Features you wished every game had

Think of one or 2 features you wished every single game had to make them more enjoyable.

1. Save anywhere. Okay I can understand not being able to save in the middle of a battle, but I think it's acceptable to allow you to save any time before or after the pockets of action.

2. Cutscene playback: Once you've seen a cutscene, ANY cutscence, it should be unlocked and viewable in the options menu. Is that too much to ask?

Unlockable mini-games! I think Mini games add some value to the game. And I don't mean Metal Gear-VR Mission Mini games.... by mini games, I want ones that deviate far from the core concept of the game (Unless the concept of the game IS mini games). For example, KOTOR had the Pazaak thing; Super Mario Bros DS had many of them (blow the Yoshi and Sling shot) and formerly, CTF in many FPS (however, CTF is a standard for many FPS now).

Think of one or 2 features you wished every single game had to make them more enjoyable.

1. Save anywhere. Okay I can understand not being able to save in the middle of a battle, but I think it's acceptable to allow you to save any time before or after the pockets of action.

2. Cutscene playback: Once you've seen a cutscene, ANY cutscence, it should be unlocked and viewable in the options menu. Is that too much to ask?

UT_Wrestler

I definitely agree with those two.

I would also like to add being able to choose any of the common aspect ratios (4:3, 16:9, 16:10) and having each one properly supported in a variety of display resolutions depending on the platform....it's actually surprising in this day and age there are many games that don't do this.

Another feature I like is having seperate sound volumes for speech, effects, and music.

Pausing during cutsenes.

Sometimes, I just want to pee, damn it!

Pausing during cutsenes.

Sometimes, I just want to pee, damn it!

mon_bus

Haha so true

The save anytime thing is another definite yes.

aggree on the save thing.

a thing that really gets to me is when you install a game and it runs really bad. Like 10 fps or so. This makes is impossible te play. The games should have a autodetect that allows the game to tell you the fps on load up and possible upgrade to improve the performance.

I want that every single player game out there have the cooperative mode included. EVERY single player game.

Saves is pretty much agreable, unless there are absolutely no needs to save or it is done consistently by the game (no possibility to "load").

More co-op and afterward competition/PvP that is purely optional, never at the expanse of the co-op in anyway...MMO if possible.

EDIT: Mini games, as long as they don't replace the main game and are avoidable, yes very good. Think of CoV mini games such as skying at X-mas, not of FFX, which is very bad IMO and rather have no mini games at all then that...as they are enforced. Mini games shouldn't be enforced ever, you like it, you play it for itself...not for some rewards in game, there can be some weak and secondaries rewards, but never anything that could be compared to what you earn while playing the game itself...mini games are a side thing...with their own logic...they can grows a lot, but the reason to play a mini game is in the mini game itself, not to acquire some advantage on the main game.

ha i remember playing the ps1 games with an emulator and it allowed you to save anywhere .. i remember wishing that the games had that feature when i was playing on the ps1 :Dstrider1983

Tomb Raider II on the PS1 did that.

While mine are more specifically tailored to certain genres, they should generally be applicable to most games.

1.) Multiplayer, and not online. I mean good old fashioned split screen or same screen. COD4 not having coop split screen campaign was criminal. All FPS games should have that option. Period. Would be nice for most other games to have that as well.

2.) RPGs MUST HAVE MAPS. A MUST. Biggest Offenders are Eternal Sonata, and Shadow Hearts specifically, with huge dungeons and easy to mistake forks in the road. Unnacceptable otherwise.

3.) In an RPG or otherwise game where you have multiple characters, the ability to switch characters as your on screen avatar is nice, but not necessary, but still nice.

4.) Characters who get upgrades in armor and weaponry should show it in their models.

Diablo did this a decade ago, why can't we do that now?

Save anywhere was the feature I was thinking when I clicked the post topic, but that's well covered.

A button that let you spout random, badass one-liners whenever you felt like it. Even in Tetris it would be cool.

