Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?

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Sujet : Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?
De : spallshurgenson (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Spalls Hurgenson)
Groupes : comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Date : 22. Dec 2024, 16:39:54
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 08:45:23 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

Or is it just game dev decisions?
>
Mike S. mentioned a few things in another thread, and I thought it would
be an interesting topic. Or at least an opportunity to rant a lot.

Here's another:

First-person platforming and jumping. Because it's never fun. At best
developers manage to make it usable, and I think pretty much everyone
will agree that being able to leap over things is a necessary part of
most action games. But it's always a chore. And when jumping and
balancing and other platforming antics become the primary focus of a
level (or game), it makes for a much weaker game.

Which apparently the market agrees with, because pretty much every FPS
that has focused on that sort of thing --whether "TitanFall" or
"Mirrors Edge" or "Brink"-- haven't sold as well as their competitors.
And even otherwise excellent games are frequently criticized for the
bits where they suddenly switched to maps that relied on platforming
mechanics (hello, "Half Life 1")

Why it doesn't work is difficult to say, although I suspect it's
because
     a) that sort of jumping requires a proprioception (that is,
        a knowledge of where all your body parts are in relation
        to the world around you) that just can't be conveyed in
        first-person view, and
     b) it's just not that fun to look at. Staring down at a
        narrow board while slowly walking across a gap for
        thirty seconds (or staring at a wall as I haul myself
        up a ledge) isn't visually exciting, you know?

These sort of things work a lot better in third-person, but in
first-person? No thanks. That's a mechanic I don't need... or at least
should be kept to a minimum.



Date Sujet#  Auteur
19 Dec 24 * Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?19Justisaur
20 Dec 24 +- Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?1Dimensional Traveler
20 Dec 24 +* Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?4JAB
20 Dec 24 i`* Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?3Justisaur
21 Dec 24 i +- Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?1Zaghadka
22 Dec 24 i `- Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?1JAB
20 Dec 24 +- Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?1Spalls Hurgenson
20 Dec 24 +- Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?1Anssi Saari
21 Dec 24 +* Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?7Zaghadka
21 Dec 24 i`* Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?6Mark P. Nelson
21 Dec 24 i +* Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?2Ross Ridge
21 Dec 24 i i`- Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?1Zaghadka
21 Dec 24 i +- Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?1Zaghadka
21 Dec 24 i `* Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?2Zaghadka
23 Dec 24 i  `- Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?1Xocyll
21 Dec 24 +- Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?1candycanearter07
22 Dec 24 +* Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?2Spalls Hurgenson
22 Dec 24 i`- Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?1Spalls Hurgenson
23 Dec 24 `- Re: Gamplay "mechanics" you don't like?1Ross Ridge

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