Originally posted by Eightball:

As an long time gamer (yes, read old) I find it interesting that many people prefer to learn all the nuances of a game -to include puzzle solutions, locations, meta gear sets, etc- via a wiki as opposed to learning through their own in game experience.

Granted many of the resources available now were not around when I first started gaming and if they were I may have used them, I can't really say.

So do you think 'learning how to play the game before playing the game' through things like wiki and YT videos is considered the norm now?

And do think developers take into consideration that players will use such out-of-game resources so they feel less constrained to use game mechanics that can be 'figured' out by the average player and can instead use more obtuse mechanics?

Is some of a game's potential 'fun' affected by a wiki/YT approach or do these resources allow a player to 'get to the good parts' of game sooner?

Just curious what your thoughts are on the matter as it came up in a conversation recently.

As I grew up playing games on various different consoles and the first few computers capalbe of running games with the help of multiple floppy drives and the start of the first wave of massive online games, its not really that type of games that we see anymore.

just about every single game provides a lot if not too much automation in modern times to guide the players through pointers, text and voice acting and practically every successful game seem to cater to the norm in order to please shareholders.

as for valheim, the mechanical fights is almost completely nonexistent and youll be fine just following simple attack patterns along with their respective cooldowns to know when to preserve stamina or when to exhaust stam for burning the boss healthpool.

i dont really watch a lot of youtube in general but i like to build an educated understanding of the game raw and learn from my own mistakes

sadly most games tend to suffer due to poltics and catering towards content creativity with a lot of censorship and soulless content