Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SalamenceFury@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

Hear me out. A few games have shader installations that will usually apply any new settings you put down AFTER you restart the game, and a lot of other games have graphics settings that will only apply after you’ve rebooted the game.

I don’t think it would cost developers ANY amount of money or any significant development time to add a “Reboot game” button (or toggle) every time the player presses the quit button, or give the player a prompt every time they change a setting that requires a game restart (like in both PC versions of GTA V).

I also think ANY game should have a “full potato” mode capable of running in older computers with NONE of the fancy graphics stuff that we have access to today, despite having a decent computer now.

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BigMilk13@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The first time I boot up the game, immediately show me the settings menu. Whether its window settings, sound volume, subtitles, or graphics settings, please do not make me sit through a long cutscene or (god forbid) make me play the game without being able to adjust settings first.

I can think of 1 or 2 games that booted to settings or booted to a truncated settings menu with common settings, but I would love if this became standard for all PC games.

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Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Subtitles. I wish I could have suuttiles for halo, the early games. It’s getting better these days, and should be a setting accessible before starting the game (not after the intro movie, I’m looking at you vanilla wow).

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Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You just reminded me of a funny feature I found in Elite Dangerous (space MMO) to prevent combat loggers (quitting suddenly during combat): if you press Alt+F4,the game doesn’t immediately exit, but shows you a Quit dialog (to main menu or desktop), and there’s a lengthy countdown if you’re near hostile ships. :)

Doesn’t prevent it entirely, but I thought it was pretty crafty.

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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Save&quit at any time

So I can just boot up the game, play for 15 minutes and go do other stuff

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- Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, the steam deck does this, it’s a great feature.
  
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discostjohn@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Colorblind options that let me specifically choose the color of each HUD/UI element. I don’t want an overlay for the whole game, I just want to be able to distinguish icons in the UI that might have color-coding too similar for my eyes to perceive at a glance

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REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Windowed borderless mode

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- cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I should probably know this, but what’s the deal with full screen vs windowed full screen? What’s the difference?
  
  Also why do people wanna play windowed? Maybe depends on the type of game…?
  
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  - swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Game in one window, other things open in other windows. Game and do other things at the same time.
    
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  - smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There used to be a noticeable performance boost to an app when in full screen mode, but that was back in Windows 7 days and may not be true any more.
    
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  - thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Alt tab out to other apps without the game freaking out due to display settings
    
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- SystemL@literature.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I never understood why people prefer it over full screen.
  
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  - filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It enables quick window switching with no flickering. This may be a strictly Windows issue.
    
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- Hupf@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Genuine question: what issue does this address? Are there graphics driver issues with regular full screen in some cases?
  
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  - thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Some games minimize and try to lock your mouse to the game if you alt tab out. Windowed mode makes it pretty much seamless, pain free. No difference I ever found, just easier to alt tab out and check a map, take notes, pause and watch a video.
    
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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Let me choose my own resolution.

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- victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I dunno… Depends on the game. If you make a window wide enough you’d start seeing what’s behind you, and that might not be very fair in certain games lol. It might not be very easy to aim but that can be learned. 😅
  
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  - Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well…
    I could also set my own resolution with the config files (rocket league at last at the time allowed it) or I also could set my own resolution in my gpu driver.
    
    So what’s the issue then?
    For example, I can’t choose an ultrawide 1080p resolution in Cyberpunk2077.
    Any game usually let’s me set the usual values (like 1920x1080, 1280x720, 4:3 resolutions, 16:10 resolutions, etc etc). So why not let me choose the custom resolution of 2560x1080p ???
    
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saplyng@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If your game supports controller give me the option to change the button faces to whatever I prefer. Some people like Nintendo button layout, others PlayStation, other Xbox. Whatever it is, don’t hard code one set - they’re just some pngs, support them all.

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RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ohh, that type of setting.

One option I really appreciated in Uncharted 4 was the ability to restart cutscenes, and I wish it was in every game with cutscenes.

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Auth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Every game should have the option to toggle motion blur off, toggle frame gen and upscaling off.

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- RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t think I can name one game without a motion blur slider, or toggle.
  
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  - Auth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I’m pretty sure just cause 3 didnt have an option to disable it and it was horrible. They fixed it later I believe.
    
