Game News 2.0

Trailer on Tuesday.

They probably got hit with questions as soon as it hit December

A rare W for EA.

Dumbing down games has evolved.

Theres yellow paint on a ledge. It glows when you press the bumper button. Protagonist says "There's a ledge, I need to climb it" and now just in case you are really stuck, they'll kindly light up the button you need to press 🙄

I was struggling to think of a use case where this would help accessibility. But I guess learning/cognative difficulties is a disadvantage this could help with And of course we'll be able to turn it off, hopefully. Unlike Aloy who does not have an off switch.

In fairness to the off coloured ledge, older games it was very clean what was or wasn't interactable as everything had a lot simpler texture and geometry wise.

Might be nice for less experienced players or very young players for tutorials.

The game has a pop up to say press R3 and X and then both light up on controller.

Got to imagine that kid won't be invited back anyway

One thing that drives me mad is Devs that don't check text size in games. They sit at a desk building and testing it so can read the prompts no problem.

I've a 65" TV and I've lost count of the amount of games I can't read the tiny in screen text in. So when it says press X to hit. I'm squinting at the TV trying to figure out what's going on.

That might be a sign of getting old but if the button lit up I'm okay with that 😅.

It does come down to how it is implemented though. If they make you stop looking at the screen and look at the controller to show it light up, then it will be a pain. Like any time you have a first time user experience that freeze the game until you have read the instructions. 100% of the time I bash through those ....and then have no idea how to play 😂😂

Like others have mentioned if there is player control over how much they want the in game character to help you, or how orange the legs are , and how often to show you the colours then I'm okay with it.

I don't have a problem with in the normal game like with subtitles or whatever but in menus I've the opposite problem on console they make the text and icons huge making inventories or logs awkward.

I think games should have a "test" area where you can get to re learn all the moves and get a summary of the plot up to the point in the game where you currently are.

This would help hugely when you go back to a game after months of being away from it.

There was a game, the name slips my mind at the moment, but every time you came back to boot a save file it gave you a "previously on" catch up cut scene.

Alan Wake did one at the start of the chapter, but that felt more like they wanted it to feel like a twin peaks style TV show than actually reminding you. You could have literally just finished the previous chapter why remind you of it.

The Witcher 3 did it. Few others too iirc.

Yeah, have to use the focus to scan or more send out a quick pulse to highlight the climbable surface.