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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer

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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer	comment	Sometimes you're handling the main quest and a game will throw in some sort of diversion for your entertainment. This minigame, sidequest, or secondary story is so absolutely addictive, interesting, or just plain fun that you'll completely forget about the main story altogether. Thankfully, the story does not progress without you so don't worry too much about it. This isn't absolutely limited to video games either. Many websites have so many nifty things going on that you don't even care about the main site at all. These are times when the main story or quest gets derailed by what you can do on the side. Related to Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! See also Just One More Level! and Quicksand Box. It will normally happen in the Minigame Zone. A Virtual Paper Doll, particularly one with a lot of customization options, can easily become one of these if you're the sort of player who cares about that. Compare and contrast Plot Detour where this is the content, as well Just Here for Godzilla, where the "Gold Saucer" is the main appeal of a work.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_10ddd3d5	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess The Fishing Hole returns. Still awesome, and this time you can fish in any body of water, using a fishing rod of your very own, plus the Wii controls. The Fishing Hole lobby also has the addictive mini-game "Rollgoal", so you can get sidetracked by another Gold Saucer there. The snowboarding races with Yeto. Aside from being just fun to slide down a snowy mountain, his wife is quite the speedy racer. Expect to spend hours training to get all the shortcuts in order to beat her record time.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_145d9b29	comment	Star Ocean: The Second Story also had the bunny-racing game, which was just as hard (if not harder) to win at. At the very least, there's only one prize there that you can't get elsewhere, but seeing as it's possibly the best set of footwear outside of the game's Bonus Dungeon... Not to mention in both Star Ocean 2 and 3 you can go back and visit places that you can't return to normally, either because the planet no longer exists, or the location is on a different planet. Now add on that in every city you can disband your team and interact to get special endings. SO2 had 81 possible endings, only available through team-city interactions.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_148f217e	comment	Most recent Nancy Drew PC games will have some type of arcade game in them and some hard-to-obtain prize and/or Easter egg (literally). Many players will get sidetracked halfway through the mystery because they want the prize, and then proceed to spend more time going after it than on the rest of the game overall. The box that's for sale for $99.90 and the rather addictive Land Rush minigame in Trail of the Twister stick out as the epitome of this trope, especially as it takes 50 to 75 plays on the arcade game to get the box. Some of the minigames are so addictive that a player will start a game and Speed Run through the preliminaries just to sit there and play it for ages, completely ignoring the actual game. Smart players will create save points so they can access their favorites immediately.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_158f022b	comment	Retro Game Master: Invoked in the ActRaiser episode, where Arino spends a disproportionate amount of time in the simulation mode, despite his title as Chief being at risk in that episode should he not complete the game in time. He also insisted to try to access the bonus levels in Pilotwings. At least the two times he succeeded were quite cool.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_168c4727	comment	Guild Wars 2 has a wide range of activities to distract from the main story, such as jumping puzzles, collection achievements, and complicated crafting professions. Perhaps the biggest time (and gold) sink for many players is crafting legendary weapons, which requires either incredible luck with an item drop or completing a series of special achievements. The annual festivals provide plenty of unique achievements and items for anyone who decides to focus on them. Halloween and Wintersday provide unique themed activities such as jumping puzzles, dungeons, and events while the Super Adventure Box is a Game Within a Game with unique gameplay and art.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_169f043b	comment	StarCraft is of special note because of this aspect. More people play custom UMS games online than play the game the way it was meant. Likewise, Warcraft III's Defense of the Ancients mod has taken on a life of its own. In StarCraft II you can potentially create your own unique games, like this masterpiece. You have to wonder about the hours spent on creating those mods. The major hindrance, however, is the small size for posting on Battle.net.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_17415b19	comment	Star Ocean: Star Ocean: Till the End of Time actually has an item that will have you ignoring the battles because it's just so much fun to roll around. It's also easy to get caught up for weeks playing games in Gemity, although that's partly because the Bunny Racing game is so luck-dependent it will take you weeks to win all the prizes. Star Ocean: The Second Story also had the bunny-racing game, which was just as hard (if not harder) to win at. At the very least, there's only one prize there that you can't get elsewhere, but seeing as it's possibly the best set of footwear outside of the game's Bonus Dungeon... Not to mention in both Star Ocean 2 and 3 you can go back and visit places that you can't return to normally, either because the planet no longer exists, or the location is on a different planet. Now add on that in every city you can disband your team and interact to get special endings. SO2 had 81 possible endings, only available through team-city interactions. Star Ocean: The Last Hope brings back the Bunny Racing mini-game as well, though this time around there is a small degree of control of the bunnies while they race, and you can affect various stats like speed, endurance, and such based on foods you feed it. Having a small degree of control over the outcome makes it quite fun to play. Star Ocean: The Divine Force introduces Es'owa, a board game that plays like a cross between Dots & Boxes and a tabletop miniature game. Players can be found in almost every populated area in the game, and winning nets you money and figurines based on characters from previous Star Ocean games that not only are powerful pieces to use in Es'owa but can be equipped as stat-boosting accessories.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_17c40956	comment	Dark Chronicle gave you the option to take pictures of items and mix them to create possible new weapons. Cue every time you get to any new place, you whip out the camera and compulsively take pictures of everything and mixing them to get something new.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_193f1efe	comment	Google and Pac-Man. Released to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man, it managed to do enough side-tracking to cause approximately 4,819,352 hours of lost time, with a cost of $120,483,800. And you can still play the interactive logo/Google Doodle here. Pretty much every interactive Google Doodle counts. From those that hook you up for hours trying to play a song in them (Les Paul's guitar, Moog's synthesizer), to fun mini-games like daily ones of the London Olympics. Typing in "Atari Breakout" in a Google Image Search will result in that very game becoming playable. You might forget why you were searching for a picture in the first place. As any high school student knows well, pressing up on the "No Internet connection" page for Chrome (the one with the T-rex on it) gives you a tiny jumping game. Even your web browser is distracting you from your education.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_196b618d	comment	In PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2, Join Avenue is very addictive and you get excellent perks, items, and training options for leveling up your shops there. Even better, online battles and trades help you do so quicker, so you might end up Sidetracked from One Golden Saucer by Another Golden Saucer. Team Plasma can wait when you still need 300 points to level up your Cafe!
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_1a8119af	comment	Any game with a casino is prone to this; such as Dragon Quest VIII. Series creator Yuji Horii is an avid gambler himself, which is why gambling mini-games are a major element of the franchise.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	Might and Magic VII and VIII featured Arcomage, a card game that can be played at any tavern. Additionally, every tavern had different house rules. Both games have a quest to win at every tavern, which can only be completed towards the later half of the main quest as not every city can be reached until then.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_1bfedd17	comment	Road Rash 64. One of the unlockable benefits is Insanity Bikes (AKA jumps really far). One of the levels is an airport runway with a little jump at the end. Even if you blow the jump, you still go hurtling hella far. So very, addictive. The different tracks are all on the same large map, so it's possible to drive off-road through miles of poorly rendered countryside and end up in another level.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_1c25dba1	comment	Suikoden V boasts several surprisingly addicting mini-games, including a fishing face-off and a card game against three different opponents who all provide considerable eye candy. (Including Jeane.)
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_1cc11947	comment	Descent 3 introduces speed tunnels to the series, which catapult the player from one end to the other at high speed. And they are hella fun to ride! Which is why one of the secret levels is made of nothing but speed tunnels that stretch for miles. You will spend more time screwing around in this one level than you will the entire campaign.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_1ee8851d	comment	The mini-games at the festival in Wild ARMs take up way too much time. It's perhaps fortunate that you can only play them while the festival is going on.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_20e8e9bd	comment	In that vein, most of the "theme park" Zones in the entirety of the series invoke this both in-game and during play; all of them... except for Sonic 3's infamous Carnival Night Zone...
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_2118f380	comment	Katie Tiedrich of Awkward Zombie has this problem.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones had the Tower of Valni, the Lagdou Ruins, and random battles on the world map. In order to unlock them, one did have to play part of the way into the main game (in the Tower's case, the player unlocked a floor every few chapters; in the Ruin's case, one was nearly done with the game by the time the place became available), but after that the players could go through them as many times as you wanted. It helps that the ruins and tower both had rare treasure in them and that certain random battles could be used to steal items from enemies with a glitch. Fire Emblem: Awakening restores the battles on the world map, plus has the "Reeking Boxes" that allow the player to summon Risen to the map itself. HELLO GRINDING FOR GOLD, SUPPORTS, LEVEL-UPS, AND SKILLS. Fire Emblem Fates has the Gold Saucer being its Hub Level in the form of My Castle! Aside from the metric butt-ton of customization and upgrade options, you get to partake in the lottery, fight in the arena, cook to give stat bonuses to your units, decorating your soldiers with accessories, visit other castles to battle, trade, gain skills and buy items as part of Fates' Socialization Bonus, and visiting the sauna and occasionally (by accident) peeping on the opposite sex there. Because of the genuine perks associated with maintaining your hub world, the genuine fun involved and its out-of-the-way presence compared to the main story (to the point that Fates willingly invokes Gameplay and Story Segregation to make the existence of My Castle mesh with the narrative, in a series that invokes Gameplay and Story Integration wherever possible) means it's not unheard of in the slightest to hear players rack up way more time in My Castle than the main campaign! Plus, the Birthright and Revelations paths also have the random battles and the chance to use gold to find more enemies. Again, HELLO GRINDING FOR GOLD, SUPPORTS, LEVEL-UPS, AND SKILLS. Fire Emblem: Three Houses has numerous gold saucers including such things as a fishing mini-game almost rivaling Zelda's in notoriety (at least, among the fandom), tea parties with your units, infinite optional battles, and more. All of these serve to help you gain professor levels, experience, and/or supports.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_21e2f10d	comment	Dragon Quest III had the pachisi track mini-game (called sugoroku in Japanese) in the SNES and GBC versions. The game also featured the monster arena, where you could earn some extra gold by betting on which monster would win. The gold card returned, but instead it allowed the player to play the pachisi track an infinite number of times without tokens.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_21e321da	comment	Dragon Quest VII has poker. They brought it back for the remake of IV, but they nerfed the double-or-nothing feature.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_223c2a48	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has numerous distracting minigames, such as: Snowling, a form of 9-pin bowling using giant snowballs and wooden totem poles; "Boom Bam Golf," where you try to get a giant stone ball into a hole with a minimal number of stasis-launches; Shield Surfing, which is exactly what it sounds like; a "Train to Become the Wind" Pass Through the Rings game; the classic horse-courses, one with targets to shoot and another with hurdles to jump over, plus a plain old foot-race; a distance-gliding test off a certain Sheikah Tower; the "Gut Check Challenge," a test of your speed-climbing skills, with a harder mode when you get bored of the standard one... the list goes on. All minigames track your high score, encouraging you to play repeatedly, and most dispense Rupees (an otherwise-scarce commodity in this game compared to most Zelda titles) in addition to some special prize. This is all in addition to the game being one of the largest Quicksand Boxes in existence, with 120 optional "Shrine" mini-dungeons and 900 Korok puzzles to find and solve, among other things.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_2664f44a	comment	The Like a Dragon series is most likely the king of this trope through its great efforts to represent urban Japan and all the attractions this includes. There are dozens of different minigames to play through, each wildly different. Batting cages, casino games, Japanese casino games (like cee-lo), mahjong, arcade games, even crane games where can win little stuffed toys. There's also an entire golfing game to play through, karaoke songs to sing, diners to visit for completion purposes, locations to try fishing, hostess parlors to visit (and ladies to woo), and more. Then there's also the arena to fight in. It's far too easy to simply sink in days and days and days worth of gaming time just getting sidetracked as you, a complete and utter badass Yakuza boss, play golf or try to win stuffed animals. Yakuza 0 features two incredibly extensive side-missions: A real-estate management one for Kiryu and a cabaret club management one for Majima. Many of the game's sidestories, aside from occasionally providing equipment for use in the main game, also provide characters to recruit for these side-missions. Fortunately, getting distracted by these side-missions is beneficial to playing the main story, as despite being massive money sinks, proper investment also provides massive profits for use in upgrading your fighting skills and getting better equipment, as well as unlocking a whole tier of upgrades for your fighting styles, and even unlocking hidden fourth styles for both characters. In fact Yakuza Kiwami makes you do two of these as a part of the "Majima Everywhere" System: over the course of the game Goro Majima, protagonist Kiryu Kazuma's lovably psycho rival, learns of him getting really into MesuKing: Bug Battle Beauties and Pocket Circuit races and demands Kiryu best Majima over them. As always Majima doesn't go down without a fierce fight.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_283badac	comment	Dark Cloud and its sequel had placing cities so everyone's 100% happy, frequently meaning you have to rearrange an entire town repeatedly. Dark Chronicle gave you the option to take pictures of items and mix them to create possible new weapons. Cue every time you get to any new place, you whip out the camera and compulsively take pictures of everything and mixing them to get something new. Fortunately, in 2, it is possible to build more houses in an area even after achieving 100% completion, so those who enjoy that aspect of the game can continue playing around with it after they finish the area. Both games also feature a Fishing Mini Game. It was surprisingly deep in 2 — giving you two types of fishing poles that are used quite differently, the ability to level up your fishing poles extensively, a contest that rewards you for catching the largest fish, and the ability to put fish in an aquarium to prepare them for a fish race! There's a golf mini-game called Spheda which gives surprisingly good rewards on certain floors. After beating the game, you unlock the ability to play through a special Spheda course. The only reward for beating it is to see how low you can get your score! Every floor in the game offers 3 or 4 medals by completing certain criteria. Getting all these medals requires doing a good bit of the aforementioned fishing and Spheda.