What’s the point?
I like to play games. I probably play more games than the “normal” person. However I´ve discovered something. For some reason I can´t find any interest in games that don´t “get to the point” almost immediately. If I don’t see a point with what I am doing I get bored very fast, and shut down the game.
I find it a bit strange though. I am fully capable of sitting down and watching an old, long, and boring silent movie. But when it comes to games I just lose my temper almost immediately if the game doesn’t tell me what the point is.
“Why am I shooting these people?”
“Why do I need to stack these crates?”
“Why do I have to read all of this completely irrelevant text before I get to earn my achievement points?”
It´s what I call noise, in the Raph Koster kind of way.
For some reason a bunch of games these days seem to be noise to me. Either I am getting old and need to work on grokking some new stuff – or games are just getting worse?
No games mentioned, no games left out….