What features are videogames lacking that you rarely see?
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Varied protagonists. Most AAA games just have 30-something brown-haired white guys with perma-stubble. Not saying those protagonists have no place, but it's embarrassing how rare it is to find a game with a female or minority protagonist who isn't a stereotype or flat character.
Also, on a smaller note, the ability to realistically see your own limbs in first person games. The ability to see some of your legs is becoming more common, but look down right now. You can see almost everything up to your neck. I realize that the protagonist is often carrying a gun, which would affect that, but only making the toes/knees visible implies that the protagonist has a massive hunch.
Also, on a smaller note, the ability to realistically see your own limbs in first person games. The ability to see some of your legs is becoming more common, but look down right now. You can see almost everything up to your neck. I realize that the protagonist is often carrying a gun, which would affect that, but only making the toes/knees visible implies that the protagonist has a massive hunch.
Thrilling and exciting boss fights. Nowadays it seems a boss is an enemy with jacked up health and a few special moves.
Also, a protaganist that I can relate to. I'm sick of all these steriod junkies that don't have any fears or emotions.
Also, a protaganist that I can relate to. I'm sick of all these steriod junkies that don't have any fears or emotions.
A.I! some intelligence for the computer! i played unreal tournament III and all of my team was stucked in a tank in a corner and i was alone against 9 enemies! and i couldn't be the driver of the tank.
also in many RTS games i have clearly ordered a unit to cross the bridge. then they start going up and down on the battle field!
also in many RTS games i have clearly ordered a unit to cross the bridge. then they start going up and down on the battle field!
Pausable loading screens. When the game is done loading it waits for a key press to continue. I would love to see that feature back.
If my phone is ringing and a new level is about to load, I just know I will be dropped right into a pool of acid with enemies firing at me.
A more common occurence with fast loading screens. I see a really clever loading tip and only get to read 4 random words because it only takes three quarters of a second to load.
I'm a modest person, pausable loading screens is all I ask.
In reality I would also love to see most of the other things people have mentioned.
If my phone is ringing and a new level is about to load, I just know I will be dropped right into a pool of acid with enemies firing at me.
A more common occurence with fast loading screens. I see a really clever loading tip and only get to read 4 random words because it only takes three quarters of a second to load.
I'm a modest person, pausable loading screens is all I ask.
In reality I would also love to see most of the other things people have mentioned.
I'd like to see more emphasis on couch co-op (couch multiplayer in general) but more regular co-op will do. I'm still waiting for a proper successor to the Conflict: Desert Storm games. They were funny as fuck.
The removal of invisible walls and set progression.
I loved DE:HR because you could go through a front door or sneak around the back vents to gain access and were rewarded for it, but more games need to take advantage of this.
I'd love to see a game like Red Faction (2?) where you could not only shoot through walls but you could blow holes through them and continue on through that hole. It would be a great tactical shooter if you were allowed to blow a hole through any wall any where, or hell even through floors and roofs, instead of only doing it at pre-determined places.
I loved DE:HR because you could go through a front door or sneak around the back vents to gain access and were rewarded for it, but more games need to take advantage of this.
I'd love to see a game like Red Faction (2?) where you could not only shoot through walls but you could blow holes through them and continue on through that hole. It would be a great tactical shooter if you were allowed to blow a hole through any wall any where, or hell even through floors and roofs, instead of only doing it at pre-determined places.
I think Karutomaru is alluding to the fact that the majority of "open world"-type games are but quest hubs. Sure there are sandbox features to mess around with, but to actually complete the game? It usually does boil down to finding the next quest giver. And if truly open worlds are what Karutomaru wants? Then I wouldn't want to be the one - nor on the team - that would build such a game.Hazy992 said:
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Anyway, as for me? As with others: it's (at least) good writing. Especially in stories that adapt to how one plays the game throughout. I do have to ask though, does anyone really want a player character that basically comes with a 300-page biography? That's required reading beforehand? Okay, a gross exaggeration I admit (it'll be at least 2 pages, in size 10 Arial) a better question would be: just how much background is tolerable?
An example would be No One Lives Forever. All we know at the beginning is that Cate Archer is a) a woman (OMG!
), b) highly trained secret agent, c) facing extreme sexism and d) that Bruno had recruited her in the first place from her "other line of work".(inhale...)
By around the half-way point of the game, we knew her background fairly well - and perhaps the best quality of all this, is that I can remember these details without having to Google and not having to replay the game: born in Scotland and raised there initially, Cate lived a fairly good life until the age of eight when her mother died and her father, unable to cope, let everything go to rack and ruin. Then she lost her father and, during this time and ever since, no one of her former world wanted to know her and Cate became an orphan.
In her adult life, she established herself as a petty thief/cat burglar of whom made a point not to steal from those who were poor. It was only when she pickpocketed Bruno, a watch with a built-in tracking device (if I remember correctly) and Bruno apprehended Cate in her own place at the time and offered her a position in UNITY.
(...and exhale)
And this means that we, as gamers, have had at least one well-written character who just also happened to be female...and what happened? "The cutscenes are too long! Waa waa!" or so said the twitch-gaming crowd that can't understand books unless they're less than 30 pages long, no more than a paragraph per page and with big pictures. The same kind that would watch the two hour version of the first Lord Of The Rings and feel *that* was too long and not comprehend how the book could be out beforehand (in paperback no less!
). And finally, the same kind of people that would rather set a microwave at 88 seconds rather than 90...because it's fractionally quicker (for them) to enter 88 than 90.Then there were those who wouldn't even entertain the game because they didn't want to be playing as a woman in the first place. The same who didn't really like playing as Garrett in Thief with their reasoning being "he's too weak". Cue the facepalm...
All that being said, all the back story to the character of Cate Archer was to be found in-game as the game progressed. And if we as a gaming community want strong writing and with protagonists that aren't white human males with brown hair that go to coat shops where the only choices are either 3/4 length or full length black coats of varying fabrics, then we're going to have to accept that there are points where cutscenes are going to take place in order to provide much needed exposition.
And for those that don't want actually want a story? And just shoot things? Then I suggest a mode of play that skips the story bits entirely and presents everything as just a bunch of so many levels without any rhyme or reason for being there. Or I dunno, such people can just go and play Space Invaders instead...
Dunno if it works in multiplayer but Saint's Row the Third actually has a dedicated nut shot button. Just walk up and click the left thumbstick. Works with most weapons.DoPo said: