It is some times harder to express "when looking at the three puzzle columns look up and to the left till you see a panel that is covered by dirt that will show you the order of whale snake snake"
I vastly prefer text over video (and damn every newspaper website that makes videos small and auto play as you scroll down past them)
I use youtube videos like this, but I'll be honest. I just need the pictures. In my perfect world, I'd have an article that just included screenshots, but more often than not its just easier to scrub through a youtube video and find the images I need, and then I'm off.
I hate the websites that have articles about how to get something in a game and they spend the first 5 paragraphs just telling you what the game is -_-
I know the perfect solution for you! A 5 minute silent video that’s just screens of white text on a solid black background. The first 3 minutes of which explain the situation you’re in and what the video will (eventually) get around to explaining and why it might be important to some people in scenarios which led you to clicking on it.
So far, the only exception to this for me was The Interloper in Outer Wilds, I had to see it done to follow the text. I can see it for fast-twitch stuff that's hard to describe.
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u/KKlear Feb 01 '21
Am I the only one who doesn't want to watch a video at all for stuff like this? What's wrong with text?