XYZZY Category Revisit

[cvaneseltine]

@matt w

@cvaneseltine

Suggested thought experiment: Pick a bunch of games you like, and decide what the “best moment” or “best scene” would be if you had to pick a best moment or scene in the game. I find that I’m running about 3/4ths puzzles, 1/4th “other stuff”.

OK, I’ll use my IF top 50 nominees as a list that isn’t directly influenced by this question. Total spoilers, obviously.

To be fair, your IF top 50 nominees also notes:

“Varicella? The whole concept frightens me, because I’m terrible at puzzles.”

But this does fairly demonstrate that

• if you don’t like/aren’t drawn to puzzles
• then your best moments in games, won’t necessarily be puzzles.