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I'm always lost in video games. But I'm always lost in real life too so I guess it's not that surprising to me.

This is part of the reason why it takes me forever to finish games, I think.

This is the reason I cheat in games.

Strangely, I hardly ever get lost in video games, but I always get lost in real life. I sort of wish it was the other way around...

Ugh is that a picture of dwemer ruins from skyrim? These damn things go on forever, no wonder you're getting lost

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(Anonymous) - 2014-03-04 03:48 (UTC) - Expand

I have no sense of direction in real life or in video games. I once managed to get lost and start going uphill in a bike racing game called Downhill Domination. My friend laughed at me for a long time.

I'm the opposite. I need a map to get around new places, and still usually end up lost. But video games I can navigate in my sleep. That might come from playing them since I was a wee little tyke, though.

I'm the opposite, I never get lost in video games and can always find my way around but irl I have no directional sense at all.

I always get lost in Minecraft. Aboveground or in caverns, as soon as I lose sight of the spot I started out from, I'm doomed to wander in circles for ten minutes before I can find my way back. So I feel you, OP. XD At least I have a GPS for real life.

thedivinegoat - 2014-03-04 22:10 (UTC) - Expand

are those the deep roads?? i hated that part so much for those exact reasons

elaminator - 2014-03-04 01:20 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2014-03-04 02:14 (UTC) - Expand

HOLY SHIT NOT JUST ME.

Erm, that is, I have a similar problem, anon. And yeah, it's all about the feeling of physical space.

Okami. Freaking Okami gets me so turned around that I can spend an hour running around a field because I can't figure out where I haven't already been.

Are you me, OP? Because all my friends always joke that I have a GPS built into my brain, I can't get lost IRL.

First time I played Unreal I got lost in a straight corridor. I turned around. I got fucking lost. I can't play any 3D game without getting lost all the time. It's frustrating as hell.

For me it depends on the level deign. If it's consistent and it doesn't bend the rules of reality, so to speak, I'm fine with it. If it does, sometimes yeah I get the sense that this can't be right.

So glad I'm not the only one! I rarely play computer games because of this. (I like bird's-eye-view strategy games, though.)

Don't feel bad. Video games, unlike real spaces, can be illogical, which is probably what's throwing you off.

In the real world you see everything that exists.

In the video game you only see what they want you to see.

I think that's part of it, because I have the same problem too.

In real life, ability to orient oneself usually stems from noticing little things along your way and memorizing them subconsiously. In games, most of these "things" are repeatable similar tiles, which drives your internal compass completely bonkers.

world_eater - 2014-03-04 07:44 (UTC) - Expand

Dude[tte], I am the *queen* of getting lost in video games. Like, you know that first part of Dragon's Age where you have to go collect vials of blood? Yeah, I always get lost there. Even if I have mods to prevent it, I get fucking lost half the time in games.

I'm not quite as good as you say you are in RL, but I've only been completely lost like 2 times in my life.

...So yeah. I feel you.

Hahaha, are you me, OP?

The situation is made more hilarious by the fact that my little brother is the opposite--he has an AMAZING sense of direction in video games but a really, really, really terrible one in real life.

Yeah, this is totally me. I don't get lost too much in real life but I can end up all over the place in a video game. It was actually one of the reasons I stopped playing FFVII.

I don't remember having too many issues in Dragon Age, but I recently was replaying Mass Effect and was so glad when 2 gave you directions to your objective, so I didn't get turned around. Though sometimes they don't ... I hate having to navigate Illium or Omega.

Edited 2014-03-04 12:39 (UTC)

Same! For me it's because I have zero visual memory, so my sense of orientation doesn't rely on that, but rather on automatically "knowing" which direction I'm facing or where I am in relation to any given point (idk how to explain how that works, it just... does. like, you could blinfold me and drop me somewhere and I'd still be able to immediately tell you where North is). When I'm playing a videogame though obviously I'm not actually there, so that doesn't work.

I just made a secret about this. o.O

Yeah, this is me too. I learned my way around London by taking the tube near a Cool Thing, getting hopelessly lost and finding my way to more Cool Things. In real life, super easy.

In TF2, I almost exclusively played payloads, because at least if I was very lost, I could follow the train tracks.

I agree. I think a large part of it is that a lot of level design involves repetition of similar textures and assets.

Which is probably why the last time I got lost was in Fucking Florida. Made a wrong turn and ended up in the hell of miles of identical strip mall construction, surrounded by miles of identical housing construction, governed by housing committees that demand identical yard grooming, connected by miles of nonsensical connecting roads.

The local Army and Coast Guard will be marching on St. Patrick's day, and they have more individuality in uniform marching in perfect formation than suburban Jacksonville.