Do you enjoy getting lost?

[Kid Ice]

Do you enjoy getting lost? If so, speak up. There must be a lot of you out there, because you are a target audience of many games, past and present.

I just rented Hitman 2, and I was enjoying it until I had to spend a half hour in this confusing house trying to find a set of car keys (you'd think the "Hitman" would be able to hotwire a car for God's sake). Then I moved on to the 2nd level, entered this building, and became lost. Real lost. Every floor of this building looked exactly the same. And it seemed magical. From the outside it looked like it had 4 or 5 stories. Inside, I just kept wandering around, going up stairs, wandering around, going up stairs, etc.

I had the same problem with Splinter Cell (very similar to Hitman 2 BTW). Can't they just tell you where the hell you're supposed to go? I want an arrow. Not this "Meet the General behind the barracks in the northeast quadrant" stuff.

Some other games I got lost in:

Adventure - gotta love those invisible mazes. Who thought that up?

ET - lost and falling into holes. Nice going, Atari.

Zork - I could never get anywhere in that game.

Faery Tale Adventure- got lost in the woods for 4 days. Four REAL LIFE days.

Demolition Man - I always got lost in the FPS part. I had to cheat to get to the driving level.

Tomb Raider - these games seem to be ABOUT getting lost.

Wild Arms - permanently lost. Never recovered.

Body Harvest - I found the boss for the 2nd level once. Never could again.

Armored Core - there's this one part when you're in this underground facility type of thing. I get stuck there for hours every time I pull this baby out of retirement.

[Kroogah]

Some missions in GTA3 are like that. "WHERE'S THE AIRPORT? I CAN'T USE THE BRIDGE? ONLY 30 SECONDS SHIT!!!!"

It's been a long time since I played any RPGs but I'm sure I got lost in quite a few of them.

[Li Wang]

I played through the first Soul Reaver for the first time about a week ago and it's a prime candidate for the "where the hell am I supposed to be?" award.

[maxlords]

What's irritating is that it's being used to fill time in games that have "40 hours of gameplay!" It's not fair that 30 of those 40 hours you spend wandering around asking "where the fuck am I and how do I get out?" Not a good trend, but one I expect will continue in games for a long time.

[Arqueologia_Digital]

I really hate to be lost, it always happened to me in the higher levels of Wolfenstein 3D, ALL WAS SIMILAR!!!!!

[RetroYoungen]

I get lost all the time, takes some fun out of the game when you're doing next to nothing...

Hell, I get lost EASY. I've STILL never beaten Super Mario 64 and Sunshine. I haven't beaten FFVII, never beaten any FF game in fact. Maybe I'm just bad at games, but with too loose of ties I get mixed up really easy...

[vintagegamecrazy]

I get lost in Phantasy Star 2 and have to look at online maps. That game wouldn't be that hard if you could find your way easier

[Nespit]

if u like gettin lost, start playing Morrowind..

[Kim Possible]

I don't know, I don't mind getting lost in a game if the world is well crafted and there are interesting things to see even when you are lost (Tomb Raider is great this way). But yeah, you DO need to find something eventually or its just vexing.

So I guess lost for an hour or two is fine, but lost all day is boring.

[Kid Ice]

I really hate to be lost, it always happened to me in the higher levels of Wolfenstein 3D, ALL WAS SIMILAR!!!!!

True, although at least that game had a decent map.

[Queen Of The Felines]

I HATE FPS games for that very reason. Unless I have one of those heads-up display maps in front of me, I just can't get my bearings. (Of course, I have this problem in real-life too, but I digress... )

Banjo-Tooie drove me up the wall. Banjo-Kazooie was the PERFECT size...large, but not TOO large, and pathways/doors/goals/etc. were pretty obvious. Banjo-Tooie left me majorly disappointed because it was so damn confusing. (And there was that whole damn "Stop-N-Swop" thing, but again I digress...)

Kristine

[RJ]

Getting lost on an early level in "Star Wars: Bounty Hunter" ruined it for me.

Luckily it was just a rental!

[Kid Ice]

I HATE FPS games for that very reason. Unless I have one of those heads-up display maps in front of me, I just can't get my bearings. (Of course, I have this problem in real-life too, but I digress... )

Kristine

My sister has the same problem. Even if I tell her "just go straight ahead" or "walk up to that door", she just wanders around crazily. I've heard some people say that first person shooters make them physically ill. I wonder if it's a genetic thing.

[adaml]

I finished playing through NES Deadly Towers using a walkthrough and still managed to get lost in the dungeons. That game is evil.

[kainemaxwell]

Took me close to a day to beat Jurassic Park for the SNES just for those reasons- I was constantly lost in the 3-D mazes int he ships and the caves with little clue where to go even with the NP maps!

[zektor]

Some of the mazes in the original Phantasy Star for the SMS were rediculous. I remember wandering around for what seemed to be hours, bumping into an enemy every 2 seconds, and passing through doors and stairways multiple times over. What a pain in the ass that was.

[Queen Of The Felines]

[My sister has the same problem. Even if I tell her "just go straight ahead" or "walk up to that door", she just wanders around crazily. I've heard some people say that first person shooters make them physically ill. I wonder if it's a genetic thing.

Hmm, that's an interesting thought. My mom's the same way too. I wonder if it's related to how women have a tendency to give directions via landmarks and men seem to go for the "miles/feet" approach.

Any other women want to chime in?

Kristine

[maxlords]

I get lost in Phantasy Star 2 and have to look at online maps. That game wouldn't be that hard if you could find your way easier

! Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. Wait till you get almost all the way thru the game, and realize you've not built up your characters enough and Darkforce snuffs you out like a candle Phantasy Star 2 is hard, even if you know exactly what to do, cause the enemies are totally brutal!