I love Indiana Jones and The Great Circle but I’m sick of it acting like I’m stupid
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INDIANA Jones is Xbox’s killer app of 2024, and people are rushing to play the part of the adventuring archaeologist. While it’s only been out a few days, people are already digging in, and a few people have already finished it. The feedback is promising. People love flicking their whip and punching the bad guys while they explore various historic monuments.
![[I love The Great Circle's whip-cracking action]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/indiana-jones-whip.png?strip=all&w=960)
While the overall experience is very fun, that doesn’t mean that it isn't without its issues. Allow me to go on a tangent for a minute about how people’s relationships with technology have evolved over the past decade. Smartphones have changed the way society functions for better and for worse. People are always reachable and they are always entertained.
![[But I don't want to brawl with bad guys every ten seconds]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/indiana-jones-great-circle.png?strip=all&w=960)
There are the obvious impacts, like people are often multitasking, scrolling their phones while they watch TV or movies. But there are smaller changes to our behaviour that phones have caused that people may not have noticed. Thanks to social media and short videos, people have become used to instant gratification and multiple simultaneous options to keep themselves entertained.
![[Or have my companion constantly telling me what to do]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/indiana-jones-harrison-ford_a9fa02.png?strip=all&w=960)
While people used to be happy to think puzzles through on their own, or grind and backtrack, modern gamers won’t put up with this ‘time-wasting’. We want it all and we want it now, and that means that games have had to change to adjust to these modern tastes.
