If I could kill something in modern video games, it'd probably be the grotesque combo of extremely granular crafting and conditional minor upgrades. Hate to transform 10 tier one doodads into 2 tier two whatsits to empower myself to have +4% speed, at half health and in gated communities only. - ThreadSky

garybutterfield.bsky.social • 96 days ago

If I could kill something in modern video games, it'd probably be the grotesque combo of extremely granular crafting and conditional minor upgrades.

Hate to transform 10 tier one doodads into 2 tier two whatsits to empower myself to have +4% speed, at half health and in gated communities only.

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thepatrol.bsky.social•96 days ago

Nah, unskippable cinematics are the bane to my existence... Add a difficult fight after is just inhumane torture

robotcereal.bsky.social•96 days ago

Would only be interesting if it happened in real life. You should be allowed to upgrade a rust-colored 5-day “common” work week into a silver-colored 1-day “rare” work week where you apply slightly more effort.

mxfunnybones.bsky.social•96 days ago

Yeah I hate grindy shit. We need more shit like L4D where you just hopped in grabed some guns and stuff and had for for a few hours.

stoobz.bsky.social•96 days ago

I definitely agree that bonuses that are restricted like that should at least be big enough to make it worth seeking out gated communities, and 4% bonuses should apply pretty much universal.

somaybelikeno.bsky.social•96 days ago

I do my best to ignore those when the game allows it.

thehanna.com•96 days ago

Personally, I would kill crafting altogether. Minecraft's popularity poisoned so much good game design with tedious bullshit. Not every game needs a miles deep crafting system. It's boring and overdone

spacebandito.bsky.social•96 days ago

I think I just realized that this is the main reason I haven't played God of War Ragnarok or Horizon Forbidden West.

stonecoldmiracle.bsky.social•95 days ago

Horizon sucks

garybutterfield.bsky.social•95 days ago

big on the "games mostly simulate bending over to pick up garbage now" trend

stonecoldmiracle.bsky.social•95 days ago

ever since I saw this video I haven't been able to unsee it, he covers this EXACT thing

sentienthominid.bsky.social•95 days ago

I really do think the success of Blizzard is nearly entirely built off adapting Vegas to the digital world.

I feel the adoption of Gaming influeced game design lines up with the mainstream rise of gamers too.

abekin.bsky.social•96 days ago

I hate it. People really want this in fantasy adventure TTRPGs now too. Why do you want to spend every post-fight carving up a monster for 1d6 teeth when you can take a sword from the adventures corpse in it's lair? Crafting is so unfun to me and I don't get why people love it.

thehanna.com•96 days ago

Hard agree! Very rarely does a crafting focused game engage me (Valheim had a grip on me for a good while). I need more than just a crafting system and a dream to drive me to play a game!

deeb.bsky.social•96 days ago

This was @sewart.bsky.social’s main complaint with the modern GoW games, and he’s not wrong.

sewart.bsky.social•96 days ago

I feel I am often not wrong :)

rouphie.bsky.social•96 days ago

As an extension of this, if I can't recognise a change in gameplay at every level, experience earned and skill trees should probably be adjusted.

makovar.bsky.social•95 days ago

Conditional effects get under my skin as well. DIablo 4 recently made a pass to reduce this problem.

baronhaynes.bsky.social•96 days ago

I especially don't like having to swap stuff like this in and out of upgrade slots. If a game gives me +8% frost damage at full health as a passive upgrade, I can roll my eyes and forget about it, but if I have to dig through a pile of armor pieces looking for situationally?

garybutterfield.bsky.social•96 days ago

People, and I'm people too, just swallow this bullshit. What have they done to us? Did we lose a war?

ber53rker.bsky.social•96 days ago

From my experience, Gen Z and younger seem to actually like the busy work. Maybe they have too much time in their hands.

doublecakes.bsky.social•96 days ago

We lost the decimal war...

*hangs head in sorrow*

Whole numbers are a fading memory...

camargos.bsky.social•96 days ago

The unnecessary loot system in action games too. It is a great bummer in God of War 2018 to me. Even the character advancement is kinda bloated in my opinion

vyria.bsky.social•96 days ago

It's actually getting worse. Our granular bonuses are getting means tested now. Suicide Squad had stuff like "+4% frost damage for 10 seconds when you get a Critical Hit against Batman Infused Enemies"

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