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The newer Deus Ex games had something like that, the loading screen would be a “Previously on Human Revolution” sequence like with a TV series
I wish every game had an ultra easy/explorer mode for this reason. I have zero interest in having to become “good” at a game in order to move forward. I’d love to give Elden Ring and such another try but I’m just a regular dude with a job and a family. I’m not trying to make video gaming a new “skill”, I just want to play the stupid game for a bit, put it down, maybe forget about it for a month before I have time to pick it back up again…
I quite liked this in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
This was incredibly helpful for me, as I took a long pause between playing after ending up on the second map
Cool! I’m on the last quest of the first game and will be starting KCD2 at some point. I got sidetracked by horror games (tis the season). The Medium and Silent Hill 2 are so good I decided to buy Cronos as well. I’m on a Bloober kick.
I don’t care. I play helter-skelter anyway. Just jumping around to whatever is fun, forgetting where I was, repeating stuff I liked. Never finishing the game. It’s all good.
This is what I love fallout 4. Yeah it’s not the best story, or game, but It’s like it was made for ADHD people. Constant sidetracking, few timed quests, even less that matter at all, easy to jump into and just spread chaos at a moments notice. Its pretty easy, even on hard or survival, eventually you become so OP it’s like playing God and flooding the earth.
Pokemon FireRed (and LeafGreen) does this!
By the way, these “flashbacks” aren’t static images. Your player sprite would be animated doing the last thing it did in that frame!
Also, the controls are simple enough in this game. No need for any tutorials.
This was such a great implementation. I want this in literally every game.
Even though you say that, there is a tutorial for the controls. Funny though, I forgot which button it is. 🧓
forgot which button it is
I believe pressing either L or R works.
Ahh nostalgia! The last ones i played, next thing i know they’ve got pokemon modelled after a garbage bag.
Leave Trubbish alone, he’s one of my favorites.
Damn, that’s a cute name. I could imagine a street dog with it.
Doing Seymour Asses dirty
There’s a journal feature in DPPt too! Not as dynamic as it was in FRLG though
You beat me to it. As soon as I saw this post I immediately thought of FRLG, which are probably my favorite Pokémon games. The only change I would make would be to implement the phys/spec split
The solution is to have dynamic personalized tutorials.
Lets take Death Stranding 2 for example, since I think its played a lot by working adults.
Death Stranding has a lot of story, relationships, and game mechanics they slowly throw at you. But when you take a break for 1-3 months it can definitely be difficult to remember what you were doing and how to do it.
They already have tutorials in their VR system, but that just goes over the basics. It would be neat if the game took the metrics they collect on you, to teach you how to use your most common moves and such.
It would also be neat if they could have a mentor system where the tutorial would then teach you new mechanics you ignored if it would help you out immediately (totally optional of course).
Dragon Quest XI does this, you also can talk to party members that will remind the player of different aspects of the story. It’s actually quite well crafted
This is a must have feature in today’s world. My busy adult life taught me to avoid anything with a steep learning curve and almost anything with open world
Steam overlay has a “Notes” feature to keep your thoughts and allows you to resize however you want and optionally overlay it on top of your game instead of having it hide when you minimize the steam overlay, for quick referencing recipes/guide info etc. it also persists through sessions. I frequently use this in survival games or rogue like games to write myself a debrief before I get off at the end of the night knowing that I won’t remember certain details tomorrow.
Wait whaaat? That’s really cool.
One of my favourite games atm is “Into the dead: our darkest days”. It’s a survival rogue like, basically like this war of mine, but set in texas in the 80s with zombies.
It’s fantastic, but too often when revisiting a scavenge site I forget which rooms I’ve gone in and what resources are available/I need to bring.
I’ve wished they’d implement a “pen” feature for the map (like project zomboid), or spray paint you could bring to mark a door, for the entire time I’ve played it. But steam notes sounds like a fantastic solution, assuming they don’t implement something in game.
I’ll comeback after month sometimes and be like “shit, what do I need here again?” but even just the next day I’ll forget some stuff
Oh nice, is it tied to the game or global notes?
Hahaha, that’s awesome. I’ve still just been taking physical notes with pen and paper like it’s the 90’s but I’ll have to check this out
I used a pen and paper when I played Blue Prince. It was pretty much necessary.