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_28b2079a	comment	The arenas from the Ratchet & Clank series. Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando features the Megacorp Games, and the Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal equivalent is Annihilation Nation. You're only required to do a couple of missions from each of them, but there's an insane amount of extra gauntlets, arena battles, and boss fights to do at these arenas that don't move the story forward at all, but reward you with bolts, some optional items and in the case of Up Your Arsenal, experience. The arenas are so popular that Ratchet: Deadlocked is basically just Annihilation Nation expanded into its own standalone game. Ratchet & Clank also has the hoverboarding sequences, which can become highly addictive over time.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_2913857a	comment	Wessel Stoop, developer of The Sapling, initially treated the various scenarios as the main game, but most players tended to focus on the Sandbox Mode instead (thanks in part to the random mutations) while treating the scenarios as an elaborate tutorial. Wessel decided to just run with it, and dedicated the third major update into turning the sandbox into a proper game mode as opposed to a fun little side project.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_2cb23dbd	comment	Void Stranger is best known amongst shmup fans, particularly fans of System Erasure's previous game ZeroRanger, for the late-game 0st//ranger minigame. Between the elaborate gameplay mechanics, the existence of multiple modes, and a training mode with many options, an ambitious player can end up playing this minigame for hours to perfect their scores. Some shmup fans wish that this game had a standalone release rather than having to push through a lengthy game in a different genre just to get to it.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_2dc12aeb	comment	Because actually winning a game of NetHack is a nigh-impossible task (at least until several months or years of gameplay, even if you do use the Internet to look up spoilers), most casual players don't pay much attention to the main quest, possibly not even remembering what it is.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_2f5ca170	comment	In PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, with the addition of facility building, similar to Join Avenue above, you can get distracted from the main plot by focusing on grinding materials and improving your Paradise. Not to mention the mini-games added like Sunken Treasure and Prize Palace.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_30940081	comment	Grand Theft Auto V ups the ante in almost every way in this. Getting sidetracked might not even be getting sidetracked in this game. The entire game seems to be made up of getting sidetracked. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a tee off to get to. In game.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_30c1ffd0	comment	Stardew Valley has two arcade machines that you can play: "Journey of the Prairie King", a Wild West-themed shoot-em-up, and "Junimo Cart" a Minecart Madness minigame. There's also the hidden Casino, where you can play slots or CalicoJack, a variant of Blackjack.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_31e1eca3	comment	Roaming around the Underground trying to find Shards and the like in Diamond and Pearl.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_33dd1d90	comment	There have been some complaints from fans of the Source mod for Half-Life 2 Zombie Master; while the game ostensibly revolves around the titular Zombie Master-controlling zombies and activating traps like a Real-Time Strategy game while the rest of the players try to survive and complete the level, many servers play so-called "mini-game levels" that revolve around recreations of games like Donkey Kong or Tetris or make an obstacle course (some of which have unavoidable traps that can only be dodged by faking out the Zombie Master). Complaints have been raised on the official forums over this apparent abandoning of the mod's intent.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_344f4c2a	comment	There are a number of stylus-using mini-games in New Super Mario Bros. for the DS. A lot of the games were featured in the earlier Super Mario 64 DS remake. Whichever card in your DS, the Bob-omb Sorting mini-game is enough to forget that you've actually got a proper game to play through.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_359666b7	comment	Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals: Ancient Cave is this. A 100-level randomly-generated dungeon where equipment and spells are randomly distributed, with ever-increasingly powerful monsters and a giant boss at the end. It even has collectible Iris Treasures which serve no purpose. The worst part is the developers knew it: After beating the New Game Plus mode, you're given the Gift Mode, which strands you in the town next to the Ancient Cave with the ability to select which members join your party from every playable character in the game. It was so popular that it spawned a phone release with JUST the Ancient Cave and nothing else. Forfeit Island, which holds the traditional casino. And a pawn shop, where you can buy back the stuff you sold. Or fed to your Capsule Monster to make it grow into a stronger form.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_36395288	comment	Kirby: Kirby 64 contains, for no adequately explained reason, three mini-games in addition to the main game. That doesn't stop them from being a total time-sink, and great fun if you happen to play them with your friends. It helps that the "100-Yard Hop" minigame has the popular Gourmet Race theme from Kirby Super Star as its BGM. Kirby: Triple Deluxe contains a Super Smash Bros.-like mini-game involving playing as Kirbys with permanent abilities. It's exactly as distracting as it sounds. So much, in fact, that "Kirby Fighters" received a standalone update on the Nintendo eShop as Kirby Fighters Deluxe. The same applies, though to a lesser degree, with "Dedede's Drum Dash", which similarly was re-released as Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe. Kirby's Return To Dream Land Deluxe contains Merry Magoland, a game mode with a whopping 10 of these minigames ranging from various entries in the series, all of which have multiple difficulties, support multiplayer, and boast missions to complete. Not to mention playing minigames will get you stamps that can unlock masks that you can put on your character. Once unlocked, you could easily sink hours into Merry Magoland without even touching the main campaign.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_3967984f	comment	Dead Space has a mini-game known as "Zero-G Basketball" or "Z-Ball." Even though Isaac is playing by himself, it's still a lot of fun. It's also the only place on the entire ship where you can't be attacked by necromorphs. This was probably intentional, given the rest of the game...
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_3a35fcc8	comment	Kirby's Return To Dream Land Deluxe contains Merry Magoland, a game mode with a whopping 10 of these minigames ranging from various entries in the series, all of which have multiple difficulties, support multiplayer, and boast missions to complete. Not to mention playing minigames will get you stamps that can unlock masks that you can put on your character. Once unlocked, you could easily sink hours into Merry Magoland without even touching the main campaign.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_3be31c4	comment	And then they released Call of Duty for iPhone. Which game? Modern Warfare? No. Nazi Zombies. Many people played the campaign once or twice, online a handful of times, and Nazi Zombies for hours.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_3c912cc2	comment	Tales of Vesperia has a Nam Cobanda Isle itself and the opportunity to play the ever-so-addicting casino games. There's also a mini-game in another area where you have to accurately predict if the next number is higher or lower than the one preceding it.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_3cf15492	comment	This was a recurring situation in MechWarrior 4 Mercenaries. Space pirate raids? Interstellar civil war? Invasion by honor-obsessed warrior clans? Forget that, time to become champion of the Blood Sport Gladiator Games of Solaris VII! The wars can wait a year for you to finish the Gladiator Subquest...
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_3e5c6c5a	comment	In Super Mario 64, Lethal Lava Land becomes a huge skatepark in the later stars after you get the koopa shell. Players have also been known to glide around using the wing cap, trying to collect all the 1-up mushrooms while avoiding landing or falling into the lava.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_3f9e415	comment	Saints Row took this trope and made a game around it. It's supposed to be a GTA clone. In reality, doing missions is just another minigame, along with customizing cars, buying bling for your avatar, spraying the streets with the contents of a septic truck against the clock, car surfing, flying under every bridge in town, landing on rooftops, then basejumping off and landing in the back seat of a gang vehicle (all of these unlock rewards), shooting other gangs from the window of said gang vehicle for a reward, putting out fires, towing hot cars, playing a pimp (or ho), driving a celebrity's Bentley and running news vans off the road, taxi driving, jumping in the path of incoming cars for money, tagging, robbing stores, blowing up as much stuff as possible with an infinite ammo rocket launcher, throwing crazed fans into jet engines, engaging in fisticuffs, demolition derby, demolition derby with harvesting combines, street racing, jetski racing, doing stunt jumps, assassinating people and getting drunk or stoned... And streaking. Each subsequent game adds more stuff to do and get sidetracked by: Saints Row 2 let you partake in a violent reality show based on COPS, drive through the city on a flaming ATV, and go on a destruction spree with an attack chopper; Saints Row: The Third lets you run through a Japanese game show that is Running Man-meets-Takeshi's Castle, blow up things with a tank, and play the part of a "guardian angel" with a sniper rifle; and Saints Row IV takes many of the previous activities and throws superpowers into the mix: Telekinesis Mayhem, Super Power Fight Club, Mech Suit Mayhem, and so forth.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_43536f02	comment	Typing in "Atari Breakout" in a Google Image Search will result in that very game becoming playable. You might forget why you were searching for a picture in the first place.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion: Oblivion takes this trope to such an extreme that, after you get a feel for it, the main quest seems like the most marginal sidequest. Sometimes you get so engrossed in wandering Cyrodiil that the Oblivion Gates everywhere are more an annoyance than your reason for adventuring. The Oblivion Gates themselves can be diversion for those who are Sigil Stone-hunting, gathering Daedric alchemical ingredients which only grow within, and/or going for 100% Completion. That's why you do all of that, open the Gates, and do it again with more monsters.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_455ede40	comment	Super Paper Mario: The arcade. Four insanely addictive and incredibly fun mini-games. Many players would only leave to spend their tokens on that which they could sell, do so, then return with more money. Even if they eventually got bored of the game they were playing, there were still three more. If you get bored of Tilt Island, there is no helping you.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_474c18c1	comment	In BioShock Infinite's DLC Burial at Sea, Booker can gamble on slot machines early in the game, much to Elizabeth's annoyance.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_49a88442	comment	The Final Fantasy XIV example is referenced in Season 2 skit of the Pop Team Epic anime, which doubles as one big gag taking a potshot at the infamous "Pray return to the Waking Sands" meme.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_49ad83ee	comment	Similar to the City of Heroes example above, in World of Warcraft, players will often spend just as much time leveling their professions as they will actually leveling normally. It becomes really bad when one reaches the current end-level content of the game, where gathering the materials and recipes necessary to improve your professions is actually tied directly to the high-level daily quests and dungeons, making it almost a subversion of this trope. However, there are plenty of people who prefer simply loitering about the local auction house and simply buying whatever they need from the more active players, just so they can hang out in the Trade chat channel and barter their wares... you know, rather than actually play the game they spend real money on each month. On the other hand, players will also specifically create characters that just go out and gather materials so they can sell them to the higher-level characters looking to improve their professions. This method is even recommended to beginning players, both so they can level faster without having to go out of their way to level their professions (purposefully subverting this trope) and so they can get a bit of extra money during their low-level grind. The sheer number of quests, sidegames accessed by quests, and achievements found in WoW can easily make you forget about that Arthas guy with the cool sword or that dragon that wrecked Stormwind. The Darkmoon Faire is the most straight example, being an entire island dedicated solely to fun and merriment. It has a large variety of games to play and an increasingly massive number of prizes to be purchased, plus containing quests that help up level a character's profession points in addition to some extra game tokens and tickets (plus gold if you are at max level), so you also get an incentive to undust your alts.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_4b434423	comment	PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield has two: PokÃ©mon Camp. It functions similarly to the above-mentioned PokÃ©mon-Amie, allowing you to play fetch, tempt your 'mons with a cat toy, and talk to them. It also has the addictive curry-making minigame, which not only heals your PokÃ©mon and gives them extra experience points, but also gives you a number of curry recipes to collect. Chances are you'll be more focused on making curry than actually challenging the League. The other is the Wild Area, a sprawling expanse of land that partially turns the game into a Wide-Open Sandbox. Between the variety of hidden items, the variety of PokÃ©mon found there, and the fact that it's open before you even get to the first gym, chances are you'll be spending a lot of time there.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_4ff52d04	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, while waiting in the multiplayer lobby, you can run into the walls, causing a purple ball known as the Lucky Lobby Ball to fall down. Hitting the ball causes it to fly upwards and play a song from the Zelda series. If you continue to hit it, the song will keep playing and gradually get faster the more you keep hitting it.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_5059e565	comment	Test Drive Unlimited 2 features a casino that is unlocked for 800 Atari Tokens (which is $10.00 in real money), what makes it worth playing is the ability win both an Audi R8 Spyder and a Spyker C8 Aileron Spyder if you're willing to spend the time and (sometimes) money to get the one-million tokens for just the R8. (The conversion rate for Casino Tokens is 1 Token = 2$, requiring a whopping 2 million dollars to buy the tokens for it).
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_51507cf2	comment	Users of the Something Awful forums divide into two groups: those attracted by the front page who stayed for the forums, and those who say "Wait, there's a front page?"... and then get probated for being unfunny.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_51a97816	comment	Christina Grimmie likewise illustrates it in this Disney video.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_526d4c5c	comment	Knights of the Old Republic: If you are intent on winning all of the swoop races, you will probably spend enough effort on them that you end up at a loss with the track fees, unless Save Scumming is used to cheat them. It doesn't help that getting the best time is literally a difference counted in fractions of a second. The second game is slightly more forgiving on this account. "Beating" everyone at the card game Pazaak takes even longer. Most Pazaak players will only play for a certain amount of time (generally until you've beaten them a certain number of times in a row), after which they won't play for money anymore. Even with Save Scumming, each game can take a few minutes to play, and if you're trying to win five straight games or so with a dozen different people... well... you do the math!
