Comment on Anon is a gamer
tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yeah I’ve played a bunch of them. Games should just do one popup at the beginning “(x) this is my first video game ever” and then only explain mechanics that are new or rare. “Press W / Joystick up to move forward” yeah no shit
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“Humanity” (a Civilisation-type game) has something like that, iirc. You can pick options, like being totally new to games, known with games but not that genre, familiar with civ and strategy games, and already played.
echodot@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Imagine Civ been your first game, I think you just give up and never play anything else ever again.
PDFuego@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I had a computer with Civ, Exterminator and Dyna Blaster before I could read. I was terrible at all of them, but it didn’t stop me. Through trial and error I figured out how to train units so I’d spam basic soldiers and fight barbarians until another civilisation inevitably found & destroyed me.
Klear@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It wasn’t the very first (that was either Sokoban or The Games: Winter Challenge), but it was definitely within the first dozen or so games I ever played.
I didn’t even understand English for the most part back then, but still somehow steamrolled the whole world with my despotic civilisation (I didn’t know you could change governments). I remember half of my cities falling into civil disorder every single turn late game, and all the buildings I made kept getting sold off because I had no money (I had no idea money was a thing in the game). But apparently the easiest difficulty is easy enough to still beat the game like that.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m a big fan of stellaris and I played a bit of Civ 5.
Civ 6 is the most impenatrable thing I’ve ever played, even after the tutorial it still feels like I’ve been shown how to use a hammer and then immediately asked to build the Taj Mahal.
Taalnazi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I mean, it’s well known enough nowadays that I can imagine some people starting with that.
That said, I think for beginning gamers, some of the classics like Pac-Man, Pong, etc. would be more suited. Or maybe Pokémon, oldschool Runescape…