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cowgod I need your thoughts on "wiki games"

By this i mean games with so many obscure mechanics and diff...
message board of ill repute
  11/11/26
Binding of Isaac is annoying because it has these trinkets y...
Juan Eighty
  11/11/26
oh and on your 69th run make sure you stand in this exact ti...
message board of ill repute
  11/11/26
have you guys ever played the Binding of Isaac tabletop game...
ferengi
  11/11/26
Back in my day the wiki was a book and you had to buy it in ...
Junko Enoshima
  11/11/26
...
message board of ill repute
  11/11/26
This kind of stuff sucks imo. But some games are basically b...
cowgod
  11/11/26
(Guy who forgot Ghosts N Goblins)
Tirant Lo Blanc
  11/11/26
Capcom
cowgod
  11/12/26
Blue Prince is another example if you want to figure out all...
ferengi
  11/11/26
I think some people enjoy this type of thing and that's...
Mississippi Protein Ad
  11/12/26
modern gaming is a supremely Oversocialized experience where...
message board of ill repute
  11/12/26


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Date: November 11th, 2026 8:45 AM
Author: message board of ill repute

By this i mean games with so many obscure mechanics and different paths that a single person has no realistic chance of seeing/experiencing/solving everything without having to go Online and look stuff up in a wiki. think Minecraft, Binding of Isaac, maybe other weird stuff like Noita or Void Stranger. discuss

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50249714)



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Date: November 11th, 2026 9:43 AM
Author: Juan Eighty

Binding of Isaac is annoying because it has these trinkets you can pick up and there's no explanation of what stat effect they provide

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50249795)



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Date: November 11th, 2026 10:10 AM
Author: message board of ill repute

oh and on your 69th run make sure you stand in this exact tile for 420 seconds so yu get a 1/65 chance to fight this secret boss

fuck this kind of shit

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50249840)



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Date: November 11th, 2026 10:36 PM
Author: ferengi

have you guys ever played the Binding of Isaac tabletop game Four Souls? it's 1800000000

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50252046)



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Date: November 11th, 2026 9:46 AM
Author: Junko Enoshima

Back in my day the wiki was a book and you had to buy it in a store!

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50249802)



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Date: November 11th, 2026 2:38 PM
Author: message board of ill repute



(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50250664)



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Date: November 11th, 2026 10:26 PM
Author: cowgod

This kind of stuff sucks imo. But some games are basically built FOR the devs to enjoy and no one checks to see if it’s fun. Like think of Battletoads. The main tester was just good as fuck at games, sociopathic, and played it for 1000k hours. Many such cases.

Say what you want if Nintendo bug they don’t let psychopathic Nerds torture their audience ime

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50252027)



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Date: November 11th, 2026 10:31 PM
Author: Tirant Lo Blanc

(Guy who forgot Ghosts N Goblins)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50252039)



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Date: November 12th, 2026 7:44 AM
Author: cowgod

Capcom

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50252418)



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Date: November 11th, 2026 10:38 PM
Author: ferengi

Blue Prince is another example if you want to figure out all the lore

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50252049)



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Date: November 12th, 2026 7:57 AM
Author: Mississippi Protein Ad

I think some people enjoy this type of thing and that's okay

not for me though

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50252434)



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Date: November 12th, 2026 8:56 AM
Author: message board of ill repute

modern gaming is a supremely Oversocialized experience where there needs to be a wiki and a subreddit and a discord and the devs are patching the game on the fly and it all becomes one big circlejerk. but im at the point where i treat single player games like i would read a novel. i want a curated start to finish experience where i can match minds with the developer. i dont mind spending 40 hours on a game or getting stuck in some places but i want the satisfaction of finding things out myself

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5921261&forum_id=2#50252538)