Positive gaming nitpicks

[ciro64]

I love when playing games that are more platform oriented, you can hear the sound of each footstep synchronizing with the character animation, and they sound different depending on the terrain.

 

[Little Musician]

Lyp-synching changed the way I approached gaming entirely -- the first time I saw a game doing that, it stopped feeling like a computer program and became its own little world.

 

[goregoregoregoregore]

Guns that have strong impact feel and crunchy sound make a game 1000% more pleasant and sexy for me. That's what made me gravitate towards Quake and Unreal Tournament series in the first place

 

[Ranmyaku Ichi]

I always loved little "flourish" animations in Action and Fighting games. The way that you can flick the blood off you weapons after a fight in Ninja Gaiden 2 or Nioh, the way Virgil continues sheathing his sword after an attack if you don't press anything, or the way certain attacks have short kata or re-centering animations in modern Street Fighter if left idle afterwards. Just small little touches that make the action feel more stylish and alive.

 

[Little Musician]

Breathing animations are another big one for me.

 

[Cheela]

I fucking love games the little details that the Smash Series have to reference the source material, specially if 3rd party. Like Alucard not appearing on the Wii fit mirror stage or Sonic taking damage from Water lmao

 

[Prism Red]

I love it when you look down in FPS and you can see your feet walking.

 

[Kamako]

- In platformers, when you reach the edge of a platform and the character reacts like they're just barely keeping balance.
- In Gears of War, when you don't successfully pull off a perfect reload and your gun jams, they added a few different frustrated quips your character will voice ocassionally.
- Lengthy idle animations
- Any type of pause menu that doesn't just halt the screen. We're talking Battletoads music, Mickey's Wild Adventure "Paws" icon, things like that.
- Red Dead Redemption 2 having upwards of 12 different animations that could play depending on what angle you mount your horse from. In fact, I'd say RDR2 and the Metal Gear games probably contain the greatest number of examples of going the extra mile to account for player choice, of any of the games I've played.

 

[GardeniaSky]

The new Warframe Oraxia is a spider lady. When she's in her ult, the sound of her spider legs walking around is SO CRISPY.

 

[trickybus]

I love a lot of things about Ori and the Blind Forest but my favorite little detail is Ori's running cycle. He's a little light spirit so instead of giving him a standard run cycle, he does this serpentine Naruto run It's adorably fitting and gives me the impression of a busy but smoothly flowing wind current