8 MORE Video Games That Are IMPOSSIBLE For Newcomers
Intense video games for hardcore players only.
As the medium of video games has evolved from beepin' and boopin' your way through pixellated interpretations of reality in the pursuit of points and high score bragging rights, to cinematic spectacles sometimes indistinguishable from real life, so too has the concept of immersing the player through different and more complex means.
At one point keeping an audience hooked was as simple as having killer gameplay and a hold on their wallets, now it's about making them feel empowered, crafting stories that engage, and breathing life into characters in order for us to genuinely care about them.
Oh, and also having a hand on our wallets. That'll never change.
Still, in order to make sure that video games reach the largest possible audience, many have made sure their experiences are as easy to get into as possible and will provide lengthy tutorials, gentle learning curves, and quite possibly a fair bit of hand-holding in order to get players acclimated.
These games, however? Well, they ain't that friend, and will be more likely to punch you in the nose than offer a helping hand. If you're a newcomer looking to try out any of these games, beware, my friend, as you're likely going to die over and over and have no idea what's going on.
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8. DayZ
Born of a mod for Arma 2 (itself being a notoriously difficult egg to crack), DayZ took all of that game's foibles, added in zombies with an unending desire to feast on your brain matter, and challenged players to try and survive against these hoards of the undead as well as other players.
The mod exploded in popularity, helping give rise to the Battle Royale genre and the internet was awash with videos showing not just where the best loot was, but how to play the bloody thing at all. The game was like trying to read a Stephen Hawking book in a different language while a shifty bloke in the corner of your room tries to wedge a screwdriver in your spine every ten seconds.
Now in all honesty, at the time when I played this the most, the game was rife with bugs and glitches that hampered the experience so much that things would normally amount to: Walk for 20 minutes, pick up some half-eaten toast because everything else was already looted, turn around and get killed by another player from a mile away, or from a zombie that's just phased through a locked door.
It's a challenging game from start to finish, and one that actively seems to punish new players by offering no guidance on where to go, what to do, or how to survive being fed bleach by other sadistic members of the community.
Because yup, that was a thing.