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_53d09305	comment	After a certain point, you can go back to the first town and buy a Game Boy game from a kid who had been playing it the whole game (he sells it to you because he finally beat it). It's an insanely addictive Space Invaders clone where you can create giant combos for MASSIVE POINTS.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_5425ce75	comment	The Grand Theft Auto series is loaded with these, most side activities have a good reward for getting to a certain level in them, making them worthwhile even if you aren't completely enamoured by them: The Vigilante Car Chase.note Made much easier with the Hunter attack helicopter, turning the whole mini-game into a turkey shoot. Pizza Delivery. The surprisingly difficult Ambulance Rescue mini-game. Taxi driving: get your passenger to their destination as quickly, and safely, as possible. With a cash bonus for doing well. The highly controversial Hot Coffee Mini Game. Impromptu demolition derbies on the highway with whoever happens to be around. The horse race betting shops in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. There are a lot of fun activities in GTAIV you can find on YouTube: Horrific one-car accidents, horrific two-car accidents, horrific multiple-car accidents, horrific motorcycle accidents, horrific helicopter accidents, vehicular homicide, insane successful stunt jumps, insane unsuccessful stunt jumps, helicopters plummeting out of the sky for various reasons, falls off of buildings, falls out of helicopters, falls from the edge of space, slamming into buildings at high speed, shoving people down stairs, off of cliffs, and into traffic, cops doing ridiculous dance routines, shooting each other, and jumping to their deaths, the protagonists (Niko, Johnny and Luis) getting ejected from cars or falling hundreds of metres to their doom while screaming hilariously, outrageous ragdoll physics, frictionless/zero gravity chaos, massive tidal waves, and people and cars being launched skyward by playground equipment via the legendary Swingset Glitch. Finding videos about story missions, side missions, bowling, talking, or whatever the heck it is you're supposed to do in GTAIV is much harder. Grand Theft Auto V ups the ante in almost every way in this. Getting sidetracked might not even be getting sidetracked in this game. The entire game seems to be made up of getting sidetracked. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a tee off to get to. In game. GTA Online is prone to distractions. In addition to all the things you can do in single-player mode, the element of player interaction can make the game a Griefer paradise. After all, who can resist the urge to blow up someone else's expensive personalized car they spent 30 minutes customizing to their tastes while riding in a chopper or tank equipped with long-range explosives and lock on targeting?
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_5631e65a	comment	The obscure Nintendo 64 platformer Rocket: Robot on Wheels was full of this stuff. In the first world, "Clowny Island," there's a mini-game that lets you build custom roller coasters for the titular robot to ride in. While there is a goal to it (the coaster's path must hit certain targets), more than one reviewer has noted its extreme distraction potential. "Just one more coaster, I swear!" The second world, "Paint Misbehavin'", features a paintball-spewing vehicle called the HoverSplat. The paintballs are there so you can solve color-based puzzles... but the fun of them is using them to paint the entire level crazy colors. The fifth world, "Pyramid Scheme," features, in its Lethal Lava Land half, the "Glider Bike"—A motorcycle with BAT WINGS that FLIES. If you think you can resist the allure of flying around inside a volcano while doing aerial tricks on a motorcycle, you are very, very wrong.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_5755b96a	comment	Struggling role-playing game writer Rich Burlew was desperate for a way to draw people into his site, in order to bring more people to his articles and the forums. So he made a webcomic, which has since overshadowed everything else he's done.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: Skyrim has loads of dragons even before you get the main quest really rolling, and they're a real nuisance if you didn't get good at killing things or surviving attacks and are just trying to catch butterflies for your potion shop or explore to get 100% Completion. You can own shops, become nobility, rise to be the head of every guild, hunt random-encounter dragons and find every Wall to add to your Shouts, etc., and all that's unmodded. On the PC version, there are a plethora of mods that change the interface, make aesthetic improvements, patch issues that Bethesda never got around to fixing, and, of course, add content. Many of these mods conflict with one another, and it tends to be a bad idea to enable or disable mods in the middle of a game, so it's all too easy to get into a cycle of downloading and installing mods for an hour, futzing with load orders for three hours, playing for two hours, running into a recurring crash or strange glitch or something that could be fixed by adding or subtracting another mod or two, so it's back to spending an hour downloading and installing mods, then three hours futzing with load orders... Skyrim has a plethora of mods that can actually disable the main quest, remove your ability to shout, and dump you anywhere in Skyrim, effectively erasing any and all ties you had to the original main quest (and the theme of the game).
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_59215318	comment	Persona and Persona 2 both have casinos that feature slots, video poker, blackjack, and (in P2 only) bingo. Playing nets you coin tokens that you can exchange for weapons, armor, spell cards, and other useful stuff. Unless you're on an emulator abusing save states, however, be prepared to spend hours on these games to get the shiny stuff. In P2, Yukino even laments all the time one of her old friends (you, the player character in P1) spent in the casino in the midst of a crisis.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5 Royal also includes My Palace, a feature akin to Fire Emblem Fates' My Castle hub and is just as addictive. You could spend hours in this mode without even caring to think about the main game itself, endlessly toying with customizing a massive virtual dollhouse. You can even play an Uno-like card game called Tycoon, which can get ridiculously addictive as well.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_59cbd290	comment	Matt in Two Best Friends Play gets distracted by the coloring book part of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, which annoys his friend Pat to no end.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas: The game offers up multiple casinos throughout the gameworld where you can while away the hours playing roulette, blackjack or slots — even gaining "comp prizes" if you're good enough to win a certain amount of money off the games — or you can lose all your money and have to walk back home with your tail between your legs (as is exemplified in-universe by the 188 Trading Post, where you'll meet gamblers who've lost their earnings and are trying to get their bearings again or raise cash to get back home). This even extends to the Dead Money DLC, where the Sierra Madre Casino has a full complement of games you can enjoy towards the end of the mod, and are even encouraged to spend as much time there as you can before completing the main plot, as you can no longer return once the DLC is complete and you head back to the Mojave. For the truly masochistic, on a new game you can start walking towards the Strip (mountaineering past the Cazadores and Deathclaws), easily collect 2,000 caps on the way for the entry check, and spend the rest of the game gambling at slots, roulette, or blackjack, sleeping in the casinos and buying marked up food from casino bars, until you run out of money. Just like real-life Vegas. Characters with Luck of at least 7 will probably run into the jackpot limits and get barred from gambling in about an hour of gameplay or two. The devs put this in to keep the players from breaking the in-game economy, but it also has the effect of blunting this trope. There is no limit, however, to how much you can play the "Caravan" card game (barring your personal finances or the deaths of anyone willing to play). Even hunting around for new playing cards to add to your deck and prove addicting. Each DLC has a specific Collection Sidequest that will have you wasting plenty of time trying to get them all. Dead Money, aside from the aforementioned casino, allows you to find and upgrade the starting rifle (the Holorifle) with three schematics found in and around the villa, as well as an assortment of vending machine codes and item caches you can find around the various areas, which can be turned in for items or used to buy stacks of Pre-War Money. Old World Blues adds a sidequest to find and upgrade every personality module in the Sink (your home base), and will have you running to every inch of the Think Tank in order to collect and unlock their potential (and allows you to do things like build your own seed farm, itself an example of this). Lonesome Road has a pair of collection challenges, "Feel Like a Kid Again" and "Nostalgia", that task you with finding 15 RALPHIE The Robot posters and six audio recordings from deceased explorers in the Divide, respectively — to say nothing of all the gear you can find (including three unique Marked Beast Masks) and nukes to destroy.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_59e9298	comment	With the way Chuggaaconroy formats his videos as part-Let's Play part-Walkthrough, almost always going for 100% in every game he plays, he's very prone to falling victim to this trope, notably in games like Ōkami, Skyward Sword, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2. This habit of his is something he lampshades very often.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_5e91c7d	comment	Resident Evil 4 has shooting galleries halfway through the castle section that are hard to resist playing to completion just to get the juicy rewards. It also has the Mercenaries minigame after finishing the game, which could be considered a game on its own.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_5f710a0	comment	ProZD makes a joke about this trope in "Sidetracked by sidequests", where Dennis can't be bothered to play through the main story because he's too busy trying to find all of the game's pinecones. The joke returns in "facing the final boss after doing every single sidequest" where getting distracted by all of the game's sidequests results in Dennis one-shotting King Dragon because he's now overleveled. Oh, and he also found all 900 pinecones.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_6007bcf4	comment	Sleeping Dogs (2012) has some unique activities that can take up a player's time. The karaoke minigame in each nightclub has its share of players who won't put it down until they get 100% on each song. And the clubs themselves have flashy lighting effects and pulsing pop and hip-hop music that makes it enticing to dance with the NPC clubgoers. Cockfighting. You have the potential to earn quite a large amount of money (especially at the Kennedy Town docks) and players just can't resist making Wei's coffers as big as possible. Mahjong Poker. Not as big a payout as cockfighting, but addictive as all hell.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_61d4e874	comment	Conker's Bad Fur Day: While no one's complaining about the solid single-player campaign, the original game also includes a bunch of surprisingly robust and fun multiplayer modes (Beach, Raptor, Heist, War, Tank, Race, and Deathmatch) that are all available right out of the starting gate, and they are considered to be just as fun, if not more fun than the main game, and being a Nintendo 64 game, it supports four players off the bat, though they can also be played alone with reasonably intelligent AI opponents. In fact, when the Xbox remake Live & Reloaded only included one of the modes (a variant of the original games Deathmatch mode) and threw out the rest, it was considered a deal breaker for many fans of the original game.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_62bf543	comment	Way back in Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES, if you played it in two-player, there was a version of the original Mario Bros. game (and, if you played enough times to get through the very long repeating rotation of modes, a couple of other two-player mini-games). You selected it by going to your "opponent"/co-player on the map, and clicking, or by clicking as they tried to run past you! Whoever won the mini-game got to have the next turn, and the players moved so that the winner got the location where the battle was fought. So (depending on where the players were on the map) you could be trapped in an endless cycle of battling to play the next level. Not to mention you could steal the emblems you win at the end of levels so you could also start a cycle to get those back.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_63ac9abf	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has Casino Night Zone, which can cause some players to lose by running out of time. Yes, the slot machines are that addictive!
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_63f60d81	comment	Bomberman Tournament on the Game Boy Advance had the Karabon battle mini-game, which revolved around an odd mechanic that combined Elemental and Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_67a60c5f	comment	Batman: Arkham Knight is already full of side missions to make one forget the main story. But now the challenge maps present in the other games actually give points to the Tech Tree, so there is a reason to spend extra time off the main mode. And there's the introduction of race maps that are surprisingly addictive given the Batmobile's often wonky handling in the main game, making Arkham Knight probably the best Batman driving game available.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_67ce5a04	comment	Fire Emblem Fates has the Gold Saucer being its Hub Level in the form of My Castle! Aside from the metric butt-ton of customization and upgrade options, you get to partake in the lottery, fight in the arena, cook to give stat bonuses to your units, decorating your soldiers with accessories, visit other castles to battle, trade, gain skills and buy items as part of Fates' Socialization Bonus, and visiting the sauna and occasionally (by accident) peeping on the opposite sex there. Because of the genuine perks associated with maintaining your hub world, the genuine fun involved and its out-of-the-way presence compared to the main story (to the point that Fates willingly invokes Gameplay and Story Segregation to make the existence of My Castle mesh with the narrative, in a series that invokes Gameplay and Story Integration wherever possible) means it's not unheard of in the slightest to hear players rack up way more time in My Castle than the main campaign! Plus, the Birthright and Revelations paths also have the random battles and the chance to use gold to find more enemies. Again, HELLO GRINDING FOR GOLD, SUPPORTS, LEVEL-UPS, AND SKILLS.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_68959735	comment	Suikoden II: The Cooking Duels with Hai Yo. Shame that there weren't more of it. The Whack-A-Mole game which gives out Earth-resistant equipment (the final dungeon has a monster with rather nasty Earth-element attacks), and the Rope Climbing Game which gives out Lethal Joke Items that boost certain Combination Attacks and avoid friendly fire from the most powerful Combination Attacks in the game.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_68959742	comment	Suikoden IV has its own addictive mini-game that will take up most of your game time in Ritapon. Reach!
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_6bbde1c8	comment	As soon as Overwatch released its Paris map, players found themselves far more invested in playing the working (and accurate) pianos with their guns than shooting each other.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_6c1234ed	comment	While there is technically no way to actually "beat" Dwarf Fortress, and most of the game is doing whatever you think is fun, there are some things people do that go above and beyond simple 'Because I felt like it'. These are called Mega Projects. They can range from closing the Fortress off from the outside world and flooding the mapnote with either water or magma; whatever tickles your fancy, to creating a massive stone ceiling blocking out all that pesky sunlight, to constructing statues of Dwarves (and, in one extremely surreal case, the Elven King of the Dwarves) that are hundreds of feet tall, made of pure gold, and with magma for eyes).
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Since Fallout 3 doesn't let you keep exploring after completing the rather short main quest, it's preferable to tackle as many sidequests as possible first and level up.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 is easily the worst offender of all Fallout games combined. Like other games in the series, there are tons of sidequests to pursue. The settlement-building mechanics can easily take up hours of your time as you work to make your settlements the perfect little homesteads in the wasteland. Even more, if you take into account the time spent searching for resources to use to build your settlements. Weapons and armor (power armor included) are similarly customizable, and you can expect to spend a decent chunk of time working on making the perfect killing implements. If you like minigames, you can collect holotapes that feature Expy games of Missile Command, Donkey Kong, or even a full-fledged, Wizardry-style, CRPG. You can play these games on any computer terminal you have access to (including any terminals you build and set up in your settlements) or even just your Pip-Boy. The Automatron DLC adds the ability to create robotic companions. Expect to invest a lot of time building the perfect robots, if not a full-blown robot army! Nuka-World gives you a full theme park to explore, with functional rides and attractions along with a game room. The park's Raider gangs are all jockeying for power and expecting you to take charge and invade the Commonwealth, you say? Psh. Who has time for that crap when you still have hi-scores to beat in Ski-Ball and Whack-A-Commie?
