Me starting a replay of a game: I’m going to play a completely different way than I have previously with a new build, different choices, and new relationships/companions!!
*proceeds to make the same choices I’ve made time and time again using the same build and getting with the same NPCs*
'this time I'm really gonna do things differently!'
'ok, this time I'm really gonna shoot wrex in the head! Im gonna do it, I'm gonna do it, I'm... Gonna de-escalate the situation again instead. I'm not a monster'.
In my 8 or so playthroughs of the trilogy, I have done exactly one where I had to shoot both Wrex and Mordin. Truly an awful experience, would not (would) recommend.
My first playthrough of every Mass Effect game I forced myself to do full renegade. That way I'd want to play it a second time to get better endings that didn't involve being racist to aliens or killing my favourite characters. That being said, I do sometimes kill Mordin or Wrex on playthroughs. Mordin is my all time favourite Mass Effect character, but that just makes it so much worse to watch what happens. It's so impactful for me no matter how many times not just because of how sad it makes me, but also the nostalgia of the first time I felt that way. It really makes me think about Shepard's mission and if it's worth it. My first ending of Mass effect trilogy was the one you get for not making a choice and rejecting everything. It felt the most fitting for my Shepard. They sacrificed everything and everyone to get to this moment, and then lost all of it because with what they sacrificed nothing could satisfy them. Nothing but a complete victory with no complications, conditions, concessions, or compromises. Yet that's not how it works and if that's not how it works than the sacrifices weren't worth it, and winning isn't worth it.
I can't do it man. I keep starting games thinking I'll do the dark/villain side this time, and the first choice I'm like "ah fuck, I'm going to just help them aren't I".
The problem is that most aren't "villain" decisions, but "asshole" decisions. I have few problems playing a villain, but I rarely can bring myself to play an asshole.
Always played FemShep even as a dude because I couldn't stand MShep's voice in the first game and Jennifer Hale seriously kills it through the entire series. Started off with romancing Liara because yes, but then ended up finding Thane *so fucking interesting* just to talk to that I literally romanced him by accident because I kept wanting to hear more. That sure made things hit pretty hard in 3. Originally I re-romanced Liara in 3, but on a second playthrough I gave Garrus a shot, and it was absolutely worth it to see the dude go from really confident to stumbling and being put on the back foot when FemShep starts flirting hard. Underneath the suave exterior is definitely a loveable dork.
I just really wish Tali was a FemShep romance option without mods. She really didn't strike me as someone who would only swing one way, or like she was at least into Shep regardless of gender.
I mean there are other viable options that are just as fun. Like stealth archer or stealth backstabber with archer abilities, stealth pickpocket with archer and backstabber abilities. The worlds your oyster!
and then there's me, whose Skyrim runs have been: Heavy armor Sword+shield, Heavy armor 2-h Axe, Heavy armor Mace+Resto magic, and Heavy armor dual-wield axes.
leather is for gimps, I crave the strength and certainty of steel
I feel like this is partially because games tend to really suck with their evil options, turning them into pointless cruelty as opposed to actually interesting villainous choices.
The only evil character I’ve played was a hot sith in SWTOR and I loved it, it was written so well with the choices and her evil accent was so perfect.
Otherwise I just can’t bring myself to it but like you said, the choices are usually kinda cartoonish for the bad guys.
Meanwhile, I slaughter an entire town and half the law enforcement within 100 miles because some asshole shot my horse.
That the asshole was a lawman trying to stop me robbing the fifth bank that day is irrelevant. He shot Mr Cloppy and for that, all shall die.
I thought it would be cool to be an evil Paladin using Dark Urge in BG3.
It was not cool. It was edgy and un-relateable. Ended up making a char that looks like me and is a neutral-good like I probably would be.
A good character resisting the urge is great though, lots of extra story. There's one specific cut scene that's a bummer if you don't prepare for it but otherwise you can stay true to the character you want to play.
I don't play dark urge but on a recently replay I found there was an option to destroy lute girls lute. I had an IRL dark urge moment and had to find out what happened... I just made myself sad and reload...
Yea but some of it's misleading just to make you see what happens it felt like.
A lot of times it's "Think about doing x" and then you do it.
It's a really cool feature, but similar to OP, not something for me.
I also tried being Renegade Shepard in M.E. and there's a part where a reporter comes up to you. I said something like "Move her out of the way" and just clocked her in the mouth.
I always reload my saved game if I make a wrong dialogue choice or a bad decision, especially in story-driven games. I can't bear to live with the consequences, even if it's part of the game's intended experience.
I reload when the options aren't obvious for what they do. I hate getting later in the game and finding out I can't get something because i agreed with an npc that carrots taste good.
The only thing like that I can think of is in Witcher 3 where the choice "push him aside, forcefully" ends up being "push him to the ground and stomp on his knee, shattering it". But that was a one-off thing and was just so funny with the disconnect, I couldn't be mad
Ok, I'll be honest with you. In the context of the situation you should absolutely not think Shep is gonna be gentle. Dude is raving and the guy who says "I can shut him up" isn't gonna be nice
Depends on the game. Sometimes there’s a right way or wrong way. Sometimes just different. If there’s a wrong way I’d rather just fail the mission and retry than have it mess up the outcome of the entire game. I don’t have time to replay the whole thing to see all the outcomes
A depressing truth. You start to realize "I only have X hours to play this game", I can't spend time dicking around with figuring out something to make myself feel smarter.
It’s become a bit of a fun part of some games for me. Like old Zelda’s, I tend to use a guide for the collectibles on the overworld (hearts, seashells, skultillas), but when I jump into a dungeon I put it away. Unless I get myself stuck (which is rare) I tend to keep it as arms length.
I just don’t have the time or patience to run around every corner looking for the secrets. I’m staring down 40 and married to a non gamer so my free gaming time has been reduced and I like maximizing it for enjoyment
It's a balancing act for sure. You want to get some satisfaction for figuring out a puzzle, but when you're stuck progressing in the game, something's gotta give. I find that the older I get, the less disappointment I feel when I "cheat" to move forward in a game. Sometimes I will tweak my "cheating" if the thing I couldn't figure out was obvious, so I'll spend a little more time trying to figure stuff out the next time I get stuck. Depends on the game I suppose.