That would be cool. Not so much pre-determinedone-liners, but a collection of random words, like a random sentence generator.

Being able to change difficulty midway through a game. This might not be possible in all games, but sometimes I'd like to drop it down a notch if I've bitten off more than I can chew. If the options are a) Keep trying the current difficulty and get frustrated; b) Restart the entire game on an easier setting; or c) Don't play the game again, I'm probably going for option C.

Skippable cutscenes. I understand ifa gameforces me to watch it the first time. I can accept that. But if I die and it has to be replayed, I'd like to be able to skip it.

Again as others have mentioned, split screen co-op. Not being able to play split-screen co-op in Crackdown was a bummer. If the graphics need a downgrade to handle it, I'll accept that.

Remappable buttons for every game

rragnaar

I almost forgot that one. I wish I could switch around the controls for zoom and select grenade type in Halo 3. Am I the only one who finds clicking the right stick to zoom awkward? :? Is it really that hard to let us remap controls? PC games have been doing it forever.

[QUOTE="strider1983"]ha i remember playing the ps1 games with an emulator and it allowed you to save anywhere .. i remember wishing that the games had that feature when i was playing on the ps1 :Dnopalversion

Tomb Raider II on the PS1 did that.

my bad.. shud have said majority? neways never played any tomb raider on the ps.. the pc was good enough for those :)

I just thought about the feature implemented so well in Skate: Recording videos.

Every game out there should have this option, being single player, mmo, whatever. I lost count how many times I almost cried because I just had a great moment and it was gone forever.

Saved films. I have pulled off some crazy stuff in CoD 4 and I wish I could relive some of those moments.

I always liked...

1. unlockable characters

2. art gallery that includes storyboards, concept art, etc. and tons of it.

But to be in line with the OT...

1. skippable cut-scenes, dialogue

2. more save check points that doesn't force you to start all over again

A lot of stuff I agree with here.

Another one- the ability to invert the camera controls. I'm absolutely appalled that Nintendo didn't bother to include this very basic option in the Windwaker. Couldn't they have paid an intern 50 cents to add the option?

Saving at any time. Sometimes you have to drop a game and do something else. I can't count the number of hours added to numerous RPGs and such just by being on when I've had to quickly go out and leave it not wanting to lose progress.

And now with the advent of harddrives and really good hardware, and that it's been shown possible (especially in Halo 3) being able to record game footage and watching it later would be tremendous. I'd love it to be standard in games. It's such a great feature, and there would be untold number of awesome moments to watch at a later time.

The ability to watch cutscenes or cinematics at any time once they've been seen once. Especially in RPGs. There have been numerous times I'd love to see a certain scene again but am unable to without playing through an entire game. FFX was a good start with just the CGI stuff... which went entirely absent in FFXII and isn't really available in anything...

That said, the ability to skip anything I want. Especially if I had to restart after a death or am just playing again. Sometimes you just want to get into the action and say screw the story.

So honestly, the ability to rewatch, skip and pause during cutscenes would be grand.

Typical accessibility stuff should always be present. Widescreen support, subtitles, different volume controls, button layout configuration. A lot of this stuff should be standard, but shockingly isn't (look no further than Assassin's Creed's lack of subtitles).

As a more personal thing, I wish more games had the equivalent of a "previously..." feature. Sometimes I'll leave a game for days, weeks or even months without coming back. But when I do, I often find I don't continue because I forget what happened before. Just even a little text thing in the options to know what just happened in the game would be enough of a refresher to continue.

