10 POINTLESS Video Game Mechanics Gamers Always Use
7. Emotes - Elder Scrolls Online (Or Anything Else For That Matter)
The Elder Scrolls Online is one of the biggest, most complex, most enduring MMORPGs in modern gaming (it's also more than 200gb on PS4).
With constant updates from Bethesda, endless numbers of quests, Delves, and Dolmens to run either solo or in parties, hundreds of game hours won't even scratch the surface of what this title has to offer.
You can also spend an equal number of hours dancing like a Khajiit while your mate plays the flute.
The quantity of emotes available in ESO is as impressive as it is baffling, encompassing everything from cheering or haranguing passers by, the aforementioned musical interludes, drinking, posing and everything in between.
And the point of these actions? Absolutely nothing.
You gain literally nothing by stopping to prance and posture, yet this is undoubtedly one of the most utilised mechanics in the entire grand adventure, and YouTube is virtually overflowing with video evidence.
ESO is not alone in this indictment, with the obvious Fortnite also implicit alongside other titles like PUBG and Star Wars Battlefront II.
Emotes are useless and impractical; they annoy us and waste time which could be better spent completing quests and levelling up our heroes.
Having said that, you grab those drums, I'm on the lute...