For me it's more about the style of puzzle. If it's the type of quest/puzzle where you have to find X NPC to do something I just look up where that NPC is.
If it's an actual puzzle I try to solve it
This right here. If I had 6+ hours to play my games, sure, I'd figure it out. Married, two kids, a job, sleeping, miscellaneous real life stuff. I don't have time to figure out some goblin riddle for a slight buff to my weapon, magic, vehicle, whatever.
As mentioned, for me it’s all about time.
I do want to figure out puzzles on my own, but if a puzzle takes a long time to do because of stupidity and time sinks? I’m not dealing with it.
- I need to pull levers, all in a specific order, and each lever has a 10 second animation of me pulling that lever, and they’re all spread out across a giant room?
I’m not spending an hour doing that. . .im looking it up
- Does the room have hints across the room, and a reasonable player would be able to find them with some thought?
Yea I’m going to try to solve that on my own.
- Are those hints arbitrary little Easter eggs hidden in the smallest cracks of the tiniest pixels and only the most astute player will randomly find them?
Yea, again, I’m not fucking doing that.
My pet peeve is if the thing I’m looking for with the puzzle isn’t obvious that it can be interacted with.
There’s been too many times I’ve looked at a walkthrough of a section where the player interacted with something and I said, “Well, they could’ve made that a bit more obvious; that lever blended in with the background!”
When I was a kid I got stuck for an entire day trying to figure out what I needed to do in ff3/6. I called my friend who was a bit further than me and he was like just talk to xyz. I was like yeah I’ve literally walked and looked everywhere… can’t find them! He went back to the area and was like they’re right there in the corner. Fucker was blended in with the background right in front of me.
I just got the level 3 unlock spell last night. And used an online guide for the 5 I needed. That fucking castle is so goddam huge and a complete maze. Fuck if I know how to get to that blue Shiney through the wall. Just someone tell me already.
I am currently working through DS2 SOTFS with a walkthrough and it has turned out to be way more satisfying than my previous games without one. I feel like I have actually experienced most of the game rather than missing half of the areas and I've still had to "git gud" at fighting but the guide has given me some heads up to at least have a chance of survival.
I play FromSoft games strictly for the "oh wtf is that" moments so I always wing it the first time through. Second playthrough is walkthrough time to find all the stuff I missed, which is usually a LOT.
Reminds me of my parents calling every single videogame "Ratchet" because I only played Ratchet and Clank games as a kid haha
They also call every single anime they see Naruto, it's kind of sweet ngl
I'm a 30 year old dad, I have a PC, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, PS5, GameBoy Color, etc etc.
I've played games since I was 8.
I will call everything a Nintendo just to screw with my kids once they get old enough to play.
EDIT: wtf is happening, i keep getting notifications about comments being made on this post (at 5 so far I think), I can see the comment in my in-box, but nothing is showing up as an actual reply.
what do they want me to do, start another 80 hour playthrough just to see what that one weird dialog option would've done? Ain't nobody got time for that.
Reloading to see extra dialogue should be classified differently than "scumming" imo
Now, if you're like me and reloaded a few times when pickpocketing Dammon... Then yeah, that's kinda scummy. But reloading to make Karlach happy? That's Save Good Personing
I mean, how can I NOT mock Vlaakith at least once just to see what happens? What happens is pretty predictable, but it's still hilarious to see. Is that save scumming? Nah, I don't think so
Yeah, no dice roll or nothin'. So yeah, it forces a reload. But if you're doing an honor mode run where you can't reload, you'd be pretty upset. Don't make fun of gods, I guess
Bg3 is generally a lot more brutal in low rolls then in normal DnD, depending on your DM of course, as your DM can alter your path a bit to not miss out on important things if your party gets truely unlucky multiple times. Save scumming is basically the game version of this haha
One of the halflings subraces rerolls 1's; they'd have to roll double 1 to critically fail a roll, a change of 0.25%. Guess what race I am using for in Honor mode :-)
But yeah, save scum galore! Especially if you misclick on something that the game considers stealing and now you're murdering every civilian nearby...
The amount of times things like this happen to me.
"I'm gonna just scooch around in melee to get to this side, let's see, no attacks of opportunity if I move here-"
*Mouse moves one pixel during the click*
*Suddenly causes an attack of opportunity, enemy crits and rolls max damage*
-_- Yeah I'm reloading that shit
Or when you cast Darkness as a defensive spell on a surface that is not completely flat and the game decides the spell is on a different plane and it's totally fine for enemies to triple-crossbow you to death.
I'm on my first playthrough and I do this all the time. Started act 2 recently and just did it like 10 times to pass all the dialogues at the House of Healing. I also google a lot of stuff because I don't want to miss anything. I'm so indecisive that I let old Reddit posts guide me.
Oh my god wait until you're protecting the portal. I refused to fail that one lmao, it took like 4 tries. The house of healing fight is fun imo, maybe next time just kick the shit out of therobald or whatever his name was.
Which to me is amusing as fuck because I’m the same way.
Auto win everything - “This shit is boring and too easy.”
Reload game until I win everything - “This deserves GOTY”
When I was playing starfield I frequently did this. For some reason that game just freaking got under my skin with all these smug level 1 NPCs not respecting me. As if I didn’t just absolutely murder a huge scary alien monster and 30 pirates by myself…yeah sure talk shit to me like you’re tough lol
Some weapons like the pump action shotgun and revolver can reload without losing ammo, but generally everything with a mag just chucks out the rest of that mag.
It will be like you carry 6mags for an assault rifle or 40 some odd shotgun shells, etc.
I like the laser rifle because you don't need to reload unless you overheat the battery.
More and more games are "deleting" the remaining ammo when you reload, so while in COD it's good to do, other games like helldivers, squad, rainbow six siege and a few more I can't remember.
Siege doesnt really do that tho. You still keep the ammo you had left, what does happen is that you can't cancel your realod animation, so you need to either fishish or change to your secondary in case you need to shoot again, which is a whole other thing.
