What Games Are Like For Someone Who Doesn't Play Games | Noggin Reacts 

I cannot imagine my life without video games. I may not play them as much as I did growing up now as an adult, but they are a core part of my life. My mom was diagnosed with cancer when I was around 6-7 years old and she had this young man as a caretaker come to our apartment on some days. He would bring over his PS2 and I would watch him play games like Splinter Cell and True Crime LA. Sometimes he’d let me play and would guide me through. I did have a DreamCast before then, but I would only play it occasionally. He ended up giving me his console and from there on out was when I really became a gamer and starting really getting into the hobby through watching G4 and reading Game Informer. I was bullied as a kid based on my weight and race. I also took care of my mom most days which caused me to isolate myself from other kids in fear of not being there if something went wrong. I didn’t have many friends or ways to connect with people outside of my family, so in a way I was introduced to both the social and the escapist aspects of gaming. I could bond with people over my hobby when I wanted and get away when I needed.

Fun fact, one of the hooks or gimmicks of Metroid 1 on the NES was literally the fact the game expected you to go left before you go right at the beginning. It's how Nintendo first taught the player what a Metroidvania actually is.

Not an overcomplicating but thinking of creative ways to play

Ive seen this guys video before (you seem to react to a lot of channels i watch LOL) but just wanted to say that this guys videos genuinely helped me understand how to explain things better to others. With my dad and some of my friends (nephew is about that age too) they were never really gamers, and a lot of the stuff i find instinctual and dont even like process or think sbout at this point they dont even CONSIDER. This video opened my eyes to that fact, and helped me get less frustrated when trying to show others game mechanics. I never realized how i just inherently had these ideas of how games work due to my expierence with games that are completely unrelated. So guys, when youre teaching youre young family members or friends or siginficanr others, be patient. Understand that they may not even understand what youre trying to tell them to do, you might have to dumb it down or physically show them to help. And, i think teaching newbs how to become goobs is a great way to enchance your interpersonal communication skills

I remember when i was a kid trying to get mom to play mario, when she jumped she would ya know the controller up like it helped her jump. That was freakin hilarious

With the whole "platformer's moving left to right" thing, is why I think Up was so popular. The game is hard because it throw's off your equilibrium about how platformer's are usually played. Instead of left to right it's down to up. Also I think that's why the hardest mario levels are mario out running lava rising because you are now going up or avoiding being crushed by walls because you're going up on those level's as well. That started in Super Mario Bros. 3 when you are on the pipe level. The level just wraps around from left to right and your goal is to get to the top of the level. By the way this guy does have a video of his wife playing Baldur's Gate 3.

There are for sure things we take for granted like assuming there is likely a way to sprint. Theres also some games that are defintely not for beginners

Mario dosnt have a sprite button, he just build momentum.

I remember jack and daxter 3 telling me to press the left stick in and never being able to find out what that symbol meant until years later

The best entry into video games after never starting young is VR.

Also, please watch more of this guyses videos! He has a lot on a his wife playing video games, the dark souls one was dope

I played through It takes 2 with my girlfriend and she had a great time but there was definitely a bit of frustration and controller trading haha

I love this series! I'm pretty sure this is the couple that did the bit about his wife playing Breath of the Wild. It is great. My mom taught me about sprinting in Super Mario Bros. She was the best player I knew! At least in 1990. Obviously now, not so much.

Modern video game language is interesting. The very first game I finished as a kid, by myself, no cheats was Fallout. So completing quests was dependent on paying attention to dialogue, exploring and experimenting. I click Science on every computer 😅 That progressed to Fable, Morrowind, and Halo, which slowly introduced this idea of quest markers along side these descriptions that needed attention to understand what it was you were doing. A lot of modern games take all these QoL mechanics for granted and largely assume players know what these mean, to the extent that there are a lot of games that I would struggle with without 20 odd years of experience. It's as simple as "Follow the lights" to literally calibrate the player to look around. You rarely see that anymore.

I've been gaming since the C64, I'd played my uncles 2600 before, but the C64 was the first one I owned, I honestly don't even remember how I got one(other than it being a christmas present), did I ask for it? did my parents just see me enjoying the 2600, go to GAME(or where ever they went) and ask 'what's the latest craze?' I honestly don't know, given my age I don't see me asking for it. These Razbuten vids are so interesting, were we like that when we started? I've always been one for reading the manual so probably not as bad for me, but at the same time, controls wheren't standardised back then, one games' jump' could be anothers 'shoot' even within the same genre.

