First day of classes today. I don't think I'm used to two terms of classes in a row. Before waking up, I had a dream where I was late to my first day of work
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On the other hand, if your actions can be replaced by the simplistic programming provided by the game, it probably wasn't all that involving or challenging.
I think this goes to "what do people want from a video game". I've noticed that console games are, more and more, displaying learning curves equal to that of PC games (where an hour or more to learn the game's UI is not uncommon, especially for strategy games).
Edgar Allen Poe once wrote a series of detective stories wherein the protagonist compares chess un-favourably to checkers. His thesis is that chess is only difficult to master insofar as it is complex, and being a better chess player is mostly a matter of being better able to handle branching decision trees and remember fancy gambits than one's opponent. Checkers, so the protagonist alleges, is a game of pure strategy because it is so simple; the better strategist wins because the complexity of the rules can't confuse the issue and experience with the game is irrelevant. (I imagine he would have felt the same way about
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I think this goes to "what do people want from a video game". I've noticed that console games are, more and more, displaying learning curves equal to that of PC games (where an hour or more to learn the game's UI is not uncommon, especially for strategy games).
Edgar Allen Poe once wrote a series of detective stories wherein the protagonist compares chess un-favourably to checkers. His thesis is that chess is only difficult to master insofar as it is complex, and being a better chess player is mostly a matter of being better able to handle branching decision trees and remember fancy gambits than one's opponent. Checkers, so the protagonist alleges, is a game of pure strategy because it is so simple; the better strategist wins because the complexity of the rules can't confuse the issue and experience with the game is irrelevant. (I imagine he would have felt the same way about ( ... )
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