Feedback

Other (objects, etc.) concept

Any concepts that relate to sense of weight, impact, or general feedback to player character's physical actions.

Alternate names: Impact, Sense of weight

See also: realism

Generally this covers things like appropriate screenshake, hits stopping at things instead of passing through them like they were air, small forced movements (violent head movement from blow to the head for example in first-person game), and so forth. Usually things that make every single action carry some form of weight instead of going through as if you were punching air.

This is a container group; its children are:

Environmental contact	Tools, weapons, etc. can touch the environment instead of acting as if they were simply 2D printouts on your HUD or passing through everything as if they were air.	2008 / 2017	19 games
Fall impact	Falling down a significant height causes the character to recoil from the impact, roll across the floor, or otherwise react to the impact force.	1990 / 2020	164 games
Haptic feedback	Supports devices that produce haptic feedback, such as vibration, directional force, or such. (too short)	1999 / 2018	39 games
Impact shock	Getting hit, shot, or such can send the player character/vehicle reeling, shaking, staggering, or such, messing up with aim, micro stunning and/or other things.		1 game
Melee impact	Melee strikes actually impact with opponents, swings stopping (possibly with haptic feedback and/or slight screenshake accompanying it) when they meet hard enough resistance instead of passing through like air.	2012 / 2014	3 games
Recoil	Simulates recoil to some degree, throwing aim off target rather than usual bullet dispersion increasing for a moment or simply nothing at all.	1997 / 2017	59 games
Screen shake	The player's view and/or interface shakes.	1984 / 2020	303 games
Weapon kickback	Some or all of the weapons have significant kickback, pushing their user backwards or even sending them flying.	1998 / 2017	49 games