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

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SalamenceFury@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

Hear me out. A few games have shader installations that will usually apply any new settings you put down AFTER you restart the game, and a lot of other games have graphics settings that will only apply after you’ve rebooted the game.

I don’t think it would cost developers ANY amount of money or any significant development time to add a “Reboot game” button (or toggle) every time the player presses the quit button, or give the player a prompt every time they change a setting that requires a game restart (like in both PC versions of GTA V).

I also think ANY game should have a “full potato” mode capable of running in older computers with NONE of the fancy graphics stuff that we have access to today, despite having a decent computer now.

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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Motion blur - OFF Screenshake - OFF

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- JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Hey now… Don’t forget camera bob, “lens dirt,” chromatic aberration, and vignette!
  
  AKA - the video game graphics equivalent of “beer goggles.”
  
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  - Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’m okay with a little chromatic aberration and vignette. Camera bob can go straight to hell.
    
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  - Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Post Processing - Low usually does the trick 😅
    
    But then it sometimes turns ambient occlusion off too… 😞
    
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- snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Those two features frequently make me nauseous! Being able to turn them off or at least down is a necessity for me.
  
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  - Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    my friends always want to ‘ppay the game the way it was intended’… cool, I’m still disabling all the crap that makes me not see the game properly.
    
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- Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Also fuck Bloom to hell
  
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  - RaphaelSchmitz@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Maybe the amount can go to hell, but bloom itself is more realistic in regards to how light and our eyes work.
    
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B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Internet Connection - On/Off

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- Lenna@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  And by OFF, we mean actually off. The last thing I want is the game to push out a minor update 5 years after its last update, and all of the mods I have are now broken.
  
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  - mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeah, you should be able to pick a specific version number for single player games. I’m fine with it defaulting to “latest”, but at least give me the option to stick to a specific version.
    
    Also, fuck the “Would you like to share all data with the publisher, or only limited data” bullshit. It’s a single player game with no multiplayer whatsoever. I shouldn’t need to share any data with the publisher.
    
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- emb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Reminds me of one of my biggest pet peeves - a bunch of games will pop up a warning “Oh no, you’re not on the Internet! Some stuff won’t work!” on start up, always. Hate it, unless I’m trying to connect to a multiplayer mode of some sort.
  
  A setting like this should ideally prevent those.
  
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  - ghostlychonk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The most frustrating for me was Immortals: Fenix Rising on the Switch. I refused to create an Ubisoft account and actually had to put my system on airplane mode so it would stop trying to force one on me.
    
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- CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  If there is something better than opensnitch for this on Linux someone tell me. It‘s so annoying to block applications from accessing the internet on it. I‘ve tried like 4 different methods.
  
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snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The ability to pause should be a requirement for single player games. Not being able to pause long cut scenes, combats, etc. is so frustrating when nobody else is impacted.

Any game completely opposed to pausing for whatever design reason should instead be required to have a minimum of 30 seconds between pauses to allow for interruptions while playing without it allowing for rapid pauses to impact game play. 30 seconds minimum is because of how many interruptions are immediately followed by another interruption by kids/spouses/parents/pets.

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- mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Cutscenes especially. The pause button should pause cutscenes, with an option to skip the cutscene on the pause menu. The pause button should never just outright skip the cutscene. It should always pause the cutscene.
  
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  - snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeah, pause and skip should be separate things. I have some games pm PC where the ESC key pauses and brings up the menu but to skip the scene you have to be watching it and then hold some specific button like mouse 1 for a couple of seconds to skip. Those are my favorites because I have time to reconsider skipping!
    
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  - SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Oh yeah that was the worst. Game devs really shooting themselves in the foot with that design.
    
    Once paused, should it just be a single button? Maybe a menu with an “are you sure? Y/n”, or maybe a hold down one or two buttons together for a couple seconds like on consoles?
    
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- evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’m sure I have seen it before, but I can’t think of a single game that lets you pause during a cutscene. It really sucks for turn-based games where you need to watch whats happening when it’s not your turn in order to respond correctly.
  
  I remember a game I used to play years ago that had no ability to pause, so what i would do is alt+tab to the task manager and suspend the process, and then resume it later. Obviously that’s way more clunky than just hitting a pause button.
  
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  - Lojcs@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Conversely I can’t remember a game in recent memory that didn’t let me pause in cutscenes.
    