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_6c6852c4	comment	Yakuza 0 features two incredibly extensive side-missions: A real-estate management one for Kiryu and a cabaret club management one for Majima. Many of the game's sidestories, aside from occasionally providing equipment for use in the main game, also provide characters to recruit for these side-missions. Fortunately, getting distracted by these side-missions is beneficial to playing the main story, as despite being massive money sinks, proper investment also provides massive profits for use in upgrading your fighting skills and getting better equipment, as well as unlocking a whole tier of upgrades for your fighting styles, and even unlocking hidden fourth styles for both characters.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_6c6852c5	comment	In fact Yakuza Kiwami makes you do two of these as a part of the "Majima Everywhere" System: over the course of the game Goro Majima, protagonist Kiryu Kazuma's lovably psycho rival, learns of him getting really into MesuKing: Bug Battle Beauties and Pocket Circuit races and demands Kiryu best Majima over them. As always Majima doesn't go down without a fierce fight.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_6c6fd2af	comment	Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise, having been made by the same developers behind Like a Dragon, mainly focuses on the badass martial artist Kenshiro's quest to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but also features many of the same mini-games or rough equivalents (such as the batting cages replaced with swatting away motorcycling thugs with an iron beam), so it's easy to set the story aside as always. There are some exclusive ones as well, including working as a barman, helping Lin with her grocery business, treating patients in a hospital and even playing a copy of Sega's first Hokuto No Ken game.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_6d8311c4	comment	New to the scene in HeartGold and SoulSilver is the "Voltorb Flip" game, which combines Luck-Based Mission and Awesomeness by Analysis. Your total coins can only go up because you're not actually betting in this game. On the other hand, they compensate for this by making it take even longer to make just as much money as you could by Save Scumming the slots... which just results in even more incentive to play it for hours.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_6f76d71a	comment	In The Sims, especially 2 and 3, and especially if you download custom content, creating Sims and building and designing houses are often so fun people make Sims and houses they never actually play with. Some people end up creating beautifully decorated Sim houses that look almost like real people's houses, but unfortunately are totally uninhabitable by Sims. Downloading custom content on its own can have this effect too.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_6ff9f104	comment	A not insignificant number of Madden NFL don't bother playing the games themselves, and prefer to play Franchise Mode like a "management sim" instead. They'll build teams, hire coaches, and generally run the franchise while merely simulating the actual football games. There exist numerous editing programs for Madden 08 (the last Madden released for PC until Madden 19) which give players control over nearly every aspect of this style of play.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_702a974	comment	Although there isn't much to do in Shadow of the Colossus other than killing the colossi and sightseeing, you'll find yourself captivated enough by the scenery to sink hours into just wandering around the place and drinking in the beauty of the setting. Scenery Porn at its finest.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_72a1ac51	comment	The horse race betting shops in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_740fab62	comment	The Ganbare Goemon series: The Legend of the Mystical Ninja features an entire level called "Amusement Park," which consists almost entirely of mini-games such as concentration, horse racing, a painting contest, and a quiz game show with a ridiculously huge cash prize. Players can and do waste hours here. It also has one of the shops where you can buy the Hourglass item, adding time to the ever-ticking time limit at the top of the screen. You can't just waste hours here, you can buy them and waste more! Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon has the Impact battles. They begin with a cutscene full of awesome music, then a running level, and finally the battle against a mecha-sized enemy (or in one case two). Unfortunately, the game has only three save slots, which is inconvenient if you want to be able to play all the battles over and over again and do anything else with the game.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_74a4c704	comment	The Gummi Ship sequences in Kingdom Hearts or Kingdom Hearts II. Particularly in II, where the sequences received a much-lauded overhaul which turned the levels into the adrenaline-fueled lovechild of Star Fox and Panzer Dragoon.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The Fishing Pond is well-known for its addictive properties. Even after winning the available prizes, you can waste ages in there, looking for the elusive Hylian Loach. It was the result of one of the game designers goofing off while working on the Water Temple; he'd isolated a room with a water pool and some fish for his own amusement, and, when found out, the rest of the team liked the idea enough to throw it in. The Horseback Archery course in the Gerudo Fortress. Ganon can wait. Link NEEDS his perfect score! Someone, with help from others, made sheet music for Ocarina of Time, since the Ocarina is a full-featured instrument, not a prefabricated spellbook. The Pictograph/Nintendo Gallery mega-sidequest in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Due to the "Groundhog Day" Loop going on, it's not uncommon for players to spend entire loops just doing and repeating as many side-quests and mini-games as possible. The 3DS version includes the Fishing Hole. With all the kinds of fish that can be caught in both locations, it's not unheard of for players to spend all three days doing nothing but fish. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess The Fishing Hole returns. Still awesome, and this time you can fish in any body of water, using a fishing rod of your very own, plus the Wii controls. The Fishing Hole lobby also has the addictive mini-game "Rollgoal", so you can get sidetracked by another Gold Saucer there. The snowboarding races with Yeto. Aside from being just fun to slide down a snowy mountain, his wife is quite the speedy racer. Expect to spend hours training to get all the shortcuts in order to beat her record time. The Lightning Round in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword allows Link to access a Boss Rush as well as a replay of the Silent Realm challenges, and unsurprisingly this has kept players playing them over and over again because of the Speed Run potential in both cases, and the opportunity to get juicy rewards (including the legendary Hylian Shield) helps. In The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes, while waiting in the multiplayer lobby, you can run into the walls, causing a purple ball known as the Lucky Lobby Ball to fall down. Hitting the ball causes it to fly upwards and play a song from the Zelda series. If you continue to hit it, the song will keep playing and gradually get faster the more you keep hitting it. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has numerous distracting minigames, such as: Snowling, a form of 9-pin bowling using giant snowballs and wooden totem poles; "Boom Bam Golf," where you try to get a giant stone ball into a hole with a minimal number of stasis-launches; Shield Surfing, which is exactly what it sounds like; a "Train to Become the Wind" Pass Through the Rings game; the classic horse-courses, one with targets to shoot and another with hurdles to jump over, plus a plain old foot-race; a distance-gliding test off a certain Sheikah Tower; the "Gut Check Challenge," a test of your speed-climbing skills, with a harder mode when you get bored of the standard one... the list goes on. All minigames track your high score, encouraging you to play repeatedly, and most dispense Rupees (an otherwise-scarce commodity in this game compared to most Zelda titles) in addition to some special prize. This is all in addition to the game being one of the largest Quicksand Boxes in existence, with 120 optional "Shrine" mini-dungeons and 900 Korok puzzles to find and solve, among other things.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_7579423f	comment	Banjo-Kazooie: The Tower of Tragedy quiz and "shootout" modes in Banjo-Tooie'' are so neat, Rare includes them as their own mini-games. They're also ridiculously addictive and make great multiplayer fodder. One can spend more concentrated time building vehicles in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts than actually focusing on Jiggy Challenges.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2's Lair of The Shadow Broker DLC allows you to re-enter the Shadow Broker's base once you've completed the main story, wherein you will get access to dozens of conversations and private messages written by characters in the Mass Effect universe. In addition, a gambling minigame similar to Pinnacle Station returns in the form of "Investments", which can either yield additional credits or result in a loss. The email conversations and email exchanges proved to be so popular that a separate companion app, ME3: Datapad, was later developed for the following game in the series, which included dozens of messages that appeared as the player progressed through the main story.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_7668653b	comment	The "Search and Rescue" mode for Mass Effect 3 lends itself well to this trope. Instead of scanning planets for resources like in the previous game, the mode now gives players the chance to amass War Assets, money, artifacts, and more.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_76d45579	comment	Sonic Mania marks a return of the Blue Sphere minigame as the bonus stages from reaching checkpoints with enough rings, and beating all of them unlocks a mode similar to the stand-alone Blue Sphere game with randomly generated levels. It includes the variation with classic rules and a "Mania" variant that adds two new types of spheres. The game also contains a minigame in the form of a remake of Puyo Puyo(/Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine), which can also be unlocked to be played at any time after clearing enough bonus stages. It's possible to get lost in either of these, spending game sessions not even touching the main platformer because of them.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_792239e5	comment	Also, the working Casino in Tales of Symphonia for the PlayStation 2. None of the prices were so great — except the pretty cheap Devils Arms weapon. Or Raine's bunny outfit, costing the most chips.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_7988cb68	comment	The Mass Effect series has this in spades: Although you do have to pay attention to the main storyline of the games eventually, you can waste an awful lot of time exploring/scanning what seems like every single planet in the known galaxy, if you'd like. This can lead to some rather funny Mood Dissonance, as you can angrily tell someone you have to hurry, you have to save the galaxy... and then immediately hop back in your spaceship to probe another couple dozen planets, and maybe leisurely explore an abandoned space station or two. There are many, many parodies of the fact that you're spending an often-significant amount of time romancing your crew members as the galaxy races towards oblivion. For three games. The final DLC produced for the game, Pinnacle Station, rewards the player for completing the associated combat challenges (itself an example of this trope) with a pseudo-gambling minigame where they can bet on expeditions manned by other ships and crews, which will sometimes net high-level weapons and armor. It's not uncommon to see players risking all of their funds on the off-chance of getting a Master-level set of armor or a particularly high-level gun. Mass Effect 2's Lair of The Shadow Broker DLC allows you to re-enter the Shadow Broker's base once you've completed the main story, wherein you will get access to dozens of conversations and private messages written by characters in the Mass Effect universe. In addition, a gambling minigame similar to Pinnacle Station returns in the form of "Investments", which can either yield additional credits or result in a loss. The email conversations and email exchanges proved to be so popular that a separate companion app, ME3: Datapad, was later developed for the following game in the series, which included dozens of messages that appeared as the player progressed through the main story. The "Search and Rescue" mode for Mass Effect 3 lends itself well to this trope. Instead of scanning planets for resources like in the previous game, the mode now gives players the chance to amass War Assets, money, artifacts, and more. The Citadel DLC was made with this trope in mind. Once the main mission of the DLC is completed, a whole area of the Citadel opens up for the player, which is filled with many side activities (in a manner similar to FF7's Gold Saucer). This includes a casino with different games to bet on, an arcade (including a claw machine where you can win prizes) an apartment that can be customized, and a combat simulator with a full set of sidequests and numerous high-level challenges. You also get the ability to throw a party for all of your surviving squadmates (and this party has several different variables based on the mood you set, lending itself to replays) and can hang out with your squadmates after the fact. You can also challenge James to a pull-up challenge that has no reward. The Expanded Galaxy Mod functionally turns the Normandy itself into a much more active hub area. The player now has access to a "Crew Manifest" mechanic where specialists and key personnel can be designated into specific roles, thus conferring gameplay or visual benefits throughout the ship. A shooting range can be deployed in the armory, in which squadmates you've recruited will combat on your abilities and you can buy different sets of targets. A Wall of Weapons is also added, thus turning weapon acquisition into a Collection Sidequest. There are also new sets of collectibles (namely, support ships and mechs that can be displayed in the Normandy's cargo bay), as well as depreciable War Assets and Assignments peppered throughout the galaxy.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_7b429ebd	comment	Each subsequent game adds more stuff to do and get sidetracked by: Saints Row 2 let you partake in a violent reality show based on COPS, drive through the city on a flaming ATV, and go on a destruction spree with an attack chopper; Saints Row: The Third lets you run through a Japanese game show that is Running Man-meets-Takeshi's Castle, blow up things with a tank, and play the part of a "guardian angel" with a sniper rifle; and Saints Row IV takes many of the previous activities and throws superpowers into the mix: Telekinesis Mayhem, Super Power Fight Club, Mech Suit Mayhem, and so forth.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_7bf97a85	comment	Invoked in the ActRaiser episode, where Arino spends a disproportionate amount of time in the simulation mode, despite his title as Chief being at risk in that episode should he not complete the game in time.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_7d8c61a2	comment	In Star Wars: The Old Republic, codex hunting and datacron puzzles can kill days worth of play. There are also Heroic-level sidequests that reset daily, PvP, the space battle rail-shooter, flashpoints, bonus series for each planet after you've completed the main class quests. Not to mention XP just for filling out the map. It's not unheard of for players to hit the level cap around Alderaan (meant for levels 28-35, with a Nintendo Hard bonus series going to Level 43).
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_7e20f23c	comment	Kaos Mode in State of Emergency strips out the storyline and just lets you wreak havoc. It's actually more fun than the story mode.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_7f5bc680	comment	The Fallout series is especially guilty of this, where many of the sidequests or just exploring the maps draws you away from the main story, to the point where the first two games put a time limit on the first major quest to keep you focused. The third game has no such time limit until the final part of the main quest. It is very easy to get caught up in exploring and doing sidequests right from the moment you leave the vault, to the point that the player can hit the level cap before really beginning the main quest. Since Fallout 3 doesn't let you keep exploring after completing the rather short main quest, it's preferable to tackle as many sidequests as possible first and level up. At least the Broken Steel DLC raises the level cap from 20 to 30 immediately when installed, so you don't have to worry about hitting 20 and having to finish the main quest in order to start Broken Steel and progress on to 30.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_7f9dbbcd	comment	Far Cry 3: Your girlfriend, your friends, and your brother were all kidnapped by Ruthless Modern Pirates and are likely being tortured, raped, and/or sold into slavery as we speak...but who cares about THEM? You've got animals to hunt, outposts to liberate, radio towers to find, screw around on jetskis and hang gliders...
