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Crappy Tutorials in Games

by warcat777

Extra minus points for starting up in German. Yeah, I am German, but I don't play games in German. Let me decide for myself. Don't automatically set it.

(Doesn't mean the games themselves are necessarily bad)

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Rocket League

1. Rocket League

Epic edition. Don't remember this in the Steam version. The game starts up on an E3 esque interactive trailer where you press the right buttons at the right time to make the scripted game go epic slow motion.

Kingdom Hearts

2. Kingdom Hearts

Here's how to play the game: find me all the shit I need for a fun boat ride. No, I'm not gonna help. (Better in 1.5 Remix)

World of Tanks Blitz

3. World of Tanks Blitz

I know it's originally a mobile game, but that doesn't make it better. Shitty mobile style tutorial that only highlights the 'important' buttons and thus teaches you nothing if you're new to the game.

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

4. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

Long, drawn-out prologue that does a bad job as a tutorial. Should've looked to the first one for inspiration.

Driver

5. Driver

So you wanna be a driver for us, Tanner? Why don't you perfectly pull off this list of Evil Knievel-ass stunts that you'll rarely ever need in the proper game?

Pumped BMX+

6. Pumped BMX+

If you do a trick wrong in the tutorial, the character falls off his bike even if you landed perfectly, and that's just very irritating to me. Don't make me think I did the landing wrong with that shit.

Dead Age

7. Dead Age

Another lame mobile-style tutorial with highlighted, forced options. Have I explained that this type of tutorial is useless because you don't have to use your brain to do it? You just click on whatever thing on the screen is flashing instead. Also, devs apparently don't know how to spell 'prologue'.

Help Will Come Tomorrow

8. Help Will Come Tomorrow

Another mobile-style one. Still, good game, and the light-up tutorial wasn't even necessary, because it's not exactly hard to understand how it works.

Black & White 2

9. Black & White 2

Very comprehensive, but also boring, completely unskippable, and forces you to do exactly what it says in order to proceed. And I mean, exactly as in, "click exactly on this spot when I show you how to rotate the camera."

10. Deadly Days

Keep screen dark and light up buttons you're babbling about. I don't know who's brain is compatible with this kind of tutorial, but it's not mine.

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