7 Most Mundane Activities Games Tried to Pass Off as Exciting Minigames

Some videogames will take an incredibly mundane activity and try to pass it off as an exciting minigame, possibly because they’re stuck for ideas but more likely they just want to see exactly how much tedium people are willing to put up with if you give them a score at the end. Here are seven of our favourites, and we use that term loosely. Enjoy, and subscribe for more videos like this from Outside Xbox!
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[@roguishpaladin]

I love how Undertale put snail races in as a critique of the sort of racing mini-game that exists in games, and Shenmue III basically said, "Yes! That's our new mini-game!"

[@zigazav1]

Except in Undertale's case, you get the most pay-out by not being first at the end, but by hitting 2nd place instead.

[@achtsekundenfurz7876]

Which reminds me of the old Starcraft e-sports tournament where the top 4 got $100 to 500 but 5 to 8 got 25 bitcoins each.

[@bidoof367]

@@zigazav1 except that's the only time you profit off of thundersnail and when you actually do get first place you still lose 1g

[@bobdylan1968]

Shenmue has never been good. It was a tech demo for the Dreamcast which was impressive for the time. But it's gsmeplay was shit. The entire franchise is made up of those types of shitty minigamea.

[@TheOneTrueMaNicXs]

Didn't Soul Blazer on the SNES have snail races too. I think it was supposed to be ironic to since the racer had a really short lifespan.

[@spinal_capped]

Fun fact about being a full-time wheelchair user: I had a very rigorous wheelchair course as part of my initial rehabilitation for my complete spinal cord injury. Aside from learning how to go up and down curbs of various heights, as well as navigating rough and uneven terrain, there was a lot of focus on perfecting wheelies. (The point of that was to no longer rely on "anti-tipper" bars that keep the user from falling backwards - to the point of removing them forever.) I was even given set timed goals that I had to beat.

[@dorabrooks76]

That's amazing! I love that that was part of your rehab- seems smart. I need to use a chair periodically (hip injury), but I've never had any proper training so I'm still nervous of curbs and steep inclines (I don't even have anti-tippers for comfort). I wish my rehab had included that training. I've also never pulled off a wheelie, and I'm impressed by anyone who can! My dad was good at them, though he had polio as a kid so he had a lot of time to practice, and a child's fearlessness and bored energy to burn off. He was also fond of telling the story of the time he had a wheelchair race down the hospital hallway with another kid and managed to break a nurse's leg... yeah, he had _way_ too much chaotic energy as a kid!

[@FrankyBabes]

Only tangentially related: we once had a speaker at a school assembly who was a Paralympics tennis player. At the end, the teachers asked if anyone had any questions. After 5 full seconds of silence, a younger lad asked "can you do a wheelie?". The staff were sufficiently embarrassed that kids were always prepped with pre-written questions for all future visitors. He was very nice about it, and he did indeed do the wheelie, but 15 years on I think about that moment a lot.

[@BattyButtercup]

See, THAT sounds like the perfect video game intro - rehab acting as the tutorial to movement, environmental interaction, and combat! Why is there not an action, sci-fi RPG with a chair-using protagonist whose chair can get upgrades and accessories over time? WHEELCHAIRS WOULD BE THE PERFECT MIX OF VEHICLE, ARMOUR, WEAPON, AND CUSTOMIZATION! but noooo, needing to use a disability aid is too scary for mainstream audiences. :/

[@spinal_capped]

@@dorabrooks76 I was a skater before my injury (unrelated) so I’m a bit reckless in my chair. My university campus is quite hilly, so I definitely go full speed and often drift around corners (grab one wheel and lock it up lol). I messed up my weight balance on a turn one time and launched outta my chair in sight of quite a few people. Probably made their hearts drop in terror seeing that, but I was also taught how to get into a chair from the floor so I got back up like nothing happened. I can’t wait to do stuff like that again post-pandemic!

