Tagged: tips
11 pet peeves game developers need to fix
- Do not ask me to select where my saved game is located when I only have 1 storage device attached – it’s pretty obvious where it’s going to be
- Do not tell me you are loading my profile, fade that message off screen, then fade another message on screen telling me you are now loading my profile elements – do it all at once and spare me the transition time
- Do not make me sit and wait while you attempt to connect me to your online network – EA are perticularly bad at making you wait while the game attempts and all too often fails to connect to their network, background task that please
- Count me back in after I unpause my game – having a few seconds to get my hands back into position on the controller would save a lot of missed notes in music games and off track excursions in racing games
- Let me skip cutscenes, you may have lovingly crafted them and spent many an hour perfecting them but once is enough – if I just want a quick game don’t make me sit and wait
- Conform to standard controller layouts – even if your biggest competitor came up with said controller layout first it will help gamers transition to your game easier and not get frustrated
- Give me a visual progress bar when loading, a non-descript spinner is no good – I need to know if I can make it to the kitchen and back before I’m thrown into battle with a dry mouth
- Allow me to cancel loading screens and go back to the main menu – seldom done but accidentally hitting the wrong menu item can incur a frustrating few minutes of load, pause, quit, wait for main menu to load, then selecting correct menu item
- Stack your difficulty achievements – I ain’t playing it on Easy and Medium after I already completed it on Hard
- Do not outsource the Multiplayer section of your game – I bought the game primarily for the single player campaign, once I’m used to that I’ll expect the same experience from the multiplayer and if it’s all kinds of different I ain’t going to be happy
- Let me skip the end credits – I don’t watch them at the cinema and I don’t expect to have to sit through them after I complete the game, you want me to play it again right?
These are just some of the things that regularly get on my nerves. Are there any I have missed?