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What game mechanics do you love and hate? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I love hearing about unique takes on game mechanics. Someone recently convinced me that limited inventories are kind of abused currently and that unlimited inventory systems would give more player choices.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

puzzles mechanics in games that are not about them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or puzzles that are completely esoteric or unintuitive. Just replayed some of the Myst games, and it's like "oh ok I was stuck on this for 30min because the lever was on the other side of the map and there was literally no indication that it was related". That's just artificially inflating your game's difficulty, and it's lazy puzzle making. Boooo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Myst series of games had an unfortunate amount of unintuitive puzzles. Most games in that era that included puzzles did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've been whining to everyone in earshot about all the puzzles in remnant 2 hahaha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm looking at you, DiMA from Fallout 4 Far Harbor