Gaming

6590 readers

2 users here now

!gaming is a community for gaming noobs through gaming aficionados. Unlike !games, we don’t take ourselves quite as serious. Shitposts and memes are welcome.

Our Rules:

1. Keep it civil.

Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only.

2. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry.

I should not need to explain this one.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Try not to repost anything posted within the past month.

Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.

Logo uses joystick by liftarn

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

JonsJava@lemmy.world

onlinepersona@programming.dev

499

Watching my integrity slip away after having to backtrack once. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/gaming@lemmy.world

52 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

What am I supposed to explore when I am going back the way I came? The simplest way of doing fast travel still generally requires you find POIs by actually going to their location before you can travel to them instantly.

I've done my exploring, now I want to sell all the shit I found and get back to finding more!

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Best way of handling this is to load the environment with random events that can occur on various return trips. Sea of Thieves and Red Read Redemption 2 do this, though it doesn’t work for every game.

The other good way to handle it is a fun movement system, eg Insomniac games.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

And those get pretty repetitive and aren't rewarding enough that I wanna go through that every time. Especially RDR2's fucking habit of spawning some kind of big animal right the fuck on top of me giving me zero chance to react and making me lose all the animal pelts I'd been collecting right as I am walking up to the motherfucker who buys 'em. 🤬

(I've been playing that one recently and it's reminding me why I stopped)

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

In open world games that are actually open world, going back is also something notable.

But nowadays games are open world just as a side thing, and there's actually nothing to do in the so called open world, besides the quests...