[@PanEtRosa]

@@FrankyBabes Honestly, I wish people were less squeamish about that kind of stuff. Of course we play with our mobility aids! The point of them is to allow us to do more! Imo, it was way more rude of the staff to control the kids afterward than it was for the kid to be interested. They're kids.... If they're not allowed to ask questions, we have less opportunity to connect with them so that they don't grow up to be adults who are anxious about talking to disabled people as equals. -_-

[@TigerofRobare]

"Licking envelopes can be fun. You can see how many you can lick in an hour and then try to break that record." -- Seymour Skinner, multimillionaire video game designer.

[@andymcp4752]

“glad that’s over” Skipping dialogue Skipping dialogue Would you like to play again >yes< No Damn it

[@annana6098]

The curse of Kaepora Gaebora

[@JeedyJay]

@@annana6098 It's been a long time since I played OoT, but can't you skip through his dialogue with the same button that automatically inputs "no"? I remember his speeches being a complete non-issue.

[@jamma.77]

Remembering to select the "No" option is basically a minigame in and of itself for me.

[@roguedogx]

Yep, I think we've all done that.

[@javingijima9732]

3:09 “For sheer relentless non-excitement” I really love how exaggerated andy talks in a mellow and calm but also enthusiastic tone, it’s just an amazing combination

[@chicinbrooklyn]

“Young, sprightly hands of 42 year old...” HEY just because the hands of people my age cramp up on occasion for no reason doesn’t mean they aren’t young and sprightly. No, I am not in denial.

[@FrenziedFury]

That's not arthritis we're feeling in our hands! That's four decades' worth of hard work and experience... along with arthritis!

[@thedevicebook]

I'm about to turn 39. Should I be worried my hands are planning to betray me soon?

[@chicinbrooklyn]

@@thedevicebook nah it’s all jokes ... it’s your knees that will betray you.

[@FrenziedFury]

@@chicinbrooklyn And you'll find that you seem to get tired a *lot* easier now.

[@Thrythlind]

CrossCode has an amazing mini-game called the Trial of Patience in one of the last regions of the game where a bug asks you to push a button after a certain number of times a Japanese bamboo pipe smacks a rock. Meanwhile your companions will be having a conversation where they repeat numbers, creatures in the background will have duels with loud smacking noises and some will fly through the foreground in your, the player's visual path, and the pipe itself smacks the rock at random intervals.

[@shotgunshells2]

I love Crosscode so much. Not enough people talk about it. The Trial of Ice can jump off a bridge though.

[@wanderlustwarrior]

No More Heroes: running on a treadmill, picking up scorpions, mowing grass, gathering coconuts...

[@deathbykonami5487]

Playing with the cat (MMH 1) and helping the cat exercise (NMH 2)?

[@b0nezexp0sed48]

Cooking steaks for fat guys

[@Williamjacob7789]

Worst part is a lot of us took these minigames so seriously

[@IamaPERSON]

Yes, but some are pretty fun

[@MunchKING]

There's a TROPHY on the line if you can master Vivi's jump rope game!! Got to get that sweet, SWEET Gold Trophy for mastering rhythm.

[@AmethystRebellion]

@@IamaPERSON Yep

[@IamaPERSON]

@@AmethystRebellion what was your favorite mini game?

[@davidradloff-licht]

* flashback to ME3 pull up minigame *

[@thisisodsmith]

Sticking with the Final Fantasy theme, FFX made the mundane task of not getting hit by lightning a minigame - and if you want to unlock Lulu's celestial weapon (or the achievement on the HD remaster) this means doing it 200 times in a row, which means that three separate generations of FFX players know this pain

[@maartenpauwels8970]

Glad someone mentioned this, I hate that bit especially cause you have to finish in one go.... And let's not forget those other mini-games, butterfly catching and chocobo racing (with the awfully tricky finish under 0 seconds...)

[@JoaoPessoa86]

8 real world minutes?! Holy carpal tunnel Batman!!

[@theyorkrose5274]

What about that time that Professor Oak made us do literally his entire job for him by spending weeks or months doing "data entry" from scratch? But unlike these examples, it's also the entire purpose of the game. And you can't even do it, since the games miss some out and force you to play a different game for a bit if you want to complete your unpaid data entry internship successfully.

