RE: We chat about videogames and videogame accessories.
03-02-2014, 08:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-02-2014, 08:11 AM by cerebralconfinement.)
Someone mentioned Starseed Pilgrim earlier, and...I don't want to play it. At all.
Maybe it's just something with me and the way my brain works, because I see a pretty respectable amount of praise for that game, but...I just despise games that can't be bothered to give the player anything significant to work with.
Admittedly, I only had the game open for about three minutes, but that just really doesn't seem like anything resembling a good way to begin a game. If I get the basics, if I am taught the fundamentals of the game's core concepts, I can begin testing out different combinations and configurations. I can get right to the experimenting with a minimum of fuss. However, if I don't get to know anything, I spend my formative minutes within the game world simply learning how to do entry-level things. My mind begins to get locked into that pattern, and I end up being actively hindered in any efforts to figure out the cool stuff.
It's not fun.
(Incidentally, FEZ does this too, but to a lesser degree.)
Maybe it's just something with me and the way my brain works, because I see a pretty respectable amount of praise for that game, but...I just despise games that can't be bothered to give the player anything significant to work with.
Admittedly, I only had the game open for about three minutes, but that just really doesn't seem like anything resembling a good way to begin a game. If I get the basics, if I am taught the fundamentals of the game's core concepts, I can begin testing out different combinations and configurations. I can get right to the experimenting with a minimum of fuss. However, if I don't get to know anything, I spend my formative minutes within the game world simply learning how to do entry-level things. My mind begins to get locked into that pattern, and I end up being actively hindered in any efforts to figure out the cool stuff.
It's not fun.
(Incidentally, FEZ does this too, but to a lesser degree.)