2026-10-04 14:05 UTC
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@TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 14:10
This would be the best gift
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@greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2026-10-04 14:16
I do this for myself because same lol. I post PC so I usually keep a text document open so I can write down things I’m working on or, things I need to know I finished or, quests or whatever.
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@xylol@leminal.space 2026-10-04 14:16
One of the reasons it took me do long to beat the main quest on skyrim, and I’d always convince myself to just start over because this time for sure I’ll get through it all
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@Dagnet@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 14:23
Witcher 3 has a little bit of that but could be better for sure
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@Eq0@literature.cafe 2026-10-04 14:24
This is the main reason I hate quests. I would start something, not play for a month or so, come back and having to figure out where I had left off. By the time I was caught up, my gaming time was over.
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@DrBanjo@reddthat.com 2026-10-04 14:37
I was playing a Professor Layton game and it had a recap of the past thing you were doing every time you opened the game. Loved it, so helpful
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@ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 14:43
Got my vote
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@perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 14:51
This is why Satisfactory should have a built-in Kanban board!
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@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 14:52
a summary of your progress and what you were doing, maybe even an animated one, would actually be a reasonable use for llm. I’m tired of having llm shoved everywhere except where it would actually be useful. that being said, if some game implemented it and it ended up being trash, I wouldn’t be surprised
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@Endmaker@ani.social 2026-10-04 15:02
Pokemon FireRed (and LeafGreen) does this! By the way, these “flashbacks” aren’t static images. Your player sprite would be doing the last thing it did in that frame! Also, the controls are simple enough in this game.
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@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2026-10-04 15:03
The Gothic Remake summarises the last few beats of the story on the loading screens.
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@otacon239@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 15:10
This is a thing they promise every time new consoles come out and then it never makes it to release. Or maybe it did and no developer ever used the feature.
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@SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 15:25
I quite liked this in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
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@gigaqps@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 15:42
Here’s a reminder of the last things you did and where you need to go next. “Your current objective is trying not to cum while playing this game. The last thing you did was cum while playing this game.”
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@InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2026-10-04 16:03
The controls are the biggest obstacles for me, and it’s not really even about ADHD to be honest. Virtually every single modern game insists that it must use every single available button on the controller for vital operations. Most of the time it strikes me as completely unnecessary to be that way. And even games that are of the exact same sub-sub-sub-genre where it should all be pretty standardized (the gameplay itself certainly is) decide to have completely different controls. If I can’t finish a game in the 2 - 3 winter months of “down time” I have, during which time I might get 4 - 6 hours of week to play, then I usually won’t even bother. Because if I don’t finish it then, it means 6 - 8 months later when I get another chance to pick it up again, I will have forgotten how to play.
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@Psythik@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 16:13
Honestly, we need more ADHD-friendly accessibility features in life overall. I really hate that ADHD doesn’t get taken seriously as a disability, because having it certainly feels llke one.
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@Ertain@feddit.online 2026-10-04 16:17
I think some games implement a reminder of sorts for quests and stuff. A reminder for the controls, though, would be great.
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@ChaosCatWitch@feddit.online 2026-10-04 16:20
We need this!!
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@VampirePenguin@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 16:21
That’s why I love retro gaming. No saves, no elaborate narrative, just two buttons and a D pad. Easy in, easy out.
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@ramble81@lemmy.zip 2026-10-04 16:28
Final Fantasy XIII-2 did something like this with a recap when you restarted. Really helped with the “now where was I again?” moments.
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@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 16:31
Back when you could write your own savefile names i‘d cadge together some shorthand for the filename to help: sdqstswordgetthing.sav or some such. “Side quest to get sword get the [item] next on teh list.”
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@Gerudo@lemmy.zip 2026-10-04 16:51
The whole reason I have to play RPGs all at once, no bouncing between games. I WILL forget what I was doing if I take more than a couple weeks off from playing. I’m really trying my hardest to get through Dawnwalker so I can get onto the other half dozen games waiting for me.
