Pet Peeves with Games?

Submitted ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

Mine always is, completely forgetting what I was doing and where I was going after not touching a save file for a long time. This is happening to me right now with Stardew Valley.

I'm in Year 4, married Maru, have a decent farm going, I have yet to build the movie theater I just found out so that's something I can do. And I know up until that point, I called it a conclusion of a game, but yet I forgot completely about there being some minor goals or things I wanted to do. Completely out of my head. It was a year ago since I last touched that save.

This happens a lot with old saves, because sometimes I have had something in mind as to how I was going to play the game or where I was going with a character.

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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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- cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is why mages are hard mode in RPGs. You’re limited by mana in how many fireballs you can cast. The sword does more damage and costs nothing to swing even though fatigue is a real thing.
  
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eezeebee@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Getting lost. I like exploring until I’m done exploring, and then I have a low tolerance for wandering aimlessly. I don’t need an indicator and a map to tell me where to go, but I appreciate a sign post or NPC to nudge me in the right direction if I need it. Sometimes level/world design does not help in areas that look samey, so landmarks or some sort of unique feature are appreciated.

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- Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I wish more games did better sign posting too. I’m not a fan of following the dotted line, but I see too many games where there’s no other way to do it. The NPC tells you to go somewhere, and doesn’t actually give you directions.
  
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mohab@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
In 3rd-person games with a free moving camera, pressing the joystick not repositioning the camera behind my character. It’s so annoying in action games to have to manually reposition the camera while 5 enemies are happy to attack you from off screen.

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- brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Personally I don’t like having anything on stick press (at least for game controls, I can tolerate occasional use to open a menu or something). I think it feels terrible and I have no idea why this progressively became a thing on controllers since mid-00s.
  
  Worst use of that I’ve ever found was Fable (at least the 360 version). The game wants you to push the left stick while also using it to move to sneak.
  
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  - mohab@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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.
    
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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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vogi@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
My biggest pet peeve are collectables in games not primarily about exploration.
I guess it can be implemented in fun way, but I hate backtracking or not being sure I can continue without looking in every corner in a segment of a level.
Replayed Mario Galaxy and it was rather pleasantly surprised being able to play it in your own way.

~I am aware that nothing is stopping me to do so, even with collectables. Unfortunately I hate half full progress bars just as much TT.~

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- serpineslair@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, playing Sniper Elite 5 atm, clearly the game was designed to follow your own path, however there are collectibles/things to find and/or information key to finishing optional objectives in basically every building. Then sometimes after finishing every main objective on a map, I’m resorting to running around like a madman slaughtering small pockets of remaining nazis because I’ve run out of patience after a 1-2hr mission - therefore ruining my otherwise perfect stealth run -_- .
  
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Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Games that have a checkpoint between inordinate amounts of bullshit and a boss fight where you're highly likely to die: It's annoying as hell.

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- eleijeep@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You want to repeat the inordinate amounts of bullshit?
  
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  - FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No, I just wrote it wrong.
    
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cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I love when a game makes me think. To figure out how to progress, or just how to beat an enemy or solve a puzzle.

What I don’t like is when you do the thing and it doesn’t click. Like you do it a second too fast or slow. Like come on, I did the thing, now let me move onto the next thing.

I once played a game that let you skip a mission after failing it so many times. Seriously, why should the game just end because you don’t have perfect timing? That’s not entertaining for me. Keep the thing moving, somehow.

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nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Mine is similar to yours in that it’s when I come back to a game after a while. My problem is that the difficulty of the game has increased in line with where I am but I’ve forgotten the moves.

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mohab@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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Melobol@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I believe it is going to be a huge deal as the gamers are aging out. (And if you play on a Tv).
Give me a freaking texts size option! And not just size 6 to size 8! Big effin text!
It is a huge pet peeve of mine.

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- RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Game developers should add text size options to be big enough or at least legible enough at small resolutions like 240p. This can help scale UI design too accomadate for potentially huge text sizes.
  
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jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Happened with me in FFVII back in the day… Doing well, had to take a 2 week business trip, got back… “Wait, did I just GET to this town or was I LEAVING this town?” No clue what I was doing, I may have just started over…

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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I have the same issue with any of those long games that I’ve stepped away from for a while. I usually go back in, wander around aimlessly, accidentally mess up what I was working on before, and then realize why I quit playing it way back when.

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Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Speaking for myself, the average game got way better when the industry figured out it was better to mix the tutorial with the story. Bespoke tutorials felt like homework, and a lot of people are inclined to skip them, never figure out how the game works, and then come away with a negative opinion of the game. In general, and I’m curious to hear your perspective on this, you can make it exciting by starting the story en media res, so your character is using all of their usual verbs; then you can sidestep that immersion breaking moment by having the button prompts exist in a freeze frame thing, outside of the context of the story, that highlights the action it wants you to do. Do you prefer the bespoke tutorials that we got in the likes of 90s PC games? Do you like the way Gears of War does it, where it still keeps it contextual in the course of the story, but they very clearly give you an option to say that you know what you’re doing?
  
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  - Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I think, you’re perhaps conflating story with gameplay here? I do think, it’s good to incorporate the tutorial into normal gameplay. So, you start playing the actual game right away and get told the controls as you need them. And sure, if it is a story-driven game, that probably means there has to be a story segment before all that to explain why you’re starting on this journey to begin with. So, I’m not saying I want the tutorial to be an entirely separate thing, like it typically was in the 90s.
    
    I’m mainly just complaining about when it’s too intermixed, because I’d like to be able to skip all the text boxes where they’re rambling about the story. If they switch mid-sentence to explaining what you’re supposed to do and what buttons to press, then I’m likely to miss that while skipping through the story bits.
    Preferably, there’s a separate info box on screen after the dialogue ends (which is a good idea for several reasons), but it could also just be highlighted, if they want it to be within the dialogue.
    
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