I’m not sure. I remember playing a bunch of games, like pokemon heart gold, lego starwars, and some other pokemon game where you were controlling little pokemon in 3rd person instead of controlling a human who threw pokeballs (anyone know that game? )
And like, I didn’t speak English when I played them. So I had to figure out everything by just pressing random buttons and seeing responses. And this makes it a lot more difficult. Like I could open my “inventory” (didn’t know what that was) and then use a “healing potion” (didn’t know what that was), and then because my pokemon was at full health already, I would think the healing potion was useless, or think that items in inventory only cause text to appear on the screen, but that they don’t have any effect on the actaul, and then I’d believe this until I accidentally clicked the inventory and randomly saw a change, or had failed a level so many times that I was getting desperate and just manually doing exhaustive search over all the actions.
But like, I’m very confident I was more action efficient than claude is. Mostly because like, if I enter a battle, and like fail 5 times more or less in the same way, you start to think something is awry, and start doing different stuff. And also just because, certain things become automatic after a short while, like moving around. For claude it takes the same amount of time each time. So if you’re failing at a specific point in a battle, the fact that that point is responsible for you overall failing to progress, becomes very obvious, because anything other than that becomes automatic and trivial and you just do it instantly.
Possibly amusing anecdote: when I was maybe ~6, my dad went on a business trip and very kindly brought home the new Pokémon Silver for me. Only complication was, his trip had been to Japan, and the game was in Japanese (it wasn’t yet released in the US market), and somehow he hadn’t realized this.
I managed to play it reasonably well for a while based on my knowledge of other Pokémon games. But eventually I ran into a person blocking a bridge, who (I presumed) was saying something about what I needed to do before I could advance. But, I didn’t understand what they were saying because it was in Japanese.
I had planned to seek out someone who spoke Japanese, and ask their help translating for me, but unfortunately there was almost nobody in my town who did. And so instead I resolved to learn Japanese—and that’s the story of what led to me becoming fluent at a young age.
(Just kidding—after flailing around a bit with possibly bypasses, I gave up on playing the game until I got the US version.)
some other pokemon game where you were controlling little pokemon in 3rd person instead of controlling a human who threw pokeballs (anyone know that game? )
I’m not sure. I remember playing a bunch of games, like pokemon heart gold, lego starwars, and some other pokemon game where you were controlling little pokemon in 3rd person instead of controlling a human who threw pokeballs (anyone know that game? )
And like, I didn’t speak English when I played them. So I had to figure out everything by just pressing random buttons and seeing responses. And this makes it a lot more difficult. Like I could open my “inventory” (didn’t know what that was) and then use a “healing potion” (didn’t know what that was), and then because my pokemon was at full health already, I would think the healing potion was useless, or think that items in inventory only cause text to appear on the screen, but that they don’t have any effect on the actaul, and then I’d believe this until I accidentally clicked the inventory and randomly saw a change, or had failed a level so many times that I was getting desperate and just manually doing exhaustive search over all the actions.
But like, I’m very confident I was more action efficient than claude is. Mostly because like, if I enter a battle, and like fail 5 times more or less in the same way, you start to think something is awry, and start doing different stuff. And also just because, certain things become automatic after a short while, like moving around. For claude it takes the same amount of time each time. So if you’re failing at a specific point in a battle, the fact that that point is responsible for you overall failing to progress, becomes very obvious, because anything other than that becomes automatic and trivial and you just do it instantly.
Possibly amusing anecdote: when I was maybe ~6, my dad went on a business trip and very kindly brought home the new Pokémon Silver for me. Only complication was, his trip had been to Japan, and the game was in Japanese (it wasn’t yet released in the US market), and somehow he hadn’t realized this.
I managed to play it reasonably well for a while based on my knowledge of other Pokémon games. But eventually I ran into a person blocking a bridge, who (I presumed) was saying something about what I needed to do before I could advance. But, I didn’t understand what they were saying because it was in Japanese.
I had planned to seek out someone who spoke Japanese, and ask their help translating for me, but unfortunately there was almost nobody in my town who did. And so instead I resolved to learn Japanese—and that’s the story of what led to me becoming fluent at a young age.
(Just kidding—after flailing around a bit with possibly bypasses, I gave up on playing the game until I got the US version.)
Probably Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.