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re: But they don’t love you back

re: But they don't love you back,

Puzzle games

A genre I love that doesn't love me back is puzzle games. I am okay at puzzle games, and would like to believe I am a passably intelligent person who is decent enough at problem solving, but puzzle games fill me with anexiety that I will feel stupid. Feeling stupid makes it difficult to enjoy something, which is a shame because the elation of the "Ah ha!" moment when solving a puzzle is substantial. The original Ace Attorney trilogy delighted me when I played it but every stream[1] filled me with dread of the "Oh God, people are going to see me being stupid!" variety. And if you noted a difference back there between being anxious about feeling stupid and being anxious about looking stupid I am aware those are different things, but unfortunately I am anxious about both.

There are plenty of genres I'm not good at, but because I don't care if I am good at them it doesn't bother me: realistic racing or sports, deck-builders, competitive FPS, shumps[2] Soulslikes, and probably more. I'm a casual acquantinces with some of these genres, but there is no unrequited love.

BONUS: Fighting games

I am fascinated by fighting games, and high level players are incredibly impressive to watch. I've played a ton of Smash Bros, which I love and it loves me back, but "serious" fighting games have never appealed to me enough to make me want to put in the time to get good at them. I don't love them, but I feel like I want to love them, which is perhaps even more ridiculous.

  1. Remember Twitch streaming? Man, that feels like a lifetime ago. ↩︎

  2. I suuuuuuuuuuck at shumps. Still fun though! ↩︎



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