    Just off of my head: Ubisoft games, Control, Shadow of Mordor, Crysis, Witchers, Borderlands 2, Devil May Cry, Celeste support it.
    
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  - snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I have played a lot of games where pausing the game to get to game menus pauses cutscenes, generally ones where they use in game assets to do the cut scene. I would have to check to confirm, but I think BG3 let you pause by going to the menu and there was also a separate option to skip the cuts scene.
    
    Definitely played a lot with unskippable cut scenes too. Mostly avoid those games now.
    
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  - dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It’s been a very common feature for the last few years and has been very rare before that so it really depends on when you started playing new releases.
    
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  - dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Ghosts of Yotei lets you pause during cut scenes. It doesn’t let you skip most cut scenes, though.
    
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  - Malix@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    started Red Dead Redemption 1 last night, seems like just hitting esc during cutscene pauses it.
    
    Admittedly I was wanting to go to settings and drop some settings, but that’s only allowed during gameplay, not cutscenes x)
    
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- Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Watch Dogs 2 had an “invasion” system like Dark Souls, but it also allowed pausing in the world anytime you weren’t being invaded. It’s been a nice thing to point to anytime Souls fans make that excuse.
  
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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yeah no-pause feature was cool for one or two games as a gimmick, but Jesus h christ I’m an adult now and sometimes you need to freeze everything RIGHT NOW and single player games that you can’t pause are stupid as hell. Like I get maybe not pausing for accessing gear menu. But then at least give us a separate pause in case I have to run to the post office or take a business call or something
  
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- djdarren@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I recently started another play through of RDR2, while figuring out the settings on my old Linux gaming PC. I’d forgotten how long it is between save points during that oh-so-long first segment up in the mountains. Christ. Having to play for half an hour just to get to a point where I could save up.
  
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
All controls should be remappable. All means all. Not most, not some, and certainly none of this bullshit where all you can do is toggle between “XBox 360 controller layout A/XBox 360 controller layout B.” This is especially true for titles on consoles, many of which still to this very day don’t allow you to remap their controls at all.

For 3D games, field of view. Far too many developers of FPS titles in particular have Console Disease, and feel it’s somehow acceptable to lock the FOV to 70° or some absurd number. If they allow you to adjust it at all they may be feeling “generous” enough to let you go as high as 90°. That’s completely unacceptable. On my 4K monitor that’s 25" from my face, I need at least 120°. Honestly, I want to see that slider go up to 180°. That’s right, I want to be able to look at your game world like a goddamned pigeon. On that note I really have to wonder what those people with those 3840x1080 überwide monitors do most of the time, other than spending their days in never ending torment.

Allow me to turn off the stupid pre-launch splash titles. Certainly at least after the first startup. I certainly don’t need to be told that nVidia is the way it’s meant to be played, or that your company licensed Havok, or who your publisher is, or who your publisher’s owner is, or who your publisher’s owner’s owner is, etc. Nobody cares. Usually instead you have to resort to replacing the .mkv or .bik files in the game folder with zero-byte text files or something. It’s dumb.

While we’re griping, and speaking of Console-Itis, does every PC game now need to have an unskippable message telling me that this game has auto save and urging me not to turn off my PC when the icon is being displayed? Really? Nobody’s going to do that. Tell me your game is a shitty console port without telling me your game is a shitty console port. To keep this on topic, let’s have a setting to turn that off, too, because it’s stupid. Off by default would be nice. Should there be an Idiot Mode toggle?

Granularity in subtitles. It seems too many games only have two settings: All subtitles off, or they assume you’re completely deaf. Typically I want to be able to read what characters are saying in their voice lines, but instead the developers also think I need to see the bottom third of my screen filled with [BOOM] [GUNFIRE] [JUKEBOX MUSIC] [FOOTSTEPS] [BOOM] [GUNFIRE] [BOOM] [BOOM] and so on and so forth, all the time. They should either categorize sounds and make their subtitling things individually selectable, or at least if they insist on making it a slider give it three or four levels: Off, cutscene/conversation dialog only, all spoken lines (“Cover me!” “Reloading!” “Never should have come here!” etc.), and then only the top level resulting in every single cricket and rustle of grass being captioned. Some games do manage to accomplish this. Many do not.

