Supposedly, I am a human, who does very human things.
Absofuckinglutely.
I also hate that gamers in general have been so cooked in mtxs they don't even realize that pay to skip grind is still ptw because you get more options than other players.
I semi ok with this if they aren't locking content behind try hardiness
Just because a bad mechanic has a purpose doesn't mean it's not bad.
I hate being forced to think about that shit.
I love a partial solution in Cyberpunk where healing items simply have a cool down.
Odenst make lore sense really, but you can flavour text that up.
Weightlimits mostly serve to add annoying inventory management to a game that is supposed to be an escape.
They should design their games better to not need the player to do that or horde things.
Its part of why I hate how "loot" is typically done.
Seriously, I will rate a game poorly on account of that replay plus bs.
It should only be there so you can experience being fully levelled out for the earlier missions.
Gamers and investors both incentivize this unfortunately and apparently regulators are cool with straight up fraud too.
Ill never forgive no man's sky, no matter how much they fixed it after.
They were openly fraudulent and got away with it.
Truly.
For multiplayer games, I would rather subscribe to updates than have mtxs in any capacity.
Of course they never offer this though because the mtxs combined with dark patterns work better.
I'm with you except the last sentence.
Tuts should just be direct and move out of your way.
Back onto your main point, one of the things I really like Cyberpunk for was the ability to do so many missions in so many different ways.
Like for the same mission you might just drive by as a netrunner, hack the thing, and keep driving like nothing happened. Or as a Sandevestan user you might slow down time, run past everyone, get thing and leave. Or as a ... You get the point.
There are, for any given mission usually like 5 obvious ways you can think of to get it done and the game won't slap you for it.
On the other hand, the breach protocol in the game sucks so much. They should just remove it.
By the time you're done the game, you'll have played that boring, unfun, tedious, not even challenging bs for collectively like an hour.
On my second play through its the first thing I modded out.
Fuck things in games that purely waste your time.
- Auto you lose cutscenees
- Hidden story trees or finicky story trees so you have to meticulously follow guides lest you get a bad end or miss a secret ending
- Weapons that break. No. Never. Stop doing it.
- Shotguns that only are effective up to 10 ft What game actually has shotguns act like real shotguns???
- Loading screen ass tunnels or hallways or elevators. We live in 2025. Evryone has Ssds and there are many ways to load as a player advances. Stop doing this 1990s shit.
- Timers. Just never find them fun
- Forced heavy backtracking. I'm not having fun, you're just wasting my time. Fuck you.
- Unrelated puzzle mini games Please stop adding worthless busy work into games. One of the first mods I added to Cyberpunk was just to remove the stupid breach protocol. It's not that its hard, it's not. It's just time wasting and annoying. Dispatch is another game with these for no reason. Fallout, Bioshock, fucking so many games have this shit. Either I have the level to pick the fucking lock or I don't. I don't want to play some half assed unrealistic lockpicking sim for the equivalent of an hour by the time the game is done. It's like making you have to take each step for your character or breathe. Not the point.
- Obviously all mtxs, goes without saying and marketting dark patterns like everything here.
- Nerfing """OP""" things in single player power fantasy games. Are you high? That's the fucking point!
- Chance based loot. Just no. I don't want to reload a dozen times to get the thing I want. It arguably exists in the world and I should just be able to go find it.
- Loot. Stop spreading this shit around making me have to waste time everywhere I go in order to be remotely optimally equipped. Just say no to loot. Healing should be on a cool down and have upgrades availible like in cyberpunk, Ammunition should be on enemies, cooldown or purchased Weapons if loot able should be placed identically with no luck elements, or in exactly the stores they should be in.
Atomfall was so good for its difficulty settings menu. They gave you soo many options. You could really tweak out a lot of parts you didn't like in the game but make the difficulty whatever you wanted it to be.
The outright scams and marketting dark patterns.
Outside of this, I hate when you have levelled up a character immensely to the point where an errant sneeze could wipe out half a city, and then you flick a boss to defeat their lineage then lose in the cutscene.
I know the reasons why this is done, but I would vastly prefer shorter but more fleshed out game experiences.
A shorter story that is actually repayable naturally where you can do so many things and there are not cutscene losses.
Speaking of which, things like
The Secret Ending
in Cyberpunk could be so much better if they just didn't fucking exist.
I don't want to have to read some guide to know that a a piece of content I really value will exist.
Its not fun to me to have notable portions of a game cut out such that you have to be a wiki reader.
These combined would make a game with a more stress free experience where you can truly just experience the world and not be too fussed about if you stuffed up a certain ending tree etc.
Apple has really lost its identity.
Apple Silicon is really all that seperate them.
That's not a position anyone has been arguing about. It's a strawman you've made up to pretend that doing work for republicans is ok.
I wish democrats went with AOC or Bernie, but the reality is what it is and I am not a child.
Once again, just you making strawman arguments.
Truly just a troll at this point.
You are clearly trying to strawman me again, which seems like your go to move here.
The DNC is currently a center right organization.
Practical leftists support them because they understand that in the American political system it is impossible to make another party, so the only way to avoid what we have here is to support the democrats and change them with local politics and primaries.
The practical leftists aren't foolish enough to believe that the democrats losing will magically move them left, as what we've seen is instead, they're happy to continue being "at least we aren't republicans"
Your attempt to call the centrrists do nothing but genocide is an astoundingly ignorant take that shows you truly don't take politics seriously, as you only go based on vibes and not policy decisions and more than that do not understand how little can be done in a permanent fashion when voters let in the other party every 4 to 8 years and you have no usable senate super majority.
You have yet to say anything that wasn't repeating your strawman like a broken record. Like your politics don't have any nuance to them at all or aren't your honest opinions but just something you where to troll people who are actually angry with the state of USA politics.
At this point I can only think you are a troll.
The continued baseless assertions I am pro genocide with literally no reason in that regard combined with the nonsensical idealistic view of politics that wouldn't make sense to anyone who thought about it for even a second make this obvious.
Still not an ounce of reasoning for your positions, or even what your positions actually are, just childish imagineering of positions you can pretend I have.
You pretend you are better as a troll while you actively support the republican party, speeding up the decline of America and pushing the democrats even further right.
Democrat voters didn't have the stomach for even a quarter of what you just suggested and much of it relies on old people who don't really care that much falling on sharp swords for the greater good.
It also pretend that Republicans would follow the law in that case when the current problem is that they frequently don't.
More than that, I bet that Donald would win from prison if arrested. I me a dude hung his mug shot up 8j the oval office.
Oh right, because it only takes one person to do that right?
People couch quarterbacking but getting the basics wrong is infuriating.
This guy is trash but some of the "if I, an internet tough guy, was in his shoes, I'd [completely unrealistic if not impossible magic solution]" make me lose hope.
How does this continue to be a talking point when they made it extremely clear the ruling only would be applied to republican decisions?
He is ultimately a republican, so a huge fan of hierarchy and hurting marginalized people.
Truly. I won't even think about starting a game without looking at the options menu.