PC game commandments

[rembrandtqeinstein]

1. Thou shalt alt-tab gracefully

Many "modern" PC games fail horribly at this.

2. Thou shalt create an interface that is designed for 18 inches and a keyboard and mouse, rather than copy your 10 foot, gamepad based console interface.

Fallout 3, Borderlands, Mass Effect 2. The keyboard has 110 ish buttons, the mouse has at least 3. Let players assign different buttons to open, pick up, jump, run, slide, duck etc.

Let me switch weapons with a single button without opening up a scroll menu, and ffs let me carry more than 2 weapons, the HALO stupidity needs to die except maybe in games trying for realism.

3. (general gaming, not pc specific) Thou shalt allow saving and pausing at any time, save points are a relic of a bygone era.

4. (general gaming, not pc specific) All "intro" screens shall be skippable with a single button, and ideally automatically skippable with a configuration file setting.

I don't care if the game was designed for Nvidia or who made your 3D engine. I don't need 30 second animated advertisements for the developer, and the publisher, and the distributor every time I start up the game. I want to go to the menu to play the damn game. Borderlands is particularly bad about this one.

I'm sure others can think of other commandments to add to this list.

 

[Super Toast]

Thou shalt make your game easily moddable.

 

[hudsonzero]

sorry thought it said shall not carry on

 

[TimeLord]

Thou shalt make games that ACTUALLY work on their own recommended system requirements!

 

[procyonlotor]

And for the love of god, let me configure every minute detail of my graphics settings.

A universal graphics slider is obscene.

 

[Woodsey]

Thou shalt not enforce smoothing of the mouse.

Thou shalt include every single graphical option to be switched on/off within thy game's option menu.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

Yeah forgot the graphics settings thing. I really want to turn off all realistic grass and foliage. Except maybe in the original Farcry all it does is burn up my GPU without adding anything to the gameplay.

 

[bawkbawkboo1]

Thou Shalt Not Use Games For Windows Live under any conditions, as it is an abomination unto all that is Holy.

EDIT: Google Autocomplete knows it's true:

 

[irequirefood]

Thou shalt continue to release games compatible for older OS's such as XP.

 

[theComposer]

Thou shalt provide dedicated servers if it has online multiplayer.

 

[Durxom]

Thou Shalt Not Use Games For Windows Live under any conditions, as it is an abomination unto all that is Holy.

EDIT: Google Autocomplete knows it's true:

I've never understood this =S I mean...I don't get what is so wrong with it, though I have only used 2 games with it and they have been fine for me, and it also allows me to talk to my friends who just use X-boxes(and I can also add the game to Steam, so I can be talking to both parties)....I don't get it..

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Thou shalt not continue with the perpetuation of console-style health regeneration and quicktime events.

 

[strum4h]

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If you delete the movies from your borderlands folder they actually do not show. 30 seconds faster opening up the game.

 

[The Cheezy One]

Thou shalt be above thoust console gamers, for they are scum, and thou are rulers of the gaming world...
im a console gamer
seriously though,

Thou shalt not try to pull a dicketh move on standard WASD controls, stop trying to show off and let R be reload, space be jump and scroll be change weapon

 

[gl1koz3]

Thou shalt continue to release games compatible for older OS's such as XP.

Actually, I'd rather skip on this and point directly at Microsoft. It's their fault.

And the OS, while looks similar, has so many absolutely different bugs and quirks it's almost easier to code in VI on Unix.

 

[Durxom]

Thou Shalt Not Use Games For Windows Live under any conditions, as it is an abomination unto all that is Holy.

EDIT: Google Autocomplete knows it's true:
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I've never understood this =S I mean...I don't get what is so wrong with it, though I have only used 2 games with it and they have been fine for me, and it also allows me to talk to my friends who just use X-boxes(and I can also add the game to Steam, so I can be talking to both parties)....I don't get it..

Did you know that if you link your XBOX Live account with your Windows Live account you cannot be signed into both at the same time?

No, I did not know that...but that still doesnt really effect me in anyway since I don't have a 360 =S

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

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If you delete the movies from your borderlands folder they actually do not show. 30 seconds faster opening up the game.

How do you do this? TELL ME!!!!!

OT:
Thou must have mouse control. (Whether it be FPS', TPS' or others.)

WASD with Mouse are the movement controls for an FPS by LAW. Change this and you will be punished.