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I don't want to "Press any key to continue" to the main menu (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It annoys me when you close down a game, and it only has the option to send you to the title menu instead of closing out. It's not the worst thing ever, but it's kind of annoying when you need to go, and you have to "quit" the game just to wait for it to go back to the title screen and make you hit "quit" again a second time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's for console ports. They have a power button..so on PC you'll need to go to that button created specifically to quit to desktop

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They need to be less lazy on the ports and add the option to quit to desktop on the PC version even if it doesn't exist on the console version.

Some games do, however I hate when I have to go to the menu before being able to quit to Desktop.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Clicks quit
Are you sure you want to exit?
Clicks yes
Goes to title
Clicks Quit
Are you absolutely positive you want to exit?
*Clicks yes DO YOU ACTUALLY THINK I CLICKED THREE TIMES TO GET HERE BY ACCIDENT??
Game hangs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a long-shot question, feel free to disregard... but I have to ask: is that you, Joost?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Joost? Nope sorry... I assume that's a username or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, nevermind sorry about the trouble. He's a cofounder of the company whose logo you're using as an avatar ("Ronimo", i.e.: "Robot Ninja Monkey").

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah ok lol... I got this png off one of those free image sites because I was too lazy to make my own and been putting it off so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or, they have a hypervisor, so instead of needing to quit from inside, you just hit the magic button and go back to the console UI. Game is suspended and might resume after power off or switch, or not, depending on the system and user.

You could just ctrl-alt-del or window switch or whatever to get the same experience on a computer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly will just slap cmd-q on most games. If they don't handle it properly... well, sucks for me I guess, but most do. (on a mac)

I wonder how most games treat alt-f4 on windows?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It differs, on some games it doesn't work or still takes a long time. For those programs I like to use SuperF4, which kills the process when you press ctrl+alt+f4.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FromSoft games are the worst for that. They log you off the servers and then make you login again to get to the title screen to quit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just alt-F4 once you quit the game and hit the title screen or you’re sure the game has successfully saved.