holy shit I refuse to believe that's real
I can't believe someone would spend the time and effort to redesign something that has no problems into something inferior just because
2001 is the peakest form of kino, 2005 and 2011 are straight up shit, 2019 seems to look nicer but still needs work
kek
game UIs are officially SOVLLESS
at least it's clean and readable, don't expect much creativity or kino from AAA slop though, these games play it extremely safe
the new logo is fucking retarded and ugly lmfao, the old one was fine it just needed slight improvements
Insomniac fucked their logo up real good. I'm sure some graphic designer will come in and lecture me about how the old was dated and how i don't understand how the business world works. I don't care, it's shit.
That's the point, the original unintentionally smug looking girl and unintentionally discouraging quote were memorable enough to spawn a meme. This new garbage has absolutely nothing to latch onto emotionally. Nobody will ever keep "generic faceless globohomo blob" lodged in their memory or associate any emotions with it. When graphic designers want minimalism, what they actually get is nothing.
I hate corporate Memphis so much at least ai from 2023+ will add some soul back god i hate hate hate hate flat late 2010s shit it looks worse than the worst ai or clip art ive ever seen
>Woman you could marry with detailed art that had effort put into it >Replaced with obese corporate simple shape art with someone who might not even be a woman
Obama really fucked up this country.
you could marry with detailed art that had effort put into it
with obese corporate simple shape art with someone who might not even be a woman
It's the same woman, all grown up and married and no longer putting effort into herself because there's no way her man could do any better anyhow.
It was a gradual thing.
Casuals got attracted by companies and then milked.
Large companies fucked up smaller companies and that led to significantly less variety and talent in vidya.
New generation of kids playing videogames grew up on casual games and barely anything else, which explains Ganker's condition.
More and more effort on UI simplification because they expect the average gamer to be an idiot who needs clear-cut elements or else they'll somehow get lost.
Graphics leeched so much money away from development that you already know an AAA game is going to be terrible and without any interesting gameplay elements just because most of the budget has to be spent on graphics.
Consoles only get by nowadays because of the convenience of setting them up, they stopped having any inherent advantage over a PC.
It won't take long for a troll that's starving for attention to say "actually it's a good thing chud" and get a million replies from newfags, or for a guy who grew up on Minecraft and League of Legends to say "actually the trannies SJWs garden gnomes and every other epic Ganker scapegoat did it do I fit in yet" and for the thread to go to shit from the resulting flame war. On the modern internet it doesn't feel like people are playing videogames that much anymore and that's why people spend far more time complaining about everything and then trying to justify their own brand of armchair activism than they spend time playing good videogames.
2001 and 2005 were the only acceptable ones. >where did it all go wrong
2011, but in reality 7th gen is where gaming died. Most underwhelming console gen.
When games got as popular as they did.
As silly and autistic it sounds do you honestly think the rise in number of people willing to go along with every fucked up money makign schemes game companies produce isnt the biggest reason everything has gone to shit for the past couple of decades?
Every problem with the games and the industry can be traced back to just regular people not giving enough shit or not even realizing theres anything wrong with the the things their supporting with their purchases.
Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong because these brainless consumers cannot understand why they should stop doing what they consider to be fun.
When the same people who laughed at microsoft for their paid xbox live subscription started defending their favorite brand of paid online subscription.
yes really. 2007 and social media access created social media addiction, which has ruined society and caused leftist to go insane. Those are also the people making decisions in big tech.
7th gen is always the answer
corporations took over because development was getting so expensive. graphicswhores were pandered to in order to recoup larger development costs. certain ~~*tribesmen*~~ started making creative design changes and secretly working with their ~~*journalist*~~ cousins....
My theory, specifically for the UI of gaming applications, it's because in 2007 mobile became the most popular platform for internet use and the majority of the workers in the web design industry (read: Poojeets) couldn't shake the habits they developed churning out UI for shovelware mobile apps.
So. Am I retarded and just going "old good new bad" out of spite? I don't understand. 80's to 90's and Y2K look so cool compared to current flat shit.
But will someone say the same 20 years later? Is the cycle inescapable?
I hate the flat/globohomogenized art style because it is the logical conclusion to saving money besides AI generated art and I can't tell which one is more soulless.
Normalfags had a presence on the internet long before modern social media, true, but they were a small minority everywhere outside of the most mainstream places and pretending that's anywhere near the same as how things became after mobile internet access and modern social media exploded into an unstoppable juggernaut is completely ridiculous.
Older social media sights held much weaker presence, and they weren't the centerpoint of the Internet. AOL brought one type of normal fag online, but the iPhone made the world always connected. Facebook only made things worse as people began to attack anonymity and things started to centralize around datafarming social media.
A unique product with personality will greatly appeal to some people, but other people will dislike the aesthetics.
By making something that is boring and bland you make it so that everyone is open to buying your product. Sure, no one is going to really love it. But no one is going to hate it either. So when new product comes out people are just going to consoom.
Memphis just looks wicked, it exudes this feeling that everything is all right and gonna get better. Y2K have that nasty blobby design, but still it feels unique, like everyone is gonna head on into the future. Aero looks as though it's mixed between corpo and y2k, but still has slight charm here and there, but the current era of design? Utterly corporate, pretty much a sign of the things to come. Shit's wack but whatever yo.
Nah, they just get more soulless over time despite each time seeming like they can't reasonably get any worse.
2 weeks ago
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>Nah, they just get more soulless
So they were souful once, glad we agree
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
No, they're just even more soulless than they used to be because they keep discovering new ways to be soulless. Despite what politicians and leftists tell you, corporations are not people and they are not our friends.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Cope
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Don't need to, I'm not the one defending corpos.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Is the one defending corporations in the room with us right now?
You live in a capitalist society. Like it or not, corporations are the backbone of such a society.
And if that's the case, it is only natural for people to want corporations and corporate products to make them feel something, instead of nothing. Present corporate aesthetics are as soulless as they get. It's like there were no creatives involved in creating them, it feels like AI generated shit (sad thing is, AI can create more beautiful things and something this lacking in personality could only come from deranged suits at soulless megacorps).
>it exudes this feeling that everything is all right and gonna get better
It doesn't, you're just projecting because of what you've read about 90s' mindset. It's just as soullessly corporate as the rest.
Correct. You could argue 2000 is the seed as that was when the millennials that would lead the charge would enter their Full Sail University Game Design degree mill courses and start flooding in 4 years later.
The mid-1970s. That was the last time it was viable to kill the then-emerging finance capitalism and replace it with something else. (either continued national-industrial capitalism as existed pre-1970s, or whatever meme ideology you choose)
People miss this because there wasn't an overnight transformation and people are bad at connecting cause and effect. People will point to symptoms like Facebook or the iPhone and insist that they're causes. Things can't have already been over in the 1980s or 1990s because the consumer culture of that period still seems fine, even better than today. Why would you look at the Eurodollar market when you could look at the Atari 2600?
It's a situation like that of a man who survives a car accident with internal injuries. He feels slightly shaken - but that's just adrenaline, right? - and insists he's fine, he'll walk it off. For maybe a half hour, he's talking away just fine - and then in an instant he drops.
This. Pretty much all of the worlds current ills can be traced back to the 80s and the Reagan/Thatcher years. When ~~*finance capitalism*~~ took precedence over industrial capitalism.
why do so many people say 2007 because of "le 2007 meme"?
all the shit that started in 2007 didn't get bad until 2009 or 2012. 2007 itself had some some really good games, and that year alone mops the entire 8th gen.
2008 is when the dam broke, though 2007 did set the foundations.
2008: facebook growing explosively, every retard getting 24/7 internet access and internet-connected cameras in their hands, myspace (and the music scene that grew alongside it) suddenly dying, people already developing a tendency towards asocial behavior, and a massive recession. all of this at the same time. we didn't stand a chance.
looking at old pics, 2009 looked ok in retrospect, but when you were there you could tell something had changed and things were in the process of dying
I'm a zoomer and I feel no nostalgia towards the late 00s. how could I when everything feels the exact same as back then? everything died after 2007, and 2007 was a really good year for gaming, so I'm glad it went out with a bang.
>2008
kids hanging around listening to metalcore >2023
place is a ghost town, though occasionally there are kids hanging around listening to yung dickhead boast about shooting another soundcloud rapper
This is the Metro aesthetic and it's apt that the OP is a photo of the Microsoft XBOX GUI because MS is a major player in this design aesthetic (as they were for Frutiger Aero, the water-and-light-in-fruit-colors look of Windows Vista/7 and advertising for the 2000s).
