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.

  • Credibly_Human@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    8 hours ago

    I disagree because it solely approaches games as some sort of “electronic commodity” and outright despises a development group’s artistry.

    This is meaningless pretentious gibberish. It’s like saying that watching movie on an unintended device is disrespecting the playwright.

    Why should your desire to put entertaining past times on a pedestal restrict what I should be able to do.

    If you feel that way, then play games as they intend. There is no reason to be against other people having an option just because you don’t like it.

    You are in essence gatekeeping enjoying a video game as a concept. Like people must enjoy them the way you envision.

    That opinion is like saying “books should be made in a way that allows users to change the story whenever and however they want.” It is something you can do but there’s no imperative to cater to it.

    This makes no sense at all as an analogy. Books don’t run on game engines and don’t have recycled bits of logic that game mechanics are comprised of that can be mass changed to great effect. The feature you’re describing would require the equivalent of writing the book a million times over. The changes Im describing are often accomplished on day one by modders, or just included by the developers as a quality of life feature set.

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      You are in essence gatekeeping enjoying a video game as a concept. Like people must enjoy them the way you envision.

      What an incredibly inaccurate statement. I love modding video games, I spend more time modding video games than I spend playing video games. I understand that the vision developers have doesn’t often align with what I want from their product.

      I don’t agree that developers should be spending dev cycles making a game functional for a user that turns off any configuration of gameplay mechanics.

      Saying you can just set a variable from “true to false” is so laughably misunderstanding what goes into software development much less game development that it sounds entitled. What gameplay mechanics are you even saying should be configurable? All of them? Just turn off the combat in a fighting game? At what point is a gameplay mechanic integral to the genre/experience? And who is the person or persons that decide?

      Developers should be free to create what they want, and the end user is free to mod it however they want. That includes, for the devs, not purposefully obfuscating things so that modding is more diffcult.