So, other than yellow paint what are some examples of shitty game design or gameplay elements?
So, other than yellow paint what are some examples of shitty game design or gameplay elements?
So, other than yellow paint what are some examples of shitty game design or gameplay elements?
the sony exclusive template
you mean the timed thing? thats more of a publisher thing than game design
>Timed
Anything by Snoy since Uncharted 4. You can only climb yellow rocks, even though that one rock comes to your knees. The new Jedai games are also guilty of this.
this and unpassable walkways with knee high obstacles triggers me to no end
console players just finding new ways to tell everyone how stupid they are.
Are we being raided? Whats with all the yellow paint threads right now?
ff7 showed them using it in a recent preview
>right now
REmake 4 happened just last year.
ff7r demo has yellow paint ledges in one of it's many timewasting padding sequences
And conveniently, no one here posted about it until some stupid twitteroid pointed it out.
Total remake death
FF7 needs some publicity, Shills have got nothing but yellow paint bait threads.
https://www.nexusmods.com/residentevil42023/mods/73
highly recommend this mod.
squeezing through a small gap or vent to hide a load screen, or the player character never shutting the frick up with shit like "i better get out of here fast!" and "frick that was scary!"
>squeezing through a small gap or vent to hide a load screen,
Im okay with that one tbh would rather have that than a hard cut to a different screen entirely
The vent squeeze is better than Gears of War's slow walking conversations.
>youtube thumbnail
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The yellow paint thing is peak midwit game design, you go to game design college and they talk about exegetic elements , so you can't just have a "gamey" icon popping up and telling people to climb or break the thing, "of course I'll just paint it a different color, according to the color theory 101 class I had to attend to yellow is the most visible color to the brain, I'm an actual genius!" and every game designer in the room applauds you and then they start all doing the same thing, because they all go to the same schools and talks.
This "suddenly" became an issue because it takes some time for a trend to form, there's always a lag in the public discourse as knowledge disseminates, I'm sure people were weirded out the first game they saw it, but now that it's multiple popular games it clearly has become a thing and people should be allowed to express their thoughts about it.
And it's only getting worse.
why do they all use this yellow paint?
glad i don't play aaa anymore
They've conditioned players to associate yellow with interaction, so now everything interactable must be yellow or it will be ignored.
Well I do get annoyed when red barrels don't explode.
That's an inverse scenario. An analogue would be you getting stuck because you won't even attempt to shoot a yellow or orange barrel.
why even have the log there at that point? I can kind of understand highlighting the only ladder on a large ledge yellow, or the one door out of several that opens, even if I think it's kind of lazy.
but why go to all the trouble of blocking a narrow path and then putting a big label on it that says
>actually the path isn't blocked
I could swear people were b***hing about it ten years ago when it showed up in the Tomb Raider reboot.
yellow paint reminds gamers that they are low IQ consumers in a hobby that is supposed to make them feel smart
Or maybe it just looks stupid? Trying to find some le deep philosophical meaning where there is none ironically makes you the low IQ person.
>everything is looks and nothing else
slop hog consoomer take
Every fricking multiplayer game insists on some levelling system now, which only ever ends up being an indicator of how much time I've spent playing the game. No I don't want how addicted I am to a game to be fricking advertised to everyone, especially when it causes homosexuals to go "hurr you should have done better given how much you've played of it", it actually makes me want to refrain from playing the game so that the level doesn't get too high which I'm pretty fricking sure is achieving the exact opposite the game dev wanted.
The worst part is that we know game devs only do this shit as some skinner-box addiction hook bullshit. Which makes it insulting that the game insinuates that I would play just to see a bar fill up.
Its even worse when you realize its meant to fake game mastery. They timegate player options and critical functions behind the level up system so they can pretend you're getting better at the game, when really everyone plateaued at the fps skill level years ago. The first three to four hours playing BF3 and 4 is wasted on low xp matches trying to get all the tools to actually play your class.
>who cares about game devs somehow finding new ways to dumb down things even further than what they already were
>IS IS THAT YELLOW PAINT?! AIEEEEEEEE SAVE ME NOSTALGIA
I care. The best way to get the industry to stop having these fricking phases is to complain about them. QTEs used to be common, enough people rightfully called them out so the industry stopped having them, it's funny how RE4 remake basically traded one cancerous trend for another.
Yeah, sadly the only way to get any sort of message to game publishers and devs is to scream about something endlessly.
Being polite just gets you ignored.
Eagle vision, Witcher vision, Detective mode. That gets complained about now and then, but I don't necessarily hate it as much as this yellow paint where an anon explained it well the other day how they try to make it look diegetic, as if yellow paint just being on everything you can interact with is ordinary in the world you're playing in, while it used to just be a fricking button prompt would appear and that was more than enough, but NO IT'S TOO GAMEY NOW AND NEEDS TO BE REALISTIC LIKE YELLOW PAINT CONVENIENTLY BEING SMEARED ON EVERY DESTRUCTIBLE OR CLIMBABLE OBJECT.
Open worlds
Stories
Crafting
Maps filled with collectibles / ubisoft towers
QTE
Tons of cutscenes because developpers wants their game to be "just like a movie" without understanding anything about camera work.
The idea of "game design" now being this academic thing which is studied in game developer school and taught by non-authorities with zero credentials, forcing developers to adhere to a completely arbitrary set of "best practices" that aren't based on any sort of creativity or historical context.
If it was actually based on any historical context, all games would have exactly the things twitterinas hate (lives, timers, bunch of enemies etc), this is just dumb people incapable of playing games getting a voice for some moronic reason.
Historical context is largely centered around player trust. The complete lack of player trust (that is, building a game with the assumption that players have never played a video game before in their entire lives and must be given an explicit tutorial that says "tilt analog stick to move") is almost entirely responsible for the scaffold of annoying an unnecessary design principles that plague modern games, including yellow paint.
It is one thing to "guide" players by designing your early levels in a way that promote experimentation and organically introduce concepts players will need to be familiar with in later parts of the game. It's another thing to assume players shouldn't be expected to learn anything and must always have their hands held from start to finish for the sake of accessibility or some shit.
any easy mode that basically makes you not die in favor of just "experiencing the game", it's always a signal the game story is fricking garbage.
Imagine if you're the Green Lantern and seeing all this yellow shit in games.
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How were players supposed to know to shoot the track switches?
>this is how trains work
>How were players supposed to know to shoot the track switches?
Because there are tons of movies where people do that
>Obvious cart can move on track.
>Obvious there's a secondary path for the cart.
>Sign with an arrow showing which way the cart goes.
Either you'd try to interact with the sign like a door or hit it with the crowbar because those were the two ways you interacted with things in games at the time.
Hourly Chudley-Do-Right melty about video games made for children being slightly more accessible lmao
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>Having to squeeze through some tight spot in slow motion to camouflage a loading screen
>Hip-high fences or other, easily overcomable barriers prevent you from progressing
>Chest high walls everywhere spoil the fact that there will be combat at this place later on
Sprint, ADS, hitmarkers, classes, killstreak bonuses, xp system, dumb weapon skins, BR, heroes...MP FPS have been shit since Cancer Of Duty 4 and they only became worse
Cursor in console games, I know it was a thing in GT, because the crazy jap loves MacOS but currently we have absolutely the worst UI that doesn't work right on PC and consoles