| Personally, I admit to being afraid of failure in a computer game--or at least being averse to it. I'm a straight-A student in real life who works alongside school; I work with disadvantaged children; I used to work for a humane society where our overarching goal was to lower our euthanasia numbers below 50% of the 8,000+ animals coming to the shelter every year.
In real life, I'll face up to the possibility of failure no problem: it's necessary to risk failure in order to accomplish anything. But in games, I'm not so interested in failure. After all, there's no way I can accomplish anything real in the game; why risk failure for a fake accomplishment?
I really appreciate games where you can autosave whenever you want, or where you face a minimal death penalty. Simulated failure doesn't interest me in my entertainment.
Daniel
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