Pet Peeves with Games?

[dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world]

I'm always verbose. If you see that penguin knife over a post you ought to know what you're signing up for.

[mohab@piefed.social]

Hmm… I think for action games it's somewhat of a necessity because there are so many actions the character can take at any given point, so you kinda need to utilize every clickable button.

That said, I agree it never feels great. No matter how good the controller is, it always somehow feels wobbly, specifically after long-term use.

[mohab@piefed.social]

I thought of another one: shitty covers. OMG, The Surge? WTF is that Steam library cover? There are exceptions like Catherine: Classic, but most covers where the protagonist stares at the camera suck so much.

Specifically if it's an action game: show the character in action, FFS. The Wonderful 101 has a great cover. So does Vanquish.

And when half the cover is the logo… just stop with that already. Or an atrocity like Scarlet Nexus… it's just a cropped image… like Bandai couldn't afford to commission a cover.

[yaroto98@lemmy.world]

Menu -> Exit Game -> Yes

Scroll Down - > Exit Game -> Yes

Scroll Down -> Exit to Desktop -> Yes

Exit Launcher -> Yes

Jackbox is one of the worst offenders of this. Have to exit 4 times to actually exit the game.

[brsrklf@jlai.lu]

I guess it would depend on the game, but I rarely play games where those are necessary.

I mean, we've reached a state where controllers have more or less been standardized as 2 sticks, 4 face buttons, 2 shoulder buttons, 2 triggers, usually 2 small buttons used for menus/map. Plus 4 directions on the D-Pad, if it's not used for movement. That's a lot already.

That said, every once in a while I do get a game in which they go absolutely crazy on stick press commands. No man's sky use them all the time, including a baffling right stick press to sprint.

[coelacanth@feddit.nu]

I really hate the trope of having a mission around the 50-75% mark where you are stripped of all your gear and unlocked abilities. I know it must be popular because it keeps popping up in games but I just don't enjoy it personally.

[rebekahwsd@lemmy.world]

Single saves. Me and husband have one computer (we're broke?) and too many games have a single save. So we can't play that game trading off cause there's only one save. Like Baldur's Gate 3? Amazing. Billion saves, hell a billion for each character even. Heaven's Vault? Wild Bastards? One save. Guh.

[mohab@piefed.social]

To clarify: by action games I'm specifically talking about Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, The Wonderful 101… etc. Among basic movement, combat mechanics, and weapon switching, they typically eat up the entire controller layout.

I don't imagine Persona, for example, having any strong reason to utilize the sticks like that. Not sure why No Man's Sky did that either; I haven't played it, but it doesn't look like a high-octane game.

[quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world]

Soloable games that are balanced for multiplayer. It almost always means that basic tasks take ten to a hundred times the resources they should, and arbitrary timers are added to crafting and upgrading to slow down progression.

It's the bane of survival crafting games especially.

[quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world]

It's rare, but putting cooldowns on basic moves.

I've been playing V Rising lately and it does this weird thing where dodging and blocking are equippable spells with (usually) 8-second cooldowns. In return they also get powerful side effects, but I'd rather have a normal dodge or block button I can use at will than have them relegated to yet another move I use whenever I notice the cooldown has expired.

It doesn't help that your basic movement speed is glacial. Winning boss fights come down more to your character's stats than actual player skill since you can only dodge a few times a minute and bosses love throwing out a half dozen AOEs every few seconds, turning them into DPS races.

[mohab@piefed.social]

I hate RNG so much I don't get it. Life has too much RNG, I play video games because it's a predominantly skill-based controlled environment.

It's like picking up a piano and there's a 35% chance F# is just F every time you play the damn note

I guess it makes sense if you're role playing and want your experience to mimic real life, which is why they're mostly used in RPGs, but I also feel so immersed playing skill-based games without RNG, so I can't assess its actual value.

[glimse@lemmy.world]

Hey have you tried Steam Family or whatever it's called? You can make a new user and they have access to all of your game library. Only one account would be able to play at a time but it would solve your save file dilemma - games files are in the common folder but save files are in the user folder

[EDIT] Steam Families

When you join a Steam Family, you automatically gain access to the shareable games that your family members own and they will also be able to access the shareable titles in your library. [...]

Best of all, when you are playing a game from your family library, you will create your own saved games, earn your own Steam achievements, have access to workshop files and more.

[mohab@piefed.social]

Holy shit, action games and giant bosses you can't juggle… I love Bayonetta, but goddamn… Jeanne aside, some of the worst bosses in the genre.

Assault Spy was awesome for letting you juggle literally every boss in the game.

[mohab@piefed.social]

God, yes… it's literally an interactive medium… like, I AM the story, motherfuckers

[borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Since they just have the one pc, they should be able to just make a second user on the pc then sign in to the single steam account. The new user won’t have any save files in the local user directories, so the game gets launched and you’ll only see the “second” set of saves. No idea how this would work with cloud saves on the steam side though.

[borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I had to force the PS5 glyphs by creating a Game.ini file and inserting the appropriate lines to get the ps instead of Xbox button glyphs for my ds4 in Clair obscur the other day. It was definitely annoying.

Thanks to searching for a solution to that I found a mod to remove the abysmal sharpening, uncap cutscene frame rate, and remove pillar boxes on my 21:9 display though, so it all worked out.

[ephera@lemmy.ml]

I really don't like when games intermix tutorial with story. Unless the story is the main attraction, I cannot get myself to care for it. And then having to click through tons of story texts to pick out the tutorial parts, that is just cumbersome.

I also have to say, though, that it really doesn't help my immersion when the fairy, that just told me she's from the clan Uhgaloogah, then tells me to press the X button on my controller.
If you put in a lot of effort, you can make it credible that the controller is part of the game world and the fairy would know the buttons. But most games do not put in that effort. And then, IMHO it is a lot less immersion-breaking when the game just shows an info box, where we both know that it isn't part of the game world.

[ryathal@sh.itjust.works]

I do appreciate the games that give you quit and quit to desktop in the same menu.

[bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world]

Alt+F4 is your friend!

Or on Steam Deck, quit the game using the steam menu.

[rebekahwsd@lemmy.world]

This might have been the issue as well? All the saves were in the Cloud. But I'm not very techy. While I can follow instructions (I think), software seems to hate me. The hardware, we're friends!