7 Generous Games That Rewarded You For Doing Nothing

life is all about giving and taking usually the rule goes that if you want a reward you have to put in some effort to earn it first need some money from your parents do your chores first looking for a promotion at work prove to the boss that you have what it takes want to buy some illegal fireworks and set them off in your neighbor's Garden um don't do that it's usually the same with video games you play the game you do the tasks you get the reward Awards on rare occasions though a game will cut

you some slack and give you something for doing absolutely nothing here are seven of those moments when a game rewarded your total inactivity enjoy and beware spoilers for The Following games [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I beg of you grant me the strength to take this final prey the end is rather confusingly the name of a boss in Metal Gear Solid 3 who doesn't actually appear at the end of the game he's a sniper who is more than 100 years years old but unlike most 100y olds he spends his time trying to put a tranquilizer

dart in naked snake I've got for you fighting the end of the proper way can be quite a complex Affair as many things in the Metal Gear Solid games are the battle takes place in a large jungle where the end is hiding with his rifle if you don't find and kill him in time he'll shoot you with a dart and if you don't remove it you'll eventually pass out and be sent back to a prison from earlier in the game to start that bit over again but more embarrassed this time Reckless boy you don't deserve

to meet your fate just yet there's also a whole other optional strategy involving the end's pet parrot who helps to track you down if you kill the parrot it's harder for the end to find you but it also makes him angrier my parot she dead what have you done the whole thing is a massive pain in the rump and I don't just mean getting hit in the rump with a tranquilizer dart luckily there's another way to beat the end although it does require some patience all you have to do is save your game during the

boss fight then turn off your console then don't play Metal Gear Solid 3 for over a week once at least 8 days have passed when you next load up the game you'll discover that time has finally caught up with the end who has died of old age drop your weapon which brings up the age-old question if the end dies in the woods and no one's around to hear it does he make a sound yes he does and it sounds like this well go on take the bloody bag off his head again terribly sorry for what

happened before this is more what I had in mind so fresh start introductions RJ gay our guest of honor Paul our very gracious host the little monkey whose name I still don't know and I of course and Pagan men for my money Far Cry 4 is the best game in the series not least because for the time poor player you can unlock a happy ending to the game in less than 20 minutes by doing absolutely nothing what a savings as the game starts you're captured by Pagan Min the Twisted autocrat who rules the kingdom of

karat where you've come to scatter your mother's ashes I'm so sorry about this this was supposed to be well not this after Min kidnaps you and your friend darpan you're taken to honestly a pretty great looking dinner it's all going fine until your mate gets stuck with a fork and dragged away to be tortured unlucky find out what he knows your host Pagan Min then leaves and asks you not to go anywhere please stay right here enjoy the crab rangon don't move I will be right back this is usually video game speak for now it

is time for you to try to escape which assertive players will take as their queue to kick off the action of the rest of the game laidback players who enjoy crab rangon on the other hand will see sit tight and do nothing and be rewarded for their passivity when Pagan Min eventually Returns the crab rangon right [Music] it's fabulous well come on let's go as a treat for your cooperation Min flies you to your dead sister's grave where he shares that he was her father and your dad was kind of a jerk thus revealing the

game's major plot twist with zero effort on your [Music] part then with your mother's ashes reverently placed the credits can roll less than 20 minutes after the game started while we do love that it's technically possible to reach the end of Far Cry 4 by pressing a single button we do feel for the obedient players out there who really did think you were supposed to wait for Min and wondered why the game was so short it's also quite hard to accept that this is a good ending when literally 10 minutes ago your mate was sent

away to be tortur to death but still free helicopter ride [Music] in music themed social Sim Harvest Moon magical Melody the Harvest goddess has turned herself to Stone because she's pissed off at the town's people who were meant to be worshiping [Music] her honestly it's the kind of Supernatural pettiness I aspire to it falls to you a hardworking farmer to awaken the Harvest goddess along with aside all the exhausting labor of setting up and running a farm mining fishing and engaging in Social simulation to revive the Stony Harvest goddess you have to collect 50 out

of 100 available musical notes which are awarded for performing different [Music] tasks 50 is a lot of musical notes to acquire but at the very least one of these notes is unexpectedly right at your farming fingertips to unlock the stationary note all you have to do is stand still and not touch the controller for one minute and that minute is yours to do with As You Wish set down the controller do some gentle stretches call your mother not for very long but she'll understand after a moment of doing absolutely nothing you're awarded the stationary note

and you're 150th closer to Awakening the Harvest goddess [Music] D if she asks tell her you got it for praying for 24 hours straight she's never going to check ah tears of the Kingdom has so many side quests that it can sometimes get a bit overwhelming thankfully there are a couple in there that if you do them properly require zero skill at all and only ask for a bit of your patience and if you don't have any of that either then I don't know what to tell you over at the peak of Mount granaj you'll

find a chap called R who has a challenge for you the cold endurance contest you both of you will bet get 50 rupees and climb a big pillar at 8:30 p.m. whoever can last through the night without freezing to death will win all the money the only rules are that you have to stay out all night and have to wear the least clothing possible easy enough if you're used to having a big night out in Newcastle but this is the cleancut baby face link we're talking about here he's never seen the inside of cosmic Ballroom

