lime

some of the highest-rated games of all time have no trial and error. Disco Elysium springs to mind because i'm currently playing through it.

with king's quest progression i meant that the game is designed around players getting stuck, possibly without them knowing.

RPGs center around the story and the role you play, and the mechanics are built to aid that. you play for the story. in most RPGs, failure still progresses the story because failure is interesting. getting stuck is not interesting. having the mechanics without a story to reinforce would just be going through the motions.

someone else said that the fromsoft games are made to feel like videogames, and that resonated with me. that explained the disconnect i see in the mechanics and the world.

ah, so it's king's quest style progression. i played enough of that in the 90s.

that's... the most concise way to explain it i've ever seen, and something that has never clicked for me until now. it's always looked to me like this lore-heavy dark RPG and i've never been able to square the gameplay with the feeling. hearing that it was never supposed to gel at all and it's all just background noise makes a lot of sense, and made all the remaining curiosity i had for the series disappear.

now if only other games could stop getting infected by the fromsoft bug...

but that's not interesting to me. i want immersion. that's also why their multiplayer aspect seems like such a weird idea.

sure but you won't know that as a new player unless you go outside the actual game for info.

dark souls would still benefit from difficulty settings

oh i read your post as if the show was an example of woke without substance.

people have been very uppity about the new dragon age even though i hear that's good.

i have only ever heard good things about that show. it apparently brought in a lot of new players (who then promptly left because they realized what the game and community were like).

that's why there's no gc->Wii arrow, despite the Wii containing an entire gamecube!

i was more highlighting "this is new hardware doing the same thing but better". gb-gbc is the same CPU, just faster. gba-gbasp is the exact same hardware.

new 3ds also sort of fits that description but it's a completely different system internally, just moulded into a DS form factor.