Huh. I kept my eyes on the center of the screen and the prompts were big and distinctive enough to notice in my peripheral vision. Plus it was more intuitive to me to immediately connect the direction to the button press than the icon to the button press, personally. And I found I was able to see the animation better without the UI getting in the way of the good parts.
Right? I find that if a game is well enough designed to the point where I can either function without the HUD or function with only the essential information (such as combat which requires reading/prompts, then I like to have the HUD off. I recently restarted Xenoblade Chronicles X, and having the HUD off during exploration is honestly so amazing. You can appreciate the design of a game far more if you're engrossed in the world and not numbers. Some games need HUD elements to function. In this case, they should be minimalistic. I also get if people prefer having the HUD on, it's helpful. For me, unless the HUD is necessary, a cool part of the aesthetic, or much more helpful than not, it's going off.
Odyssey went with a minimalist UI because it needs to be on screen a lot due to the capture system with it's dozens of different abilities. No other Mario game has a system like that so they could play around with more stylized looks. It also plays well with the diverse settings of the game, serving well as a neutral ground against which the various worlds can really pop. The only thing that should be held against it is the fact that it doesn't consistently show the buttons on the diamond. It uses the diamond only when burton prompts for two players are on screen which I don't think makes much sense
They briefly turn yellow/purple when you collect a coin and are shown in yellow and purple in relevant menus but are white the rest of the time.
I can totally get that! While I'm not in the same boat, I will turn on the HUD or any elements of the HUD which I feel are necessary or not adequately portrayed to me. I also love the HUD's which are part of the world (Samus's Helmet) so long as they're not too intrusive
Yep. Both with button prompts and HUD in general. Having control over the HUD in that game (and turning it off) made it that much better for me, but I understand if people don't like that, which is why options are nice
I don't think that the colors blue, red, green and pink are weird shit. Lol
Considering that modern controllers all have a uniform face-button layout, highlighting the relative position in addition to this seems like the right call for the purposes of accessibility.
A lot of Nintendo games do this now for the Switch - though it's probably due to the ability to rotate the Joy-Cons - they highlight button prompts with the four buttons (unlabeled) with the one you should press being highlighted.
This can, of course, be adapted well to the game's UI. Bayonetta, as an example, has a very stylized representation of this for QTEs, even going so far back as the original game's first release in 2009.
For accessibility purposes, it sidesteps any issues regarding colorblind-accessibility, while also making the physical relation of the button's position relative to other buttons apparent.
Xbox still has coloured buttons (the letters are coloured). Nintendo and PlayStation don't.
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They have a ton of controllers without them and even one of the S|X controllers is of that ilk.
This is the best method. Show the button symbol/letter and it's relative position. Showing colors when controllers largely don't have colored buttons is nonsensical and uglyAgreed. Couldn't be clearer.
They're not fully those colors though. They're all faded and I think the green is more of a teal.
How am I 40 hours in and never noticed that??Big shout out to Yakuza: Like a Dragon button prompts that, not only are they coloured the right colours for the buttons, but they changed the action names to spell out SEGA for the western release.
That image reminds me of something BOTW does with colors that is simply an accessibility failure.Agreed. Couldn't be clearer.
Considering that modern controllers all have a uniform face-button layout, highlighting the relative position in addition to this seems like the right call for the purposes of accessibility.
A lot of Nintendo games do this now for the Switch - though it's probably due to the ability to rotate the Joy-Cons - they highlight button prompts with the four buttons (unlabeled) with the one you should press being highlighted.
This can, of course, be adapted well to the game's UI. Bayonetta, as an example, has a very stylized representation of this for QTEs, even going so far back as the original game's first release in 2009.