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Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m not sure about every game but I’d like to see a lot more games do what Rebel Galaxy did and let you set up paths for custom OST. No game dev can license the perfect soundtrack for every player, but it’s great to be able to slot in what I feel makes the perfect soundtrack. Some people want their fight scenes to be scored with DMX, some want Burzum, and some want the Cronos Quartet. Let them all find their moment.

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- cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  For this reason, “if”, by mindless self indulgence always brings me back to wipeout pulse or pure on PS3.
  
  I had that album set and it sure was an anger for that game.
  
  “Never wanted to dance with nobody like you!”
  
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- SalamenceFury@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I personally love that Rockstar has been allowing this by letting people set up their own radio that plays in-game. I myself have 763 songs on my GTA V/Online Self Radio :V
  
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Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I also think ANY game should have a “full potato” mode capable of running in older computers with NONE of the fancy graphics stuff that we have access to today, despite having a decent computer now.

Problem is that the fancy graphics stuff isn’t just additive.
For example, raytracing is actually relatively simple to implement, since you just make light behave like it does in real-world physics, according to a couple relatively straightforward rules and material properties.
Lighting without raytracing involves tons of ~~smokes and mirrors~~ hacks and workarounds. For example, mirrors were often faked by building the same room behind the wall, with everything inverted, including the player character’s animations.
So, making a game with potato graphics typically requires building a second version of the game.

Of course, there can be a mode that does just turn off the additive stuff, so only that which does not require changing the game implementation. But that can just be one of the graphics presets…

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dil@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Grappling hook with freedom on wear to place it, swinging physics, idc if it makes sense, ill take it in all games. And wingsuit gliding, I may have been one of the only few ppl online who liked that in battlefield. Such a funnway to traverse the map.

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Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Gameplay settings menus that allow you to turn off gameplay mechanisms you simply don’t enjoy, or tune them.

I’m talking about ones that are like one line of code being set to true instead of false etc. That type of thing.

Basically things like that and the Atomfall gameplay/difficulty settings menu

I don’t give a fuck if some pretentious asses “artistic vision” requires the player to backtrack half way across a level on every death or thinks a shitty minigame should be played no less than 153 times every play through. I want to be able to just turn off the unfun shit, and leave on the fun shit.

This is a game. I don’t care if the developer thinks X Y or Z adds to the experience. If I don’t, within reason I should just be able to turn it off.

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- brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Oh, definitely.
  
  Fuck carry weight. Fuck inventory management.
  
  Unless there is a serious, compelling reason and they game is about that, let me turn off micromanage shit. I want to explore the world and dungeons and not worry about whether all the loot I can pick up is worth it or to decide each and every single item whether I want it or what I need to toss to pick it up.
  
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  - Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is exactly it. I don’t understand why people would want to waste any time doing things they don’t want to do vs things they want to do when playing games. The point is fun, whatever that means to the individual.
    
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- Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I was with you at first, thinking you meant in a sandbox game, like turning off hunger/on hardcore in Minecraft, etc. but you’re just whining because every moment isn’t custom built to keep up with your personal ADHD/hedonic treadmill. The point of a game isn’t to just give you a blowjob from launch to credits. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re looking in the wrong place.
  
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  - Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    but you’re just whining because every moment isn’t custom built to keep up with your personal ADHD/hedonic treadmill.
    
    This is such a weirdly hostile, assumptive and gatekeepy sentiment.
    
    The point of a game isn’t to just give you a blowjob from launch to credits. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re looking in the wrong place.
    
    Your mentality of “this is not what the point of a game is” is especially ridiculous because if a game was that, what I’m advocating for would give you the ability to make it what you want instead.
    
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- RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I don’t give a fuck if some pretentious asses “artistic vision” requires the player to backtrack half way across a level on every death or thinks a shitty minigame should be played no less than 153 times every play through.
  
  Then just don’t play that game or use cheats (if its a singleplayer game)?
  
  I don’t see why a game developer needs to intentionally provide an option to remove mechanics they designed a game around just to please someone that doesn’t want to play the game as they designed it.
  
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  - Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Then just don’t play that game or use cheats (if its a singleplayer game)?
    
    Alternatively, the devs could just have those options, as some games do, and everyone is happy.
    
    You have such a weird gate keeper take here.
    
    This is a wishlist. No one is forced to do anything by me saying this is my preference.
    
