During my last semester of college, I got addicted to a little grand strategy game called Hearts of Iron IV and when I say addicted I am only slightly exaggerating. Thankfully, I have been largely weaned off of it, but not before I tried out a few other games designed by the same studio and my goodness are they all mind-numbingly complicated affairs to me, with tabs and buttons and windows that seem to multiply expodentially depending on whatever it is that you want to do. Compared to these monsters, Hearts of Iron seems fairly tame. But then last weekend I had the opportunity to play Super Mario Odyssey on a friend's Switch and I was amazed at how intuitive the game seemed, to the point where it did not feel like I was fighting the game but actually, y'know, playing it.
All that build-up is to say, how complex do you like your video games? Do they have to be intuitive affairs or are you generally more tolerant of a steeper learning curve?
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