window i i dunno, i thought i was weird for ages and another guy said it and it made me smile thanks man
I got one. Constantly reloading old saves in RPGs so you can see all the possible outcomes of a situation before choosing which one to take. It takes the thrill out of choice because you know all the results.
You don't get that feeling of disappointment of not playing as Snake that way. I never got the hate until i learned Snake was in 3 or more games before
LEGENDS OF DRAGOON!! Good god man, that takes me back so far. Sharing the experience with a friend is probably much better then if you played it alone.
I've never been guilty of #1... not because I don't want to spoil a game, but simply because I didn't know you could. NOW I DO KNOW... Curse you Rob...
Point 5 resonated recently with me; just before The Division sequel came out, I decided to play some more of the original - completely forgetting the mechanics
Watching top ten (or seven) videos about a certain topic (top betrayals, top underdog stories, top plot twist, top games you were the villain all along, etc.) in videogames to look for ones you might like and spoiling half the story in the process.
The fifth entry really speaks to me. I keep doing that mostly because I have these fancies of just wanting to play one of my old games again so bad that I abandon the other one. Dragon's Dogma still lies atop my pile of shame to this day. I also play different games with my partner when he visits so I'm always scared to return to playing God of War every month because inbetween we switch to Atelier, Devil May Cry or old Wii games. It's a mess, but it's fun!
Lesser Spotted Mugwump. Nah man. I only mentioned my trophies cause only people who go for trophies would know about that option you’d think. Just saying I should have known but didn’t
Yea I'm guilty of a few of these... In one rpg I played, I took the same character from easy mode all the way to very hard mode in multiple new game +'s that when I got to very hard mode I was able to beat the final boss in 3 hits. I waited so long to get and play The Last Guardian, that when it finally came out, I played through the whole game in one sitting. I have yet to go back and replay it... I keep stopping new games to go back and play older games...I still haven't finished Yakuza 0 because I keep going back to play Witcher 3 again...same with a few other games ...I honestly had no idea you could reveal the hidden trophies like that...
@@Eaglesoars8891 because where do you learn that? And if you say manuals ain't nobody got time for that. Easier to look up on internet (and not have to do it for every trophy)
How about this one...watching a Friday Feature where Rob has explicitly mentioned he is going to spoil the story of a game you haven't played yet and might want to play if you get the chance, but still not skipping ahead. Tell me I'm not the only one.
I do the reveal hidden trophies too. Some of them aren't story-based though, so if you don't do it you may never get that trophy. Three hidden trophies in the Tomb Raider Definitive collection come to mind. Exhaust all the dialogue options with the endurance crew - Very easy to miss. Kill the crab on the beach which is another easy one to miss. There's one other, but can't recall it right now because I don't have that trophy lol
I played Dragon Quest Monsters 2 before any other Dragon Quest game. This is bad for two reasons. A: it's a sequel, and B: it's a spin-off title. But at the time I didn't even know where to FIND a copy of DQM1, and I didn't really care that it was a spin-off, it was simply that much fun. :D
Wow, I learned something new about trophies today, and as much as I can be a trophy hunter, I didn't know that I could use the square button to reveal secret trophies. Who knew? Also, very, very guilty of numbers 1, 3 (good lordy, very guilty), and 5 (EXTREMELY GUILTY, hello Assassin's Creed Odyssey). Another fantastic list, Rob!
Ugh, backlog. I've got many games across multiple systems that I need to start, want to get back to, or think I should finish. Many, many games, little, little energy to play through them.
10% of this comments section: "It's not Friday without Rob!!"
The other 90%: "YOU CAN REVEAL HIDDEN TROPHIES WITH SQUARE!?"
You know you made as a professional commenter when PSA "hearts" your comment. :D
Haha literally just commented I had no idea you could do this
Why do people did not yet dicovered square is for trophies revealing?
Well, I just discovered something new today.
Lmao, facts.
I'm guilty of researching the outcome of certain important story decisions in rpgs because I have to much anxiety about making a wrong decision.