And my absolute one demanded thing in any game... Mandatory co-op. And I don't mean online co-op. I mean bona fide buddy next to you taking on the forces of evil (or good even) Contra style. So many great games have come out that could have included two player or co-op. Like Mario Galaxy, when I heard it would have co-op I got excited about the years of yore when you could play through the game with a friend like Mario 3 or World. It could work just like them too. Or like in something like Crackdown. We bought it because I heard it had co-op, but unfortunately only online, which is a waste. Call of Duty 4 would have been absolutely IMMENSE had it had offline co-op. Like someone said before, I'd even accept a hit in graphics for the ability to play with someone next to me.

the ability to play harder difficulties without friggin unlocking them. it detracts from so many games for me. unlockable things are cool, but unlocking a damned setting so i can play at the challenge level i prefer kills me. i like to make the games more difficult so they last longer. i don't want to have to play the game on normal (which is really easy for my tastes) just so i can play the game the real way.

Agreed about save anywhere. Really, every game should have the option to let you pick up and play, and then put it away when you need to. I often don't have enough time to run around looking for a checkpoint or save point. The check point systems like those in Halo and Call of Duty are an all right compromised, but have their own set of problems. Like when the checkpoint only comes up after a particularly difficult sequence when you normally have them coming out your ears between the sequences. Also, I've had more than a couple of times where the checkpoint saved at a particularly bad time and I ended up having to replay the whole chapter again hoping to get a better save the next time around.

I don't agree that not having the ability to save makes the game somehow more challenging. I've already played to a certain point, I don't want to replay it over and over when I die while working on something further along in the game.

The second would be more control over cutscenes. Both in skipping and pausing. As much as I'm liking Mass Effect, it's a bit annoying to once again be playing a game where I might have to watch something while waiting to get a place I can set the controller down to go do something else. (At least Mass Effect is dialog heavy, so I can just wait until I get to a part where I'm supposed to choose what to say next).

Unskippable cutscenes rules out a lot of games for me. Especially if the content is something I don't care about. Having to watch it every time when reloading is enough to make me want to quit some games. Especially when it's been quite awhile since the game gave you a save point. Ugh. I don't want to watch 20 minutes of cutscenes and then a scripted battle or two to get back to the fight I lost the last time.

The other thing is more focus on single player content. I'm not that big in multiplayer anymore, and it's disappointing how many games seem to have a short single player campaign almost as an afterthought to the multiplayer game. I've passed over a lot of games until they get into the budget range, or I'll just rent if the game is only going to last me 10 hours if I'm lucky. Hopefully the success of games like Bioshock will influence other game makers to start putting more focus on the single player content once again.

Pausing during cutsenes.

Sometimes, I just want to pee, damn it!

mon_bus

Agreed, though you can now with the Wii and 360, don't know about the PS3.

I'd like to be able to skip any cutscenes at anytime. Games have gotten better at this but still after I have beaten a game I don't want to sit through the whole beginning or ending if I just want to get to the meat of it.

Virtual reality

Create a character (including character voice and a name that can be pronounced by the AI)

1.Online Co-op
2. Save Anywhere
3. Saved Films feature

Hardcore Mode: A la Diablo 2

I want to die damn it! Delete my save games, wipe my harddrive and shred my disc when I die! Some people might think it's frustrating, I think it makes me think more about what I'm doing. Not to mention when you do die, you'll remember how you died for a good long time (I still remember how my D2 Assassin died 5(?) years ago).

Replays:

Everyone's said it already, but .sKate really made me enjoy replays again.

Variable difficulty that really change the game
I really appreciate it when developers actually take the time to make their games play differently between various difficulty levels, and not just throw more enemies at you or increase their hit points. A good example is Contra 4. There are all sorts of noticeable changes made between the three difficulty levels.King9999

yeah like crysis. the hardest difficulty takes off the crosshair, and makes your enemies actually speak korean (instead of english where you can understand their plans).

Think of one or 2 features you wished every single game had to make them more enjoyable.

1. Save anywhere. Okay I can understand not being able to save in the middle of a battle, but I think it's acceptable to allow you to save any time before or after the pockets of action.

2. Cutscene playback: Once you've seen a cutscene, ANY cutscence, it should be unlocked and viewable in the options menu. Is that too much to ask?

UT_Wrestler