Maybe we need more games where you keep dying all the time
People always harp on Sierra for you dying all the time... but if anything I think that is one of their strengths. Their weakness is that they were often obtuse, unwinnable, and unfair.
Though... I'd rather have nothing but Sierra point and clicks to play with than ever touch another Telltale point and click (not to be confused with their interactive fiction). Mostly because I don't play point and clicks for a calm relaxing autoplay. I really should do my Letsplay again when I am feeling well... It was supposed to be a partial tutorial/class on how to play point and clicks, because people always find them extremely obtuse but that is usually because they don't speak those game's language and don't understand the concepts behind it (often game's try to indoctrinate you to the game's logic)... The key to playing them is usually to actively avoid the "Click on everything, use everything on everything" scenario.
Also screw that Seanbaby article! SERIOUSLY! Seanbaby you made a humorous article that was funny, ESPECIALLY to me who knows point and clicks inside and out... I know you weren't being serious and it isn't your fault... but WOW do people take that article as categorical truth of all point and clicks.
It would be like if I made a funny article on what a ditch horror movies are currently in and made it funny... and then 10 years later everyone keeps quoting my article to explain why horror movies are bad period.
Then again part of it, the reason why people can just categorically apply Seanbaby's article, is that not many modern gamers can even play point and clicks without immediately resorting to FAQs or brute forcing solutions. They find bilateral thinking to be extremely difficult and counter-intuitive. Hence why I've gotten comments like "All point and clicks use moon logic".
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Sorry uhh... I do think a sort of death filled environment does a lot for a game's atmosphere.
WW1 (or was it 2?) medic somehow upgrades its status from arcade game... to almost an art game just because of how easy it is to die and how most of the time you will die from being shot in the back by your own team mates.