| Einsam_Delphin said: Erm, ok? Point is what you said here, "To play at a high level it seems like you have to be doing something constantly, and I just don't enjoy that," applies to the games you said you enjoy, "Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Pikmin, ZombiU, Team Fortress 2," a.k.a. a contradiction. |
That's not the case. ZombiU is a great example, as the Zombie King or whatever your moves have cooldown, so there are times when you cannot do anything at all. Since it's a game of suspense as well, not doing anything just to mess with your opponent's head is an option. You can pause for a few moments to plan ahead. Now Smash Bros (and other fighting games), mind games are half the fun. You can choose to stand still, or avoid your opponent. You can buy some time. Pikmin is a slow-moving game. In racers you have few if any direct confrontations with your opponents, it's mostly just you and the road. There isn't much you can do to avoid being hit with a shell. It would be constant action if the course was full of shells 100% of the time and you had to consciously dodge all of them.
I don't see what better example I could give than that I enjoy playing Warcraft 3, but I don't enjoy being good at it. Maybe if I played Pikmin against people who were absurdly good at it I wouldn't enjoy that either, but only one of my friends plays Pikmin and he's no better than me.
Also I don't think saying "I enjoy X but not Y" can be called a contradiction no matter what those two things are, even if you can't come up with a logical explanation for it. If I enjoy or do not enjoy something, that is the case. Maybe I'm not articulating my thoughts very well. Don't think I have it out for Splatoon and I'm just making shit up, because the game looks great and I'm really looking forward to it in spite of my concerns.
| RolStoppable said: The camera doesn't move in accordance with what you want to see, so the influx of information is too much to handle for your brain. |
I can't tell whether or not this is a joke at my expense, but I think it pretty accurately sums up my discomfort while watching gameplay. Maybe I would instead say that the camera doesn't move in accordance with what I expect to see.