I feel ya bro. But it’s best to just do that at the moment of getting to the choice so you don’t spoil anything far ahead.
Just put in something like “Which is the best choice at *_insert choice in game here_* no spoilers”
@@thequalitycomedian7842 Yeah, that's absolutely true and that's usually how I do it but thanks for the tip anyway. It's good advice. :)
I'm guilty of doing this also.
I didnt do that when playing Mass effects 2 so I didnt know that building up your ship is lifesaving.
You're 10 ply bud
Opening youtube and see a game's ending thumbnail and title on the day you just start playing
cough CALLOFTRYARCH cough
I just did that with Sekiro LOL!
Oh... if there’s a game I don’t want to spoil for myself, I’ll lock myself in my room, exile myself from social media until I finish it. It’s easy, fellas.
I unsubscribe from people that do that! No respect.
Happened for me with RDR2.
1. I did not know you could make hidden trophys visible... Thanks for that...
2. Overlevelling. I totally do that. My friend and I call it FFS or Final Fantasy Syndrom :-)
Especially if you're playing FF8 since enemies scale with you, so you can deff make your playthrough a nightmare. Diablo becomes one of the hardest bosses if you're overleveled or just decide to wait until later in the story to fight him, that's why I pop the battle as soon as I get his lamp.
ffs you got ffs
I thought it was a requirement to start grinding early on in FF games :p yet the area just before the final battle in 7 is the fastest way to max out, assuming you found the w-item materia : /
2:06 0.0 That moment you just found out you could press square to reveal hidden trophies, how have i never known this? -,- I now wish i never did because ill be revealing them all.
It was only added a couple of years ago
@@silvertayuun I've had my ps4 for 2 years.. I feel embarrassed for not knowing
Me too I had no idea you could reveal hidden trophies
Me too! What has Rob done
I too am guilty of this.
I ruin branching RPGs (like Witcher 3) by looking up all the results of each choice you can make... really wish I didnt, but I cant live with myself unless I get the most good endings.
OMG! I am not alone
That is the most accurate thing, i gave the video a like because it was good but i was very surprised that reading all possible out comes of branching RPGs wasn't in it.
That's why I never played Detroit Become Human. Everytime I make a choice, I do that. It would have taken me 4 or 5 months to finish it bc I would keep looking up the outcomes of every choice.
Oh, me too. It's gotten really bad after mass effect 2 for me.
Oh thats too relatable
I even did it for telltale games
I'm so guilty of the leaving games mid way through when a new one comes out then come back to it months later not having a clue what's going on or even the controls 😂😂😂
This is the trouble I'm having with the Witcher 3 still to this day 😅
That's why I nowadays play only one long game (and maybe one game that takes less than 20 hours to complete) at a time.
Wait what..... WHAT.... you can reveal hidden trophy information by pressing square..... WHAT
Daniel Aodh Bowles glad I’m not the only one!
Boy i was shocked too.
Yep I didn't know that either so useful rather than looking them up online
I'm sorry
yeeeppp only just learnt that now myself lool i was always googling them and now feeling like a right tool
One way that I ALWAYS ruin games for myself is by being an obsessive completionist. (It's important to note that this doesn't the effect game itself so much as prevent you from wanting to go through it a second time, especially if it's a really long game.)
I feel that. Before I start a new game, I often look up: time on howlongtobeat for a rough time, and if there are any missable trophies in the game, and have a look into them if the game is longer (doing a second play-through of a 20 hour game is much more okay than a 200 hour game.)
That happened when I played Horizon zero dawn the first time
But what if those hidden trophies are missable? You GOTTA know
True. Many people do not have enough free time to finish a game multiple times so it is good idea to try finishing as much as possible achievents/trophies on the first play through. :)
Yeah, that drives me nuts. I think in all fairness that missable trophies should never be hidden.
@@Pehmokettu True and many games are not even fun to play through more than once either.
So true
I always check the internet if there are missible trophies. If Not: lets's Play!
If there are any I will check them, cause who has the time to play a 200+ hour RPG a second time for one Trophäen?
