Playing offline is a really great point that needs to be talked about more. Not everyone has access to high speed internet. And obviously that is a big reason why cloud gaming services like Stadia never took off. I really don't need to be ok the internet just to play a game I bought with my money. And also. Internet services is not all that affordable
The reason why developers do that is prob to avoid some people to pirate the game. Which make sense i would say, but you're right about that is kinda an ass move when i play sim back then.
I personally don't even think the quality of the internet itself is the main thing but more the fact that not everyone WANTS to play online. For me it's a matter of choice really. I don't wanna interact with people or see other people walking around cos it ruins that immersion of "it's you by yourself and this whole world here to be discovered"
The Arkham games were also pretty good with the recollection of the story. The load screens giving you the last few things that you've done in the story and what people said was a good idea.
That is one game I loved especially the trilogy alone u could play the infamous saga for hours an not get bored because it is so immersive and a pretty big open world game an the graphics for the game was on point 2 the T and that was something that is not done very much neither
I with everyone on the fully off line game. I’d also like to add that there should be a “new game plus” for most games. I’m sure not everyone wants to re-unlock skills/weapons again. Sometimes I want to play my games and feel like a complete bad ass from the get go.
I really like how Persona 5 Royal handles the New Game+. Your level starts over, but your main character keeps the HP and SP levels that they got to, all equipment is still there, and the bonuses that are in the first five levels of friendship with all Confident characters remain unlocked, even though the friendship level resets.
I think mos tgames d onow though or if NG+ isn't there at launch it often gets added later via a patch like they just did with Forbidden West. I don't hav eForbidden Wes tye tas it's not out yet on PC but still he yhave added it now.
Honestly, sometimes I don’t understand why some games don’t have NG+. It’s not that too complicated compared to coding the rest of the game, since most of the infrastructure is already in place. I even like some of the NG+ where they add in new stuff to in the NG+. Half of the time I get the feeling that either the game devs don’t see much point in adding NG+, why don’t they realize that by adding NG+, they would encourage the players to do another play through?
The games that really hit me in a way that makes me remember them fondly and wish i could play them for the first time again are always single player games. They are so immersive and allow for so many stories to be told!
Well... Multiplayer games are badly design, so obviously the most memorable games are going to be single player. The most memorable things about multiplayer games are what other players did, not the game itself
Secret dialogue options that are there just naturally are so amazing for immersion, I remember playing Skyrim and coming across a farm and talking to the owners and buying a horse, then hours later I come across a town on the opposite end of the map, go through a long quest line and find myself having to threaten someone for money, and guess what, they were a relative of the Farm owner, so I had the option to threaten their family which I never would of seen if I hadn't of been at that random farm on the opposite end of the map but since I did I got to go through that questline more easily and get the money without any difficulty. There're thousands of small interactions like that all over Skyrim! Such a fun experience to play through!
One thing I would love to see more of, is to be able to re-do or re-visit the intro of games. There's so many games I put down and come back to later and it's so hard to re-learn moves, buttons etc. at higher difficulty.
@@warringtonruncorn I really felt that when I played gta san andreas. I played it last year on ps4 after playing many modern games and I was destroyed by how every button was different, but that wasn't the issue because I obviously played from the start. The problem came when I got back to other games. I had played only gta sa until the end of the story to don't break the immersion and mess up the buttons, so I had to get used to the other games' buttons again, and it was auch a pain
I agree man, I've done that so much and forgot all the story and have had to restart the game or replay missions to relearn about it. 😄 it would be nice to have" recap scenes" for the progress you've made so far in the story.
#5 is SUPER nicely implemented in Detroit: Become Human. not only you can go back and replay any section of the game you have already unlocked, you are also shown ALL the branching events in the scene (things you haven't done yet all blanks of course). so you can see all the possible unlockables and choices and consequences that you COULD have if you explore another time and do things differently. I absolutely love that!
I liked that it showed you there was still some stuff you missed. So your like, “oh there’s still more to do or more to find in that level, or another path I could’ve taken?!” Let me check that out”
@@Elote20 yepp! promoting replayabilty and just showcasing their great branching story without being obnoxious. if you don't care you can quickly go to the next part and not pay attention to the tree at all but you do - all the possibilities are there, laid out before you :)
it's both nice and bad at the same time; nice for when you just want to hunt down the explicit branches only, but bad because it means that it stops being a game and starts being work, because you're just going through the motions to get the result, instead of appreciating the experience all the way through.
@@KainYusanagi well you don't HAVE to open all those paths/branches, you can just press a button and the whole tree basically skips. most youtubers, streamers and just gamers I know did exactly that that and never paid the tree much attention. and tbh, doing all the routes/endings in a videogame is always "work" so usually no one, besides people who love doing that, ever actually do that
@@KainYusanagi lol it only becomes work if you make it so. Nobody is forcing you to unlock everything. If you feel the need to do that, that's your own problem. Get real.
For number 5, Darksiders used to do this so well. Amazing voice actor that would give a summary of the last few hours of the game when you load it up.. such an underrated series
I've seen a lot of games do this and I honestly love it. The judgment games do it for every chapter you get to (with the option of skipping it if you want) and dragon quest 11 does it when you load the game. which is super useful for if you stopped playing for a few days and need a quick refresh for what you were doing
7:15 *_Detroit: Become Human_* by Quantic Dream has this system where you can try out diffferent options within chapters, and you can see the branching of choices. It becomes more a hunt of "how can I do this?". And since there are over 40 different endings (scaling from best to worst, with lots of different options), it gives great replay-value. Btw, it's also on PC, not just Playstation 4. got it on Steam. Definitely try it out.
ha! we basically wrote the same comment haha. love that feature a lot! gives you such a nice view of your options and also incentivises you to do replays
13 sentinels aegis rim kinda did this with the "doing this triggers that" sort of thing which I enjoyed. it gave you more parts of the story that if that wasn't there would just be a straight line
Its been about 20 years since the Colony Wars games were released on the original PlayStation, and to this day I have not seen any flying game do a better job of providing situational awareness than it did with the holographic radar and leading sights that accounted for speed, distance, direction of the player, target, and rounds being fired. Those games were way ahead of their time.
Omg, no one ever mentions this overlooked but amazing series. I miss those games so much, the first two were amazing and even the third which was drastically different in gameplay were some of my faves.
I wasn't familiar with those games, so I had a look at google images. That game is very visually similar to a game I used to play back in the early 00's when I was younger. The game was called Bang: Gunship Elite. It came out for PC and Dreamcast in 2000, and has a kind of topographical radar that registers enemies' position in 3D space above and below you as well as distance forward and aft from you. The weapons also have unique animations and reticules to help distinguish between them all. It doesn't have target lead indicators, but does have rudimentary target lock by putting the crosshair inside the weapon reticule on the enemy fighters. One weapon, the Titan's Hammer, is basically fire and forget as well.
MAN you hit it on the head . I made a similar post a couple years ago. Game really took itself seriously but not too much so and the radar system and control was super tight. Would love to see a remake with some new ships, increased engagement distances with today's tech! Was super epic with the music, graphics and sound. And while we're talking about Psygnosis, later Studio Liverpool, G Police wasn't bad either, and of course Wipeout series. I fear that we will never see anything like these games again as Sony sold the studio, but we can dream I suppose...
i couldn't agree more with number 2, i've always said that disabling achievements is a fair trade off for using cheat codes. but disabling saves, that's just wrong.
What I love about Horizon Forbidden West is that the dialogue changes if you accidentally happen to clear out an enemies camp or pick up a certain item objective before the mission, Alloy will answer that she's been there or she have already pick up the item the NPC was looking for.
Yeah that's really nice that the option is there. She's like oh you mean this? Here you go. A lot of old games would still make you go do it again which got pretty old
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I was recently playing AC origins and that also happens too, I cleared a camp and when I got to a side mission the dude was looking for an object that was in said camp and Bayak was like " Lucky you, I already have what you're looking for " but ya know in a more graceful way
For the "pause during cutscenes" idea, yes. Absolutely, yes, but instead of just having the option to skip, or rewatch a cutscenes, we need the ability to skip the cutscenes, and, as most single player games these days have some kind of in-game lore "codex" the ability to simply go back through what would essentially be a transcript of the dialogue from the cutscenes. That way, if your quest log just says, go do (x), but in the dialogue you were told you also have to (y) and (z) before you can do (x), you can go back and re-read the dialogue to remind yourself to do (y) and (z). I say that because I have personally played RPGs before that have a similar, if not the exactly described system implemented with the added bonus that they actually highlighted relevant quest information in the codex in a different color text.
I've personally really enjoyed games having more accessibility options. Though I don't use that many, sometimes they greatly improved games for me. For instance, being able to choose button mashing to a hold instead is nice. Sometimes being able to change the amount of time to hit a response to a QTE is nice. I am starting to develop dexterity issues due to tendenitis and my brain isn't as fast any more than that I'm started to end my younger years and hit middle age. I know QTE timing can be a factor in difficulty for levels and some might argue that being able to increase the timing is a way of cheating the difficulty, but I would argue that playing with mobility issues or slower reflexes due to aging is like playing with a debuff and being able to play with that extra buffer levels that playing field to that of a normal player (as if there is just a "standard player" out there when we're all different with varying degrees of mobility).
Some developers like Supermassive Games have been very responsive about controls. You should check out one of the preview reviews where they give details on how things can vary from being a game to more like a weekend cinema.
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Yea .. i have been checking these out more often lately. I don't have an index finger on my right hand. So since i lost it i have really had to adjust. Not like missing a hand but it does impact my speed of response since i am still adjusting.
One game you might be interested in is DeadCells, a rouge-lite game. They've very recently launched their "Breaking Barriers" update, basically the fully-fledged accessibility update, to which they actually implemented the rouge-lite version of the two things you mentioned. So, now you can hold to execute combo attacks, and you can enable an option that increases the time between parries. As for the former, I myself actually have that one enabled, even though I cosider myself to be a very good player of that game (approaching 1000 hours, so, you know, naturally), because it's just, well, convenient. So yeah, if you're into rougelites, then I'd recommend a game like DeadCells, where you can tailor your gameplay to your heart's desire.
