"Surely one would need to have eaten a lot of paste to require a special tutorial to show that you use the left analog stick to move. Can we maybe take that as understood if the player has gotten as far as holding the controller with their hands rather than their buttcheeks?"
—Zero Punctuation, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
Raiden: Bugs? But there was nothing about bugs in the VR sim!
Colonel: Calm down, Raiden, you'll be fine. Just take a deep breath by pressing the Circle button until your lungs are full. Then, when your blood is saturated with oxygen, press the Square button to exhale.
Raiden: Er, I mastered breathing a while back.
Colonel: Now to begin your mission. Walk forward by tilting the Control Stick in the direction you wish to move.
Raiden: Look, you don't have to explain every single—
Colonel: To cause your heart to pump blood to your body, tap the R3 Button in a steady rhythm.
Raiden: Okay! I think I can manage—
Colonel: Calm down, Raiden, you'll be fine. Just take a deep breath by pressing the Circle button until your lungs are full. Then, when your blood is saturated with oxygen, press the Square button to exhale.
Raiden: Er, I mastered breathing a while back.
Colonel: Now to begin your mission. Walk forward by tilting the Control Stick in the direction you wish to move.
Raiden: Look, you don't have to explain every single—
Colonel: To cause your heart to pump blood to your body, tap the R3 Button in a steady rhythm.
Raiden: Okay! I think I can manage—
— Toastyfrog.com Thumbnail Theatre
: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of LibertyI was the brightest in my unit got the tightest of training
So why am I down on the range learning basic aiming?
Guess I must have got my screws knocked loose in a fight
Cause I don’t even remember how to aim down sights
So why am I down on the range learning basic aiming?
Guess I must have got my screws knocked loose in a fight
Cause I don’t even remember how to aim down sights
— Miracle of Sound, Shooter Guy
"I fucking hate tutorials...and this one is terrible!"
— Rex "Power" Colt, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
"It takes your controls away from you for five seconds in the very last dungeon in the game to tell you that ice is cold."
— Chuggaaconroy, talking about The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Gold: Well, Paradise is meant to be equally accessible to everyone. Fantasy veterans, fantasy newcomers, people who have never done VR before, people who have done VR for years - adult and kids. The NervGear was rated for ages 13 and up, and I think the AmuSphere is rated lower... so what's something you need to have in a game for little ones?
Dead: ...Tutorials?
Gold: Tutorials. And tutorials that are either very hard to miss, or flat-out non-optional. So, think about how many things a VRMMORPG player needs to know before they begin playing.
Yew: Don't tell me.
Gold: Oh, yes. Paradise has a mandatory and ridiculously long tutorial that is highly useful if it's the first VRMMO you've played and is largely unnecessary otherwise. I'd love to play it again, but I don't want to go through that again.
"The contrast between having to choose a bunch of oblique stats before you begin, then your first quest presuming you don't know how to move the camera in a game.... mid 2000s pc gaming in a nutshell."
— YouTube Comment, Ross's Game Dungeon, Requital
"But first, you need to learn how to catch a Pokémon! No, you can't skip this tutorial."
— JelloApocalypse, So This is Basically Pokémon
