Man, sometimes nothing ruins a good game more than reading a strategy guide and realizing the way to win big doesn't sound like fun in the slightest.
a possibly tl;dr example of when i regret reading the strategy guide :)
@KinkyTurtle Well, I've been having a tremendous amount of fun with the RPG deckbuilder Griftlands, but I've maxxed out what I can do with my current skills and I'm now familiar with all the (excellent!) storyline content-- so the game was already getting a bit less fun.
So I look at the strategy guides, and apparently the optimal strategy for success at high levels is... you have to (1) murder everybody who doesn't like you, and (2) spend all your money on improving diplomatic relations with each and every other NPC in the game whose "social boons" work with your character build.
The first is unpleasant for such a good-natured game, and works against the deck archetypes I like. The second is just tedious and time-consuming and basically requires playing the game with the wiki open.
It doesn't necessarily ruin the game for me, but... I kinda wish there were some intermediate strategy guides. I need advice that's more like "here are some good cards; here are some bad cards; here are some good combos; here are some mechanics you may have neglected."
I feel like when I look for advice on a game, what I usually find is more like "OK, here is the One True Way to win this game at Prestige Level 99. If you just learn to do few simple homogeneous third-order non-linear partial differential equations in your head, you can do infinite combos that do a quadrillion damage to the boss before combat even starts, but you shall never see daylight nor know the love of a mortal again."
a possibly tl;dr example of when i regret reading the strategy guide :)
Aha, wow, yeah.
*hums to self*
some GOOD cards
some BAD cards
and it all works out
sometimes I'm a little freaked out, I will...
re: a possibly tl;dr example of when i regret reading the strategy guide :)
re: a possibly tl;dr example of when i regret reading the strategy guide :)
Y'know, this is the first time I've thought about the grammar of those lyrics. Is he saying "sometimes I'm a little freaked out *that* I will find a city to live in"? I think I'd just always subconsciously assumed the two statements were unconnected.
re: a possibly tl;dr example of when i regret reading the strategy guide :)
@KinkyTurtle I think intentional ambiguity is a huge recurring theme in Talking Heads lyrics in general-- e.g. I've never quite figured out whether No Compassion is meant to be ironic, and I know music critics have HOTLY debated the topic-- so I suspect both connected and unconnected are valid interpretations by design. It just seems like the sort of thing Unca David would do.
re: a possibly tl;dr example of when i regret reading the strategy guide :)
@KinkyTurtle Compare "I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad" from Gorillaz' Clint Eastwood...
@zebratron2084
I'm curious to hear a specific example of this.