It's console thing.

Alt + f4

About reasoning - non of your business, if you cant figure out oldest, fastest and thus the most convenient way to close applications(there are exceptions) on windows, nothing to discuss about it.

Originally posted by Dexter:

It's console thing.

On consoles ppl push home button and thats it

Originally posted by Skaarphy:

Is there any rational explanation for this that I just don't see? Or is it as nonsensical and idiotic as it seems to me?

Regarding intro logos and non-skippable videos, intro message boxes and texts, this is disease not only by Сарком, but also by many other companies. But Сарком is abusing it, yeah. Most correct thing user can do is install mods to disable them, if any.

Originally posted by Skaarphy:

And can I just save the game and then kill it, or will that mess things up?`Does anyone know?

If do Alt+F4 too quickly after saving, this can further lead to "save error" problem.

Save then Alt-F4 out.... always done it that way.

So I take it nobody really knows why it's done this way, but it's safe to just kill it once it's done saving.
But it's really weird, isn't it? It's the most common sense thing; give us the options to go back to the main menu, or to quit outright. A 5-year-old could see the sense in that. Then why force us to jump through hoops when we want to just quit?

Anyway, thanks for the answers.

Originally posted by Skaarphy:

So I take it nobody really knows why it's done this way,

Originally posted by Dexter:

It's console thing.

I've never paid much attention to consoles. Are you saying it's impossible to implement a feature for consoles to just save and quit? Is having to go back to the main menu hardwired into them, or something?

Originally posted by Skaarphy:

I've never paid much attention to consoles. Are you saying it's impossible to implement a feature for consoles to just save and quit? Is having to go back to the main menu hardwired into them, or something?

Not sure.... I stoped playing with consoles when the dreamcast died and this was my last console system.
But now that I remember... on old systems, when you were done playing, you saved your progression then pushed the power button off.... or you could also press the "reset" button then open the CD player door to get back to the main menu (cd player).

And I imagine on more recent system the "return home" thing is also optional, you can probably just power off after saving (?)


Now to get back to the PC part..
Everything is probably doable, they just never bother wasting coding time (time is money) when adapting a console port and only focus on changing things necessary to have the game run under window or whatever OS it's expected to run on (?).

Oh, wow. I think I get it. You don't get to just quit because there is nothing to quit TO. Never thought of that. Cleared up quite the annoying question I've had for a while now. Thank you.

You can quit at the main menu, which is the VERY FIRST menu you see when you start the game. Scroll all the way down; the last option will let you quit.

Originally posted by ~⁧⁧kapacb:

Originally posted by Dexter:

It's console thing.

On consoles ppl push home button and thats it

Wasnt a thing on Ps3 back then. If you shut down the game suddenly either via the PS button's close game option, it would restart the system

Originally posted by Valden21:

You can quit at the main menu, which is the VERY FIRST menu you see when you start the game. Scroll all the way down; the last option will let you quit.

I imagine most play sessions of Dragon's Dogma eventually select New/Load Game at some point rather than sitting on the Main Menu. The question being asked is why the PC port added a Quit to Desktop option to the Main Menu, but not for when you're actually playing the game, and there is no answer for this that reflects well on Capcom. Obviously Alt+F4 is an option, but game/save corruption is a reasonable fear for anyone lacking tech literacy/thorough understanding of Dragon's Dogma's save system.

Something i notice alot in console or Japanese games. To the point where i actually alt tab and end task...

Originally posted by NathanVenture:

Originally posted by Valden21:

You can quit at the main menu, which is the VERY FIRST menu you see when you start the game. Scroll all the way down; the last option will let you quit.

I imagine most play sessions of Dragon's Dogma eventually select New/Load Game at some point rather than sitting on the Main Menu. The question being asked is why the PC port added a Quit to Desktop option to the Main Menu, but not for when you're actually playing the game, and there is no answer for this that reflects well on Capcom. Obviously Alt+F4 is an option, but game/save corruption is a reasonable fear for anyone lacking tech literacy/thorough understanding of Dragon's Dogma's save system.

But it DIDN'T add the Quit button to the main menu. That button's always been there. Since its original release on console, you had to select "Save and Quit to the main menu" button in the Start menu, THEN select the Quit button.