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What’s a modern standard in gaming that needs to die? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by NilesDobbsS@alien.top to c/gaming@level-up.zone

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What’s modern gaming convention that should no longer be practiced?

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[–] SirThunderDump@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The absurd amount of handholding.

There are few games with any sense of real discovery. Waypoints, sophisticated navigation markers, all in sufficiently unremarkable worlds that you couldn’t really find these things without all the handholding. For me, this is what took Diablo 4 from “decent” to “boring”.

I’m thinking back to the days of original WoW where everything was discovery, or Diablo 2.

A modern game that had some of this feeling was Subnautica. You just explore and discover new things with near-zero hand holding.