Best Game 'Minor' Innovations!

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Sandman
Games coming in DVD boxes, as opposed to those cardboard boxes.

Lol.............I still have a space the size of a small warehouse back home dedicated to storing all my old boxes from Amiga and PC games.

[mrmitchell]

Minor innovations?

Most of them are already said, but:

-Mouselook...I can't imagine life without it
-Keyboard Shortcuts...Ditto
-Changing weapons with the mouse wheel...
-asdw instead of arrow keys...my keyboard is in the position where using the arrows would be uncomfortable to say the least, but asdw works great (then again maybe I am just an idiot)
-noCD cracks....

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by mrmitchell

-Changing weapons with the mouse wheel...

Eek, that's awful. Use a different key bind for each weapon, and find something else for the mousewheel.

[Rasbelin]

No, it's not. I use it all the time for MoH:AA and SH.

[Adagio]

- Using mousewheel for zooming in RTS games...

What I like most of all, is:
- Having several different teams, with special abilities (Special units, etc)

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Rasbelin
No, it's not. I use it all the time for MoH:AA and SH.

Well I don't play MoH, but if there are several weapons I bet you the top players don't use the mousewheel to change weapons.

I am a Quake3 player............no one who is anything in the game uses the mousewheel for weapon switching. When you need a certain weapon you need it immediately, not after you have cycled through the weapons.

[mrmitchell]

I play Red Faction....(go ahead, laugh)you rarely need to change weapons, and most of the time you'll find a brand new bug when you try to use a key bind.

[General Ludd]

Total Anhilation: Intelligent units. If they where ordered to move somewhere and encounter an enemy on the way, they will engage it (and do a "drive by" if possible), ect... very few RTS games do this for some reason, and that is why I hate most of them.

[St Leo]

quake1 - mouselook... i'm not sure if you'd call it a minor innovation though. at the time hardly anyone used it or knew about it while today every uses mouse look.

Duke3D had that.

very few RTS games do this for some reason, and that is why I hate most of them.

It's because very few RTS games let units move and attack at the same time. Among other things, that limits the utility of horse archers in AoE because it eliminates the main reason for their historical success.

Total Annihilation: Everything queue-able.
Imperialism II: WEGO movement.
Age of Wonders: Simultaneous turns.
Warlords Battlecry: Persistent heroes. Persistent heroes. Perstistent heroes.

[Urban Ranger]

Automapping in RPG's. The ability to annotate automaps in RPG's. The ability to record conversations and events in RPG's.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by St Leo
quake1 - mouselook... i'm not sure if you'd call it a minor innovation though. at the time hardly anyone used it or knew about it while today every uses mouse look.

Duke3D had that.

Yeah... to bad I didn't learn it, before Duke3D was almost getting too old...

[Jamski]

I can't beleive noone has said
AUTOSAVE!
Can you imagine life without it? And yet its nothing special really, is it?

-Jam

[Adagio]

Originally posted by War of Art
I can't beleive noone has said
AUTOSAVE!
Can you imagine life without it? And yet its nothing special really, is it?

-Jam

Hmmm... I should have mentioned this:

- An option to disable autosave...

autosave is sooo annoying...

[Jamski]

Pah - Autosave has saved my life soooo many times. Y'know, when the computer crashes, and you hadn't saved for 3 hours...

I autosave.

-Jam

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by War of Art
I can't beleive noone has said
AUTOSAVE!
Can you imagine life without it? And yet its nothing special really, is it?

-Jam

Who uses it, anyway?