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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 1 day ago by SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 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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[–] hamsda@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

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

I don't know how many, if any, settings matching the true/false + 1 line of code restraints even exist.

If you can change a setting, even if it's a binary choice, someone had to think about, implement and test everything pertaining to these choices.

Depending on what kind of mechanic we're talking about and how deeply integrated into the rest of the game this mechanic is, that could be a big task.

[–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

don’t know how many, if any, settings matching the true/false + 1 line of code restraints even exist.

Absolutely. For example, turning off running out of stamina, removing item loss, turning off minigames is close.

There are tons. Atomfall has a ton of options that are similarly simple.

If you can change a setting, even if it’s a binary choice, someone had to think about, implement and test everything pertaining to these choices.

Nah. Some choices just arent that complicated. I think you're over complicating it. We can especially see that this is true in many games where things are modded in. Like in Cyberpunk, just not having to play the minigames is a better experience imo. Like its slightly more than the one line hyperbole, but not much.

Depending on what kind of mechanic we’re talking about and how deeply integrated into the rest of the game this mechanic is, that could be a big task.

I feel like you're getting away from the spirit of my comment here/getting carried away with finding exceptions and technicalities to this thread about no game in particular and hypothetical wishlists of features.

[–] hamsda@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

I didn't mean to get caught up in exceptions or exaggerations. I'm no developer either, so I have zero background-knowledge about game-development or game-engines.

Though as I work in IT (again, no developer) and live within a zero-IT-knowledge friend circle, I tend to try and shine a little light on some things that, to the outside, might seem simple but maybe aren't. I guess sometimes I'm trying to err on the side of caution a little too much.

I definitely think there are a few of those one-line, true/false settings that could just be toggled, especially things that are handled by the engine instead of the game-logic itself, though I cannot speak of experience here.

[–] essell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Checkout the custom settings for Ixion.

Its exactly what they're asking for, and it works well

Increasingly seeing this in games, and I love it.