Just got platin in Dragon Quest XI after I paused at the middle of the Game. So guilty as charged
I noticed how I was ruining upcoming games for myself by obsessively looking up tons of videos akin to "50 things you missed in the trailer" or "newest info on mechanics and character for (game)" for any and all of the smallest tidbits of info that the internet could possibly provide.
Then when the games came out I was surprised at how there wasn't as much surprise and novellty and wonder as there used to be in the olden days. Thankfully I realized what I was doing, and now I avoid information about games I like like a plague. I want to go in fresh and clueless as to what to expect. Every game that has burned itself into my memory was a game I played with 0 idea of what it is.
I suggest you all do the same.
Square to reveal hidden trophy information... you really do learn something new every day. 🤔
Whether be it good or bad.
@@hamzaayaz7482 ikr. It's some dangerous knowledge right there! Haha
Whatever emoji you used at the end doesn't register on my browser, so it appears as a text square. Contextually appropriate.
@@gagejoseph91lol. It was the smiley that thinks a lot.
I'm going through that whole backlog/graveyard transition at the moment, it's pretty soul destroying. Adulting is hard work man.
Square to reveal hidden trophies! Rob you have just shown me pandora's box
Same I had no idea that was a thing. Rob why did you do this to me?!
I have spent so much time looking online for the hidden trophies now this makes it easier lol
Hidden button options...i didn't know that was a thing either. I want a game where the hidden trophy requires you find a hidden option with button presses not named. Trophy: "find the secret feature"
Man I just found this out myself
The option to reveal hidden trophy info has been out for a while. You guys should really learn how to use your PS4's.
The Legend Of Dragoon is one of the best RPG's EVER! I still play that once every couple of years. Great game!
same here m8
I got all the way up to the last secret dungeon of FFXV. I've even landed the damn car and done the secret dungeon so I have the dodge item. I did all the prep, levelled up, got the items, and then... went and played God of War. I have no idea why, and now I really don't want to go spend hours on the peak challenge trying to remember the controls and enemy attacks.
I still havent finished FFXII
I guess a way in which I am lucky is I usually can remember the controls.
Same problem. I just restarted the entire game XD
@@kev1nno Yeah the no health items one. I had no idea a 100 floor dungeons existed until 2 hours into it and I realized it wasn't ending. I looked it up online and then had to cancel plans because like... I'm not bailing at level 60 of 100.
See and hearing about a new game you want, that’s my biggest problem. I got Horizon Zero Dawn when it released and sadly 2 years later still haven’t beaten it. My backlog of games it epic! Not sure I’ll ever finish some of the games I have. Thanks for the reminder Rob, great video by the way.
Stop everything you have been doing since not playing HZD and finish that game - it’s epic and ranks in the Top 5 of games all time imho.
Not that I can talk, having an ever growing, never shrinking backlog of my own, but HZD doesn't deserve to be in anyone's backlog. Outstanding game. Please play it.
I got it when it first came out and finished it in 3 sleepless days
Have ypu finished it yet?
But overleveling is my favorite thing to do in RPGs.
I know right? It's the best thing ever. Nothing like unlocking an ability in FF9 for every character as soon as you get a new piece of gear.
Agreed, I loved how virtually every final fantasy game seemed to have a spot you could max out levels on. Iirc, ff9 had one where you climb up onto this plateau and fight dragons in the middle or early part of the game and once you manage to survive a couple fights and gain some levels it turns into a huge boost for quite some time. Or getting a turbo controller for ff6 and setting up the narshe river run to an endless loop of auto attacks while you go and spend the rest of the day doing anything else. Come back and be 30 levels higher.
I did this near the start of FF12 (well it's a little into the story) on the ship part where you fight constant soldiers (no spoiling). You can keep farming for loot, XP and LP. It's great for getting a good earlyish start. I ended up really overleveled after spending a few hours there. Plus you can sell what you get from fight to make some gil.
To be a badass way before the next bosses? Yes! Me too.
