General gaming discussion

As a man prone to constantly losing his keys, I'd love me a bit of detective vision in real life. With games getting more visually sophisticated with each passing year what suggestions, beyond some sort of detective mode or highlighting outline, do people have for games not becoming a virtual version of 'where the fúck did I put those car keys' when it comes to finding important quest items in a game?

Also, due to the time constraints of work, commuting, family commitments, trying to get more exercise to combat minor health issues and generally being middle aged and needing more sleep than I use to, what gaming I get is very limited so I'm not opposed to map markers in a game. Wandering aimlessly around a game hoping for something interesting to happen as a way to create a sense of exploration sounds great if you've a lot more time open to you to play games. I don't.

Guardians of the galaxy actually handled this in a good way - you could use star lords visor to look for objectives if you needed a hint, but the colour filter applied to it was absolutely hideous to look at , so you'd avoid using it as often as you would something like detective vision or survivor sense.

Yeah, Dying Light 1 was scary and tense, part 2 not so much, mostly because this detective vision highlighted everything.

Man, death standing reversal mechanic wrecked other open world games for me as I'd play something else and the movement automatically felt 'gamey' like i could matrix see the code behind it. I don't know how Death Standing made walking/running from A to B fun but no other open world game comes close to that.

I really enjoyed the traversal of Death Stranding and most of the actual game, but the game just bummed me out with the BTs. Those parts were just never fun, challenging or all that exciting (after the first few anyway). I ended up not completing the game.

Yea I agree that after the first few they lose their effectiveness, aside from one section much later on where your scanner is disabled. I think this is compensated for by all the anti-BT weapons they give you. They may not stay scary but at least they don't get too annoying.

Yeah, pretty much the same issue I had with it as well. Opened up the second part of the map and played a couple of hours but I never went back. It's still there taunting me.

I had exactly the same experience, I got about 10ish hours into the game before I stopped playing. Loved crossing the landscape, hated all the sections with BTs.

I'd pay good money for a spin off game that removed all the combat and just doubled down on the traversal and logistics.