You need to start all over again, and the only thing you get is the knowledge that you’re not good enough. Unlike Dark Souls, you don’t get the chance to collect your effects and maybe salvage something out of the experience. You get too cocky, make a critical mistake at the wrong time, and you are killed. You make some headway and begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel.Īnd then, it’s all taken away. Depending on the playthrough, you may be granted excellent abilities and favorable game spaces in which to play. With games like Spelunky or The Binding of Isaac, they have a tendency to instill in you a false sense of confidence about your abilities. If you fail, it’s because you made a mistake so it’s at least fair. At least with that game, there is never any trickery or chance about the tools you are given.

Wrathĭark Souls is notorious for knocking you down a peg, but even it doesn’t punish you the way a rogue-like can. It’s the video game equivalent of waking up at 3:00 pm on a Tuesday. I’ve spent an entire (in real life) day playing Skyrim and never even leaving my town. After a period of time however, I find myself sitting and staring at the endless number of quests, and in the end all I find myself doing is furnishing my in-game house with crap. I begin by racing ahead and taking on new tasks as they come up. This is why I am completely slothful at open-world games like the Elder Scrolls series. I get paralyzed by the sheer number of options and end up becoming completely non-productive. Where I struggle however is when I’m given no real objectives and am free to mentally wander. Take writing for Twinfinite I need to write a certain number of articles each week. I work best with deadlines and clear objectives.

I stay busy because that’s just the way things are in my personal and professional life. Speaking of Skyrim, Elder Scrolls games bring out the absolute worst in me.

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