Anyway, I wanted to talk about something that's been bugging me that I can finally put into words; navigation glitches in games are really annoying. Now let me explain something: right now I'm playing a game called Fallout: New Vegas.
At the bottom of the screen is a compass that points me to my objectives.
You can see the compass at the bottom left of this screen. The one with all the triangles at the bottom.
So, here's my dilemma: I have to go somewhere, but the compass isn't pointing me in the right direction. See that's the big problem. It's not that it isn't working. Games like this train players to depend on the compass. Open world games that allow players to go wherever they want need to have a way to guide them toward important objectives. When that system fails, its like having your legs cut off. Its incredibly frustrating.
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