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Hear me out. A few games have shader installations that will usually apply any new settings you put down AFTER you restart the game, and a lot of other games have graphics settings that will only apply after you've rebooted the game.

I don't think it would cost developers ANY amount of money or any significant development time to add a "Reboot game" button (or toggle) every time the player presses the quit button, or give the player a prompt every time they change a setting that requires a game restart (like in both PC versions of GTA V).

I also think ANY game should have a "full potato" mode capable of running in older computers with NONE of the fancy graphics stuff that we have access to today, despite having a decent computer now.

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[–] discostjohn@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Colorblind options that let me specifically choose the color of each HUD/UI element. I don't want an overlay for the whole game, I just want to be able to distinguish icons in the UI that might have color-coding too similar for my eyes to perceive at a glance

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I can't think of a setting that would universally apply to all games, like I'd be hard pressed to say a setting in Tetris that would apply to Minecraft. Vision and auditory accessibility is probably about it, but those settings would look pretty different I think depending on the game or genre of game.

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You just reminded me of a funny feature I found in Elite Dangerous (space MMO) to prevent combat logging (quitting suddenly during combat like a little b***h): if you press Alt+F4, the game doesn't immediately exit, but shows you a Quit dialog (to main menu or desktop), and there's a lengthy countdown if you're near hostile ships. :)

Doesn't prevent it entirely, but I thought it was pretty crafty.

[–] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Subtitles. I wish I could have suuttiles for halo, the early games. It's getting better these days, and should be a setting accessible before starting the game (not after the intro movie, I'm looking at you vanilla wow).

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Ohh, that type of setting.

One option I really appreciated in Uncharted 4 was the ability to restart cutscenes, and I wish it was in every game with cutscenes.

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

As much as Starfield is hated, I like how they did the difficulty settings. Each type of interaction has different settings, the easier the less XP the harder the more XP earned. I like fragmented difficulty settings, not just easy, normal, hard and nightmare fuck myself have no fun.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm not sure about every game but I'd like to see a lot more games do what Rebel Galaxy did and let you set up paths for custom OST. No game dev can license the perfect soundtrack for every player, but it's great to be able to slot in what I feel makes the perfect soundtrack. Some people want their fight scenes to be scored with DMX, some want Burzum, and some want the Cronos Quartet. Let them all find their moment.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For this reason, "if", by mindless self indulgence always brings me back to wipeout HD on PS3.

I had that album set and it sure was an anger for that game.

"Never wanted to dance with nobody like you!"

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Color blind options even for those that aren’t color blind. Sometimes they add a different ui color palette which is fun

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

A remove HUD options. I'd also like it if they put a big warning in the graphics section explaining how higher graphics can affect the game.

I see a lot of people bitching about lag, but if my shit connection and potato PC can run the game on low, I'm pretty sure the complainers need to reduce their expectations, accept that they don't have a top of the line computer anymore and bring down their settings.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

Gameplay settings menus that allow you to turn off gameplay mechanisms you simply don't enjoy, or tune them.

I'm talking about ones that are like one line of code being set to true instead of false etc. That type of thing.

Basically things like that and the Atomfall gameplay/difficulty settings menu

I don't give a fuck if some pretentious asses "artistic vision" requires the player to backtrack half way across a level on every death or thinks a shitty minigame should be played no less than 153 times every play through. I want to be able to just turn off the unfun shit, and leave on the fun shit.

This is a game. I don't care if the developer thinks X Y or Z adds to the experience. If I don't, within reason I should just be able to turn it off.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't give a fuck if some pretentious asses "artistic vision" requires the player to backtrack half way across a level on every death or thinks a shitty minigame should be played no less than 153 times every play through.

Then just don't play that game or use cheats (if its a singleplayer game)?

I don't see why a game developer needs to intentionally provide an option to remove mechanics they designed a game around just to please someone that doesn't want to play the game as they designed it.

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[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I disagree because it solely approaches games as some sort of "electronic commodity" and outright despises a development group's artistry.

Sure, not every game is trying to be art. But games have long gone beyond the realm of simply "entertain me". That opinion is like saying "books should be made in a way that allows users to change the story whenever and however they want." It is something you can do but there's no imperative to cater to it.

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