A new PS5 epic does smart, little things to respect its player’s time

A new PS5 epic does smart, little things to respect its player’s time

[Kingrizzy90]

A lot of this is really smart and is half the reason I will buy the game. It's always the little things like, touching the wall as you turn the corner or walking down the steps and not take 3 or four at a time but one by one like in LA Noir. I hope that this game it worth it.

[blackblades]

Quality of life, I played a demo the other day and to go back and forth at one point I was like MF*. Quality of life should always be considered and F* the make it realistic simulation. He to play a video game not play a simulator. I also no going back to old games be like daaaaamn wheres the quality of life what a drag.

[BillyCrystals]

wtf are you saying

[mariopasta]

All these points are pleasing to know

[LiViNgLeGaCY]

I'm super excited for this.

[Psychonaut85]

Respects my time (this) vs doesn’t respect my time (DD2). I’m almost 40, and work full time, plus have a relationship; I simply don’t have room in my life for games that don’t respect my time. I’m sure DD2 will be awesome, but I still haven’t even finished RDR2, cuz I feel like I need a 4 hour block to really dive into it, and I almost never do.

[VincentVanBro]

Pretty stupid to make assumptions about which game wastes your time more when neither game has released imo

[Kiryu1992]

Stupid to assume what when developers have shared plenty of information regarding their games

[Psychonaut85]

Perhaps. Just going off of them saying there’s no save reloading and no real fast travel til late in the game. We shall see.

[NiceneCreeder]

stick with mobile games you filthy casual.
if you can't put aside a few hours - open world ANYTHING isn't for you.

[Psychonaut85]

Ha! You mad bro? If a game pulls me in enough and hooks me, I’ll make the time. I’ve got like 250 hrs in Hades most recently. So I’m not as you say a “filthy casual”. Just when a game up front advertises that it has essentially no fast travel and no save reloading, which interprets to a whole lot of backtracking and running around, so it knocks it down my interest list a bit. That’s all. But by all means continue insulting people you don’t know on the internet, I’m sure it brings you intense satisfaction. Have a good one

[Cockney]

Apparently you are both stupid and a filthy casual, its a tough pill to swallow i know but these guys know what they're talking about, why not listen to them, take what they say on board then dismiss them as fools and get on with life. I like my 20-30 hrs games, any longer and I can't be arsed to start it

[Kiryu1992]

RDR2 is way way worst because each and every looting animation is 3-5 seconds long, fast travel is simply broken, R* game design of go to this icon to start the mission and than ride your horse all the way back to do the mission before riding again to finish the mission

We all play games to have fun as a hobby. There should be options for gamers who want to play simulation gameplay and those who want a general game experience of being able to fast travel anywhere, auto ammo pickup etc

And now dragon dogma 2 is sticking to some game mechanics that should be improved with more modern options

[Tapani]

I'm in the same camp at 42, extremely busy at work with a career and a family to take care of. The newest, and most delightful member takes so much time that I basically have 1 hour of my own time in the evening, and during weekends maybe 2 hours in the evening. During that precious time, if I keep troubleshooting PC games, spend time on loading screen, or chase some markers on a map or just am not generally doing something awesome and inspiring all the time, I don't game at all. And that is what it has come to.

I have the top of the line PC, all the consoles you may want, all the games you may want, and all the gear you may want from visuals to audio. But if the game doesn't respect my time, or I spend time troubleshooting technical problems, I'm done. I'd rather watch youtube and do something passive. Or just go out for a run or do yoga. My day is full of work and stress, games need to be the opposite of that.

For others who don't understand this about the business:
Gaming companies are competing for your attention, not for your wallet. It is the minutes they want so that you keep going back to them, spending more. This is based on consumer insights research and all large gaming companies know it and are after your time, not money. Everyone knows this, but the non-business savvy gamers who just focus on playing them, not the business world around them (I'm not talking about fan events and fandom.)

[VincentVanBro]

That's like saying because of your busy life, you can't read long books. Absurd really. I am 35 y/o, married, have kids, make 6 figures, work from home, run 8-10 miles a day, and I can't be bothered to discriminate between long and short games. Fun per hour is my metric. How much fun am I having each hour I play?