For point number 1: even though Far Cry 6 failed at lot of parameters but one thing I loved about it is Dani singing with the radio. These kind of small details are what I look for in games.
Something that I want in games is being able to skip walking sequences. For those who don't know what they are. They are basically sections where the game slows down your walking speed artificially to hear some dialogue or something. They can also be crawling sequences. Sometimes they are used to hide loading. But most times they are just poor substitutes for cutscenes. Literally. They are used so that the devs don't spend more money on cutscene animations and cinematography. There's nothing a walking sequence can do that a cutscene does better. But because they are technically gameplay, you can't skip 99% of them. And I hate it so much.
i know how you eel but i would also argue it depends on the game, an action heavy game, should never have those sequences in, but games like detroit become human, or until dawn they work well in and if devs think a game should have that kind of scene in, then add a skip button, but after skipping add the story elements to a journal of some kind, so the player can read what happened and what was said,
@@woteveruk1 they should at least let you be able to skip it if you’ve already played the game, so many games don’t recognize if you’ve already beaten them.
@@Zack-bl2gg true, especially if a game has a new game plus, it does get stupid when you have new game plus in a game but, still have to go through the cutscenes again
I get your point but I think it's a necessary evil for pacing in games. Especially in action heavy games. Otherwise the actionheavy stuff doesn't feel as heavy anymore. It's also used in movies and stuff. If you wouldn't have them the action will feel boring as well.
That can be seen in multuple contexts, personally I've always found that it can break immersion if a game world is over stuffed with content and there's too much everywhere to do even if that content is good individually, like how with skyrim every 5 feet and around every rock there's a cave, ruin, or encampment filled to the brim with enemies and loot. It can feel very artificially filled and make you long for longer treks out in the world like how you'd get in oblivion for example, since obviously that's a lot more realistic. It's also a bit weird when you realize the average population of settlements in skyrim is the same as the average population of any random bandit or forsworn camp and there's obviously faaar more of those than settlements in the game lol
One little thing I personally like in games is when I see a map open up before I can look at said map. I love that immersion. That can go hand in hand with the note taking on the maps too.
On the player-generated map markers/notes feature, the PC version of TES3: Morrowind allowed U to create (as far as I could tell) an unlimited number of map markers w/ individual notes once U installed the Mournhold Expansion. While in Menu Mode, hovering the mouse pointer over a map marker would automatically show the note U typed in for it, which made the feature enormously valuable for keeping track of useful locations, crucial NPCs & what they had to offer, quest areas & whether or not they'd been cleared, etc. A nice exploit was that, once a dungeon had been cleared of all hostile NPCs, U could opt to takeover the dungeon as your own, using it as an unofficial player home; some dungeons contained respawn points for hostile creatures, which could B exploited for level grinding. Having the map marker/note feature available made it easy to keep track of which dungeons were useful for what purposes....
I'm pretty sure the channel has covered this before, but the menu/map/interface in dead space was pretty seamless and made sense in the world. That was one of the best that I can think of in terms of innovative maps.
Something I would love to see make a comeback is difficulty sliders for different aspects of a game. The original System Shock has various difficulty options at the start of the game for Combat, Puzzles, Story and Cyberspace to customise at your own discretion.
I would say just give players access to some of the dev tools as part of the menu. Anyone who wants to really fine tune can and they can have some presets for people who don't care.
I like that Project Zomboid makes you have to have a pen or pencil in different colors to write on your map with the corresponding color. And it's not a bad barrier to entry. There's pens so over the world. I think it's clever for this style of game.
Honorable mention. Ghost of Tsushima’s method of guiding the player to destinations was superb. I have never in my life felt so liberated from staring at a map in open worlds and constantly checking where I’m going.
I'm watching your video rn and I completely agree with all of what you've said so far. Especially with loading up missions!!!!! I feel like some games don't have replay ability because they're lacking some of these features. Especially not being able to load up where you wanna go to. 😒
The thing where there’s a story recap/ previously on… type thing I agree with all of my yes. As a new dad with a 5 month old, full time job, and just started a business, time for games is slim to none and then add on top of it an extreme case of ADD with games where I’ll play for a while and then move onto another it becomes a cycle of, “I have no memory of this place”
Partly because of autism and depression, I can vary between playing a game for hundreds of hours (i.e. did Persona 5 Plus almost 300 hours total last year because of restarting many times) to going over to dropping gaming for several months. That along with memory problems can make getting back into gaming terrible for me and even have me give up on ever completing a game myself.
Tactics Ogre (the timeline mechanics point) reminds of "Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Zeta Gundam" on the PS2. That was so fun to see what you could do to timelines. Like in normal canon characters that would not normally be there you could possibly save them and they join you or you make a secret foe and it goes and adds new challenges people love to see and try. And a couple funny encounters for sure X3
My number one wishlist item for ALL games is the ability to replay the training missions or even the first hour of the game to refresh my understanding of the controls and the setting of the game. There are so many games that I love but can’t go back to because I simply can’t remember how to play them. Access to training missions / etc would solve this.
I can totally relate to this there are so many games have gotten three-quarters of the way through and didn't beat because I got distracted by another game. But when I went back to play I'd forgotten how to.
Dude. This is exactly my thoughts. I absolutely would love to go back to playing Elite Dangerous. But the learning curve in that game is immense. My ship is in the middle of nowhere in the galaxy and would not want to die there because I'm a beginner again.
The original Silent Hill trilogy had a great map system, the protagonist would actually draw on the map to show locked and unlocked doors, collapsed streets and more. What I hate the most is when games actually do have cheats but they punish you for using them. Not being able to get achievements with activated cheats is fine but I remember some games that really punished you for using cheats that were put in there by the devs. There was stuff like not being able to save anymore, basically ruining your whole progress in the game.
The replay missions things is my most wanted feature in games. I absolutely love replaying my favorite missions over and over again. Sony exclusives still largely do it, but I wish some of my favorite series did it too, like the Yakuza series. One of the reasons why I absolutely love games like LA Noire or Uncharted 2 is because of this feature.
Love the driver San Francisco shout out!! I absolutely adored that game and always felt it was underrated. I still play it occasionally to this day, such a great game!
I think you only mentioned GTA V one time in the video but almost every entry on your list is either fully in GTA V or it has similar elements or partially in it. I'm replaying the story mode right now on PS5 and havent touched the game since 360 version (im mindblown btw lol) and things like being able to pull every mission up just by pausing the game, seeing what you need to do for the medals (gold, etc) and just instantly going to that mission to replay it is amazing. At first i was nervous that it was going to force me to play the game from the mission i selected-on, however when you are done replaying it just puts you right back in the world wherever you initiated the replay. GTA V is truly one of the greatest and jam packed single player games I have ever played in my 25+ years of gaming. I am amazed this game is from 2013. I gave my dad my old 360 as well so he could play the story mode and even on that version in 2023 i am blown away by just how insane that game is from top to bottom. I honestly dont think some people realize just how incredible it truly is. GTA 6 has A LOT to live up to and idk how they will include the amount of features and map size, etc. in one game like the leaks suggest. Im so excited lol
it's called "World State" :) and hard agree! having that continuity, especially in an epic story like ME or DA is very important for me. because in some games, regardless of what ending you get in your playthrough, the next game just chooses one of them and goes with it, making it essentially the "canon" ending. and that really invalidates your player agency in a major way. and it sucks I hope more game developers chose to have World States in such games
I really liked the "last time on..." function in Pokémon Fire Red/Leaf Green. It helped SO MUCH. I can go back to it now, years later, and know where to pick back up
For contextual animations, Devil May Cry has a lot of instances where the cutscene changes depending on how you ever the scene. It can change if you run into the area, walk into the area, or jump into the area.
Going off of #6, Sunset Overdrive allows you to buy maps of each the collectibles for each district. Yes it’s tedious to have to purchase all of those maps, but it’s nice that the option is even there.
One thing I want in open World game is realistic car driving, i.e. ability to control Clutch and Manual gear too. Car chase with realistic mode.... Oh my oh my. Another thing railway system and train yards with changeable switches. Most OW games look away from proper railway system (don't know why?). But trust me a proper railway system in an OW game will take the game to another level. Let it be small. But give us the opurtunity of riding, driving and messing.
@Old Man Phil Jones Burnell I agree with you. Todays OW games lack side quests, cheats and activities. Look at San Andreas from 2004 and GTA 5 from 2013. Game developers must understand that good graphics ≠ a good OW game. I would still welcome an 3D game instead of HD but with a promise of more cheats, activities and side quests; more than that in San Andreas.
A couple for me: - Changing a difficulty level mid-game. Annoying boss, lower a level, get past it, go back to the original level and move on. - Adjust a any console button or trigger to do what you want to get as much consistency as possible across games. Loading a preset would be awesome.
In games with leveled loot, have an option like the Niohs, where you can make any piece of gear look like any other piece of gear you’ve collected, that way you can fully customize your look while taking the strongest kit.
yeah basically transmogs from WoW. besides maybe a few games where it won't work for story/immersion reasons, JUST LET ME DRESS MY CHARACTER HOW I WANT is that too much to ask? ;A;
The fact that you have to watch every cut scene during ghost of tsushima is crazy not because you have have to watch each one but if you die after the cut scene it makes you watch it again without being able to skip it.
The Wolfenstein that got ported to the Switch is like this. I want to replay it but every time I try those insanely long unskippable cutscenes drive me crazy.
A "Previously on" feature would be pretty nice for a lot of games, at least the more action-heavy ones, and maybe even the narrative-heavy ones like any Quantic Dream title. While it probably would be difficult to program a bunch of different cuts like what you'd see in a TV show, I could see something like just a highlight reel of whatever mission or story chapter you were previously playing, that way, you're caught up on the plot. And just for extra measure, the game can ask you with a prompt "Do you want to be refreshed on the story" or something to that effect, so that players don't have see it all the time if they're not too lost on the details.
