| Profrektius said: If I buy a book, movie, painting, song, there is no specific way that I have to consume it. I can skip straight to the end if I want, I can listen on double the speed, I can choose which order I want to read the chapters. If I don't like a part I can skip it and move on. This is not the case with video games. Most video games are extremely restrictive, and severely limit you. Video games don't trust the consumer enough and hence restrict you in consuming the content to only a one specfic way they designed. There should be more options in our games for example, but not limited to. Framerate or resulution preference. Motion blur toggle. Customizable controls. Cheat codes that can be used at any time. Many difficulties, and even customizable difficulties for different parts of the game. Full chapter select unlocked right from the start of the game. Skippable combat sections. Skippable puzzles. Skippable gameplay segments. Optional hints in the puzzles. Optional hits in general. Skippable cutscenes. Fast forwardable cutscenes. Fast forwardable dialogue. Skippable dialogue. Optional manual save slots. Developer mode. I believe all the above things and many more to give freedom to consume the game as a person wants to should be available in all games, at least in the single player portion of it. The thing I find the most perplexing is that some people are actually against giving more options, because "that was not the way it was meant to played". Yet if someone is willing to pay for it, how does it hurt your enjoyment, knowing that someone might play a game by just no-clipping through everything, skipping to the final boss, and beating it with cheats? I don't understand why some people are so set on keeping these limitations, especially other than the old "it's the way it's meant to played", "don't like it, play something else.". So where do you stand? Are more options bad and ruin the developers intent? Or do you believe games should give consumers more options to how to consume their games? Or do you have some completely different view? |
Hi there, have you considered playing on PC?
All that is already a reality there, and it's another option to playing on fixed spec consoles, and as your thread is about, more options is a good thing.
