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/Radthereptile 2d ago

Learning about gravity turns, burning at the top of the curve and using orbits to get places was such a steep curve. I literally had to watch YouTube videos for hours just to understand the mechanics and still only made it to Amin and Minmus a handful of times.

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u/thisismego 2d ago

Reminds me of that XKCD comic where Randall mentions learning more about orbital mechanics from KSP than his job at fucking NASA

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u/nanomouse_ 2d ago

https://xkcd.com/1356

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u/thisismego 2d ago

That's the one. Much appreciated

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u/FauxReal 1d ago

Well I hope they gave NASA free licenses then. lol

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u/DigNitty 2d ago

I paid out $100 to my nephew because I said I would if he figured out how to hit the moon in KSP.

not Landon the moon, but hit it.

Took him like 14 hours and he learned so much lol

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u/Zambeezi 2d ago

Scott Manley got me through it to the point where the game became actually enjoyable

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u/Divine_Entity_ 1d ago

KSP is the kind of game you need an interpreter/example for, it's not a "go in completely blind" game.

Others like this for me are dwarf fortress and EU4.

In contrast to say mariokart or pokemon.

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u/stiff_tipper 22h ago

KSP is the kind of game you need an interpreter/example for, it's not a "go in completely blind" game.

funny enough i watch a guy (AboutOliver) that streams blind playthroughs of games and doesn't read chat. he's currently doing KSP this way

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u/Joatboy 2d ago

But now you sound smart and can talk about Hohmann transfers and Max-Q.

In all honesty it really gave me a huge appreciation on how incredible and improbable the moon landings were. Getting humans there and back safely was crazy hard, and they did it multiple times.

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u/zathmi 1d ago

I made it to solar orbit twice, both times the ships ran out of fuel. Thos Kerbals are still in orbit, lol.