Cannot find it now but I'm immediately reminded of that moment when Ubisoft did a presentation on game design and literally showed a DSP clip in the middle of it, showcasing how it's important to make things more accessible to a larger audience.
Oh, I am well aware. I watched Mass Effect turn into Gears of War with less homoeroticism over the course of a single entry.
Funny you mention that since they actually patented that arrow and the patent only expired in 2018.
Portal is a game that is about being locked up in a test lab with big, white flat surfaces everywhere. Not something that really works for everything.
Please actually watch the video I linked. A lot of what's explained is completely agnostic to level design. Things like introducing concepts over time, restricting the player from 'clever' solutions early on, not allowing the player to accidentally stumble their way into victory.
It is staggering that people consider this visual indicator dumbed down for the lowest common denominator.
This is bait, isn't it? Saying shit no one actually believes? Also, if you train to player earlier on that you can destroy props and get goodies from them, you don't need the tacky yellow paint.
So you think the aura item markers in Resident Evil 4 are bad?
Yes, I do, as a simple 'glimmer' would at least look less garish.
What kind of retard casual needs their items to glimmer?
Oh, now you need to be taught to find objects? lol what a moron
The kind that thinks yellow paint is a replacement for playtesting.
"Oh, that might just be ambient clutter. I might as well ignore it."
Have you tried gitting gud?
Have you tried rotating an apple in your head?
Uh, why should developers cater to people who are so bad at games that they need to be spoonfed how the game works?
"Hey, is this item important?"
Sorry you're bad at games, bro. Someday maybe you won't need non-diagetic visual aids that communicate how the developers intend gameplay to work like a true hardcore gamer.
It's all within the context of a game environment that consists almost entirely of giant, flat, white surfaces where there is zero chance of there being any ambiguity as to whether or not a pile of clutter is climbable or not, since there's no non-interactive, scenic clutter in the puzzle rooms.
Doom '16 got razzed for making the explosive barrels red, because otherwise dumb modern gamers couldn't tell they exploded. But every other object in the game is a metallic cylinder! I think the devs made intelligent choices about barrel coloring, although overall it is still gay.
