Do you have a habit of recording things related to video games, in writing or otherwise? Is it a thing that disappeared when codes died out in gaming?
I was watching a video recently with tips for cleaning up your catalog of unplayed games and heard an odd thought: take notes. The argument is that it makes it easier to return to games after a period of absence, focuses the player on current tasks and the like. And I actually remember that Steam has a built-in option for taking notes that can be pinned to be visible while playing. The only question is – does anyone use it at all?
Do you find the idea of taking notes for games something useful and practical, or is it a completely abstract practice that you don’t understand at all? Thinking about it a bit, I remembered that the practice itself isn’t exactly unheard of in gaming. For example, older games for the former NES and SNES consoles, instead of recording positions, had codes that had to be “memorized” in order to continue playing. Writing them in a notebook was also a form of creating notes. And let’s not talk about codes that were complicated to remember, so they also ended up in some notebook.
So, have you ever taken any notes related to gameplay?