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_81c929fa	comment	Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order: The game tracks the "completion" percentage of each world you visit, with dozens of collectibles and Character Customization options for Cal and BD-1 just waiting to be discovered. The game incentivizes backtracking to other worlds (after all, this is a Metroidvania title) to find the extra skins for Cal's clothing, BD-1, the Mantis, the lightsaber parts, and stim canister upgrades once you've unlocked the requisite Jedi abilities. The game also has Optional Bosses that unlock after Cal is rescued from the Haxion Brood arena — a set of 12 bounty hunters that are placed in random spots throughout the available worlds. You could waste hours looking for them, and they don't award you anything but experience, but they're definitely worth seeking out.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_87056d17	comment	Chao raising in the Sonic Adventure games. For some people, it's the only reason why they still play those games. The first Sonic Adventure also featured two different pinball games in Casinopolis note (one based on Sonic, the other based on NiGHTS) that can prove addicting in their own right, along with a collection of other mini-games like kart-racing time trials, Amy's Whack A Mole, and the Sky Chase stages - the Updated Re-release added a Game Gear emulator to the main menu, with every Game Gear Sonic game unlockable by collecting Emblems, some of which are earned through the aforementioned minigames.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_8c87469c	comment	The Lightning Round in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword allows Link to access a Boss Rush as well as a replay of the Silent Realm challenges, and unsurprisingly this has kept players playing them over and over again because of the Speed Run potential in both cases, and the opportunity to get juicy rewards (including the legendary Hylian Shield) helps.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_8cadb510	comment	Kirby 64 contains, for no adequately explained reason, three mini-games in addition to the main game. That doesn't stop them from being a total time-sink, and great fun if you happen to play them with your friends. It helps that the "100-Yard Hop" minigame has the popular Gourmet Race theme from Kirby Super Star as its BGM.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_8d072546	comment	Star Wars Jedi: Survivor brings back both the collectible customization options and the optional boss fights from Fallen Order, along with some new additions: A "Holotactics" minigame, which both grants rewards for beating certain opponents and encourages exploration.*The player's unit library is drawn from non-boss enemies they've encountered in the main game. A fish tank which can be filled with various species found as the player explores. The player now has a rooftop garden they can plant themselves with seeds collected throughout the game. Certain new collectibles can be traded to various characters for upgrades and customization options.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_8d318bad	comment	Super Mario RPG: After a certain point, you can go back to the first town and buy a Game Boy game from a kid who had been playing it the whole game (he sells it to you because he finally beat it). It's an insanely addictive Space Invaders clone where you can create giant combos for MASSIVE POINTS. Grate Guy's Casino (assuming you can figure out how to get to it without a guide anyway). Offers two rather terrible games with high chances of losing, but also a game from Grate Guy himself (essentially a coin flip game) with a prize if you beat him 100 times. Said item is a moderately powerful, infinite-use attack item, so it's well worth the considerable amount of time it takes to get.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_8ec33a86	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 1, hoo boy. This game may well hold the record for just how early it's possible to get sidetracked: the first town alone contains literally dozens of sidequests, as well as around 50 unique, named NPCs to register in a chart detailing their relationships with all other NPCs! A player could spend hours doing sidequests before even leaving the first town! By the time one is done with sidequests and moves on with the main story (if only for having no more quests to do), the party can easily be many hours and about a dozen levels past what the game expects.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_8ec33a87	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has the "Tiger Tiger" game. The game is the primary method of upgrading Tora's artificial Blade, Poppi. Given Poppi is also the only Blade Tora can have you are actively encouraged to do this. Salvaging can end up taking up a lot of playtime simply because it can become a Game-Breaker and one of the best sources of money in the game. And in true Xenoblade tradition, it would not be exaggerating much to say there are one hundred sidequests in this game.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_8ec33aad	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles X practically invokes getting distracted. Story missions can only be unlocked if a certain level, percentage of Frontier Nav is reached and/or an Affinity Mission is completed. Naturally, this requires a lot of exploring.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_8ee238c9	comment	Go on, just pick about any Persona game that incorporates the free time elements. You're given one whole year in the game's timeframe to defeat the Shadows and climb Tartarus, catch the serial killer plaguing your town, and clearing your name of a false assault charge and changing the corruption of society for the better, and unlike most games, there are deadlines that will result in a Non-Standard Game Over if you fail to meet them... or, alternatively, you can enjoy a thriving town/city to explore with stops and venues to increase your stats, a Fishing Minigame in Persona 4, batting cages and darts in Persona 5, and in all three games, socializing and helping your friends through their problems, which can so engross players that they make them often forget about the main plot! Doubly so when, if you play your cards right, you can hook up with some of the characters as well... in short, Persona absolutely lives on this trope, and the most common complaint of fans of the series is that the game ends all the same. Persona and Persona 2 both have casinos that feature slots, video poker, blackjack, and (in P2 only) bingo. Playing nets you coin tokens that you can exchange for weapons, armor, spell cards, and other useful stuff. Unless you're on an emulator abusing save states, however, be prepared to spend hours on these games to get the shiny stuff. In P2, Yukino even laments all the time one of her old friends (you, the player character in P1) spent in the casino in the midst of a crisis. Persona 5 Royal also includes My Palace, a feature akin to Fire Emblem Fates' My Castle hub and is just as addictive. You could spend hours in this mode without even caring to think about the main game itself, endlessly toying with customizing a massive virtual dollhouse. You can even play an Uno-like card game called Tycoon, which can get ridiculously addictive as well.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_90f42a9b	comment	Matrim Cauthon in The Wheel of Time often stops to gamble, infuriating many of his traveling companions, especially the Aes Sedai, especially Aes Sedai protagonists. However, due to his Luck, it might be more accurate to call it fundraising for his paramilitary organization, which is how he often sees it.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_91209b29	comment	Xenosaga Episode III has Hakox, which could have been released by itself as a sweet budget title.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_921a667d	comment	PokÃ©mon Stadium (1 and 2) have addictive mini-games, to the point that one of the main complaints about PokÃ©mon Battle Revolution is that it has no mini-games.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_9324d4c	comment	In the Yogscast Minecraft Series Simon Lane and Lewis Brindley are regularly distracted by shiny things, but at least getting better at actually running after them:
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_93b6f384	comment	Ape Escape 2 has the soccer mini-game which could well be its own game trying to win against the other team.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_9400c0b1	comment	Parodied in the Collegehumor video The Legend of Link's Distractions. It's basically a case of realistic outcomes on showing just what would happen if Link is too busy either fishing or chasing chickens to do anything that actually involves saving Hyrule.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_943eeb1d	comment	Wolfquest technically has a plot you're supposed to follow — find a mate, breed, move your pups, the end — however, it's easy to get lost in pretending to be a wolf, hunting animals, and exploring the wilderness.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_959e6bc	comment	Dragon Quest II featured the first gambling mini-game: a simple slot machine where you could win prizes if the three symbols matched. The ultimate prize was a Gold Card, which could reduce prices of items at any shop by 50%. Even if you only matched two symbols out of three, you could still another token to try again.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_959e6c9	comment	Amusingly, in Dragon Quest IV, this happens to one of the heroes in-story. Chapter IV ends with Meena and Maya arriving in Endor, which happens to have a casino. If you don't waste time, you can get to Endor about fifteen minutes into Chapter V with a completely different and unrelated character and you'll find Maya in said casino, trying to win back the money you had just left them behind with at the end of Chapter IV! Her sister Meena is not amused.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_959e6cb	comment	Gambling was mysteriously absent from Dragon Quest IX, but returned in Dragon Quest X.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_97218fa4	comment	Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal has a fair amount of addictive side content to supplement the main game: The single-player campaign is generally quite well regarded as is, but the game is also known for its surprisingly solid four-player multiplayer mode that is considered just as if not more fun than the main game. While some of the Annihilation Nation challenges are mandatory to complete, the many side challenges are extremely addicting due to being full of pure combat without being too overwhelming in difficulty. The big bolt rewards and ripe chances to farm for XP are just icing on the cake. While the Qwark Vid-Comics are mandatory to complete the game, they're so damn addictive due to their simple side-scrolling nature that you'll find yourself playing them far more often than needed. That Challenge Mode offers big bolt rewards for collecting all the Qwark Tokens in them makes it even better.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_980a4d78	comment	Bomberman: Every game that includes the classic Battle Mode. They've added all kinds of new stuff over the years, but most people play just for that mode. Bomberman Tournament on the Game Boy Advance had the Karabon battle mini-game, which revolved around an odd mechanic that combined Elemental and Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_9b962c6d	comment	Dragon Quest XI has poker, slots, Slime Quest Slots (where you have to help the hero Goolysses), and roulette after the second casino unlocks.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls Given the series' large game worlds and non-linear nature, this is naturally one of the driving design factors for each game. Sure, there is a deep main quest and Loads and Loads of Sidequests (some of which, particularly the Guilds and Factions, with their own significant Sidequest Sidestories), but you can also spend dozens of hours reading the many in-game books (which range from short stories to full-blown In-Game Novels), collecting alchemy ingredients, creating spells/enchanted items/custom weapons and armor, turning your player home into a Superhero Trophy Shelf full of your questing souvenirs (at least following the series' 3D Leap, and much much more. Game Mods are another major draw for the series. The easy-to-learn and flexible "Construction Set" Level Editor comes packed into the PC version of each game starting with Morrowind, and the Elder Scrolls modding community is one of the most robust and industrious in gaming. The vast assortment of available mods can increase the content of each game thousands of times over. (And that doesn't even count the countless man-hours spent creating the mods in the first place.) Morrowind actually implements the ability to wander around and complete quests away from the main quest as a storyline element. A large portion of the main quest can be legitimately skipped as long as you are at least level 21 and have 50+ reputation. (A formidable achievement if skipping the main quest, but quite possible if you fully complete several of the faction questlines.) If you meet this requirement, an NPC involved in the late main quest waives his usual demands to be acknowledged by seven different groups and allows you to meet with him directly. Oblivion: Oblivion takes this trope to such an extreme that, after you get a feel for it, the main quest seems like the most marginal sidequest. Sometimes you get so engrossed in wandering Cyrodiil that the Oblivion Gates everywhere are more an annoyance than your reason for adventuring. The Oblivion Gates themselves can be diversion for those who are Sigil Stone-hunting, gathering Daedric alchemical ingredients which only grow within, and/or going for 100% Completion. That's why you do all of that, open the Gates, and do it again with more monsters. Skyrim: Skyrim has loads of dragons even before you get the main quest really rolling, and they're a real nuisance if you didn't get good at killing things or surviving attacks and are just trying to catch butterflies for your potion shop or explore to get 100% Completion. You can own shops, become nobility, rise to be the head of every guild, hunt random-encounter dragons and find every Wall to add to your Shouts, etc., and all that's unmodded. On the PC version, there are a plethora of mods that change the interface, make aesthetic improvements, patch issues that Bethesda never got around to fixing, and, of course, add content. Many of these mods conflict with one another, and it tends to be a bad idea to enable or disable mods in the middle of a game, so it's all too easy to get into a cycle of downloading and installing mods for an hour, futzing with load orders for three hours, playing for two hours, running into a recurring crash or strange glitch or something that could be fixed by adding or subtracting another mod or two, so it's back to spending an hour downloading and installing mods, then three hours futzing with load orders... Skyrim has a plethora of mods that can actually disable the main quest, remove your ability to shout, and dump you anywhere in Skyrim, effectively erasing any and all ties you had to the original main quest (and the theme of the game).