They did this in Asura's Wrath between chapters, complete with the epic anime narration and action, really made it feel like you were playing a tv show
Yes. The game summary in the witcher 3 was amazing. And the fact that it was from a 3rd person point of view is Even better.. Even the quest journals was from Dandelion's point of view. And it really doesn't take much time,.. its pretty much convenient instead of the silly game hints we get in a loading screen
Deep Rock Galactic’s “map” is awesome to me. Theres a bit of a learning curve with it but once you orient yourself, it’s an intuitive idea i haven’t seen in many games.
One thing i love in games is playing a true new game+, where you get to keep EVERYTHING that isn't story related, and i at least think that every game should have at least some kind of NG+... But even more so, i would love for more games to let me randomize different things! XCOM Enemy Within had a feature where you could randomize what skills your soldiers would get, unless they were tied to a specific class, like the Snipers Squadsight... So you could get a Sniper with not only the Sentinel and Oppertunist skills to make them amazing at overwatch, but you could also be very lucky and get Heat Ammo, doing increased damage to mechanical enemies! I would love to see features like this in more games, and all the developers would have to do is make a disclaimer saying "this might make the game act weird, but if you are okay with taking that chance, be our guest!" They don't have to go all the way and let us swap character models or anything, but just the ability to have things happen at random points, like getting spells and abilities at random levels instead of set ones, or make chests and loot drops be entirely made up of random items. Hell, it could even be a reward for finishing the game along side the NG+, so you get to play the game as intended for your first playthrough so the developers get to show you their story and gameplay as intended, but then the shackles are off if you wanna try it after that!
Completely agree, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order is an example of how not to do it (it was only cosmetics). The dev’s reasoning was a lame excuse. They could’ve locked story/progression abilities until you’re supposed to get them, then once acquired unlock all successive upgrades that you had in your previous play through.
Yes! Perfect analogy to bring back easily replayable levels. I would play AC Origins/Odyssey a lot more often if I could load up a story section again with my current gear.
In regards to collectible hunting in games a couple recent games I liked how they did them was in the new Spiderman games, easy to find but satisfying with a reason to find them!
@@jenjoe4359 Exactly! And just worth the time it takes, everytime I start up a new game the first thing I do is open up the whole map. And I will do the same when the next one comes out!
spiderman is not a open world with caves/dungeons/ or inside hiddeouts and also has a incredible mobility because of obviously reasons, so its kind unfair to compare other games with it
In Ghost of Tsushima, on Iki island after finishing one of the quests, after the dialogue was over with the character, before he walked away I decided it would be cool to bow... As I did that, the NPC reacted with "a samurai bowing to me, nobody would believe me" or something like that. And that was one of the coolest moments I've had with GOT.
Speaking on the last point you made, the #1 game for the small details that blew me away was Watch Dogs 1...I know it's an unpopular choice but after revisiting it on PS4 I realized how much of an underrated masterpiece that game was (minus the shitty dlc) it also made me all the more depressed to see just how much of that focus on minor details was taken out of the later games in the series, WD2 was bad for it and Legion can't hold a candle to either of its predecessors. Knowing that the series will now probably be over with the garbage entry that Legion was is so sad to think about. It also got me thinking that too many sequels prioritize new features while removing a lot of the ones from previous entries that made the series' great in the first place. AAA studios really need to cut that shit out. I'm looking at you, Ubisoft. 🙃
@@hawken796 Idk, if you go back and REALLY play through the first game you might have a greater appreciation for it. I felt the same way when I played 2, it was my favourite game at the time but when I went back to the first game with a more open mindset and an eye for detail I realized that despite the obvious lack of things like parkour or the cool outfits Markus gets the actual gameplay and world had way more thought, heart and detail put into it. I think there's also kind of a stigma that WD1 is a wholly bad game because of the whole fiasco that ubi pulled with the previews vs the final product but when revisiting the remastered version it's basically on par with the original build they showed if not better and I really think it's one of those games that everyone should give a second chance. It really is revolutionary with the small details that most current games don't bother to implement. Especially with the animations, there's tons of TH-cam videos out there that focus on these things too, you should check them out if you have any interest in it. Anyways, not at all saying your opinion is invalid because WD2 is a great game itself and I still have yet to fully 100% it but just saying, after taking the time to go back to WD1 I appreciate it so much more then I thought I would.
@@Roxas661 I played Watch Dogs and i love it bro. The dark theme and the great story is right up my alley, especially all the themes it tackles. It has a lot of well done NPC behaviour and the reactions of NPCs and their daily activities is very well done. That was definitely lost in legion. But attention to detail doesn't make the game. Like I'll go "Cool the horse balls shrink" and move on with my day, i don't base the entire game quality off of that, at the end, it's down to the thing you do. 2 had a far inferior story and all the dark themes are hidden well and are vague, but it does satire pretty well. But ultimately the way the NPCs are interactive and the way you can manipulate them to your advantage is way greater than some preset animations. I love both the games for opposite reasons but attention to detail doesn't make the game. GTA 5 has some astounding attention to detail but it's such a basic game in terms of gameplay and open world that it doesn't matter.
Darksiders 2 also did the story recap thing on loading screens. Everyone seems to forget that game, even though it’s phenomenal and one of my favorite games ever made.
A definite yes for level select in games. I would like to also add "multiple save files" and/or "New Game+". I recently played Trek to Yomi and I was having a great time. I missed a collectable and finished the chapter. I then found out that there was no level select at all, and the only way to get the collectable to was to completely start over. And by starting over, I will have to delete my current save file. I finished the campaign because I hoped I could start over with my abilities to make getting the ones I missed easier, but no. I enjoyed the first playthrough, but the second became a slog because I also had to recollect the collectibles I had previously gotten.
I would like to be able to Name my Save file too. some tell you last completed quest (rdr2) or just Save #1... but let me tell myself about what point the game is at - like "just before XYZ situation/boss"
@@shixter I completely understand. Games like Xcom 2 (at least on PC) let you name saves. Its great for reminding me of what I just did or what I'm about to do.
Extra stories in optional activities and/or collectibles. The scattered notes in the tlou games are a good example, as are the side tales in Ghost of Tsushima, and the Valkyrie fights in GoW4
For the accidental cut scene skip rather pressing buttons I always move the stick or mouse. Then the game would show which button it is to skip a cutscene so I don't accidentally press the skip button.
I've always wondered why more games don't have a way to write down custom notes or reminders, also. I always find myself listing things out on a piece of paper or a post-it notes while playing single-player games, almost like a "to-do list".
For me, the animation are one of the most important things from the list. Even ACUnity is made so much better with the improved parkour animations compared to 3 and 4. Tomb Raider, Shadow of Mordor. GTA and RDR. Yeah, it may be a small thing comapred to gunplay, swordplay, magic, driving, but its the details that really stand out once you notice them and can made a good game into a great experience.
Games should have a an anytime tutorial that explains all the games controls for people who might not be able to finish a game in one week and have to come back to it after a 3-month break.
yeah, the offline thing came into play for me a few months back. lightning struck somewhere and blew up a major data point, meaning no internet till everything at that data point is replaced cause its fried. this stuff can take days to fix. now this is rare, like this is a first for me in my lifetime, but i thought fine, no internet i can catch up on some single player games. NOPE! drm required internet. so i had to do a mobile hotspot, just so i could play a single player game? like what the heck?????
#5 and #9 are the ones I agree with most. I’m always afraid to press a button because I could miss an entire cutscene if it skips. Also, I don’t always have the opportunity to play games, so when I’m away for a while, it’d be nice to have something to remind me what’s happening in case I forget
Language options, really appreciate games that let you toggle a different voice language and keep everything in subtitles and menu options in english. This make games for me more immersive, the recent one I played is Plague Tale and AC Unity, playing it in it's native french is just so good. Currently playing State of Mind in its native German language. I really don't mind reading through subtitles when watching foreign films so I kinda do it with games.
Plague Tale and AC Unity are from French developers? I personally have played Resident Evil games with the voice settings on Japanese, but obviously Capcom of Japan is the developer...
Plus, someone learning the language can really get a lot of mileage from playing video games in that language. Shame that most of the options are only for European languages (and Chinese/Japanese) though.
I don't know that it's a giant game, but BeamNG has a new interface in which the map does exactly what you describe, basically going smoothly from your current location and then zoom way way way out until you see the whole world as a map
How about games or creators that made it easier for modders to mod their games. Take stardew valley for example. As massive game recoding patches came about, like the multiplayer patch that had him reprogram the entire game just to allow it ro work, he literally contacted a huge amount of modders and asked them how he could make it easier for the game to be moddable. Currently it's the highest modded indie game ever and has growing mod numbers almost comparable to skyrim.
Beside that, one I would love to see in more games is rewind feature of Total Overdose. Basically when you die in that game, you can rewind time to basically try doing things differently in last moments. Just long enough back so you can make the difference, but not too long, so it doesn't hog resources too much. At least for easier games or easy mode, I wish this would be an option. Another one I wish to see more is choice between more HUD heavy guided playthrough and more immersive lighter on HUD option, somewhat like Assassin's Creed Odyssey tried, but maybe even to higher extent and with more options of where you want more assistance. Also in way I sometimes wish games had more dynamic in how they allow you to approach stuff in terms of guidance, like way too many times it is that you either get a map an nothing, or you get exact map marker for NPC or door, but maybe more in lines of giving you general direction to town you are looking for, so you don't need to read all town names, but letting it up to you whether you want to find that NPC by talking to people, looking around,... and maybe update assistance based on that. Basically something in between that is not nothing and that isn't exact coordinate of someone you got just told is in that town. Especially annoying when you also get told town is in east, but really it is more north than east or even completely wrong... yeah, thanks games with wrong descriptions. :-D As for immersion one, I really miss time when physics and destructible environments were hot thing, I wish more games did the two in bigger extent. Like Crysis like destruction model, or Far Cry 2 lie realistic fire spread model,... I don't think Gravity Gun even needs a mention here. Not sure if this counts, but I wish it was dome more. All those things really can offer more dynamic play and sometimes creative ways of solving problems. I remember this guy playing Alyx and once his inventory filled, he picked up a bucket and put excess stuff into bucket he kept carrying with him. I mean sure you don't need it and it can be bit of chore, but also you can't deny it is really cool that you can do it and that you can have fun with it. Also for map, strategy game wise, Supreme Commander had really great idea about map in strategy game, where they allowed you to either zoom in to see every single unit or zoom out to see whole battlefield as full screen minimap. I wish more games did that, not just limit you how far you can zoom out. Though now, this is less relevant, since not many RTS games are made. But yeah, having Driver San Francisco way of doing whole map is really cool idea.
