18th November 2007, 10:35 AM
I see then.
Still, for the most part I don't see ABF's complaints as bearing much truth to them. There IS the matter of simplifying user interfaces and in that way making things more accessible, plus the matter of games now having a lot more focus on a good "tutorial" opening to them to allow people to get a handle on the game before getting into the deeper stuff. I wouldn't call that dumbing down though, but rather what they SHOULD do.
Still, for the most part I don't see ABF's complaints as bearing much truth to them. There IS the matter of simplifying user interfaces and in that way making things more accessible, plus the matter of games now having a lot more focus on a good "tutorial" opening to them to allow people to get a handle on the game before getting into the deeper stuff. I wouldn't call that dumbing down though, but rather what they SHOULD do.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)