r/gaming • u/AutoModerator • 7h ago
Weekly Free Talk Thread Free Talk Friday!
Use this post to discuss life, post memes, or just talk about whatever!
This thread is posted weekly on Fridays (adjustments made as needed).
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u/HorseyNight19 21m ago
Earlier this morning, I reached 2,000 total PlayStation trophies thanks to autopops after reinstalling Call of Duty MWIII on my PS4. I bought it on sale a couple years ago to see what it was like.
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u/rockBottomPeon 6h ago
My absolute hottest takes on modern (indie) game 'sins'.
Change my mind
- roguelite/like is just a shortcut to extend a 30minutes game into 5 hour
- low poly game is an excuse to skip unwrapping and texturing the models
- Procedural generation is often just an excuse to skip actual level design
- Pixel art is chosen because it’s cheaper and faster, not because of "nostalgia"
- Juice, screenshake, and particle effects are mostly used to hide mediocre core mechanics and/or bad animations.
- Stamina mechanics are added to artificially slow the player down
- The Atmospheric Walking Simulator phase is usually born from a failed horror game
- The psychological horror game itself is actually an excuse to not adding AI into a horror game
- Symmetrical map design is a time-saver, not an esports balancing choice.
- The Skill Tree is just a spreadsheet dressed up as content
- A Cozy Game label is sometimes an excuse against criticism of boring gameplay (if any, at all)
- Survival Mechanics are just a checklist to stop you from exploring too fast
Feel free to add more
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u/Slow_Communication16 4h ago
-health bars are just artificial difficulty
-cutscenes are only in games to pad the runtime
-voice acting is just an excuse to force me to hear human voices outside of my head
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u/magnusmerletaako 2h ago
- graphics, lighting, mechanics, NPCs, physics, sound design, narratives, and gameplay no matter how impressive are time savers because devs are too lazy to fully recreate reality
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u/smellyourdick 7h ago
Any gamers in the chat??