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"Game Options"

You can never please all of the people all of the time. Someone said that to me once. Forget who.

So with this in mind, I propose this idea. A lot of people like to have a game with interesting FMV playing after completing certain parts of the game or even after some event has occurred. The problem is, there are also a lot of people who don't like to have interesting FMV playing after completing certain parts of the game or even after some event has occurred.

Some of these people also like to have music playing throughout the game, usually changing with the mood of the game. There are others, though, that hate having music in a game and just prefer the spot effects making the game more intense by not having music there at all.

My friend tells me that he likes seeing cut scenes which remind him of bits in a film, with a proper theme song or even an MTV style video moment. Another friend disagrees, and says that they'd rather have their gameplay uninterrupted.

I have even heard that some people like to have speech from the characters in the game they are playing while others prefer to cut out the annoying chatter and play with subtitles instead, especially where a voice actor badly imperonates another country's accent.

So what can we do about it? (you were wondering, perhaps, when I would actually get to the point?) Well, when you reach the traditional start screen of a game, the usual menus appear. Most of the time you will find an option to turn up or down the volume, pick control methods or even, in some cases, choose a character or piece of music. My plan, then, is to have a much more comprehensive menu system which lets you turn on and off the cut-scenes, mood music, general FMV and game speech. It could also go so far as to ask whether you would like to play the game as an arcade game or more of a simulator (I know, a few driving games already do this, but not enough by far and certainly not any other genre)

Not enough games have an options list that would be proud to call itself a menu and this is a pity, because with the added options games could last a whole lot longer and be far more tuned to the way people want them to be. At least then you could please most of the people most of the time, even if you couldn't please them all.

Must releate to their Arcade connections?

I still find them largly lacking in many console titles..

Often no even giving you the option to turn the music off!

Game options are getting eventually, they allow to remove some things from the game to improve game performance, and difficulty settings add to the lasting life to a game.

I think options in games are getting better and better especially in fighting games, I mean you can have al sorts of battes and events, TTT is a great example of this as there are at least 8 modes and that is with not modifying the options. I think from now we will see a lot more 'classic' games because of the way they play but more to the point the options they have. Most games now have either internet playability or multi-player options and some even have both and more! Of course some options in games are pointless but even ones like alternate charachter colours and reverse tracks can in some cases make a game!

I hope there are lots of options with the GBA games, I mean think about it they don't really have a super reputation of being full of options, I haven't played every GBA game, obviously but none of them have the options that most console games boast. I just think that with 32-bitsa the GBA could use up maybe one or two to give us a load of options, and I know it is up to the develooper but maybe they can take a page from the MGS2 book and build a game around the console, it seems to be paying off so far especially with the reports of MGS2 in Japan and even across Europe!

The Game

tony wrote:
> PC games come with a special option called screwing up your
> PC.

Well actually it's not the PC that gets screwed up, it's the
> operating system (sssshhh - they might be listening)

Thats an option! ... I knew there was something I kept forgetting to turn off!

PC games come with a special option called screwing up your PC.

Well actually it's not the PC that gets screwed up, it's the operating system (sssshhh - they might be listening)

I'll have to leave that one for tomorrow....

pb wrote:
> I was mostly thinking of Console games, yes, but even PC games don't
> have as many options as they could and should have.

good call... but... What sort of options do you think are missing from PC games?

I was mostly thinking of Console games, yes, but even PC games don't have as many options as they could and should have.

This would be for consoles gamers huh?...

As a primarily PC game player, that often shifts over to console playing, I've often been a touch miffed at the lack of avlible options...

Even the basic options like music on/off are removed... which forces you to listen to the in game tracks...