[@that_deadeyegamer7920]

Scary thing is he's still getting paid to send a 10 year old to fight gangsters and deities just so he can give you a pat on the back for getting as many as you could.

[@hiwrenhere]

7 times we can't help but think the developers actually hated us?

[@tomread8748]

Only 7?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Metal Gear Solid 4 and the other MGS games after MGS3 could be this, since Kojima... you know.

[@achtsekundenfurz7876]

7 times we can't help but think "still better than the ______ advertised on KZbin these days"

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@achtsekundenfurz7876 "Still better than the what"? Its sequels?

[@thedevicebook]

That actually would make a perfect title for a new video, since game designers torture us sooo many ways.

[@ivanpetrov5255]

ME3: beat Vega's pull up record. The reward for that:

[@joestacey6185]

And yet, I have to do it every time.

[@stanisawwojtowicz1102]

@@joestacey6185 me too, it's just ego thing I think... Of course Shepard's ego

[@joestacey6185]

@@stanisawwojtowicz1102 Yeah, Shepard's... Of course. 😉

[@zuzum5245]

When I play as fem shep I always make sure I'm wearing the little black dress too, just to rub it in lol

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@EricHVela Hey, at least he's not Kai Leng.

[@Roariken1]

There's the "push Winnie-the-Pooh on a swing" mini-game from Kingdom Hearts 1.

[@thedevicebook]

That sounds adorable! I simply must play it.

[@azuredragoon2054]

Shenmue 1, Carrying books. They didn't make it exciting by making it a quick time event, just extremely stressful and an easy way to raise your blood pressure.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@simplydavemn I blame the existence of the notorious video game series cliffhanger with this game series. Poor Eli Vance, RC-1207/Sev, the guys in Psi-Ops: The Blackgate Conspiracy, and the American Resistance in Freedom Fighters...

[@MrMBinder]

I remember that wheelchair balancing minigame. Andy and Jane's play-through of A Way Out was great.

[@rhylin26]

You forgot the Pull Up contest in the Citadel DLC of Mass Effect 3.

[@Ashtarte3D]

Let's be real here, the ONLY time a pull-up contest in a game has been interesting or fun was in FF7Remake. Because Tifa.

[@mappybc6097]

@@Ashtarte3D And then it becomes a freaking nightmare once Jules challenges you.

[@JezabelleAsa]

I was expecting fishing to be on this list. But, after seeing it, yeah, Imma keep fishing

[@annana6098]

I despise fishing in most games, where it's just staring at the bobber and stabbing the button at the right time. Boring as hell. A few games add some strategy and mechanics to it, which makes it more interesting and fun, but also more time consuming, overall, I prefer it to the most boring and slow quicktime event ever.

[@graywolfdracon]

Fishing was one of my favorite activites in Breath of Fire 3. The fish were just as good as any potion in the game.

[@thedevicebook]

@@graywolfdracon I also loved the Breath of Fire fishing.

[@thedevicebook]

Did you save Cid with the Final Fantasy 6 life-or-death fishing? Here in the US it was called "Final Fantasy 3" on the SNES.

[@thiagobrunomartinspereira9638]

@@graywolfdracon both BoF 3 and 4 have amazing fishing systems, and the main objective of fishing is getting op equips way sooner than possible, if you're diligent enough

[@TjPhysicist]

10:01 I assume that's Andy's gameplay? In which case, the REAL question i think is, did he reach 1000?

[@FirebladesSong]

@@Ottertone No, he did mention that.

[@Ottertone]

@@FirebladesSong I misinterpreted his "rythm changes".

[@veraeroes]

red dead redemption 2 actually taught me how to play poker and I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing it in-game

[@daviddachunkyduck5742]

Same lol

[@daviddachunkyduck5742]

Btw (greets)

[@Saiyamurai]

Im gonna have to learn, to get the gambler challanges, but itll come in handy might go blow some moolah in the casino lol

[@beesforbreakfast]

My poker group discovered to their expense that RDR mostly taught me to get caught cheating and then gun down whoever called me out

[@daviddachunkyduck5742]

@@beesforbreakfast i had this npc He make me lost like 10$ in the saint denis poker table

[@Mikebumpful]

OxBox videos from 7-8 years ago keep showing up in my feed. Funny to hear how much pluckier and brighter the presenters’ delivery sounds today!

