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.

Comments

[londo.livejournal.com]

Your last point seems especially salient when I have recently played a game in which I talked the end boss into killing himself.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I bet Chris Avellone was on the writing team of that one. Love his work!

(If I'm wrong, let me know, because if I haven't played whatever you're talking about, I probably should :)