Why do we play...

[vanddyr]

... the same game again and again?

 

I am new to the forum but have played UFO: Enemy Unknown and Terror From the Deep since their releases, and I still enjoy playing them and other old strategy games on a regular basis. This has led me to wonder about why it is that some games can be played and replayed again and again. My wonder has been turned into the early stages of a master thesis and this is where you come into the picture!

 

In these early stages of the thesis I have made a survey that I need people to look at and hopefully complete for me. So if you feel like spending some minutes helping me greatly you can answer the questions in the survey at the end of the link below. If you don't have the time to complete it in one go it can be done in more, it saves your answers for later (as long as you re-access it from the same computer as you began completing it from).

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S3D2DZF

 

Cheers in advance!

 

Kasper

 

PS. Should anyone have comments or suggestions for improvements to the survey or the thesis you are welcome to post them here:-)

[silencer_pl]

How aware are you of the functionality of the game while playing, i.e. the navigation, which buttons to click on and so forth, versus the game-play/strategies?

 

I don't understand the part that start versus...

[Bomb Bloke]

It essentially means, are you thinking more about what buttons to push, or more about the effects those buttons have?

 

Or to phrase it in an entirely different way, do the controls break your immersion in the game world?

 

Play a game enough, of course, and gameplay always wins out over controls eventually... Just a matter of time vs how easy the controls are to learn.