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savvywolf, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?
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When going from point a to point b takes ages or is otherwise a pain. I get you worked hard on your world, but it losses its charm the 10th time running across it.

And don’t force me to hold/tap a button to sprint. Or worse, make me click in the left stick.

Sabata11792,

It’s not the time or distance, its the barren wasteland of no content in between A and B. I’ll hold W down for 30 minutes no problem as long as it’s interesting.

Hubi, (edited ) do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?
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When the intro cannot be skipped after the first start.

bjoern_tantau,
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In the same vein, when the game starts immediately without giving you a chance to configure it. Because the default configuration is always wrong.

psx_crab,

cry in 12 years old pc

Chronographs,

I sure love experiencing their carefully crafted intro sequence in 4fps/windowed 480p/etc.

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks,

Falcom spoiled me forever by offering a startup option to continue from last save that skips all the logos, intros, etc.

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

Long cutscenes that don’t let you save or pause when anything comes up that forces you to leave the keyboard or just focus elsewhere.

“Control” was the worst wrt this (or was it Quantum Break? Maybe both). I was just about to go to bed when it showed me a “cutscene” that went on for more than 30 minutes. Turned out later that you could actually go back to watch it again afterwards, but there was no indication of that at the time.

MentalEdge,
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That would have been Quantum Break. I don’t recall Control having any one cutscene that long.

But Quantum Break did the whole video-game/TV-series hybrid media thing, and was full of “episodes” that were essentially 30-minute cutscenes.

marighost,
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I'm playing through Control now and haven't encountered that (fun game btw!), so methinks it's Quantum Break you're thinking of.

I agree with you, though. Sometimes I have to step away for whatever reason and end up missing something because I can't pause.

bjoern_tantau,
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The Steam Deck is great in that regard. Just put it to sleep.

evening_push579,

Same with the Switch and easily one of the top features. Laundry done? Sleep mode. SO asks something? Sleep mode. Done pooing? Sleep mode.

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

When a freshly installed game starts at max volume

bjoern_tantau, do gaming w What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?
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When there are several waterfalls in the game and not one has a secret behind it.

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

I’ll go first: when mouse sensitivity is unbalanced by default—horizontal movement is way faster than vertical—and the game only allows you to change the overall sensitivity for both axes together.

Chronographs,

I sing think I’ve ever seen that but in the same vein, when the game idea a terrible laggy software mouse in menus with the sensitivity tied to the look sensitivity in game

redsand,

E-mail the developers that you know they’re using ultrawides and will literally never figure out how. And that’s part of the problem.

malfisya, do games w Metroid Community Migration
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peer2pirate,
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Thank you!

megopie, do gaming w Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales

That there is no guarantee that I will always have access to a game I like is really what kills it for me as a user. Like, I’m basically paying them the equivalent of the cost of a game every 3 months, but I could loose access to a game I like at any time because it’s no longer on game pass, so I’d be better off just buying games I like outright with that money every three months.

I’d rather my money go directly to studios making things I like, rather than fractionalized among who ever Microsoft decides deserves to make games.

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

Majora’s mask next?

MyNameIsAtticus,
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I considered it but then i made of the mistake of buying The Last of Us on sale and i can’t put it down

technomad,

Oh hell yeah, the last of us was amazing!

ter_maxima, do games w Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales

Maybe it says more about me than about game pass, but even at 5€ a month it would be significantly more money than I spend on games every year.

Not that I couldn’t afford it, but I mostly play games that are at least 5 to 10 years old, either on second-hand physical copies or heavily discounted sales/keyshops. The most recent game I’ve bought is Elden Ring, even then only recently because I found a cheap physical copy.

Lanusensei87, do games w Metroid Community Migration
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Nice

rikudou, do games w Day 356 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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I’m weirdly excited that soon it will be a full year of daily screenshots.

victorz,

It’s been a wild ride!

newcool1230, do gaming w [Ended] [Steam Key Giveaway] 3x Stardew Valley to give away

Thank you very much for doing this! If I receive this, I will play it all summer long. This is one of the games I really wanted to play.

misterwu,

Congratulations! Your comment was one of the lucky ones!

newcool1230,

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH <3

byzxor, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 7th
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Still working through the Dishonoreds. Almost done with 2 and I’m enjoying it WAYY more than I did back when it came out (and I gave up after 90 minutes).

I would like to get back into Vic3 since I’m hearing lots of good things about 1.9 and the new DLC, but I tend to fizzle out of every Paradox game after 3 hours. Maybe that will change this time?

Since getting an Anbernic something and really liking it, I’ve been trying to use my SteamDeck more but it’s just so not nice to hold or use for more than 30-45 minutes. Alas, I’ve been playing WarGroove (badly) on it.

stray, do gaming w Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales

Everything being said on both sides in those screenshots doesn’t really mean much to me without data to show it’s actually the case.

My personal feeling is that I don’t care to own most games in the first place and would be happy getting them all from the library the same way I do with books. Without Gamepass I wouldn’t have played things like Payday 3 or Grounded in the first place because I won’t purchase them. The alternative for me is piracy.

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