On the topic of giving general directions instead of a point on a map, Ghost Recon Breakpoint has a system that lets the player choose how much information they receive about locations they need to find. That's something I appreciated about that game, alongside the huge and varied map.
I would LOVE if all my single player games had a "previously on..." feature. I have a really bad habit of jumping between games and starting new ones before finishing old ones. And by the time I get back to some of the big, RPG games, I get frustrated because I can't remember where I was or what I was doing when I last played it. I've restarted many games from the beginning due to this. Everything else you mentioned I also agree with. Especially the playing single player offline. If there's an issue with my internet, I should be able to still load up a single player game to pass the time.
Yeah it really makes me grateful that games like dragon quest 11 has the "what's happened so far" section when you load up a save. Honestly seems like for especially open world games that it should be a requirement since a lot of them are massive. I have a habit of doing the same as you and I load up a save for a different game and I have no idea what I was doing previously
Re #1, there's a button combo you can do in Chivalry 2 that lets your flourish by spinning your weapon. Very cool. The animation differs slightly between weapons and it's a nice touch.
New game plus It should be a thing in every game day one A loadout for different play styles And the ability to alter your gear’s look As much as I hate odyssey But the ability to change your armor’s looks is brilliant tbh Multi takedowns Suppressor for stealth takedown should be the norm And the ability to maneuver over any obstacle is increasingly becoming a must feature for me
Shooting games or RPG's that let you change the controller mapping to what you want. I love it when games do that. Especially on console, when a game has a completely different set up than all the other games of the same genre. Like a shooting game on PS.... aim_L2 , shoot _ R2, crouch is circle (so on) then you get a game that is, aim is now L1, throw a grenade is circle and shoot is R1 it screws with you and you really end up wishing you can change that because you keep throwing a grenade at a high level guy that you wanted to sneak past. So now not only do you have grenade damage but, that really high level guy knows you're there and pummels you into the ground.
Like Saints Row 2 you could get in cop cars etc.. and you could take on that roll in the game found that really cool wish open world could do that again just makes things more interesting 😉 😀
A lot of this stuff sounds minor on the surface, but with every entry, I realize that all of these details truly add up and are very noticeable when they are included.
Every single RPG game should have the player's ability to climb on objects. If you're playing a game where you can only jump, then the game will be super tedious to deal with.
Especially when it's something you know in real life you could hop up on easily, or simply step over. It drives be bat shit crazy when I'm playing a game and my character gets stuck on a box or rock that in real life you'd just step over or step on to get over.
@@Joreel It's shame that developers could not bother putting this feature in, when it took them so many years later to do so while other older games were able to do so and works perfectly fine
I remember Force Unleashed let me not only pause during the cutscenes, but also access the menu, meaning I could focus on all the force upgrade junk before I decide “Story time, yeeeah.” It also let you automatically skip the cutscenes with a single button, which is great for when it gives you the option of replaying with all your stuff so that you can basically grind while making the story less inconvenient. Also no internet use.
Agree Witcher 3’s little synopsis of your progress was great. Wish they did that for Cyberpunk or at least had coherently written mission descriptions in your journal… Having mission briefs written in Johnny’s perspective meant I had no clue why or how I led up to key main quests… they just read like him moaning about the situation
#5 getting a summary of the story so far is huge. I have never officially finished RDR 2 because I always get really close to the end. Like the last camp and then I always have to restart because I don't remember what the hell was going on. I even got to the point where I'm playing as John and had no idea why I was shooting people on a farm...and started over lol.
Ghost of Tsushima easily has the most revolutionary feature in recent gaming with something as simple as the wind tell you where the story is taking you or your personal waypoint on the map. No need for a mini map or some giant arrow on my screen to direct me. Just one swipe of the track pad and the wind starts blowing to tell you which direction to go. Giving me more opportunity to see it's gorgeous world.
Offline gaming in single player games is a must, sometimes Skip cut-scenes also, in new game plus we already know the story and we don't need to watch again.
As someone with not much time for gaming anymore, i love games that narrates the last thing that happened when i load a save/level. I started playing Metro series and the first 2 games narrates what happened the las time before the level and it helps keeping track with the story
I decided to replay the 'Modern Warfare' campaign on the PS5 and realized that there were cut scenes I couldn't skip. I had to stop for a moment and remember what year I was in again.
The Crew 2 has an amazing map set as well. You can zoom out all the way and it's the normal flat 2D but if you zoom in to cloud level, you can see the actual terrain, and even the actual clouds moving.
THANK YOU I love when games have mission select there are so many games where I wish I could go back and play a certain mission there definitely needs to be more of it
Recently started playing rdr2 for like the third time and it hit almost every checkbox on this list I think, if you ever forget where you are in the story theres an option in the menu to reveiw each chapter as well as authurs journal
I remember in the old PlayStation 2 era when some video games actually had a cheat menu, like the BloodRayne games for example, the cheat menu would kind of allow you to mess with the game a little bit with a debug mode
I completely agree with your point about letting single player games be single. In Devil May Cry 5, there's a point where you choose which character you'll play for the rest of the mission, for whatever reason, the character you don't choose becomes another player even though you never really see each other or interact.
A feature I would like to see is a kind of refresher course in the options for people who haven't played a game in a while. Similar to a recap for forgetting where you are in the story, but for forgetting the controls. Like, just a small bare bones level you can access from the menu that reacquaints your muscle memory with the controls. I think Assassin's Creed Brotherhood had something like this, where you could learn and practice all the moves again in VR from the menu.
Regarding #9, I think the one that did it best was MGS4. You could actually pause the game during a cutscene and that pause menu came with the option to skip it
New game plus is one of my favorite features, My gold standard for ng+ is ratchet and clank, not only do you keep your weapons and upgrades but you also unlock ludicrous additional upgrades that might take ng++ to fully unlock.
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Games actually being able to be played fully offline is something I agree totally needs to come back.
Idk why we have to download games now. Never had to download a game on Xbox360
@@homeslice4551 File sizes are bigger and all the data cannot be held on the disc due to this
This is why I quit buying new games. I just watch gameplay on TH-cam now. 💀
@@homeslice4551 Never had to, but you could to cut on load times.
Kinda like how GT7 fcked us over with always online. Just one of many reasons the game is a total letdown
Playing offline is a really great point that needs to be talked about more. Not everyone has access to high speed internet. And obviously that is a big reason why cloud gaming services like Stadia never took off. I really don't need to be ok the internet just to play a game I bought with my money. And also. Internet services is not all that affordable
Fuck Rockstar. I want to play Red Dead Redemption 2 on my Steam Deck. It's an online only singleplayer game.
The reason why developers do that is prob to avoid some people to pirate the game. Which make sense i would say, but you're right about that is kinda an ass move when i play sim back then.
I personally don't even think the quality of the internet itself is the main thing but more the fact that not everyone WANTS to play online. For me it's a matter of choice really. I don't wanna interact with people or see other people walking around cos it ruins that immersion of "it's you by yourself and this whole world here to be discovered"
@@jika8895 The thing is that only pirates have a good experience. I refunded it on Steam and now I'm going to pirate it to play offline.
@@jayspeidell how to pirate games???
The Arkham games were also pretty good with the recollection of the story. The load screens giving you the last few things that you've done in the story and what people said was a good idea.
The map (literal map, not environment) in Arkham Knight was also awesome.
I like how Dragon Quest XI gives story review in the loading screen.
No doubt
The infamous games showed you an animated cutscene thing when you loaded a save that you could even skip if you wanted
That is one game I loved especially the trilogy alone u could play the infamous saga for hours an not get bored because it is so immersive and a pretty big open world game an the graphics for the game was on point 2 the T and that was something that is not done very much neither
I with everyone on the fully off line game. I’d also like to add that there should be a “new game plus” for most games. I’m sure not everyone wants to re-unlock skills/weapons again. Sometimes I want to play my games and feel like a complete bad ass from the get go.
I really like how Persona 5 Royal handles the New Game+. Your level starts over, but your main character keeps the HP and SP levels that they got to, all equipment is still there, and the bonuses that are in the first five levels of friendship with all Confident characters remain unlocked, even though the friendship level resets.
I think mos tgames d onow though or if NG+ isn't there at launch it often gets added later via a patch like they just did with Forbidden West. I don't hav eForbidden Wes tye tas it's not out yet on PC but still he yhave added it now.
While I agree with new game plus, it should not be forced. Mass effect is the culprit here
Cod black ops 3 lets you easily replay the missions with all the equipment you unlocked
Honestly, sometimes I don’t understand why some games don’t have NG+. It’s not that too complicated compared to coding the rest of the game, since most of the infrastructure is already in place. I even like some of the NG+ where they add in new stuff to in the NG+.
Half of the time I get the feeling that either the game devs don’t see much point in adding NG+, why don’t they realize that by adding NG+, they would encourage the players to do another play through?
The games that really hit me in a way that makes me remember them fondly and wish i could play them for the first time again are always single player games. They are so immersive and allow for so many stories to be told!