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_9d55fc46	comment	The title character of Maliki once tried Black Desert Online. She ends up spending a week fishing.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: In the first generation games, winning a large sum of coins at the casino was the only way to get Porygon, outside of spending an even larger sum of money. However, you can get Dratini which evolves into Dragonair, then Dragonite. You can also get PokÃ©mon you have normally would have trouble catching, such as Abra (Teleportation from battle) and Clefairy (Hard to find in Mt. Moon), and Scyther (Safari Zone). In later titles, the Casino Gift Shop gives out the most useful TMs and items, so the gambling really does pay off, especially for "Stop Having Fun" Guys. New to the scene in HeartGold and SoulSilver is the "Voltorb Flip" game, which combines Luck-Based Mission and Awesomeness by Analysis. Your total coins can only go up because you're not actually betting in this game. On the other hand, they compensate for this by making it take even longer to make just as much money as you could by Save Scumming the slots... which just results in even more incentive to play it for hours. Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum have PokÃ©mon Contests, which involve a different set of stats entirely, and are rightly a whole other game. Imagine a competitive beauty pageant, for PokÃ©mon. HeartGold and SoulSilver has the PokÃ©athlon: track and field events for PokÃ©mon. Breeding. Trying to hatch the perfect PokÃ©mon sometimes is more fun than the battling. And sometimes wondering how it even works is a whole different ball game. Roaming around the Underground trying to find Shards and the like in Diamond and Pearl. PokÃ©mon Stadium (1 and 2) have addictive mini-games, to the point that one of the main complaints about PokÃ©mon Battle Revolution is that it has no mini-games. Back with a vengeance in PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2 in the form of PokÃ©star Studios. Shooting movies there is very addictive, and you'll be staying in Virbank City long after beating Roxie because of how fun it is to do so. In PokÃ©mon Black 2 and White 2, Join Avenue is very addictive and you get excellent perks, items, and training options for leveling up your shops there. Even better, online battles and trades help you do so quicker, so you might end up Sidetracked from One Golden Saucer by Another Golden Saucer. Team Plasma can wait when you still need 300 points to level up your Cafe! For those who love battling, the Battle Subway and PokÃ©mon World Tournament are the places in Unova to go! The former is a seven-battle system that pits you up against a wide variety of PokÃ©mon. Although the regular lines can be pretty easy up until the last eight battles or so, the Super lines are perfect for competitive-level trainers who need something to try out their tactics on. Endless, unpredictable battling means nothing is the same, and even other trainers or an in-game one can join, too! The latter is a tournament-style system that pits you against almost every Gym Leader and Champion in the series. It's useful considering that you earn points needed to buy valuable held items and TMs by doing so. Battle-loving trainers will have a blast. In PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, with the addition of facility building, similar to Join Avenue above, you can get distracted from the main plot by focusing on grinding materials and improving your Paradise. Not to mention the mini-games added like Sunken Treasure and Prize Palace. PokÃ©mon X and Y has two types of mini-games that can be accessed anywhere: PokÃ©mon-Amie and Super Training. PokÃ©mon-Amie is a way to build relationships with your Pokemon. You can pet them, feed them desserts, and play smaller games that make your PokÃ©mon friendlier toward you. This causes your PokÃ©mon to gain many benefits during battles, such as being more likely to land critical hits, recovering from major status conditions, and surviving attacks that would have otherwise KO'd them. Thus, it's very easy to get stuck on this mode if you have a lot of free time. Super Training is a set of mini-games where your Pokemon kicks soccer balls into a balloon to try and pop it as fast as possible. This has the gameplay purpose of increasing your PokÃ©mon's Effort Values which can be manipulated for Min-Maxing, and is much, much easier than the previous way of knocking out certain Pokemon over and over again. Secret Super Training has mini-games that reward rare items like Evolution Stones, PP Ups, and even PP Maxes if the player does well enough. Of course, it still takes a long time to complete, so players find themselves spending a lot of time in the mini-games, causing this trope. Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, on top of having Super Training and PokÃ©mon Amie returning, introduces the DexNav. It detects hidden Pokemon and gains better search functions the more a particular species of Pokemon have been encountered. Hidden Pokemon detected by the DexNav may have Egg Moves, their hidden ability, holding certain rare items like Lucky Egg and Life Orb, possess Perfect IVs, and even be Shiny. Players will just waste their time fiddling around with the DexNav than doing any actual progress in the game. Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon continues the tradition with its two unique minigames. Not only is Mantine Surfing fun, it is the earliest BP can be gained in any game in the franchise, and there are a lot of good things on offer, such as vitamins, Max Revives, and Move Tutors for useful moves such as the elemental punches, Stealth Rock, Earth Power, and more. Ultra Warp Ride is a way to acquire every Legendary PokÃ©mon from Gens I through VI, an infinite number of Ultra Beasts, and even obtain Shiny PokÃ©mon that aren't in the Alola Dex. Even better, it opens up right after Ultra Necrozma's defeat, before the player's final Trial. It's not at all unlikely a player will end the game with a different party than they had before as a result. PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield has two: PokÃ©mon Camp. It functions similarly to the above-mentioned PokÃ©mon-Amie, allowing you to play fetch, tempt your 'mons with a cat toy, and talk to them. It also has the addictive curry-making minigame, which not only heals your PokÃ©mon and gives them extra experience points, but also gives you a number of curry recipes to collect. Chances are you'll be more focused on making curry than actually challenging the League. The other is the Wild Area, a sprawling expanse of land that partially turns the game into a Wide-Open Sandbox. Between the variety of hidden items, the variety of PokÃ©mon found there, and the fact that it's open before you even get to the first gym, chances are you'll be spending a lot of time there.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_a2add1d4	comment	Splatoon 3 has Tableturf Battle, a Card Battle Game side activity that doesn't even have its own selection option in the main Hub World menu — the player has to physically walk to the location if they want to battle NPCs, with the ability to fight other players in the Lobby not releasing until six months after launch. For some, the inconvenience and the wait are worth it, as Tableturf offers a lot of depth in deckbuilding and strategy to the point where there are those who have reported spending more time on it than any of the main modes.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_a2dee471	comment	The Pictograph/Nintendo Gallery mega-sidequest in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_a4514a75	comment	Iji gets extra points for doing this in universe with the Easter Egg Minigame Hero 3D. It's a very addictive action game in its own right, but upon reviewing some logbooks it is stated that one of the aliens programmed it in his spare time, and left it there in hopes that the "Human Anomaly" will be distracted enough by it that they can just walk up and capture her.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_a7a0b48b	comment	NieR: Automata has a Fishing Mini Game so addictive and distracting that the game even lampshades it; there's a special ending just for abandoning your mission in the name of continuing to fish.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_a877956	comment	Both The Witcher and The Witcher 2 had Dice Poker, a gambling game where two players would try to form better poker hands not by drawing cards, but by rolling dice. Dice Poker is treated like Serious Business in-universe, with some players refusing to accept Geralt's challenge unless he can prove himself by beating all the lesser players, making the whole thing an extensive Side Quest spread across the entirety of both games.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_a89452e6	comment	The Sprite Casino in Harvest Moon DS and DS Cute. Well, two-thirds of the Casino. The blackjack and poker games can be addictive. The Memory game tends to be ignored.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_a8ec4b8	comment	davidr64yt of X's Adventures In Minecraft has a similar problem. Every time he sets out with a specific goal in mind ("I will kill cows and collect enough leather to create a full suit of armor") he will inevitably get sidetracked into doing something entirely different, such as, in the given example, building a boat and wandering the high seas, ending up in a terrible battle to the death with a spider.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_aaeed53d	comment	Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon. Bear Stormin'. Good heaven almighty, Bear Stormin'. An arcade-styled Auto Scrolling Game where you play as a One-Hit-Point Wonder trying to desperately keep your fuel up while everything else tries to kill you. It starts off easy enough, then, later on, it quits pulling any punches and descends into a Nintendo Hard mess of ridiculousness. Many have outright admitted it they enjoyed it more than the game surrounding it. In fact, it even got a reskin for the later Putt-Putt and Fatty Bear's Activity Pack, and of course it was the most played game in the (15-minigame) compilation, ramping the difficulty up.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ab3076a5	comment	In the VG Cats strip "Cletus Brand Chocobos," Aeris becomes preoccupied with her bird breeding program.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ac64e9dc	comment	The Last of Us Part II includes a guitar simulator that lets you play almost any song. Since the game's release, numerous videos have come out of people doing covers of various songs using the game.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ad565263	comment	He also insisted to try to access the bonus levels in Pilotwings. At least the two times he succeeded were quite cool.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_adceb5d4	comment	Thrillville is a game centered around building your own Golden Saucer, and then playing in it! Those roller coasters you built? You can ride them! Those arcade games you set up? Fully playable! The bumper cars? Go nuts!
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The Fishing Pond is well-known for its addictive properties. Even after winning the available prizes, you can waste ages in there, looking for the elusive Hylian Loach. It was the result of one of the game designers goofing off while working on the Water Temple; he'd isolated a room with a water pool and some fish for his own amusement, and, when found out, the rest of the team liked the idea enough to throw it in. The Horseback Archery course in the Gerudo Fortress. Ganon can wait. Link NEEDS his perfect score! Someone, with help from others, made sheet music for Ocarina of Time, since the Ocarina is a full-featured instrument, not a prefabricated spellbook.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_afa87e53	comment	The darts mini-game in Backyard Baseball 2005 is quite distracting.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_afbade25	comment	Bioshock 2: In the Minerva's Den DLC, Subject Sigma can play Spitfire, one of the first video games ever made.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b09dedd6	comment	Exa Punks includes even more ways to not get work done, with both another variant of solitaire and HACKMATCH, an action puzzle game similar to Tetris Attack.*
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b0d48fd6	comment	Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2 and 3 have kart racing. Essentially, they're their own little mini-Mario Kart games, complete with several tracks, characters, and power-ups! They're available from the title screen, too, making it even easier to bypass the main game completely and go straight into racing tiny cars forever.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b0ec0986	comment	Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep has more distracting and addictive mini-games than you can shake a stick at. Command Board can suck away hours of playtime each time the player unlocks a new game board. And then there's Disney Town, which is basically the Gold Saucer of Kingdom Hearts— full of incredibly fun and addicting mini-games. And that's not even including the multiplayer aspect in the Mirage Arena, which lets the player do all of this and more with friends... suffice it to say, it's very, very easy to completely disregard the story. It doesn't help that they give you a very good incentive: the top two rounds (in the original) give out the Infinity +1 Key and the most powerful Shotlocks in the game — including Lingering Will's Ultima Cannon! That in itself wouldn't be too bad... unless you're a Billy-no-blokes, because the Mirage Arena is designed for multiplayer. The Shotlocks are guarded by the third and fourth forms of the evolving SNK Boss.note For better or worse, the HD ReMIX dropped the difficulty on the Mirage Arena to accommodate the lack of multiplayer, so even the Billies-no-blokes are going to be blowing their hours. To say nothing of the command menu and melding process, for some gamers, who will spend HOURS tweaking and mastering their commands, because... Gotta Meld 'Em All.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b0f977aa	comment	Star Ocean: The Last Hope brings back the Bunny Racing mini-game as well, though this time around there is a small degree of control of the bunnies while they race, and you can affect various stats like speed, endurance, and such based on foods you feed it. Having a small degree of control over the outcome makes it quite fun to play.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b1d8c295	comment	Plants vs. Zombies has an incredible amount of features beyond the standard Adventure mode. And as the in-game prices of new items for use in Adventure mode skyrocket, you may find yourself turning to these alternate features to build up your cash supply before braving the next level.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b1feec39	comment	Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter has an Ant colony you can raise, working in many of the same ways that the fairies do in III. A much-needed addition to a game where quite literally every step you walk is one step closer to your death. This makes returning to towns to restock on healing supplies and buying new armor and weapons that you couldn't afford the first time you got to the town quite risky to finishing the entire game.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b2049837	comment	Freedom Planet 2 gives us the Battlesphere. Three levels of Home Run Challenges, fourteen separate challenges independent from the main story, and individual rematches with every boss battle in the game, including two that are exclusive to the Battlesphere? Yeah, you're gonna be here for a while. And some of that is mandatory if you want to get the Golden Ending, too! And we haven't even talked about the arcade cabinet in the lobby. The best example of its allure is in-universe, where Carol abandons her missions for the Magister to win some GRAND PRIZES in the Battlesphere, and Neera Li goes along with it due to some secondary objectives that can be done at the same time.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b358111c	comment	Star Ocean: Till the End of Time actually has an item that will have you ignoring the battles because it's just so much fun to roll around. It's also easy to get caught up for weeks playing games in Gemity, although that's partly because the Bunny Racing game is so luck-dependent it will take you weeks to win all the prizes.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b4709254	comment	TV Tropes operates on this basis. How many times have you clicked into a link to another page and forget the page you were reading before? Mitigated somewhat by the "open in new tab" option on the right-click menu... until you can't open any more tabs. Or you realize that your tab bar is getting cluttered and use the equally-handy "Close Other Tabs" option. Of course, most people simply use the mouse wheel button, saving a lot of time doing both things... good luck browsing a site like this using a mousepad without this function.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog series: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has Casino Night Zone, which can cause some players to lose by running out of time. Yes, the slot machines are that addictive! In that vein, most of the "theme park" Zones in the entirety of the series invoke this both in-game and during play; all of them... except for Sonic 3's infamous Carnival Night Zone... The Special Zones where you tried to get the Chaos Emeralds. Those were a game in their own right. The trope is played straight when you lock Sonic the Hedgehog cartridge on Sonic & Knuckles'. You get a full version of Blue Spheres minigame, with a total of 134,217,728 levels! It also will sidetrack players from playing both games attached. Chao raising in the Sonic Adventure games. For some people, it's the only reason why they still play those games. The first Sonic Adventure also featured two different pinball games in Casinopolis note (one based on Sonic, the other based on NiGHTS) that can prove addicting in their own right, along with a collection of other mini-games like kart-racing time trials, Amy's Whack A Mole, and the Sky Chase stages - the Updated Re-release added a Game Gear emulator to the main menu, with every Game Gear Sonic game unlockable by collecting Emblems, some of which are earned through the aforementioned minigames. Sonic Mania marks a return of the Blue Sphere minigame as the bonus stages from reaching checkpoints with enough rings, and beating all of them unlocks a mode similar to the stand-alone Blue Sphere game with randomly generated levels. It includes the variation with classic rules and a "Mania" variant that adds two new types of spheres. The game also contains a minigame in the form of a remake of Puyo Puyo(/Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine), which can also be unlocked to be played at any time after clearing enough bonus stages. It's possible to get lost in either of these, spending game sessions not even touching the main platformer because of them.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b5a2b326	comment	Morrowind actually implements the ability to wander around and complete quests away from the main quest as a storyline element. A large portion of the main quest can be legitimately skipped as long as you are at least level 21 and have 50+ reputation. (A formidable achievement if skipping the main quest, but quite possible if you fully complete several of the faction questlines.) If you meet this requirement, an NPC involved in the late main quest waives his usual demands to be acknowledged by seven different groups and allows you to meet with him directly.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_b9419bd1	comment	The hacking minigame in Deus Ex: Human Revolution is going to eat up so much of your time just for the rewards, experience, and exploration it offers. Several important mission segments of the game feature large rooms with up to a dozen computer and security terminals, and you're going to have a hard time resisting the temptation to just stop and spend twenty minutes scouring the room for things to hack.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ba666650	comment	Similarly, there are many of us who have popped the disc for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and ended up catching monkeys for hours on end.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, the Writer's Block decides to ignore the main quest in favour of doing other stuff.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_beac6ffb	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Due to the "Groundhog Day" Loop going on, it's not uncommon for players to spend entire loops just doing and repeating as many side-quests and mini-games as possible. The 3DS version includes the Fishing Hole. With all the kinds of fish that can be caught in both locations, it's not unheard of for players to spend all three days doing nothing but fish.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_bee580c4	comment	Star Ocean: The Divine Force introduces Es'owa, a board game that plays like a cross between Dots & Boxes and a tabletop miniature game. Players can be found in almost every populated area in the game, and winning nets you money and figurines based on characters from previous Star Ocean games that not only are powerful pieces to use in Es'owa but can be equipped as stat-boosting accessories.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_c0d295c4	comment	In case you're bored of shooting people or robots and capturing points and briefcases in Team Fortress 2, there's a ton of custom game modes out there to endlessly enjoy. You could play Prop Hunt, where one team is disguised as random props and the other team must hunt them down. Or there's Vs. Saxton Hale, which pits every player against one super-powerful boss character. There's Deathrun, pitting players through a Death Course full of traps triggered by one person. Maybe fighting off zombies in Zombie Fortress is your thing. You could play WarioWare-style mini-games. If you want to just shoot people but in more insane ways, there are: servers where every attack yields a Critical Hit; the UberUpgrades mod, which allows you to upgrade yourself and your weapons to insane heights; the Randomizer mod, which randomizes all your weapons; or the x10 mod, which multiples most weapon stats by ten and grants other weapons ridiculous bonuses. If you're a trader, not a fighter, there's plenty of trade maps where the emphasis is on trading or exploring the often expansive and detailed maps. If you play on these kinds of servers too long, you might forget how to function if you return to a normal server...
