Ocarina of Time vs Final Fantasy 7

[JWeinCom]

Immersiveunreality said:

JWeinCom said:

There are things that invite the use of imagination.  Things that involve creation with no defined narrative- yes.  Things that do not involve any creation and have a very clearly defined narrative- not so much.

That's just you personally.

I create structures on a daily basis for work just out of my own mind,also played legos a lot as a kid but gaming and books can evenly or even on a bigger scale spark my imagination.

Personal interest is going to play a factor, so we can't say that one thing is going to inspire the imagination of people in all cases.  Some people might be inspired by things that would not normally inspire people... Like Seth in Superbad drawing endlessly creative penis drawings.  So, of course I wasn't trying to make a hard rule for all people.

But in general, the more that is given to you by the creator of something, the less your imagination will be engaged.  Definitely an oversimplification (something with too little to build off of might not inspire anyone at all for instance), but I think it's good enough for most purposes.

At any rate, when someone says that a particular game requires so much imagination that no one has actually seen it (whatever that means).  I would say that implies that there's something objectively special about this particular game that somehow makes it generally more imaginatively engaging than other games. Not that it's just something that strikes their fancy in particular.  Wouldn't you?  And I've been given no explanation as to why that would be aside from essentially you can play it and think of stuff... which would hold true for any game.