Wikicore

Unless a game explicitly requires use of a guide or is nigh on fucking impossible without it, it's not a wiki game. I don't get what about this is so hard to understand for these people :1

just started another playthru of this.
just finished the dungeon and ran out of steam cuz I really really cant be fucked with all the busywork needed to dig the hellevator, build a hell platform and prepare for hardmode.

They freak out if there isn't a guide arrow pointing to where they should go. Imagine dropping them into a world and saying have fun. These are people who think empty "backrooms" and pools are scary

Its more fun not to prepare for hardmode. And a hellevator is as simple as a stack of bombs

A hellevator really isn't that hard to make. Pop a few mining potions or use a stack of bombs. :P

Anon, Terraria is my favorite game hands down, I played it on release back in 2011 and still do to this day.
But it's still extremely flawed all over the place though, and the fact you're expected to use the wiki for everything is still bad design.
All will change when I make my successor though

I thought there were QOL mods for exactly this. Instant hellevator, instant commie blocks etc

you're expected to use the wiki

In what way?

The guide's loose directions aren't good enough, and there's miles of content just rooted in enemy drops and simply understanding all of the different armors, weapons and such.
Really, think about it.

enemy drops and simply understanding all of the different armors, weapons and such.

You find all of this out by playing the game

Its about exploration. You kill something, it drops something, you pick up and go "Whoa, what is this? It can do that!?"

If you're using a wiki you ruin the discovery for yourself

That's how I felt when I noticed a tunnel going down and found my first enchanted sword. You find this shit out by playing the game and exploring, combat is just half of Terraria's fun.

Post hours

Missing another 1k from tmod and such but its definitely my favorite

2k hours and he still thinks he needs the wiki

You might just be retarded anon.

I honestly didnt wiki for terraria at all, what is there even to wiki? You get shit you show it to the guide that's it

What's wrong with learning how to play a game trough word of mouth?

And a hellevator is as simple as a stack of bombs

i wish it was this simple, when really getting it to be a straight vertical tunnel with bombs is a massive pain in the ass

Get gel

Make sticky bombs

Aim

???

Profit

Unless you're in school or an unemployed fag you're not beating this game without UESP.

The guide is a wiki.

I obviously dont but I'm not dumb enough to fail to recognize how the game is designed

I beat it with gamefaqs

By that logic every single game is a wiki game. Hey man it just said "press E to open door" thats an ingame wiki

play game

continuously finding new things even after 500 hours

this is somehow a bad thing

You clearly are though, if you think that exploration and experimentation require you to be hand-fed.

If it needs to tell you keybinds to do specific things, then yes that is wikigaming. If it just tells you E is the interact button and doesn't tell you about doors, then that's just telling you the controls which isn't wikigaming.

But it just told you E is the interact button. Thats already an ingame wiki
It also gave you a potion and it says "healing potion", how the fuck would you know that? Basically an ingame wiki moment too

game all about exploration and discovery

"i need to look at the wiki"

nigger

Information of the controls isn't wikigaming though. It doesn't tell you anything about the actual game. The healing potion introduces itself. Not comparable to the guide telling you everything you can or need to do due to otherwise hidden mechanics. Stop being a dense Redditor.

Fabsol?

Won.

boomercore

i beat it before i had internet but now i could write a wiki from my brain memory

Not comparable to the guide telling you everything you can or need to do

When the fuck does hte guide do that, you retarded cocksucker? You show him an item he tells you what it crafts. That's it

The guide will not tell you about the rod of discord, who drops it, where they spawn and the drop chance, shit's just for materials.

That's why you're suppose to happen upon it yourself. Not go hit a wiki as soon as you start a game so you can see everything in it and spoil everything

Anon I learned some of the most esoteric shit in the game on my own, I made my own videos and guides when the game released over a decade ago
There's absolutely a shit ton in Terraria that is just outright never explained to you

How are you supposed to know you need a crystal ball underwater to make certain types of decorative animated glass blocks? How are you supposed to know the Arms Dealer/Other NPC's sell items on specific days/nights/events?

There's just a lot of shit in Terraria you're expected to know while you play it. It's fine, it's obviously made for all of us that have played hundreds and hundreds of hours. But for someone playing for the first time I can absolutely understand the frustration not being able to find a lot of this content naturally

youre not expected to know it, it's easter eggs

Quit being a disingenuous obtuse faggot anon
Stop stringing this argument on for no reason when its blatantly obvious that Terraria has an absolute shit ton of content in the game with no explanation that it's there and the expectation is that you're either told/shown by your friends, or that you look it up on a wiki

Do you need yellow paint in the ocean?

Terraria has an absolute shit ton of content in the game with no explanation that it's there and the expectation is that you're either told/shown by your friends, or that you look it up on a wiki

not him but do you have any examples? I dont use wikis and terraria was fine for me

Honestly think about the progression throughout the overall game
How do you fight Duke Fishron?

Be in Mushroom Biome

See unique worm

Kill it

Doesn't drop anything

Chase it

It runs away extremely quickly, rather rare and difficult to catch

Catch it

See that its Bait

Use it in a random water source

Nothing happens

Only when you use it in one of the Oceans does it summon an entire boss

Its shit like this in a lot of spots around the game that frustrate me

How are you supposed to know

Fucking experiment, check in. You're either retarded or disingenuous.

AI slop game

None of that is really that obscure though. You already learned that there's bait for specific bodies of water because of lava bugs, so you try it everywhere. Catching the worm is just matter of course, you get a bugnet for a reason

Terraria is literally a game for autists.

The in game bestiary entry for the truffle worm literally tells you to use it in the ocean you twit. Its not the games fault you're not inquisitive enough to use the tools it puts right in front of you

see I didnt even know that but I still found out by just trying it everyhwere cause there was no way such a special worm didn't have a use somewhere

shimmer

it just does random shit

you have to test every single item in the game for a special interaction

some recipes have hidden random requirements like moon phase or boss checks

have to test every item on every moon phase on both corruption and crimson worlds, and blood moons and solar elipses and invasions and and and

bloatslop

>have to test every item on every moon phase on both corruption and crimson worlds, and blood moons and solar elipses and invasions and and and

not really, realistically you'll just throw it in to test it and it'll return one of the different colored bricks. You won't know there's anything else to it, means you'll just have a different brick color than others when doing it. Maybe you do it twice and maybe you even make the connection
either way, you only think you "have to" do all these things ebcause you're a guidereadign faggot who somehow has to justify it.

it just does random shit

Except it doesn't

throw item in

it transformers into another item you know is part of a recipe to make something

you now have an easy way to make items you're missing in recipes if you have multiple of another item in that recipe

I literally figured it out after the second item I threw in

Project Zomboid requires a day course to learn how to actually play and make progress.
It's not even about looking through Wiki articles. You need to watch videos on how to do shit.

playing terraria in current year without wiki is like playing isaac in current year without an item description mod

2D Minecraft

but doesnt suck like 3d minecraft

You haven't figured out the shimmer if that are your takes on it. You're missing out on 95% of the content of it.