IncendiaryDevice
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So I'm playing an old game at the moment. 1999 it was made. And while pressing all the buttons I discovered some real incline options you can use in the game, no modding required:
The first:
[Sorry about the screenshots. Here's me going on about incline features & I can find no way to get the game to let me take any screenshots of it. Decline! Ctrl + Prt Scr gives a black screen, as does Shift + P. There's no options for windowed mode and in full screen the Windows button doesn't bring up Windows to enable activating the snipping tool]
This option screen allows you to turn off cut-scenes:
The first list of in-game actions relate to any audio voiceovers & there's a button to allow you to turn all those off. But those are great, they don't stop play and the guy has a great voice "Your people are running low on alcohol" would make for a great meme. The second list of in-game features however are the cutscenes & you can choose to simply turn them all off. My god but this was a heaven sent option, wow, a game which just said "yeah, cut-scenes can suck can't they, here, have a button to turn them off". So, you want to hear the cutscene play out, but you just want to keep playing while it talks instead of cutting away to a cutscene that has to be either stopped entirely or watched slowly to completion? Hey, there can be an option for that!
Now, why can't all games have that option!
Second:
In the music options screen it lists all the pieces of music that get cycled throughout the game. Each one can be turned off and on at your leisure. Don't like one of the tracks? Gone. Want to hear the same one over and over for a bit? You can do that! How awesome is that!
Now why can't all games have that option!
Have you noticed any incline options menu features drift by the wayside over the years? Are there any that you'd love to see in a game that have no real excuse not to be in the game's options?
The first:
[Sorry about the screenshots. Here's me going on about incline features & I can find no way to get the game to let me take any screenshots of it. Decline! Ctrl + Prt Scr gives a black screen, as does Shift + P. There's no options for windowed mode and in full screen the Windows button doesn't bring up Windows to enable activating the snipping tool]
This option screen allows you to turn off cut-scenes:
The first list of in-game actions relate to any audio voiceovers & there's a button to allow you to turn all those off. But those are great, they don't stop play and the guy has a great voice "Your people are running low on alcohol" would make for a great meme. The second list of in-game features however are the cutscenes & you can choose to simply turn them all off. My god but this was a heaven sent option, wow, a game which just said "yeah, cut-scenes can suck can't they, here, have a button to turn them off". So, you want to hear the cutscene play out, but you just want to keep playing while it talks instead of cutting away to a cutscene that has to be either stopped entirely or watched slowly to completion? Hey, there can be an option for that!
Now, why can't all games have that option!
Second:
In the music options screen it lists all the pieces of music that get cycled throughout the game. Each one can be turned off and on at your leisure. Don't like one of the tracks? Gone. Want to hear the same one over and over for a bit? You can do that! How awesome is that!
Now why can't all games have that option!
Have you noticed any incline options menu features drift by the wayside over the years? Are there any that you'd love to see in a game that have no real excuse not to be in the game's options?