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 Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed RE4 and am enjoying FF7 Rebirth, I just feel like there are better ways to do environmental storytelling, to give hints to players, without having very specific rocks on the side of a mountain out in the wilderness randomly painted yellow. I get more of a sense of accomplishment when I'm allowed to fail and am forced to figure things out on my own.