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]

however, you don't *have* to have that deep engagement and prior knowledge to enjoy the work.

Apropos, my usenet sig quotes james_nicoll: "I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface."

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

That one has long been in my file of random quotes as well.