Indiana Jones Is Showing Me What Gamers Take For Granted

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Stacey Henley

Published Dec 11, 2024

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Part of the reason why 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is enjoying such high levels of popularity right now is the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Indiana Jones name itself. People love Indy, and so you get an influx of non-gamers who want to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ex𝕴pꦯerience a sixth movie starring themselves (or fifth, or foꦓurth, depending on when you stopped countingꦬ Indy movies). That's the magic of IP, baby.

The Great Circle Is Friendly To Non-Gamers

indiana jones stealing the golden idol in the great circle. — via Bethesda

My wife is not much of a gamer. She enjoys watching me play (or loves me enough to lie and says she does), but rarely gets stuck in for herself. However, she does love movies, so when she heard Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was coming out on Friday, sh💝e couldn't wait to play. Then she realised it wasn't actually out until Monday, and the Friday release was only available if you bought a game at full price that you were about to get for free on Game Pass in three days time anyway, and she was disappointed. Then Monday rolled around, and she couldn't wait to play again. What a roller coaster!

I dialled the settings down to easy and switched on the puzzle hints, and handed her the controller. It was my turn to enjoy watching her play, by which I mean to love her enough to lie about liking h🐠er fumble around looking down at the controller while asking which one the right stick is (it's the stick on tﷺhe right).

To her credit, she beat 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3, and needed lit🦩tle help after the opening hour or so getting used to the menus. She can play video game♌s, she's just out of practice. So I occasionally took control to help her but mostly watched casually while scrolling through my phone. She made it through the opening sequence, the university break in, the fight with Candyman (her words), and arrived in the first main location in Italy. It was here that I realised a lot of things I have complained about as a Real Gamer probably help people more than I realise.

Maybe Yellow Paint Deserves A Chance

Indiana Jones dressed as a priest holding a bottle.

The first map opens up slowly, beginning in a series of linear courtyards. After a while, the basic objective of getting inside the building appeared. The doors did not open. There were no ladders. The guards were all defeated, with no key in s🧸ight. The only way appeared to be back down the steps underground she'd just come from. Heading down there caused Indy to mutter something about going the wrong way. Frustrated, she handed the controller over to me. And I laughed.

I was not laughing at her (I promise I wasn't, please don't make me sleep on the couch), but at the ridiculousness of 💯the situation. There was a window she was trying to get to, but could not reach. Beneath the window was a ledge. And daubed all down the ledge was a streak of yellow paint.

Naturally, I ran to the ledge and climbed it in a second, then handed her the controller back. She asked me how I knew to do that, and why didn't they make it more obvious. I told her both those questions have the same answer. The yellow paint is making it obvious. I wonder how many other casual gamers have found themselves stuck on that part, or a similar part in a similar game, and have learned in that moment a connective language of video games, like explosive red barrels or a change in music signifying progression i🦩n a puzzle.

I still think 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:criticisms against yellow paint stand. It's not a very elegant solution to a problem the game has created for itself b🐭y offering a setting that looks open but in fact only has one path of prog♌ression, and is not particularly immersive. Anecdotally it's not even that intuitive to outsiders. But while those of us who play dozens of games a year might be sick of seeing it everywhere, the fact is most people do not play dozens of games a year. If games really are for everyone, then maybe yellow paint still has a part to play.