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Gameplay style poll
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Suppose you're playing a game with multiple paths through it
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and the game is clearly sort of leading you towards one
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like in Stanley Parable, where you come to two doors, and the narrator says you go left
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or Everhood when it starts telling you to kill characters
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what do you tend to do on your first run
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follow the game's instructions or push back
Don't 4get DL-6
i think it depends heavily on if the game has been coaching me to look at side paths already
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in stanley parable for example i would do literally everything BUT make progress whereever possible
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because that game could not be less subtle about how it wants you to do that
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personally on my first playthrough I usually do what the game is telling me to do
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I did the Stanely Parable straight the first time
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so that I can have, like
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a baseline
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THen, yeah
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what Quinn said
Don't 4get DL-6
yeah i was going to say i will usually play things straight my first time through unless the game is heavily encouraging me to fuck about
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If the game is heavily encouraging you to fuck around then one could argue that fucking around is actually playing it straight
pastel ranma
I think it depends. With Stanley Parable I probably would do as asked, but if it's something like Everhood, I'd try to do everything but that.
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yeah it's a bit ambiguous with stanley parable what the game is encouraging you to do
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because it's just so obvious about it
Princess Emily
I don't really replay games so something simple like paths or whatnot I'll try other shit
Haze Arquebus
i'll usually look up what aligns most with my overall interests and go with that because it's very very rare for me to do multiple runs these days
Princess Emily
but for core game experience I'll prolly follow what the game tells me
Princess Emily
but not for Everhood because that's just, come on,
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even everhood I went for it
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not because I thought it was the Right Thing to Do, just
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I wanted to see what the game was trying to show me
RobotApocalypse
if it's a game i intend to play multiple times, i'll go the main route first
RobotApocalypse
and if it's a game that's like, sub 10 hours for a normal play-through, i usually will play it multiple times to see the alternate routes
$windle clau$
i usually play the way the game tells me to the first time and then do what i want on the 2nd, yeah
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I figure I'll appreciate alternative routes more once I know from experience what they're diverging from
oh i'm scary
yeah, I try to go kind of Default usually
oh i'm scary
unless it's the kind of game I figure I'm unlikely to replay
oh i'm scary
because for my part I either replay many times or zero
skerple
I definitely tend to go where it feels like the game is pushing me
skerple
I'm always slightly baffled by people who just automatically play Undertale like a normal RPG when the game hits you right up front with "so, here's how fun it is to NOT fight"
A Grinning DM
My first instinct is always to push back
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Even when the game isn’t pushing very hard and is very subtle about it
A Grinning DM
The first thing I always want to see is what I can do that I’m not “supposed” to