Computer games for me were not a thing at all until I was in my early 20s. And even then they were limited to Interactive text adventures. For example, the very first game I ever played was Adventure - on a main frame - retitled to Zork after its acquisition by Activision. I have never played a game as NON-linear or less intuitive. You could go through a door into a new room with multiple exits. Trying to go back through the door put you in a different room than the one you came from. My personal win condition became mapping out the entire game rather than actually playing it.

9:39 i have the exact opposite problem. Using a mouse to look around is srcond nature to me (mind you, i also am a digitsl artist or at least was, so lots of practice on top of gaming), howeever when i switch to controller i always am the jankiest player

The first and only fallout game I played was fallout 4 in 2022 where I shot dogmeat and strong repeatedly not knowing they were companions 😂😂

Noggin! he has more videos like this! he even has one where the wife plays Baulders gate 3! So watch em!

The fact that I resonate so much more with the wife's experience than I do his is why I don't call myself a gamer. Even though I play games pretty frequently! I am so incredibly casual. BG3 even frustrated the heck out of me the first time I attempted it, though in fairness, it was back when it was early access testing. I died so many times that I set it down and refused to pick it back up until they'd released the full game (with difficulty settings available). I also prefer set-map games to open world. The stories tend to be better and the quests don't feel built primarily to stretch out the player's time and force them to explore areas that all kind of look the same anyway. That being said - I do enjoy open world games more now that I've dropped my completionist mentality entirely. Instead of doing every quest, I only do the quests either that I want to do or that I think my character would actually choose to do. It's made BG3 incredibly fun to run through, but given me a lot better chance at finishing some other games that I used to struggle with as well. One of these days maybe I'll give Skyrim another chance. I've never managed to get more than a couple of hours in.

My daughter loves to watch me play games, but only plays games like minecraft, stardew, and sometimes fortnite. She has recently started playing persona 3 reload and is in love with it. I know the ending will crush her though.

Bru... that title...💀

might be other videos on his channel you'd be interested in. whether you react to it or not.

Strategy games are also mouse and keyboard

How do you not like Uncharted?! I admit I'm a bit biased as I grew up into it and the graphics at the time were mindblowing and I remember playing through it with my old step dad. Also, it was a high iq pick for his wife as the mechanics and how you play the game was like this generations Tomb Raider but with a better story.

Please...react to the rest of this series...sure its almost ten videos long but its a good series to watch at the very least

14:46 i half agree wirh this. I would definitely say it needs to be in the middle. Too many open worlds are TOO open, but on the flip side too many linear games are TOO linear. One of my biggest gripes in games is to notice that im on a VERY set path but its designed so i "think" im not, it just wnds up making me try to explore a bunch of shit i cant. But, some open games are so open and so vague i get lost and have no clue what to do. I think skyrim is best for how open world shpuld operate, and for linear idk what id say. I need SOME dorection so i at least know where im SUPPOSED to go, but i dont want to HAVE to go to there; but i also dont want it so open that i always have issues finding out how to actually get there

A lot of games for kids have detail expiations, id like her to play fall of cybertron, and spyro.

Only 746 views? If I had friends I would share this.

hollowknight is dope but i kinda want to watch a non gamer try darksouls or bloodborne i rekon it would be mad funny

hey. can you do a video on how much it costs or how to do a custom vtuber avatar like the one you use. Thanks for the content as always

The learning the wrong lessons part is an amazing observation. Over time, games can help you make more logical decisions in a short amount of time under stress. When we all started we all stressed and failed over and over. The best of us used those failures to become better. Not just at those direct skills at the game but finding the right lessons to learn and make those changes to your style (no matter how uncomfortable it may be) makes you more adaptable across all games and life.

@NogginMovement Hey, man! React to Daryl Talks Games. It's also pretty interesting.

Yeah we are just expected to know... or you can RTFM... how are you always this obtuse and detached from reality?

Ok Ok , what is a Gamer anyway? , do people that eatch movies are Moviers ? , or people that read books Bookiers ? I know we dont even question that word now but when i was young that was somewhat new, and has never click whit me, video games are like any other media Every time i hear gamer i only think of that type of person that says , your watching movies wrong unironicaly