UI is 30 different sections that are marked with obscure pictures instead of words.
Rarity tiers but every weapon is the same boring shit.
Fuck you, now I’m never dropping that fancy old stick with a yellow background that dropped 90 levels ago. Who knows, maybe I’m gonna need it some time?
- Lonely? Don’t worry, the main character is never going to shut up and will comment on every single thing with lines that won’t get old at all.
- Yeah, you can play with your friend… After hours of gameplay, once you both have this super special item and only for certain, boring ass missions.
- You need an account, and we have no native sign up so we’re going to open up a completely different window while you try to drag your mouse awkwardly with the controller. Yes, the cancel button is very close to the confirm, no there’s no confirmation, and yes you’ll have to start this shit from scratch.
- Escort missions, but the escort won’t get out of the fucking way, and your shots can kill them.
- Currency systems that are just currencies within currencies, within currencies.
- The items are easy enough to see, but you have to be in just the right location to pick it up.
- There’s a save screen, but nothing actually pauses.
- I know 99% of games use similar buttons for different functions, but what if we switch it up, just for giggles? Let’s make “jump” the R1 button!
- You can drive, but it’s on ice physics. And, yes, there will be a chase sequence that’s going to take you a very, very long time.
The chase sequence starts with an unskippable cinematic, has no checkpoints, and will force you to rewatch the cinematic every time you fail.
There’s other traffic in the chase sequence, but the traffic is randomized every time, so there’s no way to memorize any pattern.
The mission fails if the target gets too far away.
Any time you bump into anything, it slows you down enough that the target gets too far away.This is also the first time you’ve driven a car in the game.
And there’s an infuriatingly sarcastic fail mesage.
All you had to do is follow the god damned train, CJ.
Menus use a virtual mouse cursor even though you’re playing with a controller.
Don’t forget you have to hold the button for 5 seconds while an animated circle fills to ensure you are clicking on the button you want to click on.
Eh. I kinda prefer Hogwarts Legacy doing that rather than asking “are you sure you want to save”.
Why would anyone play Hogwarts Legacy?
I want to find the person who decided that was the way. Hold actions are great, if there’s ALREADY a press action and you’re out of buttons. If there’s no press action and I have to hold your button just because, you’re bad designers. If you’re THAT worried about someone doing something on accident, give me the option to disable it. You don’t get to advertise 80 hours of gameplay when 20 of that is holding a button for the UI to work.
Just started playing rdr 2 and this has been such a pain in the arse.
Yeah, it’s a great mechanic when it makes sense. I hate when they shoehorn it into everything though.
An every menu has animations for each entry.
Laughs in Steam Deck touchpad controls
“boost me up”?
Probably from The Last of Us where you have to help a companion character reach a higher ledge which slows down gameplay.
But… That is a disguised loading screen. The ones everyone complained about as well. The game has to load the data at some point. So either it’s completely being removed from the game via a screen or something like “boost me up” or crawling through the caves like in the new God of War.
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Okay but if you play the game in 2040 with a super solid state drive formatted with FTLS, 512 GB RAM, and a 32 core CPU, does the loading screen still take just as long?
It’s funny to me that loading times are still the Achilles heel after all these years. Don’t get me wrong–it makes sense. Games getting more graphically intense, larger worlds, online play etc, it all adds up. I always just thought that we’d finally see loading times become at least significantly shorter by now–and in scale with the size of the games, they likely have. I guess some things are simply as optimized as they’re gonna get, can’t just expect magic to happen and make that much computation instantly doable.
Solid state disc drives have definitely made load times much faster. Anyone who has played a PS4 game on PS5 can tell you this.
The loading times did get better! I think a lot of people who complain either forgot or never player old games on original hardware. I remember minutes long loading screens. What we have now is so much better than the past. Imaging playing a Dark Souls game and waiting 1 minute each time you got defeated. That was my experience with one segment in Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Exactly. I remember getting up to get a drink/pee during loading screens, and now I just get dehydrated.
Does not run fluently on a modern computer in 2024.
When you die you have to re-start from the beginning. From the very beginning.
Game is not open-source.
As someone who hates souls games, make sure there are undodgeable attacks by enemies. Example, you’re walking past a wall and something attacks and kills you from behind. Also, make sure there are huge bosses with ambiguous hit boxes and indeterminable strike locations so dodging is weird and dumb.
4x type games that don’t tell you how values are calculated. “Oh, but there’s a wiki!” That’s great, but not an excuse.
Wait, is Senua that bad? I was looking forward to playing that one.
It’s really good actually, unless you were looking for a different kind of game.
Senua is great. The combat felt fine to me, though it definitely wasn’t the game’s focus.
Play it with headphones! It’s insanely important. I didn’t believe it but I put on headphones after a couple hours and regretted not having started with them. I ran a mixer so my partner and I could both listen.
Hellblade is amazing. It’s a short bit very cinematic and immersive experience. Playing with headphones is a must, imho.
Senua is an incredible experience, but you’ll be disappointed if you go into it expecting deep / challenging combat.
I’ve heard the same is true about Scorn
It’s great, but it’s an experience. The combat is fine, but it’s how it works with the story that makes it special. Headphones are an absolute must (like, I genuinely think you will be having lesser, less authentic gameplay experience if you’re not using headphones). I thought it was a lovely piece of media.
There’s a skip button in every cinematic but it does nothing.
They run a click-powered miner under the hood, transforming your anger into ad clicks.
Although it has a PC version nothing can be configured.
30fps
You mean erratically fluctuating 3-30FPS just as the game wants you to go through a jump puzzle that requires precise timing and of course physics calculations are based on display FPS.
ah, I can’t believe you’ve done this
Doom3
Full screen only. Game crashes if you try to exit in any way.
Ugh the worst. No graphics settings beyond “vysnc” and whether you want a fullscreen or not.
If singleplayer:
A complex transmog system that has gacha style of different ‘currencies’ (shit tier crafting ingredients) and layers of abstraction, some of which functionally require being subbed to a battlepass which allows you to purchase some necessary key items to the transmog process only after you’ve done all your monotonous dailies for 3 weeks without missing a single one.
If multiplayer:
‘Radiant’ style quests revolving around escorting a low health, brain dead at path finding npc, which walks slower than your run speed but faster than your walk speed, through a PvP combat zone, who frequently has random mental breakdowns and must be reassured everything will be alright through a 22 step dialog tree process, which is largely randomized everytime, in order to keep them moving.
You and the npc can be killed during conversation segments, which you cannot exit from at whim, you must complete the dialog tree successfully to regain control of your character and exit the ‘cinematic dialog’ mode.
Lol that multi-player game actually sounds really interesting…
I would love to add a gambling mechanic and play it. 11 players in an arena, each player bids 0 to 100 cents to be “it”. If you or your stupid NPC dies, you lose and the pot rolls to next round. If you somehow can get your idiotic NPC to the safe zone, you win the entire pot. Pot can grow indefinitely.
Well shit, wasn’t expecting that response.
I have been meaning to try and make a video game, fuck it, maybe that’ll be a gamemode if I ever manage to heal my astoundingly fucked up wrist.
Please stop trying to normalize the stupid QAnon frog.
Fuck that. Those losers don’t get Pepe!
