Flabbergastrate

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#1 Posted by Flabbergastrate (266 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@ericdrum: The left-hand right-hand thing is something you get used to as you play more PC games. I had trouble with crouching using the Ctrl key when I first played PC shooters. That sounds like I'm apologizing for a poor layout, but keep in mind a lot of people also have to get used to controllers when they first start using them. Non-gamers can't seem to get a handle on using both analog sticks at once.

#2 Edited by Flabbergastrate (266 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@nintendoeats: Even in the case you mentioned, I still think you should be able to pause it. I can't think of a reason a game would need cutscenes to play without stopping, unless it's trying to hide load screens. In which case the game could load while the scene was paused.

Most of my things "all games should have" are too specific, but most of the ones that involve understanding different audiences (subtitles for the hearing impaired and so on) seem obvious. I'd love to see every game contain multiple languages, but that's a dream I'm willing to give up for the sake of games actually coming out and fitting on as few disks as possible. Finally, most games could use a quick-save, though I can think a few instances where it's not necessary or counter-intuitive (most masocore platformers, arcade games).

#3 Posted by Flabbergastrate (266 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@nintendoeats: You can pause movies. Regardless of how intense a cutscene is, emergencies are likely to come up, in which case someone may end up not watching something you as a designer worked hard to create because they have a kid, or because the pizza's arrived. Not being able to skip cutscenes wreaks of hubris.

#4 Edited by Flabbergastrate (266 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@Mikemcn said:

You people realize that someone whos experienced with a controller will perform as well on a console as someone whos experienced with a keyboard on PC. There's very little difference.

The ShadowRun guys didn't seem to think so. Regardless of the game's overall quality, they hindered PC players while giving console players an impractical amount of assists. Both kinds of players seemed evenly matched, but from what I remember the PC players felt so hindered they didn't bother playing for too long.

Also see Quake III: Arena on the Dreamcast, where people who plugged in a keyboard could easily overwhelm players using a controller.

As for the general schism in difficulty between PC and Console games, I think it's a matter of control differences. I've played a few games on both console and PC (RE5, Hydrophobia, Left 4 Dead, etc) and haven't noticed anything significant. Though I remember the original Crysis, a PC exclusive, being much harder than Crysis 2, a game designed with both audiences in mind.

#5 Posted by Flabbergastrate (266 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@kuddles: I have noticed they've taken more breaks recently.

#6 Posted by Flabbergastrate (266 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@Grissefar: Glad to see this thread is always expanding its boundaries of the incredibly weird.

#7 Posted by Flabbergastrate (266 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@FluxWaveZ: True, but if the initial choice to turn it off was made because of people writing in to whine about it, perhaps people saying otherwise might let them know it's okay.

If, however, the AC was causing power outages, that's another story.

#8 Posted by Flabbergastrate (266 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@Kyle: I'll re-listen to it -- see if it was hypothetical or not.

#9 Posted by Flabbergastrate (266 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

@Kyle: If they'd never done it, no one would've complained about it.

As for me, I didn't notice it, so I guess they'd have to turn it on again for me to hear the difference.

#10 Posted by Flabbergastrate (266 posts) - 1 year, 10 months ago

Though it's unlikely the Bomb Squad will ever visit Nebraska, I'd love to see footage of these gatherings. In 3D!

Use your keyboard!

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