Underrated or mostly ignored UI/System features

[johndoe1545]

Here I wanted to some of the mostly ignored features or system or UI that should have been implemented more in western porn games.

Gallery
Not just imgs viewer, but scene replays, animation replay. If you have played fair amount of JP VN, you probably shocked to find what a game changer this is. Sadly, no, most devs just seems to ignore this, giving excuses like "you can save scum (good look doing that in RPGM)" or "I do it to tell a story not make a secondary thing (then just make a kinetic type story, why waste time making map exploration, etc).

Text speed, skip and box opacity
Another usual stuff in JP VN. I wonder who has the time to wait each and every letter to slowly appear. It a waste to time and effect, imo.

What do you guys think? What kind of stuff you feels are underrated (no, strictly no genre or fetish talk here)?

 

[Pretentious Goblin]

Star Knightess Aura uses a plugin (I guess that's what it is) that fast-forwards. Not skips, but plays almost everything at 10x speed, including combat. Never seen that before, but man is it welcome compared to the typical clumsy RPGM text-skipping.

Making text appear instantly instead of crawling onto the screen. Some of us are really fast readers, and having to wait is just aggravating. R'P has this function by default, but other engines are all over the place.

 

[F4C430]

Any game that has sound at the very minimum needs an option to disable it. Ideally it should have options to set the volume levels for different things like music, voice, SFX, etc... independently.

Action games need to have rebindable controls. It's a simple thing that makes a huge difference yet this is often ignored in non-adult games too.

 

[Dicks McKenzie]

Not really a UI element, but a metasystem I always like to see in adult games are Achievements/Challenges to promote some sort of replayability beyond the immediate "play game for scenes".
Bonus points if they're tied to their own CGs or game system. (E.g. unlocking them grants the player unique CGs and/or some gameplay benefit)

 

[sexypeanut]

Here I wanted to some of the mostly ignored features or system or UI that should have been implemented more in western porn games.

Gallery
Not just imgs viewer, but scene replays, animation replay. If you have played fair amount of JP VN, you probably shocked to find what a game changer this is. Sadly, no, most devs just seems to ignore this, giving excuses like "you can save scum (good look doing that in RPGM)" or "I do it to tell a story not make a secondary thing (then just make a kinetic type story, why waste time making map exploration, etc).

Text speed, skip and box opacity
Another usual stuff in JP VN. I wonder who has the time to wait each and every letter to slowly appear. It a waste to time and effect, imo.

What do you guys think? What kind of stuff you feels are underrated (no, strictly no genre or fetish talk here)?

Uh, basically every game I play here has a gallery... and all Ren'Py games have text speed and skip functions

 

[recreation]

auto-save at the end of a current version.
music not at 100% at the start of a game.
if there's nothing to do on a map, don't let me run through every corner, just scipt to the next scene.
text scaling (renpy has a build-in function for that, just need to implement it into the game).

 

[DiviDreamer]

O yes sound and music on 100% and not enough knowledge about sound and -6db meaning
is big problem in many games.

 

[baneini]

Not forcefully breaking immersion via game talking to the audience mid game.