Soprah wrote:I personally think that it isn't very necessary to update the ingame menu design.
In fact, it isn't nice-looking but we are talking about the appearance and not something from more importance such as the gameplay. I guess Nadeo has a huge list where they have to work on - just take a look in the wishlist thread. Just by the way, does this bad menu design affect the gameplay? Not really.
Yes but I paid at least 50€ for games, which I actually
don't own. I don't have a box which i can put into my bookshelf. It seems like Artstyle isn't so important anymore, and for me is the style of a game an important part.
But back to topic:
Nadeo doesn't have to completely redesign everything, if they would change everything to ye olde menus and artstyles, everything would be perfect.
Let's compare old with new:
Old cover:
New one:
The new one looks very very ugly with its 3D-Logo. Did you hear about this one company called Microsoft? No? They introduced a minimalistic UI - the Metro UI - and now tell me: Do you like
the icons?
Come on, Nadeo it's the year 2013 and not the 80's, 3D is out, simplicity is cool.
Now the menus itselves:
Old one:
Remenber: The old one had this mega cool effect: if you click an element, the camera moved fast for a moment, this was very cool
New one:
Same problem: ugly 3D-Styles, i nearly cried as soon as i saw it after the beta 2 update
And last but not least: The Trailers
Announcement Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVUFv8QwmUY
Demo Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5KvExxMA-M
Competition is King-Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOAyjUme_ac
The announcement Trailer is the best: Good music (in my opninion), it seems like you shoot a lot, you notice all the cool sounds and gameplay elements and the most important thing:
after watching this trailer, you like to play the game.
The demo trailer is a little bit boring with all its killstreaks and crazy moves for normal people and people with parkinson
But you also like to play the game, because you saw the speed and the jumppads, and a lot more.
And Competition is King: This trailer is so embarrassing: You only see some Nerds playing a game and the losers have to make pushups
. After this trailer, you don't know anything about the game, except for: "This game is very fair and it's the perfect game for e-sports, because competition comes first"
I don't play a game for goddamn competition!
I play a game to have fun.
And if you want to get more players for shootmania, stop making this f... competition trailers and slogans. You can make them for lan parties or sth like this, but not as a commercial. (Which commercial?
)
