Thread 715734430

>modern game has a "minimalistic" UI with a stock white font and black/white translucent rectangles
Instant into the trash.

Man, what the fuck happened to game UIs? They used to be unique, cool and fun. Having as much iconic gusto to them as the game itself, adding to the atmosphere and the overall experience. You can instantly identify so many games just by their UI elements. Nowadays all UIs are literally interchangeable. It seems they're trying to make games as bland and forgettable as possible even down to the most basic elements.

>>715734430 (OP)
Play stuff from Atlus.

NOOOOO IT'S NOT SCALABLE FOR 128K MONITOR

yeah

>>715734430 (OP)
function over form.

>>715734430 (OP)
preaching to the choir amigo

>>715736046
>function
>Modern slop is harder to see.

yash

>>715736691
Get your eyes checked

>>715734430 (OP)
It's thrown together at the last minute. Often these game development scams are run in such a way that developers spend long stretches of time with no clear goals followed by short sprints where everything needs to be slotted into a coherent format based on some bullshit. The worst case scenario would be throwing out a fully functional menu because the manager didn't like it, they need to fit in some new random thing or because it didn't test well.
It's why the most ubiquitous menu is a character render in a void with particle effects, diamond icons and a tabulated layout, it represents minutes of work at most.
>>715736046
This stuff is less functional than putting thought into menus, because none of it is fit for purpose. At the risk of starting Nintendo shitflinging, the menus in BotW/TotK fall into these same traps, so something that is supposed to be used for experimentation and interaction becomes something that is often avoided as much as possible to the player's detriment.
>>715736781
The presentation of the menu and "things the character knows" are ways to convey the context of the world, a worldview and way of thinking, either from the perspective of the designer, the character or even just to guide the player to a specific perspective.
The menu is in and of itself part of the art.

>>715736781
>hating on Witcher 1's gorgeous UIX
I knew that PIebbit fags were behind this downfall as well.

>>715739269
the more I update this the sadder it gets

sloppa

>>715736781
>the further back you go, old UIs are blocky, busy, clunky, and cheap
>modern one size fits all UIs that look like an earnings report are somehow not cheap looking

>>715739269
>>715739386
I like it

>>715739269
>>715739386
I hate it.

>>715739396
top made for 20 inch CRT
bottom made for 55 inch LCD

>>715739386
congratulations, you have made a list of equipment menus that show the player character
that isn’t new at all

>>715741689
seems like you missed the point completely

>>715741863
seems like you’re blind

>>715736781
Soulless people.

>>715734832
Shame that their gameplay and story are 0/10

>>715739269
>>715739386
I complain about this every time you repost this. Why is The Division screen a character select screen and not an inventory loadout screen.

>>715734430 (OP)
Because everything is highly specialized. Some fag goes to school and learns about "User Interface Philosophy" from some chink making smartphone apps as addicting as possible for boomers. All the book written on UX and UI are by marketing losers trying to get retards to spend more time clicking and tapping and buying.

So the game industry has a team of 300 people making a game, they have a whole team of fags just for UI, who do they hire? An artist who can create beautiful and unique hand designed UI designs? No. They hire the "safe" guy with a degree in user experience design to make it as braindead simple as possible and able to fit the widest possible arrangement of displays.

So now game UIs are all made by corporate graphics design fags trained to communicate with vector shapes and all artistry is lost.

>>715734430 (OP)
making UIs with unique styles can't be taught as course for diversity hires and jeets so it had to go

>>715734430 (OP)
a lot of it comes from the apple design philosophy that ui should disappear leaving you with just the "content" i.e. the iphone is just a screen that melts away
this is political because it allows the user to simply forget about the invisible middleman that mediates and controls everything about their experience.
i too prefer loud expressive ui that calls attention to itself. the ps5 console ui is underappreciated in this regard and makes it feel anachronistic compared to, for instance, the switch ui which leans much more toward the corporate hell apple model

It's mostly because games go through a billion and a half changes until they release nowadays. It's just safer to stick with a generic UI.

yeah

>>715736046
You can have both but modern UI is typically worse in function too. Just compare Morrowind's UI to Skyrim's.

You really are complaining about the fucking menu screens now?

>>715742783
>>715742860
Because showing the actual Borderlands 2 knockoff inventory screen would blow the narrative out of the water. Every one of these dumbass memes seeks to make things look worse than they actually are by outright lying and fabricating when they can't find organic examples.

>>715747426
>uh, you're really complaining about the most important link between the player and the game??
fuck off zoomnigger

>>715734430 (OP)
Doesn't anyone like the HUD in Tales of Arise?

>>715739386
What popularized this, or was the first?

I actually hate UIs in general. Dead Space MGSV and Demon's Souls have the pefect type of UI

>>715734430 (OP)
yea

>>715747965
Skyrim or Destiny idk