• pyre@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      it’s not just that though, AAA gameplay has largely evolved to waste time. pointless side quests, pointless collectibles, pointless giant maps, pointlessly going from one end of the map to the other back and forth just to complete some bullshit quest, pointless grinding…

      well i say pointless, but there is actually a reason to make playing these games such a chore.

      100% XP boost: would you like to pay us for the privilege to play our game half as much this week?

        • pyre@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          Lately, it’s been Hades II, Jusant, trying to finish Cocoon, and I’m gonna retry starting Outer Worlds (couldn’t get into it before for some reason).

          But I can’t really give you a comprehensive list since playing indie games usually means playing tons of different stuff all the time. These are just my very current games at this point.

          I do play some AAA games. C2077 was pretty good; I finished the main game but still haven’t gotten into the DLC though. I also still regularly play Overwatch, begrudgingly. I like the gameplay but still hate the monetization and the fact that there is no real competition that scratches the same itch.

      • Coskii
        1·
        2 months ago

        So the minutes long preload of shaders in dragons dogma 2 was just a me thing? I have been meaning to update.

    • SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
      4·
      2 months ago

      That’s not true with me. Forza Horizon 5 takes 90 seconds to load on my 970 Evo Plus. Cities Skylines with some mods takes 3 minutes.

    • Lodra@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Have you tried The First Descendant yet? It’s pretty rough with load times and beats the cap out a graphics card. Is that considered AAA?

            • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 months ago

              Those 5-10‰ of the time are absolutely excruciating when you’ve gotten used to SSD gaming, though. Especially when you have moderate to severe ADHD so any kind of waiting sets the Gears of Distraction in motion lol.

              And it’s almost always an AAA game even though those are the ones with the LEAST excuse for not being optimized

        • desktop_user
          1·
          2 months ago

          SSDs are expensive, HDDs are not and already exist for blu ray and Linux ISO storage.

            • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
              3·
              2 months ago

              Yeah I built my pc two years ago. Didn’t bother with an ssd, wound up getting 4tb of ssd last year because it needed it (well I thought that’s what it needed, it did need it, but my problem was in addition to dragging over my old hdds I also just kept the same 8gb ram stick, turns out games actually run when you have 32gb ram)

            • desktop_user
              1·
              2 months ago

              I personally just compensate for my HDD array’s slowness with RAM. Cyberpunk 2077 runs at more than 30fps on an rx580 being loaded off a HDD with 20GB RAM on Linux.

  • tuna@discuss.tchncs.de
    15·
    2 months ago

    And make sure the time is synced to the cloud so they need internet connection, and so the player can’t be sneaky and reload the game to reset the timer if they pressed x too many times

  • Rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    I’ve heard you can pre-order the ultimate mega edition of AAA Game 2 for only £300! It comes with a season pass (but they’ll never finish the roadmap), and extra DLC that isn’t in the season pass too! You’ll still need to buy the extra extra DLC to get the full experience though…

  • Coskii
    8·
    2 months ago

    This remind me of those random flash… Let’s call them creations as they are neither games or animations specifically.

    It starts with 1 A and a wait time of thirty seconds, each time you press the big X, it adds an ‘A’, and increasingly multiplies the time. You end up with the AAAAAAAAAAAAA Game, and are waiting for hours.

    Does it do anything? No. It is vaguely humorous? Kinda?

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      4·
      2 months ago

      I remember a flash animation that was basically the biggest advertisement of itself based off “reviews”, with stuff like “The greatest animation of all time; A must see animation; Better than Lord of the Rings; Better than sex; Better than chocolate; Better than sex with chocolate” - That was all the animation was.

  • LouNeko@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    Don’t forget the classic.

    Main Menu is a flat 2D selection screen with a JPEG in the background

    Presses “Back to Main Menu”

    20 second loading screen

    Main Menu still lags

    Why?

  • ImpressiveEssay@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    I can’t stand games like this. You would be lucky if it was only 45 minutes… and then they will tech you how to make every goddamn step cos god forbid you might need your brain at any point

  • monk@lemmy.unboiled.info
    1·
    2 months ago

    Oh yeah. I’ve started Marvel Midnight Suns, and 4 hours of cutscene later they show how you deploy on a mission: by walking on a rainbow bridge or something. I’m like: “brilliant, now that’s a way to disguise loading with something I’m doing, even if it’s just walking” , and then, at a random place of that bridge, an actual loading screen appears for a good minute. What’s wrong with you.