Cryptic shit that required guides/magazines, DLC, loot boxes, or microtransactions?
What was worse?
Read the fucking manual.
Those last three are essentially the same thing. Nothing wrong with cryptic shit.
>what was worse
>gimmicks that you didn't have to pay for
>or gimmicks that you do?
oh gee zoomer i wonder
How did boomers know how to read?
Cryptic shit is soul
>guides and magazines that you need to buy to figure out the game
>"didn't have to pay for"
>boomers cheat every game they played with game genie
>proceed to shit on zoomers for playing easier games
Cryptic shit filters out people who don't read the manual.
The internet
In Dark Souls, you could miss The Great Hollow which included an entire covenant and the ability to transform into a dragon.
It was hidden behind TWO illusory walls.
You could miss going BACK to the Undead Asylum. You needed to jump onto a fucking ledge and pretend to be an egg. It was esoteric as fuck.
THEN you needed to get the doll and go to the painting and access an entire fucking area that was the Painted World of Aramis.
IF THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH: the entire DLC is hidden behind you killing a golem in the Duke's Archives then going to a random ass location to go through a random ass portal to access the past.
nigger most people just talked about how to beat games with their friends. OP's pic in particular has numerous clues in game too.
I didn't knew that if a friend of yours bought the dlc/microtransaction/lootboxes
He can just straight up tell you and you get them too
Or that you could pay them checking gamefaqs in early web
/vr/ here to tell you,
YOU'RE A FAG OP
>having friends
Shiggy diggy
How on earth did the first person discover how to access the dlc? There's no way most people did it natty
Dark Souls is what us gamers like to call "Nintendo hard."
They show you in the trailer. And the PS3 store description gave you the hint of saying you needed to progress to that point of the game to access it.
If you autistic enough to be the first person to buy a dlc
You are autistic enough to know when something is off at every inch of the map
How should I know to access the PS store?
Thank you, google took me to our best friends at reddit and all the posers there basically said "lol it's not that hard, of course you're going to explore darkroot basin and find the out of place golemz kill it, and remember that golems spawn in the archives, make sure to thoroughly kill all of them, and then get some random fucking item and take it back to dusk" aka "Idk I looked it up"
You fuckers that like jerking off to the lore and that you have to go out of your way and explore to find it sure dont like exploring huh?
The trailer shows you how to enter it. And the store description says you need to progress into the Dukes archive. It's only the PC version that has this issue. Assuming you watched an autoplayed video and read what you were purchasing.
The only thing I should have to explore for lore is my items list.
Cryptic shit is good until it's excessive, just compare the good parts of this game to shit like the chamber of birth
>You fuckers
I barely give a fuck about the lore. And you're a liar if you say you found it without any help.
How were you suppose to know you had to bomb the glass tube?????
How is that not cancerous bullshit? The game itself should contain hints, not everyone should have to watch the fucking commercial.
Define cancerous. I don't even think you can.
Annoying and/or anti-consumer business practices that hold back a satisfactory gaming experience.
If you're talking about Super Metroid; I don't know. I saw someone else do it. I played it literally a decade ago so it's not that much of an ask to request someone have information outside of the cartridge.
Didn't even play them, I just know most of the fanbase jerks off to the deep lore
Now this, I only had to look up 2 puzzles, the mantra with the lizard statue, and the jar
It isn't that bad once you start to think with portals, user
It's gay but it's not cancerous. Dusk should just tell you she left her pendant in the dukes archives but a golem stole it or some shit. But apparently it's perfectly acceptable to need a meta store description or fucking commercial to tell you how to do it
>was
"Is", you uneducated swine.
American english everyone.
>But apparently it's perfectly acceptable to need a meta store description or fucking commercial to tell you how to do it
It's okay when From does it.
HOW WAS I SUPPOSE TO KNOW I HAD TO JUMP IN TO THE PAINTING
And so by your own definition you fail to prove what you set out to prove. There's nothing anti consumer about secrets. If anything it is /more/ satisfactory to withhold content if it is designed to simulate an adventure.
It used to be, but my dopamine receptors demand good feelings NOW