What's The Most Egregious Example Of Game-Padding You've Ever Seen?

you know when its obvious the dev wants to artificially lengthen the experience by adding in all these horrible time-wasting techniques like backtracking, fetch quests, making you fight the same bosses you've already beaten again and again, etc.

to me one of the worst examples of game-padding was the first witcher. a more appropriate name for it should have been fetch quest: the game

the most recent and horribly cheap thing i have seen is the end of zombiu where they turn off all the fast travel and make you re-travel across the entire game at the very end.

Xenoblade has some really bad side-quests. Go find these items that may be scattered all across the map, fight five of these enemies that are variations of another enemy, kill enough of this enemy so that a rare item might pop out.

Off the top of my head, resource mining in ME2 and fetch quests in ME3, I found both very pointless and annoying...

The first few Yakuza games have many parts where you just run from one side of the map to another trying to find someone; you follow a lead that takes you to the other side of the map only to find that the person is now in another location (now on the other-other side of the map) (repeat several times). There are no plot developments along the way, nothing happens except moving from a to b...only to find out that once you get to b you are back at a again. The Windwaker Triforce quest (well, at least the money-grind aspect of it) also comes to mind.

Skyrim. So many fetch quests.clyde46

Radiant quests, huh?

Good point!

The worst I've ever seen is the original Dragon Warrior game.

That game is the definition of grindfest.

Grind for a few hours to kill a dragon (who was just a tough monster)

Then sometime later you go find a flute

Then grind for some more hours, and kill the last boss.

Fetch quests in Witcher made me drop the game. So bad.

I'd also say most of what came after Bioshock's twist was unnecessary.

Slashkice

The Witcher's story got me through the game. It's also not half bad after Act 3

Zelda The Wind Waker tri-force quest.

Whoever designed that garbage can fvck off.

The entirety of ME2 is padding, like they needed a gap filler to keep people busy before ME3. It felt like a damn pokemon game at one point I was doing that much squad collecting

Red Dead Redemption. Mexico.

About 5% of what you do there matters.

devil may cry 4 was something awful with the second half of the game being the same levels and bosses as the first.

still, i think a lot of it comes down to whether the game can support the activities we associate with padding. like i don't have a problem with the triforce hunt in wind waker but i couldn't stand the gang wars section of gta: san andreas. in wind waker, the overworld was built for exploring and finding secrets. in san andreas, the game was not built for a horde mode.

Off the top of my head, resource mining in ME2 and fetch quests in ME3, I found both very pointless and annoying...

Rocker6

That's what I was going to say.

Assassins Creed 3 and Dragon Age 2

Assassin's Creed 3's sidequests. 

DMC4 comes to mind. Horrible padding.Pete-B

didn't that game have repeating boss fights and levels that you had to do with dante and nero? :lol:

Most of Skyward Sword, especially the part where the forest area is flooded.

The entirety of ME2 is padding, like they needed a gap filler to keep people busy before ME3. It felt like a damn pokemon game at one point I was doing that much squad collecting

seanmcloughlin

In fairness, that is the actual point of the game. 

[QUOTE="Pete-B"]DMC4 comes to mind. Horrible padding.black_chamber99

didn't that game have repeating boss fights and levels that you had to do with dante and nero? :lol:

It was basically 10 mission long and had 2 playable characters.

Zelda The Wind Waker tri-force quest.

Whoever designed that garbage can fvck off.

MLBknights58

with you on that one. It was so bad that it stained the game for me.

The entirety of ME2 is padding, like they needed a gap filler to keep people busy before ME3. It felt like a damn pokemon game at one point I was doing that much squad collecting

seanmcloughlin

I actually liked how he was recruiting people :[

Most of the Song of the Hero quest in Skyward Sword. Oh and the Spirit Realm fetch quests...

[QUOTE="Pete-B"]DMC4 comes to mind. Horrible padding.black_chamber99

didn't that game have repeating boss fights and levels that you had to do with dante and nero? :lol:

yup. nero went forward then dante went backwards I believe.

DMC4 comes to mind. Horrible padding.Pete-B

Halo - Library level

AC3 - all of it

Far Cry 2 - checkpoints

DMC4 comes to mind. Horrible padding.Pete-B

RDR's Mexico section.

Skyward Sword.

[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

The entirety of ME2 is padding, like they needed a gap filler to keep people busy before ME3. It felt like a damn pokemon game at one point I was doing that much squad collecting

balfe1990

In fairness, that is the actual point of the game. 

Yes and I didn't like it

Skyrim. So many fetch quests.clyde46

Red Dead Redemption. Mexico.

About 5% of what you do there matters.

drinkerofjuice

RDR's Mexico section.

Thefatness16

Good call! By the time I got to the north, I was over it. Hated mexico. Other than the badass travel music to get there.

all of assassins creed 3mems_1224

I agree with this. I still havent finished this damn game

DMC4 comes to mind. Horrible padding.Pete-B

MMORPG

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Rage. 

The 14 hour first-person shooter with 6 hours of first-person shooting. The rest was bad racing, vehicular combat and mini games. 

Also AC3. Very little of substance in that game. 

The later Zelda games.

Halo's library.

Morrowind.

I can't think of anything else.