in every rpg ever

(I gave up entirely on FF9 because at some point I skimmed a walkthrough to solve some particular problem, and discovered I'd missed dozens of side quests, none of which could now be attempted because of event x, y or z.)

i kind of like that as a thing tbh

it adds replay value for sure

It's fine up to a point, but when the quests are poorly-telegraphed it just means the first play is harder and less rich than it could be. Just seems punitive.

all this is making me want to play chrono trigger again

25. A point at which your character/party levels up to the point where the exciting challenge of battle evaporates entirely and each confrontation from then on becomes a repetitive chore which you force yourself to undertake again and again until you reach the game's endpoint or you run out of patience and smash the disc with a hammer.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 19 December 2012

^^^ skyrim after level 40

xxxp I used to kill the NPCs in Ultima: Exodus. All you had to kill was one and the town guards would start hunting you down, though.
― xanthanguar (cwkiii), Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:14 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e55P2XF38O0

77. At least one or two traps from this grim series of books

http://www.flyingbuffalo.com/gifs/grimtooth4.jpg

78. mithril

looking for some youtube actual play videos of RPGs that go a bit off the beaten path? toon is the one that comes to mind.

suggestions of both games and channels that gravitate towards that kind of stuff appreciated

Undertale is a game that goes off the beaten path in a creative way.

Where are the Paranoia actual plays?