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Most Confused You've Felt Playing a Game
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Not sure confused is exactly right, but DCS flight sim does not hold your hand.
One of my friends gifted me something called X-3 Reunion on steam a few years back and I still have absolutely no clue what it even is actually.
But I think the real answer is the first time my dad and I ever tried to play Madden, on a rented Playstation. It seemed to be playing itself, which seemed really underwhelming. It actually took a customer support call for us to figure that you had to move the little controller icon over to the team you wanted to control.
One of my friends gifted me something called X-3 Reunion on steam a few years back and I still have absolutely no clue what it even is actually.
But I think the real answer is the first time my dad and I ever tried to play Madden, on a rented Playstation. It seemed to be playing itself, which seemed really underwhelming. It actually took a customer support call for us to figure that you had to move the little controller icon over to the team you wanted to control.
The Witness made me feel like a complete idiot from the start. Even with a guide And answers right in front of my face I was still confused as to why they were the answers.
I was in the beta(alpha?)for Fortnite before it became a Battle Royale. There were so many sub menus with npcs you could recruit for your base and others that did...other tasks and so many weird skills and stuff I was just astoundingly confused. The game as it is now is so dumbed down as to be unrecognizable.
Hey I played that build too!
I'm not sure its dumbed down so much as its an entirely different game that does not resemble whatever it was they were trying to do at that point in its evolution.
Knights in the Nightmare. I got it it cause I liked the dev but I had no clue what I was doing and that was just the tutorial.
I'm just starting to play Destiny 2 and it is almost impenetrable. I'm getting all this inventory loot that has vague names with zero explanation of what to do with it.
If I was playing since day 1 and witnessed each new thing get introduced it would have been a different story. But coming in now it is too overwhelming.
If I was playing since day 1 and witnessed each new thing get introduced it would have been a different story. But coming in now it is too overwhelming.
Definitely Kingdom Hearts 3. Admittedly I didn't play all the games since I was just burnt out on all the non-numbered entries, but even after watching a thirty minute recap video I still don't know what's going on; if anything it left me more confused.
People I vanquished in past games are back and now there's a time traveler too apparently? Any time they start talking about non-Disney stuff I'm just fucking confused.
People I vanquished in past games are back and now there's a time traveler too apparently? Any time they start talking about non-Disney stuff I'm just fucking confused.
shadow of the colossus - was given to me as a christmas gift
literally had NO idea what I was supposed to do
took me a while to find a boss and then I didn't know i was supposed to do anything besides shoot arrows at it for 1/100th damage
dropped it so fast
literally had NO idea what I was supposed to do
took me a while to find a boss and then I didn't know i was supposed to do anything besides shoot arrows at it for 1/100th damage
dropped it so fast
Hmm... The Silver Case and its sequel The 25th Ward, I suppose. Went through both games not understanding what the hell was going on in the story most of the time.
Honorable mention goes to Resonance of Fate. I tried. I really did. I just could not get the hang of the battle system.
Honorable mention goes to Resonance of Fate. I tried. I really did. I just could not get the hang of the battle system.
Dwarf Fortress. There's a reason people have put together 10 hour tutorial series for it on youtube.
Monster Hunter World. So many systems to learn. But it was so worth it. Still going strong at 550 hours.
This. I can only assume it gets clearer if you already know all the historical characters in the game (Hattori Hanzo, Oda Nobunaga, etc.) and what they're doing. It doesn't help that pretty much all the missions are "clean this place of yokais" so it feels like what you're doing has nothing to do with the main story.
I played both of those on the Sega Master System back in the day (still have my copy of Ghostbusters). The Simpsons game is hard as balls and confusing. I don't think I ever got further than the level three boss, as already at level two the game turned the difficulty to 11.
The Ghostbusters game is MUCH better and easier on the MS. The NES version is a complete shitshow in comparison. The MS version is by no means an amazing game, but it's probably the best port of it.
Came to post this. Even at the end of KH1 I was confused about WTF was going on.
My experience too. Never liked that game.
Because you really don't have anything to do with it. All the important actions are taken by other characters or off screen. It's telling the big climatic fight is a ressurection of someone that was dead before the story began. It's just a historical fan fiction tour. It is less interested in telling a story and more about treating these people like action figures.
