Comment by tardedmeme

7 hours ago

Just watched someone play Half-Life (the original). Its tutorial is better than a lot of tutorials today.

Onboarding is such a big thing in games. A lot of times I have a few minutes to play and I play a pickup game of Beat Saber or maybe a round of Dynasty Warriors because I can just pick up the controller in play. A lot of games stay in my backlog because I don't want to spend a few hours watching cutscenes and playing through tutorials just to know if I like the game or not.