[@Beanseh]

my heart goes out to whoever had to capture the vivi jump rope game, on the plus side though that is by far the most difficult part of getting the platinum trophy on the remaster. took me ages and i may or may not have used a macro device to automate it, and that may or may not have made it more difficult.

[@0XBlondie96X0]

So I know this game isn't exactly well known, but... Grandia? There's a bit where you're traveling on a ship, and there's a mini game where you have to swab the deck

[@vincevvn]

That’s a great underrated game

[@superawesomeboy]

Grandia 2 is one of the best games I've ever played. The fighting system in that blew my mind

[@michaelandreipalon359]

What's Grandia all about?

[@0XBlondie96X0]

@@vincevvn Ikr? I only really know about it because my family owned a copy of the first game, so my sister and I played it growing up. So it has a ton of nostalgia for me.

[@0XBlondie96X0]

@@superawesomeboy I've only played the first game tbh

[@frodobaggins7710]

Mario Odyssey has a section involving a skipping rope too in New Donk City, but thankfully it only requires 100 jumps to get the moon. Of course, if you want to add more challenge, you could always try doing it whilst riding a moped

[@goldenmightyena2479]

It's criminal that the squatting and pull-up minigames from the Final Fantasy VII Remake aren't included on this list

[@bryonyperecat5954]

Fishing - every JRPG ever I don't mind it so much for Animal Crossing (because I need to fill my museum) but that's about it.

[@DevilboyScooby]

It blows my mind there are full games just for that 🤯

[@Alsebra]

Oh, I mind it in AC...but only in New Horizons (I'm having issues with the consecutive fishing catches)

[@laurenwood8393]

Thanks for reminding me how many hours I put into that jump rope minigame on FFIX! Good painful times.

[@lentarian4065]

As Soon As They Showed FF9 In The Video I Said "Not The Goddam Jump Rope" Out Loud...My Forearm Started Hurting At The Memory Of That Dam Thing...lol

[@laurenwood8393]

@@lentarian4065 yes exactly! I think that wass the First time I ever experience gamer rage haha

[@boydstephensmithjr]

Clearly the inspiration for the jump rope moons in Mario Odyssey.

[@roguishpaladin]

At least it wasn't the lightning avoidance mini-game from FF-X....gah.

[@laurenwood8393]

@@roguishpaladin true, some of the mini games didn't exactly get better haha

[@KOB923]

I absolutely hated the yoga in GTA. I couldn't even believe it was happening when I first saw it.

[@JoaoPedro-sb5sq]

My analog sticks were messed up... it took me more than an hour because the game kept thinking that I was letting go of the sticks

[@AdrianColley]

"This is going somewhere, I'm sure of it."

[@jamielangford6534]

FFIX is still my favourite game of all time, but even i drew the line at doing 1000 jump ropes........ (on my second play through....)

[@shycat5028]

I saw the "1000 times" requirement in the achievement list and went WELP guess I'm not getting the plat on this one. (But if I ever do replay it...)

[@thiagobrunomartinspereira9638]

I think racing the kid was way more mundane and way more boring! I hurt my fingers so bad trying to beat him after a certain point, damn

[@jamielangford6534]

@@thiagobrunomartinspereira9638 buuuuuut theatre ship card tho....

[@nightmarethrenody8232]

God, that race was a pain. I even tried putting a pencil over both buttons and rocking it back and forth (This did not work.)

[@hallofguns8174]

You forgot the pie making in Fable 3. It is just a rhythm game while you play with dough in the background.

[@quietone610]

Ultima, Runes of Virtue 2 had a pie mini-game. Fun stuff.

[@VoraciousRdr]

Same with the bartender and blacksmith ones (though at least with the blacksmith one you can show off your arm tattoos)

[@tomfallon4440]

I remember making pies for hours just so I could tell Stephen Fry that we could afford not to bulldoze an orphanage... fable 3 was a strange game...

