I should like Among Us and yet.. yet I don't like it.
I mean, the premise is silly at it's face value. What's not to like? It's cute, it's fun, it's social. Get on Discord and basically give clues to each other if somebody is killed. You can even contribute bad clues when you're the imposter. Do fake tasks. Use a vent when no one is looking. Maybe even do something really clever like hide the body with your body (like, totally you could stand in front of the dead body when somebody walks into the room but you got to fast to pull that off correctly). It's a game of many tactics and it's pretty clever in it's gameplay.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even to play it and play it well on Twitch. She was an absolute delight to watch. She would gasp when she was the imposter saying things like 'I don't want to kill you' or make snarky comments about game design choices like 'why is there a diesel fuel engine in a spaceship?' She showed us how social the game can be with people with her while she was playing and if you're good sport you don't tell people who's doing what until somebody is reported as killed.
But I disgress.
I just don't like the game. Maybe it's too much like another game I played called "I'm not a Monster" where you do some of the same things (but there are key gameplay differences like you can upgrade your weapon at specific points in the game and it's more turn based compared to Among Us. I just didn't like it though.
Maybe it's because I'm hearing impaired?
Well that could be it. I am hearing impaired. If you don't listen to what other players are saying you tend to play poorly. You struggle with determing who did what without specific clues from other players.
But I don't think that's it. Not the main reason.
I think I just don't like because it requires too much out of me immediately after somebody is killed. I have to tell others clues about what I saw. "I remember seeing him going in this room" or "I saw him go vent" or something.
But I tend to not say things. Maybe I'm a bit introverted when it comes to games like "I'm not a Monster" or "Among Us"? You know, that's probably it. That's probably the main reason why I don't like Among Us. I mean maybe it's really me not the game.
I suppose I could get around this by just simply get out of my comfort zone and actually talk more when somebody is reported as killed. Try to listen more in spite of me being hearing impaired. But I thinkk there's honestly I think there's a bit more to it than that. The game gets very paced sometimes and I don't even hear most of what is said. People will talk over each other and mentally to myself I say I wish these guys would just slow down a tad and stop talking over each other.
But I don't have to like every game or even every game genre. I'm not a Monster isn't for me and neither is Among Us. Call me an ass if you want but I just don't like the game. Maybe it is that I'm hearing impaired and introverted and really don't the whole interaction after somebody was reported as killed.
It is honestly a cute game though and I absolutely loved watching soembody like Ocasio-Cortez play it for three hours.
