Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
Not everyone gets games is my major point.
That's not something exclusive to games - A great many people prefer to not think and understand and instead be told and learn. Studies are a great example of that - Most students simply learn whatever content the lecture has. Only few truly understand it and are able to apply it. Math lectures are notorious precisely because simply learning the stuff by heart instead of understanding it is prone to fail whenever the tasks are slightly altered.

I will grant you that these people will have a disadvantage at games like this, because you're usually not told. The game never tells you to learn the following skill sequence by heart: [Insert sequence here], nor how to react to certain situations (Like AoE). The game only gives you (most of the) the information to get to that conclusion yourself, via tooltips and/or visual indicators (like reducing your health after standing in an orange circle). And if you are unable to draw such conclusions, you're SOL until someone gives you something to learn by heart (like: step out of orange circles). The issue then becomes that the person will be unable to draw the conclusion that orange squares or triangles are bad as well and need to be told that separately.