I've restored my navigation skills by playing through the Dark Souls trilogy. No map, no objective markers, just you and the slightly janky third person camera.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 6 points 2 weeks ago

As someone with nearly 500 hours into Elden Ring, this tracks lol.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

This worked for me too but I still have trouble navigating landmarks that aren't flaming wolfmen nailed to a cross, or colossal castles by the sea guarded by a dragon skeleton

[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Damn, you just clicked for me why I have a pretty good sense of direction. I've occasionally impressed myself and others for years, with "do you not know how we got here?" or "well we came from that direction" in spite of a generally terrible memory and a passionate dislike of geography and learning street names, etc.

But you're absolutely right, it's video games: puzzle dungeons, huge open worlds, metroidvanias, I even prefer playing with the UI and maps off whenever possible, and somehow I've never made this connection before. Incredible.