Usually used to keep the player on-task so they don't scour the map looking for secrets that don't exist and encounter an Invisible Wall or the Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence. In less severe cases, the character might simply remind them of an optional gameplay mechanic during any downtime this is most common in Wide-Open Sandbox games.įrequently used in modern "realistic" linear shooters. The trope is generally a combination of a slightly overbearing help system and an attempt to avert Take Your Time typically, the result only emphasizes that there's no hurry, since the player is likely to rapidly realise that nothing will happen if they don't hurry up other than that they'll become progressively more irritated with the support character reminding them. Still, no matter how little or how long they take, they always make it with hardly any time to spare.
In some cases, the reminders are needed if the player gets off track too much or gets heavily distracted and forgets about the main objectives. In particularly severe cases, there will also only be a handful of possible "hurry up" messages repeated endlessly. Even when there's no hurry for you to get the C4 and blow up that door, you'll still be reminded of it every ten seconds or so, apparently on the basis that you might have forgotten. Well, one modern solution is to have the player be radioed or otherwise contacted constantly by a support character to provoke a false sense of urgency. You don't want to use an actual timer to make the player advance since that can be frustrating, you'd have to be a total jerkass to just suddenly tell the player "oh, looks like the Big Bad finished taking over the universe while you were dawdling about, Game Over" and actually creating a branch into the plot where the villain succeeds without ending the game is just too much work.so what can be done?
Video games often suffer from a lack of a real sense of urgency, which can be jarring when the enemy's supposed to be rolling up in their supertank or the evil sorcerer taking over all the lands of the world by midnight.
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