The only game which I managed to complete which you can't make your character jump is RD2.. I just started playing wither 3 and it's so hard to me to enjoy cause I can't make my guy jump.. I couldn't play the devision games, mafia3, La Noire... those are just on the top of my head. Am I broken or is this a thing?
Edit: sorry, didn't mean to include the witcher, but I'm not gonna delete it cause yall caught it and I was wrong :(
crap, sorry, I was playing with my switch controller and it wasn't mapped correctly, you're absoluely correct... sorry again!
Lmao all good bro, I agree with you though, I hate not being able to jump in games
You can also jump in RDR2.
Yeah this post is cracking me up
There was once a post about a guy who finished the game only to figure out at the end that there's a skill tree, or something similar, so he basically went through the entire game on super hard more by using only the base attack. This post reminded me of it... Because I'm currently playing the witcher and I wonder how did he manage to play without jumping.
I hate the way you can't jump in Super Mario.
Lmfao how far did you manage to get without jumping? That's hilarious. W3 is GOAT imo, but the controls can be wonky at times(looking at you, boats)
In The Wither 3, the wish.com version kf The Witcher 3, they removed jumping to cut the costs down
to be fair it doesnt feel fun to jump in that game
Doesn't make it stop existing
alternate topic: i have a pet peeve when games have realistic jumping rather than devil may cry jumping. dmc is just more fun. i don't care if it isn't realistic to moon bounce everywhere, i wanna do it
RD2? In Red Dead Redemption 2 you can indeed jump. And you can do the same in Witcher 3
OP seems sleep-deprived. Off the top of my head, the only game I could think of where you can't jump and is open world and 3D is Brutal Legend. I know there are others in my library, but Brutal Legend is the only one I distinctly remember for the inability to jump, because it really made the world feel far flatter than it should be.
After playing Helldivers 2 I now get irrationally angry I can't dive in certain games.
Nothing like jumping off a high cliff and using the hug emote to do a literal swan dive.
jeff hardy theme starts playing
Aight I gotta try this now
Imo diving makes a hell of a lot more sense than jumping in combat situations
it's kinda in the name.. no?
Yes! So there's a little-discussed design pattern sometimes called "one free interaction". It's basically about providing an opportunity for users of a physical or digital product to fiddle, with a consequence-free interaction.
It can be done deliberately, but it's usually an unintentional side effect of a proper feature, and most people know exactly what I'm talking about:
All consequence-free "fidget tools".
A lot of gamers take advantage of jumping in games to give them something to do when travelling that's not just holding the forward button. What you're feeling is just the absence of this free interaction.
The worst thing about the Reddit mobile app, and I think browser, is that clicking almost anywhere will close a comment thread.
Can I just COPY? What if I want MORE OPTIONS? Hmm? Reddit mobile app? Can I just highlight text?
When replying to a comment you can select text and copy it. I don't know why they can't do this everywhere
TIL
With RIF we could highlight text and click reply and only the highlighted part would be quoted. Idk why the official app can't do that
The official app is so much worse and now they have no competition and no incentive to improve it.
The official app has always been terrible and they've never been interested in improving it. Of course they want all mobile users to use it so they can take in advertising revenue but instead of improving the app and making it an actual alternative to 3rd party apps, they just killed all 3rd party apps to force mobile users onto their awful platform.
On Android you can swipe up to see open apps and highlight any text that way, often works on highlighting text even if it's just text in a jpeg or something.
Edit: see link below for example https://imgur.com/a/aSfcd8I
Im on android and even with your picture I still have no idea what you are talking about. What do you mean "swipe up"? Where? How did you highlight text in the reddit app? I hit a button to see open apps and in there there is no option to highlight text, it just selects the window of the app
What version of Android are you on? It's also possible that custom versions (e.g. Samsung devices) have removed that feature. For instance, if you touch a button to see open apps it sounds like you're not using the gesture controls (swipe up) which is how vanilla android operates these days.
Not button but a touch screen button. Anyway I'm on a galaxy s23
Samsung is probably blocking the built in vanilla features with their "improved" Android skin
Oh well.