It one of the ways to tackle them, I see noting wrong with it. If I can overlevel, I gladly will.
I'm very guilty of watching my favorite RUclipsr do a walk-through a game I wasn't interested in getting them got it because it looked good and enjoyed it but already had it spoiled for me
Hey,the most badass Russian is a gamer
Rob you have managed to blow my mind.
I have nearly 8,400 trophies, including 85 platinums and I never knew you could see the hidden trophy descriptions by pressing square.
Same here lmao except I only have 7 platinums 😥
How it even tells you I dont ever do it but it's right there
@@SuperZombiepimp it doesn't actually tell you when you click on a trophy, it doesn't show what square does on screen anywhere from what I can see.
@@dirtyshubb It says it somewhere on that screen, it really does. Like, "Press Square/the symbol to reveal."
@@TheKryptonianGaming he's lying
You can press square for hidden trophy's instead of having to look them up on trophy websites? I'm literally in shock
I completed MGS3 story in one night, up till 7am, when I was at school. That was a time when getting games of my own was a rare occasion. What a brilliant night it was though.
One for me is, when a game has random things to collect throughout the world. I cannot continue with the main story until I collect those random items first. For example, feathers or synchronization points in AC games. As soon it opens up I stop everything until every synchronization point is done. Unfortunately, It burns me out to the point when I'm finally done I stop playing the game for about a month.
You can just turn the hud off.
SlevinCCX yeah I do same thing up to a point then I’m so tired of it I rush through a bit of storyline stuff and before I know it I missed out on upgrades cuz the beginning bullshit wore me out. Then I go back get it all rush through more and it’s over... 😂😂
The other problem with that is you ultimately end up overleveled or with high tier gear that makes the rest of the game super easy and unrewarding
How I feel you bro... That is the same reason I never properly enjoy the AC series (totally my fault) ahah
Ubisoft games are the worst about the amount of collectibles
Lol that montage of Rob killing NPCs in their sleep in Skyrim 😆😆😆
Also, I really relate to the over-leveling and deserting a half-finished game for a shiny new one
Hi, my name's Dan, and I'm a compulsive over-leveller
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The final entry hit me real hard. I love the new Resident Evil 2 but my enjoyment of it was hampered by having watched people play it before I got it.
Pressing square reveals hidden trophy info?!?! Whattt
Andrew Creighton That’s been like that for months lol
I've got answers to a couple of these. The one about coming back to a game later can be alleviated by just accepting you should restart the game. This way you're back at the difficulty point you belong. Unless it's a game with grinding in it, then you can just go back to some low level zone and brush off your skills. You still might just want to restart if you can't remember the story in the first place.
Of course, preventing that to start with ties into the rushing thing. When a new game comes out, don't drop the old one at all. Spread out the gameplay between both games so that you can finish the old one, and savor the new one. I've been playing Kenshi for my channel but I also jump into other games I've had for a while on most nights.
It's not a proper Robsday without your video! ❤
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What do you mean "Friday"? Since when? 😯😯😯
"My backlog of games is actually my graveyard of games."
STOP ATTACKING ME
I'm with Dave, I played Metal Gear Solid 2 without playing the first MGS. I had no idea what was happening. I've since replayed MGS2 with MGS1 under my belt...and I still have no idea what is happening!
Richard Matulis it’s okay the makers don’t either😂😂 Replay the first follow along, then play the second and third etc etc. each one has plot holes and such that get answered a whole game or two later. Some are forgotten about because it’s so complicated. Hahah
Richard Matulis play guns of the patriots just for the final video. I wont spoil it but DAYUM the architect from the matrix has nothing on that BS!!!
I tend to play through games solidly because I am a bit of a completionist, and love the detail. This means my backlog of games isn’t getting any smaller.
Back in 05 when Tenchu Fatal Shadows came out, I put aside a whole weekend to play it. I did little else. I did just about finish the story in that time, but to then get top scores on everything and unlock all the items and skills and beat all the boss fights on three different levels took months of work. I did finish it, and now I’ve lost the data.
