fakeman_pretendname

fakeman_pretendname, 11 miesięcy temu

I spend a hundred quid or so, every year for the last ten years on Steam (Steam for Linux onwards), but in exchange for that, I have several hundred quality games - probably more than I can ever play in my lifetime.

How are people spending so much on imaginary gold rings for “Sweetshop Diamond Solitaire Saga Origins”?

Is it simply a matter of there’s 100 of them for every 1 of me?

fakeman_pretendname, rok temu

I hate not being able to pause a game, particularly a single player game. I think Elite Dangerous solidified my hatred of this, by not telling you the game is still running when you’re on the “pause” menu.

“B-B-BU-BUT it’s a simulation and you can’t pause real life so it makes it more real”

It’s a game, even if it’s a simulation game. It’s a toy for grown-ups. A very nice and fun and relaxing toy, but a toy nonetheless. It’s not more important than a phone call, call at the door, crying child, hungry cat, partner who needs a hand with something etc.

This probably extends to being able to save anywhere and rejoin later, but I think that one is covered pretty well by everyone else :)

fakeman_pretendname, rok temu

It also seems to keep cropping up in janky 3D Unity games, “We can’t allow pause because it breaks all the physics”.

fakeman_pretendname, rok temu

I never really bothered with the multiplayer mode in it - I know the game was built with a multiplayer back end, but they did promise a single player mode, and they do present the game as having a single player/solo mode.

Obviously different things annoy different people, and I do get what you mean about quitting and restarting etc, but it was enough for me to stop bothering to play it and play X4:Foundations instead. I did still get over a hundred hours play out of it, so I don’t exactly feel hard done by, but if quitting to the main menu works, then it’s clearly mechanically possible for them to let you pause it, they just didn’t want to.