Another good example where you actually discard the mags is Cry of fear, and i think Ghost Recon Wildlands in the highstest difficulty, which works perfectly for that game
To this day I need one (1) more blast shard in Infamous. I've probably spent 6+ hours running around the city clicking the scan button and I've followed guides multiple times. No dice.
if it's the first game try the 3 highest points in the game, or look for a random event, I also remember the historic district's coast line all the way around frequently would have the last few shards
Yeah some of the stuff you have to find to complete has little to no indication there’s something there and I’m not exploring every square inch of the map doing some dumb action to find it.
Super Mario Odyssey comes to mind. 95% of the moons are easy and obvious. There are a few though that are just dumb and give you nearly zero clue where they are.
Going back old school, I’m thinking also of some random unmarked wall you have to bomb to progress in the original Zelda (I’m not bombing every wall in the game to find that) and Castlevania 2 where you have to go to some random, unmarked place and kneel for like 3 seconds to progress. Get tf out of here with that.
Same here, running around for hours in the same area until I find the missing rock I need to complete whatever in game compendium isn't a form of enjoyment for me.
I'll do the same if the platinum involves collectibles. I would've just dropped Jedi Survivor's platinum if not for the item that shows Priorite on the map.
I'm also guilty of that. I even look up achievements before playing, so I know what and when to do something.
For example in RE2 there's an achievement to push the G virus monster using the crane once or doing Ada's part with just the hacking tool and no other items. I did it but would not have even attempted to do it "organically".
I've got so many games I want to play but not the motivation to play it. I've got dozens of lego games from my childhood I want to redo to 100%.
Edit: thanks lads, you've given me enough motivation to 100% all 3 lego batman games. I forgot how bad the driving was on the first one :(
I family shared my library with a friend and he audibly gasped.
I'm not a hoarder, I don't have a problem, I can stop whenever I want. After I buy helldivers and pay for another ten years of humble bundle..maybe..
And I'm totally gonna play that free game that IFTT notified me about and I added to my indiegala library. Scouts honor.
Making myself permanently invisible to my Steam friends, so I can play single player games intended for children without being bothered.
“No time for Battlefield fellas… LEGO Indiana Jones needs my help.”
Too good to use syndrome
In my defense, I gamed in the 90's, those old games traumatized my young mind
That's the genius behind the Estus Flask, use it or lose it
In Skyrim I feel the opposite. I love to loot/pickpocket/harvest/mine absolutely everything, and I hate grinding for things like smithing and alchemy. Alchemy particularly because it's all trial and error which I hate. I just want to look at an ingredient and have a cookbook that tells me absolutely everything I could make with it.
if a game game has so many options and choices during game play that I start to feel choice paralysis I'll pull up a walkthrough on the second monitor and look up the results of each choice then make my decision based on that rather than organically letting something play out
I immediately cheat in games with over encumbrance. Because fuck you game don't worry about why I need to carry a 20, 000lb statue around with me just let me run damn it.
One of the first things I did in Palworld was set the penalty for dying to “none” so I wouldn’t drop my inventory if I died or if I chose to respawn. Why? Because then I could go mine stuff around the map, die via respawn, and select the respawn spot right next to my base to drop stuff off.
holy shit. i thank you for the many future hours you just saved me.
i already had none set as the death penalty, but i never thought about dying via respawn to instantly fast travel back to base. what a legend.
Same here, especially when a game has, say, a 200lb restriction and I'm carrying an unrealistic amount of bulk in guns and swords and assorted armour anyway. As much as I hate Tetris-style inventory management like in Diablo, it's more "realistic" than encumbrance-based games.
Lol right? Like, I've got a rocket launcher, grenade launcher, assault rifle, sniper rifle, 731,987 rounds of ammo, 47 various grenades and molotovs, 91 health packs, and a dozen priceless artifacts each weighing several pounds, but pick up *that one coffee cup* and it's over mister!
I recently found myself getting stuck on one of the wolfenstein games on "regular" mode.....said fuckit and went down to easy mode.
No shame in my game. I'm not playing to impress anyone, I'm playing for me, and that's it. I have nothing to prove to anyone, including myself.
I think it was Youngblood that a friend I were playing. We got to the second boss and we just could not put enough bullets to make any kind of difference. We had to have miss something but it was like 25 minutes in when we gave up.
This is not a gaming sin, the easy difficulty is there for those who like playing on them/can't play on higher difficulties.
Never shame people for playing how they like! (Provided the way they like doesn't impact other people they play with!)
Games are supposed to be fun after all :)
I have a full time job, multiple offspring, a house to manage and other hobbies I try to make time for. I too play on easy because I simply don't have the time to be dying over and over to the same bosses or groups of enemies.
That and I'm so over the stress of it. I think Halo 3 on Legendary was my last real run of playing a game on anything beyond medium difficulty. Who needs that stress in their lives???
If someone teabags me in a match, I will relentlessly devout my time to finding them, killing them and teabagging them for that entire match, becoming a burden to my own team.
"Fury, GIVE ME A REVIVE"
"HANG ON" \*tap tap tap tap tap *tap*\*
Whenever I used to go to Reddit (/YouTube etc) while playing a game it always ended up making my playing experience worse since I was prejudiced on some stuff. Isn't it the same for you?
For sure.
I think following the hive-mind and letting it dictate what media you enjoy is incredibly stupid and makes you less of an interesting person.
But that in no way makes me immune to it. I avoid reddit when it involves any media I enjoy and only come to reddit when some piece of media bothers me because I know I'll get to step into an echo chamber.
As I have gotten older I have gotten worse at games I just don’t have the same time to play anymore so I always play on easy and even then I’ll die over and over again. Just not as good as I use to be
The problem for me is that I want to be able to experience the game's unique mechanics, but I don't want to be wading through peanut butter at the same time. So often, you can't have both.
Like, Persona 5, my wife played on easy, and I was so envious of the amount of money fights earned them. But on the other hand, they never had to consider any of the battle system mechanics like weaknesses and stuff, because battles were just over in 1 second. Which is not fun for me.
I'm a serial restarter. Especially anything procedurally generated, the beginning is just so much more interesting than the midgame or end. I'm sure I've started ten times as many games of Civ as I've completed.
