I get lost sometimes, geographically or instructurally, so when someone gives you a cardinal direction but no distance or vice versa it just ruins me. In video games especially, I've walked from one end of the map to the other because I wasn't told when to turn left. Which is why maps exist.
But I'm going to tell you know of a game I played (yes another game, so original, just telling stories of when I fail at video games, but meh, it's my blog, you don't like it go make your own) called Tales of The Abyss which suffers from the wost direction ever! Normally in video games, when you leave a town there is a obvious road, one that brought you to the town you're in and leads away from it, the obvious thing is to follow this path when leaving to the next place. But in ToA this path rarely exists and to put further problems on top, the world map only shows places you've already been to, so you have no hint as to where this dungeon, town or geographical location might be.
In one instance I was told to traverse a wide open plane and reach safety on the other side, so I did. But nothing happened. I reached the capitol of the country with a message for the king, but the game wouldn't allow me to leave the instanced warzone, to I scoured the edge of the map, trying to find the door. I did eventually find it, it was an inter-continental bridge far to the east, with no sign on the map such a place existed, nor an actual mark on the map of such a nessesary spot. And I was penalized for it.
Another instance is upon getting a ship for the first time, I'm told to find a town called Sheriden, of course I've never been there and no one's mentioned it up to now and I'm not even given the hemisphere of the world it's in, it's time for me to hug every coastline until I find it. It took me days @n@
My current problem (the above are just some of the worst examples, others include trying to find a single mountain in a range of identical mountains to climb, finding a patch of Forest which was a dungeon and working out where the hell the Absorption Gate is) is finding either an island or a battle ship that's circling the world, as neither have been visited yet I have no clue where they could be, so yeah stuck on that, and online walk-throughs make it seem inherently obvious, so I must be doing my second super power and missing the obvious.