[@ryadinstormblessed8308]

And chopping wood. Pretty much all the mini games. But if you got good, you could earn enough money as a bartender to start investing in real estate, so it was worth the time.

[@hallofguns8174]

@@tomfallon4440 True, but it is still one of my most fav games ever.

[@SpeedDemonStar]

Speaking of jumping rope, what about the "border jump" in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga?

[@JaneXemylixa]

0:42 Somewhere, Euclid is crying. What do you expect from 2 points in 3d space???

[@ThatCerberusGuy]

The Citadel DLC for Mass Effect 3 has a weirdly fun and addicting claw game like you'd see at a cinema or fair or some such

[@CptWindwalker82]

God I hated that claw game. Probably just as much if not more than I did the pull-ups to upstage Vega and break his record...

[@ThatCerberusGuy]

@@CptWindwalker82 yeah, the pullup thing with James is super tedious and boring. At least the claw game had some hilarious dialog with Zaeed and the random asari he wins a prize for lol

[@michaelandreipalon359]

RIP Robin Sachs a.k.a. Zaeed Massani...

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Oh, and how about that punching game with Jacob?

[@CptWindwalker82]

@@michaelandreipalon359 that was alright, and actually winnable. Unlike any claw machine in existence ever.

[@oftenspanx]

I'm saving MY OX-points up to get the "Jane & Mike coerce Andy into streaming a full playthrough of Vampire The Masquerade" plushie set. Man it's gonna be so rad, cleared space on the display shelf above the mantle in anticipation for it.

[@jackright9638]

You guys should do a list of mini games better than their “full” game counterparts. Ie the poker in red dead vs “full poker game” gta golf vs pga tour ect

[@mantis638]

I think they did that list. They could do another one since it was a long time ago. Maybe could also add karaoke from the yakuza series.

[@dankeykang8243]

This entire list could be MP minigames. Vacuuming the house, dusting the house, inflating a balloon, shaking a can, jump roping, counting toads on a train, etc. The fun never ends.

[@reapergrimm8]

I remember some of the minigames in Final Fantasy X that you needed to complete to fully upgrade everyone's ultimate weapon. Some of them were actual challenges like blitzball or dodging lightning. But running around Macalania Woods trying to catch butterflies was really bizarre and one of the more infuriating ones due to how the controls on a PS2 game worked.

[@roguishpaladin]

I was fine with the butterflies. The lightning was the one that drove me to madness, since one mistake reset the entire process. It reminds me of the jump rope in this list, and I despise it.

[@reapergrimm8]

@@roguishpaladin The lightning was easy once you figured out the exploit. There was no such exploit for the butterflies.

[@nightmarethrenody8232]

To this day, my mother loathes the chocobo theme because it reminds her of just how much time she spent trying to get Tidus’s legendary weapon from racing.

[@joshuavargason8442]

When I beat GTAV, I got a mental health summary from Michael's therapist noting that despite being given such outlets as Yoga and golf, I still choose wanton murder and destruction as my method of release.

[@AlmostLikeHuman]

Honestly, if the only three outlets in the world were golf, yoga and mayhem, I guarantee I'd be in prison

[@marxbruder]

Doing the pullups in Mass Effect 3: Citadel DLC. It was somehow worse than trying to do pullups in real life, because at least in real life I get stronger. Worth it to crush James' ego, though.

[@lentarian4065]

Pull Ups In Metal Gear Solid 2 Were Just About Useless Yo...

[@playboydojo]

Fishing minigames are always the best minigames.

[@Carewolf]

I think you misspelled worst or most tedious.

[@bow-tiedengineer4453]

How about the ones that want you to do literally nothing? like, the minigame is just to wait x amount of time without touching any buttons?

[@yuyuyu25]

I think there's something to be said that almost all the games in this list are Japanese.

[@isaacgleeth3609]

Surprised there wasn't a _pachinko_ minigame that makes you feel bad because there's no way to turn your in-game winnings into real-world yen.

