The Importance of Compatibility in Video Games

Competence needs are mostly satisfied when goals challenge our abilities without being either too easy or too daunting. This matches up with previous research, decades and decades of research on goal setting. So one way to keep like a long term goal from being too daunting is then to break it down into multiple sub-challenges that build on each other. And there's even some research that suggests that this is why we like sort of violent shooters a lot of the times.