[notbov]

While I don't mind the concept of cover, I don't want a button press to glue my character against a wall. I'd much rather have leaning or some kind of dynamic system in place that still allows blind firing and peeking (although I like what Deus Ex HR is doing).

Also, why the fuck am I leveling up and unlocking guns and shit in multiplayer games everywhere all of a sudden.
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[Ymer]

Reset game and reload a save when dying instead of just hitting "continue" to avoid scoring penalties.

[drobe]

[Loki Laufeyson]

wait for 9, 8 and 7 before i can skip the rest of the continue countdown
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[Tlon]

[Isfet]

[Talbain]

[L]

[extrabastardformula]

I totally always do that. If a game sends you back to a checkpoint with all your powerups gone I usually go into the options screen and set it for one life no extends if I can.
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[Iacus]

Not be able to change basic settings like text speed unless you start a new game. Especially if they are long games like RPGs

On the same note, not be able to change difficulty levels during the game, particularly since most (all?) difficulty levels have qualitative names like Normal or Hard that don't mean nothing outside that game.
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[Talbain]

That was a rather strange feature I found with the Persona series. Due to the voiced nature of so much of the text, the text speed being fixed is partially understandable. But not being able to change difficulty level if one is presented? Kinda silly. Valkyrie Profile had one of the wackiest of all difficulty curves, where the "easy" mode was easier to figure out (i.e. more linear) but the game was actually harder. I personally just think that difficulty levels either shouldn't exist at all, or exist via dynamic-difficulty adjustments that happen real-time in the game (the latter is difficult though, while the former is easier).

Is Square or Tri-Ace or whoever owns the Profile IP ever going to finish the trilogy? VP2 was trash, but I still want to see how the story resolves (just too much nostalgia built up into the first one I guess).
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[Iacus]

For the text speed thing I was mainly thinking of Opoona. The text speed in the Persona games didn't bother me much but the default speed in Opoona is excruciatingly slow.

Some developers can't even balance fixed difficulty levels, let alone a dynamic system.
But yeah, names of difficulty levels don't mean anything so at least let me get a feel of how the game behaves and then let me adjust the level to my preferences.
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[Talbain]

My problem with difficulty levels at all is that it's almost always a core mechanics change, which makes each difficulty a completely different experience. I like consistency in that at least I know we're all complaining about the same problems, not a problem with a certain difficulty version of the game (a problem of patching as well, but patching has made the games industry lazier in general and I don't think it's going anywhere, difficulty questions are typically up for debate).
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[Iacus]

[Tulpa]

Talbain how did you feel about GoldenEye/Thief style difficulty levels meaning totally different sets of goals/restrictions in a level?
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[CubaLibre]

[ninjafetus]

[Tulpa]

Yeah I think so too which is why I ask
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[Talbain]

[Youpi]

Watch the intro twice to understand every line because I can't enable subtitles before starting the game.
It's made worse with the cinematic audio dynamic range fashion that every game involving guns feels required to follow.
A pet peeve as a ESL guy who picked up the language primarily in its written form, but also a real insult to deaf players.
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[protoblax]

not jump
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

[protoblax]

not jump *unless the game is specifically designed around not jumping*
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[Talbain]

I think designers need to concede that if the character is humanoid, jumping is part of what they can do.
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[protoblax]

For instance, Brutal Legend would have been a whole point better on any game rating scale if Eddie Riggs could jump. This includes reviews which gave Brutal Legend a perfect score. (sup, Samuel Kite)
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[Tulpa]

a mere ten years ago everyone could jump in video games
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[cake]

• TAKE THE FIGHT TO THE TERRORISTS (i was really interested in your game up until that point)

[RT-55J]

[cake]

• discover the truth