The other thread about favorite mechanics is great, so let’s also do the opposite: what are some of your most hated mechanics?

  • Pigeon@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I wish more games allowed for choices that are meaningful in the moment but don’t have to affect the ending or even the main plot at all. It doesn’t need to effect that part of the game for the choice to be meaningful to me.

    The main example that comes to mind is Soma. I know some people hated that the choices don’t affect the story, but I loved that about it. I thought a lot about all of those choices, and all of them felt more meaningful than most video game choices, and it straight up wouldn’t have made any sense for most of them to have any impact on the player character’s life after he moves passed them.

    Edit: I think I prefer the structure of a mostly linear main quest, with a whole bunch of side quests that don’t effect it but are adventures in their own right, over the structure of a super-branchy main story. Especially since I’m always aware that every choice will mean I might miss out on entire areas or characters - that kinda stresses me out, sometimes.

    • teruma@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Oddly, AC Odyssey did this for the most part. There are exactly one or two major obvious decisions that impact the outcome, but there were a lot of small visual but otherwise meaningless world changes that can occur as a result of decisions in side quests.