>Frutiger Aero
man that style is so fresh and pleasant to look at. saturated blues, glossy finish, water
it's just amazing to look at
What the fuck happened...
People always post that but I'm pretty sure almost nobody used it, I know I didn't; even for Winamp I always wanted the most minimal and streamlined skin.
I wish those projector monitors didn't die so quick, they look comfy as fuck
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
They were a stop gap solution to bigger screens, like pic related. I remember playing MoH Rising Sun on this
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Trust me, they were expensive and their image quality was sub-par. There was little reason to upgrade from big ass CRTs to those or plasma until LCD screens starting getting half-way decent.
2 weeks ago
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???
only seen one of these once and it was awfull, washed out colors blury text shaky image, any issue you can think of it had in spades. Also the owner of it smoked so the "screen"turned piss colored.
Yes
Games are more expensive and require better hardware to look and play worse while also offering worse services out of game that get increasingly more monetized
Finding a finished game that runs well and you play for the simple purpose of having good fun is becoming rarer every year
What the fuck am I even looking at?
I'm genuinely asking. The last CoD I played was CoD4. Is this a MW game screen with ads for three different CoD Games taking two thirds of the screen?
They’ve been combining the main menu into multiple games for a while now. I only own Cold War but they still advertise the newest one with a page that links to the store so you can buy it.
it's impressive that marble is not even all that expensive, but the average person thinks it is and therefore rules it out because they consider it snobby nowadays.
Yes I know the image is about something else but the all marble city reminded me about that
This is actually a form of satanism >Let all things be done decently and in order
A literal direct commandment of God. Leftists love chaos, ugliness, nihilism, etc.
Huh. 4 of those have the exact same idea as the modern ones: "Show the image of the character, every slot for gear and stat numbers". So you just want thicker and more stylised borders for every UI element?
>So you just want thicker and more stylised borders for every UI element?
Honestly yes. That shit goes a long way to prove the developers actually cared about making a unique product instead of just riding whatever is popular for more profit.
>logo that perfectly represents what the product is, and fits the name >turn it into a nondescript blob of color that doesn't represent anything
I genuinely don't understand why they do this.
Firefox has like 20 check for online updates and patches variables within itself. You can disable 1-3 and they keep coming. Who the fuck designed this? Fire all trannies.
>pretending to act like he has solved it for everyone >just use the registry okay? It fixes it okay? *firefox has a new update! You didn’t see that on my browser okay?
I told a graphic designer I know about this and his response was pretty much >ACTUALLY bottom right is better because it fulfills the ten principles of a good logo that I memorized for Dr. Hegelberg's art class
so a surplus of talentless hacks repeating what they've been told to make a living turns this into a death race
>Space demon fox starts orbiting your planet >Melts all the ice and floods the world >slowly begins evaporating it >Merges with the remnant of the planet
Because its jarring that a fantasy game has the UI appear like something straight out of a Sci-fi game. I don't mind it for Destiny or maybe even Assassins Creed, but why the hell does Middle Earth games for example have a UI look like something straight out of a future with a sleek and clean appearance? It's just jarring.
it was popularized by faggy GaaS games that only complete losers play. when i see it i think of stream recordings of kids getting yelled at by their moms.
UI aside, I can't stand tiered loot in every fucking game now, especially when you get the same shit, but this one is LEGENDARY and it has BIGGER NUMBER
The most egregious thing for me with these UIs isn't how ugly they are but rather they run like absolute shit. A simple menu should not be a slog to get through it should be quick and snappy, the blades menus on the 360 didn't have that issue and that's why I miss it the most.
it seems like the guy that did the first logo worked for the company and he owned the character that is shown in it, so when he left he said they couldn't use the character anymore, so they had to change.
Of course, they did not have to change to something so boring, but the change in itself wasn't planned.
Well that's a shame his logo was iconic but then maybe it was for the best you know they'd downgraded the character if they kept the mascot to some bean mouth shit.
It's the economy. Cops tend to go after cars with colors that look "fast" or "hot", and so insurance companies raise your premiums for those colors. Double-disincentize to get anything other than black/grey/white for most people
Insomniac fucked their logo up real good. I'm sure some graphic designer will come in and lecture me about how the old was dated and how i don't understand how the business world works. I don't care, it's shit.
>i don't understand how the business world works
Its so strange and its happening in all sectors. Like someone is feeding of soul and uniqueness. Everything has to become the same globalized goop.
kek they all look the same now, i thought facebook, microsoft and pinterest still used their old logos though? i don't care about fashion because i'm not a gay
MBAs are unimaginative cowards who just follow what every other company is doing. that's also the reason every tech company is getting rid of employees. gotta keep up with the joneses.
Burberry went back to an older style logo, so hopefully that's an indication of things going back to being fun. As for Rimowa that got bought out by LVMH, large investment firms and holding companies are the great destroyers of individuality.
I believe the idea was to make the logo to be more tech-friendly, easier to recognize on a smaller screen(smartphones).
So the target audience went from making logos for humans to making logos for machines.
rusanons should really be keeping their opinions to themselves. Unless they want to get lambasted for shitposting online and not actually fighting in the war and being massive pussies.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Kek I'm not even Russian
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Alright so you're just unpaid kremlin shill. Why do you think anyone gives a shit about their shithole country? a slav calling anyone a moron is quite laugh. The majority of Russians have disgusting pig faces and look hideous on the average. The fact that they'd even call anyone else a pig is just inane bullshit. The average slavshit Russian is a deformed freak of nature.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
didn't read lol
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Because it hurt your slavshit feelings. Didn't it?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>majority of Russians
Not their women.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>women
Doesn't look like one.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>Not their women.
You didn't see their woman, Russia is chav county
It's quite funny that they adopted the colour logo because the Apple 2 could display colour, then made their flagship product the black-and-white original Macintosh.
This is hilarious because not only is the updated version less pretty, but also less functional, which was supposed to be the rationale behind this type of UI design. It doesn't even display the NPC's full name.
Yeah, that might be it. Because I have gone back and played some old games and they didn't have the same effect. I just remember everything was so much more hopeful and joyous back in 1998 than today. Did the world change or did I?
It's not about Lumia, it's about transforming UI design into science. They really test shapes and colors on how easily they're recognizable by humans, that's why rounded corners started to be a thing. Also, Google with its material design was a pioneer here.
total bullshit. they aren't REMOVING VISUAL CUES in order to make things easily recognizable. the only optimization they do is optimizing for "engagement," which means clicks and amount of time viewing something in particular (e.g. ads).
win 95 remains the UI with the most research backing it
It sucks the soul and uniqueness out of everything. If you focus test everything you will always get some kind of goop. Something that will not agitate, provoke, satisfy, stimulate, interest, etc. Its just flat.
Flatshit is there forever. Nothing new will appear because flatshit is solved problem. It's the easiest way to design literally anything, cutting corners and homogenizing in the process. Literally corporation's wet dream.
> 80's - 90's Colorful Confetti > late 90's to 2000's Everything is Shiny and Silver > 2000's to 2014 White plastic...white plastic everywhere > 2015 to now We're literally living in South Park
It will go out of fashion eventually. Products will always copy more successful ones. Doesn't stop good things from existing.
Just don't play the latest trash all the time.
>hurr durr the soullessness and homogenisation of UI totally isn't a microcosm of the society we live in or anything guys just shut up and eat the bugs
Amazing how much effort was put into making creativity and art to make people’s lives better with their software of games, tools, and other media, and not just depend only on “the free open market of the internet” to fill in. Even Outlook Express is superior to the shitty new applet they made called Windows Mail, as well as the old audio software which actually had a menu with buttons compared to the new windows 10 audio recorder which is just a thing that opens with a record button and that’s literally it (the hint to fuck off from windows software).
Windows 10 cannot shut off updates, and even if you install Tweak programs, they don’t offer to shut them off.
current xbox isn't too bad
ads still suck but you can make the background into an old xbox style I think all the xbox UIs are ugly. Dreamcast was the last good one
You know what I hate about modern design? Not only do they shovel ads into it wherever they can, the ads themselves are ugly as shit to look at. I don't want to see some black guy, or god forbid some ugly black woman, whenever I open my <videogame application>. That shit is just appalling.
Looks good complicated and outdated. What are the leaves even there for? Look like a third wheel. And what does a four leave clover have to do with Ganker?
why change color? Just take the leaves and oversimplify them
i remember seeing a thread from a year or so on Ganker about redesigning the 4chins logo. Some ones are pretty good, it's probably still up given how dead that board is
Startpage.com is trying the new bot and scraper detection features that ALL search engines (google) is starting to use, and like by the 30th page (of search results, like under url or image search, or videos) it shuts down and says your high speed internet traffic is detected as a bot or a scraper and your IP is suspended. Literally phone cancer is eating away the internet from greedy democrats.