Wtf I been holding the comment this whole time since I came from a third party app lol
Either that or it randomly sends you to the gif site
For me it's trying to close a comment thread and for some reason it takes me to a random fucking gif page when I never clicked anywhere close to a gif. Piece of shit app.
For me the worst is trying to open a submission and going to the subreddit's front page.
And if you are on web on mobile, it does the opposite and opens profile/full thread if you click on a comment. Because God forbid anything approach consistent.
Did it to the above comment. Can’t. Stop. Tapping.
Tell that to the pebble you got stuck on and have to back up then make sure not to touch it's polygon or you're stuck again because you can't jump.
I thought this was gonna be a Death Stranding reference dang
It's a reference to whatever game you want it to be my friend. It applies to way more than it should.
That's why I love when games include a flourish button where you can twirl your weapons around or whatever as you run around. It's just a nice lil thing to do.
sheathe/unsheathe intensifies
A somewhat unusual one for me is when I'm playing multiplayer with my brother on warframe (we're both introverted to the point of being asocial so we just play together without others) while waiting for him to mess with gear for the next mission I do laps around my orbiter's lower floor. Looping around the armoury pillar. I almost do it on autopilot. And if he doesn't realize that I'm ready he may start doing it too and soon we've both done 100+ laps just chatting completely forgetting what we were doing (preparing to run a mission)
I can't believe I didn't notice this. For starters I'm always picking at my phone case for lack of something to do with my hands. To follow up I play a lot of games that require thinking in between interactions and as such I often find myself flicking between options while my brain processes the decision. Like in STS where you can plan out a whole turn of like 15 cards with watcher but in between playing the cards I'm just flicking left and right between them at high speeds.
This is something that happens in RL card games too. The number of opponents who will flick/shuffle/riffle/play with their hand while waiting for your turn ranges from a light flick to rapidly shuffling
Great point!
Interesting point! In Zelda OoT you can roll, but not jump, and I never found it as interesting despite providing that free interaction. I think because it’s just a canned animation with set length so there’s not much opportunity for creativity? Varying your jump timing and height is a bigger interaction space to experiment in so seems more conducive to fiddling.
I z lock jumped through the whole game lol.
What is a game if you can't jump!
I was just thinking about why rolling doesn’t satisfy quite as much as jumping, and I like your theory a lot.
But we all rolled everywhere anyway!
Rolling in that game is also faster than walking forwards (but slower than backwards) so that helps
Spamming the inspect animation or weapon swap in games like CSGO and Valorant
Yeah exactly what I thought of. Some pro players do this when they have been holding an angle for 10+ seconds because they claim it keeps their brain fresh and ready to react to a peek.
do you select text for no reason when you're reading documents?
do you use right click to open context menus all over the place when reading web pages?
.... sometimes I'd wonder if I was the only one that did these. All the time too and it confuses people watching me.
Explains why I love spamming horns in driving
In the dark souls game you can roll as you move, to give you a little spice in your travels. But not being able to jump still bothers me, even with the fun rolling mechanic
Well, all Souls games do have a jump. Elden Ring was just the first to have a dedicated button for it, and allow you to do it while standing still.
Didn't sekiro have one too?
Sekiro isn't a souls like, it does have many similarities since it was made by the same devs, but the gameplay is fundamentally different
I agree. I just think that so many people put it in the soulslike category because if it was made by another company it would be compared and put into the same category. Elden Ring is close enough to the souls series that it can be, so I agree
Sekiro isn't a souls like
Yes it is.
The sprint and hop doesn’t feel like a jump to me. It was very limited
Yeah for sure. It has its uses, though.
The souls tic is mashing your LB to raise and lower your shield
Yes. And in Bloodborne it’s spamming the trick weapon button
Omg is this why I’m always randomly jumping/rolling/aiming at nothing when I’m running around an open world? I never thought about this
This is a big part of why I prefer to drive a manual.
The Stanley Parable
You can jump in the jump zone.
As long as you have jumps left.
By Rd2 do you mean Red Dead 2? Because you can definitely jump in that game.
Depends on the game and level design tbh. Some games don’t need it some do
Nonsense. I still don’t understand how people like Tetris. You can’t even jump!