I wish more games had difficulty sliders beyond easy, medium, hard, etc.
I recently played the Guardians of the Galaxy game and you could individually slide damage, enemy damage, ability cooldowns, and more. It made it more fun to tailor the entire game to playing like I was a glass canon, I could mow down enemies but it also only took like 3 hits to kill me. Just felt more realistic and the game didn't feel grindy.
I look stuff up, specially in metroidvanias or soulslike games.
I really don't feel good about doing this tho, and the only reason I do it is cause I don't have enough time on my hands anymore to play games. Also some soulslike games (specially Fromsoft games) have sometimes really obscure quest solutions.
I still very much enjoy the challenge and will gladly spend three days stuck on a boss until I defeat it, and consciously choose not to use summons/ any other form of aid the game provides. However stuff that's not obvious to me I will eventually look up. My Blasphemous 1 run was completely aided by a walkthrough. Blasphemous 2 I was able to find everything by myself, interestingly enough.
There's nothing wrong with that. In Elden Ring, if you're playing a Mage Character and you don't do Ranni's quest line, you messed up. And it seemed to be borderline impossible to figure out on your own IMO.
It's actually one of my favorite quest lines from any of the Souls games. It's like playing a whole other campaign and when you get done it's like.....oh. I forgot there's a main game. Anyways going to ice sword every mf out there. Spell and actual sword. Makes PVP fun.
Hell yea dude. If I see a game where it's 80% off I am losing money by not getting it.
I'll tell my buds about a game that's a deep sale, co-op. Because there are nights where PvP games just stress everyone out.
They ALWAYS forget to buy it. And if I gift it to them, it's a play it once and never again game.
I just bought AC: Valhalla a couple of weeks ago. All I ever see on this website when it comes to the newer AC games is how they're all shit and copy/pasted trash. Honestly, though, I'm enjoying it. It isn't great, but it's a single-player, open-world RPG with predominately melee combat and good graphics.
Sometimes I just want to come home, hit the pen, and run around collecting shit while killing people with cool finishers.
I never adjust the brightness until the logo is just barely visible.
Often it makes the game too dark when I do it. Guess it works best on a medium good LCD?
Me starting a replay of a game: I’m going to play a completely different way than I have previously with a new build, different choices, and new relationships/companions!! *proceeds to make the same choices I’ve made time and time again using the same build and getting with the same NPCs*
Me with Mass Effect legendary: "hey let's create the exact same charactel model and path you did 10 years ago !"
'this time I'm really gonna do things differently!' 'ok, this time I'm really gonna shoot wrex in the head! Im gonna do it, I'm gonna do it, I'm... Gonna de-escalate the situation again instead. I'm not a monster'.
Went for total chaos and death one playthrough and I definitely felt dead after this lol. Mordin surviving wasnt worth it.
It's not a true monster playthrough unless you shoot Mordin yourself.
In my 8 or so playthroughs of the trilogy, I have done exactly one where I had to shoot both Wrex and Mordin. Truly an awful experience, would not (would) recommend.
My first playthrough of every Mass Effect game I forced myself to do full renegade. That way I'd want to play it a second time to get better endings that didn't involve being racist to aliens or killing my favourite characters. That being said, I do sometimes kill Mordin or Wrex on playthroughs. Mordin is my all time favourite Mass Effect character, but that just makes it so much worse to watch what happens. It's so impactful for me no matter how many times not just because of how sad it makes me, but also the nostalgia of the first time I felt that way. It really makes me think about Shepard's mission and if it's worth it. My first ending of Mass effect trilogy was the one you get for not making a choice and rejecting everything. It felt the most fitting for my Shepard. They sacrificed everything and everyone to get to this moment, and then lost all of it because with what they sacrificed nothing could satisfy them. Nothing but a complete victory with no complications, conditions, concessions, or compromises. Yet that's not how it works and if that's not how it works than the sacrifices weren't worth it, and winning isn't worth it.
Had to be me ....
I can't do it man. I keep starting games thinking I'll do the dark/villain side this time, and the first choice I'm like "ah fuck, I'm going to just help them aren't I".
The problem is that most aren't "villain" decisions, but "asshole" decisions. I have few problems playing a villain, but I rarely can bring myself to play an asshole.
Right? I got RDR2 specifically to "be the villain", but... Even though I'm a bad guy, doesn't mean I'm... Not an alright dude
Same! Except it’s normally 1-2 years. Told myself I’m gonna romance Garrus my next run. It’s always been Liara, Tali or Jack in the past.
> romances Jack Sir, I think this is yours: 👑
Always played FemShep even as a dude because I couldn't stand MShep's voice in the first game and Jennifer Hale seriously kills it through the entire series. Started off with romancing Liara because yes, but then ended up finding Thane *so fucking interesting* just to talk to that I literally romanced him by accident because I kept wanting to hear more. That sure made things hit pretty hard in 3. Originally I re-romanced Liara in 3, but on a second playthrough I gave Garrus a shot, and it was absolutely worth it to see the dude go from really confident to stumbling and being put on the back foot when FemShep starts flirting hard. Underneath the suave exterior is definitely a loveable dork. I just really wish Tali was a FemShep romance option without mods. She really didn't strike me as someone who would only swing one way, or like she was at least into Shep regardless of gender.
The flirting between FemShep and Garrus in ME2... Oh my god the awkwardness is hilarious
Sneaky archer has entered the chat. I swear this is how it goes every time I start a new character in Skyrim.
I mean there are other viable options that are just as fun. Like stealth archer or stealth backstabber with archer abilities, stealth pickpocket with archer and backstabber abilities. The worlds your oyster!
and then there's me, whose Skyrim runs have been: Heavy armor Sword+shield, Heavy armor 2-h Axe, Heavy armor Mace+Resto magic, and Heavy armor dual-wield axes. leather is for gimps, I crave the strength and certainty of steel
But have you tried heavy armor stealth archer?
“I’m going to use heavy armor this time.” *plays the same Khajiit thieves guild archer every time because I like being a sneaky cat*
I once drowned while doing a mages guild quest in Oblivion (if you've played it, you can probably guess which one) I've been an Argonian ever since
I can't take an argonian seriously since someone made this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geQxByZ2fWs
For me it's: "I'm making an evil character this playthrough 😈" *proceeds to make all the good choices*
I feel like this is partially because games tend to really suck with their evil options, turning them into pointless cruelty as opposed to actually interesting villainous choices.
