Different sort of thing there. If a game needs a challenge, it's usually because the gathering is just there to tick a box rather than being part of it. Other games don't have the challenge but the option to do so, with you picking flowers to make potions to get your donkey on and seduce the dragon.
Pretty much the last 25 years of gaming for me. From Everquest, EQ2, WOW, Skyrim, The Fallouts and even today in the Alpha testing of Ashes of Creation.
If you like this vibe, highly recommend checking out Infinity Nikki on its Dec 5 release this year! I have played nikki games since 2017 but got to beta test IN in Oct and it was a flower picking DREAM 🌸💕
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For me it's the other way around, beyond major sidequests, i don't really bother, i prefer later watch on youtube as someone malds collecting 100 trillion pieces of poop or something.
My priorities: Instead of fighting Ganon - Picking up all the apples in Hyrule so I can stew them and sell them to Beedle in Zelda Breath of the Wild 🤭😏
For just a second I read that as G-anon and thought they were back with another letter that means all conspiracy stuff must be true because letters are the keystone of language and language was developed to convey facts (this has been explained this way to me by someone very ill).
Townsfolk 'Hero, hero! The evil overlord is attacking our town and burning the crops!'
Hero 'Nah, it's my third play through. He won't arrive until I get there. So paradoxical I'm temporarily saving your village by maxing out my foraging skill.'
Townsfolk 'But hero what about the fourth wall!'
Me in breath of the wild , I genuinely just loved going around finding veggies , fruits and mushrooms and thinking "huh now I can cook this thing!" While I'm being stalked by a guardian
I get they do timers because of online play, but just let me take my time and spend days living off the land as I slowly chip away at the monster with traps and attacks, fleeing to get my strength back but not letting it rest much.
I still have no idea how the main quests of skyrim or assassin creed Valhalla or odyssey finish. But I do know I’ve got a very good knowledge of every inch of the maps.
So very same. I mean. I would also rather pick flowers in the real world for 80 hours... i'm meant to be writing an essay but I just went out for a second and ended up weeding the garden for an hour. I regret nothing. (Probably will regret it tomorrow though, when the deadline hits.)
For me, it is picking up every potion and book I find. My house in Skyrim is filled to the brim with books and potions I cannot use or unload but continue to collect.
And now that's public knowledge, so I expect you to wander under a cardboard box held up by a stick within the day, when a string will be pulled and you'll be trapped and shipped to Temu to start your new career.
I been picking up anything that shines since the og Resident Evil, but open world games (notably in my case the more recent Zeldas) it’s: “oh shooting star just fell a third of the way across the map on me? Let’s ride!” Regardless of whatever I’m already doing. 🤷♂️😅
My first playthrough of Breath of the wild is 32 hours of doing anything except the main story, I ended up at gerudo by accident which is not even technically the start of the main story lel
The problem with most open world games is that, generally, the world goes on pause while you, the main character, putzes about an unrelated matters. It is the rare open world game in which Earth shattering consequences occur because you were too busy picking 500 red flowers.
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Not a single main quest done.
Still picking up every last bit of junk I find, walking home & repeating.
And noone can tell you not to. Importance of such things is very subjective.
Enjoy your flowers...
Hero 'Nah, it's my third play through. He won't arrive until I get there. So paradoxical I'm temporarily saving your village by maxing out my foraging skill.'
Townsfolk 'But hero what about the fourth wall!'
I was a moisture farmer.
Wait, was I the real monster all along?
Safe to say that became my priority real quick 😂
Maar ok
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"Check out these awesome quests we made that give you Xp and items as you finish them"
Me: *Picks Flax for 3 weeks to Afford my first whip just to get hacked and lose it*
Cowboys be Cowboying.