Oh, I thought of a good one to add to my wish list. I want every game to bring back the sound test menu. But they won’t, because every studio on Earth now wants you to spend an extra $15 for their game’s soundtrack. (As if it’s not all going to be on Youtube about twelve seconds after release anyway…)

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- mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  Allow me to turn off the stupid pre-launch splash titles.
  
  I can guarantee that those splash titles are included because of contractual obligations. The same way a movie lists the publishing companies in the intro. Oh, you want us to publish your game? We can require the game designer to show our logo for {x} seconds when the game launches. Oh, you want your game to be G-Sync compatible? Nvidia can require that you show their logo for at least {x} seconds when the game launches. Oh, you want to use our game engine to build your game? Unreal can require that you show their logo for {x} seconds when the game launches. Et cetera…
  
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  - ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Quite famously, Unity had a reputational problem because of this. Free users were required to show the splash screen, but companies with larger war chests could pay the higher rate to skip it. It led to Unity being associated with low-budget and amateurish games, while higher quality games running on the same engine, which would be better advertising for Unity, tended to not show the logo.
    
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  - SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Verified.
    
    A couple years ago I made a game and used Wwise and was required to have a splash screen at startup
    
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- dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Fully remappable controls is my biggest wish. I hate WASD and swear by EDSF, but some games like Fallout 4 hardcode some controls. E is hardcoded to “interact” or “open door” or something, but the game DOES let you map “move forward” to E. So I can run around like normal, but every time I run past a door it auto opens to a zombie hiding behind it.
  
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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  To be fair to devs, increasing the FOV has a lot of performance implications on how much less they’re culling from the scene as you rotate the camera. In this era of open world games, I suspect it scales very poorly as that FOV increases. Temporarily increasing the FOV is also one of their handy tricks for giving you a sense of speed when you hit a boost button and whatnot, so whatever your FOV is, they need to make it more than that.
  
  Sound test menus are a remnant of arcade design, and when arcades starting dying, this feature made less sense. The OST sale is usually more of a revenue stream for the game’s composer, as I understand it.
  
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  - dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    performance implications
    
    That might be fine for consoles which have known performance limitations built in. But if I’m on my PC, let me make that decision. Don’t try to make it for me.
    
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- zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  While we’re griping, and speaking of Console-Itis, does every PC game now need to have an unskippable message telling me that this game has auto save and urging me **not to turn off my PC** when the icon is being displayed? Really? Nobody’s going to do that. Tell me your game is a shitty console port without telling me your game is a shitty console port.
  
  This one, along with “press any button to start”, annoy me so much. There is absolutely no reason to have to press a button before even entering the main menu. If you need it to determine the type of input device, that can be the first press on the menu.
  
  Treat PC games as PC games, even if you make them cross platform.
  
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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Sliders are the problem.
  
  They encourage a maximum and a minimum.
  
  Just let people enter values.
  
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LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
An option to choose what controller glyphs I want to use (Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo, directional) and a option to always use those glyphs even when mouse input is detected, so I can use Gyro without the glyphs constantly flickering ☺️

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- CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I prefer the 4 circles glyphs that shows the appropriate face button highlighted. It’s device agnostic and helpful when I’m switching between playing on my Switch and playing on my PC with an Xbox controller.
  
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  - LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That’s what I meant by directional, I wish more games had it!
    
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- MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This would be killer!
  
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hikaru755@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Not quite a setting, but every game should be required to tell you how long ago the last save was when you quit the game. I absolutely don’t understand why it’s only a tiny minority of games that does this, it is such an obvious thing to do

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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Like a timestamp on the save?
  
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  - hikaru755@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’m thinking specifically when you exit the game, and it says “Are you sure? All progress since you last saved will be lost”, it should just have an additional “(last saved 2 minutes ago)” line in there. I think the recent Spiderman games did that, iirc
    
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  - Kangy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Well yes and no. Stellar Blade for example. When you click exit to desktop it pops up the usual unsaved data will be lost stuff but also has a timer below it showing when the last save was made
    
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- wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I like this, and I think it should be complemented with a “Save and Quit to OS” button.
  
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gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
This is totally unrealistic but it would be sweet if there was a button for showing you a compilation of recent cutscenes or something for when you havnt played a story heavy game in a while and forgot what’s going on.