The first and most important elememt of modern UI design is to accommodate ad space in your layout first. Other functionality comes last. Also, slower transitions between screens is an intentional feature; we want you to click or stall on something, and have it stay in your mind for that extra second or 2. Unironically its actually better if it freezes up every now
This
Simple and easy to navigate and customise
Little to no ad intrusion
Series X is a fucking MESS. I can barely move things to my liking and can't get rid of the countless ads that take up even entire drop down sections
XMB is dogshit. Literally the only ones who liked it were snoys in a perpetual state of stockholm syndrome because Sony fucking sucks ass at UI design. The XMB did more to damage the idea of a video game console as a VIDEO GAME CONSOLE than Microsoft ever fucking did.
>hurr let's just have the most important thing on the video game console (VIDEO GAMES) be a single item >Music? Yes, of course people are going to use their PS3 to listen to music >pictures? Yeah that seems like something someone would want to look at on their TV instead of on their computer >these things are equally as important as Video Games on a video game console, yep.
xbox was the worst thing to happen to gaming >console centric fps >paid online >dlc (lead to mtx) >main ui with ads >more goyslop skinnerbox westshit than ever
It always is. That’s why you gotta love in the moment, bro. Enjoy the things that you might otherwise take for granted. Once the societal goalposts move enough, so that things you have typed in the past week on the internet becomes a “hate crime”, you can at least take solace in the fact that the re-education camps serve up 3 hots and a cot.
For instance, right now I’ve really gotten into eating meat, because it’ll either become illegal or become so expensive that only the rich elite can enjoy it. When that happens, you will at least have the memories and be able to say “I was there, before they ruined everything”. You know.... Like Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons or comic books.
>For instance, right now I’ve really gotten into eating meat, because it’ll either become illegal or become so expensive that only the rich elite can enjoy it.
pull your head out of your arse. fakemeat companies are shutting down because -- guess what -- people don't want to buy something that is more expensive than meat, but strictly inferior, unless they have an ideological reason to.
man
the problem is people like you say that and then memory hole every "told you so" when things in life keep getting just that little bit worse over and over. I'm not even angry about it anymore, just exhausted of you.
Unplug from mains and restart, might have to do the game again
Unplugging is needed because even doing turn off from the menu this thing still runs a bit of juice like some standby+ mode
Appeal to coomer millenials. I know I'm right because any time there's a "games were le better in my time" thread their proof is always booth babes and skimpy outfits in vidya. Stories? Gameplay? Music? Doesn't matter. Only coomshit.
>Gamecube >DS
those aren't menus they're settings, just like the PS2. The actual "menu" is only there if you need to adjust something on the console.
>3DS
the only good thing about the 3DS menu is being able to change the size of the icons on the bottom screen, and having folders. Otherwise it's meh.
>2001
clean, sleek, soulful, quickly get to what you need. the best >2005
crowded and a bit obtuse, but wanted to convey more information at once and focus on xbox live so it was still decent enough and quick enough >2011
soulless, clunky, heavy focus on pushing shitty ads first and foremost. >2019
complete shit, feels and looks like ms edge on a bing news page. just awful
>2005
holy shit take me back
Gears of War 1&2 (Not Gears of War 3, years later, nothing personal, just don't like 'em) and Halo 3 with the lads was a fucking blast
I fucking hate games now
Had a side console since the SNES. The 360 was somehow a better entertainment system than the one despite that being its main selling point. Who the fuck removed the ability to rip music and play it over games.
ITT: millennials reconcile with the fact that things have changed since the early 2000s >inb4 zoom zoom
This is a defense mechanism. Millennials refuse to accept that anybody except a baby could disagree with them, and that's why their generation is mostly cucks and gays. They're spirits are the weakest of any generation, and it's not even close.
>bro u dont understand when people zoomers dress like gays today its gay but when we did it back in the 90s, bro it was different because ive got this pic of a hot goth gf that i wish was my real gf
This is just sad.
>it's cool when we looked like gays because... because... IT JUST WAS OKAY FUCK U ZOOMER ZOOM ZOOM 🙁
Butthurt zoom zoom
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I accept your concession. Sorry, they don't come in funko pops or pogs. You'll have to indulge your retarded millennials sensibilities somewhere else.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
we didn't collect pogs you retard, gen x collected pogs
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
i'm gen why and i collected pogs
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
me too, I also had the pogs in the 90s
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
born '91 and the only contact i had with pogs was my gen x dad dumping his collection on me
to be fair, this is in the UK
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>shut up retard, my generation had completely different cringe-ass obsessions
Doesn't matter. Every milennial I've ever met collects a bunch of dogshit, displays it proudly in their house, and explains everything in autistic detail every time they have someone over. I refuse to be talked down to by anybody whose generate was cucked by god damn funko pops. Everybody I work with collects those shitty things. Everyone a decade older and younger thinks they're retarded, along with the whole soulless millennial aesthetic. But sure, dump the creepy "zoomer kids" folder you've got on standby. That'll help you cope with being sandwiched between superior generations.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
all i collect is images i like. what do you collect, financed iphones with smashed screens?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>what do you collect, financed iphones with smashed screens?
KEK this is worse than I thought. You accused my generation of dressing like fags. I accused yours of the same on top of collecting shit for no reason to a psychotic degree. Your idea of a response is >yeah, well, you use your phone to socialize, gay
Yeah, my mistake. Didn't realize this made the NEETs seethe. Enjoy total social and creative isolation, gay. I'm sure your brains will look great caked on the floor when your parents discover you two months after your suicide.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Instagram is not socialization
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>its okay i never feel the touch of other human beings and have zero friends because at least i dont use a phone
Cope.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
What the hell are you going on about?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
If you're anon I've been talking to up the reply chain, then you're a retard for not understanding. If you aren't, then you're a retard for replying dryly without "nta" and then acting confused when I assume you're that anon.
Search engines suck ass now.
Can't find shit anymore if it is older than a year and you don't know the exact right wording for what you are looking for.
omg its this gay who has been autistically crying about game UIs for the past 6+ months and spamming threads about it every day
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. imagine his mental problems and physical condition, probably 300+ lbs and cant even perform basic functions in life
>2000 >bunch of sweaty tech guys in a cramped office at Microsoft >"Yeah so how bout when you boot it up, it takes you into this cool perspective of like plasma in a reactor core, and that's like the core of the Xbox system itself. Then the system menu that you interact with is like a perspective of interacting with this plasma core to select games to play on it and stuff. That's be sick. I love Limp Bizkit."
>2023 >bunch of diversity hires in a corporate boardroom at Microsoft >"Make sure there's space for advertising stuff. Other than that it just needs to look like our universal tablet software layout across platforms."
Gaming will never be what it was anon. The barrier to entry to become a game dev back in the 90's/2000's was enough that only genuinely creative and innovative people who really wanted to at least try to make cool stuff would get into studios. Now you take a one year course at a community college and put it on your resume and studios have to hire you to fulfill a quota.
>2007
I'm just saying... that Occupy Wall Street in 2012 was memoryholed and corpos and governments have been pushing the fag agenda and pitting races and men and women against each other ever since to distract from the actual problem: the haves and havenots, class warfare.
When did it all go wrong?
holy shit I refuse to believe that's real
I can't believe someone would spend the time and effort to redesign something that has no problems into something inferior just because
first time?
gotta keep graphic designers (see: boss's relative) employed somehow
2001 is the peakest form of kino, 2005 and 2011 are straight up shit, 2019 seems to look nicer but still needs work
kek
at least it's clean and readable, don't expect much creativity or kino from AAA slop though, these games play it extremely safe
the new logo is fucking retarded and ugly lmfao, the old one was fine it just needed slight improvements
bottom one is better
>it's clean and readable
It's uninspired, ugly and boring.
You can easily make proper UIs which are still perfectly readable.
did they change it because of the meme? I'm sure that face traumatized many would-be learners away from ever touching Japanese again
That's the point, the original unintentionally smug looking girl and unintentionally discouraging quote were memorable enough to spawn a meme. This new garbage has absolutely nothing to latch onto emotionally. Nobody will ever keep "generic faceless globohomo blob" lodged in their memory or associate any emotions with it. When graphic designers want minimalism, what they actually get is nothing.
god I hate corporate art so damn much
Disgusting.
