Gen Z/late millenials trying to interpret retro games they play on emulators with no manuals is the modern “people making extremely detailed marble statues because they don’t realize Romans painted theirs”.
That’s how you end up with Blue Prince and Dark Souls and stuff.
Yeah, and old games were just well designed with no handholding and absolutely didn’t include full bullet pointed tutorials for the first hour in the manual as a matter of course.
I think they’re saying if you fire up some old NES games without the manual, you’ll only learn from trial and error, and it’s going to be hard as hell. (Even with the manual, they were not as forgiving back then)
Hence, people designing challenging games without instructions thinking THAT’S what the old timers must like!
Gen Z/late millenials trying to interpret retro games they play on emulators with no manuals is the modern “people making extremely detailed marble statues because they don’t realize Romans painted theirs”.
That’s how you end up with Blue Prince and Dark Souls and stuff.
I refuse to believe that Romans painted theirs. I mean, the evidence is clear that they did but it would look so terrible!
Yeah, and old games were just well designed with no handholding and absolutely didn’t include full bullet pointed tutorials for the first hour in the manual as a matter of course.
I’m interested in your take on what Blue Prince and Dark Souls are echoing, if I’m reading this right.
I think they’re saying if you fire up some old NES games without the manual, you’ll only learn from trial and error, and it’s going to be hard as hell. (Even with the manual, they were not as forgiving back then)
Hence, people designing challenging games without instructions thinking THAT’S what the old timers must like!