I already said a couple times, that the movement system in DB feels a bit like I’m skating on ice, or something like that. I kinda get why people would put this realistic shenanigans into their games, but instead of making it more realistic***, it becomes some sort of meta-game in itself to even compensate this strange inertia(and other realistic effects).
You already don’t physically feel what your virtual body is doing, why would you want to have a layer of artificial inertia on top of that?
***I know how much you guys hate this word, but I’m using it for the lack of a better term.
Take the driving in GTA for example; many of us have a drivers licencse and know how driving a car actually feels like, but the driving in GTA, and most other open world games, is much more difficult, than driving a real car. To make the driving there more realistic it would have to be less realistic from an inertia POV. The same goes for stuff like bloom effects, which you can’t compensate with your real eyes, because your eyes are the PC screen and it only shows what the graphics card would tell it. If the engine tells the game it has to obstruct your vision in a certain way, you just have to cope with it. And what might look good on a virtual sight-seeing tour, or on screenshots, can be a real pain when you are actually playing that game. That bloom stuff is obviously not a problem in DB, since you can conveniently switch off most of the candy effects, but the inertia is still present, no matter what you are switching off. And since your ear is not connected to this virtual world you have to fight what you’d normally compensate without thinking.
Long story short: Exactly the most realistic stuff in a game makes it unrealistically difficult to play, since you can’t react, or compensate for it, like you would in reality. So to make a game feel actually realistic you would have to reduce the amount of physical feedback and make everything as responsive as possible.
I’m not trying to convince people to entirely remove inertia from DB, or what, since I know that’s how SD and many players wants it to be. I just wanted your opinion on this topic in general.
PS: I’m once again sorry for the wall of text above, but like many times before I kinda “feared”, that I couldn’t get my point across otherwise.