Comment on Dragon’s Dogma 2 DLC devs faced “diametrically opposed” feedback from players in the West and Japan

Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nah I’ll disagree there is a certain amount of friction a game should have to enhance its intended gameplay

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• violentfart@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If someone from Japan calls it an inconvenience, it means it’s actually fucking terrible.

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• Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The term friction in gaming is a good thing, it’s basically engagement, keeping you awake while going from point A to B, a challenge, a puzzle, making you think or act / react, test of skills. Seeing it as inconvenience just shows the disconnect between what the dev wants you to do and what gameplay loop makes you happy.

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• Mardukas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But they “welcomed” the friction. I do not think I have ever heard someone “welcome” an inconvenience.

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I loved the game partly because of the lack of fast travel, which is not my usual attitude for an open-world game.

    They made it actually interesting to get around and fun to figure out how to proceed after a hard won fight.

    It’s strange to me that people would find that inconvenient, because it seems to be half the point of the game.

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    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was going to make a similar point that we need more info. There are things that make a game annoying, and there are things that just offer a different form of play. If a menu is shit, that’s annoying and inconvenient, if a mechanic is different than your favorite thing, that’s a gameplay difference and not inconvenient so much as not your preference. I hope when asking players about things they made these distinctions.

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  • DeadDigger@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Did you ever play dark souls? Dying 100 times against a boss can be pretty epic

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• warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Shitty & Shitnado = opposing and polarizing

  WTF

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