Topic: Video Game Grinding Horror Stories

What Was The Worst Most painful Grind You Ever Had To Do in A Game That Made You Want to Quit?

Mine Would Have To Have Been Fairy Fencer F On The Ps3 Where You Had To Have One Hundred Million Gold All At Once It Was So Bad That They Changed it To Five Million with The Ps4 Release Another Would have to be Star Ocean The Last Hope with the Battle Trophys.

Good question.
Many games make you grind. I just posted about my grind for the P4 DAN platinum, but that wasn’t anywhere near my worst grind.
Usually if the grind becomes too painful then I quit. If it’s not fun, what’s the point, right?
But that being said, I remember that older JRPGs really seem to make you grind. Like the Final Fantasy’s. In Final Fantasy 7 you have to grind to get experience to split your materia if you want more than one party member to equip it, so I wanted to kill that underwater Emerald Weapon boss and so I grinded until all my members could have an underwater materia so I could fight him without the time constraints. Yeah, that took a long time.
But it was worth it.

Yeah this. I generally detest any grinding in games. I find it really boring doing the same thing over and over again. Any games like Destiny and The Division I stop playing soon after I've finished the story stuff and don't last long in the endgame.
Even things like in PES when you have play different modes in the different leagues I won't cos cos I'm not interested in them. Yes you can SIM the matches but to me thst is not fun, and I'd rather spend an hour or two actually playing a game rather then watch a screen update periodically.

@Th3solution you know you only needed that on one person right, it didn't need to be equipped on all 3? (also the less Materia you have equipped the weaker it's Aire Tam attack is as it's power is based on the amount of Materia you have on)

as for me, i must be a masochist but i enjoy the grind in RPG's BUT i do admit there are some games that make it much worse than it needs to be and for me that was Borderlands 2, i'm not a huge FPS guy and couple that with the amount of grinding and quest repetition you have to do and i dropped it PDQ, i'm just glad i got it in the sale so it only cost me £8

For me, the 'worst' grind was in Fifa 09 on the 360. On Xbox, there was a gamer score for scoring in the 89th minute for 19 gamerscore. If anyone is familiar with Xbox Achievements, you will know that they generally are in multiples of 5 so my Gamerscore either ended in a 0 or a 5. However, after getting those 19GS, my score either ended in a 4 or 9, something my OCD couldn't cope with. The 'missing' 1GS in Fifa, was for playing 50hrs!! That wasn't 50 game hours, so playing a 90min (1.5hrs) in a 10min match for example was only 10mins towards getting the 50hrs. When I moved to my 'new' house, I put the matches up to as long as I could possibly do and just played match after match after season after season until I got that 1GS.

The consequence of this really put me off from playing ANY football games on any console since. When I bought my Xbox One, it came with Fifa 14 (I think) as a digital download, that was just in the bundle. I still have the card with the download code completely unused. I still cannot face playing any 'football' game. That 50hr grind gas completely put me off - even if there isn't any Achievement like these or playing on a PS4 for Trophies. When a 'grind' completely puts you off, not just that game, not just that franchise, but EVERY game in the Genre, then you know its a bad 'grind'....

Digital Devil Saga was probably my worst gaming grind.

Getting my stats high enough in order to face the final bonus boss of the Demi-fiend (protagonist from SMT Nocturne/Lucifer's Call) . I had to farm the stat boosting items forever to get to a comfortable place in order to fight him successfully

I grinded enough to get all of Clouds limit breaks (apart from Omnislash of course) before leaving Midgar.

Loved it though so not sure it counts 😂

@kyleforrester87 i did that before the second bombing mission, when you jump off the train go down instead of up and you will eventually come to a place that has infinite spawning Shin-Ra troops, with patience you can max out your level and every Materia you have there (and i did once, imagine Level 99 and only on the second bombing mission)

I'm usually fairly tolerant of grinding if it's a game that I'm really enjoying. Also don't really mind it if it's a handheld game where I can mindlessly grind while watching something else, such as with Pokemon, Etrian Odyssey or Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor Overclocked on 3DS.

