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jadagul:

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lumsel:

jadagul:

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Recurring thought when I watch blind plays of video games: you have to read the words on the screen. When characters tell you things, you should read those things and remember them. And you should read all of the words, not just like 2/3 of them.

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I know my \u201ccan remember everything I\u2019ve read over a three-hour period and keep a twelve-point to-do list in my head\u201d privilege is probably showing here. But it always amazes me when people will kind of half-assedly skim the text, maybe even read it out loud but not pay attention to what they\u2019re saying, and then have no idea what they\u2019re supposed to do next.

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I suspect trying to play a game while keeping a running commentary going makes it more difficult to use other parts of your brain, including the part for reading and the part for retaining information

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This is fair. People who are streaming are having to juggle extra thoughts and that can make it harder to keep track of stuff.

rustingbridges

the issue is, so much of the time you really don\u2019t have to, and it ain\u2019t worth it

This, on the other hand, is utterly incomprehensible.\u00a0 (1) Why are you playing games with a bunch of text you\u2019re not reading?\u00a0 (2) Reading and remembering text is easy and free.\u00a0 Lots of puzzles are genuinely hard, but\u00a0\u201cnoticing the words that were on the screen\u201d doesn\u2019t seem like it should be one of them.

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I mean I tried the sequel LOTR Ubisoft-alike because it was free on PlayStation and it was just so clearly second-rate. Or like, 1.5th. Like not an AAA game, maybe AA.

And that included the writing and direction, I guess they think these things need a story to stitch the segments together but I ended up skipping every cutscene entirely, and then dropped into the mission if I didn’t have objective text or an arrow on screen or an obvious path to take (be it like thru a cavern or “you have a new item and a particular special object type in front of you, use one on the other”) then after like 15 sec there would probably be an audio cue of your character remembering what to do

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