I'm fond of keeping weapons throughout a game, partly because of sentimentality and partly as a kind of autism. You wouldn't just throw away a perfectly good gun. Any time I play a game and the weapons are level specific I drop it immediately.
I think you just have to either use luck or wait by a cannon and jump in right before it gets to that one
This shit ruined Hotline Miami 2
Studios can be real petty. The Montreal studio lost control over the IP and Quebec ended up getting it back. As much as they want to say it's a "collaboration", internally it isn't as such.
I dunno, those games were kind of like old Nintendo platformers where the first time you hit a level, there was some instadeath long fall you couldn't know was there because where you were jumping to was off screen. And unlike those old Nintendo games, you couldn't just start the level over and over, you had to start from scratch, with the painful memory of exactly where you suffered this unfairness burned into your mind and an insatiable desire for revenge.
You could always see the enemies in the first game if they were in range of shooting you. Hotline Miami's perspective and one-hit kills lends itself to close quarters fights, or at least a reasonable limitation on the enemies' cone of vision. It's a lot like old school Castelvania, you die easy but you never get sucker-punched.
I routinely cycle through about 3 games that have integrated ping systems. It drives me up the fucking wall that all of them have the ping button mapped differently and I keep fucking it up.
At least they didn't pull a Rainbow Six: Siege and change the ping button after four years of it being assigned to left on the d-pad. What the actual fuck were they thinking? I still sometimes try to ping an enemy or trap and end up switching fire modes while watching my team-mates meander into Frost traps like the retards they are.
You can't do it on a game-by-game basis, which is insane. It's moreso just a feature for the physically retarded, or if you have a broken button and can stand using that as a workaround.
I have somewhat of a horror story involving Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition myself.
After typing that, I realized the potential retardation of this feature. Let's say, for example, I want to rebind a control that's on "B" to Clicking the Left Analog Stick and vice-versa. If I did this on the Switch/Xbox One, then EVERY input that uses "B" would be bound to the Left Analog Stick, which includes backing out of menus. I can tolerate that kind of shit on emulators, because at least I'm playing the game in an unofficial fashion, but not games that I bought legitimately.
Overwatch is the only recent shooter I know that allows you to customize controls.
The worst one that I can remember was Dead or Alive 4 and the time trial mode.
Quake had an across-the-map shotgun that I really liked, and a massive damage double barrel shotgun for close range. Being a starter weapon the regular shotgun dealt pitiful damage at both close and long range but it was enough to get opponents moving, so it was the go-to long range harassment weapon. I never liked the inclusion of railguns in the later games, they were super powerful, infinite range and hit scan. That's not a balance that I like and snipers in general are bullshit and anti-fun. Quake Wars had the right kind of sniper, it was a support role that picked off stragglers(stealing kills) and flushed out groups of players from cover as they were suddenly getting hit in the butt. Then your team mates blasted them and you stole the kills.