[@lionocyborg6030]

@@isaacgleeth3609 Except gambling is actually illegal in Japan: the pachinko parlours are only allowed to exchange the winnings for physical prizes like ticket arcades in the west. Instead they have a place next door they use as a loophole. Pachislot places do something similar with tokens.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@lionocyborg6030 Yeah, but that's just gambling with more steps involved.

[@lionocyborg6030]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio You have a point. I still needed to point that out though. If anything, the Pachinko loophole is a precursor to lootboxes in the west, or people buying up all the ticket arcade goods and selling them.

[@akiira69]

In Asheron's Call there was a quest to tip over a cow 100 times. After you complete it you got two rewards: a) A tipped Cow Housing Item b) The title "Obviously Bored"

[@ptonpc]

I remember how much fun you guys had with the wheelchair balancing.

[@thepetermullins]

Big shout out to my homies who, like me, are now really very good at Mahjong thanks to the Yakuza series!

[@joeldfisher]

I feel like I could competently run a real estate business too

[@arvidfrykman9850]

Now I just need to find a decent mahjong app, so I can get my fix.

[@Brainreaver79]

@@arvidfrykman9850 Mahjong Nagomi is decent ;)

[@jonhenri5625]

You assume I’m any better after getting my butt kicked 20 times

[@Gamer88334]

I fucking hated that mini-game in Judgement. I did THAT Friend Event twice just because I like fighting that secret boss that requires you to complete every single side mission and Friend Event. I just bring a cheat item, save, and reload if I’m not the wareme. And I have terrible luck when it comes to being the wareme.

[@mantis638]

As a kingdom hearts fan, let’s talk about the multiple mini games at the start of the first and second ones. Nothing says thrilling like posting posters and having the slowest foot race.

[@cliffritch7304]

But you have to admit, it was fun to play around on the skateboard, and the minigame with delivering mail as Roxas was fun because of that - led to me optimizing it a fair amount years ago

[@kristopherharris2487]

Legend of the Dragoon: you get into a carrot cutting competition with a chef on a ship

[@fgcvhhbvjhbj]

I loved the football game in FFX. I even went back and replayed the game so I could unlock the jet shot and win the tournament, I was so happy with it afterwards!

[@Icam_here]

i would argue the arm wrestling bit in a way out is more mundane then the wheelchair one, win or lose you will end up with a sore hand taping away for 10 minutes, and that's before the rematch even takes place

[@markhamilton7669]

What about the tedium of doing pull ups in Mass Effect 3 Citadel? All just to beat a record for respect.

[@Sprocke90]

FF7 remake has you doing mini games for squats and pull ups

[@consciousnesshidden]

That was in the OG too, and looked less glamorous hehe

[@michaelrounsville8314]

I definitely had a war flashback at the jump rope mention from ff9

[@lentarian4065]

As Soon As They Showed FF9 In The Video I Said "Not The Goddam Jump Rope" Out Loud...My Forearm Started Hurting At The Memory Of That Dam Thing...lol

[@michaelandreipalon359]

And I thought you were kidding... man, how am I supposed to be a completionist with this?!

[@KestrelDC]

Turtles can actually go real friggin' fast when they want/need to. Whoever runs those races needs to give them some motivation to get them really going!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

By scaring them? No thanks.

[@KestrelDC]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Could use food

[@Stephen-Fox]

And then Mario PArty did it again in Super Mario Party with an entirely different minigame based on having your photo taken, with Slapparazi. But I'm probably going to have to go with 'walking in a circle'. Which is an actual minigame, for a moon, in Mario Odyssey

[@sagacious03]

Neat video! Thanks for uploading!

[@iateitguy903]

I can only imagine for the start of the GTA 5 portion whoever was doing the recording for the driving part was just thinking "How do I make myself look as much of a madman as possible?"

[@prejudicedpizza2764]

The mail-sorting minigame in Wind Waker. You have to do it once in the story, easy enough, but if you want that piece of heart you're gonna be there a while.

