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

• Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are in essence gatekeeping enjoying a video game as a concept. Like people must enjoy them the way you envision.

    What an incredibly inaccurate statement. I love modding video games, I spend more time modding video games than I spend playing video games. I understand that the vision developers have doesn’t often align with what I want from their product.

    I don’t agree that developers should be spending dev cycles making a game functional for a user that turns off any configuration of gameplay mechanics.

    Saying you can just set a variable from “true to false” is so laughably misunderstanding what goes into software development much less game development that it sounds entitled. What gameplay mechanics are you even saying should be configurable? All of them? Just turn off the combat in a fighting game? At what point is a gameplay mechanic integral to the genre/experience? And who is the person or persons that decide?

    Developers should be free to create what they want, and the end user is free to mod it however they want. That includes, for the devs, not purposefully obfuscating things so that modding is more diffcult.

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    • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Saying you can just set a variable from “true to false” is so laughably misunderstanding what goes into software development much less game development that it sounds entitled.

      This is an attempt to sound smart that falls flat. The idea that there are no configuration settings that are simply inaccessible to users which are boolean values is laughably naive and provably wrong in many games.

      What gameplay mechanics are you even saying should be configurable? All of them? Just turn off the combat in a fighting game? At what point is a gameplay mechanic integral to the genre/experience? And who is the person or persons that decide?

      This isn’t an argument, its you saying that without being hyper specific, and laying out a detailed rule book for hypothetical future games, youll arbitrarily decide to assume the most irrational conclusion so that you can continue to rage and gate keep.

      Developers should be free to create what they want, and the end user is free to mod it however they want. That includes, for the devs, not purposefully obfuscating things so that modding is more diffcult.

      This is a strawman argument, as no one in this thread is restricting any developers ability to do anything. It is quite literally a wishlist thread. This “criticism” could literally be applied to anything in this thread. Its invalid.

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