Like in the main menu give me a memory button or whatever that basically brings me up to speed to where I left off. Could be replaying cutscenes or showing me text of recent events, who knows 🤷‍♀️

But there are too many times i have to put a deep rpg down and then life gets in the way and picking it up again becomes impossible when it doesn’t feel like I’m there anymore

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- dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  One of the latter Final Fantasies did this. I think it was 13? Despite that game’s many other rather glaring shortcomings, that part was pretty neat. I agree it should definitely be standard for most RPG and heavily story driven games.
  
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  - gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’ve seen a variety of half baked implementations. Sometimes you have a decent in game log but sometimes it’s also just the dialogue of your last conversation and nothing more 🥲
    
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- coriza@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Oddly enough I think that porn games are a little closer to do what you suggest because rewatch the cutscenes is kinda important it seems in that genre 😅
  
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creature@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
pausing during cutscenes - it’s weird that this isn’t always an option even in AAA

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- Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Also skipping them, please.
  
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flamiera@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
When I want to quit your game, I mean it.

I do not want to be prompted several times as attempts to keep me in the game when I just want to leave.

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- VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Relatedly, I’ve noticed ports of console games, particularly by Japanese devs, and especially Sqeenix, not actually having an option to quit to desktop. Sometimes hitting Esc will pop a plain system theme window with an option to close the program, but I’ve seen ones that didn’t even have that and had to be killed externally. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but even exiting DragonQuest 11 is a pain.
  
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  - Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    This is also hella common in a lot of online or multiplayer live service games.
    
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- Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I just want to let you know that when I was director of production at a multimedia studio, one of the rules in my ux design “bible” was that an interface must never present an “are you sure” prompt to a Quit action. Yes there were fights over it.
  
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  - tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Historically, it was conventional to have a “you have unsaved work” in a typical GUI application if you chose to quit, since otherwise, quit was a destructive action without confirmation.
    
    Unless video games save on exit, you typically always have “unsaved work” in a video game, so I sort of understand where many video game devs are coming from if they’re trying to implement analogous behavior.
    
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  - IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    might sharing that, i had kinda started my own recently but curious if i missed anything obvious
    
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- octobob@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I just mash mod key + backspace on hyprland to kill it haha. Bye mfer!
  
  But also sometimes lately hyprland hasn’t been playing as nice with steam games and my mouse doesn’t interact with the game. The fix I found is to fling the steam client over to the other monitor. Works I guess. Linux problems lol.
  
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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Games that honor alt-f4 INSTANTLY are amazing
  
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  - Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    There’s a roguelike I play, which combats save-scumming by only giving one save slot per character. And so the only reason to save the game, is when you’re done playing. So, you hit Ctrl+S to save, and it instantly quits as well. 🙃
    
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- RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Hopefully you never accidentally click the Quit button when you didnt mean to, lol
  
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Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Customisable difficulty. Have a single or multiple presets balanced to what you’d like your players to experience but give me an option to adjust some of the stuff to my liking. There are SO MANY games I’d love to play way more than I do but none of the difficulty options feel “right”, bringing the whole experience down.
It’s also a great feature from an accessibility standpoint - pretty important thing for those who literally can’t play your game for reasons that could be easily worked around if such customisation was there.

“But my artistic integrity and vision!”

No, shut up. Your vision doesn’t mean squat if my experience with the game is annoying to the point where I don’t even care about the lore implication of an enemy placement or how gameplay systems intertwine with themes and story of the game. It’s important, sure, but it shouldn’t be more important than player’s enjoyment of your product.

Balance your game how you imagine it but let me play with the sliders to make it feel how I want it to. Just drop a scary message about it not being the intended way to play and it’ll be fine.

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- Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  But my artistic integrity and vision!"
  
  No, shut up. Your vision doesn’t mean squat if my experience with the game is annoying to the point where I don’t even care
  
  Nah, miss me with this bullshit. Not every game is for you, and it doesn’t have to be. An artist is not required to water down their vision because you’re picky, just pick a different game.
  
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  - mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Video games are the only art medium where people find it acceptable to gate-keep the art from the unskilled or the disabled.
    
    Imagine buying a movie ticket, then the theater goes “no you aren’t good enough at watching movies to watch this movie. You only get to see the first 10 minutes. It just isn’t for you.” Imagine paying to go to a museum, and they tell you “sorry, you are only allowed to look at the art in the foyer because you aren’t good enough to enter the rest of the museum.”
    
