251: back in my day wank meant something

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Re: GAME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

lots of games are doing this, and i hate it

i'm not going to point at any specific game because i think most games in the past two years or so have shifted to five big prompts with three or four little prompts within the big prompt, so.... between 15 and 20 options? that's ridiculous

just give me three events and let me decide what i want to do at each

extra thumbs down for the games that offer 'helpful hints' for players who have writers block and don't know what to do by adding in a seperate block of additional options. i know they're trying to be helpful, but it's excessively pandering.

seriously, if you can't look at an overall event at a dinner party and decide on ANYTHING for your character do to, maybe this a creative hobby isn't for you

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

To play devil’s advocate it’s probably because players are so fast to whine that there’s nothing to do.

That said, when I go cross eyed at rows of links, blurbs, emojis, etc it’s gone too far

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

i’m sure that’s what it is too, and i repeat: if you can’t find something to do at an event, kick rocks.

i doubt mods really like the pressure of having to write 20 prompts in order to cater to players who still will find something wrong with their tdm or monthly event, so i’m definitely not blaming them

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

former mod here who used to do that, and that was part of the reason. and yet i burned out after so long because i would write a plethora of options and there would still be those few people who whine that there's "nothing for their characters to do"

i would love more brevity in prompts but i feel like players these days rely on mods too much as a crutch

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

For this one game particularly - I’ll eat my sock if the mod doesn’t burn out within six months

Re: GAME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

havent they admitted to being a new mod too?