What happened to designing unique, stylistic and thematically fitting UIs in AAA games? Why the soulless office software tier UIs?
What happened to designing unique, stylistic and thematically fitting UIs in AAA games...
Ryder Taylor
Nicholas Wood
I don't see anything wrong with the UI here.
Thomas Martinez
>kratos
>armor other than the golden counterattack veal thing
fuck this shit
Noah Scott
The answer is Destiny. For whatever reason the UI design of it gave devs a super boner.
Isaiah Wood
Looks like a Skyrim skin over the Destiny UI.
Aka it's shit.
Nicholas Cooper
literally looks exactly like the fucking Shadow of War ui
what the fuck
Adrian Cook
Do you seriously not fucking know what the golden fleece is.
James Jackson
Other than being ripped out straight from the Middle-Earth games?
Parker Peterson
"Minimalism" has allowed any hack to become a designer. Couple that with an audience that really doesn't appreciate anything more complex then boxes and you get GoWs new UI.
Isaac Cook
UX/UI design courses have literally been removed from the vast majority of graphic design and computer science schools because a ton of programmers memed their alma mater into believing that anyone can do that shit and it's a pointless field of study.
Josiah Taylor
Replace Kratos in this screenshot and this could be literally any AAA game in the past few years.
Bentley Price
>craft
When will this cancer end?
Cooper Reyes
they think it looks clean and modern when in reality it just looks bland and crap
UI "designers" are some of the worst people you will ever meet
Adrian Robinson
This. Also, it's easier to copy something people are used to(like Skyrim/Destiny) than to design your own UI.
Kevin Sullivan
>Skyrim UI
>Stats on Kratos
>Armor on Kratos
>Cooldown on Kratos
Into the motherfucking trash it goes straight away where it fucking belongs and it also stays there for all eternery my dear famalams. I wish I never lived to see this day.
Landon Gomez
Developers track everything you do in their games, this is why they need "always online". They record pretty much everything you do.
This builds a large databse of how people play so they can streamline future games, if this UI is being used as much as people say it's because the majority of potatoes seem to prefer it according to their tracking information.
Connor Lee
Stop being a crying bitch, minimalistic UIs look great, clean, they're not intrusive and won't age.
Luis Ramirez
Quick!
Post amazing GUI in games
Lincoln Lewis
Modern interface designers are all a bunch of shitheads.
Same shit is happening to the internet and windows.
Thomas Lopez
Wrong.
They track what you do in game, not what you fucking look at in game. The reason they go with this minimalistic shit is because it's
>easy
>simple
>enough for people who don't appreciate artistic design
>worked in Skyrim
The last one is basically all the matters though. If successful games, AAA titles did it and it worked, there is no reason not to copy it. Just like they copied the gameplay of slower paced AAA titles with the over-the shoulder camera with very small FOV and 'cinematic experiences'.
Camden Allen
I used to think I preferred "clean UIs" but I was wrong. Sorry gang.
Jonathan White
I hate the axe, it looks boring as shit compared to the chain blades. Are we getting chain blades in this game?
Bentley Myers
I kinda like minimalistic UIs (they looked fantastic in both SM Odyssey and BotW) but this one looks like fucking shit, you can tell the designers have no talento whatsoever and just copy-pasted from other game.
Lincoln Collins
Thats horrible
Wyatt Bennett
Yeah I don't mind that.
Jaxon Johnson
Chain blades were leaked by ESRB
Jacob Cruz
the web is built for phones and tablets first.
Joseph Sullivan
It's like every shallow AAA release had this same shitty UI, sick of it
Austin Morgan
Smartphones and tablets, son.
Josiah Clark
minimalist design is the trend
Kevin Wood
Even office 2007 has better style than that
James Gonzalez
Why are you guys saying this is bad UI?
Just because Skyrim, the entire Assassin's Creed franchise, the entire Far Cry franchise, the new Shadow of Mordor games, The Last of Us, and a few more AAA titles in the past years (probably only around 20-25 games anyway) have used the very same UI design?
Those games are all successful, doesn't that mean it's good UI design?
Christopher Wilson
You know, you can still make a stylistic UI while going minimalistic. Those two are not mutually exclusive.
Easton Carter
The ironic thing is that these are supposed to be minimal but they are a fucking mess of design.
Mason Russell
Textured menus? What are you, crazy? You're getting a stock glassy theme and you'll like it.
Carson Walker
It's not even glassy ffs
Noah Powell
Isaac Stewart
Only if you preorder the Gold edition
Tyler Wilson
The dumbing down of design
Henry Jenkins
i mean yeah it lacks style but it looks functional. i would prefer that over the shitty mobile UIs that everything has now
Jose Long
I swear, these are stock symbols taken from some repository. Not something devs actually drew.
Parker Morris
Where did these retarded idea come from that we should stop having distinct buttons?
Andrew Watson
you're part of the problem
Connor Reyes
Literally goes from worse to better if you read it left to right.
>LOL GLOSS LMAO SHINY!
Jason Clark
>minimalistic shit
It's overcomplicated dude
Something like Dragon's Dogma is simple not this
Brayden Williams
good taste
Noah Fisher
imagine if modern ui would be here instead, it'd be that much less immersive
Mason Davis
Chase Roberts
>Everything is a half-transparent grey rectangle
Who do we blame for this?