Globohomo art
sovl vs soulless
I hate corporate Memphis so much at least ai from 2023+ will add some soul back god i hate hate hate hate flat late 2010s shit it looks worse than the worst ai or clip art ive ever seen
>Woman you could marry with detailed art that had effort put into it
>Replaced with obese corporate simple shape art with someone who might not even be a woman
Obama really fucked up this country.
you could marry with detailed art that had effort put into it
with obese corporate simple shape art with someone who might not even be a woman
It's the same woman, all grown up and married and no longer putting effort into herself because there's no way her man could do any better anyhow.
they both suck
When hardware became fast enough to handle shit code
Underrated
... I think this is the most realistic take here. I want to object but every angle I look at it, this seems right.
It was a gradual thing.
Casuals got attracted by companies and then milked.
Large companies fucked up smaller companies and that led to significantly less variety and talent in vidya.
New generation of kids playing videogames grew up on casual games and barely anything else, which explains Ganker's condition.
More and more effort on UI simplification because they expect the average gamer to be an idiot who needs clear-cut elements or else they'll somehow get lost.
Graphics leeched so much money away from development that you already know an AAA game is going to be terrible and without any interesting gameplay elements just because most of the budget has to be spent on graphics.
Consoles only get by nowadays because of the convenience of setting them up, they stopped having any inherent advantage over a PC.
It won't take long for a troll that's starving for attention to say "actually it's a good thing chud" and get a million replies from newfags, or for a guy who grew up on Minecraft and League of Legends to say "actually the trannies SJWs garden gnomes and every other epic Ganker scapegoat did it do I fit in yet" and for the thread to go to shit from the resulting flame war. On the modern internet it doesn't feel like people are playing videogames that much anymore and that's why people spend far more time complaining about everything and then trying to justify their own brand of armchair activism than they spend time playing good videogames.
2001 and 2005 were the only acceptable ones.
>where did it all go wrong
2011, but in reality 7th gen is where gaming died. Most underwhelming console gen.
2006
When games got as popular as they did.
As silly and autistic it sounds do you honestly think the rise in number of people willing to go along with every fucked up money makign schemes game companies produce isnt the biggest reason everything has gone to shit for the past couple of decades?
Every problem with the games and the industry can be traced back to just regular people not giving enough shit or not even realizing theres anything wrong with the the things their supporting with their purchases.
Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong because these brainless consumers cannot understand why they should stop doing what they consider to be fun.
When the same people who laughed at microsoft for their paid xbox live subscription started defending their favorite brand of paid online subscription.
Smart phones, unironically
Myspace was the better form of social media. Because it was less personal in the way facebook did it.
>influx of idiots on the internet is because of apple and not AOL
Really?
yes really. 2007 and social media access created social media addiction, which has ruined society and caused leftist to go insane. Those are also the people making decisions in big tech.
Don't forget the recession.
16 years of garbage, hxt8oly fuck.
7th gen is always the answer
corporations took over because development was getting so expensive. graphicswhores were pandered to in order to recoup larger development costs. certain ~~*tribesmen*~~ started making creative design changes and secretly working with their ~~*journalist*~~ cousins....
Winter 1942
When you bought a console instead of pc
When the German Revolution was snuffed out after WW1.
Oh I see, commies are raiding Ganker again
2012 was the apocalypse and we all live in hell now
Meds NOW
When the kinect update removed Xbox live party chat for Netflix.
reminder that they pay roasties 6 figures to design these "UX" use experiences.
My theory, specifically for the UI of gaming applications, it's because in 2007 mobile became the most popular platform for internet use and the majority of the workers in the web design industry (read: Poojeets) couldn't shake the habits they developed churning out UI for shovelware mobile apps.
Unironically, it ended with Windows 7. The last of the Frutiger Aero generation.
hopefully W11 will fix that
Y2K with just a dash of Frutiger Aero is peak aesthetics IMO.
Shut the fuck up
love this image. 80s and 90s were so fucking good.
So. Am I retarded and just going "old good new bad" out of spite? I don't understand. 80's to 90's and Y2K look so cool compared to current flat shit.
But will someone say the same 20 years later? Is the cycle inescapable?
2023
Good porn vn, but I'm not picking it up again untill it's complete
The ruthless quest for efficiency has doomed us all
>ADHD has doomed us all
I always knew it would end this way.
I hate the flat/globohomogenized art style because it is the logical conclusion to saving money besides AI generated art and I can't tell which one is more soulless.
>Flat Design is coming to an end soon
>Younger generation look like we did back in the 90s
Thank fucking Jesus
I miss "Everything in the future is Chrome" y2k. fuck Apple and it's "Everything in the future is shiny liquid white" bullshit.
it's a shame Y2K didn't end organically. it ended immediately in just 1 day. it had potetnial and I think it would've lasted until 2007
The Kinect
Normalfags were on the internet years before the iPhone. Social media existed before Twitter and Facebook. Typical zoomzoom revisionism
Normalfags had a presence on the internet long before modern social media, true, but they were a small minority everywhere outside of the most mainstream places and pretending that's anywhere near the same as how things became after mobile internet access and modern social media exploded into an unstoppable juggernaut is completely ridiculous.
Older social media sights held much weaker presence, and they weren't the centerpoint of the Internet. AOL brought one type of normal fag online, but the iPhone made the world always connected. Facebook only made things worse as people began to attack anonymity and things started to centralize around datafarming social media.
A unique product with personality will greatly appeal to some people, but other people will dislike the aesthetics.
By making something that is boring and bland you make it so that everyone is open to buying your product. Sure, no one is going to really love it. But no one is going to hate it either. So when new product comes out people are just going to consoom.
Memphis just looks wicked, it exudes this feeling that everything is all right and gonna get better. Y2K have that nasty blobby design, but still it feels unique, like everyone is gonna head on into the future. Aero looks as though it's mixed between corpo and y2k, but still has slight charm here and there, but the current era of design? Utterly corporate, pretty much a sign of the things to come. Shit's wack but whatever yo.
all of these are corporate you dumbfuck
NTA but and?
and you'll never be 12 again
Corporations back then had soul
lmfao
Nah, they just get more soulless over time despite each time seeming like they can't reasonably get any worse.
>Nah, they just get more soulless
So they were souful once, glad we agree
No, they're just even more soulless than they used to be because they keep discovering new ways to be soulless. Despite what politicians and leftists tell you, corporations are not people and they are not our friends.
Cope
Don't need to, I'm not the one defending corpos.
Is the one defending corporations in the room with us right now?
You live in a capitalist society. Like it or not, corporations are the backbone of such a society.
And if that's the case, it is only natural for people to want corporations and corporate products to make them feel something, instead of nothing. Present corporate aesthetics are as soulless as they get. It's like there were no creatives involved in creating them, it feels like AI generated shit (sad thing is, AI can create more beautiful things and something this lacking in personality could only come from deranged suits at soulless megacorps).
>it exudes this feeling that everything is all right and gonna get better
It doesn't, you're just projecting because of what you've read about 90s' mindset. It's just as soullessly corporate as the rest.
I really like Frutiger Aero I wish it was still around to this day. I definitely would theme my apps and icons my desktop like it if i could.
Literally the day the original Xbox released. All this shit is microsofts fault.
zoomers
>tfw no nimk bf
2007, the year of big bang theory and the iphone.
Correct. You could argue 2000 is the seed as that was when the millennials that would lead the charge would enter their Full Sail University Game Design degree mill courses and start flooding in 4 years later.
2010
2007 and then 2012
adolf lost the war
Horse Armor
When gaming became "cool"
In that image? 2005
If you mean the industry in general, 2007
The answer is always 2007.
The mid-1970s. That was the last time it was viable to kill the then-emerging finance capitalism and replace it with something else. (either continued national-industrial capitalism as existed pre-1970s, or whatever meme ideology you choose)
People miss this because there wasn't an overnight transformation and people are bad at connecting cause and effect. People will point to symptoms like Facebook or the iPhone and insist that they're causes. Things can't have already been over in the 1980s or 1990s because the consumer culture of that period still seems fine, even better than today. Why would you look at the Eurodollar market when you could look at the Atari 2600?
It's a situation like that of a man who survives a car accident with internal injuries. He feels slightly shaken - but that's just adrenaline, right? - and insists he's fine, he'll walk it off. For maybe a half hour, he's talking away just fine - and then in an instant he drops.
Why a cis white man? You know women and black people can get into car crashes too, right?
I never said cis and I never said white. Imagine whatever pleases you most.
It's time we stop using white men as the baseline for car crashes. The next time you post about one, make it an asian woman for inclusivity.
This. Pretty much all of the worlds current ills can be traced back to the 80s and the Reagan/Thatcher years. When ~~*finance capitalism*~~ took precedence over industrial capitalism.
