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Favorite video game tutorials.
Jast
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I was playing the training level of the original splinter cell, and it got me thinking. I've played a bunch of video games, and a bunch of tutorials over the years, some good, some bad. In my opinion the tutorial level or area can set the tone for the rest the game, provide backstory, etc. One of my favorite tutorial levels was the one from Full Spectrum Warrior. It taught me what to do and gave me a taste of what the game would be like, and it didn't feel forced. I was wondering what was some other people's favorites. Try not to just name the game, also say why you like it.
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Also Rebel Strike. "Try it... now!"
Perfect Dark Zero had a fun tutorial level. It sort of almost throws you right in the middle of the things, but it's totally manageable, even on the highest difficulty. I just wish you'd gotten to use that floating spycam gadget more than once.
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Makes me wish it was a playable song, sans tutorial.
Please, think of the children.
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I also enjoyed the Half-Life 2 intro/tutorial for the same reasons.
My then 5-year-old syster loved to watch us play Tomb Raider but was too afraid of combat to try playing the actual game, but we could get her into the tutorial and she'd jump around for an hour.
John DiMaggio. AKA Bender.
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That is all I wish to know because the game itself cannot possibly live up to that.
Still, I'd say Mario 64. You started outside the castle and were free to run around, climb trees, swim and mess with the camera, without anyone giving you specific tasks to carry out. Whenever you felt ready you just moved on into the castle and the first level.
On a related note, I despise when otherwise fast-paced games start out reaaaally slow like Half-Life and Twilight Princess. Especially hurts the replay value. A game that did it right is A Link to the Past. A text sequence to kick off the plot, and then you're off to storm the castle. Awesome.
aka Marcus Fenix.
Speaking of which, Gears had a great tutorial. Great that you could choose your path, go balls out right into the game or a steady slow tutorial. All of it in co-op too so you could show your mate how to work things.
You get to use it three times, one of which it can knock people out. I think you can also find it in the Chicago level too.
That's something I don't like about replaying most RPGs: they have a huge training session that you can't skip.
Whereas Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines was all like: Hey, you don't have to do this if you don't want to.
But I always do because 1) John DiMaggio and 2) Free items I'd have to buy otherwise!
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An intuitive and amusing way to skip a tutorial would be shooting the tutor. That'd be a good way to detect if the player is of the type that wants to just get on with it and kill stuff.
I was just about to post this.
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Baldur's Gate II will go down in history as the game featuring the worlds worst tutorial level.
Dude, what is your sig supposed to be? Because it is the exact layout of the island I thought of when I read Lord of the Flies.
Wait, maybe the Kong island?
Really? Why?
And I hear the Wii SSX tutorials could give that a run for its money.
I believe it's Melée Island from Monkey Island 1.
I wouldn't call it the worst, but it is entirely too long.
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Or like most Zelda dungeons, where you find out the dungeon's gimmick (lighting torches because the room is dark) and build on that later (lighting three torches to reveal a treasure chest). Or how every dungeon item has a quick tutorial in disguise the moment you find it.
Could be, haven't played it yet.
I loved Baldur's Gate 1 with a passion and was thrilled once I finally got my hands on the second game, 30 minutes later I was close to uninstalling it because of that damn tutorial dungeon. It was too long, bland and for the lack of a better description horribly boring. The rest of the game is a masterpiece though, and luckely a mod came out later that let teleport out of that first dungeon.
By the time you finish the tutorial, you're like, "Yay, I finished the game! Wait, what? There's another 20 missions with a whole new story?"
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Yeah did they ever patch that tutorial out?
Honestly the tutorial area is like an hour or longer. Annoying!
You realize that the patch made it so you could skip the tutorial shit, right?
Cause I had hyped up the game so much and then you get a ball in a desert.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
Pick up that paper. That knife, Swing it. Now that ring, there you go. Okay, here' s one of the largest, most complex, awesome game worlds out there...figure it out.
It was so gratifying to step outside of that first building, wonder, hmm, what shall I do, and then look at the map to see just how much land there is in that game.
Then why is it one of your favorite tutorials?
Close your DS in the middle of it.
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Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.