Generally speaking, you can master the general gameplay in the first 5 hours of a game, and after 10 hours, you can basically master most of the skills in the game relatively proficiently. If it is a single-player game, it may be enough to play the entire process and experience most of the content of the game.
However, there are also some games with a very high threshold for getting started, not to mention just a few hours, even after playing for more than ten hours, you may be confused and don't know how to play. These games often take a lot of time to practice, and it can take hundreds of hours of gameplay to get started.
Some people may ask, can anyone really play a game with such a high degree of difficulty? In my personal experience, I've been playing games for more than 20 years, and I've played a few games that have a very high barrier to entry, and these games are really popular. Although it is true that the threshold for getting started is too high, it is also welcomed by more hardcore players who like to challenge high difficulty.
The first of these games was Warcraft 3, which was tried by almost all gamers to a greater or lesser extent in the era when RTS games were still very popular. When I first played, I was still in the game of crushing the enemy all the way with the invincible cheats.,It's over in a few minutes to fight with the computer.,I once thought the game was very simple and boring.,It wasn't until later that I didn't rely on cheats to start learning from scratch when I knew how hardcore this game was.。
After leaving the cheats,At first, I couldn't even beat the battle of the game.,There's a level in the Terran battle to resist the attack of the undead for 30 minutes.,I don't need 30 minutes at all for that level.,20 minutes less than the hometown was basically demolished.。 Playing versus mode is also a win or defeat against a medium-difficulty computer, and a crazy difficulty computer can't beat it at all. The first time I played Crazy Computer was a few months after I played it, and if there were game time statistics, it would have been over 100 hours.
Playing the computer on crazy difficulty is just a novice village for Warcraft 3 players, and the real challenge is to play against other players online. I remember someone told me at the time that if you want to get started with Warcraft Battle, you must first be abused by others on the battle platform 100 times, which is more useful than watching any instructional video. According to a 20-minute calculation, it is basically another 30 hours of tuition, and this is only the tuition fee for getting started with the battle gameplay.
Facts have proved that what he said is not only not exaggerated, but also conservative, when I was really able to achieve a balance of victory and defeat, I had actually played two or three hundred, the first 100 were almost all abused, the number of wins was very small, it is estimated that there are only a dozen times, this kind of frustration is estimated to be unimaginable to players now, but this is the process that every RTS player had to go through back then. So there is a reason why RTS games are declining now, and this kind of game with too high a threshold for entry has indeed been eliminated in this era of fast food games.
The second game that cost me hundreds of hours just getting started was World of Warcraft, a game I didn't want to play just because I thought it was too complicated just by seeing the dozens of dense skills in its skill bar. Fortunately, these skills are not all unlocked at the beginning, but they are unlocked one after another on the way to upgrade, otherwise it is estimated that no one wants to be at a loss for dozens of skills as soon as they enter the game.
However, in the early version, it took at least 100 hours just to upgrade to the full level, and unlike other online games, other online games basically ended the game as long as they were upgraded to the full level, but for World of Warcraft, upgrading to the full level means that the game has just begun. All team dungeons will only be available after the player reaches the maximum level, including most of the 5-player dungeons are also at full level, which means that after hundreds of hours of leveling, players will have to spend a lot of time familiarizing themselves with each dungeon.
For example, it took me almost a version or so from entering the World of Warcraft to actually becoming a member of the Guild Reclamation Group, which translates into hundreds of hours of gameplay. During these hundreds of hours, I had to start from scratch to familiarize myself with the game's controls, my class, and how to play each dungeon, while also having to go to the dungeon myself to practice my proficiency. By the time the regiment commander finally met the requirements, it had already exceeded 100 hours.
The last game that made me lament that it was too difficult to get started was Path of Exile, and I chose to play this game because I was tired of playing Diablo 3 and wanted to change my taste. At the time, I thought that this kind of brush game would not be too difficult, but I knew that when I entered the game, I almost didn't let me delete the game on the spot when I saw the talent skill interface, and there were hundreds of skill icons densely distributed in the entire skill interface, and you need to choose to build a genre of your own in a large number of skills, this difficulty can be imagined.
And unlike Diablo 3, which can be played directly in adventure mode, in Path of Exile, players need to clear the main story of ten chapters before entering free mode. The difficulty of the early stage of the main story is okay, and the difficulty of the last few chapters has skyrocketed, if you don't build a skill route with decent strength, then when you fight the boss, you will find that your damage is like scraping the boss. At least dozens of hours have passed by the time the main line is opened, and this time may not even be considered an entry.
In my opinion, Path of Exile is a game that can at least be considered a beginner until you can identify some key skills among those hundreds of skills and understand the linkage between skill gems on equipment, and it will take at least hundreds of hours of playtime to do so. If you want to create your own genre to clear all kinds of difficult maps, it will take even longer, and it can be said that Path of Exile is the most complex and high-threshold dark brush game I have ever played.
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In fact, there are many games like this that require a lot of time to get familiar with, such as FPS games, fighting games, and more niche audio games, and you can't see the effect if you don't put in hundreds or thousands of hours of practice. But it is precisely because of this challenge that many players have attracted that may not be comparable to those popular games in terms of quantity, but the loyalty of players is quite high, and as long as the game can continue to release new works, they will continue to play day after day, which is also the unique charm of difficult games.