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"Nobody's making games for the retired people" – The growing yet underserved market for grey gamers (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Make the fucking tutorial OPTIONAL and something you pick as an option in the fucking main menu. This isn't rocket science.

The article isn't saying you lose players in the tutorial, you lose the much farther in when the level 9 boss too hard to beat for someone who stepped away from the game for 2 weeks.

A lot of people would probably like an optional tutorial, but it's not the point they are trying to make.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I understand that, but a lot of gamers can figure some games out without a forced tutorial. WASD movement, jump with space, crouch with control, sprint with shift, move camera with mouse, shoot/attack with left click, etc. A lot of designers/developers became so desperate with the possibility that their game might be "someone's first game of that type" that they choose to force everyone to play the tutorial right at the start, even players that finished the game and decided to start again, and leave it at that.

    The tutorial as a main menu option fixes both problems.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    I don't see how the tutorial as a main menu option fixes the problem of someone who played for a while, then had to walk away for two weeks only to come back and have to deal with the ninth boss with degraded skills.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)
    • "I don't remember how to do that thing, I remember the tutorial showed that"
    • Go to tutorial
    • Relearn
    • Load game back to where you were

    The alternative is the tutorial being accessible from within the game, like a manual. In no case the solution is "force the tutorial at the beginning of the game"

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