# How lost do you get in video games?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 13, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-lost-do-you-get-in-video-games/449118 "2008-05-13T01:42:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![WF\_Tomba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@WF\_Tomba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WF_Tomba)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-lost-do-you-get-in-video-games/449118/21 "2008-05-14T01:10:07Z")

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I got lost in [Toad Town](http://www.mariowiki.com/Toad_Town). ☹

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**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-lost-do-you-get-in-video-games/449118/22 "2008-05-14T15:13:07Z")

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I don’t play games where you have to navigate through dungeons with a view like what the character sees- I get hopelessly lost in those. I’m fine if there’s an overhead view, a la Dragon Quest.

In real life, I have lousy spatial skills and get lost a lot. Not surprising that it happens in video games, too.

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-lost-do-you-get-in-video-games/449118/23 "2008-05-14T17:34:35Z")

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I haven’t been very lost since Zork (“You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.”)

Years of practice and my Male Sense of Direction Instincts ™ keep me from getting very lost in video games. I also have a healthy exploration desire that requires me to check out every direction to see what’s there.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-lost-do-you-get-in-video-games/449118/24 "2008-05-14T18:47:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Balance]  
The Great Crystal, on the other hand, nearly drove me to drink. Everything looked alike, there were cryptically named and numbered switches and forcefields, and the “map” was just a picture of the crystal as it might look from a distant airship.  
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Yep…but I don’t feel too bad about getting lost in there, because of that. They WANT you to get lost. (At least, I assume so.)

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