[@bern9642]

Andy kills it once more. Excellent video

[@cearnicus]

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles had cow racing. It was even slower than Shen Mue's turtles. I'd also like to mention Trucks and Trailers (from SCS, the guys behind Euro Truck Sim). Not a minigame so unsuited for this list, but this is _entirely_ about parking your truck in the time limit. And it's hard as nails.

[@supersparerib]

Super Mario Oddysey also has a jump-rope minigame.

[@MsKornkitty]

That and the volleyball were the most tedious parts of an otherwise fantastic game.

[@cahillm19]

I like to collect as many moon per world as possible before moving on to the next. The Jump Rope minigame moon made me put down that game for nearly a year

[@supersparerib]

@@cahillm19 oof, i feel bad for you... ;-;

[@Wogle]

I've been trying to get the Skipping Queen Key item in Final Fantasy IX since 2001. I'm gonna stick my neck out and say you guys DIDN'T record that footage yourselves.

[@ryadinstormblessed8308]

I think I spent more time on the Chicken Kicking mini game than any single other activity in Fable, other than actual fighting of course.

[@archierichards8136]

Literally any Bat-tank section in Arkham Knight, essentially the same but in reverse: They were passed off as exciting but became mundane

[@dominichoughton8119]

As they included Final Fantasy, I'm surprised they didn't include the bit from Final Fantasy VII where you have to do squats to win a contest.

[@gorimbaud]

No one loves the jump rope in IX, but VII's squats have become iconic.

[@DavidWeinehall]

The squats weren't that bad. That f'ing lightning dodging in FFX, on the other hand...

[@Monkeyzforever]

The skipping minigame is the reason why I'll never platinum FFIX despite it being my favourite game ever TT_TT I loved skipping irl as a kid, but this minigame... it haunts me

[@lentarian4065]

It Haunts Us All... -_-

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

Bowling in Grand Theft Auto 4 which Cousin Roman was usually calling you to do.

[@mr.e9502]

“Hey, cousin! It is your cousin! Want to go bowling?”

[@ShadowJCreed]

The makers of Mario Odyssey probably remembered that Final Fantasy mini game and thought “Wow let’s make that in our game only in HD and more aggravating.” The volley ball mini game is also torture. They both have to be completed fully in order to get two separate power moons, so you can’t 100% the game without doing them.

[@picklejho69]

Me and my cousin played a way out split screen, and when we got to the fishing minigame, we didn't realise you had to get the rods or spears or whatever to catch the fish, and just kept using the splash mechanic cos we thought we were supposed to chase the fish on to the shore. We were like coordinating and shit to do this for like 30 minutes. Good times.

[@AntonioGonzalez-uo1jj]

The dashing challenge in hyperlight drifter caused me hours of agony

[@hugofontes5708]

That one was so ridiculous I not even count that as a minigame 800 consecutive chain dashes, just short of about 1 second each and demanding average consistency of 90% to be reliable I don't even want to imagine how much training it would take to make it

[@AntonioGonzalez-uo1jj]

Think I took about 8 hours over 2 days to actually get it done

[@hugofontes5708]

@@AntonioGonzalez-uo1jj congratulations and I'm sorry I made the calculations and said "screw this, I'm running a script"

[@cmbalor3219]

I don't have anything off the top of my head, but I want those OxPoints!

[@stevefrench3397]

I needed some Andy content today! Thanks Andy!!!

[@artlessauthorite]

Bowser's inside story also had the 99 block. Can't forget that

[@Bubbleoon]

"The most mundane thing short of actually obeying traffic laws" I have actually never felt so personally attacked

[@Christoph52]

What about wood chopping, smithing, and baking pies in Fable?

[@ryan1258]

Honestly i'm surprised how tame Andy was with Shenmue.

[@thesymbiotenation.4552]

ShenmuEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! Wait, wrong top channel meme...

[@darkfent]

Ah I knew shenmue and yakuza would be here

[@jamesdayton2598]

Shenmue 3 was such a let down. So much more tedium with rooster stance, one inch punch, and horse stance.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@jamesdayton2598 Don't forget the still notorious cliffhanger.

