At some point in this millenium, it became ubiquitous in games to ask for a button press before switching to the main menu and it has become a pet peeve off mine.

Why is that there? It’s your main menu so ugly that you have to shield players from it? Why can I not double click the game Icon, go to the kitchen to get coffee and return to the PC/console to find myself in the main menu ready to continue my game? Seriously, cui bono? Sometimes, they even show a different screen before that press, which some artist got paid for creating, so the developer is also losing (a tiny amount of) money here.

I honestly just don’t get the point of these screens.

Bonus negative points for games that only check DLC after that button press instead of any other point of the losing process. Calling a server could easily be threaded while the game assets are loaded since it takes very little hardware load to do so. But no, I get to wait an additional 10 seconds because the game devs want me to for no apparent reason.

On a related note: just allow players to auto skip intros, please. Just put an checkbox in the settings, so that everyone can see it once.

  • loops@beehaw.org
    8·
    1 year ago

    The only thing I don’t like about Deep Rock Galactic is having to watch both the publishers, and the studios logo sequences every time I start the game.

    • towerful@beehaw.org
      4·
      1 year ago

      Go to steam, right click the game and browse local files.
      Navigate to something like Deep Rock Galactic\FSD\Content\Movies and delete (or move) them.

      I’ve played other games with annoying intros. Normally, deleting the files means the don’t play on startup.
      Where they are depends on the game. A quick Google found this solution.

      You will probably have to re-delete them after an update, and after running a “verify local files”.
      I’ve done this with EAC games without issues (incase you are worried)