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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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[–] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For destiny, I have no idea. I first played D2 when it launched and that was fine, but I attempted to pick it up again a year or two later and I was immediately lost.

For overwatch I agai haven't played in quite some time. But for multiplayer shooters like that I try to go into a casual mode or training mode first and just get a feel for everything. Eventually you get the hang of things.

For RPG's it depends. Some games can benefit from reading up online. For example I'm playing bloodborne right now and I had no idea how I wanted to spec out my character. So I looked up what weapons and abilities are in the game and made my decision based around that. If a game features a respec option, I'll be more likely to just go in and wing it and change things up when I need to.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

casual mode or training mode first and just get a feel for everything

These usually don't have any explanation of the game mechanics though. Like you'd have to sit down and analyze all the character traits on some web forum in order to not get immediately slaughtered by other more experienced players, since it's multiplayer only.

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[–] Helix@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

I jump in, wing it and if I don't know how stuff works I quickly search it in the game's wiki or guide. Time spent figuring out how stuff works by trial and error is time I could play the game instead.

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[–] typoid@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

If you're really struggling to click with a game, I've found watching a "let's play" on YouTube helps me out.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I, too, miss the easy pick up and play games of the past.

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