@[email protected] There are already a couple in the list that only say the name when you pick an option from the startup menu — if you ask me, that’s just a different kind of ’says name on startup’.

Added both, thanks!

@[email protected] added, thanks!

@[email protected] @[email protected] oh, this is a good one! Couldn’t find a way to add it to the playlist — it’s not in IGDB, so you weren’t kidding about obscure — but hopefully it’ll be there someday. Thanks!

@[email protected] added, and this is now the most recent game on the list. thank you for keeping this trope alive!

this could double as a list of games with easy TitleDrop% speed-runs

we need to bring back this trend

we need to add it to websites too. multiple times a day, a deep, supercool voice should boom 'WIKIPEDIA’ from your laptop speakers

@[email protected] I had no idea this game got a sequel.

@[email protected] Yeah, this is fair. It’s not a ‘designer’s intent’ thing in audio’s case… but it would still be more faithful to most people’s experience.

@[email protected] Ah, not sure how this ended up crossposted to Lemmy…

Good point about manuals. There are some games where reading them is anticipated by the game and almost non-optional. I remember early-to-mid-90s CRPGs falling into that category more often than not…

@questlog I hadn’t seen Questlog before (thanks, @EighthLayer!) but Playlists are halfway there already, I think.

Someone linked this on Backloggd as an example of a guided list: https://backloggd.com/u/LucasTheYeti/list/introduction-to-video-games/ Kind of a Playlist/editorial combo.

Ideally, there’d need to be a way to annotate individual entries with notes; more importantly, there’d need to be a way to search and discover playlists by title (maybe I missed this?)

I think that’d get you 95% of the way there.

Thanks for reaching out! :D

@[email protected] Oh yeah, this would absolutely do it. Had no idea you could annotate lists on there.

@[email protected] haha, don’t tempt me or I might actually start! Behind me there’s a trail of abandoned and neglected projects that started out great…