When this man's people let him live.
Actual irl kino
Napoleon was great though, it all went wrong when the English became the dominant power
7th generation of consoles
June 15, 1215
September 11, 2001
The world you grew up in is gone.
It's still here anon, it's just not yours anymore.
how did things change so much so quickly? what made the latter half of the 2010s be so different from the first half?
unironically the bethesda horse armor
DLC and online updating rather than completed games and proper expansions have hurt gaming a lot
why do so many people say 2007 because of "le 2007 meme"?
all the shit that started in 2007 didn't get bad until 2009 or 2012. 2007 itself had some some really good games, and that year alone mops the entire 8th gen.
2008 is when the dam broke, though 2007 did set the foundations.
2008: facebook growing explosively, every retard getting 24/7 internet access and internet-connected cameras in their hands, myspace (and the music scene that grew alongside it) suddenly dying, people already developing a tendency towards asocial behavior, and a massive recession. all of this at the same time. we didn't stand a chance.
looking at old pics, 2009 looked ok in retrospect, but when you were there you could tell something had changed and things were in the process of dying
I'm a zoomer and I feel no nostalgia towards the late 00s. how could I when everything feels the exact same as back then? everything died after 2007, and 2007 was a really good year for gaming, so I'm glad it went out with a bang.
>everything feels the exact same as back then
uhh
I thought it was just me being an adult at the time but I feel the same.
I don't feel nostalgic for anything after 2008 it feels EXACTLY the same in popular culture and feels worse in every other aspect.
>2008
kids hanging around listening to metalcore
>2023
place is a ghost town, though occasionally there are kids hanging around listening to yung dickhead boast about shooting another soundcloud rapper
>everything died after 2007, and 2007 was a really good year for gaming, so I'm glad it went out with a bang.
This is called depression.
Smartphones
More useless shit on my screen, please.
Also if everything isn't in a small box I will literally kill myself.
Thank you.
This is the Metro aesthetic and it's apt that the OP is a photo of the Microsoft XBOX GUI because MS is a major player in this design aesthetic (as they were for Frutiger Aero, the water-and-light-in-fruit-colors look of Windows Vista/7 and advertising for the 2000s).
>Frutiger Aero
man that style is so fresh and pleasant to look at. saturated blues, glossy finish, water
it's just amazing to look at
What the fuck happened...
that was already a downgrade
i want to go back
The word "SOUL" gets thrown around a lot, but this right here. That is SOUL.
People always post that but I'm pretty sure almost nobody used it, I know I didn't; even for Winamp I always wanted the most minimal and streamlined skin.
I wish those projector monitors didn't die so quick, they look comfy as fuck
They were a stop gap solution to bigger screens, like pic related. I remember playing MoH Rising Sun on this
Trust me, they were expensive and their image quality was sub-par. There was little reason to upgrade from big ass CRTs to those or plasma until LCD screens starting getting half-way decent.
???
only seen one of these once and it was awfull, washed out colors blury text shaky image, any issue you can think of it had in spades. Also the owner of it smoked so the "screen"turned piss colored.
Yes
Games are more expensive and require better hardware to look and play worse while also offering worse services out of game that get increasingly more monetized
Finding a finished game that runs well and you play for the simple purpose of having good fun is becoming rarer every year
>new features bad
have a nice day boomer
>"features" are just a bunch of ads baked into the ui you can't get rid of
That's the point, everything went from functional but fancy design to "how could we get additional shekels from it ?"
What the fuck am I even looking at?
I'm genuinely asking. The last CoD I played was CoD4. Is this a MW game screen with ads for three different CoD Games taking two thirds of the screen?
They’ve been combining the main menu into multiple games for a while now. I only own Cold War but they still advertise the newest one with a page that links to the store so you can buy it.
Holy sheesh
I wouldn't mind a hub style of "click a game and you can view sp, mp, etc" for a series to cut down on clutter.
If it isn't broken, don't fix it. Or in this case, don't break it you fucking retard, what were you thinking?
it's impressive that marble is not even all that expensive, but the average person thinks it is and therefore rules it out because they consider it snobby nowadays.
Yes I know the image is about something else but the all marble city reminded me about that
The duel needs to be legal again.
consoles got worse, PC got better that's all that happened. kek
This is actually a form of satanism
>Let all things be done decently and in order
A literal direct commandment of God. Leftists love chaos, ugliness, nihilism, etc.
you are correct
Hmm interesting point anon. Its rare to see points like this made on Ganker.
wut
first day here?
wow, you're not all retarded.
Based and sadly true.
This is what they took from you.
to be fair, RE4 on this picture could be there
the remake, not the original
ho yes, the original. Look again
Huh. 4 of those have the exact same idea as the modern ones: "Show the image of the character, every slot for gear and stat numbers". So you just want thicker and more stylised borders for every UI element?
>Huh. 4 of those have the exact same idea as the modern ones
how does he know the mirror was there?
>So you just want thicker and more stylised borders for every UI element?
Honestly yes. That shit goes a long way to prove the developers actually cared about making a unique product instead of just riding whatever is popular for more profit.
oh fuck yeah Champions of Norrath!
Which verse is this? Just want to know for my own reference, not challenging you
Fuck off back to 4chan schizo
yhwh is not god you fucking golem
Correct.
Don't ever stop posting.
All top 3 were fine. It's the bottom row where minimalist design came in and ruined it.
top mid is best.
>logo that perfectly represents what the product is, and fits the name
>turn it into a nondescript blob of color that doesn't represent anything
I genuinely don't understand why they do this.
art majors need to find ways to stay on the payroll.
The first thing I would do for an art major submitting degraded designs is firing them.
Maybe they should do art instead of some minimalist logo that looks more like a graphics designer made it?
All art is money laundering
Not really, laundering market is ridiculously small, a few people from the US, UK and China are 80% of the market
at least this one is accurate. Firefox turned from a honest good browser into a corporate trap card. Fuck firefox
still better than chrome
As much as I hate what Firefox got turned into, this graphic is disingenous: the last icon is the Mozilla logo, not Firefox's logo.
Firefox has like 20 check for online updates and patches variables within itself. You can disable 1-3 and they keep coming. Who the fuck designed this? Fire all trannies.
You do know how to use registry, do you? Stop posting stupid shit because obviously you are computer illiterate.
>pretending to act like he has solved it for everyone
>just use the registry okay? It fixes it okay? *firefox has a new update! You didn’t see that on my browser okay?
Same thing happened with Rome.
Spengler talks about this.
I told a graphic designer I know about this and his response was pretty much
>ACTUALLY bottom right is better because it fulfills the ten principles of a good logo that I memorized for Dr. Hegelberg's art class
so a surplus of talentless hacks repeating what they've been told to make a living turns this into a death race
Whoever that designer was you are allowed to call them a hack for that take
Top Middle was peak Firefox.
>Space demon fox starts orbiting your planet
>Melts all the ice and floods the world
>slowly begins evaporating it
>Merges with the remnant of the planet
I love how it obviously and unironically gets worse at every single iteration
The second logo is more detailed than the first.
The Blades dashboard was incredible. The PS3 XMB UI is also miles better than what we have today.
game UIs are officially SOVLLESS
I have yet to see a single good argument about why this is bad.
>inb4 muh streamlined
Not a good argument.
Darkest Dungeon 2 has a soulful UI while still being readable
Because its jarring that a fantasy game has the UI appear like something straight out of a Sci-fi game. I don't mind it for Destiny or maybe even Assassins Creed, but why the hell does Middle Earth games for example have a UI look like something straight out of a future with a sleek and clean appearance? It's just jarring.
this is why it looked bad on Endless Legend but good on Endless Space
It's a fucking video game you nonce.
>Accept bad aesthetics because... ITS JUST A VIDEO GAME OKAY!!!
How about stop being a tasteless gay buying the most recent AAA slop?
All video games have bad aesthetics because none of them actually look realistic.
>why is there a castle in the middle of my sci-fi game?
>ITS A FUCKNIG VIDEO GAME AAAA PEDO PEDO PEDO
holy projection
>British
Of course
Please never play Might & Magic or Thief.
it was popularized by faggy GaaS games that only complete losers play. when i see it i think of stream recordings of kids getting yelled at by their moms.
Most of them are aesthetically at odds with the game they're in.
Apart from being ugly their other common feature is not showing you your stats or other basic item information.
