I wonder if this is partially down to the autism, but I can get really lost in stuff like first person shooter games.
I have this issue more with 6th gen console era games and earlier. When I played Doom and Duke Nukem 3D, I often got lost. I think it’s down to the more “primitive” graphics. Things look more “samey” (because there’s literally less textures in these games.)
Oh my god Metal of Honor: Rising Sun was ass. Specifically the Guatemala level.
Do you like various shades of green and brown? Because lady do I have an Unreal Engine map for you to enjoy!
Everything looks identical. I fucking mean it. You’re surrounded by the same exact low res 2D texture of 👋forest👋 plastered onto the walls surrounding the playable area.
There are no landmarks. There are multiple circular paths. The path forward is extremely difficult to pick out.
Fucking god awful, absolutely sucked any and all good will I had towards the game.
I do wonder if this is related to me also being absolutely TERRIBLE at looking for stuff. Especially if it’s someone asking me to grab something I’ve never seen before.
It was a running joke in my guild on how I always got lost in WoW and often needed someone to guide me or get me from somewhere. It took a lot of repetition to learn to navigate in some places. Once I know them though, I know them forever, like even now (it’s been over 5 years since I touched the game).
Didn’t know the audhd bit at the time, but have wondered about this. Along with how I only ever could bring myself to play the one class I liked and had originally chosen and kept it always looking a lot like myself, relating to it a lot. Only ever really played one spec too, even when it was shit.
I was really good at raiding and mythic+ though, but always got lost the first weeks trying to get to those. And definitely would also get lost in the instances if left alone.