Thread 717984867

>audio logs
>codex

>>audio logs

I haven't played all games with audio logs, but for my money, Dead Space 1 has the worst ones.

>Defeat enemy
>Codex entry unlocked
>The green goblin is a ferocious adversary. While they cower when alone, in numbers they have been spotted to take out large men in full armor. Their backs are exposed constantly due to religious belief surrounding the idea of "placing burden" on one's own literal back, hence their lack of clothing there
>rotate the 3D goblin model around
>Zoom in
>exit screen

>>717985026
>written note captures the last moments of a character before their death

>>717984867 (OP)
>"they're breaking down the door"
>"ayo they eatin me they eatin me cuz"
>it's a handwritten note

>>717984867 (OP)
Bioshock was the only game where I was interested in the audio logs

>>717985304
>Oh shit they're going to kill me! HE-
>*Turn page*
>OK OK, I somehow made it out. Shit, what are they? They seem to want to devour us all. I'm going to go check out the upper deck

I don't see the issue with a codex, it's just some extra details.

>>717985520
i aint reading that shit

>>717985545
Then don't. It's just some optional shit to flesh out stuff a little more.

>character creation
>side quests
>stats
>skill tree

>>717984867 (OP)
I think Audio logs are still better than text documents
Audio logs can be played while you're playing the game and doing something mundane like platforming or walking around
But text docs demand your full attention and put a short stop to whatever it is you were doing.
Both have their merit, as long as it is warranted to have one or the other
Either way its all extra tidbits they couldn't put in the main game, which is alright

>>717985743
>read notebook log
>game doesn't pause when reading
>have to back out because there was a noise or an enemy shows up
I find that shit annoying.

>>717985586
>How does this bother you at all

Slippery slope.

>weapon codex
>spend minutes moving swords and guns back and forth to see the light hit their surface

>>717985867
See, but that is a problem with the game itself rather than the note in question
If it doesn't pause when you are SUPPOSED to read, why bother right?
I do agree that if the game gives you something with the intention that you read it, the game should pause
Unless the note is a trap meant to waste time for some Rube Goldberg-esque trap to fuck with the player, in which case that is just good design

>>717985026
>audio logs capture the last moments of a character before their death
>it's never released publicly because a fag told the owner to delete it

>playing BO6
>new level audio logs
>hurr Richthofen hurr Sam
>if maxis was a real girl she wouldn’t had did that anyways

Honestly sounds like AI slop a lot of the time. One of them has SAM like trying to pull a pinnochio and be a real boy and since Richthofen is white he’s just like REAL BOYS DONT EXIST so stupid

>>717984958
Science bad

>>717986448
>giving billionaires complete and unrestricted access to your brain

>>717986504
They already do that via all media.

>>717984958
>Log #2: The subject has become... increasingly erratic as of late

>>717986714
I swear there's one almost exactly like this in Doom 2016

>>717984867 (OP)
It was good in System Shock 2 when it was still novel.

>>717984867 (OP)
I just played Rise of The Tomb Raider and constantly got interupted by this shit. I'm supposed to be in the middle of an intense shootout while shit is blowing up around me and I find a 20 second audio tape about some gay shit I don't care about around every corner. Lara is insanely beautiful in this game, btw. It was fucking distracting.

>>717985743
They only worked in Arkham Asylum.

>>717990220
I think you mean SS1. SS2 was just a boring retread of SS1 but with RPG stats.

>playing RE5
>friend reads slow
>come across multi-page document
>when reading, text pops in the middle of screen but you can still see your partner doing stuff
>make sure he sees me placing a mine between his feet at aiming at it
>shoot mine, knocking him down and out of the document he's 8 pages into so he has to open it again and manually click to the part he was at
>promise i wont do it again
>do it again

>>717986448
I thought we didn't trust the experts, science or vaccines on 4chan?