Colors & Sounds Noises and HUD Helps Learning about Shapes Colors Alphabets & Numbers
I play games for the stories and a presentation. I'm on for the solid characters. I'm addicted to the feels I get during cinematic cutscenes of emotional inspiration & resolution.
Does For Honor give you that?
As far as I've looked all day, I appear to be the only one with this concern or the only one brave/stupid enough to state so. I did not buy or play For Honor. I didn't because I saw gameplay footage. I saw unrealistic flashy effects, weird colorful noises, and generally more and more HUD elements. No one's been able to advise me whether I can turn it off to suit my playerstyle. Can I play this game without "all of the Playskool colors, the Fisher Price sounds, and the Mattel HUD garbage?"
I'm not a fan of the direction Ubisoft went into after "Altair's Creed."
To me For Honor looks like a spearman's or swordsman's Battlefield or Call of Duty.
I'd give For Honor a try if I could believe it was worth it for me. Is Ubisoft interested in providing options settings that allow [older] gamers to offer a genuine touch to their experience: Real Sounds! (and not comic book noises for every slash and swing! KAPOW!! SRAWOOSH! Na-na na-na na-na na-na Batman!)
An immersive realistic presentation: No Fake Colors! No Flashing Notices! No HUD Markers!
To be told that I'm a "dnmbvss*" because I've judged the game based on looks alone without having played is not justified. When anyone turns on their games for the experience they want, they shouldn't be attacked.
I'd like my statement perceived as a legitimate concern. I'm not attacking Ubisoft or For Honor. I'm dissatisfied with its pre-school presentation. I'm not convinced I need the HUD to play. I'm not impressive by the cartoon noises.
Some player said, the HUD is needed to know how to perform certain timing functions at combat speed.
The Assassin's Creed series STARTED out without enemy fight notifications! Batman: Arkham series provides players the option to turn them off once a player is comfortable at reading the models' attack animations. The HUD, as I've said, is a training tool for new players. Once you're done with training wheels, you move on! More and more players want complete responsibility for their success having not relied on colored flashes and sounds to warn them. We live by our own skills and die by our own inadequacy.
While learning to understand that my playstyle has a name and to call it Roleplaying...ok whatever. If that's what it takes. Then label it. I'm a roleplayer. I'm a character actor. I'm an immersive storyteller. Some games, I turn off the music soundtrack for more complete atmosphere. I use headphones and not speakers; so I hear things in games others can't. I'll attempt to adjust visual settings to achieve a realistic nighttime.
My question is for the experienced, the immersed, the veterans, the players that're bored with HUDs and childish noises in their games. I'm asking players that challenge themselves by turning off as much HUD as they can. I'm asking gamers that have integrity-to-a-fault, so much that it actually hurts to see your friends playing with HUD. They're my friends; I care about them, but I feel like they're cheating themselves as human beings or at least as people who call themselves Gamers. The people I want to hear from constantly tell their friends to "fix your options, adjust your settings, customize your game, change your experience away from the factory defaults." We have an extreme/hardcore time keeping it to ourselves that we are the superior gamers. I'm looking for people that need to connect with this likemindedness. I'm jealous of my friends that don't care about HUDs, arcade noise effects, and default settings. I wish I could play a game as casually/competitively.
I play games for the visuals, the sounds, the characters, the stories, the moments, and the feels that come with being a participating audience. Does that make me a "superior" gamer? No! I just feel that way. For Honor is a great title as the catalyst for me to write this.
I'd like your feedback on everything I've said about it.
Add me on Xbox Live, Gamertag: SIR Phist
Support so I stream more on Twitch: SIRPhist
Tweet @PhranckyPhist
Comment on YouTube: Phranck Phist
Achievements, scores, KD ratios, arcade crap like that is down here at the very very very bottom only to provide some sort of reference otherwise I'd've never mentioned them because they don't need me and I don't need them.