In a multiuser online game 35 years ago (yes, such things existed back then!) I designed a river with a waterfall and a cave behind it. The cave was hard to reach, there was a chance at every step that you fell into the river and were swept away and had to start over.
The cave was empty. Later, I added a locked chest. Which was empty, too.
You monster
Who hurt you?
My feed lol:
Made it clickable.
Who else has a borderline OCD to check waterfalls for caves in games?
Unpopular opinion but I can be this way and I honestly hate games for it. I’m a big Last of Us fan but I despise how you’re supposed to have this cutthroat realistic adventure but at every junction they just goade you into picking the obvious route that goes against the narrative. There’s no reason to follow that path except the meta element that you know there’s going to be some bullshit coin there. And if you maintain the atmosphere and ignore it, at the end of the level in some games you’ll get a whiny ‘oops! You only got 4/8 coins you dipshit!’ that makes you feel like you’re not playing the game right.
Joel and Ellie’s tendency to immediately barricade doors behind them killed all my interest in exploring and trying to find secrets.