    Difficulty settings are primarily accessibility options. Don’t want the game to be too easy? Don’t fucking turn down the difficulty.
    
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  - caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I have successfully (?) played (sometimes semi-suffered, cough, Sekiro) through a buncha popular hard games and have a way less „strong“ opinion on this but also think that an „easy mode“ as an accessibility feature is a good thing.
    
    If, for example, a parent wants to connect with their child and also experience that game they‘re playing, it‘s really no big deal to me if they could turn on easy mode in, say, Sekiro to stand a chance. Not like it‘d impact my own experience at all, and I don‘t feel the need to force them to go through my own experience either. In Celeste, for instance, you can literally fly through the whole game if it makes you happy, and yet I still grabbed all strawberries the normal way and don‘t care if others did as well or just flew to them.
    
    It‘s less of a demand from me and more of a „if you can you should definitely include it,“ though. Obviously doesn‘t work for full on competitive multiplayer titles or something similar though.
    
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  - ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Monopoly has been one of the most popular board games for about a century, and hardly anyone plays by all of the official rules. Once I buy a game, if I want to play with house rules, I should be able to. Putting the sliders and such in game, even with the warning message mentioned above, just makes it easier to do so without having to rely on the community to make mods.
    
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  - Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I agree to an extent but there’s a difference between “we made a specific design choice because it fits with what we want the game to convey” and “well, normal mode works like X and feels super easy to anyone experienced with gaming but on hard all the enemies are bullet sponges with 5x HP and player dies in one hit”. The latter approach brings nothing to the table and that’s what I’m against. Plus already mentioned accessibility options for those who need them.
    
    Besides, many games ALREADY HAVE easy modes - giving me ability to adjust things manually (which in my case is usually up, not down) wouldn’t affect their vision any more than it’s already possible.
    
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  - tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I would like to experience more artistic works, but after two strokes, my right hand is nearly useless.
    
    Miss me with your ableist bullshit.
    
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- Lojcs@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I think it’d be better to have assist modes than difficulty options. As difficulty is traditionally associated with changing things like health and damage (or worse, opaquely disabling mechanics) that are fundamental to game balance I think it is too easy to be abused as a cop out from having to balance the game.
  
  Things like slowing the pace of the game, adding aim assist, visual indicators for audio cues, more lenient hit boxes, more frequent saves would be way more useful imo. Optional mechanics or modifiers can exist, but they shouldn’t be bundled with other random stuff.
  
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  - Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I completely agree that accessibility/assist modes are more important and if I had to choose I’d go with that. Since we’re in a fantasy land however I’m still going to advocate for customisation because, let’s be honest, most of the difficulties (besides “the main one”) are usually not that great.
    
    I’m speaking from a perspective of someone who tends to go for the higher difficulty options which extremely often go with the laziest possible decisions like turning enemies into damage sponge and increasing their attack power. That’s it. Stuff like improved enemy awareness, faster reaction times, smarter tactics aren’t exactly common and that’s my main pain point when selecting difficulty. There are also other things like ammo/loot scarcity, need drain in survival games etc.
    
    Having an option to tweak at least some of these things could help folks like me who often end up in a situation when one difficulty is piss easy and the other feels like a drag. Peoples skills and expectations vary way too and there’s simply no way few basic difficulty settings will be right for everyone. And if someone damages their experience? Oh well, let people make mistakes and take responsibility for their choices. Inform them that changing this stuff will affect their experience and leave them to their decisions. We can’t (and shouldn’t) baby-proof everything, in my opinion.
    
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missingno@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
If I'm going to put 100+ hours into a game, there better be a setting to mute BGM, because no matter how good the OST is I will eventually tire of it and want to listen to something else.

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SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Enterable values for mouse sensitivity.

No sliders.

I’m talking, down to at least the thousandths place decimal, and up as high as I fucking want. This allows your mouse sensitivity to not only account for how you play, but also how everybody else plays.

And if you’re one of those devs that has the aiming be different than mouse cursor, or even SEPARATE mouse cursor speed settings HAVE ENTERABLE SETTINGS FOR THOSE TOO!!

