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How are you all playing these insanely complex games? (feddit.nl)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Overwatch makes new players do tutorials on each of the heroes now as well as describing all the abilities at any time in the selection screen. I think if you were to explore it again and play for a while you would learn it all really quickly. The characters aren't really that complex once you learn what is going on haha. Definitely at first it's just chaos and dunno why you're dying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I just went and checked it out and it's free-to-play and the reviews are "overwhelmingly negative", both of which typically keep me far far away haha

Also all of the "most helpful" reviews are just memes and not even reviews at all. WTF is that about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lmao gotcha. I mostly played when it first came out. I imagine the reason it was overwhelmingly negative was the review bombing of the "overwatch 2" which is the exact same as overwatch one except they forced everyone to switch to this one where the only difference is the addition of a store. everything that used to be free cosmetic wise is now payable content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

everything that used to be free cosmetic wise is now payable content.

And they badger you every 5 minutes about buying it. Pretty much what I figured.