The Ratchet & Clank one is just about acceptable IMO.
i struggled to tell which was which
Warframe fixed their shit and then decided to ruin it all a decade later because of consoletards
Cyberpunk would look fine if not for the fucking MULTI COLORED LOOT NUMBER SPONGE ENEMIES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Show us some good UIs
dad of soi is the most insulting one
UI aside, I can't stand tiered loot in every fucking game now, especially when you get the same shit, but this one is LEGENDARY and it has BIGGER NUMBER
Is that really the new Series UI? Yikes. The original Xbox One UI was fine once you got used to it.
Xbone UI has gotten tons of updates over the years
The last one with the live gameplay view in the home screen around 2016 or so was the best one
Thats fucking ugly though
That's not how the Boner looks anymore. Update your system, it's even worse Win8 Metro now.
The most egregious thing for me with these UIs isn't how ugly they are but rather they run like absolute shit. A simple menu should not be a slog to get through it should be quick and snappy, the blades menus on the 360 didn't have that issue and that's why I miss it the most.
TPBP
NXE and the resulting dashboards has been a disaster for MS.
hey your chart is wrong. 2011 had bubble squares in 3d space, but flat squares in flat space. you're thinking of 2015
it seems like the guy that did the first logo worked for the company and he owned the character that is shown in it, so when he left he said they couldn't use the character anymore, so they had to change.
Of course, they did not have to change to something so boring, but the change in itself wasn't planned.
Well that's a shame his logo was iconic but then maybe it was for the best you know they'd downgraded the character if they kept the mascot to some bean mouth shit.
Nick Jr looking ahh
this anon fell down the stairs before he could finish the post
That's how toddlers be.
It's more like those audio tapes that end with a person screaming as they get killed
Love the artist who made that first logo. He also painted Magnum band's album covers
Don't know who that is, you may want to consider fucking off from this thread friendo.
Congratulations on making a fucking garbage post!
>zoomer trying hard to fit in
Zoomers are inhuman, and my greatest joy is knowing even the media that created you knows they fucked up.
cool shit
shut up moron
I didn't know these were the same company.
Glad Psygnosis shut down before they could suffer the same fate
Wow, you literally see soul being draind from people
Impressive
grey and black looks good, cry about it colorfag
>grey and black looks good, cry about it colorfag
>NOOOOO NOT MY GREEN AND YELLOW CARS
Good. Eyesores don't belong on the streets.
most current cars are eyesores
so remove all suvs from the roads? got it
>Normalfags turn into literal NPCs
Who knew?
You can't post this without mentioning that grey cars are 60% less likely to get stolen, morons love colorful cars
How much of that is down to colourful cars being rare and thus potentially seen as more valuable?
None, although rich people tend to buy colorful luxury cars
reminds me of this
Companies after June
It's the economy. Cops tend to go after cars with colors that look "fast" or "hot", and so insurance companies raise your premiums for those colors. Double-disincentize to get anything other than black/grey/white for most people
Yellow and red cars are gaudy as fuck if you live anywhere with sun
Any bright colour that isn't white really
>red cars go faster
this reminds me of that one Fairly Oddparents episode where the corporation people are taking over and everything becomes black and grey
Greenchads, ww@?
Insomniac fucked their logo up real good. I'm sure some graphic designer will come in and lecture me about how the old was dated and how i don't understand how the business world works. I don't care, it's shit.
>i don't understand how the business world works
Its so strange and its happening in all sectors. Like someone is feeding of soul and uniqueness. Everything has to become the same globalized goop.
kek they all look the same now, i thought facebook, microsoft and pinterest still used their old logos though? i don't care about fashion because i'm not a gay
>i don't care about fashion because i'm not a gay
You dont have to be insecure about your sexuality. Its just the examples I have found.
It's true though, if you are a man and you care at all about fashion, ur a gay. Simple as
I just showed the image to my wife and she said Pinterest hasn't changed
MBAs are unimaginative cowards who just follow what every other company is doing. that's also the reason every tech company is getting rid of employees. gotta keep up with the joneses.
Burberry went back to an older style logo, so hopefully that's an indication of things going back to being fun. As for Rimowa that got bought out by LVMH, large investment firms and holding companies are the great destroyers of individuality.
Forgot to add the pic of it. Looks way better.
>gothic plate with sallet and bevor
>Like someone is feeding of soul and uniqueness
loosh
I believe the idea was to make the logo to be more tech-friendly, easier to recognize on a smaller screen(smartphones).
So the target audience went from making logos for humans to making logos for machines.
Old logos looks bad for a new people who lives in west now, morons, ukrainins, commies, Muslims, Asians.
stupid russian retard
SEETHING hohol
nah, a brit
rusanons should really be keeping their opinions to themselves. Unless they want to get lambasted for shitposting online and not actually fighting in the war and being massive pussies.
Kek I'm not even Russian
Alright so you're just unpaid kremlin shill. Why do you think anyone gives a shit about their shithole country? a slav calling anyone a moron is quite laugh. The majority of Russians have disgusting pig faces and look hideous on the average. The fact that they'd even call anyone else a pig is just inane bullshit. The average slavshit Russian is a deformed freak of nature.
didn't read lol
Because it hurt your slavshit feelings. Didn't it?
>majority of Russians
Not their women.
>women
Doesn't look like one.
>Not their women.
You didn't see their woman, Russia is chav county
>ukrainins
Well that was random, go sign up to fight right now Ivan. Stop draft dodging you stupid moron.
Just make everything Helvetica 18pt black font at this point
I don't give a fuck anymore
should've kept the moon aesthetic and just removed the hard font border and changed up the font
TAKE ME
OUT TO THE BALL GAME
2023
you open up the digital store to buy a digital game
you have to scroll through 894 pages of microtransaction currency packs to see a single game
literally never happened, retard
Xbox Live literally ruined everything.
Every cancerous thing about modern gaming can be traced back to Xbox Live.
It put the framework into place for DLC, for subscriptions, for paid online, it made dogshit P2P networking the norm etc
It did so much damage to not only consoles, but PC's as well.
bro in the 90s sometimes they sold 1 game chopped up into 3 pieces in separate discs so u would spend more money on discs
No they didn't retard. Cds weren't big enough to hold the entire game.
Sega were the ones who invented Sega Channel.
Sega ruined everything when they purposefully split Sonic 3 into 2 full price games.
Apple was truly ahead of the curve when it came to pandering to lgbt.
Man, talk about rent free.
Ywnbaw
Very original
He's right though
ywnbaw
Idw2b
man the original logo was kino, alongside the deeper meaning
It's quite funny that they adopted the colour logo because the Apple 2 could display colour, then made their flagship product the black-and-white original Macintosh.
2005 > 2001 > 2019 > 2011
Dash blades were shit. Double shit for having those fucking ad spaces.
WHY
Wow. That is really bad.
This is hilarious because not only is the updated version less pretty, but also less functional, which was supposed to be the rationale behind this type of UI design. It doesn't even display the NPC's full name.
Why u need it's name?
>triple dots take as much room as the rest of the word would
I can't put into words how much this triggers my autism.
This is unironically the final nail in the coffin for wow. Absolutely disgusting mobile looking shit.
2005 was the peak.
Blades were such kino UI
>2005 was the peak.
Wrong, but Y2K aesthetic is the ultimate pleb filter. So it's understandable why 2005 would be more popular on Ganker
>piss yellow is okay when Microsoft does it
Are you colorblind?
>piss yellow is okay when Microsoft does it
What? the fuck are you talking about?
that picture is not the real UI, it's a concept design made recently
>that picture is not the real UI,
Not did i say it was. I'm simply referring to the aesthetic it went for.
>we want the SSBMelee audience
>except green
It's shit
Thank god I grew up in the right generation.
We really did get the best of everything entertainment wise, didn't we? I find nostalgiabait annoying but I also do understand why they do it
Many of those old video games are garbage, but the times were funner. That's a big difference.
Yeah, that might be it. Because I have gone back and played some old games and they didn't have the same effect. I just remember everything was so much more hopeful and joyous back in 1998 than today. Did the world change or did I?
>Did the world change or did I
both. but mostly you
yes. the world changed forever in 2001
I blame the sirs for promoting batshit Lumia interface for every softwares.
It's not about Lumia, it's about transforming UI design into science. They really test shapes and colors on how easily they're recognizable by humans, that's why rounded corners started to be a thing. Also, Google with its material design was a pioneer here.
total bullshit. they aren't REMOVING VISUAL CUES in order to make things easily recognizable. the only optimization they do is optimizing for "engagement," which means clicks and amount of time viewing something in particular (e.g. ads).
win 95 remains the UI with the most research backing it
It sucks the soul and uniqueness out of everything. If you focus test everything you will always get some kind of goop. Something that will not agitate, provoke, satisfy, stimulate, interest, etc. Its just flat.