Wasn't the brightest 12-year-old kid, but I got to disc 4 of Final Fantasy VIII still not understanding how junctioning worked and how profoundly it impacted stats. I played through the intro just to re-do the tutorial like 5 times, then I gave up, and for the rest of the game I literally just completely randomly junctioned stuff on my characters at the time.
I knew how draw and casting worked, but I had no idea what the point of junctioning was.
I feel silly about it far in retrospect, but my idiot 12-year-old brain could not come to grips with it at all in 1999.
I knew how draw and casting worked, but I had no idea what the point of junctioning was.
I feel silly about it far in retrospect, but my idiot 12-year-old brain could not come to grips with it at all in 1999.
The most recent I can think of was Star Ocean IV. I dropped it due to that little girl character, but it wasn't going well for me anyway.
The combat just never clicked, I had no idea what I was doing or trying to do. I was doing it well somehow too! I got off the first planet with ease, even though I didn't know wtf was happening.
A lot of RPGs can do that to me, they always have their own unique combat per game (even per entry of series), never sharing anything, and use their own in-game terms for every type of mechanic. I know I sound like "old man yells at Cloud" here but I don't have time for this...
Such terrible childhood memories, what a confusing game. I barely got anywhere and had no idea what I was supposed to be doing.
The combat just never clicked, I had no idea what I was doing or trying to do. I was doing it well somehow too! I got off the first planet with ease, even though I didn't know wtf was happening.
A lot of RPGs can do that to me, they always have their own unique combat per game (even per entry of series), never sharing anything, and use their own in-game terms for every type of mechanic. I know I sound like "old man yells at Cloud" here but I don't have time for this...
Oh god.Bart vs the Space Mutants...i was 8 and didn´t know what i am supposed to do in this game. i played it 10 years later and still didn´t know, i had to look it up in a guide...
Such terrible childhood memories, what a confusing game. I barely got anywhere and had no idea what I was supposed to be doing.
Final Fantasy XV. To this day I still dont know why it wouldn't let me heal in dungeons. I despise pretty much everything about that game.
I got the original, bought it on a Steam sale. Have no idea how the hell it works. Guess I'm just some shooty shooty bang bang kind of player. :/
I had the same initial reaction. After the opening scene TLOU doesn't get "good" again until Tess dies.
Shogi in Yakuza 0
The markers look to same-y and even with the 1-2 markers only challenge I can't win, used a guide for THAT
I knew beforehand that Brütal Legend was a RTS, but I was still unprepard for what that mean for the gameplay
The markers look to same-y and even with the 1-2 markers only challenge I can't win, used a guide for THAT
I knew beforehand that Brütal Legend was a RTS, but I was still unprepard for what that mean for the gameplay
Oh wow I had this as a kid and had completely forgot... now I recall I didn't get it at all either, never got past the first level. I pretty much X-rayed the characters to see which were aliens and that's all I did.Bart vs the Space Mutants...i was 8 and didn´t know what i am supposed to do in this game. i played it 10 years later and still didn´t know, i had to look it up in a guide...
Same here. I love the game but even till the end I didnt understand all its gameplay mechanics.
Golgo 13, i had the game on the NES for some reason, never knew what i was supossed to do, i remember being an sniper or something line that
I'll throw in another vote for Hollow Knight. I made the mistake of dropping the game and trying to go back. I have no clue where I'm at and where I need to go. It's like do I scrap this save and start over or do I just drop the game entirely? I want to like the game. It's a charming game but I can't tell if it's worth starting over. I guess I could stumble around until I find where I need to go.
I'm usually one to roll with the punches when it comes to Kingdom Hearts 3, but established important characters referencing a new, off-screen friend who had never even been hinted towards as being a major inciting factor of their backstory... That was real dumb and almost ruined the best part of the game. It then does it a few times more for good measure. It's made worse by the game ostensibly being the finale - the first two games had endings that were more conclusive. That's silly.
Also these things in Pokémon were torture as a kid:
Also these things in Pokémon were torture as a kid:
You're a sniper out to defeat Cyborg Hitler who has resurrected the Nazi empire or something like that. Seriously.
Spider-Man PS4.
Those controls (mostly the fighting controls) are impossible to remember.
I've picked the game up again twice but I'm missing out on various techniques that would make my gaming life simpler.
Those controls (mostly the fighting controls) are impossible to remember.
I've picked the game up again twice but I'm missing out on various techniques that would make my gaming life simpler.
It was FF15 for me too. I just didn't understand what was happening during battles, it made it not fun so I shelved it.