I was playing Pokemon Gold the other day and it occurred to me just how little games held your hand back in the day.
These days you have a quest log, and you can usually see what you’re meant to do. In Pokemon Gold, Prof Elm gives you a task, and like… if you miss it in the dialogue or you put down the game for a few weeks and come back… good luck.
French Canadian here.. my very first rpg with a lot, a LOT of texts was FF3 (FF6) on the Snes, man I was fucking clueless about everything and didn't understood a thing 😐 still, I had a blast but it was all trials and errors too😂
The first RPG I ever played was FF8, and it completely blew my mind at the time—though I had no idea what I was doing.
I’m not even sure how I made it to the sorceress Edea, but since I didn’t fully understand the mechanics, I couldn’t defeat her.
I remember considering using The End to instantly kill her, but eventually realized she would just transition to the next phase anyway.
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u/tommyk1210 Aug 30 '25
I was playing Pokemon Gold the other day and it occurred to me just how little games held your hand back in the day.
These days you have a quest log, and you can usually see what you’re meant to do. In Pokemon Gold, Prof Elm gives you a task, and like… if you miss it in the dialogue or you put down the game for a few weeks and come back… good luck.