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[–] [email protected] 216 points 2 weeks ago (24 children)

This is the exact same instinct that drives us to run away from the obvious path first. "Clearly that's where the final boss is. Let me just check what's down this way first..."

"...oh no wait, there's a point-of-no-return ledge here. Ok, so maybe that other way was actually where the secret was. I'll go back..."

"...hmm, there's another ledge on this side too. Let me just put in a save point and...ok, yeah, this one is the final boss. Let me reload and check the other path..."

"...ugh, it restarted me way back here? And respawned all the enemies when I reloaded? That's frustrating..."

"...THEY BOTH. LED. TO THE SAME. EXACT. PLACE."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Modern games have gotten super "hand-holdy" to the point where it's fucking annoying... but one QOL improvement that I will take every time is when games prevent you from moving forward in a story because you missed something and moving forward means you'll miss it forever.

I get it, and when I was younger I was all about that shit... But I'm too old for that shit lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

"But what if the developers don't think it's important but I'm going to wish I had it? I'll go ahead and check anyway."

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