Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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I don’t get the philosophy of “good games make you want to explore instead of skipping it.”
No. If the game was 3 hours? Sure. I’ll walk every inch multiple times. But if you’re making me play 40+ hours and expecting me to travel 10 minutes to get to a checkpoint, you’re out of your mind. Even the most talented devs cannot sustain enough interesting or unique/fresh features in a game that long.
It's much more interesting to provide an in-universe fast travel network instead of "click to go here". Silt striders, boats along the coast, trains, horse-drawn carts, whatever - then sprinkle in a handful of warp locations or mechanics. This turns your journey into a multi-legged navigation problem, which is fun. It's interesting. Which is the point of playing the game!
And then Kojima roll in with his strand type game, and everyone likes walking again.
Gonna start using ‘fast travel’ in games as a euphemism for mass transit to get gamers onboard with banning cars.
In daggerfall marking dungeon entrances is literally the only way to complete them. You're going to get lost and most of the dungeon modules that make up the randomized maps are broken and you can break out of bounds.
I rarely get lost exploring anything in any game of it's just a simple explore and clear. I just make sure to follow the wall on my left and keep following it til I go back out the entrance I came in. Also what are the odds we actually ever see a new es game?
I started enjoying Oblivion much more when I walked literally everywhere. It made the quests feel much more grand in scale and you encounter so much random stuff nestled in the woods or on the side of the road. It was fun! I miss this game so much.
Does anyone know of a good way to play this game with a controller, without buying an Xbox?
I think this mod should do the trick. The first file is a UI overhaul plus controller support (see the description/images sections for more info on the UI), but the second file just adds controller support while keeping the original UI.
I like fast travel in games but this meme still hits hard.