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We’ve all played them. Backtracking, not knowing where to go. Going back and forth. Name some of these games from your memory. I’ll start: Final Fantasy XIII-2, RE1
Chrono Trigger had me looking up guides as several points just to find a way to progress.
I was playing Star Wars: Bounty Hunter on Switch today because of the current free trial. At first, running around as Jango Fett in the Gamecube era was fun, but then shortly after getting my jetlack, I get completely turned around while chasing the bounty guy and spend over a half hour being lost. Called it quits after that.
Probably half life. It’s kinda intentionally tricky and meant to be some kind of puzzle
it looks like I get to be the one that mentions:
ET on Atari2600
Obviously, you go home.
Hard to recall them since I tend to drop them when I get stuck. If I look up a hint and find out it is something that never had any previous hints to figure out I also drop the game because nothing is more frustrating than guesswork.
Legend of dragoon
Abiotic Factor, survival in a facility like Half-Life with crafting, survival and exploration. Really great game and it’s pretty hard understanding where to go
Silent Hill 2 - dropping canned juice in the laundry shoot. Weirdest mechanic I’ve ever seen, nothing pointed to do it, just finding the juice was weird, how was I supposed to know to put it down the laundry shoot of all places. My friend who got me to play it watched me wander around the apartment for like 10 - 15 mins, getting more and more confused and frustrated before telling me what to do.
Chute
Thank you, my wife wasn’t reading over my shoulder to correct me at that moment.
Metroidvania games can be pretty good for this sometimes. One that really got me was Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. You have to get an ability to progress at a certain point that is a random drop from an enemy. Any game that relies on RNG for progression is going to make me go running in circles. I love the game, but did not love that part.
SNES Jurassic Park. NES Fester’s Quest
Oh snap, time to go back 30 years and get lost in Alone in the Dark again!
La-Mulana
Tunic
Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal
Metroid
I am playing Dark Light at the moment and I don’t know where to fuck should I go?
Been playing Diablo 2 Resurrected again, so… Diablo 2. Especially on higher difficulties some of those areas (Durance of Hate, f.ex) are extremely maze-like and the only reliable way to navigate it is to just follow the left wall no matter what.
Otherwise, I played a demo for a game years ago that I can’t remember the name of anymore that was built around non-Euclidian geometry, so walking through a door in one direction would take you to one place, but walking back in the other would take you somewhere else instead of back to where you came from and such.
Casper the friendly ghost
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
Devil May Cry 4, but I was able to finish it. I couldn’t even complete Devil May Cry 3.