A bit like the walking dead season 1 with Lee and Clementine what a game that was first play through
Well... Multiplayer games are badly design, so obviously the most memorable games are going to be single player. The most memorable things about multiplayer games are what other players did, not the game itself
Secret dialogue options that are there just naturally are so amazing for immersion, I remember playing Skyrim and coming across a farm and talking to the owners and buying a horse, then hours later I come across a town on the opposite end of the map, go through a long quest line and find myself having to threaten someone for money, and guess what, they were a relative of the Farm owner, so I had the option to threaten their family which I never would of seen if I hadn't of been at that random farm on the opposite end of the map but since I did I got to go through that questline more easily and get the money without any difficulty.
There're thousands of small interactions like that all over Skyrim! Such a fun experience to play through!
To bad we haven’t seen that since.
Let alone from Bethesda
One thing I would love to see more of, is to be able to re-do or re-visit the intro of games. There's so many games I put down and come back to later and it's so hard to re-learn moves, buttons etc. at higher difficulty.
That also applies if you’re jumping between two games with similar but different controls.
@@warringtonruncorn I really felt that when I played gta san andreas. I played it last year on ps4 after playing many modern games and I was destroyed by how every button was different, but that wasn't the issue because I obviously played from the start. The problem came when I got back to other games. I had played only gta sa until the end of the story to don't break the immersion and mess up the buttons, so I had to get used to the other games' buttons again, and it was auch a pain
I agree man, I've done that so much and forgot all the story and have had to restart the game or replay missions to relearn about it. 😄 it would be nice to have" recap scenes" for the progress you've made so far in the story.
#5 is SUPER nicely implemented in Detroit: Become Human. not only you can go back and replay any section of the game you have already unlocked, you are also shown ALL the branching events in the scene (things you haven't done yet all blanks of course). so you can see all the possible unlockables and choices and consequences that you COULD have if you explore another time and do things differently.
I absolutely love that!
I liked that it showed you there was still some stuff you missed. So your like, “oh there’s still more to do or more to find in that level, or another path I could’ve taken?!” Let me check that out”
@@Elote20 yepp! promoting replayabilty and just showcasing their great branching story without being obnoxious. if you don't care you can quickly go to the next part and not pay attention to the tree at all
but you do - all the possibilities are there, laid out before you :)
it's both nice and bad at the same time; nice for when you just want to hunt down the explicit branches only, but bad because it means that it stops being a game and starts being work, because you're just going through the motions to get the result, instead of appreciating the experience all the way through.
@@KainYusanagi well you don't HAVE to open all those paths/branches, you can just press a button and the whole tree basically skips. most youtubers, streamers and just gamers I know did exactly that that and never paid the tree much attention. and tbh, doing all the routes/endings in a videogame is always "work" so usually no one, besides people who love doing that, ever actually do that
@@KainYusanagi lol it only becomes work if you make it so. Nobody is forcing you to unlock everything. If you feel the need to do that, that's your own problem. Get real.
For number 5, Darksiders used to do this so well. Amazing voice actor that would give a summary of the last few hours of the game when you load it up.. such an underrated series
Darksiders was one of my favorite trilogy games
@@boneshredder178 a man of culture
I've seen a lot of games do this and I honestly love it. The judgment games do it for every chapter you get to (with the option of skipping it if you want) and dragon quest 11 does it when you load the game. which is super useful for if you stopped playing for a few days and need a quick refresh for what you were doing
7:15 *_Detroit: Become Human_* by Quantic Dream has this system where you can try out diffferent options within chapters, and you can see the branching of choices. It becomes more a hunt of "how can I do this?". And since there are over 40 different endings (scaling from best to worst, with lots of different options), it gives great replay-value. Btw, it's also on PC, not just Playstation 4. got it on Steam. Definitely try it out.
ha! we basically wrote the same comment haha. love that feature a lot! gives you such a nice view of your options and also incentivises you to do replays
Kinda off-topic but can you make screenshots in it?
I tried whatever I can and it would only screenshot the menu. :(
13 sentinels aegis rim kinda did this with the "doing this triggers that" sort of thing which I enjoyed. it gave you more parts of the story that if that wasn't there would just be a straight line
Yep... But its a game where this feature is pretty much essential and not having it like Beyond two souls for example, is just a waste of time
On ps5 it is free in the ps plus collection, so if you have ps plus you should buy it
Its been about 20 years since the Colony Wars games were released on the original PlayStation, and to this day I have not seen any flying game do a better job of providing situational awareness than it did with the holographic radar and leading sights that accounted for speed, distance, direction of the player, target, and rounds being fired. Those games were way ahead of their time.
Omg, no one ever mentions this overlooked but amazing series. I miss those games so much, the first two were amazing and even the third which was drastically different in gameplay were some of my faves.
I wasn't familiar with those games, so I had a look at google images. That game is very visually similar to a game I used to play back in the early 00's when I was younger. The game was called Bang: Gunship Elite. It came out for PC and Dreamcast in 2000, and has a kind of topographical radar that registers enemies' position in 3D space above and below you as well as distance forward and aft from you. The weapons also have unique animations and reticules to help distinguish between them all. It doesn't have target lead indicators, but does have rudimentary target lock by putting the crosshair inside the weapon reticule on the enemy fighters. One weapon, the Titan's Hammer, is basically fire and forget as well.
I remember playing the crap out of a Colony Wars demo from one of the PS1 demo discs.
MAN you hit it on the head . I made a similar post a couple years ago. Game really took itself seriously but not too much so and the radar system and control was super tight. Would love to see a remake with some new ships, increased engagement distances with today's tech! Was super epic with the music, graphics and sound. And while we're talking about Psygnosis, later Studio Liverpool, G Police wasn't bad either, and of course Wipeout series. I fear that we will never see anything like these games again as Sony sold the studio, but we can dream I suppose...
i couldn't agree more with number 2, i've always said that disabling achievements is a fair trade off for using cheat codes. but disabling saves, that's just wrong.
Yeah ,saints row and 3d assassin Creed .
What I love about Horizon Forbidden West is that the dialogue changes if you accidentally happen to clear out an enemies camp or pick up a certain item objective before the mission, Alloy will answer that she's been there or she have already pick up the item the NPC was looking for.
Yeah that's really nice that the option is there. She's like oh you mean this? Here you go. A lot of old games would still make you go do it again which got pretty old
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lol in fallout 4 when that happens u just accept the quest then turn it in right away, would be cool if they changed the dialogue when that happens.
I was recently playing AC origins and that also happens too, I cleared a camp and when I got to a side mission the dude was looking for an object that was in said camp and Bayak was like " Lucky you, I already have what you're looking for " but ya know in a more graceful way
For the "pause during cutscenes" idea, yes. Absolutely, yes, but instead of just having the option to skip, or rewatch a cutscenes, we need the ability to skip the cutscenes, and, as most single player games these days have some kind of in-game lore "codex" the ability to simply go back through what would essentially be a transcript of the dialogue from the cutscenes. That way, if your quest log just says, go do (x), but in the dialogue you were told you also have to (y) and (z) before you can do (x), you can go back and re-read the dialogue to remind yourself to do (y) and (z). I say that because I have personally played RPGs before that have a similar, if not the exactly described system implemented with the added bonus that they actually highlighted relevant quest information in the codex in a different color text.
I've personally really enjoyed games having more accessibility options. Though I don't use that many, sometimes they greatly improved games for me. For instance, being able to choose button mashing to a hold instead is nice. Sometimes being able to change the amount of time to hit a response to a QTE is nice. I am starting to develop dexterity issues due to tendenitis and my brain isn't as fast any more than that I'm started to end my younger years and hit middle age. I know QTE timing can be a factor in difficulty for levels and some might argue that being able to increase the timing is a way of cheating the difficulty, but I would argue that playing with mobility issues or slower reflexes due to aging is like playing with a debuff and being able to play with that extra buffer levels that playing field to that of a normal player (as if there is just a "standard player" out there when we're all different with varying degrees of mobility).
Some developers like Supermassive Games have been very responsive about controls. You should check out one of the preview reviews where they give details on how things can vary from being a game to more like a weekend cinema.
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Yea .. i have been checking these out more often lately. I don't have an index finger on my right hand. So since i lost it i have really had to adjust. Not like missing a hand but it does impact my speed of response since i am still adjusting.
One game you might be interested in is DeadCells, a rouge-lite game. They've very recently launched their "Breaking Barriers" update, basically the fully-fledged accessibility update, to which they actually implemented the rouge-lite version of the two things you mentioned. So, now you can hold to execute combo attacks, and you can enable an option that increases the time between parries. As for the former, I myself actually have that one enabled, even though I cosider myself to be a very good player of that game (approaching 1000 hours, so, you know, naturally), because it's just, well, convenient.
So yeah, if you're into rougelites, then I'd recommend a game like DeadCells, where you can tailor your gameplay to your heart's desire.
For point number 1: even though Far Cry 6 failed at lot of parameters but one thing I loved about it is Dani singing with the radio. These kind of small details are what I look for in games.
Same here, excellent soundtrack but I loved Dani's unpracticed vocals
In Far Cry 5, the enemies would sometimes whistle along to whatever tune was playing on the radios
Out of tune and time and everything 🤣
Not being able to play a single player game without internet is rly annoying. Had a few internet blackouts and those games rly screw my plans lol
Something that I want in games is being able to skip walking sequences.
For those who don't know what they are. They are basically sections where the game slows down your walking speed artificially to hear some dialogue or something. They can also be crawling sequences.
Sometimes they are used to hide loading. But most times they are just poor substitutes for cutscenes. Literally. They are used so that the devs don't spend more money on cutscene animations and cinematography.
There's nothing a walking sequence can do that a cutscene does better.
