Topic: Pokémon Winds and Waves

While I don't make games, I don't see any reason why a modern game with a day night cycle can't offer a stepped slider in the settings to adjust the in-game clock speed, with 'Real time' (or even slower) at one end and something like 1 minute = 1 day at the other. Just let the people decide, damnit.

@gcunit The 'sit on a bench/go to bed to change the time of day' method works well too. This is one of those cases where some people argue against simple optional qality-of-life features just because they personally don't want to use them.

@FishyS Yeh, it serves a purpose, but a slightly different purpose, for me. Changing the clock time is normally because I want to fulfil a specific time-based objective, whereas changing the clock speed is a more general setting I'll probably tweak once or twice until I'm happy with it and then leave alone.

I generally don't like changing the clock time in games (though I am compelled to do it with some games, e.g. Animal Crossing), it feels unnatural, breaks the immersion, like I'm circumventing the proper experience. But clock speed is important to me. It's about enjoying the environment the game is set in, immersing myself in it. The clock speed in Breath of the Wild was pretty good for me. Slow enough to feel realistic but fast enough to be able to stand still for a minute or two and just watch the changes in lighting, weather etc like it was a real place.

I pretty much always hated the day/night cycle in GSC. It was cool at first…but spending 80% of your game time in the dark finding wild hoothoot is no fun. And then changing the system clock just feels like it ruins the whole point of it.

That said i can see the value it adds for some. I would love to see the option of a RT clock vs a shorter daily cycle (tied to in-game time). I would definitely choose the latter.