[ SECRET POST #4828 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4828 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 16 secrets from Secret Submission Post #691.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

04. https://i.imgur.com/HfVRTaI.png

[(Anonymous)]

Oof, if this is a pic used by the actual secretmaker and not an image put to a comment secret, I sure hope you watch the mass amount of dialogue that happens around camp if you're joining this particular fandom.

[feotakahari]

Kotaku once argued that Red Dead 2 is a walking simulator, and honestly, I agree. I spent so much time holding the up button to walk while talking to someone, it stopped working, and I had to start holding up-left and up-right like I was constantly drunk.

[(Anonymous)]

I think I spent 90% of the time on my horse, honestly. I didn't do a lot of walking. My horse did though. So much. Poor old Gavin.

Which ... I named before meeting the guy looking for a Gavin. So when Arthur said he doesn't know any by that name ... he lied.

But even so, there's so much going and so much dialogue in the game that if somebody is going to try and join the fandom by observation instead of actually playing it, they're going to have to watch a lot more than just Let's Plays and storyline cutscenes... unless they're strictly an Arthur Morgan devotee, anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't the image form RDR 1 though?

[(Anonymous)]

No, that's Arthur.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a comment secret, someone else put it together and posted it. I cringed when I saw the picture choice too, but generally the images are chosen by random Googling when the OP doesn't mention the fandom/franchise that goes with their secret.

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

[wannabe_influential]

That's pretty much how I experience video games, so you're valid

[popkin16]

Me too, anon. This is how I got into Let's Plays - I just finished watching one for Detroit Become Human because there's no way my computer can handle running that game AND I'm not good enough to get through it. It's valid!

[(Anonymous)]

It's always best to play a game on the console it was designed for. Ports to PC only work sometimes, and even then, only if the game creators take the time to port it right. (a surprising amount of games end up unplayable because of this)

I'm an experienced gamer and I've found it hard to play any of David Cage's games on PC, and I'm talking Fahrenheit here is the only game of his that I own on PC. I'll admit that Heavy Rain is as hard as it is heavy to play, and I played 2-player Beyond:Two Souls, and it crushed my heart completely. Detroit, on the other hand is actually the easiest to play in comparison, basically you don't lose/get someone killed as soon as you miss a single prompt, but you /need/ to play it on console, because if it's anything like Fahrenheit the prompt buttons/movements are annoying as hell to make. And unless you are very good at quitting before it autosaves, you're screwed.

Detroit is one of the best games I've ever played by far (Beyond: Two Souls being /the/ best), and simply because of the charactes. The ability to shake the world through the eyes of three different characters all the while knowing that any one of these characters you play can end another story before it even began. That you have every choice, even the option is to run out of choices, if that's the choice you want to make..

If you have a PS I highly recommend you get a copy of the game, because this is the sort of game that no 'Let's Play' can accurately depict... not to mention that most people making those videos do it to show off, or complete a sequence as quick as possible, skipping various interactions and opportunities along the way. This game has an easy mode, and a lot of leeway with it's prompts. They built the game around morality rather than difficulty.

[popkin16]

I don't have a PS4 or whatever console DBH plays on, unfortunately. As much as I want to play, I don't want to drop a bunch of money on a console I won't use often. I'm very much a casual gamer. I have a nintendo switch and my PC :(

I did consider getting Beyond: Two Souls. I downloaded a free demo but I struggled with the controls.

[(Anonymous)]

If I'm right that this is a comment secret, then I must say the secret maker made a brilliant find with their image when creating this secret.

I don't know what games you're interested in playing, but games like RDR, Fallout 3/New Vegas/4(ish), and honestly any Rockstar game ever, is the best place to start. I used to run around blindly in GTA: San Andreas with the max body mass cheat on, and just had fun exploring the world. Of course I played GTA III first, where I actually tried and I basically failed miserably at every mission before I got the hang of it. I ended up cornering myself at the harbour once with a barrage of Level Two/maybe Three Star cops (whom I just laugh in the face of nowadays) trying to find me with what I thought was no way out. Instead of getting Busted, I leaped into the water instead, instantly killing my character. If I was Mafia, I'd be getting prime pastrami I'm sure.
But you know what? Getting busted, getting wasted, it doesn't mean anything. You lose some money, maybe some of your weapons, but you pop back up at the nearest hospital, no game lost. You keep going until you learn how to do things right.

I had a similar experience with Fallout 3, where there were no cheats handy and the game glitched like hell before I even left the vault. I didn't even notice Megaton, and was about to walk in the completely opposite direction before my sister pointed it out. Somehow I got the impression that if you died in the game, you'd have to restart from the beginning, (don't ask I think I was just panicked at the time) I was being chased by mole rats of all things, was about to die, and lost hours upon hours of gameplay because I don't save often, and chose a save file before I entered the area. Stupid as fuck, but I've learned better since.

Red Dead Redemption has to be the best game to learn how to game by far. Even though Fallout has level regulated areas, RDR just teaches you how to play the game. It was the breaking point for me, because it played like a GTA game, but without the strain of getting every mission exactly right, and without the option for playing taxi. It allowed me to learn how to play while exploring its open world. I won't deny that I still give a wholehearted shriek whenever a cougar mauls me out of nowhere, but these are the types of games that you can save manually.
Most gamers are chronic savers because things go wrong all the time. If you have hands, if they aren't completely compromised, then you can game. It's just a fact.

Like everything else in this world, you aren't going to be the best at something right as soon as you first try it. With gaming, you really only need to focus on which console this game is meant to be played on. What type of game it is, and how often you save.

You can be complete shit at something for sure, but gaming is the only media that allows you to improve on yourself as you fight along and play. It can't be disappointment when all you do is improve.