But because they are technically gameplay, you can't skip 99% of them. And I hate it so much.
i know how you eel but i would also argue it depends on the game, an action heavy game, should never have those sequences in, but games like detroit become human, or until dawn they work well in
and if devs think a game should have that kind of scene in, then add a skip button, but after skipping add the story elements to a journal of some kind, so the player can read what happened and what was said,
@@woteveruk1 they should at least let you be able to skip it if you’ve already played the game, so many games don’t recognize if you’ve already beaten them.
@@Zack-bl2gg true, especially if a game has a new game plus, it does get stupid when you have new game plus in a game but, still have to go through the cutscenes again
Some crawling sequences are hidden loading points, uncharted did it with squeezing between crevices. Its so the immersion isnt broken, hope that helps
I get your point but I think it's a necessary evil for pacing in games. Especially in action heavy games. Otherwise the actionheavy stuff doesn't feel as heavy anymore. It's also used in movies and stuff. If you wouldn't have them the action will feel boring as well.
Quality over quantity apply for most single player games.
No cap
@@thomasabshire8710 Boringggg.
@@sawyeemorales2816 cap
That's why Ghost of Tsushima is 1000 times better than AC Odyssey
That can be seen in multuple contexts, personally I've always found that it can break immersion if a game world is over stuffed with content and there's too much everywhere to do even if that content is good individually, like how with skyrim every 5 feet and around every rock there's a cave, ruin, or encampment filled to the brim with enemies and loot. It can feel very artificially filled and make you long for longer treks out in the world like how you'd get in oblivion for example, since obviously that's a lot more realistic. It's also a bit weird when you realize the average population of settlements in skyrim is the same as the average population of any random bandit or forsworn camp and there's obviously faaar more of those than settlements in the game lol
One little thing I personally like in games is when I see a map open up before I can look at said map. I love that immersion. That can go hand in hand with the note taking on the maps too.
On the player-generated map markers/notes feature, the PC version of TES3: Morrowind allowed U to create (as far as I could tell) an unlimited number of map markers w/ individual notes once U installed the Mournhold Expansion. While in Menu Mode, hovering the mouse pointer over a map marker would automatically show the note U typed in for it, which made the feature enormously valuable for keeping track of useful locations, crucial NPCs & what they had to offer, quest areas & whether or not they'd been cleared, etc.
A nice exploit was that, once a dungeon had been cleared of all hostile NPCs, U could opt to takeover the dungeon as your own, using it as an unofficial player home; some dungeons contained respawn points for hostile creatures, which could B exploited for level grinding. Having the map marker/note feature available made it easy to keep track of which dungeons were useful for what purposes....
Darksiders 2 also did a great job of recapping what has happened up to the point you’re at, and they did it a long ass time ago.
Being able to replay missions is a huge feature that I imagine wouldn't be hard to program in. I'd love to see that more in future games
I'm pretty sure the channel has covered this before, but the menu/map/interface in dead space was pretty seamless and made sense in the world. That was one of the best that I can think of in terms of innovative maps.
Yeah I liked the dead space games 2 they were pretty immersive an open world also pretty intense 2
I liked using the Dead Space menu interface to illuminate surroundings with a softer light than the flashlight.
Something I would love to see make a comeback is difficulty sliders for different aspects of a game. The original System Shock has various difficulty options at the start of the game for Combat, Puzzles, Story and Cyberspace to customise at your own discretion.
I would say just give players access to some of the dev tools as part of the menu. Anyone who wants to really fine tune can and they can have some presets for people who don't care.
Most recent one I've seen it in is Assassin's Creed, and it's great 😁
I like that Project Zomboid makes you have to have a pen or pencil in different colors to write on your map with the corresponding color. And it's not a bad barrier to entry.
There's pens so over the world.
I think it's clever for this style of game.
Honorable mention. Ghost of Tsushima’s method of guiding the player to destinations was superb.
I have never in my life felt so liberated from staring at a map in open worlds and constantly checking where I’m going.
I'm watching your video rn and I completely agree with all of what you've said so far. Especially with loading up missions!!!!! I feel like some games don't have replay ability because they're lacking some of these features. Especially not being able to load up where you wanna go to. 😒
have you been deciding a name for 2 years on YT???
The thing where there’s a story recap/ previously on… type thing I agree with all of my yes. As a new dad with a 5 month old, full time job, and just started a business, time for games is slim to none and then add on top of it an extreme case of ADD with games where I’ll play for a while and then move onto another it becomes a cycle of, “I have no memory of this place”
Partly because of autism and depression, I can vary between playing a game for hundreds of hours (i.e. did Persona 5 Plus almost 300 hours total last year because of restarting many times) to going over to dropping gaming for several months. That along with memory problems can make getting back into gaming terrible for me and even have me give up on ever completing a game myself.
Tactics Ogre (the timeline mechanics point) reminds of "Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Zeta Gundam" on the PS2. That was so fun to see what you could do to timelines. Like in normal canon characters that would not normally be there you could possibly save them and they join you or you make a secret foe and it goes and adds new challenges people love to see and try. And a couple funny encounters for sure X3
My number one wishlist item for ALL games is the ability to replay the training missions or even the first hour of the game to refresh my understanding of the controls and the setting of the game. There are so many games that I love but can’t go back to because I simply can’t remember how to play them. Access to training missions / etc would solve this.
If they have a save folder Maybe copy dat and reinstall
@@erfan4244 PS4.
@@drstkova oh I was thinking pc
I can totally relate to this there are so many games have gotten three-quarters of the way through and didn't beat because I got distracted by another game. But when I went back to play I'd forgotten how to.
Dude. This is exactly my thoughts. I absolutely would love to go back to playing Elite Dangerous. But the learning curve in that game is immense. My ship is in the middle of nowhere in the galaxy and would not want to die there because I'm a beginner again.
The original Silent Hill trilogy had a great map system, the protagonist would actually draw on the map to show locked and unlocked doors, collapsed streets and more.
What I hate the most is when games actually do have cheats but they punish you for using them. Not being able to get achievements with activated cheats is fine but I remember some games that really punished you for using cheats that were put in there by the devs. There was stuff like not being able to save anymore, basically ruining your whole progress in the game.
The replay missions things is my most wanted feature in games. I absolutely love replaying my favorite missions over and over again. Sony exclusives still largely do it, but I wish some of my favorite series did it too, like the Yakuza series. One of the reasons why I absolutely love games like LA Noire or Uncharted 2 is because of this feature.
The new ff7 remake has good section replay. As did ff15
Also episodic games like re revelations caught you up quite well when you came back to them
Love the driver San Francisco shout out!! I absolutely adored that game and always felt it was underrated. I still play it occasionally to this day, such a great game!
Totally agree on having the option to replay cut scenes
I think you only mentioned GTA V one time in the video but almost every entry on your list is either fully in GTA V or it has similar elements or partially in it. I'm replaying the story mode right now on PS5 and havent touched the game since 360 version (im mindblown btw lol) and things like being able to pull every mission up just by pausing the game, seeing what you need to do for the medals (gold, etc) and just instantly going to that mission to replay it is amazing. At first i was nervous that it was going to force me to play the game from the mission i selected-on, however when you are done replaying it just puts you right back in the world wherever you initiated the replay. GTA V is truly one of the greatest and jam packed single player games I have ever played in my 25+ years of gaming. I am amazed this game is from 2013. I gave my dad my old 360 as well so he could play the story mode and even on that version in 2023 i am blown away by just how insane that game is from top to bottom. I honestly dont think some people realize just how incredible it truly is. GTA 6 has A LOT to live up to and idk how they will include the amount of features and map size, etc. in one game like the leaks suggest. Im so excited lol
One I would include is the ability to continue the narrative with your choices made across games like BioWare does with mass effect and dragon age
it's called "World State" :) and hard agree! having that continuity, especially in an epic story like ME or DA is very important for me. because in some games, regardless of what ending you get in your playthrough, the next game just chooses one of them and goes with it, making it essentially the "canon" ending. and that really invalidates your player agency in a major way. and it sucks
I hope more game developers chose to have World States in such games
I really liked the "last time on..." function in Pokémon Fire Red/Leaf Green. It helped SO MUCH. I can go back to it now, years later, and know where to pick back up
For contextual animations, Devil May Cry has a lot of instances where the cutscene changes depending on how you ever the scene. It can change if you run into the area, walk into the area, or jump into the area.
Going off of #6, Sunset Overdrive allows you to buy maps of each the collectibles for each district. Yes it’s tedious to have to purchase all of those maps, but it’s nice that the option is even there.
One thing I want in open World game is realistic car driving, i.e. ability to control Clutch and Manual gear too. Car chase with realistic mode.... Oh my oh my. Another thing railway system and train yards with changeable switches. Most OW games look away from proper railway system (don't know why?). But trust me a proper railway system in an OW game will take the game to another level. Let it be small. But give us the opurtunity of riding, driving and messing.
@Old Man Phil Jones Burnell I agree with you. Todays OW games lack side quests, cheats and activities. Look at San Andreas from 2004 and GTA 5 from 2013. Game developers must understand that good graphics ≠ a good OW game. I would still welcome an 3D game instead of HD but with a promise of more cheats, activities and side quests; more than that in San Andreas.
A couple for me:
- Changing a difficulty level mid-game. Annoying boss, lower a level, get past it, go back to the original level and move on.
- Adjust a any console button or trigger to do what you want to get as much consistency as possible across games. Loading a preset would be awesome.
I'll never forget that the Xbox 360 version of Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion had fully customizable controls back in 2006, proving it could be done
In games with leveled loot, have an option like the Niohs, where you can make any piece of gear look like any other piece of gear you’ve collected, that way you can fully customize your look while taking the strongest kit.
This, but I also feel like a decent bit of newer games started doing this, which is nice!
yeah basically transmogs from WoW. besides maybe a few games where it won't work for story/immersion reasons, JUST LET ME DRESS MY CHARACTER HOW I WANT is that too much to ask? ;A;
The fact that you have to watch every cut scene during ghost of tsushima is crazy not because you have have to watch each one but if you die after the cut scene it makes you watch it again without being able to skip it.