Looked at the back of the art book for Uncharted 4, ruining the epilogue 😅 oh well 🤷🏻♂️
Oliver Bath that’s not really ur fault tho... you should be able to look at the back art without getting spoiled I think
Are we ever getting Delsin back? :(
i didn't know you could even reveal hidden trophies until now
sean van der linde neither did I! Dammit.
Neither did I lol. I'm going through them all now.
Wait you could reveal
Can this be done on P$3??
NANI!!!!!!!!
Robs ramblings and the cheeky music in these skits, are the perfect start to anyone's weekend!
I didn’t even know you could push square to reveal hidden trophies I guess I just learnt something.
I am guilty of wanting to throw my phone out of the window of a moving car.
I'm guilty of imagining similar scenarios for no reason.
Over leveling is my biggest sin. It's nice to smacking around bosses.
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I do that too, to the point that not only am I truly overpowered when I get to the final boss, but I also have max quantities of every object I can carry, in case I need them.
My sister often bullies me because of this.
Laura Díaz me too. I got surpluses of items unused.
The reason you have to look at hidden trophies is because of games that decide to hide trophies where you aren't guaranteed to get them just by playing through the game. I don't want to have to play through a huge chunk of the game a second time just because I didn't know that I had to do some particularly ridiculous thing, or because I had to go find something that I wasn't likely to know was even a thing without looking it up. Maybe someone who doesn't have a full time job or who doesn't play many games can afford to play through many games multiple times through, but I sure can't. I'm lucky to be able to play through them once. So, if I'm going to get the platinum, I have to look over all of the trophies and probably look up guides online just to make sure that I don't miss stuff. Caring about spoilers and caring about platinum are pretty much incompatible unless you're willing to play through the game once and _then_ play through it again using a guide to get what you missed.
The hidden trophy that pissed me off the most though was the one for Red Dead Redemption 1 that required that you not get your horse from a hitching post for 20 missions straight. How on earth is that an _achievement_? It's just weird, and I don't know how anyone would ever end up doing it by accident. You have to plan for such nonsense, and they _hid_ it. And I had stupidly assumed that they just hid story trophies, so I can only get it by replaying something like a third of the game. Of course, I've never platinumed that game any way - and probably never will - because they were sufficiently jerkish to include multiplayer trophies - and worse, some of them require that you be consistently really good against other human opponents, and that's never happening. I might do decently but not well enough to get some of those trophies.
If game developers only hid trophies that were story-related and unmissable, then I'd be fine with hidden trophies. As it is, they just piss me off.
TIL you can press square to reveal hidden trophies...
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
Glad I'm not the only one. present me is now scared of future me.
You can just not press square?
I'm so guilty of #5, mostly because I start playing 1 game as a curiosity to a new franchise, then seeing the latest installment to another franchise that I've been hyped up for months finally gets released, then when I finish it, I go back to the other game just to fill the void I gave myself
In Kingdom Hearts 3, just before you fight the organization, I grinded battle-gate 0 all the way from lvl 47-99.
I just google if there's any "missable" trophies for the game I'm playing, good compromise, most people are nice enough to tell you spoiler free.
I have a list of games that I'll never play but would recommend to others, often because I saw a playthrough on RUclips and it was amazing.
Spyro, Undertale, Persona 5, Hollow Knight... I already know how it's going to end, what's the point? The streams are too fun to miss as well!
Rob: says you have to start every video game series at the first game, then recommends starting with Assassin's Creed 2.
#5 happens to me ALL the time and I bash myself for it, seriously, you come back to the game after months and you are like "who is this", "Where am i", "where do I go", why is he bad", etc etc etc
after taking a break from cuphead (still at king dice level) I tried playing another game and after going back to cuphead ,I had lost all my reflexes and had forgotten boss attack patterns, still haven't played it since.. too lazy to.
Rpgs are the freaking worst for that...Don't want to finish It too quick and play something else?Better not wait too long bucko 'cause there's a lot of details that you'll forget that will make returning to that specific game a living hell -_-.
