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by makeitdouble 635 days ago
Not OP, but surely yes.

To expand a bit, there's not that many _good_ games where you can explore, follow the story, enjoy a beautiful world and don't need good reflexes or emergency reactions skills.

In particular, gamers with decent skills will praise and give exposure to truly beautiful and well detailed games, and people with little to no action skills won't get past the tutorial.

We can look at it as a fact of life, and expecting all games to be accessible at any skill level is just impossible, but there's a sad part to it when it's so close.

I got my family to play Monument Valley and it was magical. Journey ? they got stuck on the more finicky paths and gave up the controller, while still enjoying the bit they could clear and watched the rest as I played.

Stray was on the same path, where they could probably deal with everything except the few time limited sections. If there was a "no action sequences" switch, it would be truly wonderful.

Also it probably would sting less if there was more games with a path for very low gaming skills.

1 comments

Yes. Exactly this.

Monument Valley was awesome!

And I had the exact same experience with Journey - good the first... 10 minutes? Then nope.

The Witness was also wonderful, that one worked. A Monster's Expidition was ok.