The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[Statyk]

Googol is a little sensitive to opinion-input, it's no problem. lol

Hopefully people now see that YOU are the sensitive.

HUD doesn't fit in an Amnesia game or any other by FG, it just looks ugly and would ruin the feeling. Don't affect this fact please.

I never said it fit in a game by Frictional, but in some cases a hud is very necessary. Perhaps let's say this sci fi game they make has someone with something similar to Google Glasses, or a helmet. A HUD is completely within reason, and if done right, may even add to the immersion, so long as it's subtle. I will have to say another great example of this was in Outlast. SPOILERS. When the camera gets broken, throughout the remainder of the game, it has a huge friggin crack in the screen/camera. This really made it feel genuine, like the thing didn't land on pillows. A HUD is necessary in cases, but of course, it may not. A HUD in TDD for example, would indeed be stupid, but it wasn't in there. I just hate to see someone say HUDs in general are unimmersive. That's blasphemous.

The problem with badly designed HUDs is that hey are badly designed and not that they are HUDs...

This is also important. One of the things I find the most annoying in games is overuse of lens flares. Or even worse, lens flare in a third person perspective, or lens flare on a player with no glasses or helmet on. The whole reason it's called a "lens flare" is that it's a glare... On a lens. Why would someone with no lens of any sort in front of their face get a lens flare. It's a nit-pick, but am I wrong?