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_c1b43f85	comment	In Super Mario 3D World, the Captain Toad side levels were so popular, they received their own dedicated game!
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_c3e7ab30	comment	Perfect Dark's Combat Simulator. Seeing as it's the only mode available to even play if you don't have an Expansion Pak, they had to make it really addictive. And quite so: there are more levels and maps than in single-player, you can set every weapon that appears, fight with up to 12 opponents, select the behaviors of the AI, customize damage/health settings, choose from several different game modes, switch from free-for-alls to team battles... as at least one reviewer has noted, it's amazing that the old N64 cartridge didn't explode from everything the multiplayer has to offer alone.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_c47ad321	comment	One of the puzzles in The Fool's Errand saw you challenged to a card game called 'Thoth'. It was an extremely simple game played with the major arcana of the tarot where each player was dealt two cards (one face up so their opponent could see it, one face down so only they could see it) and three more cards were dealt out face-up- first you picked one card, then your opponent picked one. Each of you were attempting to complete a better Pair or Triple, with the winner of each hand scoring points based on how much better their hand was than their opponents, and the first to 700 points winning. Despite its simplicity (and the inherent advantage you had by always getting to pick a card first), the game had a surprising amount of depth. All you had to do to complete the puzzle was win once, but some people found themselves coming back and replaying it over and over again.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_c51a81a0	comment	After beating the first playthrough of A Witch's Tale, you get to play a game of Blackjack against all the other characters.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_c686bb8	comment	Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones had the Tower of Valni, the Lagdou Ruins, and random battles on the world map. In order to unlock them, one did have to play part of the way into the main game (in the Tower's case, the player unlocked a floor every few chapters; in the Ruin's case, one was nearly done with the game by the time the place became available), but after that the players could go through them as many times as you wanted. It helps that the ruins and tower both had rare treasure in them and that certain random battles could be used to steal items from enemies with a glitch.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_c720f71e	comment	If all the videos on YouTube are any clue, the composer feature of Mario Paint. Which was apparently later ripped off into a standalone program for easier editing. Also, the standalone program allows for sharps and flats. The original could only compose in C major. Or possibly A minor, but...
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_c9633211	comment	In No More Heroes, the side-jobs were largely regarded as a minor obstacle to blaze through in order to unlock more lucrative assassination jobs. So what happens in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle? They get turned into faux 8-bit mini-games... and they're just as fun as the main game itself. In particular, "Bug Out" and "Tile in Style" are easily liable to suck your time away. Oh, and if you're not into those, there's the faux-Moe Shoot 'Em Up in Travis' room, which allows you to blast the ages away. The eventual discovery of a hidden "Special" mode in the latter, unlocked by beating the game on Hard without dying once, did not help.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ca92edf1	comment	Call of Duty: Black Ops outdoes itself by giving us several further Nazi Zombies maps. The default one lets you play as Fidel Castro and JFK, then among the DLC maps, there was Call of the Dead. What's Call of the Dead? This is Call of the Dead.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_cc1462ed	comment	The main plot of Heaven's Vault is to discover the past through visiting various moons and ultimately to find Heaven's Vault. However, easily the most interesting game mechanic is translating Ancient. Thus, you can spend the majority of your time sailing the rivers hunting for artifacts and bringing them back to Huang to help you in the translation.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_cdac637a	comment	Jet Force Gemini had quite a few mini-games stashed away in the second half of the game. Arguably the most elaborate one is the Podracer-esque/F-Zero racing game.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_cf5c0f55	comment	Suikoden: Suikoden II: The Cooking Duels with Hai Yo. Shame that there weren't more of it. The Whack-A-Mole game which gives out Earth-resistant equipment (the final dungeon has a monster with rather nasty Earth-element attacks), and the Rope Climbing Game which gives out Lethal Joke Items that boost certain Combination Attacks and avoid friendly fire from the most powerful Combination Attacks in the game. Suikoden IV has its own addictive mini-game that will take up most of your game time in Ritapon. Reach! Suikoden V boasts several surprisingly addicting mini-games, including a fishing face-off and a card game against three different opponents who all provide considerable eye candy. (Including Jeane.)
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_d1706117	comment	The Xbox Zoo Tycoon games have buggies that you can drive around, complete with handbrake mechanics. Admit it, at some point you spent far too much time Tokyo drifting around in these things than actually building and managing your zoo.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_d1a692cb	comment	Professor Layton and the Last Specter is very difficult to play through without getting distracted by the "Little London" Mode.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_d2bb929d	comment	Soul Series: Soulcalibur III introduced customization the option for making your own personalized fighters, and the feature has stuck around in all following main games. It's quite popular to just create original characters or interpretations of characters from any work of fiction, rather than actually playing the game in any of the various fighting modes. Soulcalibur III included a mode that allowed you a sort of turn-based strategy, meets real-time strategy, meets fighting! It was so interesting and well done, you could end up spending hours just trying to figure out new strats and different warriors to use to get through a section and either lose as few casualties as possible or try to lose none at all (very difficult, especially early on). It also had the effect of unlocking various things in the game proper (such as new customization options... another sidetracking activity in itself). And the best part was if you enjoyed the fighting in the game, it used the conventional fighting of the game (rather than some weird hybrid version as was used in some of the Tekken side games) so it was the best of both worlds!
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_d468e3d4	comment	Buzzy the Knowledge Bug had, for the most part, pretty forgettable minigames. However, The Airport had one major exception — Lost Luggage, a luggage-sorting real-time puzzle minigame where you had to switch conveyor belts to sort suitcases by color. People almost always turned on the game just to play this minigame. In fact, a developer made the last level of it near impossible because he never expected anyone to actually make it that far (also because he was fatigued from working on the game); seems he severely underestimated just how crazy addictive the minigame really was. It was so popular, in fact, that it later was reskinned and re-released as a standalone game (Pajama Sam's Sock Works), and even though that's usually a notion of laziness, nobody really complained in this case.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_d4caf593	comment	Bully has passing all the classes, the arcade games, the carnival games, racing bikes, racing go-karts, boxing, running errands, paper routes, mowing lawns, breaking lawn gnomes, collecting rubber bands and trading cards, and generally messing with people.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_d4fa168d	comment	Fable had "Card Pairs" in Bowerstone South. Pretty fun and fairly easy to master, with the added bonus of earning you all the cash you would ever need within a few hours.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_d556dc75	comment	With the thousands of characters potentially available to use, M.U.G.E.N already makes for a big enough time-sink. Add in the nigh-limitless customization options you have via stages, soundtracks, and graphics, and you can kiss your free time goodbye. And that's without even getting into the fact that with a little coding know-how and a lot of patience, you can create your own new content from scratch.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_d5c5bb7f	comment	Tobal No. 1 was a unique take on fighting games set in 3D back in the early days of the genre. While it was unique enough on its own to be fun, it also included a rather hard dungeon exploration mode with randomly generated dungeons, monsters to fight that would test your skills (and were not just reskins of the fighters available), and was genuinely fun. After the fighting was done, you could count on hours and hours of replay in the dungeon.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_d758ed0c	comment	TimeSplitters, arguably more time was spent making levels than actually seeing any action. Though the challenges are also fun in and of itself. Then again, this may have been the game itself since the first installment was a fairly bland "Get MacGuffin and return to the starting point"
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_d8555a95	comment	The Evil Within 2 has the shooting gallery that you unlock in Sebastian's Safe Room at a certain point in the game. The Candy Crush like "Chain Attack" mode is so addictive that the game even lampshades it; when you hit the maximum possible point score (100 thousand), Sebastian comments that he should get back to finding his daughter now.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_d8811eb6	comment	From Captain SNES: The Game Masta: "So take it from me... mini-games are fun, but if you spend more time on mini games than the main plot, seek help. Or you could end up like me."
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_dabc3ebc	comment	Project Gotham Racing 2 featured a rather innocuous-looking arcade-game box in each of your in-game garages. What should that box guard but the treasure that is Geometry Wars. Successful enough in its own right to sell well on Xbox Live Arcade, as well as spinning off a sequel and a WiiWare adaptation.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_dbce0953	comment	The Pikmin series always has at least one alternate mode with a goal of being dropped in a bite-sized level and trying to accomplish as much as possible. Growing Pikmin in the first, getting as much treasure as fast as possible in the second, and a variety of tasks in the third. It can be very easy to sink in to any of these modes, especially Mission Mode of Pikmin 3, with its replay features encouraging to go at it again to play optimally.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_dc58e164	comment	Ratchet & Clank also has the hoverboarding sequences, which can become highly addictive over time.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_dd5934e0	comment	In the Atelier Series, you're supposed to balance alchemy, combat, and exploration. However, the alchemy mechanics are extremely deep and intricate, so in the games where you don't have a time limit, it's easy to spend hours focusing entirely on making the perfect item, chaining and looping syntheses into each other to bump up your quality and get the strongest traits onto one item. The Mysterious subseries, whose alchemy involves placing tiles onto a grid like a Puzzle Game, can be especially fun, yet time-consuming.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_de1259da	comment	The Super Monkey Ball games are well-known for their mini-games. Monkey Target is a series classic, and with good reason. In the first and second games, it's especially bad, because the developers essentially added several full-fledged sports simulators that could easily pass as their own games to the mix. The second game has ten mini-games, and any one of them could easily become a huge time sink. How about a round of Monkey Billiards? Or some Monkey Tennis? Monkey Soccer, anyone?
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_df491a0c	comment	It's easy to get sidetracked by the Golden Egg in Angry Birds, to get so busy trying to hit said Golden Egg that you wait and do the actual level after you get the Egg.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_e04f934e	comment	Fire Emblem: Three Houses has numerous gold saucers including such things as a fishing mini-game almost rivaling Zelda's in notoriety (at least, among the fandom), tea parties with your units, infinite optional battles, and more. All of these serve to help you gain professor levels, experience, and/or supports.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_e1a87807	comment	The Saboteur: The game's option of going around the city and countryside to destroy the various Nazi war and occupation equipment is probably what gave this game its name, more than the actual French Resistance aspect. You'll spend a lot of time blowing up bridges, searchlights, AA guns, sniper nests, occupation towers, artillery, propaganda speakers, fuel depots, and various other things.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_e1ec0e62	comment	There are a lot of fun activities in GTAIV you can find on YouTube: Horrific one-car accidents, horrific two-car accidents, horrific multiple-car accidents, horrific motorcycle accidents, horrific helicopter accidents, vehicular homicide, insane successful stunt jumps, insane unsuccessful stunt jumps, helicopters plummeting out of the sky for various reasons, falls off of buildings, falls out of helicopters, falls from the edge of space, slamming into buildings at high speed, shoving people down stairs, off of cliffs, and into traffic, cops doing ridiculous dance routines, shooting each other, and jumping to their deaths, the protagonists (Niko, Johnny and Luis) getting ejected from cars or falling hundreds of metres to their doom while screaming hilariously, outrageous ragdoll physics, frictionless/zero gravity chaos, massive tidal waves, and people and cars being launched skyward by playground equipment via the legendary Swingset Glitch. Finding videos about story missions, side missions, bowling, talking, or whatever the heck it is you're supposed to do in GTAIV is much harder.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_e22c949c	comment	Dragon Quest: Any game with a casino is prone to this; such as Dragon Quest VIII. Series creator Yuji Horii is an avid gambler himself, which is why gambling mini-games are a major element of the franchise. Gambling was mysteriously absent from Dragon Quest IX, but returned in Dragon Quest X. Dragon Quest II featured the first gambling mini-game: a simple slot machine where you could win prizes if the three symbols matched. The ultimate prize was a Gold Card, which could reduce prices of items at any shop by 50%. Even if you only matched two symbols out of three, you could still another token to try again. Dragon Quest III had the pachisi track mini-game (called sugoroku in Japanese) in the SNES and GBC versions. The game also featured the monster arena, where you could earn some extra gold by betting on which monster would win. The gold card returned, but instead it allowed the player to play the pachisi track an infinite number of times without tokens. Amusingly, in Dragon Quest IV, this happens to one of the heroes in-story. Chapter IV ends with Meena and Maya arriving in Endor, which happens to have a casino. If you don't waste time, you can get to Endor about fifteen minutes into Chapter V with a completely different and unrelated character and you'll find Maya in said casino, trying to win back the money you had just left them behind with at the end of Chapter IV! Her sister Meena is not amused. Dragon Quest VII has poker. They brought it back for the remake of IV, but they nerfed the double-or-nothing feature. The Monster Arena in VIII was also greatly expanded from III, allowing the player to not only choose which monsters could fight but also allowed the Hero to call your monster team in battle to fight for a few turns. Dragon Quest XI has poker, slots, Slime Quest Slots (where you have to help the hero Goolysses), and roulette after the second casino unlocks.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_e26905cd	comment	Tekken Tag Tournament's Tekken Bowl mode is highly addictive. It is likely if you're with friends you will play this more than actual fights. Tekken 7 improves the bowling mechanics and pin physics to the point that it's as good as or better than many games specifically dedicated to the sport.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_e5d572c8	comment	Sauerbraten. It's a free FPS game with in-game ONLINE CO-OP LEVEL EDITING.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_e60954ea	comment	While still a core aspect of the main game, some people spend ridiculous amounts of time tweaking and customizing their mechs in Armored Core.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_e8d19c42	comment	The "Episode 3" update of Phantasy Star Online 2 introduces its own Golden Saucer in the form of the Casino Lobby, which features slot machines and a shooting gallery. Coins won from these games can not only be used to purchase novelty weapons but can also be used to summon rare bosses in the game proper!
