On: Localizing “Papers, Please” (2014)

[soup10]

it's a bore, but maybe politically interesting for some

[teej → soup10]

I would call the gameplay mundane, but that's the point. Completing a tedious task with high accuracy and throughput while the complexity and stakes ramp up. I found it to be a very entertaining challenge.

[obstinate → soup10]

In the same sense as Tetris is -- that is, unchallenging at slow pace, extremely difficult to do quickly.

[DrJokepu → soup10]

That's like, your opinion. I didn't find it boring at all.

[sillysaurus3 → DrJokepu]

It gets kind of tedious to be honest. But it's worth playing.

[booleandilemma → sillysaurus3]

I just played it for the first time after seeing it on HN tonight. It's entertaining in its own way and I'd recommend it, but as I stepped away from my pc it made me feel grateful that I don't work as a customs officer in real life. I suppose that was the intended effect :)

[kbenson → booleandilemma]

> but as I stepped away from my pc it made me feel grateful that I don't work as a customs officer in real life. I suppose that was the intended effect :)

That and a few others. IIRC, it gets fairly insidious quickly as you try to juggle values at varying levels (protecting your family vs general principle, for example).

[_khau → soup10]

It is far from boring.