Earlier than you remark yelling at me for asking what could look like a extremely dumb query, I do have a motive for asking this in the event you learn what I’ve to say.

I’ve been taking part in Psychonauts 2 just lately and I’ve been having a blast with it. As a sport, it’s sort of simply high quality, however for instance of inventive individuals utilizing the benefits of the medium of gaming to inform tales in cool and distinctive methods, it’s a fucking marvel to behold and simply one of many strongest video games narratively and artistically that I’ve performed.

Nevertheless, one thing actually caught out to me taking part in it on Xbox. For a sport that acquired good evaluations and one which lots of people appear to like so much, an incredibly low share of people that play the sport get wherever in it. Going by the Xbox achievements, solely about 47% of gamers beat Dr. Loboto’s stage. For reference, that is the OPENING TUTORIAL LEVEL. Like we’re speaking half-hour into the sport at most. I imagine I’m about 50-60% of the way in which by way of the sport now (I’m on the Bob’s Bottles stage) and solely round 15% of gamers get that far (going by the achievements once more)

I’m curious if this sport perhaps didn’t resonate with a extra normal gaming crowd. Clearly there’s a considerable group of people that performed the sport, liked it, and are tremendous keen about it. It’s clearly a sport that resonated with lots of people, myself included, however was questioning if it simply didn’t for lots of different individuals and perhaps attempt to see why which may be. Or perhaps Xbox achievements are only a horrible metric for figuring out how far gamers are literally moving into the video games they play. Or perhaps it’s simply the Xbox neighborhood particularly that simply wasn’t too into this sport and the completion charges are larger on PlayStation and Steam. Nonetheless an attention-grabbing query I feel