Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #39 - Control (Happy Halloween!🎃)

tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• GriffinClaw@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Honestly? I like both the screenshot poster.

  The current OP’s posts I tend to skim over, (unless its a game I already played, like this one) cause spoilers. . The other poster has less spoilery posts that I like to read more often (specially the ones he plays with his friends). . To each there own¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m actually very careful to avoid spoilers in my posts. Sure, I get pretty far into the meat of the gameplay before I end my post… but I do my best to avoid any big reveals that might ruin the game for interested players. And I’ve never revealed the ending to a game.

    At best, I’ve posted my speculation for the direction a game’s plot might be headed, based on my incomplete gaming session. But I made it clear it was just a personal guess.

    My intent is to get people invested in the story, so when I leave off, they’ll want to go check it out and see what happens next. Besides, some of the best screenshots are from the action in the middle of gameplay. I can’t play 15 mins of a game and expect to make a solid post about it; I need to have some sense of what the game is about, and that requires a bit more exploration into the plot.

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  • MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you! I try to avoid spoilers in mine. I usually use Lemmy’s built in spoiler feature when it’s though inevitable or i really want to share it, but i just recently found out that not every client does spoilers the same way so i think i’ll have to think up some other idea

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    • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I usually give a warning in advance that spoilers are upcoming and to skip the next paragraph if you don’t want to read them, then do the spoiler tag for an entire paragraph. That way, even if the spoiler tag doesn’t work, people know to skip the next paragraph to avoid it. Sometimes I’ll even do a full-caps “END OF SPOILERS HERE” to catch eyes and help people skip over them.

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      • MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s what I ended up doing for my Alan Wake II post last night because there was just a lot to talk about with the ending. I figured in clients that don’t support Lemmy’s built in spoiler system though the ::: at the end will tell them where the spoilers end

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• cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t think I’ve posted this here yet, but I’ve actually been compiling all these posts into a separate blog. As much time and effort as I’ve been putting into them, I’d hate for them to get wiped if this community goes down, or heaven forbid, I got booted by a mod, etc. So you can either follow my posts here in /c/games, or check them out on my blog. I upload them at the same time, so it doesn’t matter where you go to read them.

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