PS4 And Xbox One: 9 Ways To Improve Every Future Game
8. Ditch Mandatory Cut Scenes
Familiar dialogue assaults your ears, every word now a haunting reminder of your growing reluctance. Your thumb instinctively spams the same button, ready to play, and crucially not watch, the game, but then finally, your eyes forcibly glaze over in submission, accepting the two minutes of impending torture. Much like the previous save topic, mandatory cut scenes are a development no-no, plain and simple. Be it due to a reloaded save or sudden death, there will come a time that players encounter cut scenes again. Very few want to sit through scenes a second, third or umpteenth consecutive time, and seeing "Press to Skip" along the bottom of the screen is too easy a solution.
A freelance games writer, you say? Typically battling his current RPG addiction and ceaseless perfectionism? A fan of horror but too big a sissy to play for more than a couple of hours? Spends far too much time on JRPGs and gets way too angry with card games?
Well that doesn't sound anything like me.
