It features Rico Rodriguez, a major operative of the fictional Agency who arrives at Panau (a fictional island nation in Maritime Southeast Asia) to overthrow dictator Pandak "Baby" Panay and confront former mentor Tom Sheldon. The sequel to 2006's Just Cause, it was powered by Avalanche Studios' Avalanche 2.0 Engine. Video games can't become mass media if all but a handful are playable by most people.ĮDIT3: Added the album link to the top, bottom, and middle of this post due to some people not finding it.Just Cause 2 is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Avalanche Studios and published by Square Enix. She was legitimately interested in this game, and if game developers cannot make games that are playable by their consumers, than they need to rethink marketing games as a whole.
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Hopefully game developers start to realize that to design a game for the casual audience, you need to teach them how to play the game rather than dumb the game down to a pick up and play level.Īnother TL DR: Developers should stop making Casual Games and instead make Good Games with Good TutorialsĮDIT: I'm in class for the next three hours, but I'm still trying to have a thoughtful discussion with as many people as possible.ĮDIT2: I'm saying this a lot, but please don't post yet again that trying to make this my girlfriend's starting game was a bad idea because Portal is easier to play. It wasn't the control scheme or the game's intricacies that stressed her out and frustrated her, it was the lack of feedback and the lack of intuitive design. My girlfriend wanted to learn how to play Just Cause 2 because she thought it looked cool, she was genuinely interested in it. The more I look into this, the more I realize that we're good at video games because we're good at inferring what to do, whereas a new player, who has absolutely minimal knowledge of the game, cannot infer what to do because of their lack of experience. What I hope is that other gamers looking at these images will agree with me that even modern, AAA games are poor at conveying information to novice users. Realized video games can be shit at teaching people. TL DR: Made my girlfriend play video games. Rather than put the knowledge to complete the objectives in the game world, they expect it to already exist in the gamer’s head.Īs follows is a number of comparative mockups of what the game did wrong, and how it could have fixed it.
However, observing her made me realize just how terrible video games can be at conveying new information and game mechanics to the user. I expected her reflexes to be slower, and I expected her to have some trouble aiming at enemies and just generally staying alive. Now, I did not expect her to have a large amount of trouble with the game. She wasn’t allowed to ask for any help, and had to attempt to complete the objectives given to her, no matter what. So, I sat her down on my bed, handed her the gamepad, and told her to play for 30 minutes. I decided it would be a good chance for me to get my girlfriend playing some video games, so I decided to observe her (the novice user), playing the tutorial of Just Cause 2. For one of my Human Computer Interaction (HCI) classes, I was tasked with observing a user doing something that they hadn’t ever done before.
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