Ever realize that when you were a kid, you could load up a game and spend hours exploring, noticing random tiny things about the environment, and making your own fun in the margins of the game... and that you can't do that anymore?I used to love exploring the city in Jak 2, and I replayed the twilight town segment of Kingdom Hearts 3 repeatedly. But as an adult, it's just "follow the quest/mission chain until you 100% the game and move on."
>>683712583KH2*, obviously. Twilight Town in KH3 is a travesty.
>>683712583Maybe it's because we got used to "following the rules" of the game. Not saying that's a bad thing, obviously in order to beat the game you have to follow a sequence. Maybe also because games themselves aren't novel to us anymore, I don't know. Something I still do is appreciating the environment of games, atmosphere and whatnot, like when someone admires a painting or similar
>>683712583I guess it's just that sense of childlike wonder that we've lost. You've played enough games to know that there's nothing behind that painted on door texture.
>>683712583I think when you have a more developed concept of time as an adult you don’t feel you can just stop and smell the roses. As a kid, I used to spend hours not progressing in Crash Twinsanity, literally just exploring the island trying to find all the gems and trying impossible things like scaling the waterfall peak that cannot be scaled.
>>683712583Don't metagaym and you still have that. People are waaaay to quick to google ''how to get x item'' or follow shitty YTguides. I play everything blind and I still like to explore pointless shit if the game is good enough. Even trying to glitch the game in some way is still fun, try to get out of bounds etc. If I'd upload gameplay people who probably call me a shitter even though I tend to aim for the highest difficulty just because I don't play the meta or go sanic fast. I'll only read a guide or a wiki after I feel like I'm done to see what I possibly missed. It just feels good finding shit on your own, secrets or 100% complete something in a game without external help. Stuff like finding the animals in MGSV, learning where to get stuff in Zelda, figuring out builds in the OG Guild Wars that other people picked-up on and ending up on the metasite, ...I have lost my virginity but I haven't lost that type of innocence yet, I guess.
>>683712583>>683714697>>683714057>>683715182>>683716761you found out about invisible walls. this didn't need a thread.
>>683716962Your reading comprehension is on par with someone with cerebral palsy