>Saar it's not us, don't blame us sir
More like boring designs/eye-catching ads
>that's why rounded corners started to be a thing
But everything was already rounded before that went out of their way to make everything square
Squares look good on small resolutions, first smartphones didn't have good screens for quite some time, with 720-1080p it stopped being a problem
I don't care about your opinion. I can kill you in one single punch. Your opinion only matters if you have the physical power to uphold it.
You sounds like dick sucking gay
take me back... please... i want to go back
https://y2kaestheticinstitute.tumblr.com
>Metalheart.
Best timeline
>each design lasts a decade
>finishes up in XX24
So what are we getting in the next 1-2 years?
I for one do not miss forced cringe one liners in movies.
honey child they're still in the movies.
No instead of one liners we get people saying swear words and making catty responses at inopportune times because that's more realistic and relatable.
Flatshit is there forever. Nothing new will appear because flatshit is solved problem. It's the easiest way to design literally anything, cutting corners and homogenizing in the process. Literally corporation's wet dream.
> 80's - 90's Colorful Confetti
> late 90's to 2000's Everything is Shiny and Silver
> 2000's to 2014 White plastic...white plastic everywhere
> 2015 to now We're literally living in South Park
why dod they even keep humans in the advertising at all if they look like weird monsters?
I'd rather see zero humans at all honestly
>I blame the sirs
This, but unironically.
Every single pic online is a webp file, only a retarded streetshitter would use it.
What comes after 2024? At least we're almost out. Will it be worse or loop back around to kino?
>Loop back to kino
As if fashion trends have ever gotten better since the caveman era.
it will only get worse.
you did this to us you fucking stupid millennials. we didn't do anything but live in the world you created for us. stupid fucking millennials.
That was the boomers, I didn't do nothing but NEET it up in my room for the past decade
>im childless, unemployed, never go outside, and over 30
Then you might as well kys. Not a joke. I don't know how you cope.
I cope by not being a suicidal gay addicted to my phone
What does the Series X UI look like?
stop nooooticing
It will go out of fashion eventually. Products will always copy more successful ones. Doesn't stop good things from existing.
Just don't play the latest trash all the time.
I'm just glad we can all agree From is the worst at UI design.
>LE OLD IS GOOD NEW BAD
Not really, 2013 was 10 years ago and those consoles, games and UIs sucked as well.
>2013 was 10 years ago
oh fuck
Someone post the demon souls/remake ui comparison I want to make myself angry again
>NOOOOOOOOO NOT THE XBOX LIVE UI SOCIETY IS COLLAPSING
it's time to have a nice day
>hurr durr the soullessness and homogenisation of UI totally isn't a microcosm of the society we live in or anything guys just shut up and eat the bugs
>
For me it's ooogoo.
>comes into thread to throw an incel tantrum
Ghosted on Tinder again? Calm it down.
Me.
Ganker schizos.
Me
>old thing good because I was happy child back then
>new thing bad because I'm a loser adult right now
wrong, I was a loser back then too
Frutiger Aero had so much sovl
Choo choo to shitville
No brakes
What happened to Futurefunk era anyway?
it passed
Soul Scriptura
Amazing how much effort was put into making creativity and art to make people’s lives better with their software of games, tools, and other media, and not just depend only on “the free open market of the internet” to fill in. Even Outlook Express is superior to the shitty new applet they made called Windows Mail, as well as the old audio software which actually had a menu with buttons compared to the new windows 10 audio recorder which is just a thing that opens with a record button and that’s literally it (the hint to fuck off from windows software).
Windows 10 cannot shut off updates, and even if you install Tweak programs, they don’t offer to shut them off.
Every time I look at Windows 3.1 and games from that time I think of this sick midi song
I hate this zoomer icon shit
It's absolutely unintuitive and unusable
>home
>???
>internet?
>clock
>calendar
>???
>???
>graphs?
>favourites
>emoji button?
I hope skeuomorphism comes back soon.
1. Home
2. Weekly weather
3. Global weather
4. Weather hour by hour
5. Monthly weather
6. Pollen counts
7. Humidity
8. Met Office reports
9. Favourites
10. Friends
Whats hard to get boomer?
>hourly, weekly, monthly, pollen count and humidity at a minimum aren't on the same screen
What are you wasting screen space on?
>7. Humidity
lol, that's indoors weather, retard
neo heiroglyphics
you’re not wrong but to be fair no one under 25 has even seen a floppy disc irl
it's already over
Nah, PS4/5 OS are league above the one we had on PS3.
Ouch
current xbox isn't too bad
ads still suck but you can make the background into an old xbox style
I think all the xbox UIs are ugly. Dreamcast was the last good one
I like the upcoming one. Looks like ps5 one.
this is dogshit
your standards are ridiculously low
Compared to what? Some other ui? Probably.
Previous iterations? Absolutely not. Blades and late 360 stuff can go fuck itself.
>Blades and late 360 stuff can go fuck itself.
Absolute pleb
I feel bad for zoomers who never got the chance to interact with good UI
Maaaan that shit was fucking good.
You know what I hate about modern design? Not only do they shovel ads into it wherever they can, the ads themselves are ugly as shit to look at. I don't want to see some black guy, or god forbid some ugly black woman, whenever I open my <videogame application>. That shit is just appalling.
your eyes are the product that is being sold to corporate advertising
What do you guys think about my new logo for the chan?
why change color? Just take the leaves and oversimplify them
Looks good complicated and outdated. What are the leaves even there for? Look like a third wheel. And what does a four leave clover have to do with Ganker?
Is it summer already
r/woosh
>garden gnome nose
i remember seeing a thread from a year or so on Ganker about redesigning the 4chins logo. Some ones are pretty good, it's probably still up given how dead that board is
everything is getting worse, and they keep making more money than ever before.
let that sink in
Startpage.com is trying the new bot and scraper detection features that ALL search engines (google) is starting to use, and like by the 30th page (of search results, like under url or image search, or videos) it shuts down and says your high speed internet traffic is detected as a bot or a scraper and your IP is suspended. Literally phone cancer is eating away the internet from greedy democrats.
can you rephrase that?
garden gnomes
2019 best
2011 worst
I want a UI to be extremely functional. After that, you can dress it up like your femboy anime figurines if you must.
The first and most important elememt of modern UI design is to accommodate ad space in your layout first. Other functionality comes last. Also, slower transitions between screens is an intentional feature; we want you to click or stall on something, and have it stay in your mind for that extra second or 2. Unironically its actually better if it freezes up every now
The PS3 cross-media bar was the best
I hate that bar
This
Simple and easy to navigate and customise
Little to no ad intrusion
Series X is a fucking MESS. I can barely move things to my liking and can't get rid of the countless ads that take up even entire drop down sections
XMB is dogshit. Literally the only ones who liked it were snoys in a perpetual state of stockholm syndrome because Sony fucking sucks ass at UI design. The XMB did more to damage the idea of a video game console as a VIDEO GAME CONSOLE than Microsoft ever fucking did.
>hurr let's just have the most important thing on the video game console (VIDEO GAMES) be a single item
>Music? Yes, of course people are going to use their PS3 to listen to music
>pictures? Yeah that seems like something someone would want to look at on their TV instead of on their computer
>these things are equally as important as Video Games on a video game console, yep.
I mean, I'll agree it was better suited to psp
UI designers are the actual worst people in the world, even worse than localizers.
I really liked the 'creepy machine' aesthetic from the original Xbox. Like how you'd hear whispers from time to time.
Post console menus that you like
SOVL
What's the 2019 square? My Xbone screen doesn't look anything like that.
Is there a reason the shitty mii knockoff UI was excluded? I think that was right after blades.
xbox was the worst thing to happen to gaming
>console centric fps
>paid online
>dlc (lead to mtx)
>main ui with ads
>more goyslop skinnerbox westshit than ever
Ok Tanaka Sumishiru
It always is. That’s why you gotta love in the moment, bro. Enjoy the things that you might otherwise take for granted. Once the societal goalposts move enough, so that things you have typed in the past week on the internet becomes a “hate crime”, you can at least take solace in the fact that the re-education camps serve up 3 hots and a cot.
For instance, right now I’ve really gotten into eating meat, because it’ll either become illegal or become so expensive that only the rich elite can enjoy it. When that happens, you will at least have the memories and be able to say “I was there, before they ruined everything”. You know.... Like Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons or comic books.
and it is not possible to fight against it? Not in any way? It's an extremely depressing reality.