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ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Here’s a simple guide one. On PC, a lot of games let you use the keyboard/mouse or a controller. On some games it’ll switch the prompts to the layout of the last type of input you used. However I tend to use a controller for everything, except I’ll use a mouse for more fine tuned control since I suck at aiming with a joystick. But then what happens is the input notifications switch to keyboard/mouse and sometimes don’t switch back.

I’d love to see an option to force which input style gets displayed on screen. Keyboard/Controller/Auto

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rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
For over-the-shoulder games, separate field-of-view AND CAMERA DISTANCE.

For player-hosted games, an option to reject hosts using unsuitable hardware or low bandwidth, high latency networks. My gripe is specific to Warframe on the Switch 1, but if the developers of any game can’t/won’t operate public game servers and choose to offload the responsibility to the players, the choice should belong to the players.

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londos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Local server

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chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
For games that have any kind of unlocks, for the love of god, add a way to start a fresh save. Or better, allow multiple saves/profiles. It’s 2025. Why are we still struggling with this? I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had to search online for where save files are located and do it myself.

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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Chromatic aberration and film grain. If your game has either of those and no way to turn them off, I wish you a slow, painful death and I will probably refund it.

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ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
All fighting games (or anything that runs deterministically on all players’ machines, like fighting games do) should always have a performance test requirement before you hop online. We figured this out over a decade ago, and plenty still don’t do it, resulting in people with weak computers causing matches to appear laggy.

As a society, we should agree on which menu subtitles belong in. Is it language? Audio? Display? Game Settings? Sometimes I’ve seen games put them in multiple menus so that we always find them where we’re looking for them.

I’m no expert on colorblind settings, but I tried playing Monaco with someone who’s red/green colorblind, and that game was nearly impossible for him.

If your game runs online, I should be able to host the server myself, and launching a listen server from within the game ought to be present, too. It might be nice to surface port forward information there as well. LAN is nice; Direct IP connections are better. (Thanks, Larian, for including both!)

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JandroDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
separe audio settings for bgm, sound effects, etc

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Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Subtitles for the hearing impaired. Like when a switch flicks it writes click on the screen.

I’m not impaired, but I like to have the sound down for stealth gaming.

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Everything should be controllable. Give me all the options. Every graphical feature, every UI element, even gameplay mechanics. If it is as simple as adjusting a number or selecting something from a table, give me the option to control it myself.

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Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Developers should spend effort vouching for a launch without startup logos. Even if supporting libraries/publishers are credited some other way, startup movies take up a lot of time when gamers launch the game many times.

Trails in the Sky has a feature where you can choose to launch the game directly into your most recent save game rather than ending up at the menus. This would be a boon for many singleplayer games, especially those with densely animated menus.
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glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Adjustable HUD offset for widescreen.

I have a 32:9 display and it SUCKS when HUD elements are anchored to the sides. I have to turn my head to see it!

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SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Chromatic Aberration

I get enough of this from my glasses, thanks.

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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Save&quit at any time

So I can just boot up the game, play for 15 minutes and go do other stuff

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saplyng@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
If your game supports controller give me the option to change the button faces to whatever I prefer. Some people like Nintendo button layout, others PlayStation, other Xbox. Whatever it is, don’t hard code one set - they’re just some pngs, support them all.

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Pause on focus loss/main menu.

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Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
An FOV slider. I don’t care if you’re a 2D game, you’re honoring totalBiscuit

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smh@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Please let me invert y-axis for games where I control the field of view. Nothing takes me out of a game like suddenly staring at my feet when I try to look up.

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Lojcs@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Description of the effects and hardware demands of graphics options.

An actual benchmark for ’optimized settings’ (even if it’s just crunching numbers) instead of hardcoded GPU names.

Clear indication of which difficulty the game was balanced for.

Msaa. Hate running old games at 200 fps with jagged edges and blur thanks to fxaa.

Instant controls switching between controller and keyboard. Tired of games that pick input type at startup, pick input glyphs at startup, ignore first button press from a different input before switching, disable controller if keyboard input is detected etc etc.

Not games but steam: just let me force steam input on all games like Proton.

Also how ‘full potato’ do you want it to be? I assume the settings don’t scale below low, so it’d be just turning off shadows, reflections etc. Would even the lowest resolution textures fit in the vram of an older card? And besides, the engine is probably designed for modern multi core cpus so even if the graphics could be scaled down it might not run well
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