The discourse is overall fruitless because a lot of people just fail to see gameplay and interactivity as anything other than an accessory to a game experience instead of the main component

I’d love the loot collection feature to play a part in GTA 6. Being able to search dumpsters, crates, cupboards etc for items you can use or sell would add a lot more interactivity to the game. Being able to loot bodies would be the same

A gaming GPU with 1,700 GB/s gives you ultra-fast, single-session interactivity. On the DGX Spark, at 270 GB/s, you always have slow I/O. You either compensate with an MoE for interactivity—which is like driving a school bus with just the driver—or you optimize for batching 12B.

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They're a fan of the entertainment, but not the full experience. The fun of interactivity is that you have a choice.

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Gaming is a unique medium designed for interactivity. Obviously a lot of it depends but it’s still not the same as watching, especially if it’s not a friend playing I’d argue even in a pure visual novel with nothing but reading you lose something by not hitting “next” yourself

Saying they don't engage with the interactivity is valid, but even people who play games can play through MANY games without even meaningfully engaging with the mechanics of the game. Why are we acting like people can't infer if they like a thing or not with partial data?

It’s not 1:1. You’re getting the story and the narrative, but you’re not getting the single most important part of a video game, the gameplay and interactivity.

Yeah like I know interactivity is important in videogames but it's not ALWAYS a vital factor in understanding the story/characters/lore. Idk ppl LOVE to make very general statements both about the games and the fans when it comes to these discussions

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i also don't think people realize how poorly the idea that you must experience every element of a game to have an opinion of *any sort* on a game holds when games will inherently have missable content & have varying difficulties that some may consider to negate the interactivity.

You'd have to articulate really well that the difference between them isn't just the interactivity it's reacting to novelty both mentally and physically that is the key part of playing a game. Oh and an audience with an adult reading age.

i dont understand why picking up and playing a game is so hard for people ive seen people with severe disabilities reach super high ranks in games like street fighter or counter strike, surely for games like persona or tlou or god of war the floor for interactivity is much lower

Audiobooks give you all of the information though, interactivity can only be felt

Watching a game is not ALL the information though, interactivity can only be felt first-hand

the worst part is that none of these people seem to get just how important experiencing the gameplay is to the narratives of pretty much any video game. how the interactivity is utilised can make or break a game and it’s sad that people willingly rob themselves of that experience

No they cannot. Gamified interactivity is the entire point of a game. Regardless of whether it is a story game or an arena shooter or Tetris, the interaction is the entire point. Gameplay informs all other aspects, and those aspects inform the gameplay

No they can’t. You think they can but they seriously cannot. How can you possibly “consume” interactivity without interacting with anything?

No, because a game isn’t lore, it’s interactivity. Simply by the virtue of having not interacted with it you know nothing of it at all.