That's not only for coming back to games you haven't finished as well - I had that experience a few times with coming back for new content - most recently with Spider-man which I binged near release and then 4 months later finished up the DLC. 😊
I am INCREDIBLY guilty of not finishing games. Especially Metroidvania games. Outland, Guacamelee, and most recently Hollow Knight. All brilliant games, but once I haven't played them for awhile, I completely forget where I was or where I was going.
And unlike open world sandbox games, those games rarely tell you where to go next. And you wind up having almost muscle memory for the layout of the levels. So if I take too long to play it again, I've not only forgotten all the survival techniques, but I'm completely lost on top of that.
Okay so somehow I've never known that I can press square to reveal hidden trophies....
I'm embarrassed that I've had a ps4 for like 2 years and have never known this
Oh you sweet ignorant child. You are one of the lucky ones.
It wasn't a feature until a couple of years after hidden trophies were a thing just a random firmware update added it
I’ve had a PS4 since release and yet also didn’t know that
Really? 😂
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So uh....I didn’t know you could actually do that ._.
And now I’m going to do this on every new game I buy....why would you do me like this, Rob lmao
MGS2 was my first MGS as well.
I regret nothing.
I didn't play the other God of War Saga , but did watch the story summarys of each one, sometimes it's too hard to go that far back,
I managed to get Sekiro spoiled for me two days after release. And once you've been spoiled a bit, why not look up the rest of the plot on Wikipedia and TV Tropes? How else are you going to know how much of a spoiler the initial spoiler was?
I think all games should scale difficulty for story missions, that way the people rushing though the story and those who have wandered the world doing all the side missions get roughly the same experience. I'm tired of being punished with a lacklustre story mode challenge because I decided to experience everything the game was offering.
Rob is just a Brit version of all of us.
Unless you're a brit. Then he's just a bald version of us
over-leveling... as this came on following your most recent Friday Feature, I was spelunking with a level 72 Skyrim character that had yet to even visit the Greybeards.
You can find items in Oblivion that grant a total of 100% damage reflection and 100% spell absorb. Trivializes combat, but allows you to do a pacifist run.
1) I never bother with trophies/achievements, so this one never applied to me.
2) I HAVE killed semi-important NPC's at times, but never the ones that I know I'll need. I've gotten stuck on certain quests before by killing people who I didn't know were important...
3) I use to overlevel a lot when I was younger. But, as I got older, I stopped having the time and patience to waste grinding out for that long. I think the Pokemon games are the only ones where I still do, albeit usually unintentionally.
4) I know I've played sequels before original games before, but they usually aren't ones that are heavy on continuous narratives. I think it comes down to not being interested in the originals at first but then a certain feature in the sequels catches my eye. I may then go back and look at the first one or not, it depends.
5) Yes. All the times, yes. I didn't beat Dark Souls for years because I kept getting distracted. Any long games run the real risk of running that. I still don't think I've actually beaten the story in Skyrim yet, despite sinking over a hundred hours into it. Then again, I also restart games partway through even when I don't get distracted by other ones. It's a problem...
6) Nope. I rarely rush through. In fact, I''m usually the opposite, taking part in every side-quest and spending weeks going through all the little things before ever getting through the main quests. See #6 for example involving Skyrim.
7) I'm usually pretty good at not watching games that I want to play, though I DO watch a lot of games I know that I'll never bother with.
Just found out about pressing square to reveal trophies, thanks Rob
Ditto
I related to a few of these but entry 5 is so true to me. Sometimes I don't have the time to finish games or the patience. I think I only complete like 10% of my games now. As a kid I completed everything and always wanted more, I had too big an appetite and not enough games to satiate it, now as an adult my appetite is small and my plate overfilled with juicy juicy games, but I have had sufficient and just want to watch tv and fall into a nice food nap.
After ALL these years and games...I actually like grinding and overleveling.
I honestly didn't know you could see the hidden trophies. I would only look them up after finishing the story of a game.
I beat FFX-2 before FFX...but it didn't seem to spoil much about the actual events.
