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[Evil Taco]

#10282

I haven’t yet had the time to sit down with Planetfall (sadly), but I do have Magnetic Scroll’s The Guild of Thieves on my phone and I decided to give that a go.

I decided to drop any pretense of making a serious effort with it and just goof around, and restart if I want to play properly. Turns out this was a good thing, good to shake away a blocker of playing a videogame, the thought that you would have to do it “properly”. It was quite fun (and the mobile version supports that approach by being more forgiving and having a more forgiving UI).

I think I’ll try that approach for Planetfall as well! Better than ending up not playing at all.

[TigerQuoll]

#10286

I know exactly what you mean! So many games have been sitting in my “to play” list for way too long because I felt like I needed to “play them properly”.

10 times out of 10 throwing caution and deference to the wind and just jumping in and screwing around, restarting when I need to, has been the best way to go. It’s never spoiled my experience of a game, and in fact I feel like it’s improved it.

Memorising the manual, then sitting down with all the reference cards, a notepad and a serious scowl, on a mission to do the game justice, just isn’t a recipe for enjoyment.
Letting the game show itself to you and earning your full attention organically is always the better way to go.

I worry about wasting my time. But really, what’s more of a waste – 15 minutes of silly fun before restarting, or 15 years of a great game sitting on a shelf collecting dust?

I’ve known this for a while, but still I keep doing it the wrong way…