>For instance, right now I’ve really gotten into eating meat, because it’ll either become illegal or become so expensive that only the rich elite can enjoy it.
pull your head out of your arse. fakemeat companies are shutting down because -- guess what -- people don't want to buy something that is more expensive than meat, but strictly inferior, unless they have an ideological reason to.
man
the problem is people like you say that and then memory hole every "told you so" when things in life keep getting just that little bit worse over and over. I'm not even angry about it anymore, just exhausted of you.
you're pretty upset that you never got forcefed bugs aren't you
Everyone back the fuck up, best console UI coming through.
You know what? Not bad
Games and no bs as your main screen
Like it
Anyone know how to fix a game on the Xbox series x it won’t load it just keeps saying getting your game ready
not your personal search engine
Ok fag
Unplug from mains and restart, might have to do the game again
Unplugging is needed because even doing turn off from the menu this thing still runs a bit of juice like some standby+ mode
What the fuck happened?
dev grew some balls, both are soul
Sex with Betilla
Things got better
Appeal to coomer millenials. I know I'm right because any time there's a "games were le better in my time" thread their proof is always booth babes and skimpy outfits in vidya. Stories? Gameplay? Music? Doesn't matter. Only coomshit.
imagine bottom right but without the ads on the right side and less clutter
pirating is literally superior
Xbox shoving ads in 2008-2011± was fucking aids
Pc is getting so much worse gpus have actually regressed thanks to nvidia been bigger than amazon now
>children's toys have sleek interfaces now
AHHHH IM GOING INSAAAAAANE
ads are ruining everything
Once again, Nintendo showing everyone how it's done.
>ads exist
>but in a menu that you have to willingly click on
How is this so hard
switch UI is soulless compared to it's predecessors
compared to the Wii, obviously, but the Wii U was trash.
not just to the wii, compare it to the 3DS, DS, and Gamecube as well. I'll give you the wii U though that shit fucking sucks
>Gamecube
>DS
those aren't menus they're settings, just like the PS2. The actual "menu" is only there if you need to adjust something on the console.
>3DS
the only good thing about the 3DS menu is being able to change the size of the icons on the bottom screen, and having folders. Otherwise it's meh.
>the settings menu isn't a menu
Yes, you don't access it by default
It is but at least it has games front and center with no bullshit.
I hate the Switch UI. Ignoring how utterly boring it is visually, who the fuck wants every single thing in a horizontal line like that?
>press and hold
Whoever invented this trend needs to be shot
>game has press and hold for certain actions
>1 press for others
>no rhyme or reason between whats a press or a hold
>2001
clean, sleek, soulful, quickly get to what you need. the best
>2005
crowded and a bit obtuse, but wanted to convey more information at once and focus on xbox live so it was still decent enough and quick enough
>2011
soulless, clunky, heavy focus on pushing shitty ads first and foremost.
>2019
complete shit, feels and looks like ms edge on a bing news page. just awful
>
FTL,GSB, and FS2. Great taste in games.
>2005
holy shit take me back
Gears of War 1&2 (Not Gears of War 3, years later, nothing personal, just don't like 'em) and Halo 3 with the lads was a fucking blast
I fucking hate games now
this thread really shows the degradation of society
Pure unadulterated soul.
The saddest one for me is how unironically soulless Nintendo's main menus have gotten
Blame all the h1b Indians they hired
Why do people always skip the NXE?
the new PS5 UI is bretty gud imo
p similar to the ps3's kino UI
ah yes the 00's, every program had to have an acid alien interface
Yeah that shit got old quick. People only want it back because it isn't as widespread as it used to be.
I will never know defeat
Ok Brian Taylor
Had a side console since the SNES. The 360 was somehow a better entertainment system than the one despite that being its main selling point. Who the fuck removed the ability to rip music and play it over games.
minimalism is such a meme
Yeah, I'm thinking I'm home.
I'm not a fan of the PS1 menu
ITT: millennials reconcile with the fact that things have changed since the early 2000s
>inb4 zoom zoom
This is a defense mechanism. Millennials refuse to accept that anybody except a baby could disagree with them, and that's why their generation is mostly cucks and gays. They're spirits are the weakest of any generation, and it's not even close.
>it's cool when we looked like gays because... because... IT JUST WAS OKAY FUCK U ZOOMER ZOOM ZOOM 🙁
seethe
>bro u dont understand when people zoomers dress like gays today its gay but when we did it back in the 90s, bro it was different because ive got this pic of a hot goth gf that i wish was my real gf
This is just sad.
Butthurt zoom zoom
I accept your concession. Sorry, they don't come in funko pops or pogs. You'll have to indulge your retarded millennials sensibilities somewhere else.
we didn't collect pogs you retard, gen x collected pogs
i'm gen why and i collected pogs
me too, I also had the pogs in the 90s
born '91 and the only contact i had with pogs was my gen x dad dumping his collection on me
to be fair, this is in the UK
>shut up retard, my generation had completely different cringe-ass obsessions
Doesn't matter. Every milennial I've ever met collects a bunch of dogshit, displays it proudly in their house, and explains everything in autistic detail every time they have someone over. I refuse to be talked down to by anybody whose generate was cucked by god damn funko pops. Everybody I work with collects those shitty things. Everyone a decade older and younger thinks they're retarded, along with the whole soulless millennial aesthetic. But sure, dump the creepy "zoomer kids" folder you've got on standby. That'll help you cope with being sandwiched between superior generations.
all i collect is images i like. what do you collect, financed iphones with smashed screens?
>what do you collect, financed iphones with smashed screens?
KEK this is worse than I thought. You accused my generation of dressing like fags. I accused yours of the same on top of collecting shit for no reason to a psychotic degree. Your idea of a response is
>yeah, well, you use your phone to socialize, gay
Yeah, my mistake. Didn't realize this made the NEETs seethe. Enjoy total social and creative isolation, gay. I'm sure your brains will look great caked on the floor when your parents discover you two months after your suicide.
Instagram is not socialization
>its okay i never feel the touch of other human beings and have zero friends because at least i dont use a phone
Cope.
What the hell are you going on about?
If you're anon I've been talking to up the reply chain, then you're a retard for not understanding. If you aren't, then you're a retard for replying dryly without "nta" and then acting confused when I assume you're that anon.
God what a shit generation, put down your phones you lousy kids
I don't have a moustache
360's menu is the worst with that annoying mid 00s portfolio stuff that adds too much negative space.
Search engines suck ass now.
Can't find shit anymore if it is older than a year and you don't know the exact right wording for what you are looking for.
omg its this gay who has been autistically crying about game UIs for the past 6+ months and spamming threads about it every day
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. imagine his mental problems and physical condition, probably 300+ lbs and cant even perform basic functions in life
>OLD GOOD NEW BAD
>2000
>bunch of sweaty tech guys in a cramped office at Microsoft
>"Yeah so how bout when you boot it up, it takes you into this cool perspective of like plasma in a reactor core, and that's like the core of the Xbox system itself. Then the system menu that you interact with is like a perspective of interacting with this plasma core to select games to play on it and stuff. That's be sick. I love Limp Bizkit."
>2023
>bunch of diversity hires in a corporate boardroom at Microsoft
>"Make sure there's space for advertising stuff. Other than that it just needs to look like our universal tablet software layout across platforms."
Gaming will never be what it was anon. The barrier to entry to become a game dev back in the 90's/2000's was enough that only genuinely creative and innovative people who really wanted to at least try to make cool stuff would get into studios. Now you take a one year course at a community college and put it on your resume and studios have to hire you to fulfill a quota.
OW! MY BALLS!
Everything got progressively worst after 2007.
I thought it was just me but years later everyone started saying the same.
Hell I remember being here and everyone saying
>PS3 HAS NO GAEMS
But if you look at the PS3's first year it MURDERS the entire PS5's life so far.
*2001
Things got worse after 2001 but 2007 is when the collapse was finalized.
2001-2007 were a ton of fun.
does that include 2007 itself? Ganker seems to put that year in the shit years even though a lot of great games came out that year.
2007 was kino.
>Mass Effect
>Halo 3
>MW
>ratchet and Clank ToD
>Persona 3
>god of war 2
>Orange Box
>MP3
>Galaxy
Plus it had MGS4 and Brawl hype. Japan time alone was the most kino time of Ganker
>2007
I'm just saying... that Occupy Wall Street in 2012 was memoryholed and corpos and governments have been pushing the fag agenda and pitting races and men and women against each other ever since to distract from the actual problem: the haves and havenots, class warfare.
OWS started in 2008.
I remember there being protests at my uni
Gaming went to shit when you started getting locked out of playlists for not buying DLC maps in Halo.