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Message: [QUOTE="guppy, post: 4228, member: 750"] You write about the mechanics being shown in Gris. The puppeteer revealed if you will. It was the same issue I had when trying to show my partner, who plays very action based shooting games (and dislikes most graphics outside of that realm) Ico. To me, it is a beautiful game. I tolerate the controls, because they are the controls if that makes sense. It is what it is. In just an attempt to free Yorda, she was already bored. She missed the first jump because of the stiff controls. But everything has this sort of 3D Prince of Persia feeling to it. Where you have a lag between the input and the action. And everything must be done as the game requests, not something you can fudge your way through. And I think in that it caused a huge disconnect for her. I had more to say but got a phone call. I too have been thinking though. About modern gaming, and older gaming. Both have their flaws. Older gaming can have floaty/sluggish controls and sometimes feel very questionable in design. I believe I'd understand it more if I had oodles of time (and care) to dedicate to their challenge. Newer games can feel "cash-grabby" and even ones you enjoy can feel as if they are subtle marketing machines. And the scene overall can be very toxic, and has been for as long as I've been in it (which is a majority of my life, as my folks were gamers too). Shrugs. I will say that I hate generic graphic particle effects and they're everywhere in games nowadays. I also understand why indie developers use them. And my partner is the kind of person who wouldn't even look at half the games I play, if they didn't have "flashy effects" in them. [/QUOTE]

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