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What game mechanics do you love and hate? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I love hearing about unique takes on game mechanics. Someone recently convinced me that limited inventories are kind of abused currently and that unlimited inventory systems would give more player choices.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love mystery games, so--

Love: When mystery games actively draw attention to the idea that you need to draw your own conclusions about what you find in the game, and make your own truth, instead of just following a track

Hate: when the above is expressed as a formalized "Mind Palace" mechanic à la the more recent Sherlock Holmes games. That's just covering the track with a tarp instead of letting you build your own theories. Either let people accuse who they want with the evidence they have (once again I plug Paradise Killer) or acknowledge that there's only one acceptable answer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sounds like you'd love and hate Phoenix Wright.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've played a little. It's okay. The one I was playing didn't do anything approximating the Mind Palace and was very, very linear-- which I think is better than the Sherlock Holmes style games. It was the everything else about it that annoyed me into turning it off!