is it choice paralyzation
In a sense? I just find it difficult to really enjoy anything unless I can convincingly tell myself that I’m Doing It Right- and with as many choices and options as the average character creator presents, it’s almost impossible to even form any coherent idea of what Doing It Right is.
This is an attitude that’s unhealthy enough that I’d nearly call it a pathology. I recognize it very concretely because I struggle with it myself. Dude: it’s a shit ass way to enjoy a videogame. Fight against it when you can. Free Your Mind
i know this is a bigger thing than just the one game, but in D:OS2 it doesn’t matter a tonnnn and respecs are free from a very early point in the game
but yeah i would say this is still an aspect of a broader problem that will still cause you to not enjoy this game very much
yeah like this has stopped me from playing games before, even in a character creator sometimes. i prefer purely aesthetic choices, then i just make a badass old woman or something, but otherwise it can hit me hard.
so i just look up a guide and pick the build that seems the funniest, usually.
Literally never the wrong choice, the most fun to make in every suite I’ve used recently
ever since i was in this not so great fc in ff xiv that would make fun of the way people designed their characters, i fell into the habit of imitating anything that fit into the weeb kawaii aesthetics that tons of other players do and i can’t seem to break out of it now. it’s one thing to like being a cute death machine but it’s another to spend 10 real life dollars because you were lurking the chat and saw someone making fun of heterochromia.
there’s definitely this idea that i have to ’ do it right ’ and it’s strange because i hadn’t given it much thought until now.
it’s a combination of really liking presenting a certain way but also not wanting to stand out or be perceived as awkward by some dumb weeb edgelords. anyway, what helps me is being able to save multiple looks so i can change it if i get tired of the current one but i know that’s not an option with most games.
i stopped trying to replay final fantasy viii because on three separate occasions i’d just. . .fall asleep. it was that boring. i’ve never actually beaten the game because i hate triple triad and i DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW TO PLAY so that alone is enough to keep me away.
the only reason i ever tried to pick it up again is that i wanted to play that bit where you get to be laguna. i like seifer more than squall. i hate rinoa and i really wish the game was just about laguna because it would’ve been more fun to me i guess.
When I was about 7 I got to the final boss of Crash Team Racing and he gives a monologue about how he’ll turn the world into a concrete parking lot if he beats you and I decided I didn’t want that much responsibility in my life so I never played it again.
lol that reminds me of how I quit Shadow of the Colossus (is that the name?). After killing two or three colossi I decided that the only way to win this game was to not play it and so I stopped. I was into Buddhism and vegetarianism at the time, I guess that had something to do with it.
Haven’t picked it up since. I want to see the other colossi as they’re supposedly really cool but you know how it goes
@BLUE_BLACK_PURPLE
disclaimer:
i feel somewhat like apologetic resident SotC fanboy here, so take this post with some grain of salt.
… still here? Good.
you should have been there for my Crappy Blurry Digicam-Snapshot Speedrun Playthrough I did on SB 1.0 a decade+ ago, I took a blurry picture of each colossus, and had a blast (pun not intended) finishing this game in sub-five-hours.
Actually, i still should have the snapshots on my computer somewhere, and can upload them if you want to - i can promise you will not really have an idea what you are seeing, and technically, you still will have seen them…
I feel like I remember that?? I’d love to see them!
Good End
That’s why I can’t get into that game at all, I feel horrible destroying such beautiful creatures
It rules I’m all for it
Helping bad people along to their tragic ends is one of my favorite things
Oh Boy, you gonna regret that soon…
I’ll @ you when i am back home!
Noice!
Nowadays I’m on the Tao instead of Buddhism so it’s cool to destroy beautiful creatures. Because calling something beautiful creates ugliness and judging something to be good creates bad, so I don’t do that and just go with the natural flow of things/videogames
(It’s not actually said in the Tao that you shouldn’t see things as beautiful/ugly/good/bad. That’s one possible interpretation though I guess, although the Tao doesn’t really tell you to do anything. It’s more like “take care of your own shit, I don’t care, it’s all cool, here’s some facts about existence though.” It just explains things and doesn’t want to force you into living a certain way. Another interpretation is that these things are there but just define each other, like long and short, high and low, before and after. The whole thing is used to further explain non-action (Wu Wei), which is big in the Tao, as is naturalness as a whole.)
getting in to daoism is an excellent weird reason to stop playing a game
Haha yeah!
Do you still read the Tao from time to time? Nowadays I read it with 5 translations side by side. I want to make my own version composed of the lines that are most helpful to me. Not based on how accurate of a translation each is but whichever helps me the most. I’ve given up on the idea of an “accurate” translation anyway, it’s not applicable to the daodejing it seems