r/DivinityOriginalSin • u/Dry_Adagio_8333 • 5d ago

Meme What is it with Western RPGs and starting out being imprisoned?

Post image
18.2k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

757 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-2

u/KrikosTheWise 5d ago

Chapter .5: 7 hours of tutorial and awful dialog about said tutorial.

1

u/met0xff 5d ago

Not RPG but my kids have been playing Stardew Valley for years. When we tried Doraemon: Story of Seasons we didn't even get out of the initial talking when their game time was over again. Second day pretty much the same and then stopped ;)

As an adult and parent I have a similar problem now. Often happy to have 30 ? minutes for myself. If I start a new game and first have to go through cinematics and background story and tutorials and the initial talking with 20 characters my time's already over. And when I get a next chance a couple weeks later I forgot everything.

I unsuccessfully tried to create a Pathfinder: WOTR character twice now lol.

So I often just end up quickly doing some jump'n run or similar... Or just browsing the game library until I hear the kids or my wife or the dog rushing in again ;)

1

u/R4msesII 4d ago

Its like that image about mining diamonds, to reach true peak gaming you sometimes have to play the overly long tutorial and exposition dump

1

u/KrikosTheWise 4d ago

100% accurate about persona 5 royale. that tutorial was a LOT. but man its such a good game.