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Do you want to know something I really hate about games?
Imagine this scene which you are probably all too familiar with and you will probably realize you hate it as well...
You’re sitting down playing a game when suddenly something which looks real easy comes along. You sit down and have a crack at it whilst feeling really smug and suddenly you fail. So you give it another go but then fail again. You’re not going to take this, it's mocking you now, so you take another go...again you fail. This continues for the majority of the rest of your play time with each second getting more and more frustrating then the last. It comes down to the point where you get so fed up you turn the console off and wonder off to do something else or you damage the hardware in some shape or form.
The next day you sit down to that same again. Casually you go for the challenge you had done the day before and on your first go it's done.
All that time you spent slaving away, getting more and more annoyed have all gone to waste because you've just came and done it on your first go after a break.
Don't you just hate that?
It makes me wonder what causes this to happen, because sometimes the challenge really is easy and after you've done it once you can do it over and over again without fail. But that one time, that first time you, you just couldn't do it. It's not just the first time either, sometimes it can be anytime at all.
And it's weird.
I think there's some kind of psychology behind this and it appears to have an effect on us naturally. Not only in real world but in the gaming world also.
Imagine this scene which you are probably all too familiar with and you will probably realize you hate it as well...
You’re sitting down playing a game when suddenly something which looks real easy comes along. You sit down and have a crack at it whilst feeling really smug and suddenly you fail. So you give it another go but then fail again. You’re not going to take this, it's mocking you now, so you take another go...again you fail. This continues for the majority of the rest of your play time with each second getting more and more frustrating then the last. It comes down to the point where you get so fed up you turn the console off and wonder off to do something else or you damage the hardware in some shape or form.
The next day you sit down to that same again. Casually you go for the challenge you had done the day before and on your first go it's done.
All that time you spent slaving away, getting more and more annoyed have all gone to waste because you've just came and done it on your first go after a break.
Don't you just hate that?
It makes me wonder what causes this to happen, because sometimes the challenge really is easy and after you've done it once you can do it over and over again without fail. But that one time, that first time you, you just couldn't do it. It's not just the first time either, sometimes it can be anytime at all.
And it's weird.
I think there's some kind of psychology behind this and it appears to have an effect on us naturally. Not only in real world but in the gaming world also.
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I know what you mean.
I played Mechcommander. Couldn't do one mission.
Re-Installed it a year later. First time through.
Another annoying thing is where you do something first time, then try again and you can't!
I played Mechcommander. Couldn't do one mission.
Re-Installed it a year later. First time through.
Another annoying thing is where you do something first time, then try again and you can't!
Do you want to know something I really hate about games?
Imagine this scene which you are probably all too familiar with and you will probably realize you hate it as well...
You’re sitting down playing a game when suddenly something which looks real easy comes along. You sit down and have a crack at it whilst feeling really smug and suddenly you fail. So you give it another go but then fail again. You’re not going to take this, it's mocking you now, so you take another go...again you fail. This continues for the majority of the rest of your play time with each second getting more and more frustrating then the last. It comes down to the point where you get so fed up you turn the console off and wonder off to do something else or you damage the hardware in some shape or form.
The next day you sit down to that same again. Casually you go for the challenge you had done the day before and on your first go it's done.
All that time you spent slaving away, getting more and more annoyed have all gone to waste because you've just came and done it on your first go after a break.
Don't you just hate that?
It makes me wonder what causes this to happen, because sometimes the challenge really is easy and after you've done it once you can do it over and over again without fail. But that one time, that first time you, you just couldn't do it. It's not just the first time either, sometimes it can be anytime at all.
And it's weird.
I think there's some kind of psychology behind this and it appears to have an effect on us naturally. Not only in real world but in the gaming world also.
Imagine this scene which you are probably all too familiar with and you will probably realize you hate it as well...
You’re sitting down playing a game when suddenly something which looks real easy comes along. You sit down and have a crack at it whilst feeling really smug and suddenly you fail. So you give it another go but then fail again. You’re not going to take this, it's mocking you now, so you take another go...again you fail. This continues for the majority of the rest of your play time with each second getting more and more frustrating then the last. It comes down to the point where you get so fed up you turn the console off and wonder off to do something else or you damage the hardware in some shape or form.
The next day you sit down to that same again. Casually you go for the challenge you had done the day before and on your first go it's done.
All that time you spent slaving away, getting more and more annoyed have all gone to waste because you've just came and done it on your first go after a break.
Don't you just hate that?
It makes me wonder what causes this to happen, because sometimes the challenge really is easy and after you've done it once you can do it over and over again without fail. But that one time, that first time you, you just couldn't do it. It's not just the first time either, sometimes it can be anytime at all.
And it's weird.
I think there's some kind of psychology behind this and it appears to have an effect on us naturally. Not only in real world but in the gaming world also.
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