#game lessons

[a-place-for-my-stuff]

Dragon Quest 8 Life Lessons

[itsstubbornhopeicantreplace]

The obsessive health potion hoarding for the next big boss battle I learnt from games is NOT helpful to me in real life

[thesimcommunity]

The Sims 4 Get Together: Game Lessons

Game Lessons Clubs – Joining a Club To Join a Club, click the glowing button in the bottom right corner to open the Clubs panel. From there just click the Join a Club button. Club Admission Requirements dictate who may join the Club. Sims who do not meet the Admission Requirements cannot Join. Check the Club’s Details to learn about their Admission Requirements. While in a Club you can start a…

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[imendelnthings]

About appreciating games

One thing that was really hard for me to grasp. There's this great game named Torchlight 2 that:

- I pre-ordered

- I like

- is really good

- has good gameplay

- has okay graphics

- has good music

- is of my fave genre, ARPG

- is really solid overall

- I recommend

- has a lot of great mods

- To me, the only con is the comical art style. I prefer Gothic.

And yet, for some reason, even though the game is not bad, I don't ever play it. I like it, but it doesn't grap me deeper. It doesn't interest me.

Then I read http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/27/runic-founders-leave-torchlight-torchlight-2-diablo/#comment-1516619. Now I've  finally realized why TL2 doesn't spark my interest. Playing it is like eating a little orange-apple-kiwi fruit salad while dreaming of eating a big apple-kiwi-melon-plum-banana salad. It kinda is it, and nay, it isn't the real thing. So very similar, yet so very different. I must finally admit it to myself. It isn't a Diablo game, it's a Torchlight game.

(Oh, how good it felt to say that. Talking about games is the exact same thing as talking about puppies. Being finally able to see TL in its own light not shadowed by any other game brought a tear into my eyes. I can finally see TL as it's own wonderful game. I'm so happy. Games are serious business! I'm not joking.)

I had the exact same problem with the good Rogue Legacy. I bought it and was really excited 'cause, "Hey, it's a Metroidvania-type of game! =D". The first week I played I was really enjoying my time, "Oh wow, this game is good! It's like Castlevania!". The second week, "Yeah, this game's okay. But I really wish it was more like Castlevania". The third week I cursed "Damn,why is this game not like Castlevania?! I want a Castlevania game! Why you no Castlevania?!". And then, I realized it. Why the hell am I playing this game and wishing it to be an exact copy of CV, when I can just play a real CV game?

I didn't even try nor want to appreciate the game for its own merits. For its own good and bads. For its own design choices. For it's own gameplay. I only played that game, because I wanted to play a Castlevania game. Really dumb from me. If I want to play a CV, I should play a CV. Not play a similar game and grump that it's not a CV.

Well, one lesson learnt. Don't buy a Cardigan and whine when it's not a Pembroke.