Wildstar had double jump on hoverboards. It was the best.
I miss that game, why did you have to remind me?
Wildstar my love :(
After playing returnal, I had a hard time playing anything else for a while because of how fast and smooth the movement was in that game.
Agreed. Movement in that game felt so fast and responsive. You really got a sense of how fast you were going when they introduced co-op snd you seen the other Selene flying at an insane speed.
This was me after titanfall2 multiplayer.
Everything else felt painfully slow, and clunky.
Dark Souls games have no real jump. You can kind of jump but you have to sprint first and then do an awkward leap. To tell the truth, I didn’t really mind it when I played through those games, but now that Elden Ring added a real jump I imagine it will feel pretty bad when I go back to the older titles.
I go back and replay all of them pretty periodically and what actually happens is that when I go back to ER I forget I can jump there.
And it's not like there's NO platforming in those games. You definitely need to do the awkward jump across a gap or two.
Don't even attempt the long dark then lol, you will be so frustrated getting stuck on little terrain changes and rocks. Not hating on the game, btw one of my favorite survival games, but boy, just a little jump for those ledges would be great
I have an irrational hate of people who not only manage to be wrong in their post, but misspell the games they list.
This whole post made me irrationally angry at how long I spent trying to understand just how stupid it is. It’s very stupid.
I just wanna know how you managed to make a small error listing every single game
Read Dead Redemption 2 is generally abbreviated RDR2
Witcher 3 is spelled with a c in it
Division has 3 i's
L.A. Noire, its an abbreviation of Los Angeles so both need to be capitalized.
Edit: I skipped over Mafia 3, which has a space between Mafia and 3.
They're all small things that I would normally overlook, but how did you manage to make a mistake on all 4 of them?
He also made a mistake by saying you can't jump in rdr2 and witcher. You can in both. Someone said he is probably not a native speaker, but if you check their profile they seem to be located in Canada.
There's ALOT of immigrants in Canada now.
Fair point, but if he lives there he should have the language figured out
Speaking as an immigrant myself.
I think he really just didn't put much effort into that post
Oh I agree, but I'm a White American so if I say that it's racist. Lol.
There's ALOT of immigrants in Canada now.
I legitimately can't tell if making up the word "alot" and then putting it in all caps is supposed to be a joke or not considering the subject matter here.
Holy fuck, unclutch your pearls.
Now get back to chorin.
Not a joke. Gotcha.
*gotcha
lol yup! Saw that one. I wasn't trying to be hostile, i genuinely thought it was a joke i didn't quite get.
I don’t know for certain, but to me it seems English is not their first language.
I was annoyed by all the typos too, and English isn't my first language either.
I wasn't annoyed by all the typos, and English is my first language.
Then you should understand there are variable levels of peoples ability to use a language that isn’t their native one.
And you should understand that command of a language typos and misspellings and not giving a fuck about them isn't related to whether the language someone writes in is their native tongue. To the contrary, I expect people who speak a second (or higher) language to care a lot more than a native speaker.
You can believe that all you want, but it’s not necessarily true.
People are often taught English poorly thinking it’s correct by ESL teachers, especially in SEA.
I work with many people where Spanish is their first language and see a lot of similar typos in emails.
So you should understand not everything is as you perceive it.
Yes yes yes, all good points. And all completely fucking irrelevant here. I belabored the wrong point too, I admit.
Look at the actual English OP wrote. I'm no expert, but I can't see a single grammar or spelling error. The only errors are in the various games' names.
read ded redemption
I totally get it! Jumping feels like such a basic ability in games. It can be frustrating when you can't do it.
What is RD2?
Read Dead 2
Oh weird I don't think I've ever seen it abbreviated that way. It's always RDR2
DAE?
If I had to guess DAE probably means “does anyone else”.
Why can't we just use whole words when these shorthands are not so widespread
DAE has been around for a while but it's one of those words only used on reddit kinda things.
I remember seeing around the time ISHYGDDT or w.e. the abbreviation was and they both used to piss me off lol.
Every time i read DAE, it makes me feel like a special needs kid.
