Decline Why are RPG fans so uncommonly inept?

[Kyl Von Kull]

I don't understand why someone would buy Kingmaker then complain it's to hard and complex. Do people not watch gameplay/video footage of the game there going to buy? Like I don't care if you hate Kingmaker but don't buy shit you know you aren't going to like/understand.

I'm looking at the game's Steam page, there's nothing there to hint at the difficulty. The description does not hint at that, the negative reviews mostly say buggy/boring/slow. What's there to dissuade your average Skyrim lover from buying the game? And don't say that you need to go read reviews, any Steam sale makes the game cheap enough so that you don't care about research much. In contrast, Celeste's page has a "difficult" game tag, "hardcore platforming challenges" and "where every death is a lesson" in the description. All the reviews say how it's "one of the hardest" and the trailer video shows that levels are hard at first glance. You've been warned, buyer.

The game has (extremely customizable) difficulty settings, so...? You can put it on easy or story mode and play through the whole thing without learning how the systems work. And the spider swarm thing they patched after a day or two so the questgiver would tell you how to damage them.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

I think that the feeling that there is less complaining from people playing other genres is because we are more exposed to RPGs so we encounter those kind of people more often.

 

[Luckmann]

Most people have no ability to introspect.

ftfy

 

[Roguey]

that should make the players better, not worse

It can go either way. Autists only care about mastering things they care about; if they don't consider "being good at games/a particular game" something worth caring about, they'll always be terrible at it.

 

[aweigh]

elminage: gothic has the absolute perfect amount of complexity and abstraction. It's a thing of fucking beauty.

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[aweigh]

 

[samuraigaiden]

Does anyone know what the word Elminage means?

 

[aweigh]

It's made up. It's the world the games take place in.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]