Cogent observation on a common game design failing

[alexxkay]

"Videogames do a thing that no other industry does. You cannot be bad at watching a movie. You cannot be bad at listening to an album. But you can be bad at playing a videogame, and the videogame will punish you and deny you access to the rest of the videogame." My pedant-side wants to argue with him, but he's funny, and mostly correct.

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[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Is there a transcript of that video anywhere?

I see the point, and agree that one of the appeals of games is the sense of accomplishment. But (as I mentioned recently on another blog) I don't have good reflexes, and am not happy that the vast majority of commercial games I hear of require them. Which is why it's been about 20 years since I've spent any money on a computer game.