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This is the exact same instinct that drives us to run away from the obvious path first. "Clearly that's where the final boss is. Let me just check what's down this way first..."
"...oh no wait, there's a point-of-no-return ledge here. Ok, so maybe that other way was actually where the secret was. I'll go back..."
"...hmm, there's another ledge on this side too. Let me just put in a save point and...ok, yeah, this one is the final boss. Let me reload and check the other path..."
"...ugh, it restarted me way back here? And respawned all the enemies when I reloaded? That's frustrating..."
"...THEY BOTH. LED. TO THE SAME. EXACT. PLACE."
This is why I have 120 hours in 40 hour games.
This, plus looking at a tiny little toe-sized piece of unexplored minimap on the opposite side of the world and thinking, "but what if there's something important there?!"
This, plus dragging every scrap of loot back to town to sell, no matter how bad the value/weight ratio is.
Oh this one's not me. For the first hour maybe but I get really picky really fast because it's more efficient to just find a new place to take the best loot from. Especially in something like Skyrim where the goons just respawn forever.
I play games this way too, but I feel like the bigger factor in my playtime way higher than necessary is that I don't want to miss any dialogue so I talk to every NPC until they repeat themselves. Most of the time that's the second time you talk to them so I definitely get a lot out of that.
..during the bg3 character creation
Accidentally going the right way is so infuriating.
WTF I don't come here to be attacked like this
It's ok. We're all here for each other.
No we're not. You two are on your own.
I still remember being really mad I missed the "added effect" materia in the original FF7. You can never ever go back to that cave, so if you don't turn around to pick it up you never get it. Pain.
Yeah.. I felt that. Hard. I need to actively tell myself it's not worth wasting so much time. Other times I just can't be bothered and I mindlessly waste time checking everything cause it somehow feels like less work.