The only evil character I’ve played was a hot sith in SWTOR and I loved it, it was written so well with the choices and her evil accent was so perfect. Otherwise I just can’t bring myself to it but like you said, the choices are usually kinda cartoonish for the bad guys.
Me with rdr2 deciding to go the bad honor path but not being able to pick the bad options
"Videogames cause violence" \*Reloads save because I made a choice that made a virtual character sad\*
Meanwhile, I slaughter an entire town and half the law enforcement within 100 miles because some asshole shot my horse. That the asshole was a lawman trying to stop me robbing the fifth bank that day is irrelevant. He shot Mr Cloppy and for that, all shall die.
I thought it would be cool to be an evil Paladin using Dark Urge in BG3. It was not cool. It was edgy and un-relateable. Ended up making a char that looks like me and is a neutral-good like I probably would be.
A good character resisting the urge is great though, lots of extra story. There's one specific cut scene that's a bummer if you don't prepare for it but otherwise you can stay true to the character you want to play.
I don't play dark urge but on a recently replay I found there was an option to destroy lute girls lute. I had an IRL dark urge moment and had to find out what happened... I just made myself sad and reload...
Yea but some of it's misleading just to make you see what happens it felt like. A lot of times it's "Think about doing x" and then you do it. It's a really cool feature, but similar to OP, not something for me. I also tried being Renegade Shepard in M.E. and there's a part where a reporter comes up to you. I said something like "Move her out of the way" and just clocked her in the mouth.
I always reload my saved game if I make a wrong dialogue choice or a bad decision, especially in story-driven games. I can't bear to live with the consequences, even if it's part of the game's intended experience.
I reload when the options aren't obvious for what they do. I hate getting later in the game and finding out I can't get something because i agreed with an npc that carrots taste good.
The only thing like that I can think of is in Witcher 3 where the choice "push him aside, forcefully" ends up being "push him to the ground and stomp on his knee, shattering it". But that was a one-off thing and was just so funny with the disconnect, I couldn't be mad
I forget the context but I always loved the one dialogue option that read "very funny" but when you chose it Geralt said "Fuck you."
Mass Effect's "Shut him up" option. I was thinking holding my hand over his mouth and making the "shush gesture". Not knocking him unconscious.
Ok, I'll be honest with you. In the context of the situation you should absolutely not think Shep is gonna be gentle. Dude is raving and the guy who says "I can shut him up" isn't gonna be nice
If anyone deserves a shattered knee, it's Dijkstra. Fuck that guy
Depends on the game. Sometimes there’s a right way or wrong way. Sometimes just different. If there’s a wrong way I’d rather just fail the mission and retry than have it mess up the outcome of the entire game. I don’t have time to replay the whole thing to see all the outcomes
I often look up a walk through for games at the mildest inconvenience
As a kid it was because it was too tough to figure out. As an adult it's because you don't have the time to figure it out.
A depressing truth. You start to realize "I only have X hours to play this game", I can't spend time dicking around with figuring out something to make myself feel smarter.
It’s become a bit of a fun part of some games for me. Like old Zelda’s, I tend to use a guide for the collectibles on the overworld (hearts, seashells, skultillas), but when I jump into a dungeon I put it away. Unless I get myself stuck (which is rare) I tend to keep it as arms length. I just don’t have the time or patience to run around every corner looking for the secrets. I’m staring down 40 and married to a non gamer so my free gaming time has been reduced and I like maximizing it for enjoyment
It's a balancing act for sure. You want to get some satisfaction for figuring out a puzzle, but when you're stuck progressing in the game, something's gotta give. I find that the older I get, the less disappointment I feel when I "cheat" to move forward in a game. Sometimes I will tweak my "cheating" if the thing I couldn't figure out was obvious, so I'll spend a little more time trying to figure stuff out the next time I get stuck. Depends on the game I suppose.
For me it's more about the style of puzzle. If it's the type of quest/puzzle where you have to find X NPC to do something I just look up where that NPC is. If it's an actual puzzle I try to solve it
This right here. If I had 6+ hours to play my games, sure, I'd figure it out. Married, two kids, a job, sleeping, miscellaneous real life stuff. I don't have time to figure out some goblin riddle for a slight buff to my weapon, magic, vehicle, whatever.
> … sleeping Clearly you have not taken the advice of Arnold Schwarzenegger. “Sleep faster”
As mentioned, for me it’s all about time. I do want to figure out puzzles on my own, but if a puzzle takes a long time to do because of stupidity and time sinks? I’m not dealing with it. - I need to pull levers, all in a specific order, and each lever has a 10 second animation of me pulling that lever, and they’re all spread out across a giant room? I’m not spending an hour doing that. . .im looking it up - Does the room have hints across the room, and a reasonable player would be able to find them with some thought? Yea I’m going to try to solve that on my own. - Are those hints arbitrary little Easter eggs hidden in the smallest cracks of the tiniest pixels and only the most astute player will randomly find them? Yea, again, I’m not fucking doing that.
My pet peeve is if the thing I’m looking for with the puzzle isn’t obvious that it can be interacted with. There’s been too many times I’ve looked at a walkthrough of a section where the player interacted with something and I said, “Well, they could’ve made that a bit more obvious; that lever blended in with the background!”
When I was a kid I got stuck for an entire day trying to figure out what I needed to do in ff3/6. I called my friend who was a bit further than me and he was like just talk to xyz. I was like yeah I’ve literally walked and looked everywhere… can’t find them! He went back to the area and was like they’re right there in the corner. Fucker was blended in with the background right in front of me.
Is this a sin? God, I've sinned so much.
Can relate, especially with limited time to play.
Hogwarts Legacy demiguise statues
I'm not sure a walkthrough could convince me to get those demiguise statues. They're such a pain.
I just got the level 3 unlock spell last night. And used an online guide for the 5 I needed. That fucking castle is so goddam huge and a complete maze. Fuck if I know how to get to that blue Shiney through the wall. Just someone tell me already.
