Is anyone else completely over this tedious shite?

I understand the cases where it’s used to hide the fact that the game is loading in the next section of the level, but surely there are better solutions to that non-issue. Like a loading screen.

Regardless, it’s almost never the case that these shimmy squeezes have anything to do with slowing the player down for under-the-hood reasons (think of games like Sekiro, Hitman, Assassin’s Creed or Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order). They’re apparently there to provide the player with ‘gameplay’, I guess because they’re free gamey gameplay shit that you can just pepper into a level randomly to embloaten the experience a little.

It’s like a dog bowl with lots of nooks and crannies in it, designed to make the dog eat slower, but is presented as “enrichment”. I’m not a colicky dog and the rest of the game is providing ample enrichment, thanks. It would be even more enriching if you’d stop interrupting me to make me walk sideways through a fucking bookcase.

#CancelShimmySqueezes

  • arctanthrope@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    what pissed me off about Jedi fallen order was when they would put in an elevator to hide a loading screen, and then when you got to the end it would still stutter for a couple seconds to finish loading. don’t make the elevator a real fixed distance dumbass, just make it a looping animation that continues arbitrarily until the loading is completely done

  • Skv@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I’ve had ENOUGH of artificial grind when weapons and tools now break unless you hawk their damn HP to artificially bloat playtime and user action.

  • Hazmatastic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I was always under the impression that these were here specifically because loading screens broke immersion and were just as disruptive. And honestly I prefer it over a loading screen myself. God of War 2018 was one continuous camera shot with fade-to-white only when fast-travelling, it was immersive as fuck. And that was only possible because it wasn’t chucking a loading screen in my face every time an area loaded.

    If they’re only there to bloat playtime they can get fucked, for sure, but I am a sucker for immersion.

  • jefferyjefferson@lemmy.orgEnglish
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    19 days ago

    The first Jak & Daxter has no loading screens. If the player for whatever reason is going too fast for the game to keep up, Jak will slip and fall which is way more immersive. It also never happens unless you’re trying to make it happen, like in a speedrun.

  • I_Jedi@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Oh, you’d love the Hololive game I played recently. You shimmy along the wall, sure, but you shimmy as a temporary 2D image projected onto the wall.