Current Events > Game developers explain their favorite ways to trick players

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http://kotaku.com/game-developers-explain-some-of-their-favorite-ways-to-1798749279

I thought this was fascinating
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I f****** knew Doom was helping me out in some way, too many times was I on the brink of death where I suddenly went Chuck Norris after stumbling over my feet the past 5 minutes
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HL1 - if facing more than two enemies, only two would actually attack. The rest would run to random locations and bark lies e.g. "flanking"

So many FPS games probably do crap like this lol
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I should link the Twitter thread
https://twitter.com/Gaohmee/status/903510060197744640

Here's a particularly neat one: Not sure if it was mentioned, but the tutorial in Halo 2 asked player to look up. Their input determined whether y-axis would be inverted
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Like how Zelda ALBW will tell you to take a break when you've been playing for too long.

Good joke.
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In Gears, found out 90% of first time players don't play a second multiplayer match if they don't get a kill. That first game's important...

So we started you off with some major advantages (like additional damage bonuses) that tapered off with your first few kills.

damn. interesting read alright.
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BignutzisBack posted...

I f****** knew Doom was helping me out in some way, too many times was I on the brink of death where I suddenly went Chuck Norris after stumbling over my feet the past 5 minutes

This
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Back_Stabbath posted...

In Gears, found out 90% of first time players don't play a second multiplayer match if they don't get a kill. That first game's important...

So we started you off with some major advantages (like additional damage bonuses) that tapered off with your first few kills.

damn. interesting read alright.

Oh shit, that's really cool.
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Good read. Interesting stuff. Some of it we already suspected, but other things we never may have even thought of.
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For Dark Souls you just have to get gud

In Jak and Dexter the player would "for no reason" trip and fall to give enough time to load the next section off disc.

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huh
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bump
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bump 2
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really interesting stuff. i played HL luftrausers etc a ton and never noticed those
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some of these (like the jumping after falling off ledges in platformers) sort of infuriate me

let the player play the game, stop babying them with an invisible hand lol
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I remember noticing in Saints Row 3 and 4 that the last 10% goes away WAAAAAAY slower than the rest of the bar >_>
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PonyLivesMatter posted...

For Dark Souls you just have to get gud

You should read the whole thread...
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Article is screencaps of twitter messages

No thank you.
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Dark Souls 3 bosses follow a specific time signature along with the music for their attacks, the hardest boss in the game breaks this flow.

I knew it, I fucking knew it.
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YonicBoom posted...

Article is screencaps of twitter messages

No thank you.

Here, from the comments section. I don't have the link to the original Reddit thread that I assume this all took off from, though. Haven't clicked through the links in the article.
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some of these (like the jumping after falling off ledges in platformers) sort of infuriate me

let the player play the game, stop babying them with an invisible hand lol

this mechanic was amazing in the dkc games.
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Pancake posted...

some of these (like the jumping after falling off ledges in platformers) sort of infuriate me

let the player play the game, stop babying them with an invisible hand lol

this mechanic was amazing in the dkc games.

yeah the person who made that comment doesn't know what they're talking about.
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Drpooplol posted...

Pancake posted...

some of these (like the jumping after falling off ledges in platformers) sort of infuriate me

let the player play the game, stop babying them with an invisible hand lol

this mechanic was amazing in the dkc games.

yeah the person who made that comment doesn't know what they're talking about.

Besides without that mechanic we would have players going "I hit jump and it didn't work!"
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dkc sorta had it as a mechanic though iirc, couldn't you jump for quite a long time after falling off a ledge (especially if you rolled?)

I'm talking about games that give you a 1-2 frame window when they're otherwise pretty tight precision platformers. Sure it feels nice but if you're consistently relying on it maybe you should just learn how to time jumps

Banjo2553 posted...

Besides without that mechanic we would have players going "I hit jump and it didn't work!"

yeah, because they walked off the edge first. I hear people say stuff like that all the time ("I totally hit him!" "I was blocking, I swear!" "I definitely clicked that!") but that's just because they like to blame the game rather than themselves <_<
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