Posted May 05, 2015
PixelBoy: So to go full show-hide-unhide circle for 10 games, you actually need to click (at least) 41 times.
That's maybe easy as in "not difficult to do", but not easy as in "convenient".
dirtyharry50: Yeah, now that you mention it that is really rough. I hope you never try to play Diablo or anything like it. I don't think your tender finger could take all those murderous clicks it takes to play. I get tired myself just thinking about it. ;-) That's maybe easy as in "not difficult to do", but not easy as in "convenient".
That's something that should be avoided, even in games. There are some genres which tend to be very click-heavy, like strategies with micromanagement, but many of those games also have keyboard shortcuts for some actions.
A good example is Runescape, although it's not a strategy game, obviously. They used to have one click per one action type of design for everything. If you had to cook 20 fish, you had to click 20 times. Bury 100 bones? Click 100 times (plus whatever number of clicking it took to refill inventory). Nowadays, most actions can be performed by just clicking once for the entire inventory. Unnecessary clicking only serves to annoy people.
Of course there are some games where you just can't change that, or the entire point of the game is gone too. One that I played recently is Sushi Bar Express, which is all based on fast reactions.
(A very nice game, but buggy as hell, as it crashes frequently.)
dirtyharry50: On a more serious note, are you telling me that you are actually going to hide and then unhide and then hide again some 10 or more games at the same time? Because if you are I'm sorry but I cannot understand that behavior for the life of me and as such it doesn't impress me as any valid reason to consider this a problem of any magnitude.
That said, if it bothers you, it bothers you. I just differ in that it doesn't phase me at all but then I am not about to sit down and make a project of fiddling with my shelf even if there was no client in the making. It's the kind of thing I'd be inclined to do either as I went or bits at a time.
Well, the manual sorting is a feature which is designed to be used, and I have been using it for years. Now I have only two options: to use it the hard way, or not use it at all. That said, if it bothers you, it bothers you. I just differ in that it doesn't phase me at all but then I am not about to sit down and make a project of fiddling with my shelf even if there was no client in the making. It's the kind of thing I'd be inclined to do either as I went or bits at a time.
It wouldn't be such a major problem if all those unbundled games had appeared in the places where bundled games used to be. But, they didn't. They all are at the very bottom of the shelf, and completely mixed up. There weren't any games from any series that were together as a series.
So for intance, I had some Ultima games, like the last games in the series, on the upper half of the shelf, together, as I had arranged them, and Ultimas 1-6 were all randomly placed all over. (Not counting free Ultima IV, of course, which was with the other arranged Ultimas).
Of course I could find those games by some other means too, but that's not how I used GOG for all these years.