>modern game has a "minimalistic" UI with a stock white font and black/white translucent rectangles Instant into the trash.Man, what the fuck happened to game UIs? They used to be actually unique, cool and fun. Having as much iconic gusto to them as the game itself, adding to the atmosphere and the overall experience. You can instantly identify so many games just by their UI elements. Nowadays all UIs are literally interchangeable. It seems they're trying to make games as bland and forgettable as possible even down to the most basic elements.
Minimalist HUDs are for immersing the player in to the game. However, it's just a LAZY way of doing it, since there are devs who find immersive ways of conveying information to you without using some shitty minimalist UI. A minimal UI in a fighting game seems dumb at a conceptual level, though. A fightan gaem player needs to see his bars. You're not immersing yourself into a 2D fightan.
>>729873785>Minimalist HUDs are for immersing the player in to the gameThey already solved this issue back in the PS2 days with UI that goes away if you're not doing shit, or you call it up/hide it with a press of a button. No need for soulless interchangeable minimalist slop.
>>729873785>Minimalist HUDs are for immersing the player in to the gameYou're talking about the size of the UI. OP is talking about the style. Skyrim's UI is horrendously immersion-breaking compared to Oblivion.
yeah
Started with AssCreed btw
>>729873556jews
BIG
>>729876818UI
>>729873785>Minimalist HUDs are for immersing the player in to the game
>>729873785>Minimalist HUDs are for immersing the player in to the gameIt's literally immersion breaking, retard
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>>729873556Gaming is dead boss.
>>729873556Blame Apple for starting this trend
>>729878967I blame retards that started copying it.
>>729877381SLOP
ffuu
I miss when RPGs had menu customization and different themes. When was the last game that did this?
>>729873556The fact that even japs started copying gaijin and doing this shit is disturbing.
>>729882514Ended when HDslop era started.
tis a shame brudda
>>729884974Really makes you think, ya?
>>729873556Game companies started hiring web UX devs (women who can't code) for UI, that's pretty much it.
>>729886081coding is not the issue here
half of it is because they're too lazy to design soulful uis that can scale to whatever retarded screen dimensions people are using these days. the other half is because instead of having the regular game artists design menus they have "ui design" artists who blindly follow "best practices" meant for phone screens.
>>729886808Sad.
>>729877553he's literally me
Augh.
>>729873556AI will save us.
>>729875228Assassin’s Creed was actually a pioneer of highly immersive HUDs. The HUD in the early games is contextualised as being part of the simulation and the first game’s HUD especially has a dystopian sci-fi theme so you don’t forget that you’re in a simulation.
>>729873556Another gripe I have with modern games>sound design is some sort of generic bendy wobbly metal>volume is terribly inconsistent, too quiet or too loud
>>729890318>first game’s HUD especially has a dystopian sci-fi themelmao, it's was shitty black/white rectangles with stock font, kys
>>729873556Art is dead.
>>729890653video games were never art.
>>729890705They have always been.They are literally a combination of multiple visual arts, and many people have used the media to express their emotions and ideas. Which is a trademark sign of art.
>>729890830>They are literally a combination of multiple visual artsso are Avengers movies, are they also art?
>>729890879Why wouldn't they be art? Because your childhood bullies watch them?
>>729890705dumb zoomer
>>729892712dumb consoomer
>>729892737>n-no Uyup, dumb zoomer
>>729873556something something soul something something retard developers and publisher, next question
>>729890879>so are Avengers moviesNo they're not. They are literally one art form: movies.
>>729893026sexo
>>729890653lol
There's probably a guy who suggest to make a good unique UI, and then they all look at him like at a retard and he's immediately fired.
>>729873556You know the threads where faggot retards whine about there being "too much shit on the screen" and would rather have the data they need to know without all the clutter?Blame them.
>>729896146zoomers? I always blame them
>>729890502>sci-fi game has a sci-fi/computery looking UIImagine my shock. Point stands that there weren’t many game prior to AC1 that actually contextualised their UI in game for the sake of immersion. Then after it, games like Fallout 3 and New Vegas and Dead Spave followed suit.
>>729897106>you cannot make sci-fi/computery looking UI unique and interesting, it HAS to be generic and lazyretard>i-it's contextualised!don't use words you don't know the meaning of
>>729897337You have to remember that I was 2007, which is when sleek minimalist UI in tech began to take off, so it looked futuristic for the time.