The Wolfenstein that got ported to the Switch is like this. I want to replay it but every time I try those insanely long unskippable cutscenes drive me crazy.
A "Previously on" feature would be pretty nice for a lot of games, at least the more action-heavy ones, and maybe even the narrative-heavy ones like any Quantic Dream title. While it probably would be difficult to program a bunch of different cuts like what you'd see in a TV show, I could see something like just a highlight reel of whatever mission or story chapter you were previously playing, that way, you're caught up on the plot. And just for extra measure, the game can ask you with a prompt "Do you want to be refreshed on the story" or something to that effect, so that players don't have see it all the time if they're not too lost on the details.
They did this in Asura's Wrath between chapters, complete with the epic anime narration and action, really made it feel like you were playing a tv show
Yes. The game summary in the witcher 3 was amazing. And the fact that it was from a 3rd person point of view is Even better.. Even the quest journals was from Dandelion's point of view.
And it really doesn't take much time,.. its pretty much convenient instead of the silly game hints we get in a loading screen
Yeah first person makes me dizzy i wasn't able to play bioshock complete
Deep Rock Galactic’s “map” is awesome to me. Theres a bit of a learning curve with it but once you orient yourself, it’s an intuitive idea i haven’t seen in many games.
As far as little interactions go, being able to retract Wolverine’s claws in X-men origins will always be a favorite.
One thing i love in games is playing a true new game+, where you get to keep EVERYTHING that isn't story related, and i at least think that every game should have at least some kind of NG+...
But even more so, i would love for more games to let me randomize different things! XCOM Enemy Within had a feature where you could randomize what skills your soldiers would get, unless they were tied to a specific class, like the Snipers Squadsight... So you could get a Sniper with not only the Sentinel and Oppertunist skills to make them amazing at overwatch, but you could also be very lucky and get Heat Ammo, doing increased damage to mechanical enemies!
I would love to see features like this in more games, and all the developers would have to do is make a disclaimer saying "this might make the game act weird, but if you are okay with taking that chance, be our guest!"
They don't have to go all the way and let us swap character models or anything, but just the ability to have things happen at random points, like getting spells and abilities at random levels instead of set ones, or make chests and loot drops be entirely made up of random items.
Hell, it could even be a reward for finishing the game along side the NG+, so you get to play the game as intended for your first playthrough so the developers get to show you their story and gameplay as intended, but then the shackles are off if you wanna try it after that!
Not the best idea to use your actual name as username, fyi.
Your information is simply to likely to get stolen.
Completely agree, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order is an example of how not to do it (it was only cosmetics). The dev’s reasoning was a lame excuse. They could’ve locked story/progression abilities until you’re supposed to get them, then once acquired unlock all successive upgrades that you had in your previous play through.
And new game plus plus, as in infinite new games.
Yes! Perfect analogy to bring back easily replayable levels. I would play AC Origins/Odyssey a lot more often if I could load up a story section again with my current gear.
In regards to collectible hunting in games a couple recent games I liked how they did them was in the new Spiderman games, easy to find but satisfying with a reason to find them!
Made platinuming Spider-Man PS4 fun
@@jenjoe4359 Exactly! And just worth the time it takes, everytime I start up a new game the first thing I do is open up the whole map. And I will do the same when the next one comes out!
@@direreign8977 same
spiderman is not a open world with caves/dungeons/ or inside hiddeouts and also has a incredible mobility because of obviously reasons, so its kind unfair to compare other games with it
In Ghost of Tsushima, on Iki island after finishing one of the quests, after the dialogue was over with the character, before he walked away I decided it would be cool to bow...
As I did that, the NPC reacted with "a samurai bowing to me, nobody would believe me" or something like that.
And that was one of the coolest moments I've had with GOT.
Speaking on the last point you made, the #1 game for the small details that blew me away was Watch Dogs 1...I know it's an unpopular choice but after revisiting it on PS4 I realized how much of an underrated masterpiece that game was (minus the shitty dlc) it also made me all the more depressed to see just how much of that focus on minor details was taken out of the later games in the series, WD2 was bad for it and Legion can't hold a candle to either of its predecessors. Knowing that the series will now probably be over with the garbage entry that Legion was is so sad to think about.
It also got me thinking that too many sequels prioritize new features while removing a lot of the ones from previous entries that made the series' great in the first place. AAA studios really need to cut that shit out. I'm looking at you, Ubisoft. 🙃
Watch dogs 2 did improve on the gameplay and the world tho, so it's okay to sacrifice a bit of detail.
@@hawken796 Idk, if you go back and REALLY play through the first game you might have a greater appreciation for it.
I felt the same way when I played 2, it was my favourite game at the time but when I went back to the first game with a more open mindset and an eye for detail I realized that despite the obvious lack of things like parkour or the cool outfits Markus gets the actual gameplay and world had way more thought, heart and detail put into it.
I think there's also kind of a stigma that WD1 is a wholly bad game because of the whole fiasco that ubi pulled with the previews vs the final product but when revisiting the remastered version it's basically on par with the original build they showed if not better and I really think it's one of those games that everyone should give a second chance.
It really is revolutionary with the small details that most current games don't bother to implement. Especially with the animations, there's tons of TH-cam videos out there that focus on these things too, you should check them out if you have any interest in it.
Anyways, not at all saying your opinion is invalid because WD2 is a great game itself and I still have yet to fully 100% it but just saying, after taking the time to go back to WD1 I appreciate it so much more then I thought I would.
@@Roxas661 I played Watch Dogs and i love it bro.
The dark theme and the great story is right up my alley, especially all the themes it tackles.
It has a lot of well done NPC behaviour and the reactions of NPCs and their daily activities is very well done. That was definitely lost in legion.
But attention to detail doesn't make the game. Like I'll go "Cool the horse balls shrink" and move on with my day, i don't base the entire game quality off of that, at the end, it's down to the thing you do.
2 had a far inferior story and all the dark themes are hidden well and are vague, but it does satire pretty well.
But ultimately the way the NPCs are interactive and the way you can manipulate them to your advantage is way greater than some preset animations.
I love both the games for opposite reasons but attention to detail doesn't make the game. GTA 5 has some astounding attention to detail but it's such a basic game in terms of gameplay and open world that it doesn't matter.
Man... Legion is so underrated.
@@nightlock9515 Leigon is bad, go back and play the other two, they're far superior games lmao
Darksiders 2 also did the story recap thing on loading screens. Everyone seems to forget that game, even though it’s phenomenal and one of my favorite games ever made.
A definite yes for level select in games. I would like to also add "multiple save files" and/or "New Game+". I recently played Trek to Yomi and I was having a great time. I missed a collectable and finished the chapter. I then found out that there was no level select at all, and the only way to get the collectable to was to completely start over. And by starting over, I will have to delete my current save file. I finished the campaign because I hoped I could start over with my abilities to make getting the ones I missed easier, but no. I enjoyed the first playthrough, but the second became a slog because I also had to recollect the collectibles I had previously gotten.
I would like to be able to Name my Save file too. some tell you last completed quest (rdr2) or just Save #1... but let me tell myself about what point the game is at - like "just before XYZ situation/boss"
@@shixter I completely understand. Games like Xcom 2 (at least on PC) let you name saves. Its great for reminding me of what I just did or what I'm about to do.
Extra stories in optional activities and/or collectibles. The scattered notes in the tlou games are a good example, as are the side tales in Ghost of Tsushima, and the Valkyrie fights in GoW4
For the accidental cut scene skip rather pressing buttons I always move the stick or mouse. Then the game would show which button it is to skip a cutscene so I don't accidentally press the skip button.
10:28 Not sure about the RDR2 example here falcon, Arthur write a pretty good journal with drawings and everything.
I've always wondered why more games don't have a way to write down custom notes or reminders, also. I always find myself listing things out on a piece of paper or a post-it notes while playing single-player games, almost like a "to-do list".
yeahhh, like MYST had a notepad :)
For me, the animation are one of the most important things from the list. Even ACUnity is made so much better with the improved parkour animations compared to 3 and 4. Tomb Raider, Shadow of Mordor. GTA and RDR. Yeah, it may be a small thing comapred to gunplay, swordplay, magic, driving, but its the details that really stand out once you notice them and can made a good game into a great experience.
I wish more games would have the Nemesis System from Shadow of Mordor.
I would too. Unfortunately, WB decided to patent the feature.
Games should have a an anytime tutorial that explains all the games controls for people who might not be able to finish a game in one week and have to come back to it after a 3-month break.
yeah, the offline thing came into play for me a few months back.
lightning struck somewhere and blew up a major data point, meaning no internet till everything at that data point is replaced cause its fried.
this stuff can take days to fix.
now this is rare, like this is a first for me in my lifetime, but i thought fine, no internet i can catch up on some single player games.
NOPE! drm required internet.
so i had to do a mobile hotspot, just so i could play a single player game? like what the heck?????
I bought Red Dead Redemption 2 as my first Steam Deck game and went to play it outdoors in offline mode. I was PISSED.
#5 and #9 are the ones I agree with most. I’m always afraid to press a button because I could miss an entire cutscene if it skips. Also, I don’t always have the opportunity to play games, so when I’m away for a while, it’d be nice to have something to remind me what’s happening in case I forget
Language options, really appreciate games that let you toggle a different voice language and keep everything in subtitles and menu options in english. This make games for me more immersive, the recent one I played is Plague Tale and AC Unity, playing it in it's native french is just so good. Currently playing State of Mind in its native German language. I really don't mind reading through subtitles when watching foreign films so I kinda do it with games.
I liked that too in Crysis, on the higher difficulties the enemy spoke Korean-without subtitles-which was pretty cool.
Plague Tale and AC Unity are from French developers? I personally have played Resident Evil games with the voice settings on Japanese, but obviously Capcom of Japan is the developer...