I'm quite young and have never seen it, so age might not be the deciding factor here
I was thinking it was a studio name or something. Given the tenuous grasp of spelling and grammar I really didn't know what I was looking at.
Nobody uses that acronym
It's been around for a long long time
people used to use it on reddit quite a bit tbf
DAE is old as shit but people definitely use it. Welcome to your Baeder-Meinhoff moment.
All these games putting dodge roll on the Spacebar like it isn't sacred...
Its legitimately why I chose to play World of Warcraft over Final Fantasy 11 back in the day.
Nah, but I have a completely rational hate for games that won't allow my character to jump.
Or, even more infuriating, games where you can't step over (or vault, or hop) a tiny obstacle or terrain change.
Oh, is that a small log on the ground? Welp, better turn around because, despite my immense strength, omniscience, and magical powers, I don't know how to traverse this impassible object. Sure, I can one-shot-kill an Eldritch horror with my sword made of hellfire, but I'm just no match for soggy, beetle-riddled, rotting wood!
Zelda games are great, they have auto jump. Are you gonna miss them?
I own a switch and botw is one of my favoute games of all time. I can jump, Im happy, it's a great game
Honestly, I don't really like the Zelda games from 64 to Wii U. I tried playing 3 of them and maybe the reason I don't like them that much is you can't jump. It was fine when it was top down, but when it became 3D and you couldn't jump wherever you wanted it really bugged me.
Shout-out to Guild Wars. I played for thousands of hours without a single jump.
For me I’ve always had a love of platformers, jumping feels like one of the most quintessential “video game” moves. Yes you can jump in real life, but how frequently does the average person jump? And how often is it more than a piddly hop off the ground to be silly, or shoot a basketball or something? Jumping instantly makes me feel like I’m doing something more grand, even if the actual platforming is…. Half baked to be polite. More games should integrate platforming mechanics, I’ll love them for at least trying.
Rainbow six siege has no jump but it's probably for the best in that context.
Still just let me jump and make it so I can't shoot or whatever.
It never bothered since we can barely jump IRL, at least not like a video game character but I understand why you would feel that way.
The sad part is that you miss a lot of good games :/
What are all these acronyms
Yes, I want to be bouncy.
But the stanley parable :(
You probably must hate the newer god of war games then.
It kinda sucks because double jumping was a huge part of the fun on the originals. But there are other things you can do now that are fun too
I was super pumped for the division when it first came out. Refunded it when I got to a point early on where my objective was 10 feet ahead and a vault over a railing, but I wasn't allowed to jump and had to run all the way around the railing instead.
Just.... No.
Smite drew me in with the completely useless, and actually detrimental ability to jump. Jumping does nothing except for stopping you from attacking or changing directions for the duration.
And it was specifically added because a big chunk of the devs and community were just like OP.
Play the Mass Effect trilogy- if that doesn't change your mind, nothing will.
coming back to dark souls after elden ring be like
Yes and no.
I hate when not being able to jump leads to incredibly annoying issues with the terrain.
Small ledge? Have fun walking ALL THE WAY AROUND IT!
Tiny gap in the floor? NO OTHER WAY TO TRAVERSE THIS INCREDIBLY SMALL OBSTACLE!
FFXI has multiple areas gated off by logs / steps. One of them is literally stair step height.
There’s a reason you can jump in FF14.
No, it's just you. The rest of us are logical people who can judge games for more than one thing.
You can absolutely jump in Witcher 3
That’s what I thought. Been awhile since I played but I could’ve sworn lol.
Downvoted for the double cringe of “blow your dad” and for actually giving a shit about downvotes
What the fuck are you talking about
Blow your dad.
You have to be over 13 to use Reddit
Eat my bunghole.
The first thing you do in new games is try to jump. I hate when you can't.
What’s DAE
I'll tell you a fun little story from my earlier days of gaming. I originally started playing WoW in 2004 because I saw a screenshot of a player jumping off a rock into water. I love games where you can actually explore like that(walljumping was one of my favorite things to do in vanilla WoW and BC). I was playing a MMO called star wars galaxies. It technically had a jump button but it was just an animation. You couldn't ever jump over anything, you were attached to the ground always. SWG was fun but I always love games with good movement systems that allow for tricks
I love 3D RPGs like Phantasy Star Online where you can't jump, because it means combat is a lot simpler
This is perfectly rational.
