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Quality of Life (QoL) things that should be standard in every game
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Pause and skip cutscenes with a long press before confirmation is pretty much always at the top for me.
I fucking HATE when they don't think about that shit.
I fucking HATE when they don't think about that shit.
UI customization. Every time it's in a game I spend a good chunk of my time just tweaking that. Games like Daemon X Machina and FFXIV give me tons to play with. Most UI's in games suck by default.
I tried to suggest this to soulsborne games and, oh boy, people got angry.
Some games need to run at a specific framerate in order to function correctly eg. fighting games
There's been plenty of dropped frames this gen. It's not exactly set in stone. But if you can push over 60 that would be good.
If you've got QTE-type things at all, gimme that "hold instead of repeatedly press" option every goddamn time.
A dropped frame in a fighting game every now and then isn't the same as say, getting better visuals and locking the fps to 30 or 45.
You won't see fighting games running over 60 either.
I'm just stating that devs are getting more lenient about it. Imagine if there was a performance mode at 144hz tho. It's consoles so it's consistent in application.
Open World Games: Being able to see on the map where you have already been (see BotW post update)
It's not happening. Fighting game moves are tied to fps. PC's right now could easily run fighting games at higher than 60, but they don't because it would break the game.
Other genres, sure, no doubt.
Every game should have a clock. I have a right to know how long I've been playing a title.
Recent offender to get under my skin is going from Ultra SF4 to SFV. No clock on PS4! Why remove a feature?
Recent offender to get under my skin is going from Ultra SF4 to SFV. No clock on PS4! Why remove a feature?
What, don't you love the anticipation before pressing start during a cutscene the first time in a new game to find out if it'll pause or just skip it? It's the best.
But that feature is available in every single Souls game.
EDIT: I'm not saying you're arguing in bad faith, by the way, just surprised people got angry for something that is already there.
Automatically using chest/storage/bank inventory items when crafting, instead of requiring all the materials be on the player character's inventory.
Ohhh, good one. I love when games do this. It's not that uncommon, but still, easy to forget.
- Photo Mode in cutscenes (as Spider-Man and Naughty Dog games allows it)
- Option to restart cut-scenes (I think Uncharted 4 has this one)
- Option to restart cut-scenes (I think Uncharted 4 has this one)
Not just subtitles but all text in general!
Even better, developers should just choose legible fonts and text sizes to begin with. Sometimes not only the size but also the font is the problem (Fire Emblem).
- The ability to disable splash/startup/"This game saves automatically" screens for good!
- Pause option
- Difficulty options
Yes please.
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The way Xenoblade handles side quests. You can take on a bunch of quests and then head out and complete them. That's fairly standard. The QoL is in how it handles things the completion aspect. In most games when you complete a side quest you then have to turn around and go back to the quest giver to get your reward. In Xenoblade the second you complete whatever task you were out doing you'll get your reward. There's no reason to ever return to the quest giver. To me this encourages players to take on more side quests because even if the task might not be super interesting (like kill X number of enemies or collect X number of a certain object) you'll probably end up doing that along your playthrough anyway and whenever you do the quest will complete without you have to then go back to the quest giver. Now this obviously wouldn't work for side quests that have a lot of story behind them, but most games don't have that so it'd improve that aspect of those games a lot.
Sort of an off-topic question, but does anyone know why the term QoL has been appropriated for these things specifically in the video game community? In basically every other digital industry these things would fall under the UX umbrella, and that's what the actual developers call it as well, but in the community it's commonly called QoL. Just something I've been thinking about.
Dialogue that continues again if interrupted.
Like in Uncharted 4 when they're like, "Oh uh, what was I saying again?"
Like in Uncharted 4 when they're like, "Oh uh, what was I saying again?"
Always assumed there were legal issues preventing that. It's the first thing I google when I'm about to launch a game on PC for the second time, if the game itself doesn't let me skip them. Just don't do it the first time around because I actually enjoy watching the little logo animations once, but they get old very quickly.
There should be an easily accessible screen that shows you a bunch of statistics such as playtime.
I'm still mad that I can't skip cutscenes in Final Fantasy X.
I recently played X-2 and I could not believe that there are some cutscenes where you can't even pause them. And if you skip a cutscene it won't be buyable as a Movie Sphere and you can miss out on the good ending. Fuck outta here. Basically make sure to never get a Game Over
I recently played X-2 and I could not believe that there are some cutscenes where you can't even pause them. And if you skip a cutscene it won't be buyable as a Movie Sphere and you can miss out on the good ending. Fuck outta here. Basically make sure to never get a Game Over
Skip cutscenes and save anywhere. I don't care if saving everywhere makes some basement person feel like the "challenge" is gone or I'm making it easier on myself and I don't deserve it. I'm a grown ass person with shit going on and I can't always get to the next checkpoint or save marker when something urgent comes up. The ability to just suspend any game on Switch helps since I'm usually only playing one game at a time...until I'm not.
I agree with everything here, especially skippable dialog and cutscenes.
In theory, Borderlands 3 has a ton of replayability, right?
In practice I am absolutely not willing to wade through all those cutscenes again. How the developers made that decision in 2019 I can't understand.
- I Liked how We Happy Few let you craft Lockpick from the locker itself and use it immediately if you have the parts, you don't have to pause, craft, then unpause and use it!.
I agree.
I agree.
I always liked the way tales of did the majority of their cut scenes where you can skip a portion of the cut scene one dialogue line or camera shot at a time. That way you breeze through the boring conversation driven cut scenes at the speed of your reading ability without actually missing the scene.
One thing I didn't see mentioned yet that drives me insane when it's not present:
If there's a goal/objective marker on a mini-map, there should also be an indicator if that objective is above or below you.
If there's a goal/objective marker on a mini-map, there should also be an indicator if that objective is above or below you.
A you wanna pick up/tutorial refresh mode if you have not played the game in a long time
Language and subtitles selection not tied to your console language
Language and subtitles selection not tied to your console language
skip/pause cut scene
suspend anywhere. I understand the argument for not allowing save anywhere
FOV slider
clear highlight of different in what you just pick up vs what you have equip (can't believe so many games don't have this still with RPG element in everything now)
suspend anywhere. I understand the argument for not allowing save anywhere
FOV slider
clear highlight of different in what you just pick up vs what you have equip (can't believe so many games don't have this still with RPG element in everything now)
THIS
my god... this drives me crazy, every game looks different and i'm paranoid that is looking wrong so i just turn it off :/
For me I would want a robust suite of color blind options. HUD elements, filter, specific objects, dialog, and any combination. Colorblind people don't all have the same colorblindness or severity so more then just on or off.
Multiple custom map markers that can be placed with a player assigned icon or name like in BOTW or D:OS2.
It's great in exploration heavy games, you can mark points of interest or even mask out areas you have explored by placing several of them and joining the dots in your head.
I really like how you can connect markers in Death Stranding to plot a custom route too.
It's great in exploration heavy games, you can mark points of interest or even mask out areas you have explored by placing several of them and joining the dots in your head.
I really like how you can connect markers in Death Stranding to plot a custom route too.
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When I'm not sure if I can pause I just press the "home" button for whatever console I'm on. It's required for a game to pass certification that it freeze wherever it was when you press the button and then pick up at that spot when you return. ALT+TAB on PC usually works this way for me too.
I agree cutscene pausing should be standard but until that happens at least there is a method that works pretty much the same.