i hate modern game user interfaces

Playing Titan Fall 2 is like watching subway surfer's tik toks.
It actrually would give me legit headaches trying to process everything on screen

i like the declining battle pass mini-game they put when the game boots up in mw2... its kinda like a quick-time event

One modern game that has very good UI: Division 2.
Underrated UI.

i downloaded COD B.O..6 AND MODERN WARFARE and uninstalled in 5 mins, screens confusing and makes no sense

It’s insane that you gotta tweet at COD to see your combat record when that was always just part of the game already.

Black ops 1 should be the gold standard for high budget flashy UI’s. I swear that game had some of the most inspired design-work in gaming.

Agree

The new CoD and Battlefield is awful and a clown fiesta

Everything now feels like it's CLAWING for your attention as fast and for as long as possible.
💥IN GAME STORE💥 BATTLE PASS💥 LIMITED TIME EVENT💥 my god.....
I'm glad I've grown immune to their desperate attempts because I've fallen for it too many times in the past

> plays triple A slop
> complains that it's triple A slop

I hate modern games

there I fixed the title

This basically describes most of modern society. Change things for the sake of changing them, to justify why their job should exist. It sucks to see.

They're all mobile menus. Just advertisements and popups all over the place, with the only purpose being to have you menu diving, confused and spending money.

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I hate console games that use a retical in the menu. All a retical does is increase the time it takes navigate a menu.

A lot of people just pass of any "old" game as outdated and not worthy to be looked at or played. Many fail to realize, that some of the best games, styles, concepts, etc. have already been made and developers seem to try to reinvent the wheel.

Everything I like is bad AND I should listen to you for life advice because I hate myself

Honestly it seems like the menus are overdeveloped if anything.

Keep it simple stupid.

DayZ HUD is great.

PREACH KING

lol none of this applies to me

This really bring to mind that one ubisoft dev trying to diss Elden Ring's simplistic UI... he's one of the many people that made modern UX really fucking shit on average. Literally removing these people and not replacing them with anyone is a better move than keeping them in.

Heres genZ crying and complaining again thinking someone actually cares what they think

Old school runesape FTW!

This reminds me how much I LOVED Prey's UI design. That 2017 game was beautiful and had an identity everywhere you went. It never felt cluttered, it always felt intuitive, I picked it up with lightning speed. Mwah. Perfection, even with use of boxes. It felt tasteful.

plz dont play osrs, u will lose alot of ur free time, this my experience. i did it all, I maxed my account to ended permanent ban cuz i was scammed by some 1

The dots on the globe in bo2 aren't people connecting from different parts of the world a couple devs came out and said they're random dots on a globe that spins that's it

I seriously don't get why so many gamers today are addicted of being the most incredibly minimal in-game UI.

Sure it makes you immersive since there's no large waypoint in the map, so you can be more free and no one is telling you where to go, you just have to see it for yourself.

But not all gamers are that patient or plays for casual fun. And boy I prefer having actual waypoints to guide me, and yes I've been playing games since 90s

I'd rather have a large circular or square minimap, rather than a clean compass, so I can see clearly of where I am going without getting loss.

Instead of going to the fucking map, in every five seconds so I can know the path I'm walking or driving on is the correct way

Finally other people noticed this as well

Good feels when I play niche Japanese games

Yapping

Every new online game and ubisoft game, the ui looks like a casino, this make sense, because, all they want, is that we spend a lot of money with skin and loot box

The reason why its so bad is because the good old boys that made GOOD games were replaced by knuckle dragging idiots and diversity hires

when you realize this isn't just a problem in gaming industry, but in uis of everything

God of war reboots are so bad compared to the originals. They're the most generic, Last of us copycats

Black ops 1 menu was the goat

boxes

for me the worst offenders of this are mw2 and pubg mobile like the ui changes they put to pubg mobile were so abhorent that it made me lose interest in the game comparing it now to like 2018-2019 its not even comparable it sucks because you have to take like 5 minutes to learn what everything does

i have played many many games yet not a single one has even come close to me in term of look simplicity and usability as half life 2 has even in game and this is a hill im willing to die on

Or when i want to play Skyrim and met by a message that i can upgrade to the latest latest edition.

"We're finally breaking out of one CoD a year development cycle"

Boy that aged like fine milk. At least BO6 got one more year so it might be less shit than the previous three. Wouldn't get my hopes up though.

Bro you're not the only one. Compare hitman's menu screen against any ps2 era game. I literally can't understand most modern sports games or major shooter.

"Hey man, since you got Hulu on, can you put on some Family Guy?"
"Bro.. This is MW3.."

If the menus are too complex I already lose interest to play the actual game. And I’ve been gaming for decades. It should be easy, limited but relevant info on screen. Like the old days

i'd have suggested Warframe for a game with a good UI but i think that may be cheating.

I remmember seing some overwatch gameplay and oh my god
whenever you heal yourself your screen gets a yellow veniette and you get many little pluses all over the screen...
why? what's the point? why cover the entire screen in effecets that player does to himself?

in tf2 when you get healed your health bar goes up that's it. If there is something that gamedevs need to take from web design, is importance hierarchy.

this all could be because in web design sorting things into boxes just makes sense for multiple reasons, and maybe there werw a lot of web designers to hire so they started making ui's for games.

"unreal tournament, doom, ff" did you try to avoid mentioning quake [/j]

Calling out Asphalt 9

UI has to be a way to access the options but nowadays,
Navigating through new games UI is like running a seperate game.the UI itself takes so much processing power(animation,lazy optimisation,visual appeal,zoom in/out,click animation,etc)