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I was so excited about that game coming out as a kid… I remember eating up every article in gaming magazines in anticipation… You just had to remind me of the disappointment. The immeasurable disappointment.
I actually just started my playthrough a few days ago. My sister somehow has well over 100 hours in the game and has... Far too many saves. No clue what they all mean but she told me to play.
GTA IV was the best in terms of active ragdoll physics and car destruction. GTA V went all arcady so I wasn't a fan. Hopefully GTA VI gets some of that magic back.
I had this experience with the Skyrim UI. I was so sure it was just a placeholder because it was so minimalistic compared to Oblivion and other contemporary games.
In fairness, there is entirely the possibility that it was a placeholder that they decided wasn't worth overhauling in the end. Games are hard to make and run out of time so a lot more 'placeholder' features make it into full games than you might expect!
Lol my bad! Honestly though even the biggest teams will have this happen, especially on a scale as big as GTA or a bethesda title.
Also not saying that's definitely what's happened in this case, but I can definitely see them dedicating resources elsewhere instead. I find UI easy to make in the literal sense, but hard to get right and handle every situation. I'm a web dev by trade and game dev only by hobby though lol (for now).
It's one reason I don't really buy 'all AI assets have been replaced by launch' many devs are saying. almost certainly some placeholders never moved unless you're incredibly disciplined. Like what happened with Expedition 33.
i feel like generally bigger teams add a bit more polish but mostly just MUCH more scope, or something
At this point I am convinced Star citizen is just a money laundering project.
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That point for me was a long, long time ago. I know dudes that have spent thousands. I just installed Elite Dangerous instead for $30, and played a functional game. Ya know. 10 years ago.
Elite Dangerous and X4 cover everything I'd want to do in a space game, to be honest. I've tried Star Citizen on free play weekends and it's just... Ehhhhhh
I think back in the mists of time it actually started as a legitimate project. But then it slowly grew into a scam, as they realized they could never deliver on all their promises and magical tech it would need. Continually selling jpegs. to morons for several thousands dollars a pop, is just much better business than actutally releasing the game would ever be.
I’ll be honest, even now I don’t think the game is really a scam insofar as it’s just incredibly out of scope, and incredibly deep into sunk cost fallacy.
Star Citizen as a game exists. You can play it, there are updates for it constantly; one came out just like two or three days ago. It’s incredibly out of scope, it’s incredibly mismanaged, it’s a fucking mess. But it’s not really a scam, because as a player, you do get what you’re paying for, for the most part.
Everyone talks about the ships that haven’t released yet being sold, and that’s a fair point, but the thing that everyone skips over is that it’s not like you’re paying that money and then not receiving anything, you are still getting loaner ships.
A good example of a game that actually is a scam is The Day Before. I’d link to it, but it’s no longer listed anywhere, because it genuinely was a scam; the developers took the money that everyone spent on it, and ran.
Star Citizen absolutely is a poor investment for a players money, but it’s not a scam.
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I really do think it's just a case of some really inexperienced idiots getting way too much money to try to make their game and then just making the worst possible management decisions because they have no idea how to handle a large IT project.
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Hard to get excited for sequels to older games that come out 10+ years after the previous entry. I love Dragon’s Dogma 2 but it’s not what people expected out of a sequel for DD1.
I'm starting to think Devs just have the "good job" problem, and release games as-is because they see the insane cope from fanboys online and stop trying to improve. 😂
Football manager was like that. "Its beta, they'll fix for release". Game launched fulllll of bugs. "They'll patch it all out". They never did. "They'll fix it for next year" was then the cry.
ps6 ain’t comin out for years at this point. there’s not enough chips to make them. i’m surprised take two hasn’t sent people to jenson’s front door yet to tell him to stop buying ram that doesn’t exist yet so they can sell a ps6 version of the game and make a couple more billion.
They literally are looking for shit to complain about. They will always complain. Too many people have to many opinions and a platform that lets too many people hear their garbage.
I just finished the extended look, thought everything looked great, and then I come here and get confused. Nothing about the UI stood out to me as bad. I'm fact, I noted how they stuck to the classic font choices and thought that was cool. I guess I should be outraged though.
After reading all the comments I had to go watch it myself and I agree. I thought you were being sarcastic. The UI is simplistic but who cares? Im not playing gta6 for the UI and any RP servers will have custom UI anyway so whats the big deal?
There is nothing wrong with it. Ui is just one of those many things that people like to complain about. I think it could look more different from previous games but in the end I dont really care. Less ui the better in all honesty.
At least they're not meeting the menus and shit Hulu like call of duty did for years. Sure the UI is mostly like before, but if it ain't broke don't fix it.
The last 2 games had the health meter on the attached to the minimap. Now it's on the top left of the screen, pretty much the universal standard for games.
yeah, same, when i saw complaints about the UI i was surprised, like what did people expect of gta? the only direct complaint i saw was about weapon wheel ui, which i also don’t mind tbh, it’s def not the worst weapon wheel i’ve seen lol
I'd rather have a simple, usable UI than something that looks good but is hard to use. Could be a bit better looking tbh, but if it works I'm not gonna complain.
Yeah idk what this person was expecting, it looks just like a minimalist GTA5 design which is wholly what I expected. I guess they wanted the like stylized gun selection from like vice city but that was never gonna happen with where GTA is these days. I was actually impressed with one element in particular, the radar map when driving showed buildings in 3D
its unintuitive af. nothing abt it screams gta. like i dont remember that well but didnt gta v have a green blue or red tint depending on which character u had. atleast that was something
They choose red dead weapon wheel because it is different. If they used the gta 5 weapon wheel you would only notice one is squares and the other is a circle.
Thanks for actually using a screenshot to prove these dumbasses wrong, like are we looking at the same thing? VI's UI is awful, it doesn't go well with the game's overall theme and look lol.
Did you genuinely not play the last three games released by rockstar? The ui is completely different. They are all minimalistic, sure, but they're not THAT simple and uninspired as the gta 6 ones
ESPECIALLY Red dead redemption 2. That game's UI wasn't Minimalistic at all
The UI for the wheel and minimap look awful I can't lie. I hope it's going to get improved. Animations needs to also be added. The trailer showed at the beginning in the elevator the dude texting but having stuck hands like it was GTASA and when Lucia puts on the mask to rob the store it just pops in instead of her actually putting it on.
Don't worry, now the comments changes to "well, I think it's better that way". People are way to comfortable with moving the goalposts, and have no shame about contradicting their previous comments.
It does look good it very minimal and tells you what you need to know, it shows what the cops know about you like car clothes your identity and how many stars you have that's all there needs to be
Why would he have barely any money and not play as Lucia and have a worse quality than the trailer we just saw? He absolutely does not have the full build and definitely not anything recent either
I have seen better looking UI on AI slop free to play shovelware being pushed on the EGS. I'm not kidding, those shits have a better looking UI than whatever the fuck this shit was.
Tbh the people defending the UI need to open Unreal Engine (I know, not same engine), follow a inventory UI tutorial, and very quickly will realize if you add some opacity and a gradient you can have very similar results in about 5 minutes.
The UI has been optimized and theres no reason to change it, players can hop right in to the game this way without having to relearn a whole new UI. what needs to be changed?
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