Just some off the top of my head: Destiny, Deep Rock Galactic, Overwatch, and most recently Baldur’s Gate.

I received BG3 as a gift. I installed and loaded up the game and the first thing I was prompted to do is to create a character. There are like 12 different classes with 14 different abilities and 10 ability classes. The game does not explain any of this. I went to watch a tutorial online to try and wrap my head around all of this. The first tutorial just assumed you knew a bunch of stuff already. The second one I found was great but it was 1.5 hours long. There is no in-game tutorial I could find.

I just get very bored very quickly of analyzing character traits and I absolutely loathe inventory management (looking at you Borderlands). Often times my inventory fills up and then I end up just selling stuff that I have no idea what it does and later realizing it’s an incredibly valuable item/resource and now I have to find more.

So my question is this: Do you guys really spend hours of your day just researching on the internet how to play these games? Or do you just jump in and wing it? Or does each game just build on top of working knowledge of previous similar games?

E: General consensus seems to be all of the above. Good to know!

  • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Perhaps this conversation would be more constructive if you told us some of the games you do like, instead of the ones you don’t.

    Because I’ll tell you right now, unless you prefer interactive novels which are only arguably games, every game is based on repetitive gameplay.

    Specifically, building repetitive gameplay on top of repetitive gameplay is what makes games, games.

    Like with chess. You have a repetitive “chess game” loop which has many “your turn” loops inside.

    What I’m asking is how you sort it out

    To address this specifically, this is what the community of the game is about. It’s why wikis are created and maintained. And so the answer would change based on which game you’re talking about and your goals in that game

    For borderlands specifically, a few quick heuristics you can use is to ignore all weapons of not legendary color while in lower level areas, or to stop picking up lower tier items when you don’t need the cash, or to skip everything that isn’t a shotgun because that’s the only piece you need to update

      • RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Ok, then don’t play them. No one is forcing you.

        You said BG3 was a gift, so it’s not costing you anything to not play something you don’t like.

        Given what you’ve said, I would suggest avoiding anything with an RPG label anywhere.

        For BG3, if you want to keep playing, you can skip the character creator. They have a dozen prebuilt options you can play without doing the detail work.

        For inventory, you can ask your brother to handle it and send everything to camp.

        But even with those, you’ll likely not enjoy BG3 because even the fighting mechanics are based around that type of complex decision making, making you pause all the time so that you can make those decisions.

        It’s ok to tell your brother you don’t enjoy the gameplay. You don’t have to like it just because other people do.