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I simply don't care to be rushed like that. I much prefer 'fake timers' like personas, disco elysium etc where Doing Stuff costs time and not your actual ambulating from place to place

Yes I like Pikmin 1 much more than 2 because of the timer

i think that fundamentally people who can't handle games that stress you out on purpose have weak bloodlines and will not survive the winter

I’ll admit, I was initially put off when I heard about the time limit in Dawnwalker, but the way they described it on the Triple Click podcast — not punishing, just making you choose actions deliberately — really sold me on it.

prey hacking has a timer and it kinda sucks because the difficulty of the task increases the time length and because of the way this is set up difficulty 2/4 is the hardest, giving you arguably the worst time:difficulty ratio

I played Seance of Blake Manor recently and the time mechanic definitely made me play it thoughtfully, as opposed to a regular detective game where I would just stop and check everything all the time and waste a bunch of time. By the end I had plenty left but I don’t feel like I missed anything.

I know I bounced off XCOM 2 because of it, but I also think the timer in that game makes it significantly more interesting, and does a good job at forcing you to make tough decisions.

I'm not against timers at all! But a poor implementation of em I can imagine really sour people's perception of the mechanic as a whole much like escort missions or QTEs

usually minigames in crusty-ass games are the patient zero of this mindset. remember no more heroes

Timers make people anxious, and yes, that's the point, but people don't want to feel anxious when they are relaxing. "Just don't be anxious by the inexorable passage of time" is not a solution for those people.

Every time I've encountered a timers bad person their experience basically amounted to playing Majora's Mask for half an hour and giving up because the timer was too stressful, so seems to mostly be a psychological thing in my experience

i actually quite like the bomb missions in spider-man ps4 where you have to make it to and destroy the bombs in time before they all blow up its very fun

I’m a big fan of Pikmin 4 almost managing to do it all lol

The Atelier games definitely lost something when they got rid of the time limit

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!