Phml
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Jodwin said:
"You try playing while talking at the same time!", heh
Entirely true. Ever tried explaining the game you're playing to a relative sitting beside you? Unless you find stream of consciousness rambling punctuated with "uuhh...", "aaah..." and awkward silences to be adequate communication, it does require some thought and effort for the result to have any kind of structure and give any insight to your audience.
It's the same reason anyone trying to have a conversation while looking at something on their smartphone ends up sounding like an idiot. "Multitasking" is an aberration, our brains can't do that. Some people get fast enough at hopping back and forth between two different tasks they can give the illusion it's possible, but you can never truly have the same efficiency doing two things at once as you can do focusing on just one, unless the performance ceiling is set extremely low.
I guess you can perhaps argue a single player FPS is just that, such a simple task nobody should make mistakes at it even if they were juggling with flaming torches at the same time. Taking that hypothetical argument at face value (because otherwise I'd believe it'd be worth arguing there might potentially be a tiny bit of ego posturing and gamer elitism rather than reason and objectivity behind that), I believe shooters just feel easy because they're for the most part very intuitive, much like we don't have to think consciously about the exact sounds we need to make to form intelligible words and coherent sentences; but combine two tasks like this, and precisely because you don't usually think about what you're doing in either of these situations, confusion happens.
Besides, for the numerous naysayers who claim doing a decent job at presenting a game while also playing it at a high level is trivial, not a single one of them ever seems to be seen posting a video of them doing just that. Which is odd, because considering the fame and dough people like TotalBiscuit get and make, you'd believe at least a few of them would jump on the occasion.
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08-02-12 13:36 