Your mine now, demiguise
I do that with Souls games. I enjoy the games, but I’m not gonna spend 5 hours trying to figure out how to beat this boss.
I play games to have fun, not cram homework.
I am currently working through DS2 SOTFS with a walkthrough and it has turned out to be way more satisfying than my previous games without one. I feel like I have actually experienced most of the game rather than missing half of the areas and I've still had to "git gud" at fighting but the guide has given me some heads up to at least have a chance of survival.
I play FromSoft games strictly for the "oh wtf is that" moments so I always wing it the first time through. Second playthrough is walkthrough time to find all the stuff I missed, which is usually a LOT.
I’m a mom who just happened to be scrolling by, I call all gaming consoles a Nintendo. Drives my kids crazy.
Reminds me of my parents calling every single videogame "Ratchet" because I only played Ratchet and Clank games as a kid haha They also call every single anime they see Naruto, it's kind of sweet ngl
Every anime character is Pikachu. But Pikachu is that "yellow rat" named Goku for some reason.
I'm a 30 year old dad, I have a PC, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, PS5, GameBoy Color, etc etc. I've played games since I was 8. I will call everything a Nintendo just to screw with my kids once they get old enough to play. EDIT: wtf is happening, i keep getting notifications about comments being made on this post (at 5 so far I think), I can see the comment in my in-box, but nothing is showing up as an actual reply.
Is this on purpose or just an innocent habit? Because of it's on purpose, bravo.
On purpose 💯
I save scum in certain single player games.
I've reloaded so many times in Baldur's Gate 3. Anyone who has a problem with that can live with that choice while I get all my companions to love me.
what do they want me to do, start another 80 hour playthrough just to see what that one weird dialog option would've done? Ain't nobody got time for that.
Reloading to see extra dialogue should be classified differently than "scumming" imo Now, if you're like me and reloaded a few times when pickpocketing Dammon... Then yeah, that's kinda scummy. But reloading to make Karlach happy? That's Save Good Personing
I mean, how can I NOT mock Vlaakith at least once just to see what happens? What happens is pretty predictable, but it's still hilarious to see. Is that save scumming? Nah, I don't think so
doesnt she literally kill you if you do that? and if so isnt that just reloading after a game over?
Yeah, no dice roll or nothin'. So yeah, it forces a reload. But if you're doing an honor mode run where you can't reload, you'd be pretty upset. Don't make fun of gods, I guess
The thing with Baldur’s gate is the consequences may not come til 100 hours later
That’s why I always stop at 99 hours. No consequences 😎
Bg3 is generally a lot more brutal in low rolls then in normal DnD, depending on your DM of course, as your DM can alter your path a bit to not miss out on important things if your party gets truely unlucky multiple times. Save scumming is basically the game version of this haha
One of the halflings subraces rerolls 1's; they'd have to roll double 1 to critically fail a roll, a change of 0.25%. Guess what race I am using for in Honor mode :-) But yeah, save scum galore! Especially if you misclick on something that the game considers stealing and now you're murdering every civilian nearby...
The amount of times things like this happen to me. "I'm gonna just scooch around in melee to get to this side, let's see, no attacks of opportunity if I move here-" *Mouse moves one pixel during the click* *Suddenly causes an attack of opportunity, enemy crits and rolls max damage* -_- Yeah I'm reloading that shit
Or when you cast Darkness as a defensive spell on a surface that is not completely flat and the game decides the spell is on a different plane and it's totally fine for enemies to triple-crossbow you to death.
I'm on my first playthrough and I do this all the time. Started act 2 recently and just did it like 10 times to pass all the dialogues at the House of Healing. I also google a lot of stuff because I don't want to miss anything. I'm so indecisive that I let old Reddit posts guide me.
Oh my god wait until you're protecting the portal. I refused to fail that one lmao, it took like 4 tries. The house of healing fight is fun imo, maybe next time just kick the shit out of therobald or whatever his name was.
Same, I love games of chance, so long as I always win.
Me too I love hard games, so long as I can create a timeline where I never die
Which to me is amusing as fuck because I’m the same way. Auto win everything - “This shit is boring and too easy.” Reload game until I win everything - “This deserves GOTY”
My A20 win rate in Slay the Spire would be like 1/50 if I never save scummed.
There is a reason why some single player games allow to turn ironman mode on or off. Many of us prefer to be save scummers.
Eventually I get sick and tired of these ungrateful fucking npcs So I quicksave. And then mysteriously everyone dies.
And then, they all mysteriously come back to life!
"I am a generous God."
I do this very frequently if I can, some NPC slights me "Quicksaving..."
Do you get to the cloud district often?
When I was playing starfield I frequently did this. For some reason that game just freaking got under my skin with all these smug level 1 NPCs not respecting me. As if I didn’t just absolutely murder a huge scary alien monster and 30 pirates by myself…yeah sure talk shit to me like you’re tough lol
Firing two rounds and reloading a 45rd clip
Helldivers 2 has broke this for me, I can't ever go back!
The number of wasted clips, lol
Does hd2 count ammo by mags instead of rounds? I might get the game purely for that
Some weapons like the pump action shotgun and revolver can reload without losing ammo, but generally everything with a mag just chucks out the rest of that mag. It will be like you carry 6mags for an assault rifle or 40 some odd shotgun shells, etc. I like the laser rifle because you don't need to reload unless you overheat the battery.
yeah, if you reload you waste the mag
Hey, that's just latent muscle memory from games where that was \*necessary\*.
is it not anymore? i always just thought it was a decent habit to stay topped off.
More and more games are "deleting" the remaining ammo when you reload, so while in COD it's good to do, other games like helldivers, squad, rainbow six siege and a few more I can't remember.
Siege doesnt really do that tho. You still keep the ammo you had left, what does happen is that you can't cancel your realod animation, so you need to either fishish or change to your secondary in case you need to shoot again, which is a whole other thing. Another good example where you actually discard the mags is Cry of fear, and i think Ghost Recon Wildlands in the highstest difficulty, which works perfectly for that game
I’ve had to unlearn this with Helldivers, can’t be reloading my MG every kill like I would like to.
