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Title: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: Reinhart77 on July 06, 2013, 08:09:57 PM
Playing Lament of Innocence on the PS3 with the maps off.  It can be a challenge to get through that maze without them.  I guess it's just one way I tend to make a replay more difficult.
Title: Re: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: Pfil on July 06, 2013, 08:19:46 PM
I couldn't do anything in a game without maps, my sense of orientation is 0%  :P
Title: Re: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: Reinhart77 on July 06, 2013, 08:46:14 PM
i wonder if LoS2 will have a map?
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Post by: GuyStarwind on July 06, 2013, 10:35:40 PM
The LoI map always confused me.
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Post by: Shiroi Koumori on July 06, 2013, 11:28:31 PM
I could play AoS without the map. Maybe because I've played it for so many times.
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Post by: X on July 07, 2013, 12:07:14 AM
My Dungeon sense is way off. When ever I'm playing LoI or CoD I have to check the map every few rooms just to make sure I'm going in the right direction. It's not too bad in CoD because I can manually orientate the camera, but in LoI where you have no control of the camera then map-checking becomes almost mandatory. The 2D Metroidvanias aren't too difficult to navigate through. But it's habitual of me to bring up the map screen and see what I need to.
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Post by: Dark Nemesis on July 07, 2013, 03:57:27 AM
I have played so many times each Castlevania game that the only reason i'm going and look the map is only to see if i have left any spot untouched on the map for the percentage completion.
Title: Re: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: The Puritan on July 07, 2013, 06:03:00 AM
The only game I can do this without missing a single .01% is SOTN. Then again, I've been playing it like twice a year for the last sixteen.  ;D

I couldn't do anything in a game without maps, my sense of orientation is 0%  :P

There should be an award for minimal map-checking, ala Silent Hill Origins.

Title: Re: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: Reinhart77 on July 07, 2013, 06:47:54 AM
There should be an award for minimal map-checking, ala Silent Hill Origins.

That'd make a great trophy/achievement.
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Post by: Phoenix7786 on July 07, 2013, 10:30:48 AM
Welcome to the Dungeon, Puritan!
Title: Re: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: Zetheraxza on July 07, 2013, 02:37:00 PM
I can play it without checking maps in SotN but before I venture to the reverse castle I will check my map once to check if I've gone everywhere and broke every wall. But AoS? No way, you can say that I've mastered that game.
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Post by: uzo on July 07, 2013, 02:56:51 PM
When the game is orientated strictly in one direction: ie SotN, 2D Zelda games, etc, I can EASILY navigate the world. When orientation is movable, ie free flowing camera like LoI, CoD, and other 3D games, then forget it. I'll get lost frequently if I don't keep looking at the map. However, the more generic and repetitive the visuals and layout of the rooms are (LoI and CoD unfortunately are VERY) then it becomes impossible for me to navigate.
Title: Re: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: Mystic Myotis on July 07, 2013, 03:00:11 PM
Hmm, I think I could do that on most of the games.  The only game I'd have a lot of trouble with would be Harmony of Dissonance, and anyone who has played that game knows exactly why that is.

I'm very familiar with LoI's and CoD's maps, as well as SotN's and the DS games.    Aria is pretty easy to navigate.  I'd probably get lost a few times in CotM, but it wouldn't be that big a deal.  But HoD would trip me up completely.
Title: Re: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: Reinhart77 on July 08, 2013, 08:11:01 PM
oh wow, Harmony of Dissonance without a map.  i'll have to try that.
Title: Re: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: Pfil on July 09, 2013, 02:29:11 AM
I'd get lost in pretty much any game without map, but I can make it through some 2D games without checking it.
But HoD, I don't believe I could eventually finish it someday without using the map. I'd be lost forever walking around in circles.
Title: Re: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: Dark Nemesis on July 09, 2013, 03:29:04 AM
Never mind, wrong thought....... :P
Title: Re: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: Pfil on July 09, 2013, 06:02:43 AM
There should be an award for minimal map-checking, ala Silent Hill Origins.
I guess I could try PoR, since I know it by heart, but anyway it would take me hours and hours to find some places without a map :P
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Post by: crisis on July 09, 2013, 10:10:04 AM
Sometimes I play with the map off, and most of the time I play with my pants off #dontjudgeme
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Post by: Dark Nemesis on July 09, 2013, 10:16:22 AM
and most of the time I play with my pants off #dontjudgeme

That must be when you have a Castle orgasm.
Title: Re: Ever play with the maps off?
Post by: Pfil on July 09, 2013, 10:33:32 PM
Sometimes I play with the map off, and most of the time I play with my pants off #dontjudgeme
Because you are wearing shorts?  :P