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Post by simple on Feb 19, 2023 14:34:41 GMT
Games that just have excessive junk laying around, with no use other than minor currency trade in but it just litters your inventory being annoying. It then also makes the "Take All" button functionally useless. Basically Bethesda RPGs. There’s so many types of junk item in Mass Effect Andromeda there’s not just a “take all” option on item pick up but a “sell all junk” button when you visit merchants. I don’t mind it as I’m raking it in but it hardly seems necessary. I think DA Inquisition had the same item/shop management so finding items like “leather bindings” would have made more sense back then. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Mar 3, 2023 3:42:10 GMT
Motion Blur.
The one thing I always turn off, without fail.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Mar 3, 2023 13:15:41 GMT
I absolutely wasn't aware of this - not having played it - but apparently Far Cry 1 had hit-scan weapons, but the visible bullets had travel time. So in actuality those are apparently not the real bullets and the game induces the player to lead with the aim and essentially tricks you into playing incorrectly.
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Post by simple on Mar 3, 2023 13:26:04 GMT
Since I’m replaying Alien Isolation and just turned the option off I want to repeat an earlier entry and say any use of the in-controller speaker is bad.
1. The sound quality is horrendous
2. I find it immediately immersion breaking
3. Sometimes if I don’t realise a game uses it it makes me jump
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Post by dfunked on Mar 3, 2023 14:06:59 GMT
Controller volume always gets disabled immediately for PS... It's such an utterly shit feature, it just sounds so tinny and pathetic and as you say just breaks the immersion rather than adds to it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2023 14:08:29 GMT
Fifa has the worse use of it in existence.
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Post by dangerousdave on Mar 3, 2023 14:10:21 GMT
Fifa has the worse use of it in existence. Is it secondary commentary from Alan Partridge? |
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Post by rawshark on Mar 3, 2023 14:59:00 GMT
Fifa has the worse use of it in existence. Is it secondary commentary from Alan Partridge? That I would pay well over the odds for. |
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Post by dfunked on Mar 3, 2023 15:29:13 GMT
That would actually make me want to play FIFA. Now I'm sad that it's not a real thing...
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Post by britesparc on Mar 3, 2023 15:50:06 GMT
This might just be a personal one for me and me alone, but I can't stand it in large semi-open-world type games where there are specific save spots rather than a "save anywhere" option in the menu or regular checkpoints. I'm just lazy, I don't want to climb the same mountain five times or breeze past the same nine guys just because the tenth keeps killing me.
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Post by wunty on Mar 3, 2023 15:57:31 GMT
Controller volume always gets disabled immediately for PS... It's such an utterly shit feature, it just sounds so tinny and pathetic and as you say just breaks the immersion rather than adds to it. Yes. It's fucking bollocks and I've never once wanted to have it on. Particularly as I play with headphones 95% of the time. |
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Post by RadicalRex on Mar 4, 2023 9:29:15 GMT
Stunlocks. No game should have stunlocks ever. Fucking bullshit
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Post by RadicalRex on Mar 4, 2023 9:35:16 GMT
Or similarly, when a boss has invulnerability frames but ignores yours
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Post by RadicalRex on Mar 4, 2023 9:38:45 GMT
Or spams you with offscreen attacks but your weapons can't hit them offscreen
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Post by deekyfun on Mar 4, 2023 9:42:05 GMT
Sounds like you're having a good time!
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Post by RadicalRex on Mar 4, 2023 10:15:23 GMT
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 9, 2023 23:15:55 GMT
I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned already, but stealth sections in games that aren't stealth games.
If a game is designed with stealth in mind from the get go it can work and be fun, but some games just shoe-horn stealth into games not really built with that in mind and it's usually abysmal.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Apr 21, 2023 2:47:44 GMT
Just started Lost In Random. Absolutely gorgeous game, but for some insane reason there is no option to turn off subtitles.
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Post by RadicalRex on Apr 27, 2023 4:36:33 GMT
When you can swim only in the direction you're looking. As in, your game has a jump and a crouch button, so please let me just swim up or down without having to look in that direction (especially annoying with a controller). Generally, games acting like your head and eyes are locked in the direction your body is facing. Off the top of my head, Outer Wilds comes to mind, where strafing is slow because your character is literally stepping sideways. People can look sideways while walking forward, you know. Like this:  |
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Post by Aunt Alison on May 12, 2023 8:16:45 GMT
Games not having a load game option in the in game menu so you have to quit back to the main menu first if you want to reload
Resident Evil 4 Remake retroactively updating your save file if you die/continue/reload unless you quit to the main menu and then reload your game from there
Weapons magically attaching to characters backs when they're not using them (this is something I've started noticing and being irrationally bothered by)
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 12, 2023 8:26:34 GMT
Games where you can't exit straight to desktop.
The weapons thing doesn't bother me, as I've played enough MMOs and similar where weapons just attach to backs/hips with no sheath or straps I'm just immune to it. But it is pretty odd when you think about it.
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Post by Aunt Alison on May 12, 2023 9:52:54 GMT
Yeah, it feels like an old thing that everyone just accepts but despite advances it has never been updated. We should at least be seeing straps or something by now. Doesn't matter what it is, just plonk it on your back and it stays there
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 12, 2023 10:19:14 GMT
Straps would probably be the simplest solution.
I think the issue would be it then creates extra possibility for models clipping, especially if a game has complex and varied armour. I'd probably find that kind of artifacts more annoying than them being absent.
Plus some massive fantasy swords would not work in sheathes.
I did see something where they had a magnetic "sheathe" to keep the sword / axe on back. Maybe everyone just has that.
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Post by wunty on May 12, 2023 11:25:16 GMT
Yeah, it feels like an old thing that everyone just accepts but despite advances it has never been updated. We should at least be seeing straps or something by now. Doesn't matter what it is, just plonk it on your back and it stays there Playing through both TLoU games and it's nice that weapons properly go into backpacks / holsters / pockets / waistbands. |
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Post by dogbot on May 12, 2023 11:47:40 GMT
They have a hard enough time just getting their games to work these days.
Can you imagine if they had to code a strap flapping about on every movement of the weapon system?
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 12, 2023 11:58:32 GMT
It does make me chuckle when a character in a cutscene receives an item and they put it in some pocket dimension satchel behind them.
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 12, 2023 12:01:41 GMT
Let's be honest though, if bagspace wasn't a thing, and you could only carry realistic ammounts, most games wouldn't function. Or it would be a bit tedious, or everyone would like that guy from Death Stranding.
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Post by wunty on May 12, 2023 12:01:43 GMT
All of a sudden Death Stranding is looking pretty good now huh.
/Sam stumbles and falls into a ravine, weighed down by all the weapons and grenades he's hauling
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Post by Aunt Alison on May 12, 2023 12:05:56 GMT
It does make me chuckle when a character in a cutscene receives an item and they put it in some pocket dimension satchel behind them. Nature's pocket |
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Post by rhaegyr on May 12, 2023 12:07:59 GMT
Unnatural pauses in spoken dialogue during conversations between characters whilst the camera switches from one to the other.
JRPGs are the biggest offender but it's not exclusive to that genre. Completely ruins the flow and makes immersing yourself in a game and its' characters pretty tricky.
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