Usually, if I return to a game after a break, I end up restarting the entire game over or take hours going through old areas and combing through the tutorials to remember what I'm supposed to be doing.
Spoiling through Let's Play I've done a lot. Usually, for games, I didn't plan on getting, but after watching 1 or 2 parts of a Let's Play I decided to give it a shot. Some I watched the entire playthrough before trying. Though in the case of Last of Us, I still was able to feel the emotions even when knowing the conclusion.
These are the ones I know I'm guilt of.
Some others involve searching for puzzle solutions and how to get past bosses. These aren't huge spoilers but rather than get the sense of accomplishment for finishing on my own I will just find the solution so I can move onto the next part.
1 way to ruin games for yourself is by watching spoilers of the end of the game.
Sometimes trailers can ruin a game, it wasn't until this video that I found out that you could have 4 characters active in kingdom hearts 3.
Rws, what a stupid thing to say...
rwsthedemonking Mostly why I said this was because I watch the ending of Kingdom Hearts 3 before the game was release in Japan and everywhere else. And I spoiled myself.
Also, I knew instantly when I saw the title we were going to be talking about Rob killing helpless NPCs. Brilliant.
Legend of Dragoon is one of the best JRPG's ever made!
Rob, I wait about a month after a game comes out so that i can read all the challenges out of games. Rdr2 I waited for lists of "hidden things to find" so I could "find them" and gloat to my friends about how I totally found them myself.
i didnt even know you could reveal hidden trophies .i am now doomed . thanks Rob...
The Only game I ever really truly overleveled was borderlands 2, going into Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode the first time, you get wrecked, because although you might be level 55-60, your weapons are still only level 50-52, you get wrecked when you start that mode the first time because in UVHM enemies scale to your level, and they have bonuses to health and health regeneration.
I ruined Uncharted 4 by rushing through it. I just needed to know if Nate, Elena and Sully survived! It’s one of my biggest gaming regrets :-(.
God damn, Sully. He's been making us nervous since the first game.
I know! The entire time I was sweating like a bride in a brothel!
I didn't even know about there square trick!! Thanks for this!!!
so does that mean you played Witcher 1 and 2 before playing 3 then, Rob? ;)
Haha l have 3 on deck with no intention of going to the first 2
I have to play them in order. I learned my lesson with Kingdom Hearts. I beat the first one but not the two after and before part 2. Didn't know what the hell was going on. Who was Rexxas? Lol so am going back to the other two to see what I missed
@@richardthompson790 Same here. I wanted to play Witcher 3, so I bought and played the other 2 first. :D
I know I'm late to this (didn't have wifi when the video came out), but regarding number four on this list, if a sequel comes out I obsessively need to play all its predecessors first, with the exceptions of God of War (I am still ashamed) and Skyrim. I even read all the Witcher novels before playing the games!
Judge Dredd is one of my favourite graphic novels, especially when he teamed up with Batman, kind of. NOT FOR CHILDREN
I didn't know you could unhide hidden trophies
when he talked about a feeling of chucking your phone out the window i
i dunno, i thought i was weird for ages and another guy said it and it made me smile
thanks man
Why Access doesn’t have more than 2 million subscribers is beyond me 🤷🏻♂️ Great job on this video Rob 👍🏻
I got one. Constantly reloading old saves in RPGs so you can see all the possible outcomes of a situation before choosing which one to take. It takes the thrill out of choice because you know all the results.
I’m just as guilty as Dave for playing MG:SOL before even paying any attention to the first one. Shoot me Rob.
You don't get that feeling of disappointment of not playing as Snake that way. I never got the hate until i learned Snake was in 3 or more games before
LEGENDS OF DRAGOON!! Good god man, that takes me back so far. Sharing the experience with a friend is probably much better then if you played it alone.
i didnt even know that you can reveal the hidden trophies
I've never been guilty of #1... not because I don't want to spoil a game, but simply because I didn't know you could. NOW I DO KNOW... Curse you Rob...
