I quite liked this in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Pokemon FireRed (and LeafGreen) does this!

By the way, these "flashbacks" aren't static images. Your player sprite would be animated doing the last thing it did in that frame!

Also, the controls are simple enough in this game. No need for any tutorials.

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.

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 makes me feel disabled compared to most people.

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.

This would be the best gift

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.

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

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.)

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

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? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Witcher 3 has a little bit of that but could be better for sure

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.

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

I wish every game had an ultra easy/explorer mode for this reason. I have zero interest in having to become “good” at a game in order to move forward. I’d love to give Elden Ring and such another try but I’m just a regular dude with a job and a family. I’m not trying to make video gaming a new “skill”, I just want to play the stupid game for a bit, put it down, maybe forget about it for a month before I have time to pick it back up again…

...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...

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.

This is why Satisfactory should have a built-in Kanban board!

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 the list.”

Doesnt the gba line of pokemon games have a feature like this? I think it recaps what you did last time.

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.

The newer Deus Ex games had something like that, the loading screen would be a "Previously on Human Revolution" sequence like with a TV series

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.

I don't care. I play helter-skelter anyway. Just jumping around to whatever is fun, forgetting where I was, repeating stuff I liked. Never finishing the game. It's all good.

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

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.”

Too real. Was really hard coming back to Celeste and any of the Witchers.

Please! I'm half way through BotW and every time I pick it back up I need this.

That's why I love retro gaming. No saves, no elaborate narrative, just two buttons and a D pad. Easy in, easy out.

Kim's dialogue in disco elysium is pretty much this dressed up as a conversation

Is that the Nine Inch nails Guy?

Also grinding should be less difficult. Like we get twice the exp or money

This is me when I come back to the Witcher 3, until I remember that I just need to follow the arrow to the quest marker and do a super basic version of the Arkham Asylum combat until I get bored again.

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.

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.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 did something like this with a recap when you restarted. Really helped with the “now where was I again?” moments.

The solution is to have dynamic personalized tutorials.

Lets take Death Stranding 2 for example, since I think its played a lot by working adults.

Death Stranding has a lot of story, relationships, and game mechanics they slowly throw at you. But when you take a break for 1-3 months it can definitely be difficult to remember what you were doing and how to do it.

They already have tutorials in their VR system, but that just goes over the basics. It would be neat if the game took the metrics they collect on you, to teach you how to use your most common moves and such.

It would also be neat if they could have a mentor system where the tutorial would then teach you new mechanics you ignored if it would help you out immediately (totally optional of course).

We need this!!

I miss tutorials on the start screen.

Also minecraft books are a good idea, but lack the "hey btw youre gonna get busy and drop this game for 6 months and have no idea what your goals are. Care to take a note?"

My solution is a captains log after video game sessions, but i forget sometimes

The Gothic Remake summarises the last few beats of the story on the loading screens.

Edit: And sometimes the hero will think about his next steps when you sit down, kind of like Life is Strange, but not as elaborate.

Omfg EVERY ZELDA

Got my vote

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

I think some games implement a reminder of sorts for quests and stuff. A reminder for the controls, though, would be great.

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.

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.

Or simply just the "busy life feature", no need to exclude minorities here.

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