...huh. if they implement this, I might start playing rpgs. Right now I only play games with no plot because a busy week at work means I don't remember the plot anyway...

A lot of games still have that option. I mostly see it for VNs, which is really useful if you're going for certain routes.

I wish I had this when I was playing the pre-Persona 3 games. There are zero reminders, aside from maybe a character telling you not to go to x because we have to go to x. I ended up taking a lot of notes and reading a guide for Innocent Sin.

I generally make notes for myself or only focus on one game at a time.

I actually still use pen and paper for certain things that are easier, e.g. planning out rows of different crops in Stardew Valley preparing for a new season so I know exactly how many seeds to buy in the morning. I think our flavors of ADHD will determine what works best for each of us, but god damn the notes feature in steam is helpful

I hate being in a society /s

I came back to play Celeste after months and spent like 2 hours racking up deaths playing on a self-imposed ultra hard mode because I forgot there was a grip/climb mechanic. I was barely scaling some jumps to ledges by the skin of my teeth after crashing into the wall 100 times before I accidentally rediscovered the button. Didn't stop me from dying hundreds of times still, but at least for less stupid reasons... usually.

This is why i never finished Bloodbourne.. twice. Fantastic game. Take a month off. Load in, walk around in a few circles. Absolutely nothing to reference for what my goal or progress toward it was. Probably taking notes would help, yeah.

I want a grown-ups only lobby for online games with shorter play sessions and games that end by 8:30 so we can go to bed.

This is my biggest hurdle to No Man's Sky, NGL. Thankfully, there's an option to reset a quest to a more local star system, but that can be tedious if one's near the end of said quest, as it completely undoes any progress before moving the marker to a spot closer to me.

Maybe I'll get to it this time, maybe I'll get distracted and run out of playtime.

That's the real game, ya know? 🤷🏼‍♂️

That's how we did it on the 80s, too- though, we were also typing out the code in order to play in the first place, so 🤷🏼‍♂️

I think it's the opposite (unless fire red specifically is inspired by the anime?)

I have around 40 hours in No Man's Sky and it was a blast. Had to concentrate on university for a few weeks, and that was the death of my playthrough. I tried a couple of times to continue, but yeah I just see 10 quests in my quest log and have no clue what I was doing before.

The thing is, I could totally relearn it again - but I already know I'll have to take a larger break again soon, so what's the point if I have to then put a bunch of relearning time in again the next time I want to play...

I had this issue too with stardew valley then i realized i can just not interact with all of them, i just remember the key ones and use the menu to view all characters names and faces if i need it for a quest

Not to mention that the Steam overlay's unreliable at best, so pulling out of a session to look up something that could easily've been standard issue is unfortunate. 🥲

A flow chart? That's interessing... I never made a board game but if i ever happen to, be assured that i am prolly gonna use one, it just seems such a good idea

Y'all have addiction problems if you're playing so many games that you can't remember how they work.

See I'm a game addict but have a solution: I pick one game a year, and play it 3 days straight with minimal sleep, and a decent trainer to skip the grindey parts.

By day 3 - BOOM - my desire to play or even finish the game is gone. I don't even know how Tsushima ends, nor do I want to. I came for the Kurosawa kick and I got it. Now back to life

Absolutely insane take. More power to you if that's how you have fun.

Press [X] to reload muscle memory

(Tho it's a hella good feeling putting old 1k hours of training to good use & finding that you can still play effortlessly-ish. You are just 10+ years older now, no biggie. You'll be dead soon, so play the damn game.)

You're not perhaps talking about keratoconus?

Doing Seymour Asses dirty

Y’all have addiction problems if you’re playing so many games that you can’t remember how they work.

Unsure if trolling or just a dumbass. But when so many games create narrative that is required to drive the story forward, and you have complex controls for parrying, wear attack, strong attack, rolling, dodging, enemy attack recognition, etc... And you've played 8 games since the last time you touched this game and forget everything because it's been 10 months...

