Fishing Minigame: Difference between revisions

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Fishing minigames are often [[Luck Based Mission|Luck based missions]], much to players' annoyance. Especially when fish [[Fishing for Sole|aren't the only thing you can catch]].

* ''[[Fate]]'' and ''[[Torchlight (Video Game)|Torchlight]]'' have fishing games based on reaction time. The fish can be used to temporarily or permanently turn your pet into a [[Pet Monstrosity|more powerful creature]], or they contain [[Randomly Drops|artifacts]] or [[Socketed Equipment|gems]] (sometimes [[Fridge Logic|much larger than the fish]]).

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* ''[[LEGO Island]] 2'' has a fishing minigame too.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'' required the player to catch and feed fish to the character's sick adoptive grandfather. Feeding him slow fish would kill him rapidly. Moderately speedy fish would also kill him, just more slowly. The only way to save Cid is by a steady diet of fast fish. However, whether he lives or dies makes no difference to the plot. If he dies, however, the character is [[Driven to Suicide]] via a [[Leap of Faith]] over her lousy luck at fishing.

* ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'' had a fishing minigame, notable because its completion was one of the conditions needed to obtain the Wrymhero Blade, arguably one of the [[Infinity ~~Plus One~~ Sword|most powerful weapons in the game]].

* ''[[Final Fantasy XII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XII]]'' had a fishing minigame, notable because its completion was one of the conditions needed to obtain the Wrymhero Blade, arguably one of the [[Infinity+1 Sword|most powerful weapons in the game]].

* ''[[Legend of Legaia (Video Game)|Legend of Legaia]]'' has a very good one of these.

* ''[[Final Fantasy]] Fables: [[Chocobos Dungeon]]'' allows you to catch fish. Your storage increases each time you bring a species to the fat chocobo who holds your items for the first time; any others are [[Vendor Trash]].

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* ''[[Pokémon]]'' allows you to go fishing with a rod in order to initiate wild Pokemon battles and capture Water Pokemon. Later games do, however, introduce timing as a measure of whether you'll be successful.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has fishing as a craft skill.

** Also, since fishing requires actually equipping a fishing pole, some players keep one equipped at other times as a [[Self Imposed Challenge]] or perhaps for the purpose of [[Cherry Tapping]] weaker enemies in a humorous way (though there's also a large fish one can catch that is also equippable, with largely the same results). Before the weapon skill nerf, it was possible for a maxed fishing skill to make your fishing pole an unusually deadly weapon for its level.

** Also, since fishing requires actually equipping a fishing pole, some players keep one equipped at other times as a [[Self-Imposed Challenge]] or perhaps for the purpose of [[Cherry Tapping]] weaker enemies in a humorous way (though there's also a large fish one can catch that is also equippable, with largely the same results). Before the weapon skill nerf, it was possible for a maxed fishing skill to make your fishing pole an unusually deadly weapon for its level.

** So does ''Runescape'', but it has fishing-based minigame too.

** And ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'', which introduced a minor minigame aspect in an attempt to ward off botters. It didn't work, as a botter could simply hack the client and tell the server they mined a fish, and the server gleefully gives it to them every time.