Though I did take a lot of screenshots too and those were also helpful
I actually still use pen and paper for certain things that are easier, e.g. planning out rows of different crops in Stardew Valley preparing for a new season so I know exactly how many seeds to buy in the morning. I think our flavors of ADHD will determine what works best for each of us, but god damn the notes feature in steam is helpful
That’s how we did it on the 80s, too- though, we were also typing out the code in order to play in the first place, so 🤷🏼♂️
Yep, this, the integrated guides section and the browser are great features that are handy for anyone
This is why i never finished Bloodbourne… twice. Fantastic game. Take a month off. Load in, walk around in a few circles. Absolutely nothing to reference for what my goal or progress toward it was. Probably taking notes would help, yeah.
Kim’s dialogue in disco elysium is pretty much this dressed up as a conversation
Disco Elysium is not that big of a game though.
I mean, any deckard cain-like character can act as the “catch me up on what’s going on” menu
Blizzard would totally paywall that as we speak
This is the main reason I hate quests. I would start something, not play for a month or so, come back and having to figure out where I had left off. By the time I was caught up, my gaming time was over.
Detailed quest log/journal is a must. I hate it when quest logs don’t show what you’ve already completed.
Ok, I have to break into the office to steal the trophy but WHY? Talk to Fred, WHO THE FUCK IS FRED?
This is infuriating specially when doing multiple side quests in parallel.
The reason i dropped out of the worst in Stardew Valley: too many characters!
I had this issue too with stardew valley then i realized i can just not interact with all of them, i just remember the key ones and use the menu to view all characters names and faces if i need it for a quest
You can bet money I never remembered anyone’s birthday or the upcoming town events. :(
You can buy a calendar as a house upgrade that tells you all this stuff!
Ooh! Might be time to revisit the game then. Thanks!
It costs quite a bit on the start, you may try to see if there is any mod that add the calendar to the characters menu
At least you got that far. Usually I run out of time before mandatory updates are done.
Honestly, we need more ADHD-friendly accessibility features in life overall.
I really hate that ADHD doesn’t get taken seriously as a disability, because having it certainly makes me feel disabled compared to most people.
Disabilities in general don’t get taken seriously. In addition to ADHD, I have an eye deformity that requires $5000/year special contact lenses and just keep getting told to pound dirt :/
You’re not perhaps talking about keratoconus?
Is that the one where, if you don’t wear contact lenses, your eyeballs might literally explode?
Nope, your cornea might fall out. At least I haven’t heard of exploding eyeballs
Lol indeed, I’m surprised someone else knows about it.
It’s a terrible fucking disability but there’s like no research into it and insurance thinks they know better than ophtomologists
My brother has it. I’m German, and he got an experimental treatment called crosslinking some years ago. They stabilize the cornea using a laser, and since then, he doesn’t need contact lenses anymore, but glasses suffice. Nowadays, it’s apparently proven enough that even the public health insurance pays for it. Now, by the price of the contact lenses you mentioned, I presume you’re American, and it might be incredibly expensive, but you could still do a bit of research about it.
I had cxl a few years back, his case sounds a lot more manageable. Cxl doesn’t typically improve vision, it just prevents it from getting worse.
I’m in Canada, but it was also $$$ when I was in the US. For some fucking reason it’s specifically excluded from the assistive devices coverage here. My ophto has been fighting them for ages
CXL stands for cornea cross-linking, so you have done it already. Then nevermind what I said. Good luck with your struggles in the future!
I feel like an extraterrestrial when someone tries to teach me a new board game. I don’t understand what they’re telling me, and they don’t understand what I’m asking (or WHY I’m asking it). I feel like the instructions could almost always be expressed succinctly as a flow chart, but I’ve never actually encountered that in the wild.
A flow chart? That’s interessing… I never made a board game but if i ever happen to, be assured that i am prolly gonna use one, it just seems such a good idea
Press [X] to reload muscle memory
(Tho it’s a hella good feeling putting old 1k hours of training to good use & finding that you can still play effortlessly-ish. You are just 10+ years older now, no biggie. You’ll be dead soon, so play the damn game.)
This would be the best gift