[Ironmike]

We're the fuck this review come from lol

[Inverno]

Endless run/auto horse mount makes such a huge difference in open world games, Elden Ring does this and i appreciated a lot after playing BOTW. Also the frame skip for photo mode is brilliant. Stuff like automatic horse ride, much like getting into a taxi in GTA is also something I wish more games did. The less i have to press forward on a stick or push down on a button the better cause it's less wear and tear on controllers, like auto completing QTEs.

[RhinoGamer88]

Leaning toward buying RoR day one and then waiting for DD2 (patches and optimizations).

[LiViNgLeGaCY]

That's exactly what I'm doing.

[raWfodog]

Nice little touches to hear about. I look forward to playing this game, hopefully sometime this year. Curse my backlog lol. But it's a good problem to have I guess.

[Demetrius]

Lol ikr my backlog as well

[Kingrizzy90]

My back log I have 107 games I haven't played yet due to being locked up for 8½ years or since 2015 so I still haven't finished God of War 2018 or Ragnorok or Spiderman it's a lot

[raWfodog]

Ragnarok is next on my list after I finish Trails to Azure

[neomahi]

THIS IS HUGE!!!!! In game development. GTA IV? Metal Gear Solid V? Death Stranding? This is a scratch of open world games that are exactly the opposite. Gamers want to explore worlds.... You just reusing the same assets, how do you describe it. I'm recently playing through GTA IV in its entirety for the first time, a game that in its time was given a perfect 10, by IGN at least. Even by the standards of that day, not a chance. It's about making you go from one side of the map to the other, then all the way back to where you started and all the way back to the other side of the map as though they're "giving you your money's worth" and "giving you a lot of hours of gameplay". And then you play something like The Witness that removes all the fluff, gets rid of all the filler, and gives you a condensed solid experience. Open world games can't do that. Everything looks the same and the few areas that do have some difference. Ghost of Tsushima, I don't ever recall feeling that way, at least not often. Spiderman, I don't think I did either because everything that took place indoors was different and varied and like a different level. Spiderman I was able to take one district at a time and take care of things in that area and move to the next. I wasn't always flying from side and then to the other. MGSVs problem was Kojima thought dropping a big mountain in the middle to help load assets was cute, and it wasn't, it was annoying. I would argue your developer knows they've done a lousy job developing an open world games once they've included FAST-TRAVEL, you know you're gamer is going to lose interest in the world you've created and it's become monotonous, you know as a developer at that point, you done jacked up. There's a very valid point to this article, and the problem is open world games, which interesting enough, is where all major games have gone these days. Even if different districts of your map are different, the exploration still isn't worth it. Open world games are flawed, 95% of them, and only a very small percentage VERY SMALL actually pull it off. Linear games are by far the way to go. They get to the point and even though they sort of hold your hand from point A to point B, you're done in 8 hours rather than wasting your time grinding or gathering worthless crap little by little to hopefully get something better, is just the same as grinding. We've seen with games like Gears of War, God of War, Uncharted, The Last of Us, Control (which is a Resident Evil 3D Metroidvania type game) and other games by the very same dev, are powerful experiences that gamers clearly enjoy because they sell well. Open world games just make you think you're getting your money's worth but it's the contrary, they're wasting your time

[neomahi]

Wow, three downvotes but no rebutle. Simpletons.......

[VincentVanBro]

Probably because your efficiency with words is atrocious. I can’t be bothered to read someone’s unprepared, rambling thoughts that are attempting to assert an opinion as fact. Plenty of that on the internet as it is.

[Abear21]

I’d rather buy a game that takes risks and isn’t a rehash or everything I’ve already played to death. Seems like they played it safe and made sure to add features people will enjoy, but it all feels too samey for me to get down day one.

[Crows90]

Um...no.
This game may respect your time but it doesn't respect you. Not just this game but any game with the amount of handholding on display.

Yes some of these QoL aspects are not an issue but the concept of respecting time flies in the face of what we're talking about here...games

Games are meant for you to spend time with and have fun. Respecting time used in the way this article does makes it seem as if you are reluctantly sitting down to enjoy a game.

It's a dumb concept. If you don't like spending time in a game maybe you don't like videogames.