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psx_crab, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?

Pc version of open world exploration game without quicksave key. There’s a lot of wrong with Grounded, but man i feels like Obsidian really losing touch with PC game with this one.

masterspace, (edited )

Conversely, Grounded has the best inventory management system of any survival game ever.

To the point that I have a hard time playing others now because they all feel tedious in comparison. It’s hard to imagine someone playing Grounded and then building a survival game that didn’t use hot deposit.

psx_crab,

That’s true, a key for depositing item and also control whether the chest is affected or not is really handy for inventory management. Which really bother me that they don’t have quicksave, graphic setting customisation, turning off the character chatter, among other thing.

Shirasho, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?

When things aren’t balanced. It either tells me the devs do not play their game or they have a dominant strategy and don’t bother playing anything else.

I’ve heard stories from professionals and you would be surprised how many devs don’t actually play the game they are developing.

bjoern_tantau,
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

In almost every game the gameplay tips and tutorials they give you are not only suboptimal but often outright counterproductive. This is especially bad in multiplayer games.

It was really nice in Doom Eternal, where they added quick swapping to the tips.

Satellaview, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?

When maxing out the damage stat just makes your game trivially easy.

Stat systems are hard and prone to optimization problems. But c’mon, you at least gotta test the glass cannon build that you know everyone’s gonna try first.

pleasestopasking, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?

When you can’t tap a button to fill the text dialogue, and have to wait for each letter to individually populate for 15 speech bubbles in a row.

Coelacanth,
@Coelacanth@feddit.nu avatar

I just played through Pentiment and even on the fastest speed dialogues were painfully slow. It wouldn’t fix all the other pacing issues, but the text popping up instantly would be a huge improvement.

saigot,

or even worse when you have to wait for the voiced dialogue to finish before it lets you continue.

SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS,

I like that BG3 let’s you skip the voice dialogue but I wish there was an option to speed up the voice acting because I really love the voice acting and the story is great but I find myself spacing out during long cutscenes. I don’t want to skip them I just want them to speak quickly!

masterspace, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?

Can you bring up the pause menu at any point (including cut scenes).

I’ve always felt like a sign of a well polished game was one where the pause menu would work at any point, including during cutscenes.

HeerlijkeDrop,

Are there actually games that allow this?

luciole,
@luciole@beehaw.org avatar

Yakuza: Like a Dragon does this and I’m grateful.

Kichae, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?

Quick Time Events; characters that automatically do 60 things just by holding down “forward” on the joystick; the Ubisoft logo.

altkey,

Putting a QTE or a limited time choice in a long cutscene or a level segment.

madame_gaymes, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?
@madame_gaymes@programming.dev avatar

They work for Ubisoft or Bethesda

TachyonTele, do games w Metroid Community Migration

Par for the course with Samus. Moving on from one destroyed location to another

peer2pirate,
@peer2pirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

LOL. The new instance should be scared

ICastFist, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Unskippable cutscenes. While I do love Soul Reaver’s storytelling, sometimes I just want to skip the damn thing and get on with the adventure.

Walking simulators. The devs just wanted to tell a story, not make a game.

altkey, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?

Singleplayer games with time-based farming simulator minigames you won’t complete without gaming the date\time in your system (easter eggs are welcome tho). Grindy platinum achievements well outside even a dedicated minority’s norms, just getting bigger numbers or save skamming for opposing endings. Button-mashers with an undisclosed randomization of a final result under the hood.

sugar_in_your_tea, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact

Yup, that’s correct. What about it?

defaultusername, do games w Day 356 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Never heard of it. Which person is Ocarina?

Also is this Ship of Harkinian?

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