Comment on What are signs that the game devs aren't gamers themselves?

psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Conversely, Grounded has the best inventory management system of any survival game ever.

  To the point that I have a hard time playing others now because they all feel tedious in comparison.

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s true, a key for depositing item and also control whether the chest is affected or not is really handy for inventory management. Which really bother me that they don’t have quicksave, graphic setting customisation, turning off the character chatter, among other thing.

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    • yuri@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      meanwhile i wish there was a slider that made the characters MORE chatty, the dynamic interactions are really charming to me! but i also specifically love how cliché they’re written, so can see how it’s not for everybody haha

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  • yuri@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    JUST for hot deposit, yeh. the rest of the inventory/hotbar management always makes me wish i was playing something else.

    the hotbar not being inventory space is fine, but tools disappearing because they’re in your hand is absurd. they really just added a “looking for the tv remote that i’m already holding” mechanic. the pinning system with filters is handy for food, but feels clunky outside that one usecase.

    like they went with a realistic “the forest” style building system, and then the inventory management is the most videogamey shit in the world.

    also the scroll wheel swapping hotbars by default is straight up whacky, i’ve heard the whole thing makes more sense on controller lmao

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the pinning system with filters is handy for food, but feels clunky outside that one usecase.

      The pinning system is an improvement over not having a pinning system that should exist in every game. Food, water, ranged weapons, explosives, healing items, shields, even melee weapons, it makes sense for all of them given that all of them can break.

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      • yuri@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i just keep the one repaired tho

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• Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oooh, grounded felt like they didn’t play test for solo players. The end game suddenly got very grindy, and I decided not to finish because of it.

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