this would be more of a challenge were it not for the fact that the rules don't say anything about chugging down some warming grub right before you start nor about holding weapons see if you equip a weapon that's fused with a ruby you get complete protection from the cold meaning that you can just stand there like an absolute Jordi Legend without a coat and so you stand there all night over eight real life minutes doing absolutely zilch then around 400 a.m. High Ru time just as you get back from the bathroom R collapses from the

cold and you win what is let's face it a pretty small amount of [Music] cash but after being humiliated by his own bet R then challenges you to the opposite a heat endurance contest and this time there are 300 rupees up for grabs surely he's got you now how could you possibly survive that scorching Sun for so long oh waight by doing the exact same thing this time you can chug down some cooling Cuisine or simply equip a weapon fused with a sapphire once again its ice energy will protect you from overheating meaning that you

can just stand there for another eight real life minutes doing absolutely nothing until you win it's like my grandmother always used to say if you can't stand the heat either get out of the kitchen or equip a weapon confused with a sapphire grandma was weird you will find Eric sodas in the operating theater undergoing a pre-surgery regenerative stem cell treatment a highly controversial procedure yet to be approved by Japanese authorities one of the best things about Hitman is that so many of its assassination missions can be carried out in a variety of ways you can

shoot someone loudly in the face in public wait until they're in a secluded place and kill them quietly or replace the insulation in their office with as bestos and wait 30 years for it to poison them okay maybe not that last one the 2016 reboot had a mission called no heart feelings where you have to take out one of the main bad guys Eric sodas the thing is sodas is already a bit poorly as it is and is already lying in a heavily guarded operating theater awaiting a heart transplant look there he is he's in

a machine that looks like a dead spider there are a bunch of ways to kill sodas you can find his replacement heart in another room and destroy it meaning the transplant can't take place wow okay we just get into a bin 47 that works or you can pass information to the surgeon that sodas killed his father which makes the surgeon kill sodas as Revenge from my father this is terrible you can even sabotage the robotic arm on the operating table and make it all stabby oh the dead robot spider machine is going M oh wow

wow that's messy oh gosh look I'm not judging you you do it whatever way makes you feel most comfortable with killing a defenseless old man the method that requires the least work during the kill itself however is to dress up in your classic Agent 47 suit and make your way to the operating theater hello Mr Reaper obviously getting there without being spotted is difficult but once you're in the room you simply have to walk over to sodas he'll see you realize you're there to kill him and promptly die of a heart attack you you think

such an important enemy would put up more of a fight but I guess his heart just wasn't in it [Music] sorry patient deist [Music] special stages in Sonic games have always had their ups and downs literally cuz you know it's a platformer some like that annoying one with all the balls in Sonic 3 can be chucked into a big Burnie fire While others aren't just fun they're downright useful that halfpipe special stage in Sonic 2 for example gave us definitive confirmation that even though Tails has two Tails he only has one bum inquiring minds wanted

to know of course it all began with the special stage in Sonic 1 that bizarrely psychedelic area where the player has to guide a constantly spinning Sonic through a bunch of ey meltingly kaleidoscopic mazes even if you've been playing Sonic games for decades these special stages can still catch you out from time to time thanks to their pinball style bumper balls and the exit areas which can instantly boot you out of the stage before you can collect the chaos Emeral do you know then that you can make your way through most of the first special

stage without even touching the controller in fact if you sit there without pressing a single button gravity will take over and guide Sonic through the stage right up to the final section where the Chaos Emerald is surrounded by gems then then all you have to do is move a little bit to hug the gems make them disappear and job done you've got the first Chaos Emerald by letting the game do 95% of the work for [Music] you a similar trick also works with Sonic 2006 if you sit there on the title screen and don't press

any buttons you can actually have more fun with it all right listen don't forget to come back for me as long as you're not Dead Fred it's Frank Frank West remember that name cuz the whole world's going to know it in 3 days when I get the scho all right Dead Rising was a revelation when it was first released in 2006 by jamming endless zombies into a shopping mall Capcom did an incredible job of showing off the capabilities of the Xbox 360 but what if you wanted to completely ruin the entire point of the game

and choose not to encounter a single zombie at all turns out you can do that and you can even reach one of the game's endings without doing anything at the very start of the game Frank is dropped onto the roof of the Willet Mall he's supposed to enter a door here and head down into the mall itself then after Frank teams up with some other survivors who failed to set up a barrier the zombies make their way into the mall and the game properly starts everyone move this way quick to the stairs move however the

entire game is set to a 3-day timer which works out to about 8 hours in real time and the helicopter is supposed to come and pick Frank up after the time runs out the idea is that you're supposed to go into the mall spend 3 days rescuing as many people as you can and completing as many tasks as possible then head back up to the roof and get to the chopper in time instead you can just stay on the roof for the entire 8 hours doing literally nothing at all then when the hel lands you'll

get ending B which isn't the best in the game but incredibly also isn't the worst well I'm glad you're out meeting new people but just who the hell is this a Survivor that's right A Survivor pulled right out of the depths of hell hell huh just what was going on down there anyway you get the B ending if you don't manage to complete all the tasks but you do manage to reach the helicopter in time which yeah sure that checks out I suppose this one does feel a bit more like a case of just because

you could doesn't mean you should because even though you can technically beat the game without playing it it's a pretty boring way of doing it besides if you're the sort of person who will just sit staring at a screen for 8 hours without doing anything at all maybe you're the real zombie all along oh my God makes you [Music] think you want me to do it for you then look video up there video up there like subscribe patreon thanks [Music]