Posted August 07, 2018
I'm looking at the little notepad that helped me complete Cultist Simulator. Usually, I use throwaway administrative envelopes to jottle down some short-lived notes. But I also have whole folders of maps and notes from the Amiga era. The Bard's Tale re-releases include auto-mappers, and I have mixed feelings about it. And mixed feelings about taking notes in general. Is it immersive, is it immersion-breaking, is it cool, is it cumbersome, is it satisfactory, should I use paper or .txt files, should I keep them or throw them away ? I cannot make up my mind about any of that.
But I realise that I've had to use paper, lately, and that's unusual. So. Cultist Simulator of course. And, before that, the fun little game named Please Don't Touch Anything (on steam) (as in : it's on steam, not "don't touch anything on steam", that's a whole other... whatever). And before ? I already can't remember anymore. The Turing Test, maybe ? But, by experience, resorting to paper means that I'm overthinking the puzzle, while the game's solution usually doesn't require it. Often I cautiously write down passwords or formules that my RPG character remembers "automatically" when the time comes, just because I don't know in advance whether it'll be this or that sort or game. I may have taken some notes in Kerbal too, for instance to try to pinpoint at which altitude and speed my Eve lander would explode.
So, I'm curious about that simple pragmatic fact : For which game(s) did you write down some notes on paper, lately. Any at all ?
But I realise that I've had to use paper, lately, and that's unusual. So. Cultist Simulator of course. And, before that, the fun little game named Please Don't Touch Anything (on steam) (as in : it's on steam, not "don't touch anything on steam", that's a whole other... whatever). And before ? I already can't remember anymore. The Turing Test, maybe ? But, by experience, resorting to paper means that I'm overthinking the puzzle, while the game's solution usually doesn't require it. Often I cautiously write down passwords or formules that my RPG character remembers "automatically" when the time comes, just because I don't know in advance whether it'll be this or that sort or game. I may have taken some notes in Kerbal too, for instance to try to pinpoint at which altitude and speed my Eve lander would explode.
So, I'm curious about that simple pragmatic fact : For which game(s) did you write down some notes on paper, lately. Any at all ?
Post edited August 07, 2018 by Telika