The best part of video games back in the day was making memories with your friends, now it all feels like structured fun. “This is how you play the game and this is when you are supposed to have fun” Idk if that makes sense.

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    1 year ago

    Define “accessibility”, because it sounds like you’re describing a game trying to give a certain experience on a budget

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      1 year ago

      I should put “accessibility” in sarcastic quotation marks. Here, it doesn’t mean adding options or features to assist someone with different handicaps or needs. It means making the game so easy that anyone, even a toddler or game journalist, can finish it without having to learn from mistakes or think about what they’re doing.

      Particularly with regard to excessive guidance. Varying degrees of “mobile game that makes you click exactly what it says for 30 minutes to prove you played the tutorial.” Those games may be the worst offenders, but less-dramatic hand holding happens in console and PC games too.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a sweeping generalization, there are many indie games that are hard, obtuse, hostile or all of the above. Even a walking sim’s difficulty is higher than just “beating” it, just like the point of a museum is higher than going through all the rooms and saying you “went”