my current controversial games take is that grinding is good actually
everyone complains about how quickly people play contemporary games, move on, and forget about them in an endless churn; if only there was a game mechanic which required people to take their time with things and spread it out across multiple sittings
@Lady the problem with this situation is the forgetting, not the moving on
Grind is not memorable
@clayote i think that's the thing though, the number of memorable things a brain can actually retain in a given time period is limited
if your game is just one memorable thing after another then retention on that will actually be pretty low, compared to one memorable thing and then an hour with nothing to do but think about it as you work towards the next memorable thing