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening restores the battles on the world map, plus has the "Reeking Boxes" that allow the player to summon Risen to the map itself. HELLO GRINDING FOR GOLD, SUPPORTS, LEVEL-UPS, AND SKILLS.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ea377bc0	comment	System Shock has a variety of mini-games you can find. Most are simple (like Tic-Tac-Toe), but one is a Wing Commander spin-off with a thirteen-mission campaign. Hope you didn't opt for the time limit on the main game. The sequel has some as well, including an Ultima clone that's several hours long. For extra coolness, play this while a hacked turret blazes away at foes.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_eaeeea9b	comment	In StarCraft II you can potentially create your own unique games, like this masterpiece. You have to wonder about the hours spent on creating those mods. The major hindrance, however, is the small size for posting on Battle.net.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_eb2a8ea9	comment	Crackdown is nominally about fighting gang leaders (or mutants, in the sequel), but you're going to spend a lot of time leaping from building to building and hunting down orbs. And having a lot of fun doing it.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ebaf064d	comment	Kirby: Triple Deluxe contains a Super Smash Bros.-like mini-game involving playing as Kirbys with permanent abilities. It's exactly as distracting as it sounds. So much, in fact, that "Kirby Fighters" received a standalone update on the Nintendo eShop as Kirby Fighters Deluxe. The same applies, though to a lesser degree, with "Dedede's Drum Dash", which similarly was re-released as Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ecccafaa	comment	Spyro: Year of the Dragon. Skateboarding mini-game. You know what I'm talking about.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ecd3889f	comment	The other edit modes are no slouch either, with the ability to create wrestlers, move sets, arenas, logos, et al becoming so vast 2K Games have to regularly cull those with low votes/downloads before their servers blow up. A casual search for John Cena alone would reveal upwards of fifty pages of him, and if you can name a wrestler, character, or real celebrity, odds are there's not just one version of them but several.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_edb91981	comment	Call of Duty: World at War had the Nazi Zombies unlockable survival mini game. Given this has online leaderboards and co-op multiplayer, one can literally spend hours playing sometimes instead of the normal modes. Then it got people making their own maps for the PC version... then it got three downloadable bonus maps to buy (or get for free for the PC version), complete with traps such as electro-shock fences and swinging maces, and various power-ups... And then they released Call of Duty for iPhone. Which game? Modern Warfare? No. Nazi Zombies. Many people played the campaign once or twice, online a handful of times, and Nazi Zombies for hours. Call of Duty: Black Ops outdoes itself by giving us several further Nazi Zombies maps. The default one lets you play as Fidel Castro and JFK, then among the DLC maps, there was Call of the Dead. What's Call of the Dead? This is Call of the Dead.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ee41d14	comment	Nerdcubed: In his "completes" series of Bully (see above), Dan freely admits he would happily ignore the rest of the game to play the mini-game "Consumo."
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ee6c1abc	comment	The Strong Bad Email feature has overshadowed the other features on Homestar Runner.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f0688fff	comment	Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum have PokÃ©mon Contests, which involve a different set of stats entirely, and are rightly a whole other game. Imagine a competitive beauty pageant, for PokÃ©mon.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f10619d8	comment	The Keterburg casino in Tales of the Abyss is the only way to get the Joke Weapons. Since the weapon graphics in cutscenes do change to reflect the weapons the characters equipped, wasting time at the casino to get the joke weapons can easily be worth it for the opportunity to watch Jade wave a giant finger pointer around in the midst of a serious scene. Abyss has a really weird mini-game in Nam Cobanda Isle, where you hit a bunch of spots with Meiu (panels on the floor, moving panels... that stuff), and you get points every time you do it, especially if you hit the panel that puts up the flags. It's terribly distracting, because if you leave the area, you have to start getting the 99999 points all over again, and you don't even get that great of a prize, other than saying you spent hours doing nothing. Also in Nam Cobanda Isle, you have Dragon Buster, and from it, you can get TWO titles for Luke. THEN in Ketterburg, you have the casino, where you can choose to play Poker or Nephry Ball (which is essentially the lotto). With this, you get chips and can buy very unique items, almost all of which can only be found at the Casino. Tales of Vesperia has a Nam Cobanda Isle itself and the opportunity to play the ever-so-addicting casino games. There's also a mini-game in another area where you have to accurately predict if the next number is higher or lower than the one preceding it. Also, the working Casino in Tales of Symphonia for the PlayStation 2. None of the prices were so great — except the pretty cheap Devils Arms weapon. Or Raine's bunny outfit, costing the most chips.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f120845f	comment	Every year, Kingdom of Loathing celebrates Crimbo with at least two weeks' worth of dedicated content, during which most players' ascensions fall to the wayside. Other random events that eventually become lost forever also become the distracting shiny, such as "Biggs' Digs" and the subsequent skeletal apocalypse in 2010.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f4ba2731	comment	Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] has Spirits (friendly Dream Eaters) helping you in battle. The game includes a fully functional virtual pet simulator for taking care of them — one can easily get distracted from the main point of the game thanks to this, though your Spirits do gain some battle prowess along the way. Raising specific Spirits is also required to unlock essential late-game abilities like Second Chance and Once More, so devoting a decent amount of time to this feature is pretty much mandatory unless you want to try beating this game's notoriously difficult endgame bosses without those abilities...
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f66f0639	comment	Fark charged users $5/month to be able to see the links that weren't approved for the main page. Folks started submitting links that they specifically didn't want on the main page, just to be able to use the comments sections like a forum (Fark does not have a formal "forum", just a mass of rejected links). From that mass, the TotalFark community was born.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: The Gummi Ship sequences in Kingdom Hearts or Kingdom Hearts II. Particularly in II, where the sequences received a much-lauded overhaul which turned the levels into the adrenaline-fueled lovechild of Star Fox and Panzer Dragoon. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep has more distracting and addictive mini-games than you can shake a stick at. Command Board can suck away hours of playtime each time the player unlocks a new game board. And then there's Disney Town, which is basically the Gold Saucer of Kingdom Hearts— full of incredibly fun and addicting mini-games. And that's not even including the multiplayer aspect in the Mirage Arena, which lets the player do all of this and more with friends... suffice it to say, it's very, very easy to completely disregard the story. It doesn't help that they give you a very good incentive: the top two rounds (in the original) give out the Infinity +1 Key and the most powerful Shotlocks in the game — including Lingering Will's Ultima Cannon! That in itself wouldn't be too bad... unless you're a Billy-no-blokes, because the Mirage Arena is designed for multiplayer. The Shotlocks are guarded by the third and fourth forms of the evolving SNK Boss.note For better or worse, the HD ReMIX dropped the difficulty on the Mirage Arena to accommodate the lack of multiplayer, so even the Billies-no-blokes are going to be blowing their hours. To say nothing of the command menu and melding process, for some gamers, who will spend HOURS tweaking and mastering their commands, because... Gotta Meld 'Em All. Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] has Spirits (friendly Dream Eaters) helping you in battle. The game includes a fully functional virtual pet simulator for taking care of them — one can easily get distracted from the main point of the game thanks to this, though your Spirits do gain some battle prowess along the way. Raising specific Spirits is also required to unlock essential late-game abilities like Second Chance and Once More, so devoting a decent amount of time to this feature is pretty much mandatory unless you want to try beating this game's notoriously difficult endgame bosses without those abilities...
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f6b9d804	comment	Photographing all the wildlife and plants in The Amazon Trail for 100% Completion can become this. There are so many and some are quite rare. You can easily spend an hour on one very short leg of the journey just clicking on "Explore," scanning, waiting for anything that might pop up from underwater or fly in from offscreen, returning to the river...and immediately clicking "Explore" again. Same goes for fishing until you manage to catch the pirarucu, who can easily take five minutes to show up...if he shows up.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f6f3857c	comment	Forza Motorsport games from Forza Motorsport 2 onward have an extensive paint and livery editor where simple shapes can be combined into thousands (yes, thousands) of layers to form elaborate designs. Some players spend far more time painting their cars than actually racing them.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Assassin's Creed: Adding to the list of open-world games guilty of this trope, the Assassin's Creed series, as it's gone on has become less about pulling off assassinations and more about doing (X) for 100 percent "synchronization". Even free running from building to building counts as this trope. And every game starting with 2 usually has an in-game economy so it's usually to your benefit to stock up on money earned from treasure chests and carrying out assassination contracts. Brotherhood introduced the ability to recruit potential assassins and train them by sending them on missions. There's also the fact that they can be useful for distracting guards in missions where 100 percent completion requires stealth. Also, did we mention this was the first game in the series to have an online multiplayer portion which in itself has become quite addicting? Lastly, starting with III it's actually very common for gamers to report that they spend more time sailing around the world or customizing their ship than they do playing through the main story. IV: Black Flag has, as collectible items: Animus Fragments, Sea Shanties, Treasure Chests, Treasure Maps, Manuscripts, and Messages in Bottles. There are also 15 Mayan Stones to collect and 5 Templar Keys (each with around 4 mini-missions needed to obtain the key). You will need to hunt at least two of almost every animal to fully upgrade Edward (more to craft various outfits), and spend hours pirating around in order to obtain the materials and Reales needed to upgrade your ship. That's all before doing the Assassin and Naval contracts, the latter of which are unlocked by conquering the half-dozen or so Forts dotted around the Caribbean. None of these are required to complete the story (except for some ship upgrades), meaning you can spend days pillaging, plundering, and exploring without progressing the plot by a second.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f858847a	comment	PokÃ©mon X and Y has two types of mini-games that can be accessed anywhere: PokÃ©mon-Amie and Super Training. PokÃ©mon-Amie is a way to build relationships with your Pokemon. You can pet them, feed them desserts, and play smaller games that make your PokÃ©mon friendlier toward you. This causes your PokÃ©mon to gain many benefits during battles, such as being more likely to land critical hits, recovering from major status conditions, and surviving attacks that would have otherwise KO'd them. Thus, it's very easy to get stuck on this mode if you have a lot of free time. Super Training is a set of mini-games where your Pokemon kicks soccer balls into a balloon to try and pop it as fast as possible. This has the gameplay purpose of increasing your PokÃ©mon's Effort Values which can be manipulated for Min-Maxing, and is much, much easier than the previous way of knocking out certain Pokemon over and over again. Secret Super Training has mini-games that reward rare items like Evolution Stones, PP Ups, and even PP Maxes if the player does well enough. Of course, it still takes a long time to complete, so players find themselves spending a lot of time in the mini-games, causing this trope.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f891a20d	comment	Terraria: The fishing minigame/sidequest is rather elaborate, with around 30 possible quest rewards requiring way more than 30 fishing trips to get them all because most are rare and random. Only one fishing quest is offered per in-game day, but they often eat up a lot of time and distract you from the usual exploring/fighting/building/boss-battling. Or you may realize that you often fish up crates, which sometimes contain high-level metals you aren't supposed to have yet...
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f8bd2d94	comment	The Millenium Puzzle/Puzzle Box in the Wild ARMs series. Many tales are heard of gamers stopping in the thick of the plot upon opening up new sections of the map just to seek and solve every Puzzle Box they can at that point.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_f8f51b13	comment	This is more of a subjective one, but just about every Unreal Tournament game except UT3 had amazing mods and "mutators" (miniature mods that could be switched on and off in-game).
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_fa1efd14	comment	The casino from Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards was so popular, it became a separate online game.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes has the invention system and in-game market. Instead of, oh, saving (or terrorizing) the City, some players log in just craft and sell in-game items. For in-game money. Just to buy more expensive things to sell for higher prices to get MORE in-game money. All while paying REAL money every month to do this. The Winter-themed chalet with slopes and a bobsled run also constitute this. Base construction. Originally intended as a PVP mini-game cross between Space Management and Tower Defense (like Dungeon Keeper without the minions), but the PVP raid feature never worked properly and was scrapped, leaving bases only useful for item storage and shortcutting between zones. Nonetheless, some supergroups built huge and elaborate bases just to have a pretty place to hang out when not on missions... and spent over a hundred hours perfecting it. And then they added the Mission Architect. Spending hours to perfect your personally-designed mission arc definitely counts as this trope. But furthermore, in the context of the game universe, the Architect is a simulator, which means any hero who leveled from 1 to 50 on Architect missions was playing video games rather than doing anything productive.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_fd3487b9	comment	Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga features a number of mini-games across the overworld, all of which can be played to earn various beans and the occasional piece of clothing. One can spend a ridiculous amount of time farming Hee Beans in Star 'Stache Smash while the surfing mini-game run by a pair of Oho Jees is especially valuable for awarding the only constant supply of highly rare Hoo Beans.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_fdab7ec5	comment	Opus Magnum is another Zachtronics programming game with a fun casual time-waster attached, Sigmar's Garden, an alchemy-themed variant of mahjong solitaire.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_fe85bfc8	comment	The Coin Shooter mini-game in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. There are other ways of getting trophies and stickers, but you'll keep your finger hovering over the Fire button for hours just waiting for a new/rare one to float into the playing field.
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Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer / int_ff4e7d66	comment	The Expanded Galaxy Mod functionally turns the Normandy itself into a much more active hub area. The player now has access to a "Crew Manifest" mechanic where specialists and key personnel can be designated into specific roles, thus conferring gameplay or visual benefits throughout the ship. A shooting range can be deployed in the armory, in which squadmates you've recruited will combat on your abilities and you can buy different sets of targets. A Wall of Weapons is also added, thus turning weapon acquisition into a Collection Sidequest. There are also new sets of collectibles (namely, support ships and mechs that can be displayed in the Normandy's cargo bay), as well as depreciable War Assets and Assignments peppered throughout the galaxy.
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