Recently I was playing a game with a bunch of little colectables that I felt compelled to get. The game provided a map and everything, of course I had to find the map, and I got to a single item that I spent almost 30 minutes finding only to turn a corner to find it. I was wondering what is your experience with this.
Hidden In Plain Sight
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Not a collectible, but when I was playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R for the first time there was this one quest I almost gave up on. You are told to locate a doctor-guy to advance the main plot and I spent hours walking around the area where the map was pointing me to. Turned out the man was UNDER the marked spot, in an undergroung hideout. And the entrance was just a little way off where I had been all the time. The worst part: I had been there before. I just forgot somehow.
Lol. I remember that bit. Didn't have that issue there, but I did have that problem in some other spots.Llil said:
Fo3, whilst looking for the way to that airplane look out spot in Megaton, I scoured Lucas Simms' house for like ten to fifteen minutes, eventually I threw my controller down on the couch to go and look up where it was. The analogue stick was jolted so the view looked up - and I saw the trapdoor in the ceiling.
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After Reading The OP: Both of the Zelda games on the N64. They expect you just to "Get" where everything was and how to advance the story. And the ironic thing is that almost no other Zelda game confuses me. Almost every other game in the series I understood well enough to advance through the main plot without any FAQ-searching or guide. The part in Ocarina of Time where you're supposed to show that guard the letter that Zelda wrote? Yeah, that took me almost 3 hours before I gave up and just looked at a guide. That's probably the only reason why I'm putting off finishing Majora's Mask.
After Reading The OP: Both of the Zelda games on the N64. They expect you just to "Get" where everything was and how to advance the story. And the ironic thing is that almost no other Zelda game confuses me. Almost every other game in the series I understood well enough to advance through the main plot without any FAQ-searching or guide. The part in Ocarina of Time where you're supposed to show that guard the letter that Zelda wrote? Yeah, that took me almost 3 hours before I gave up and just looked at a guide. That's probably the only reason why I'm putting off finishing Majora's Mask.
Once I was playing loz twilight princess, and whilst walking along a ledge above a lake of lava, and found my way blocked by a fence. I tried everything. Jumping around it, looking for a hookshot point-everything. I struck the fence with my sword in frustration.
It fell over.
I felt stupid.
It fell over.
I felt stupid.
In Ocarina of Time, there was a room in the Shadow Temple where these two spiked walls are closing in on you.
I tried shooting it, hitting it, bombing it, and stuff.
I got frustrated and looked online.
Turns out I had to use Din's Fire -_-
I tried shooting it, hitting it, bombing it, and stuff.
I got frustrated and looked online.
Turns out I had to use Din's Fire -_-
Oh, i came here hoping to read about D&D and that ability that gives you the power to hide in plain sight. Oh well...
But in Oblivion, there was this cold valley-place, and it wasn't even a quest, but just a series of chests that each contained a key inside, that led to another chest and eventually to a chest with a cool item. For the love of god i could not find only one of those... ended up looking it up on the Web, and facepalmed cause it was in a fairly obvious place.
Also, in Morrowind, i never found it, but some woman asked me to find a ring she had dropped in a pool of water... seriously, w here the hell was it?!?!
But in Oblivion, there was this cold valley-place, and it wasn't even a quest, but just a series of chests that each contained a key inside, that led to another chest and eventually to a chest with a cool item. For the love of god i could not find only one of those... ended up looking it up on the Web, and facepalmed cause it was in a fairly obvious place.
Also, in Morrowind, i never found it, but some woman asked me to find a ring she had dropped in a pool of water... seriously, w here the hell was it?!?!
I seem to have a huge problem with this at times. I'll be playing a game on full throttle only to run strait into an area that will take me half an hour or so to get past because I missed a door, didn't realize that I had the ability do something that I was required by the game to do, or was confused by the level design enough that I began walking in circles. Is it my fault or the developer's fault? I can't say.
This was basically the whole of Prince of Persia Warrior Within. The worst one was near the beginning of the game, you had to wall run and jump across to a ledge immediately after you fought the crow guy. I spent probably a week until I found that ledge, was running back and forwards through the whole map.