7 Weirdest Ways You Levelled Up in Videogames: Part 2

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  @matthewwood4481 · 2 years ago

  Baldurs Gate 3: I know my main quest is to get this worm parasite out of my head... but a nice person in my dreams says letting in more worm parasites means I get cool abilities. Seems legit.

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• CH

  @Chris_Sizemore · 2 years ago

  So let me get this straight. Kasuga needed to get in a squirt gun beach battle to have an epiphany that guns could be used to hurt people?

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• GO

  @goofedpredator4478 · 2 years ago

  Deeply surprised Baldur’s Gate wasn’t here. Considering that the whole point of the story is that you have to remove a worm from your head, having the strongest skills locked behind putting MORE worms in your head is pretty unexpected

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• PI

  @Pizzaetertje · 2 years ago

  Can confirm, I am terrible at things I’ve been doing for my entire life, like walking

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• SA

  @SamClemensRIGL · 2 years ago

  The way Jane said "delicious blood" was a bit too convincing. Are you a vampire, Jane? You have to tell us. It's like being a cop on Breaking Bad.

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• CU

  @Cunnysmythe · 2 years ago

  In Planescape: Torment , your character is an immortal amnesiac who often levels up by remembering the skills he used to have in his myriad former lives. Conversations with people you've forgotten, reading about things you've done, anything that triggers a flashback to a former life will net you loads of experience

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• DO

  @Doomdeen · 2 years ago

  Asking Ozzy Osborne in brutal legend. Because if it isn't cool to ask the prince of darkness to level up, I don't know what it is.

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• AK

  @akawhut · 2 years ago

  In mgs2, when hanging over a ledge, if you do 100 pull ups, you increase your stamina.

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• MA

  @MaverickRiou · 2 years ago

  Commenter’s edition: Darkwood has you cooking and injecting yourself with the mushrooms you find in the forest. Fear and Hunger Termina has you sacrificing your friends’ heads and your enemies heads for your skill tree.

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  @christianperkins9508 · 2 years ago

  Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. Your strength is directly tied to how well your rice fields are doing, so increasing things like health, defense, and magic depends on how you mix your fertilizer and how much damage happens to your crops from pests.

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  @michaelmanherz7918 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I’ve been playing Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and I’d like to throw that one into the conversation. How does the titular squad level up you ask? Through the power of Neck Bombs! Which is actually pretty ironic if you think about it.

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  @twngemn-zv4xo · 2 years ago

  Yakuza 3 also had you learn new skills by watching weird events. It was framed as Kiryu starting a blog about the weird people he saw in kamurocho and required a QTE sequence and indecipherable blog comment seleciton. if you picked the wrong caption for your blog you had to redo the qte

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