I had this realization playing The Last of Us (especially after playing Uncharted), but let me put this back to you: when was the last time you jumped in real life? Like a real real jump? After thinking about that, I wasn't too bothered by Joel running and climbing but not jumping.
You can jump in LA Noire, in fact you have to in certain missions.
Can you even finish the tutorial without jumping in the witcher 3...? How did you manage?
Mass Effect
Was alarmed at this in god of war until I realized how it created fun constraints for puzzle solving
Bro you can jump in both of those games, what are you talking about?
I liked how in Gears of War you could take cover instead of jumping that leaves exposed in a predictable arc
I was this way til I realized how little I jump in my day to day life, and it was foolish of me to expect my game characters to do the same.
When was the last time you jumped in real life?
literarally daily! I jumped into a pool today, I jumped when played tennis, I also do this weird sideways jumping this to get around the house.. How do you spend a whole day and not jump?
I’m an NPC.
When guild wars came out I was a huge wowhead. I was so excited to try a cheaper wow killer.
Got it and promptly realized I couldn’t spam jump across the map as I traversed. In fact, couldn’t jump at all.
Immediately went back to wow.
We complain about not jumping in games, but when was the last time you jumped IRL?
I take full advantage of it if an option and I enjoy not having to press the jump key 100000000 times if a game doesn’t.
Yesssss sometimes it makes sense but there’s certain games where I feel LOCKED to the floor for no reason!! It makes me feel almost claustrophobic!!
Yesssss sometimes it makes sense but there’s certain games where I feel LOCKED to the floor for no reason!! It makes me feel almost claustrophobic!!
The bunny hop curse.
theres literally a jump button in both of these games and you need to use it numerous times to complete both of them lmaoooo
I remember playing rainbow six siege when it came out. As the last one alive staring at a trap and trying to jump over it but just walked right into it and died.
Ok, but how often do you actually jump in real life?
Every time I get annoyed about this (and I do get viscerally angry about this) I always stop and think, well... how often do I actually jump in real life? When I do jump how often do I actually jump high enough to clear a serious obstacle? The type of jumps characters do in even 'realistic' video games would actually require me to do a crouch and really wind myself up, and I'm a pretty active person. For example the Elden Ring jump feels so strange to me because you basically jump the entire height of your character straight up in the air from a standing position.
So after giving myself this whole little speech every time I usually manage to calm down about it.
I really haye the controls of the Witcher 3.
It was a backbreaking dealbreaker.
Your critique is spot on.
Friggin Yo-Yo Gerald can't sit still while swinging a stick, he has to jump back and forth like some jackass and make me dizzy.
I just realized theres an alternative movement mode (which is actually the orginal), it feels a not better to be, even through the movement is slower it's not so jearky and a lot more natural looking.
It's one of my annoyances with Days Gone. Depending on the game I'll take not being able to sprint over not being able to jump though.
damn, that's on my wishlist :( thanks for the heads up
OoT is still a great game
Well technically Witcher 3 does lock u out of jumping when in combat.
Yes. Because games where you can't jump invariably wind up using it as a really dumb and cheap way to block off paths.
"Oops, there's a waist-high wooden fence/tree stump/six-inch-wide crevice in the way. Can't jump over it. Gotta walk 14 miles in the opposite direction and go around."
Yes.
What's far more common, and thus, more infuriating, is not being able to CROUCH.
Usually comes from moronic automated cover systems so you don't "need" to fReE cRoUcH.
That's not how cover works, stupids. Let me CROUCH.
I love "Wither 3"
I prefer it. Zelda games that auto-jump when you walk off an edge are amazing because it's impossible to mistime the jump button and fall for no good reason.
I HATE NOT JUMPING. a few of my favorite games dont let me and its not life altering, but SO annoying
I think would have played the crap out of FF stranger of paradise if it had jump. Just felt wrong.
Play Jump King if you like to jump.
You can jump in The Witcher 3...