Posted on 07/06/2017 at 12:51 AM
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Yeah, to be honest I probably play songs a lot more than practice stuff like that, but I will tolerate the boring stuff like finger exercises because of how it helps with playing songs.
With video games like platformers or rythm-action like Elite Beat Agents, I might be repeating the same actions a lot, but it's the adrenaline rush of getting it more and more right and the tension that hook me, not the repetition.
It's the increasing success part that makes the repetition addictive for me. That means the activity feels less repetitive for me, since I'm enjoying the change in my abilities.
A game like Halo Wars 2 would actually feel more repetitive to me, because it would just be failure over and over again, since I don't easily succeed in such games.
I think that might have more to do with it than simply game mechanics. If I was good at RTS, I might feel differently and maybe vice versa for you with platformers.