Ooh! Might be time to revisit the game then. Thanks!

I was gonna say all the games were but I forgot red and green came out first lol

I'd assume fire red was mirroring the anime, though. I mean there were definitely anime recaps before it

Lol indeed, I'm surprised someone else knows about it.

It's a terrible fucking disability but there's like no research into it and insurance thinks they know better than ophtomologists

Same here. If a game has combos or special attacks that require remembering button combinations, that's a hard no for me. Also, anything with special timing that requires practice and remembering different enemy types. I much prefer simple combat like Gears of War or Skyrim that I can pick up after a year wherever I left off.

This is me when I come back to the Witcher 3, until I remember that I just need to follow the arrow to the quest marker and do a super basic version of the Arkham Asylum combat until I get bored again.

Doesnt the gba line of pokemon games have a feature like this? I think it recaps what you did last time.

Please! I'm half way through BotW and every time I pick it back up I need this.

Too real. Was really hard coming back to Celeste and any of the Witchers.

Even though you say that, there is a tutorial for the controls. Funny though, I forgot which button it is. 🧓

forgot which button it is

I believe pressing either L or R works.

Like genuinely fuck triple dash

Death stranding 2 does this perfectly. Gives a summare of the story so far when it seems like it has been a while since I played last time.

Also grinding should be less difficult. Like we get twice the exp or money

Dragon Quest XI does this, you also can talk to party members that will remind the player of different aspects of the story. It's actually quite well crafted

It's a Zelda game? You traverse Hyrule trying to defeat a manbearpig by the name of Ganon and once in a while the princess shows up and gives you some encouragement.

It took me years to complete skyrims main story because I load in and have no idea what character I have or what I was doing so I would start again.

That and my chronic obsession with getting side tracked

My brother has it. I'm German, and he got an experimental treatment called crosslinking some years ago. They stabilize the cornea using a laser, and since then, he doesn't need contact lenses anymore, but glasses suffice. Nowadays, it's apparently proven enough that even the public health insurance pays for it. Now, by the price of the contact lenses you mentioned, I presume you're American, and it might be incredibly expensive, but you could still do a bit of research about it.

Is that the Nine Inch nails Guy?

I had cxl a few years back, his case sounds a lot more manageable. Cxl doesn't typically improve vision, it just prevents it from getting worse.

I'm in Canada, but it was also $$$ when I was in the US. For some fucking reason it's specifically excluded from the assistive devices coverage here. My ophto has been fighting them for ages

CXL stands for cornea cross-linking, so you have done it already. Then nevermind what I said. Good luck with your struggles in the future!

I really like the fact that Dave the diver - after dying multiple times to a boss - offered me to double my damage for the next try. 😁

This is something I noticed about Elden Ring that I genuinely don't get the same feel from Dark Souls and Bloodborne.

I'm not sure if its caused by the open world or something else, but grinding for levels feels genuinely more tedious in that game, and made worse by how the game all but tells you to explore with the use of the Tree Sentinel at the starting area.

Problem is that it's difficult to explore when everything is set to one shot you with a light breeze throughout the world.

You never get to the final boss or trigger story cutscenes in BOTW. If you do that you’re playing it wrong.

Grinding shouldn't even be a thing.

It means the game mechanics failed so badly that the user feels forced to repeat the same thing over and over just to get past something.

Maybe if the game is old it has an excuse. But new RPGs should have 0 grinding. It is a bad game mechanic.

This is a must have feature in today's world. My busy adult life taught me to avoid anything with a steep learning curve and almost anything with open world

Or simply just the "busy life feature", no need to exclude minorities here.

Are children normally considered minorities?

But also this kinda thing is what difficulty modes are supposed to be for.

agree to disagree. Numbers go up simulators are digital crack to my AuDHD brain... brother ive spend hours running in literal circles in runescape just to raise my walkjng fast stat (and that sweet sweet gear set)