(06-07-2011, 12:10 AM)Alpha Six Wrote:(06-07-2011, 12:00 AM)Koopaul Wrote: Some Super Guides take control of your guy and beat a level for you, that's a bit different from looking up the answer or watching someone do it.Then don't use it. God forbid. It's an optional feature.
The only difference between physically guided hints and text hints is that physical hints actually show you the action that you have to perform, whereas hints tell you. And that's barely enough of a difference to turn this into an argument. In the case of a game literally "playing a level for you," it depends on the game and its theme.
This isn't about me, or what i am going to do! This is about future gamers.
I don't mind players being SHOWN what to do, its when the game plays it for you, that's different because they don't make you go back and do it yourself!
Yes in NSMBW they have that, the actual level can be beaten for you if you die enough. Same in DKCR and Galaxy 2. There's no learning that way.
This is not about the gamers who won't use the feature, this is about future gamers. When I was just starting out playing games, I used to die a lot, it's natural. But I got better because I knew there was no other way! However if the game ITSELF offered to beat that spot I couldn't, I would have probably used it... Wouldn't you have when you were new?
We wouldn't do that NOW of course, but back then when we were young we would have. And you know what? We wouldn't be the same gamers we are today. We would be lousy because we would be used to having help the whole way.
New gamers will never become self dependent if there's an option to have it beaten for you.
It's like this, if you're a parent you want your kids to learn to do stuff on their own when they grow up right? Well what if your mother just did everything for you? Dressed you, bathed you, fed you, but never TOLD you how to do it on your own. We would never learn how, nor would we want to. See that's the difference between being SHOWN what to do, and have it done for you.
My father showed me how to ride a bike, guided me, and gave me training wheels. But he never rode the bike for me.