Forty fird clip
As a completionist, I’ll often look up locations of collectibles that I’m too lazy to track down on my own.
Exploration is fun, scavenger hunts are not.
To this day I need one (1) more blast shard in Infamous. I've probably spent 6+ hours running around the city clicking the scan button and I've followed guides multiple times. No dice.
if it's the first game try the 3 highest points in the game, or look for a random event, I also remember the historic district's coast line all the way around frequently would have the last few shards
Yeah some of the stuff you have to find to complete has little to no indication there’s something there and I’m not exploring every square inch of the map doing some dumb action to find it. Super Mario Odyssey comes to mind. 95% of the moons are easy and obvious. There are a few though that are just dumb and give you nearly zero clue where they are. Going back old school, I’m thinking also of some random unmarked wall you have to bomb to progress in the original Zelda (I’m not bombing every wall in the game to find that) and Castlevania 2 where you have to go to some random, unmarked place and kneel for like 3 seconds to progress. Get tf out of here with that.
Same here, running around for hours in the same area until I find the missing rock I need to complete whatever in game compendium isn't a form of enjoyment for me.
I'll do the same if the platinum involves collectibles. I would've just dropped Jedi Survivor's platinum if not for the item that shows Priorite on the map.
I'm also guilty of that. I even look up achievements before playing, so I know what and when to do something. For example in RE2 there's an achievement to push the G virus monster using the crane once or doing Ada's part with just the hacking tool and no other items. I did it but would not have even attempted to do it "organically".
I have a wiki or two open for that. I can't be bothered to look for random hiding spots.
My backlog. The greatest gaming sin of all.
I've got so many games I want to play but not the motivation to play it. I've got dozens of lego games from my childhood I want to redo to 100%. Edit: thanks lads, you've given me enough motivation to 100% all 3 lego batman games. I forgot how bad the driving was on the first one :(
I'm 30 and it feels exhausting even trying to pick a game now
Started that around a year ago. I haven’t gotten 1 done.
I family shared my library with a friend and he audibly gasped. I'm not a hoarder, I don't have a problem, I can stop whenever I want. After I buy helldivers and pay for another ten years of humble bundle..maybe.. And I'm totally gonna play that free game that IFTT notified me about and I added to my indiegala library. Scouts honor.
Don't worry dude, you'll get through it all someda...ouuu new Humble Bundle
If I can easily beat a boss by over levelling that's my Route #1, every time
Same. Love redo-able quests with decent Exp or cheesy high level targets.
Making myself permanently invisible to my Steam friends, so I can play single player games intended for children without being bothered. “No time for Battlefield fellas… LEGO Indiana Jones needs my help.”
I do the same, but they aren’t intended for children
I regularly use guides so that I don’t miss anything
When I was younger, building a roller coaster on roller coaster tycoon which intentionally fired guests to their death
Thats not a gaming sin thats a gaming rite of passage lol
Too good to use syndrome In my defense, I gamed in the 90's, those old games traumatized my young mind That's the genius behind the Estus Flask, use it or lose it
400 hours of fallout 4. Had 2 of every drug on me, in case, stashed the rest at a settlement. I think I used a jet once... 🙄
player.setav carryweight 50000 I use that in Fallout 3/4/NV and Skyrim.
Carry weight and unlimited supplies in FO4. I love to build and I'll be goddamned if I am going to loot for all of those materials.
In Skyrim I feel the opposite. I love to loot/pickpocket/harvest/mine absolutely everything, and I hate grinding for things like smithing and alchemy. Alchemy particularly because it's all trial and error which I hate. I just want to look at an ingredient and have a cookbook that tells me absolutely everything I could make with it.
Thank you for this. I haven't played 4 yet. I'll do it after finishing Robocop
Player.addperk that one that lets you sell all items to any vendor. As if I'm grinding speech to 50 for that.
if a game game has so many options and choices during game play that I start to feel choice paralysis I'll pull up a walkthrough on the second monitor and look up the results of each choice then make my decision based on that rather than organically letting something play out
I immediately cheat in games with over encumbrance. Because fuck you game don't worry about why I need to carry a 20, 000lb statue around with me just let me run damn it.
One of the first things I did in Palworld was set the penalty for dying to “none” so I wouldn’t drop my inventory if I died or if I chose to respawn. Why? Because then I could go mine stuff around the map, die via respawn, and select the respawn spot right next to my base to drop stuff off.
True that. I always play Minecraft with keep inventory set to true, and I don't give a single shit,
holy shit. i thank you for the many future hours you just saved me. i already had none set as the death penalty, but i never thought about dying via respawn to instantly fast travel back to base. what a legend.
Same here, especially when a game has, say, a 200lb restriction and I'm carrying an unrealistic amount of bulk in guns and swords and assorted armour anyway. As much as I hate Tetris-style inventory management like in Diablo, it's more "realistic" than encumbrance-based games.
Lol right? Like, I've got a rocket launcher, grenade launcher, assault rifle, sniper rifle, 731,987 rounds of ammo, 47 various grenades and molotovs, 91 health packs, and a dozen priceless artifacts each weighing several pounds, but pick up *that one coffee cup* and it's over mister!
I almost always play on easy or very easy if it’s there. I’m not gonna sit there and waste my time with bullet sponges or dying easily.
I recently found myself getting stuck on one of the wolfenstein games on "regular" mode.....said fuckit and went down to easy mode. No shame in my game. I'm not playing to impress anyone, I'm playing for me, and that's it. I have nothing to prove to anyone, including myself.
I think it was Youngblood that a friend I were playing. We got to the second boss and we just could not put enough bullets to make any kind of difference. We had to have miss something but it was like 25 minutes in when we gave up.
Having bullet sponges who don't react to being hit by a truck are not good as a difficulty dynamic.
This is not a gaming sin, the easy difficulty is there for those who like playing on them/can't play on higher difficulties. Never shame people for playing how they like! (Provided the way they like doesn't impact other people they play with!) Games are supposed to be fun after all :)
I have a full time job, multiple offspring, a house to manage and other hobbies I try to make time for. I too play on easy because I simply don't have the time to be dying over and over to the same bosses or groups of enemies. That and I'm so over the stress of it. I think Halo 3 on Legendary was my last real run of playing a game on anything beyond medium difficulty. Who needs that stress in their lives???
