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I don’t mind yellow paint as much as it is a sign of the broader issue of big games trying to be idiot-proof. If a game has yellow paint I expect it to be as easy as it can be outside of giving me literal god mode.

  • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    4 days ago

    I just wish developers of narrative walking simulators would put more work into showing where you can’t go. If I was walking through a haunted asylum with a demon pig man chasing me down a dingy corridor, a couple over turned office chairs and some disarrayed stationary should not block a possible path of egress.

    Give me some proper rubble, or a pool of lava, or something.

    Edit: I really told the Internet what I felt about walking simulators. Feel free to ignore the rest of this tirade. I’ve just experienced too much 'Walk from point A to Point B while you listen to the voice acting we spent 90% of our budget on.

    • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      4 days ago

      I’m also one of Those People that will immediately negate a star from a review if I cannot jump in your first person game. Take that for what it is.

      • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        4 days ago

        It’s irrational, but innate.

        Jumping could have absolutely no use in the story you are telling, but once I smash Space and nothing happens you have immediately earned a 4 star at best.

        Same goes for no fast walk/shift sprint.

        Don’t punish fast readers/imprison players in your narrative if you want them to finish the game.

        • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          4 days ago

          The fact that only three interesting things happen in your game shouldn’t be stretched out by a hobbled character that can only crawl along and is doomed to absorb atmosphere that was copy/pasted from assets.

    • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      4 days ago

      Also, please don’t have 20 doors that rattle, causing the MC say, ‘It’s locked!’ when there exists no key in the game that will ever open that door.

      This results in dim bastards like me finding a key and trying it on every door I’ve encountered while dodging the charming pig man that you totally didn’t steal from another game.