Games should include a menu option like "I haven't played in a while, give me a quick 5 minute refresher on the controls"

[kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@hacknorris Keybinds aren't enough, that's similar to just looking at the options. I need to know actions

[h5e@tech.lgbt]

@kenney and the story

[zyd@yap.zyd.lol]

@hacknorris @kenney Oh my god, this screenshot immediately overwhelmed me. You have so much going on. This reminds me of the days when my ADHD unmedicated ass unironically had over 400 firefox tabs.

[williamjcm@framapiaf.org]

@kenney I'll be honest, I'm glad some games allow replaying the tutorial at any time.

[retrosponge@kind.social]

@kenney YES!!!

[hacknorris@mstdn.social]

@zyd thank God i haven't shown you number of tabs… (most are unloaded tho, i use tabs as bookmarks tbh)

[kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@vampiress Yeah, love that! I'm just so busy that I can only play games like once every week so there's a lot of off-time between sessions. Makes going back to games a little daunting

[zyd@yap.zyd.lol]

@hacknorris

Yeah, that's what I was doing as well: using tabs as a poor man's bookmark management tool, because Firefox on its own doesn't care about you actually using bookmarks to any real degree. I basically never had many of those 400+ tabs actually loaded.

Just in case you might want something different, you might like linkhut for trying to deal with this instead. It's something I've recently started heavily using myself along with the extension linkput making it extremely convenient to bookmark all the things. It's open source, bookmarks can be imported and exported via a single HTML file via the web or through various means on the command line (or other external tools) through its 1:1 Pinboard API. Along with other people using the flagship instance of it, it also turns into a great search tool in general, not only for just your own bookmarks. Also has RSS feeds for any combination of tags and user profiles. It's sick as hell.

[guigui@wetdry.world]

@kenney thinking about the fact that default controls in my game are never shown besides the non basic platformer things outside of the keybind rebind menu

[xanathon@social.phantanews.de]

@kenney Absolutely!

[ruisan@masto.es]

@kenney in case you are >40, this should happen each time you start the game

[hadeur@metalhead.club]

@kenney Kingdom Come II actually does this.

[jetlagjen@gts.phillipsuk.org]

@kenney they should also have a selectable complexity scale from "I want to memorise a hundred different moves" to "run, jump, & hit only".

[libffi@kind.social]

@kenney and there should be a way to catch up on the story, too

[melgu@norden.social]

@TabascoEye @kenney Same! I was so lost when I got into my first fist fight after returning

[melgu@norden.social]

@TabascoEye @kenney RDR2 does a great job recapping the story thanks to its journal, but the controls… nothing.

I like how in every Ubisoft title there’s always a button to show the current context-aware controls.

[macronaut@mas.to]

@kenney This. So much this.

[haaseg@hachyderm.io]

@kenney I have actually seen this before recently, but I can't remember which game. I hadn't played in a while and it literally asked me if I wanted a tutorial. And it included the instructions into my current quest as well. It was an exceptional experience.

[badgerdad@kind.social]

@kenney I went back to Final Fantasy 14 recently after years away and it did give a refresher tutorial! Sadly the HUD did not save my settings so I still had to relearn a lot.