I'm 29 years old, I've been playing video games for 25 years. I know how they work. I've been deciphering obtuse game mechanics for decades. I just want to install a game and figure it out for myself without sitting through hours of tutorials and boring ass introductory shit that treats you like you've never played a game before.
Please tell me some fun games that have little-to-no handholding or tutorialising of any kind. At the very least entirely skippable introductions.
Aurora
Terraria
Let's see you play Knights in the Nightmare with no tutorial. It's optional, so you can skip it if you want.
Those necromancers look dope as fuck.
Hearts of Iron 3
The tutorial is both optional AND useless!
deus ex
Dwarf Fortress
Space Station 13
Enjoy, there is absolutely no instruction in game. Figure it out or read the wiki.
Don't worry though, once you get the controls down, the rest generally makes sense (e.g.: use lit zippo on cigarette to light it)
The tutorial is optional, I guess.
This is true of all Paradox games in general
La Mulana
Serpent in the Staglands
Stellaris had a decent one. Too bad the game won't be finished until 5 years and 10 DLCs from now.
Sandcastle Builder
Is it wrong to get a mental boner every time I think about Aurora? Its just so god damn many numbers and kinds of crap all over the place but once you start trying to create your own internal narrative like the dudes in the forumdo, it just clicks. Kinda like how atari-era gamea had squares that you dropped but you knew they were bombs.
is this a thinly veiled Breath of the Wild thread?
please, please, please kill yourself
or contain yourself to one of the other 20 retarded zelda related threads on the catalogue right now
can't exist nowadays. games are too focused on nuanced gimmicks that tutorials are a necessity or the player won't know how to do anything
Mount b/w Blade: Barwand
Kill yourself, Matthew.
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Serious Sam 3 and Rise of the Triad come to mind
I think you can disable DOOM 2016's popups although there are some unskippable cutscenes
Painkiller threw you in the thick of it with no tutorials
soulsborne
TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O
Gothic
SaGa games.
I just remembered that Cod5 had no tutorial...
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I feel it too.
Too bad the game breaks my computer whenever I try to play it with its current engine.
C# fucking when
Dorf Fort. Have fun.
this
Wizardry series
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there's guides and tutorials via the internet but if you ignore all that, may take 2 or 3 new files to not fuck up the flow of the game, and restarting is somewhat tedious. the game makes a point to ignore almost every jrpg convention
if you already played that, try dominions 4
Gothic series
Morrowind
Stalker series
Hitman series
Thief series
I want to say the stalker series? From memory you kinda just get stuck right into it from the get go and then eventually pick up the memes
Tetris.
Farcry 3,4 and ghost recon wildlands had no obvious tutorial,or I'm just crazy unobservant
Stalker, Theif, Morrowind,
Good picks, figuring out the game is half the fun.
Not OP but man I restarted that game like 3 times but never finished it.
There is a lot you can do wrong in this game. I think the furthest I was at was the tower of the alchemist/mage? Couldn't defeat the enemies roaming there.
>I'm 29 years old, I've been playing video games for 25 years. I know how they work.
You're not the target audience, deal with it.
Pathologic HD.
You have two characters that cryptically explain how things work in short dialogues at the start then you're alone.
The Void too but it can be very frustrating, depend what "fun" mean to you.
Wargame Red Dragon
One of the best I've played recently is Stephen's Sausage Roll.
The way it introduce all the mecanics is genius.
I go back to that game once in a while, haven't played with friends since we collectively burned out on it and rarely finished games, but I'll still start up or idly continue a new solo game sometimes
what's wrong with it? is it just paradox syndrome?
Underrail has a very short tutorial that you can skip.
Fallen Earth.
>Stephen's Sausage Roll
>$29.99
No historical background and relation makes it a bit dull
Mount&Blade
ultima 1
this.
lets see how long OP lasts until he checks the wiki
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>I'm 29 years old, I've been playing video games for 25 years. I know how they work.
>You're not the target audience, deal with it.
Average age of a person who plays games is like 27. Publishers are morons for not catering to older demographics.