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@SecretiveVault@lemmy.zip 2026-10-04 17:13
Omfg EVERY ZELDA
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@GenitalHurricane@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 18:01
Steam overlay has a “Notes” feature to keep your thoughts and allows you to resize however you want and optionally overlay it on top of your game instead of having it hide when you minimize the steam overlay, for quick referencing recipes/guide info etc. it also persists through sessions. I frequently use this in survival games or rogue like games to write myself a debrief before I get off at the end of the night knowing that I won’t remember certain details tomorrow.
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@impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 2026-10-04 18:22
…huh. if they implement this, I might start playing rpgs. Right now I only play games with no plot because a busy week at work means I don’t remember the plot anyway…
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@Novak@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-10-04 18:46
I wish I had this when I was playing the pre-Persona 3 games. There are zero reminders, aside from maybe a character telling you not to go to x because we have to go to x. I ended up taking a lot of notes and reading a guide for Innocent Sin. I generally make notes for myself or only focus on one game at a time.
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@kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 19:12
I came back to play Celeste after months and spent like 2 hours racking up deaths playing on a self-imposed ultra hard mode because I forgot there was a grip/climb mechanic. I was barely scaling some jumps to ledges by the skin of my teeth after crashing into the wall 100 times before I accidentally rediscovered the button. Didn’t stop me from dying hundreds of times still, but at least for less stupid reasons… usually.
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@TeaAndHotDogs@lemmy.zip 2026-10-04 19:19
This is why i never finished Bloodbourne… twice. Fantastic game. Take a month off. Load in, walk around in a few circles. Absolutely nothing to reference for what my goal or progress toward it was. Probably taking notes would help, yeah.
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@chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2026-10-04 19:26
I want a grown-ups only lobby for online games with shorter play sessions and games that end by 8:30 so we can go to bed.
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@wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-04 19:27
This is my biggest hurdle to No Man’s Sky, NGL. Thankfully, there’s an option to reset a quest to a more local star system, but that can be tedious if one’s near the end of said quest, as it completely undoes any progress before moving the marker to a spot closer to me. Maybe I’ll get to it this time, maybe I’ll get distracted and run out of playtime. That’s the real game, ya know? 🤷🏼♂️
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@tetris11@feddit.uk 2026-10-04 19:59
Y’all have addiction problems if you’re playing so many games that you can’t remember how they work. See I’m a game addict but have a solution: I pick one game a year, and play it 3 days straight with minimal sleep, and a decent trainer to skip the grindey parts. By day 3 - BOOM - my desire to play or even finish the game is gone. I don’t even know how Tsushima ends, nor do I want to. I came for the Kurosawa kick and I got it. Now back to life
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@Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2026-10-04 20:48
Press [X] to reload muscle memory (Tho it’s a hella good feeling putting old 1k hours of training to good use & finding that you can still play effortlessly-ish. You are just 10+ years older now, no biggie. You’ll be dead soon, so play the damn game.)
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@AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2026-10-05 01:39
Doesnt the gba line of pokemon games have a feature like this? I think it recaps what you did last time.
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@Pandantic@midwest.social 2026-10-05 02:34
Please! I’m half way through BotW and every time I pick it back up I need this.
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@YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2026-10-05 03:07
Too real. Was really hard coming back to Celeste and any of the Witchers.
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@NightShot@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 04:01
Death stranding 2 does this perfectly. Gives a summare of the story so far when it seems like it has been a while since I played last time.
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@Aeao@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 05:07
Also grinding should be less difficult. Like we get twice the exp or money
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@joranm1@lemmy.zip 2026-10-05 05:13
Dragon Quest XI does this, you also can talk to party members that will remind the player of different aspects of the story. It’s actually quite well crafted
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@Berlinblades@lemmy.world 2026-10-05 05:39
Is that the Nine Inch nails Guy?
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@16mhz@lemmy.ml 2026-10-05 09:27
This is a must have feature in today’s world. My busy adult life taught me to avoid anything with a steep learning curve and almost anything with open world