Mastodawn

Was trying out #FinalFantasy 7 Rebirth earlier on my #SteamDeck since I had started it on the main PC, and it actually looks and runs quite well with its default preset (all low), probably because of the TAAU AA/upscaling. But it has adopted the modern #gaming trope of painting the intended path in random ass yellow paint...

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Marcus Adams Mar 16

Maybe I'm weird, but this practice really bothers me. It insults our intelligence and removes any sense of accomplishment from discovering things on our own. We're not learning or discovering things, we're just following directions...

The #ResidentEvil 4 remake did it too, 😞

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3673701061

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Wattana's Place of Brainrot Mar 16

@gerowen thoughts on how Lost Judgement did this? It's a lot more low key, but they sometimes put metal panels with this pattern pointing to where you should investigate during first-person segments. It's never as in-your-face as in modern games, and they're not out of place IMO, but it's there.

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Marcus Adams

@Atirut I haven't played that one, but generally I don't mind a very subtle hint that makes you realize there's something a little different. But coming off of Dark Souls, followed up immediately by Elden Ring (which I still play every day to knock out some side quests, hidden areas, etc.), when I was playing RE4 and found just blatant splotches of yellow paint on certain things, my first thought wasn't, "Hmm, I wonder what's over there", it was just, "Really guys, really?"