One time where I've kinda regretted it afterwards was getting all the single player achievements in GTA 5. Some of the requirements such as finding the many various collectables, or those cult side quests (that running 5 miles mission) or making enough money on the stock exchange to buy various buildings can get very tedious.

Another time where I grinded too much for my own good was getting the platinum trophy with Nier Automata. I did use the secret shop to skip the requirements for the fishing and data archives trophies (and one other glitched trophy), but I should have done that for some of the other tedious trophies as well. The grinding in this game included finding and upgrading all the weapons and pods, lots of side quests, and levelling up enough in order to beat some optional superbosses.

Brilliant topic.

For the Bloodborne Chalice dungeons, you need to use certain items to perform a Chalice Ritual, in order to create the next dungeon and progress. I accidentally used the items to create the wrong type of chalice dungeon (one I'd already done!) so then I had to go back and grind for more items to perform the correct ritual. It made an already annoying grind even longer.

Dirt 4's main campaign was a grind, it took me a year to complete, playing on and off. It's the reason I haven't bought the new one yet.

Shadow of the Colossus is a grind if you want to get the platinum. You need to get your health bar right up and the only way to increase it is to collect apples or defeat the colossi over and over. This one wasn't too bad and just about stayed fun to the end though.

Not the worst, but in recent memory I quit Assassin's Creed Odyssey because by the time I got to Athens I was extremely underleveled. Recently I had only beaten enemies by cheesing them, but by the time I had to kill some snake handler or something in a tent who killed me in very few hits, I decided I'd had enough. Optional sidequests aren't optional if they are required to complete to make combat in the main quest line feasible.

@ThroughTheIris56 i had forgotten about those games, that is the exact same reason i dropped Origins (and never bothered with Odyssey) and i 100% agree about the side quests, normally i like grinding in RPG's but those games took it too far to the point of annoyance

The grinding I did in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth made me go insane, I never quite recovered.

The worst grinding ever: "Life as an adult".
Every day the same sidequest, again and again. You get rewarded with some exp and gold, never enough to level up. Realistic graphics and audio, but too many bugs and glitches.

@FullbringIchigo Uh... No, I didn’t know that about Emerald Weapon. Oh well. It’s actually been a while, maybe I was splitting another materia preparing for the battle actually now that I think about it. All I remember was an unusually long grind.

@andreoni79 So true. The grind of life trumps all of it.

I generally don't hate grinding, at worst it's tedious busy-work, but it sucks when you die after making progress.

My last run on Persona 3 had a moment where I managed to make a fair bit of easy progress, even getting a good weapon earlier than normal, but then I hit a tough enemy encounter and the main character got hit with God's Hand, an extremely powerful skill, and since it's game over if the main character dies, you can imagine how much I screamed that night.

@Gremio108 Dirt 4 was great. Especially the first few days of playing it. A cup would consist of 1 area, 3 courses, 4-6 miles each. Job done within half an hour. Loads of fun and quite challenging as you had to remain concentrated. You could then play the other quick race modes. After that it went downhill.

The courses didn't necessarily get harder. Just longer. Then longer again. Then so long you may as well have jumped in the car and drove down the M6 during rush hour and still had time for tea and crumpets.

Good question this.

Hmm there have been a few but probably the oddest Grind was the indie game Stories: Paths of Destiny on PS4. Basically you have branching options and you have to find the right route. I played the story which hints at the right route in about four hours with about 4-6 routes played. I then decided to go for the platinum which meant getting all the XP to level up via the skill tree and completing 24 endings in total.

It wasn't the worst grind ever and the story branches could often be quite funny but looking back, it was still a few nights when I could of been playing something else!

Don't really thing I've any 'horror story' as such.

If I'm enjoying a game then I'll stick with it - if not then I probably won't bother with it all that much.

It probably just depends on your point of view.

Most Grinds Wouldn't be so bad If it wasn't Based on luck most of the time but Rather Skill