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Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/games@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 9 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I'm sure I have seen it before, but I can't think of a single game that lets you pause during a cutscene. It really sucks for turn-based games where you need to watch whats happening when it's not your turn in order to respond correctly.

I remember a game I used to play years ago that had no ability to pause, so what i would do is alt+tab to the task manager and suspend the process, and then resume it later. Obviously that's way more clunky than just hitting a pause button.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago*

    Conversely I can't remember a game in recent memory that didn't let me pause in cutscenes.

    Just off of my head: Ubisoft games, Control, Shadow of Mordor, Crysis, Witchers, Borderlands 2, Devil May Cry, Celeste had it.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    I have played a lot of games where pausing the game to get to game menus pauses cutscenes, generally ones where they use in game assets to do the cut scene. I would have to check to confirm, but I think BG3 let you pause by going to the menu and there was also a separate option to skip the cuts scene.

    Definitely played a lot with unskippable cut scenes too. Mostly avoid those games now.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    It's been a very common feature for the last few years and has been very rare before that so it really depends on when you started playing new releases. I'm in my mid-30s and pausing mid-cutscene definitely happended after I stopped being excited about my birthday.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    started Red Dead Redemption 1 last night, seems like just hitting esc during cutscene pauses it.

    Admittedly I was wanting to go to settings and drop some settings, but that's only allowed during gameplay, not cutscenes x)

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