Ever Had This Happen To You

[cojo965]

So recently I returned to Dragon Age Inquisition after about a year and have resumed emptying my overstocked quest list. However the first time I turned the game back on, I got nothing done because one thought dominated all else at the time: "WHAT THE FUCK WAS I DOING!? WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!? Wait, WHO THE FUCK AM I EVEN!?" In summary, my quest log was so massive and I was so far along in the story that it was briefly overwhelming how much I needed to do. Anyone else have a moment like that, from a game?

Digression: Fuck finding malachite in Dragon Age Inquisition.

 

[FillerDmon]

When Wind Waker first came out, I played it and got through the first 6 dungeons relatively easily. By then, either school work or another game coming out made me stop just at the fetch-quest section.

When I came back to it, I spent two straight months visiting every single island and rock in the sea trying to figure out what the bloody hell I was supposed to be doing.

 

[PPB]

It's a common problem with large RPGs in my opinion. I've experienced this with The Witcher 2 recently after trying to continue a 3 years old save before moving on to Witcher 3. I ended up just starting a new game. I find that it takes a lot of effort to sift through quest logs and inventories to sort things out, not to mention remembering what was going on with the story.

 

[CritialGaming]

This has happened to me on a number of games. Typically if I am away from a game for too long, I'll just outright restart it. Depending on how close to finished I was.

I have done this to GTA V a lot, as I cannot get myself past the part where Trevor is first introduced out in the desert. I stop playing and then don't pick it up for months, and I remember nothing about what the hell was going on. Meh I have to buck down and play through this damn game soon. ish.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Yeah this is a common phenomenon. Happens to me in MMOs, too. Take a couple years off, it's like I don't even know these characters anymore. BETTER MAKE A NEW ONE.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I've done that with Okami actually. I'm usually good at choosing good stopping points in a game but fucked if I know where i'm going in Okami. It's a bit difficult to figure out where you're going sometimes in general I took a 3 month break and I think i'm supposed to get to some princess in that first proper city or something? The corridor to get to her is full of lava though so I assume I have to find some new brush technique first. God knows where. Unless I already have enough moves and i'm just being a stupid bellend.

 

[Erttheking]

Dark Souls' minimalist storytelling approach can really come back to bite you in this exact way.

 

[Lufia Erim]

It used to. Then i made a new years resolution about 5 years back to always finish a game i start. So that doesn't happen anymore. I won't start a new story driven game if i haven't completed my last.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

That's largely the reason I can almost go through the Midgar sequence blindfolded, but can't tell you anything about Final Fantasy d7 past... maybe the golden saucer? First chapter in FFT is great, reached chapter 3 exactly once.

I'll just... stop playing for awhile. Then, in a few weeks or months later, I'll pick up the controller, realize I've got no idea what I was doing, and restart.

 

[Casual Shinji]

It's a recurring issue for me when playing RPGs. The Witcher 3 is a game I'll most likely never finish, eventhough I love it, because I can't keep playing the same game for three weeks straight without, like, a two month break from it. After which I'll have completely lost my feeling for where I was proggression and story wise, that I need to start over from the very beginning.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Digression: Fuck finding malachite in Dragon Age Inquisition.

I think you can just buy that at the Black Emporium, which is a free download.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

This happens to me a lot. It happens with Legend of Zelda games if I stopped playing anywhere after the opening 2 hours, it happens with Elder Scrolls games, Final Fantasy...it's a common thing, isn't it? If the game isn't linear and I stop playing it for any length of time I'm gonna forget what I was doing. This is part of why it's taken me so long to beat Final Fantasy VIII.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Happens to me in Bethesda games all the time. Try going back to your original Fallout 3 save file on the 360. Won't have a fucking clue what's going on.
Hell, New Vegas I put in over 500 hours according to my 360 save file. And as far as I can tell, I've done every quest. And by 'done' I mean I systematically cleansed the population of the place. Almost every NPC is dead from what I can tell, and I have no memory of it!

Although one game that it never happens to me on? Mass Effect trilogy. I can pick that up after 3 years and BOOM! Right back into it, with the feels and wanting to read Fanfics, and lamenting that either Kaidan or Ashley had to die.
Very good series, that.

 

[happyninja42]

I had that with SW:TOR a few months back. I reinstalled when the new expansion was almost released, and couldn't remember how to play my Telekinetic Sage. So I just built a new one from scratch and relearned from the bottom up.

 

[cojo965]

Digression: Fuck finding malachite in Dragon Age Inquisition.

I think you can just buy that at the Black Emporium, which is a free download.

Just tried, nope, you can't.

 

[CeeBod]

Biggest example of that for me was probably X3:Terran Conflict. I played it and practically nothing else for a span that probably went on for months, then other games came along that grabbed my interest and I stopped playing for quite a while.

I fired it up again not so long ago, and there are huge complexes of factories, mines all over the place, trading ships both automated and manually operated, mining fleets, capital ships with fighter escorts, that are all mine and are all in the middle of doing stuff... and I have no idea what! I just scanned through my long list of ships and stations thinking "Did I really do all this? And what the hell was I planning next?" and then I just shut it down again, and haven't loaded it up since - completely overwhelmed!

 

[Casual Shinji]

Digression: Fuck finding malachite in Dragon Age Inquisition.

I think you can just buy that at the Black Emporium, which is a free download.

Just tried, nope, you can't.

Hmm. Guess it's one of the rarer materials the game wants you to slave over.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

That's basically the defining characteristic of my experience with RPGs. There's so much going on that when I put it down even for a week, I tend to forget what the hell I was doing and there's rarely a way to tell. The fact that quests are marked helps, but there's so much more than just the quests in RPGs, such as grinding or items that you're looking for.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

It's a recurring issue for me when playing RPGs. The Witcher 3 is a game I'll most likely never finish, eventhough I love it, because I can't keep playing the same game for three weeks straight without, like, a two month break from it. After which I'll have completely lost my feeling for where I was proggression and story wise, that I need to start over from the very beginning.

Pity...Witcher 3 peaks about 75% of the way through. You'll miss the best parts!

 

[Casual Shinji]

It's a recurring issue for me when playing RPGs. The Witcher 3 is a game I'll most likely never finish, eventhough I love it, because I can't keep playing the same game for three weeks straight without, like, a two month break from it. After which I'll have completely lost my feeling for where I was proggression and story wise, that I need to start over from the very beginning.

Pity...Witcher 3 peaks about 75% of the way through. You'll miss the best parts!

I got pretty far in though, just after the big Kaer Morhen event. After that though I was just completely spent on the game, and no matter how good it was I needed to go do something else.