Took me 3 years to beat witcher 3 because of this.
But yeah the side quests are making me take breaks in FFXVI. Finally got to the end of the game, thinking I’ve done everything there was to do and finally ready to go fight the big bad, only for the game to throw like 10 side quests at you right before the final level. Really broke the momentum and made me lose hype for the ending knowing that I now have to put that aside while I do some errands. You might say i don’t have to finish every single optional side quest, but we all know that isn’t true.
I’m like 80% positive that Resident Evil games make zombies have more or less heslth depending on how much Ammo you currently have on you. When I only have a few bullets, I seem to scrape by. But when I actually get a decent amount of Ammo saved up, all of the sudden every zombie needs 12 shots to the brain to knock em down, and then they get back up to take another 5 or so bullets. Makes me not even worry about Ammo conservation knowing that as soon as I get stocked up the game is just gonna make me blow through everything every other encounter.