You don’t really appreciate the yellow paint guiding you where to go or the shiny objects indicating an item until you play a game from 1998 where it tells you absolutely nothing and you have to figure out wtf you can interact with in any given room 😂 - ThreadSky

parmparm.bsky.social • 83 days ago

You don’t really appreciate the yellow paint guiding you where to go or the shiny objects indicating an item until you play a game from 1998 where it tells you absolutely nothing and you have to figure out wtf you can interact with in any given room 😂

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portersrow.bsky.social•82 days ago

And honestly, I kind of prefer it that way.

For me at least, figuring things out is part of the fun.

the1jill.bsky.social•83 days ago

I remember making maps on graph paper for games back in the day, and as someone that's perpetually lost, I am SO thankful for the yellow paint. ;P

But I also can't blame people that want to be able to turn it off. It's helpful, but not when it comes to immersion.

homunculusix.bsky.social•83 days ago

Tried Dino crisis on PSN and yes

robcaduk.bsky.social•83 days ago

We forget how most games were so hard. We also didn’t have the internet to help us. I remember ringing premium rate phone lines for help!

thegeekyghost.bsky.social•83 days ago

Look Ultima Online was amazing 😝. I played it for 11 years. I still contemplate going back every so often because it's still up and running. If I ever make an MMO, it's going to be the template lol. The devs used to hop in game and run live events in character. I had a library in my house!

northkozar.bsky.social•83 days ago

Forever frantically mashing the A button at every possible angle in a house to find any items

ohpuic.bsky.social•83 days ago

The main character looking in the direction of the objective is the one I miss in older games.

suggestivecarp.bsky.social•83 days ago

Classic Doom is a seesaw of "dodgeball with guns" and "Where tf do I go." It's so fun pin-balling wall to wall to avoid fireballs but damn there's some low points of finding the next encounter

ironknuckle.bsky.social•83 days ago

That's half of the fun and it's really not that hard. Another game that comes to mind is Pokemon. I replayed it recently and really enjoyed the progression in the game.

darket696.bsky.social•83 days ago

I'll be honest, I've never had that problem, and I've been gaming since the 1980s. I don't have a particular issue with the yellow paint. However, I do believe there are far better ways of indicating to players what objects can be interacted with (or not)

valyriann.bsky.social•83 days ago

Replay half life 2 and you'll see that good level design can guide you perfectly fine. There are so many creative ways to do this haha

darket696.bsky.social•83 days ago

Yes, absolutely. What muddies this discussion is that it's become a hill to die on for some people who, on one side, think it's somehow the peak of game design and on the other make out that it's totally ruined a game, both of which are completely absurd 😂

valyriann.bsky.social•83 days ago

I'm more steering to the latter but I don't like screaming about it on social media. I'm just chilling and be annoyed at it on my own. At the end of the day it's what the devs wanted to do. Whatever you do with that information is on you. Buy, skip, sale. Whatever.

darket696.bsky.social•83 days ago

Oh, I agree, and much of this is subjective and down to individual tolerance. My personal gripe is Xray vision. I'd rather have all the yellow paint in the world than fking xray vision in a game 😂😂

valyriann.bsky.social•83 days ago

Xray vision kinda ruins the overall work of the graphics fr. Especially when it wants you to use it often

themukman.bsky.social•83 days ago

I feel like Jedi: Survivor does this well and even better than its predecessor without painting everything yellow.

v01dworks.com•83 days ago

I honestly love that Stalker 2 has a setting to turn this off

I wasn’t that bothered by it but I prefer it without

darket696.bsky.social•83 days ago

There you go. A perfect solution 👌

valyriann.bsky.social•83 days ago

Wait there is a setting for it in Stalker 2? That's the first thing I'm gonna do when I play again. Turning that off. See i just want choice like this

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