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Most people don't want to do homework before they play a game. Super Mario Bros. is a game that was alien to many of the first people playing it, but people sti
by alexb_ 4y ago
Most people don't want to do homework before they play a game. Super Mario Bros. is a game that was alien to many of the first people playing it, but people still played it without reading the manual because the game is intuitive at teaching you what to do.
A good video game teaches you what to do, it doesn't demand you learn yourself. Then it tests what you've learned through gameplay.
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- Aromasin 4y agoPoor analogy. In Mario, the goal is to move forwards and back, or jump, and run towards the end. In Dwarf Fortress, its to manage a small civilization. The only other examples of games akin to it are RimWorld (difficult without a wiki), Factorio (difficult without a wiki), and at a stretch if we're talking simply complexity, the Paradox Grand Strategy games which are frankly unplayable without a wiki, despite having a UI. Comparing DF to Mario is like comparing a kiddies first play car with an F1 car.