Picked up Horizon Zero Dawn after 6 months to find I was terrible at it and only had 2 missions left to beat the game
Could you make a new save restart for a bit get the rust off and then finish it?
Point 5 resonated recently with me; just before The Division sequel came out, I decided to play some more of the original - completely forgetting the mechanics
Wait you can just press square to reveal hidden trophies damn never I would have known.
Watching top ten (or seven) videos about a certain topic (top betrayals, top underdog stories, top plot twist, top games you were the villain all along, etc.) in videogames to look for ones you might like and spoiling half the story in the process.
Imagine doing number 5 with Bloodborne (like i did)
The fifth entry really speaks to me. I keep doing that mostly because I have these fancies of just wanting to play one of my old games again so bad that I abandon the other one. Dragon's Dogma still lies atop my pile of shame to this day. I also play different games with my partner when he visits so I'm always scared to return to playing God of War every month because inbetween we switch to Atelier, Devil May Cry or old Wii games. It's a mess, but it's fun!
wait! im PSN level 42 and i have 125 plats but i never knew you could push square to reveal hidden trophies lol you learn something everyday
Lesser Spotted Mugwump. Nah man. I only mentioned my trophies cause only people who go for trophies would know about that option you’d think. Just saying I should have known but didn’t
Yea I'm guilty of a few of these...
In one rpg I played, I took the same character from easy mode all the way to very hard mode in multiple new game +'s that when I got to very hard mode I was able to beat the final boss in 3 hits.
I waited so long to get and play The Last Guardian, that when it finally came out, I played through the whole game in one sitting. I have yet to go back and replay it...
I keep stopping new games to go back and play older games...I still haven't finished Yakuza 0 because I keep going back to play Witcher 3 again...same with a few other games
...I honestly had no idea you could reveal the hidden trophies like that...
March 30 2019 is the day I discovered you can uncover hidden trophies... WTF!
I didn't no that about the hidden trophies either. Now I'll have to check everytime
Apparently a lot of people didnt know you can press square to reveal hidden trophies. 😯
Psh, scrubs, right? ;)
Seriously though really surprised me too that so many people didn't know that.
@@Eaglesoars8891 because where do you learn that? And if you say manuals ain't nobody got time for that. Easier to look up on internet (and not have to do it for every trophy)
How about this one...watching a Friday Feature where Rob has explicitly mentioned he is going to spoil the story of a game you haven't played yet and might want to play if you get the chance, but still not skipping ahead. Tell me I'm not the only one.
Similar, but with outside xtra and the climax of the matrix revolutions.
Legend said if you are early the mighty Rob will greet you himself
I do the reveal hidden trophies too. Some of them aren't story-based though, so if you don't do it you may never get that trophy. Three hidden trophies in the Tomb Raider Definitive collection come to mind. Exhaust all the dialogue options with the endurance crew - Very easy to miss. Kill the crab on the beach which is another easy one to miss. There's one other, but can't recall it right now because I don't have that trophy lol
for me I play Kingdom Hearts 2 before Kingdom Hearts 1
I played Dragon Quest Monsters 2 before any other Dragon Quest game. This is bad for two reasons. A: it's a sequel, and B: it's a spin-off title.
But at the time I didn't even know where to FIND a copy of DQM1, and I didn't really care that it was a spin-off, it was simply that much fun. :D
Wow, I learned something new about trophies today, and as much as I can be a trophy hunter, I didn't know that I could use the square button to reveal secret trophies. Who knew? Also, very, very guilty of numbers 1, 3 (good lordy, very guilty), and 5 (EXTREMELY GUILTY, hello Assassin's Creed Odyssey). Another fantastic list, Rob!
So Rob, I don’t know how to tell you this, but it looks like your Skyrim character is a serial killer.
Yeah... character
Phillip w Shhhh, don’t make him mad, he’ll come for us next.
Ugh, backlog. I've got many games across multiple systems that I need to start, want to get back to, or think I should finish. Many, many games, little, little energy to play through them.
7 times we were not supposed to leave a comment but did it anyway
I did not know that about the hidden trophies...what have you done to me?!?!