1Gorebash1

@AmatureIdiot

What about the Football Manager games, the game never actually tells you what being a successful manager entails and relies on outside knowledge of football.

@1Gorebash1 said:

 I like the angle of a game that tells a story and all the player does is hit the "next page" button...

A "game" like that isn't a game. It's a digital book.

@1Gorebash1:

Dark Souls doesn't really have reinforcements. It requires the player to find the process of overcoming a huge challenge as being a reinforcement. But, that in and of itself is not a reinforcement. But even in that game, you could argue that gaining loot, experience, or simply seeing the next area is a reinforcement. If you want to be really technical, I don't think a game exists that doesn't have some form of positive reinforcement.

I guess you could write about a game that has negative reinforcements. In that case, I think Dark Souls works. So would Dragon's Lair or any other game that relies on repetition. For example, if you die unexpectedly as you enter an area you are reinforced not to go back to that area. You could write about the masochism of gamers who, despite those negative reinforcements, keep going back for more. Hell, the whole Arcade industry was based on negative reinforcements.

@Dagbiker:Well, Minecraft does have some sort of progression. At least modern minecraft does, what with achievements and that XP bar coming into play at some point.

I'm tempted to say LSD, if that's the kind of thing you mean.

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@1Gorebash1 said:

"I can think of at least 2 video games that arguably have no conditioning"

That's the key right there. You can argue anything if you split enough hairs.

No game is without conditioning.
 

@1Gorebash1 said:

@Atlas: lol no, really technically I'm an art student that just so happens to have an interest in psychology. What he meant by the question (or at least, I think what he meant...) was "I can think of 2 games that offer no sign to the player that they are doing well/doing poorly"....so in other words it has no scores, no lives or no real sign of progress. Even the most basic of games will go "well done!" once in a while in some form or another.

then minecraft.

Heya Duders, long time reader first time poster. 
 
I'm on the verge of writing my university dissertation based around conditioning in video games (original right?). I have a fairly vast knowledge of games but my lecturer stumped me by saying "I can think of at least 2 video games that arguably have no conditioning"....is that even possible?...what the hell are they? Can anyone name them? Any help will be much appreciated. 

@CheapPoison:

Aye, almost all that video was generic footage. The mist/fog stuff was nice but other than that, much like as it was used in Arkham Asylum, that extra processing goes towards shifting a million bits of useless paper round on the floor.

Also this

@amir90 said:

HAHAH, doesn't mean fuck for me, as I am ati user.