    You are stanning for a nonexistent idea of a game. This is an unbelievable level of gatekeeping.
    
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- hamsda@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I’m talking about ones that are like one line of code being set to true instead of false etc
  
  I don’t know how many, if any, settings matching the true/false + 1 line of code restraints even exist.
  
  If you can change a setting, even if it’s a binary choice, someone had to think about, implement and test everything pertaining to these choices.
  
  Depending on what kind of mechanic we’re talking about and how deeply integrated into the rest of the game this mechanic is, that could be a big task.
  
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  - Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    don’t know how many, if any, settings matching the true/false + 1 line of code restraints even exist.
    
    Absolutely. For example, turning off running out of stamina, removing item loss, turning off minigames is close.
    
    There are tons. Atomfall has a ton of options that are similarly simple.
    
    If you can change a setting, even if it’s a binary choice, someone had to think about, implement and test everything pertaining to these choices.
    
    Nah. Some choices just arent that complicated. I think you’re over complicating it. We can especially see that this is true in many games where things are modded in. Like in Cyberpunk, just not having to play the minigames is a better experience imo. Like its slightly more than the one line hyperbole, but not much.
    
    Depending on what kind of mechanic we’re talking about and how deeply integrated into the rest of the game this mechanic is, that could be a big task.
    
    I feel like you’re getting away from the spirit of my comment here/getting carried away with finding exceptions and technicalities to this thread about no game in particular and hypothetical wishlists of features.
    
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  - essell@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Checkout the custom settings for Ixion.
    
    Its exactly what they’re asking for, and it works well
    
    Increasingly seeing this in games, and I love it.
    
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- qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I disagree because it solely approaches games as some sort of “electronic commodity” and outright despises a development group’s artistry.
  
  Sure, not every game is trying to be art. But games have long gone beyond the realm of simply “entertain me”. That opinion is like saying “books should be made in a way that allows users to change the story whenever and however they want.” It is something you can do but there’s no imperative to cater to it.
  
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  - Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    I disagree because it solely approaches games as some sort of “electronic commodity” and outright despises a development group’s artistry.
    
    This is meaningless pretentious gibberish. It’s like saying that watching movie on an unintended device is disrespecting the playwright.
    
    Why should your desire to put entertaining past times on a pedestal restrict what I should be able to do.
    
    If you feel that way, then play games as they intend. There is no reason to be against other people having an option just because you don’t like it.
    
    That opinion is like saying “books should be made in a way that allows users to change the story whenever and however they want.” It is something you can do but there’s no imperative to cater to it.
    
    This makes no sense at all as an analogy. Books don’t run on game engines and don’t have recycled bits of logic that game mechanics are comprised of that can be mass changed to great effect. The feature you’re describing would require the equivalent of writing the book a million times over. The changes Im describing are often accomplished on day one by modders, or just included by the developers as a quality of life feature set.
    
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ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Nude mode. We’re all grown ups here.

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- JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Only if it.works both ways
  
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- Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I mean, in the same vein, just have age rating settings on games where applicable. Sometimes I want as much adult in my adult game as possible, other ones I want just good old fashioned fun. Overall I want sensorship to fucking quit it. Especially lately where they’re going back to games that were developed one way and sensoring them when they do HD remakes. Fucking stupid
  
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  - cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Agree but then that’s extra B’s in development which I’m sure most studios dgaf about.
    
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- Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Even if some people aren’t, no one is getting psychologically damaged by the sight of some digital boobs. Puritanical attitudes toward sex do more damage than seeing boobs ever could.
  
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  - MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    “Sure, kids, all those limbs flying around and buckets of blood, as long as your parents are cool with it (or you just forget to tell them about it). All that stuff representing causing excruciating pain and ending lives. But not one tiny sliver of a nipple for you, or else your mind will be CORRUPTED!”
    
    For fuck’s sake, autocorrect changed “nipple” to “ripple” while I was typing that.
    
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Pause on focus loss/main menu.

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- Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Same do it some don’t. Standardization would be great! I personally HATE when a game pauses when I tab to something else but I can see the benefit for others.
  
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  - MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    …with a toggle in settings.
    
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- Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Toggleable, please.
  
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SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Enterable values for mouse sensitivity.

No sliders.

I’m talking, down to at least the thousandths place decimal, and up as high as I fucking want. This allows your mouse sensitivity to not only account for how you play, but also how everybody else plays.

