Gaming

Never played destiny and never will, but deep rock galactic, overwatch, and baldur’s gate all have mechanics rooted in other games. After playing a few other ability-heavy shooters with slower onboarding, OW and DRG make sense.

I think Larian Games do very little to explain their rules to the player. I, too, found it incredibly frustrating when I played Divinity: Original Sin and later, DOS 2. So while I didn't carve out time from my day to learn the ins and outs of Baldur's Gate III, I did have experience with the other two games that helped me navigate it.

I adore these games but it took many hours of training for me to understand what it was I was even supposed to be doing.

I, too, miss the easy pick up and play games of the past.

Do you guys really spend hours of your day just researching on the internet how to play these games? Or do you just jump in and wing it?

I jump in, wing it and if I don't know how stuff works I quickly search it in the game's wiki or guide. Time spent figuring out how stuff works by trial and error is time I could play the game instead.

For destiny, I have no idea. I first played D2 when it launched and that was fine, but I attempted to pick it up again a year or two later and I was immediately lost.

For overwatch I agai haven't played in quite some time. But for multiplayer shooters like that I try to go into a casual mode or training mode first and just get a feel for everything. Eventually you get the hang of things.

For RPG's it depends. Some games can benefit from reading up online. For example I'm playing bloodborne right now and I had no idea how I wanted to spec out my character. So I looked up what weapons and abilities are in the game and made my decision based around that. If a game features a respec option, I'll be more likely to just go in and wing it and change things up when I need to.