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Looks like Valve is introducing a new review system to filter out "unhelpful" reviews (www.eurogamer.net)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/games
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Indeed, sometimes I really appreciate a heads up of if I can save in the middle of gameplay or if I have to complete a whole run before it saves progress, things like that are not deal breakers but it can definitely affect how I play a game

[–] conciselyverbose 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's stuff like that, but it's also as simple as most game pages just not accurately depicting what the core gameplay loop is. The number of games with 10 cinematic trailers that combine for 3 seconds of gameplay and have descriptions full of setting with maybe some features but don't mention whether they're a card game or an FPS is way too high.

Screenshots can probably resolve my example, and tags are "OK", but marketing trash is just so abundant that a lot of pages are genuinely hard to figure out pretty basic elements of what the minute to minute experience is.

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

God I hate cinematic trailers for unreleased games. It's fine if it's a released game that I can just Google gameplay.

[–] conciselyverbose 2 points 3 months ago

I straight up am not interested in them at all.

There are some games where I become attached to the writing, even though most are pretty mediocre and it's not why I play games. But I've never once had a story trailer interest me in any way. I will play the game if the mechanics are compelling, regardless of story. If they aren't, the story isn't better than a book or TV show and I don't care.

It's super annoying when even the screenshots are cinematic nonsense. It's a game. I want to know what the game is.