Comment on Video games often have crouch and crawl for stealth but not the much more commonly used tiptoeing
Deconceptualist@leminal.space 2 days agoIn purely game terms, I think it’s just visual shorthand for walking gingerly. Because actually stepping carefully and quietly depends on a lot of factors (surface texture, surrounding environment, footwear, wind conditions, etc) and would be a bitch to fully animate for every permutation.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh absolutely. It only makes sense to map both of those “sometimes” actions to a single button, but it’s still fun to laugh at.