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‘Floating health bars’ are one of the worst parts of modern gaming
- Thread starter TinTuba47
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I'm not talking about showing damage numbers.
Visual damage cues have literally -nothing- to do with CPU though
It's not really a tech hangup, the issue is having to concept, model and texture all that
to be fair, if you've never murdered someone how would you know that floating health bars are not realistic
Aside from invincible ones, don't all enemies technically have health bars?
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Yeah, to me it's one of the worst. It can ruin an otherwise perfectly good game for me, so therefore to me it's one of the worst. I can ignore microtransactions and other BS, but when a game won't let me remove health bars, I can't ignore it. It's literally right there in my face.
If others don't value immersion as much as I do, so be it. I won't call them weird, they just have different priorities. To me however, floating health bars take me out of it. It's not by choice, my brain just reacts to the visual clutter in an adverse way. I don't think that's a 'weird nitpick'.
- Floating health bars.
- Enemies all have level indicators.
- Get your sweet loot!
- Eleven types of crafting resources, four of them ultra rare.
- Daily and weekly challenges in a single player game.
- Skill tree that like a computer science exam question.
I wanna say old Assassin's Creed enemies didn't have health bars in the traditional sense. Hitting the enemy would just make it more likely that you would do the context sensitive kill animation with the next attack.
I really hate it, but its mainly because it symbolises a game that is going to have levels, gear, adn therefore spongy enemies and a fuck tof of grinding and microtransactions.
Some games its necessary (gears tactics in your example needs it because its a strategy game). But Gotham Knights needing it is just absurd
This perfectly sums it up. I audibly groan everytime i see a game like this
Dont forget pointless crafting and resource gathering!!!
Some games its necessary (gears tactics in your example needs it because its a strategy game). But Gotham Knights needing it is just absurd
This perfectly sums it up. I audibly groan everytime i see a game like this
Dont forget pointless crafting and resource gathering!!!
Nah, I don't like it in RPGs. I like the mystery of whether or not the thing is about to die or not.
Except in Nioh. Game is too goddamn hard.
I think you missed grammar and parts-of-speech day at school.
