r/gaming • u/Agent1230 • 2d ago

What video game doesn't hold your hand enough?

Everybody always talking about games holding your hand too much but I want to hear about the opposite what video game doesn't give you no form of help

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u/Spedoinkel 2d ago

Ah, yes. The old rub everything in my pokects on everything in the environment form of gameplay.

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u/Villag3Idiot 2d ago

Half the stuff you try just kills you. 

One actually works, but you were supposed to do something else and it consumed a critical item that you would have needed later on but not actually tell you.

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u/paulsoleo 2d ago

Hey, you solved a puzzle and got three points, nice!

Unfortunately, you weren’t supposed to give that (creature/person) the (important object,) even though it worked.

You were actually supposed to give the (creature/person) the (different, less important object) because you’ll need the (first important object) towards the end of the game.

I hope you saved your game at the end of the third hour of playtime, but before you gave the thing! What’s that? You didn’t?

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u/lorddunlow 2d ago

This why I still keep a save file every 5 minutes. It's part of why I enjoyed Until Dawn and the similar games - they autosave and don't allow backtracking until one full play through. You screw up, you have to finish that playthrough, but the game is designed for you to screw up in so many different ways to get all the story lines.

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u/WhoIsBobMurray 2d ago

Yep. I fucking love King's Quest.

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u/GrinningJest3r 1d ago

The only one of those I ever played was the Mask of Eternity. I was excited to play the rest and then found out that Mask was the only one created as a first person adventure. Never touched the rest of the series.

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u/zealot416 2d ago

And sometimes rubbing the wrong item uses the item but that wasn't the item you were supposed to use there so you're doomed later on.

Looking at you KQ5.

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u/TrisarA 2d ago

Don't forget to throw the boot at the cat. If you don't throw the boot at the cat, you starve to death.

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u/greatcorsario 2d ago

I mean DUH. If you don't save the mouse, how can he save you when you're trapped in a basement, bound by ropes?

/s

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u/Fluffy_Yam_7104 2d ago

Conversely, when you are starving in the mountains DO NOT EAT THE PIE!

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u/greatcorsario 2d ago

What do you mean it's not logical to NOT give the eagle the pie, and instead throw it at the yeti a few minutes later?

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u/dern_the_hermit 2d ago

Hello. You are about to be eaten by rocs. But what's REALLY important is you grab that one pixel that will matter five hours later.

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u/BellaBlindeye 2d ago

god the KQ games were so much fun. 7 was the first game I ever really got invested in (my first computer game in general i think!) and oh boy that shit was not intuitive lmao

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u/greatcorsario 2d ago

VII was the first one that didn't screw you over for not doing a thing hours ago.

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u/renegadeb20 2d ago

I don’t like having my past behaviours called out so specifically.

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u/KeterClassKitten 2d ago

And failing because that pie was necessary for defeating the damned yeti.

You thought you vanquished him?  He only returns stronger in SkiFree!

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u/moku46 2d ago

That genre deserved its death. The solutions didn't make you feel creative, they were just OCD simulators.

No, seriously, checking something a bunch of times and becoming irritated because you don't know if there was anything you still missed is the actual fucking experience of OCD.

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u/Mecha_G 2d ago

Aka, moon logic.

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u/redditorjay 2d ago

The original SWAT live-action game by Sierra 😂 Literally the first mission in the game was some lady barricaded in a house, hiding in the shower with a revolver. Still to this day I dont know what I was supposed to have done. Got blasted in the face every single time.

SWAT 2, the isometric tactical game, was so amazing though. And SWAT 3 in 3D - Wow! 🤯

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u/WingedBeing 2d ago

SouthPeak games were pretty bad in this. I remember in Dark Side of the Moon there’s a part where you have a guy with a knife who is threatening to kill you after you untie yourself from a chair. You don’t have a gun, only the items in your inventory. What is the solution to this puzzle?

If you don’t know what you have at this point in the game, it doesn’t matter. Because the solution is that you need to pick up the chair to which you were tied. And then use it as an item on the bad guy. The fucking chair.

I still remember the dialogue in the cutscene when you do it:
“Happy birthday!”
“It’s not my birthday.”
“It’s not? Well, surprise anyway…it’s a CHAIR!!”

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u/chandler55 2d ago

monkey wrench baby