Plus, someone learning the language can really get a lot of mileage from playing video games in that language. Shame that most of the options are only for European languages (and Chinese/Japanese) though.
i agree with all of this. I'm glad that falcon wants a lot of immersive animation. if developers will hear this it will give more jobs on animators.
14:28 THEY SCRAPED THAT IN GTA 5 YOU NEED TO AIM AND ENTER THE CAR TO ALWAYS ON ENGINE OR USE INTERACTION MENU
I don't know that it's a giant game, but BeamNG has a new interface in which the map does exactly what you describe, basically going smoothly from your current location and then zoom way way way out until you see the whole world as a map
How about games or creators that made it easier for modders to mod their games. Take stardew valley for example. As massive game recoding patches came about, like the multiplayer patch that had him reprogram the entire game just to allow it ro work, he literally contacted a huge amount of modders and asked them how he could make it easier for the game to be moddable. Currently it's the highest modded indie game ever and has growing mod numbers almost comparable to skyrim.
The mods for that are pretty awesome. They've put whole entire towns in the game (probably helps that nobody has to voice act).
Beside that, one I would love to see in more games is rewind feature of Total Overdose. Basically when you die in that game, you can rewind time to basically try doing things differently in last moments. Just long enough back so you can make the difference, but not too long, so it doesn't hog resources too much. At least for easier games or easy mode, I wish this would be an option.
Another one I wish to see more is choice between more HUD heavy guided playthrough and more immersive lighter on HUD option, somewhat like Assassin's Creed Odyssey tried, but maybe even to higher extent and with more options of where you want more assistance. Also in way I sometimes wish games had more dynamic in how they allow you to approach stuff in terms of guidance, like way too many times it is that you either get a map an nothing, or you get exact map marker for NPC or door, but maybe more in lines of giving you general direction to town you are looking for, so you don't need to read all town names, but letting it up to you whether you want to find that NPC by talking to people, looking around,... and maybe update assistance based on that. Basically something in between that is not nothing and that isn't exact coordinate of someone you got just told is in that town. Especially annoying when you also get told town is in east, but really it is more north than east or even completely wrong... yeah, thanks games with wrong descriptions. :-D
As for immersion one, I really miss time when physics and destructible environments were hot thing, I wish more games did the two in bigger extent. Like Crysis like destruction model, or Far Cry 2 lie realistic fire spread model,... I don't think Gravity Gun even needs a mention here. Not sure if this counts, but I wish it was dome more. All those things really can offer more dynamic play and sometimes creative ways of solving problems. I remember this guy playing Alyx and once his inventory filled, he picked up a bucket and put excess stuff into bucket he kept carrying with him. I mean sure you don't need it and it can be bit of chore, but also you can't deny it is really cool that you can do it and that you can have fun with it.
Also for map, strategy game wise, Supreme Commander had really great idea about map in strategy game, where they allowed you to either zoom in to see every single unit or zoom out to see whole battlefield as full screen minimap. I wish more games did that, not just limit you how far you can zoom out. Though now, this is less relevant, since not many RTS games are made. But yeah, having Driver San Francisco way of doing whole map is really cool idea.
On the topic of giving general directions instead of a point on a map, Ghost Recon Breakpoint has a system that lets the player choose how much information they receive about locations they need to find. That's something I appreciated about that game, alongside the huge and varied map.
One BRIILIANT feature EVERY YT vid should have:
1. Timeline!
I would LOVE if all my single player games had a "previously on..." feature. I have a really bad habit of jumping between games and starting new ones before finishing old ones. And by the time I get back to some of the big, RPG games, I get frustrated because I can't remember where I was or what I was doing when I last played it. I've restarted many games from the beginning due to this.
Everything else you mentioned I also agree with. Especially the playing single player offline. If there's an issue with my internet, I should be able to still load up a single player game to pass the time.
Yeah it really makes me grateful that games like dragon quest 11 has the "what's happened so far" section when you load up a save. Honestly seems like for especially open world games that it should be a requirement since a lot of them are massive. I have a habit of doing the same as you and I load up a save for a different game and I have no idea what I was doing previously
Being able to switch from third-person to first-person in any game would be a brilliant idea
Re #1, there's a button combo you can do in Chivalry 2 that lets your flourish by spinning your weapon. Very cool. The animation differs slightly between weapons and it's a nice touch.
New game plus
It should be a thing in every game day one
A loadout for different play styles
And the ability to alter your gear’s look
As much as I hate odyssey
But the ability to change your armor’s looks is brilliant tbh
Multi takedowns
Suppressor for stealth takedown should be the norm
And the ability to maneuver over any obstacle is increasingly becoming a must feature for me
A good example is Elden Ring, where the cut scenes show the armor and weapon that you currently have equipped. So many games still show a default set.
How about being able to swim. Seriously it’s 2023. Why are there still games that instakill you if you accidentally fall into a river or pond?
Shooting games or RPG's that let you change the controller mapping to what you want. I love it when games do that. Especially on console, when a game has a completely different set up than all the other games of the same genre. Like a shooting game on PS.... aim_L2 , shoot _ R2, crouch is circle (so on) then you get a game that is, aim is now L1, throw a grenade is circle and shoot is R1 it screws with you and you really end up wishing you can change that because you keep throwing a grenade at a high level guy that you wanted to sneak past. So now not only do you have grenade damage but, that really high level guy knows you're there and pummels you into the ground.
Like Saints Row 2 you could get in cop cars etc.. and you could take on that roll in the game found that really cool wish open world could do that again just makes things more interesting 😉 😀
There was a game rockstar made tht was gta type but u was a cop
@@FreemindRicochet wait, what? are you thinking of sleeping dogs?
@@johnwrath3612 he’s def thinking of sleeping dogs, also you could get in a cop car in gta 4 and hunt down criminals
LA Noire
@@stevengill4041 how the fuck did I forget about la noire I am pissed at myself
A lot of this stuff sounds minor on the surface, but with every entry, I realize that all of these details truly add up and are very noticeable when they are included.
Every single RPG game should have the player's ability to climb on objects. If you're playing a game where you can only jump, then the game will be super tedious to deal with.
Especially when it's something you know in real life you could hop up on easily, or simply step over. It drives be bat shit crazy when I'm playing a game and my character gets stuck on a box or rock that in real life you'd just step over or step on to get over.
@@Joreel It's shame that developers could not bother putting this feature in, when it took them so many years later to do so while other older games were able to do so and works perfectly fine
I remember Force Unleashed let me not only pause during the cutscenes, but also access the menu, meaning I could focus on all the force upgrade junk before I decide “Story time, yeeeah.” It also let you automatically skip the cutscenes with a single button, which is great for when it gives you the option of replaying with all your stuff so that you can basically grind while making the story less inconvenient. Also no internet use.
0:04 Does anyone know what game is this?
Judgement
Agree Witcher 3’s little synopsis of your progress was great. Wish they did that for Cyberpunk or at least had coherently written mission descriptions in your journal… Having mission briefs written in Johnny’s perspective meant I had no clue why or how I led up to key main quests… they just read like him moaning about the situation
Every game needs vaulting and ledge grabs.
#5 getting a summary of the story so far is huge. I have never officially finished RDR 2 because I always get really close to the end. Like the last camp and then I always have to restart because I don't remember what the hell was going on. I even got to the point where I'm playing as John and had no idea why I was shooting people on a farm...and started over lol.
Honorable mention to all the games that still allow split screen and LAN based multiplayer.
Ghost of Tsushima easily has the most revolutionary feature in recent gaming with something as simple as the wind tell you where the story is taking you or your personal waypoint on the map. No need for a mini map or some giant arrow on my screen to direct me. Just one swipe of the track pad and the wind starts blowing to tell you which direction to go. Giving me more opportunity to see it's gorgeous world.
I like and really need my minimaps but the wind instead of a blatant arrow is a definite win for me
Offline gaming in single player games is a must, sometimes
Skip cut-scenes also, in new game plus we already know the story and we don't need to watch again.
As someone with not much time for gaming anymore, i love games that narrates the last thing that happened when i load a save/level. I started playing Metro series and the first 2 games narrates what happened the las time before the level and it helps keeping track with the story
I decided to replay the 'Modern Warfare' campaign on the PS5 and realized that there were cut scenes I couldn't skip. I had to stop for a moment and remember what year I was in again.
The Crew 2 has an amazing map set as well. You can zoom out all the way and it's the normal flat 2D but if you zoom in to cloud level, you can see the actual terrain, and even the actual clouds moving.
THANK YOU I love when games have mission select there are so many games where I wish I could go back and play a certain mission there definitely needs to be more of it
Recently started playing rdr2 for like the third time and it hit almost every checkbox on this list I think, if you ever forget where you are in the story theres an option in the menu to reveiw each chapter as well as authurs journal
I remember in the old PlayStation 2 era when some video games actually had a cheat menu, like the BloodRayne games for example, the cheat menu would kind of allow you to mess with the game a little bit with a debug mode
I completely agree with your point about letting single player games be single. In Devil May Cry 5, there's a point where you choose which character you'll play for the rest of the mission, for whatever reason, the character you don't choose becomes another player even though you never really see each other or interact.
A feature I would like to see is a kind of refresher course in the options for people who haven't played a game in a while. Similar to a recap for forgetting where you are in the story, but for forgetting the controls. Like, just a small bare bones level you can access from the menu that reacquaints your muscle memory with the controls. I think Assassin's Creed Brotherhood had something like this, where you could learn and practice all the moves again in VR from the menu.
Regarding #9, I think the one that did it best was MGS4. You could actually pause the game during a cutscene and that pause menu came with the option to skip it
New game plus is one of my favorite features, My gold standard for ng+ is ratchet and clank, not only do you keep your weapons and upgrades but you also unlock ludicrous additional upgrades that might take ng++ to fully unlock.
Animations in general. Like in Metro Exodus when you find new gear, or RDR2 when you loot, craft, clean your weapons, etc. It adds so much character.