Huh? That’s like saying you love a shitty drug. You’re not enjoying a story or developing any kind of skill, you’re just raising your risk of RSI for a dopamine hit. What am I missing?
Not everyone’s looking for a story or skill development when they play games. Sometimes you want to just turn your brain off for a bit and enjoy the dopamine. Plenty of clickers and idlers have actual stories regardless. As for RSI, most “clickers” don’t actually have you clicking much past the very early game anyway. It’s almost always automated.
If you are interested in seeing how a clicker game can drive a story I’d recommend taking a look at https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html only takes an hour or so to play to completion iirc but its pretty interesting.
I mean don’t get me wrong, the stories don’t tend to be anything crazy, and they’re basically never the center of the game. Like, you’re not going to find a story on par with The Witcher 3 in an idle game. They’re usually just there to give a justification as to why you’re doing things, and in some games it’s pretty obvious that the gameplay was designed first and the story was more of an afterthought.
I don’t mind that personally, I’ve never been one to seek out games just for their story.
That’s the whole point. I love it.
Huh? That’s like saying you love a shitty drug. You’re not enjoying a story or developing any kind of skill, you’re just raising your risk of RSI for a dopamine hit. What am I missing?
Not everyone’s looking for a story or skill development when they play games. Sometimes you want to just turn your brain off for a bit and enjoy the dopamine. Plenty of clickers and idlers have actual stories regardless. As for RSI, most “clickers” don’t actually have you clicking much past the very early game anyway. It’s almost always automated.
Still not my thing but I guess that makes sense, and I haven’t seen one with a story. Thanks.
If you are interested in seeing how a clicker game can drive a story I’d recommend taking a look at https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html only takes an hour or so to play to completion iirc but its pretty interesting.
I mean don’t get me wrong, the stories don’t tend to be anything crazy, and they’re basically never the center of the game. Like, you’re not going to find a story on par with The Witcher 3 in an idle game. They’re usually just there to give a justification as to why you’re doing things, and in some games it’s pretty obvious that the gameplay was designed first and the story was more of an afterthought.
I don’t mind that personally, I’ve never been one to seek out games just for their story.