Xavier Gutierrez
skyrim and modern military shooters
Landon Nelson
>less details, less depth and gaudy colors is better
Angel King
Right is objectively the best
Oliver Gonzalez
The first version of new ios wasn't the best but material design is top notch.
Wyatt Richardson
No.
Benjamin Carter
>doesn't that mean it's good UI design?
Its cheap and fast ui design....
Jaxon Moore
the CHAD font
Evan Adams
I wouldn't even mind it in the likes of cowadoody, it's not completely out of place there. But when things like Assassin's Creed, For Honor and now GoW pull that shit, it clashes with the rest of the game so hard.
Nathan White
material desing dont fit into videogames, like Battlefield 1 did, its fucking horrible
Samuel Clark
reminds me of SkyUI
Christian Gutierrez
It looks like nothing, it's a placeholder, yet it's not minimalistic enough to justify not being fully ornamented. Why do they have norse design elements combined with modern, futuristic computer design themes? What part of the games setting justifies this? The UI elements have almost zero artistic skill put into them (crude, simplistic, utilitarian icons etc), yet they cover half the screen. All the 3d models in that picture have lots of work and effort put into making them look as good as possible, why does that not extend to the user interface?
Samuel Ramirez
You may not like it, but this is what peak GUI looks like
Zachary Peterson
Post the worst offenders of this UI non-design.
Josiah Gray
Witcher 1 had pure UI kino.
Owen Rodriguez
If there's one huge nitpick that I do have for Breath of the Wild, it would be this. The title screen and inventory system felt so dead and lifeless compared to every other game that it's damning. Hate that GUI.
Luke Flores
I think he said that to be funny.
Personally I don't like Kratos with non-Greek inspired equipment.
Nolan Butler
there is something dreamy yet simple and paper-like children book vibe about this design
Kayden Harris
Is this the Web 2.0 of UI design?
Jayden Price
Thematically it makes sense with the game and that's what good UI's should do as well as be functional.
Want to know a bad one, anyone remember Dragon Age Inquisition?
David Cook
pretty sure this is just web 2.0 period
Isaac Cooper
>it's a Sup Forums complains about a non-issue as if it's a gamebreaking disaster episode
a thread died for this
Landon Foster
hmmm
Xavier Long
it's weird how even without seeing what game this was from before i read the filename you just know it's designed by japanese devs. They always seem to have everything lowercase, with wide character spacing, and full stops at the end of everything. MGSV has the same kind of thing.
Jaxson Ross
>my glazed-over bovine mind doesn't care about anything so you shouldn't either
Daniel Moore
looks like ubishit or something.
Josiah Jenkins
No one has implied it's a gamebraking disaster.
Luke Thompson
>it's im gonna be a contrarian faggot by grossly oversimplifying the argument episode
this is one of the best threads on Sup Forums you fucking faggot, please go back to your shitposting and waifubait threads
Asher Rodriguez
>No UI where blood fills up or red text
Soy of War
Grayson Gutierrez
When I was playing the game the menu actually reminded me a lot of MGS3 specifically.
Aiden Rivera
System Shock UI is top tier, both incredibly immersive and practical at the same time.
Cameron Mitchell
Looks like For Honor.
Nathaniel Martin
A lot of people get lost in menus and while navigating. Finding the most optimal way to convey information is resulting in increasingly minimalist styles. Nothing but the info you need, and the info conveyed as simple and short in text as possible. Use icons for everything for association. Maintain a single color scheme.
Everything designed as to prevent as much as possible the overload of the senses because a great majority of people gets confused easily. The fact that big developers are using it is because someone made very convincing metrics about it.
Easton Carter
The game is about Kratos meeting up with Norse gods btw
Landon Miller
It's likely the thread that died had less to do with video game design than this, it was probably a Sans Smash thread or something.
Ryder Cook
yeah no shit I wasn't asking why they had norse elements in the UI, it's the other shit I'm talking about
Aaron Allen
Mobile first
Dominic James
"""""Simple"""""
Joseph Powell
All that "empty" space is covered with ads you know?
Parker Reyes
Just anothe rootless thing to nitpick about. Keep them coming, haters. I need the salt.
Owen Peterson
All of PC games made with mouse in mind.
Luis Bailey
i keked
Caleb Ramirez
As long as it's usable and functional, the UI is the least important part of the game
Cameron Cox
at least this one works for futuristic visuals
do i wrote it correctly?
David Adams
Pic related has a fucking terrible UI, especially the menu system, good lord is it bad.
Parker Gonzalez
Minimalism and art aren't opposed. You could have replaced all the borders with slightly uneven, handcraftedly inprecise braid patterns with appearance that hints at real materials, replaced all the mathematically perfect gradient backgrounds with black-painted wood and made the icons look like they were made by hand, and at the very least actually have used a real rune for the "runic" stat. This is just lazy.
Tyler Wood
This is the worst opinion I've ever heard
Christian Clark
Right is missing buttons you brainlet fuck
Tyler Rodriguez
and here we go
Jaxon Miller
Someone post Persona 5’s menus.
Isaiah Gonzalez
Ryan Ramirez
Monster Hunter World did this too, feels bad.