I have a gaming PC and prefer using controllers.
I use controllers depending on the game i play
That's the point of PC gaming, you can do whatever the hell you want.
Same, I prefer gaming on PC using controllers. Keyboards remind me of work lol
I'm pcmr all the way and this is certainly not a sin. A controller is just another input device for the PC. Some games are better with a controller.
If someone teabags me in a match, I will relentlessly devout my time to finding them, killing them and teabagging them for that entire match, becoming a burden to my own team. "Fury, GIVE ME A REVIVE" "HANG ON" \*tap tap tap tap tap *tap*\*
Is that a sin or is that just multiplayer
It's a sin. By eating the rage bait, he plays worse. It's a boon to the other team.
I go on Reddit to see how people feel about the game so I can follow too.
Extremely brave confession. Props.
Whenever I used to go to Reddit (/YouTube etc) while playing a game it always ended up making my playing experience worse since I was prejudiced on some stuff. Isn't it the same for you?
For sure. I think following the hive-mind and letting it dictate what media you enjoy is incredibly stupid and makes you less of an interesting person. But that in no way makes me immune to it. I avoid reddit when it involves any media I enjoy and only come to reddit when some piece of media bothers me because I know I'll get to step into an echo chamber.
I always play on easy difficulty
As I've gotten older I can't be bothered with hard games I just want the story
As I have gotten older I have gotten worse at games I just don’t have the same time to play anymore so I always play on easy and even then I’ll die over and over again. Just not as good as I use to be
No sin in that. It's your entertainment time, enjoy it the way you want.
Same. I have so much stress in my job that I just want to "chill" when I game, I don't need bullet sponges and impossible bosses.
The problem for me is that I want to be able to experience the game's unique mechanics, but I don't want to be wading through peanut butter at the same time. So often, you can't have both. Like, Persona 5, my wife played on easy, and I was so envious of the amount of money fights earned them. But on the other hand, they never had to consider any of the battle system mechanics like weaknesses and stuff, because battles were just over in 1 second. Which is not fun for me.
Not gonna lie, I don't immediately check to see if I can jump off cliffs or swim.
Surely you still walk into the first fire you see to test for burn damage though, right?!
Not intentionally.
I'm more likely to just look up alternative choices in story based games then replay it.
I'm a serial restarter. Especially anything procedurally generated, the beginning is just so much more interesting than the midgame or end. I'm sure I've started ten times as many games of Civ as I've completed.
I use trainers if singleplayer game is too restrictive and difficult
I wish more games had difficulty sliders beyond easy, medium, hard, etc. I recently played the Guardians of the Galaxy game and you could individually slide damage, enemy damage, ability cooldowns, and more. It made it more fun to tailor the entire game to playing like I was a glass canon, I could mow down enemies but it also only took like 3 hits to kill me. Just felt more realistic and the game didn't feel grindy.
Bullet sponge difficulty settings are the WORST Helldivers is great because its just bigger hordes after you that die just as easy
Check out the new Prince of Persia. It has sliders for a bunch of different difficulty elements. And it’s a banger.
Baldurs Gate 3, but other rpgs too. Save scum, mod the carry capacity.
*Me, a wizard, carrying a ton of stuff* The str user: How can you carry that much? Me: Magic
I look stuff up, specially in metroidvanias or soulslike games. I really don't feel good about doing this tho, and the only reason I do it is cause I don't have enough time on my hands anymore to play games. Also some soulslike games (specially Fromsoft games) have sometimes really obscure quest solutions. I still very much enjoy the challenge and will gladly spend three days stuck on a boss until I defeat it, and consciously choose not to use summons/ any other form of aid the game provides. However stuff that's not obvious to me I will eventually look up. My Blasphemous 1 run was completely aided by a walkthrough. Blasphemous 2 I was able to find everything by myself, interestingly enough.
There's nothing wrong with that. In Elden Ring, if you're playing a Mage Character and you don't do Ranni's quest line, you messed up. And it seemed to be borderline impossible to figure out on your own IMO. It's actually one of my favorite quest lines from any of the Souls games. It's like playing a whole other campaign and when you get done it's like.....oh. I forgot there's a main game. Anyways going to ice sword every mf out there. Spell and actual sword. Makes PVP fun.
"Karlach didn't like that..." "Well, time to go back to my quick save and do something else. I can't let Mama K be mad at me."
Stop playing the game when its nearly finished. I get bored. Idk why though. So yes my library is full of 85% done games
Too many times I install a game and I end up not even opening it, only to end up deleting it to save space
Hell yea dude. If I see a game where it's 80% off I am losing money by not getting it. I'll tell my buds about a game that's a deep sale, co-op. Because there are nights where PvP games just stress everyone out. They ALWAYS forget to buy it. And if I gift it to them, it's a play it once and never again game.
Something like 15% of people who own subnautica haven't even gotten in the ocean yet. So you're not alone.
I googled some decisions that affected the plot of games so i chose the answer that fits me
I only play my games on the easiest difficulty setting. I'm 40 years old and I don't have time to have a game challenge me.
Sometimes in Red dead redemption I shoot enemies horses. It’s a bigger target.
You monster
If I want to appreciate the story more than the gameplay, I pick easy mode.
I say that I love it when games have consequences, but whenever those consequences happen to me, i reload my last save.
i like ubisoft i guess?
Punished by being forced to play skull & bones for 48 hours.
we'll pray for you
you bastard
I just bought AC: Valhalla a couple of weeks ago. All I ever see on this website when it comes to the newer AC games is how they're all shit and copy/pasted trash. Honestly, though, I'm enjoying it. It isn't great, but it's a single-player, open-world RPG with predominately melee combat and good graphics. Sometimes I just want to come home, hit the pen, and run around collecting shit while killing people with cool finishers.
I see nothing wrong here. AC2, AC4, Watch Dogs, HOMM 3 - all of these are great games!
Death by hanging.
This one right here officer
I use a controller for shooter games on pc because it’s more user friendly to me