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Lembot_0005, do games w Gaming Pet Peeves

Showing a long plot-explaining intro right after start, before I have a chance to get to “options” and set the resolution, subtitles, etc. I also “love” unskippable short logo videos at start. And a few screens with only “press any button to continue”.

Doc_Crankenstein,

Unskipable splash screens are the worst.

DesolateMood,

Luckily, at least in my experience, most of those are just a .mkv that you can either rename or delete and the game will just skip it entirely. Unfortunately that can’t be done on consoles

Doc_Crankenstein,

cries in console

JackbyDev, do games w Gaming Pet Peeves

Games that refuse to let you change the difficulty once you begin a game. More broadly, single player games that worry too much about preserving some sort of honor associated with doing well and make it annoying to play. Like rougue likes that have no save and quit for fear of people save scumming.

pasdechance, do games w Gaming Pet Peeves
@pasdechance@jlai.lu avatar
  • No quick restart options for arcade-style games like shmups
  • Games that end up being too easy once you unlock of figure out one mechanic or technique like dash-dodge or iframe rolling and now the entire game is just the same loop
  • Unskippable or long intros or cutscenes (I sold Guilty Gear Strive because of that eagle thing…)
  • The spam garbage ripoffs on the Nintendo eShop that shouldn’t be there
  • Code in a box
  • When DLC characters are visible on character select even if you didn’t buy them (looking at those 10 greyed-out characters on SF6 are so annoying)
Blahnominous, do games w Gaming Pet Peeves

Only having one master audio slider. Please at least give me one for music, voice, and sound effect mixing separately.

kelpie_returns, do games w Gaming Pet Peeves

Artificial difficulty. If I can only finish a game by grinding for hours on end or after endless tedious fetch quests, I am going to be very disappointed. Like there’d better be something else real strong in the title’s favor or I’m likely to drop it altogether.

There was a time when making games more difficult by way of time investment made more sense from a design angle, but that time has long since passed. It’s just lazy design in 9/10 cases theses days.

lazycouchpotato, do games w What is your favorite Metroidvania?
@lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world avatar

I haven’t played that many, but I enjoyed Ori and the Blind Forest and Carrion.

I adore Supraland, which is more of a Zelda/Portal/Metroid mix.

JigglySackles,

Ayyyy plus one on both Carrion and Supraland! Loved both of those. I can’t wait to get the latest Surpaland game (Supraworld iirc?). Such a fun puzzle platformer.

lazycouchpotato,
@lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world avatar

Waiting for the game to complete development before I give it a try!

JigglySackles,

For sure. I don’t care to get in on early access too often.

Grass, do games w One hour into Gears 5 and I feel its a lot better than 4

is there an achievement for getting 5000000000 kils in multiplayer?

StrutTower, do games w What is your favorite Metroidvania?

Ghost Song is one of my favorites that doesn’t look like its been mentioned yet.

JigglySackles,

I was scrolling looking for this one too! Really excellent game. I’ve been enjoying it and it scratches my metroid itch better than what most people are listing off.

eezeebee, do games w What is your favorite Metroidvania?
@eezeebee@lemmy.ca avatar

I haven’t played very many, and these might not be pure Metroidvanias, but I recommend:

The Messenger

Pseudoregalia

Tunic

kender242,
@kender242@lemmy.world avatar
eezeebee,
@eezeebee@lemmy.ca avatar

Pretty spot on video.

I just ordered the plushy because it’s on sale and I love Chewnic so much. I love the fox.

frank,

Tunic is so damn good.

somtwo,

I was not expecting to fall in love with tunic! What a great game!

flyhunter,

Pseudoregalia is just so good!!

Ertain, do gaming w a Landscape of Knowledge Games
@Ertain@mast.linuxgamecast.com avatar

@ooli3 With respect to the linked article, I'm not liking the term "Metroidbrania" either.

fishsayhelo, do games w Games that I finished this year so far. Probably the best year of gaming for me since 2007

lotta yawns in this list, but i envy your free time. nice life 👍🏿

Katana314, do gaming w We don't have to make it complicated

I can’t remember which ones, but I recall some games out there that were putting out new console versions, and kind of sputtered when marketing them for PC.

It’s Game, from 15 years ago!
Yeah, we know. Steam still sells it.
But can it run in HD?
Yes.
Oh. Uh……is it really still available for sale?
Yeah, it-…Hey, wait, you just pulled it!
$60!

purplemonkeymad,

Glad I have GTA:sa on dvd still.

Bosht, do games w Games that I finished this year so far. Probably the best year of gaming for me since 2007

I vote you play Control next! Challenge mode: Dyson Sphere Project

SippyCup,

I have multiple saves with Dyson Spheres around black holes.

They were played consecutively.

I watched, while playing that game, every single episode of classic Trek, and SNW. I believe a few movies are sprinkled in there too.I only stopped playing to play Clair Obscur.

setsneedtofeed, do games w Games that I finished this year so far. Probably the best year of gaming for me since 2007
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

My Steam recents:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c7527e31-24ac-484c-b507-abcf69cac78f.jpeg

Everything that’s got a finishable campaign here I’ve completed, with the exception of MCC where I only played Halo CE and ODST to completion.

elvith, do gaming w We don't have to make it complicated

What’s the original strip about? Upselling something?

EightLeggedFreak,

Jarhead just wants coffee. Old (for the internet) boomer humor comic.

JimVanDeventer,
Buddahriffic,

Those darn millenials and their forcing everyone to drink their fancy drinks and then Karen gets mad at me, the poor veteran just trying to give this business my dollar!

aGlassDarkly,

…yeah I’m trying to imagine a scenario when this would ever happen. I’ve never seen someone try to upsell someone else on coffee before.

Buddahriffic,

And even if they did upsell like that, it was probably because some boomer insisted (at least at the time of this comic). Out of all the things I associate with “millenials”, wanting to upsell shit to make their employer more money isn’t one of them.

Lifter,

I get uppselling a lot. “Extra shot?”, " Cookie?", “Membership App?”, etc.

Buddahriffic,

Yeah but how often do they persist after the first decline? I mean, it comes more down to the individual than there generation, but it’s more common to hear “sorry, I have to ask this, but upsell? No, ok cool, that’ll be total” than seeing someone try to argue after the first no thanks.

JimVanDeventer,

I’ve never seen someone try to upsell someone else on coffee before.

“Would you like whipped cream on that” gets me a lot.

Rusty,

I drink black coffee and that never happened to me. I think the baristas would prefer to make a simpler drink.

JimVanDeventer,

I often enjoy a simple black coffee, myself, and have never had anyone try to convince me otherwise as if they are dying to do more work. It’s just an ‘other people having choices feels like a threat to my tradition’ kind of comic, I guess. The lady yelling at him is kind of funny, though; I have seen worse boomer humour.

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