@ben correct.

Hogwarts one is literally rotating one circle until another circle spins on its own, but there’s no feedback or UI or literally any sort of information to the player in order to guide you. You just tap “a” slowly until it unlocks, basically. It’s time consuming.

@ben I somewhat agree with that. But the mini game was still… lame. Way better than Hogwarts Legacy at least. I think Oblivion did it best. But games have slowly been lowering the quality of the lock picking games ever since, in my opinion. I think it’s time to just scrap them.

Lockpicking mini games NEED TO GO #game #gaming #gamedev

Here are two things that all RPG’s that have these mechanics do terribly and need to be improved or removed:
1) Any sort of mission that requires you following someone. The longer, the worse. Especially when they force you to walk, at slow paces, and force you to stay within certain bounds.

2) acquiring gear you COULD “enchant” but you CANT because they don’t give you the means to “enchant” until much later. So frustrating.
#game #rpg

@Sven they’re definitely for me. I enjoy them. It’s just the initial moment of “well what the hell do I do now?” Especially in game where they give you a flying mount early and you can just skip tons of things easily. While it makes travel easier, it makes me wonder… what the hell was the point? I think Breath Of The Wild does open world gameplay really well, in that travel is still forced but gets easier incrementally instead of exponentially

I think most open world games suffer from the same problem. Or really, it’s I who suffers from the same problem. You progress to the point where the whole world opens up for you to explore, all the challenges and trials, things to collect, side quests to complete, people to meet… and I’m paralyzed. The realization that I only have so much free time and this game has now demanded hours of it. Days of it. The comfort has been eroded and repaired with doubt, uncertainty. #gaming #openworld #games

@itsburnsie but how else am I supposed to let my coworkers know I’m completely insufferable AND I have terrible politics? #sarcasm

I beat Legend Of Zelda: Minish Cap last night. Last time I played Minish Cap I was maybe 12, and could not beat the game. Finally finishing it last night was very cathartic. #legendofzelda #games #gaming #Nintendo

#videogames #filmgrain

Hot take: Film Grain is by far, the most annoying setting set to “ON” by default. Not only do I highly believe no one actually prefers to have it on, it feels like a weird attempt for a game to either cover up flaws in quality or pretend to be artsy somehow. I haven’t decided which.

I played some Legend Of Zelda: Minish Cap last night. One piece of game design I really admired was how they did STAIRS. As a 2D game, stairs are obviously awkward especially given the “slightly off kilter top down camera”. While the game also utilizes forced perspective to give the illusion of proper sizes and depth, I noticed last night that the walking speed slows down ever so slightly when walking on the stairs. Just a beautiful piece of game design. #legendofzelda #minishcap #gamedesign

@itsburnsie mastodon speed run when?

@itsburnsie good to know! #themoreyouknow lol

Should I also add #pokemon #pokemontcg #scalpers

4/2 lol I guess I had a lot too say.

I guess the upside is the set itself is Crown Zenith, which is nothing more than reprints, but the rest of the argument stands.

3/2 lol

The downside is that this is widely selfish and has major ramifications on the community as a whole. The problems with scalping go without saying: massively increasing the barrier of entry to ANY TCG/Video Game/collectors items only serve to punish people in the lower classes while ensuring people with deep pockets get even deeper pockets. It also heavily affects the Meta and who can afford to build for competitive play. Card games should not be “spend everything you have to win”

2/2
Now, people can do whatever they want with their money and that’s not a big issue. But there’s only two possible reasons this guy wanted to literally buy out an entire store.
1) He’s going to scalp them online.
2) he’s going to lock them in a closet and wait until they go up in value and then sell them.

Seldom do I see people Hoard these things for the sake of genuinely keeping 20-30 of the exact same collector’s item because that’s obviously ridiculous.

Here’s something that bothers me about modern TCG’s and sometimes Video game consoles:

I went to the store today to pickup a collector’s box from Pokémon #CrownZenith and as I walked in some guy said “don’t bother, I bought out the store”. The store clarified they had more in the back, and he got a bit agitated and proclaimed that he wanted to literally buy the store out. 1/2

@britt @itsburnsie thanks for having me!

@asolitarybear I myself am going back to college to see if I can try something new and find that joy again.