[@alexstockwell4349]

Idea for a list: Crafting Minigames(Acitivities? Diversions? Whatever the proper word is...) More Addictive Than The Game Itself. The ones that instantly come to mind are Blacksmithing in Skyrim, Weapon Modding in Fallout 4, and Car Modding in Saints Row 3 and GTA 5.

[@GloomyYumi]

The credits in Mr Prepper. You get to fly a rocketship into the names of people and get an achievement for getting all of them

[@nickjeffery536]

Andy - "This is Flash Forward, one of the minigames in Mario Party 10, in which four of the beloved pantheon of Mario characters line up for a group photo..." Well, four of the beloved characters, or three beloved characters and Luigi, if Andy is playing...

[@SerenaMcKeenzo]

Here I was expecting mini games about doing the dishes or hoovering the living room :D

[@Leith_Crowther]

There’s always Octodad, where that’s the whole game

[@thecosmicowl9923]

Tomar’s turtle races!! If you win 100 times, I hear you get one of his emeralds.

[@kylepeters8690]

Jobs in the fable series. Woodchopping, pie rolling, playing a lute and more. Just why? Granted I find them oddly relaxing but that doesn't change how weird it is that you thee hero who can throw lighting from their hands on a bloody quest of revenge and world saving stop to take a part time job.

[@andrewschmeisser3471]

Also, what about those who are not Mario? For instance in Super Princess Peach, you... cry? A LOT? So... express emotion. Real exciting stuff there.

[@alittlelostinthemoment6677]

Super Mario Odysee. Worst part, you had to do all of these mini-games in order to get all the moons...

[@HolyHadou]

Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga: Bowser's Inside Story still needs to get completed by me. Also Mario Odyssey's jump rope mini game lived in my head rent free for a few months a couple years back. That, the RC Car challenge and volleyball.

[@charlesernst9022]

Don't forget the Triathlons from GTA 5. I remember mashing the sprint button for a good half hour to finish first and win virtually nothing but empty hopes and dreams.

[@Zenlore6499]

1:15 You can tell how “old” GTA V is by the design of that absolute geezer of a smartphone.

[@minomininni]

One unforgivable absence: SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY. A recurring (and "recurring" sounds like a curse) minigame has you WALK IN CIRCLES. Exciting.

[@AllDayBikes]

1:48 that's after all day of playing properly haha

[@Mini_Squatch]

The yoga minigame is great, if paired with the chaos mod

[@sampdesigns]

I LOVE the minigames from "A Way Out"

[@zachwebb3774]

No mention of South Park: The Fractured but Whole where there is a minigame where you can poop on 21 different toilets?

[@andyv8624]

In No More Heroes, Travis Touchdown can take on lots of exciting part-time jobs (i.e., minigames), including picking up trash, mowing lawns, and pumping gas.

[@misterbones5981]

Fable series Fishing. The fact that to get good items like silver keys or money is annoying but the tedious time it takes to get a bite THEN to reel it in is a button mashing nightmare. Also Yakuza's fishing

[@Shadoboy]

South Park: The Fractured but Whole. There is a whole minigame about pooping. Yep, do your quick time event in order to achieve a poop with bigger score. And the difficulty varies depending on which toilet you do nature's call in.

[@Vegitunks0]

Isn't Manual Samuel basically a minigame doing the most mundane things at all breathe and live lol

[@thedevicebook]

I had the same thought! I should have read your comment before writing mine.

[@thedevicebook]

Although Manual Samuel makes it the MAIN game instead of the mini-game. It still deserves an honorable mention on the commentary list.

[@Lamycore]

squats in FFVII crisis core comes to mind, push x, push x push x.... at least they changed it up a bit in FFVII remake xD

[@cage5577]

Pokemon Stadium's Drowzee mini game. Where your job is basically just to stay awake.

[@cohenb18]

I'm a little surprised that none of the minigames from N64's Pokemon Stadium made it onto the list with such hits as Clefairy Says, Magikarp's Splash, or my personal favorite Snore War.

[@ChiiRayne]

Pokemon Stadium 1&2's minigames were the best thing about those game! So much so there are whole emulators out there for just the minigames themselves.