And if you’re one of those devs that has the aiming be different than mouse cursor, or even SEPARATE mouse cursor speed settings HAVE ENTERABLE SETTINGS FOR THOSE TOO!!

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- MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Every time I see a slider for any damn setting that ends up going from, say, 3.48 to 3.51 unless I go REALLY SLOWLY, in which case maybe it goes 3.48 3.49, 3.51, or whatever nonsense where I can’t just get my nice round number. Let me type the stupid number.
  
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- Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Fucks sake this for me. Why the fuck there isn’t standardization between games on this is beyond me. I have to go through fucking with mouse sensitivity on every damn game. This is part of the reason I died out of multiplayer tbh.
  
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- protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  also, a standard to mouse sens values, a value of 10 should be same across everything, games made in the same engine usually handle the values the same which is great, I for example have the same sens across all source games, but this usually doesnt carry to diferent engines let alone random one off games with custom engines
  
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Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
An FOV slider. I don’t care if you’re a 2D game, you’re honoring totalBiscuit

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- dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  In his honor, I still lick walls in videogames to this day.
  
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termaxima@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A combined off switch for TAA, Ray Tracing, DLSS, frame generation, and all of that nonsense.

I hate that games now turn to soup when in motion, even with motion blur off.

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- Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  ???
  
  Why have you included ray tracing and DLSS among the actual blur causers?
  
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  - REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Do you not know how DLSS works? I almost never find sacrificing clarity for FPS an improvement
    
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  - termaxima@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ray Tracing is still not good enough and needs “de-noising” which basically just blurs the image.
    
    DLSS is also absolutely horrible for blur. I would rather have a clear pixelated image than an upscaled mess. (And AMD superFX is barely any better)
    
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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A combined button would be great, but just having all of these settings able to be directly turned off would be great.
  
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londos@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Local server

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teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Adding a reboot button is ONLY necessary if the game isn’t made correctly. There is otherwise no reason to ever need to restart the game. I would see the addition of a restart option as lazy or an admission of failure by the dev.

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- Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I could still see it as an admission of imperfection.
  
  Arc Raiders includes an “unstuck” feature. They’re aware their physics system isn’t infallibly perfect, and getting stuck permanently could lead to loss of hard-earned gear. So, if a player is in one spot for more than a minute, they offer an option to teleport you to a safe place a few feet away.
  
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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Chromatic aberration and film grain. If your game has either of those and no way to turn them off, I wish you a slow, painful death and I will probably refund it.

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- MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And that movement blur, wghatwasitsname?
  
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- Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Amen
  
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pachrist@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
System clock in the top right corner.

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LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
An option to choose what controller glyphs I want to use (Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, directional) and a option to always use those glyphs even when mouse input is detected, so I can use Gyro without the glyphs constantly flickering ☺️

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- CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I prefer the 4 circles glyphs that shows the appropriate face button highlighted. It’s device agnostic and helpful when I’m switching between playing on my Switch and playing on my PC with an Xbox controller.
  
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  - LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s what I meant by directional, I wish more games had it!
    
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- MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This would be killer!
  
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Everything should be controllable. Give me all the options. Every graphical feature, every UI element, even gameplay mechanics. If it is as simple as adjusting a number or selecting something from a table, give me the option to control it myself.

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- Damarus@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Okay you can now control the shadow casting behavior of every single entity in the game individually. Happy?
  
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hikaru755@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not quite a setting, but every game should be required to tell you how long ago the last save was when you quit the game. I absolutely don’t understand why it’s only a tiny minority of games that does this, it is such an obvious thing to do

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- wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I like this, and I think it should be complemented with a “Save and Quit to OS” button.
  
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creature@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
pausing during cutscenes - it’s weird that this isn’t always an option even in AAA

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flamiera@kbin.melroy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
When I want to quit your game, I mean it.

I do not want to be prompted several times as attempts to keep me in the game when I just want to leave.

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JandroDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
separe audio settings for bgm, sound effects, etc

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Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Developers should spend effort vouching for a launch without startup logos. Even if supporting libraries/publishers are credited some other way, startup movies take up a lot of time when gamers launch the game many times.

Trails in the Sky has a feature where you can choose to launch the game directly into your most recent save game rather than ending up at the menus. This would be a boon for many singleplayer games, especially those with densely animated menus.
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