Summary
- Yellow paint in video games sparks debate: some find it immersion-breaking, others see it as necessary for player guidance.
- Star Wars Outlaws offers a solution with Explorer Mode, allowing players to toggle off yellow paint for core navigation.
- Explorer Mode has been implemented in previous Assassin's Creed games, with mixed results.
Yellow paint has long been used in video games to mark interactable objects and routes, and it’s also one of the more controversial mechanics in gaming. While it might sound kind of silly, I get it. One side believes that having yellow paint splashed all over a game’s environments to make sure players pay attention to specific things reduces the immersion. A lot of open world games do this – it’s pretty garish in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:la🏅st year’s Resident E🌟vil 4 Remake and the Final Fantasy 7 remakes.
At the same time, it’s true that a lot of players can get lost and frustrated when interactable objects aren’t made obvious. As my colleague James Troughton argued last year𝕴, it’s fair to break immersion if it means not missing important commodities like ammo or crafting materials, especiall♕y in a game like Resi where collectible resources are key to your survival. Sometimes, without neon signs pointing in the right direction, players have no idea how to move forward towards their objective. Making games playable for as many people as possible can sometimes mean that developers have to make things as obvious as possible.
Star Wars Outlaws Lets You Erase Yellow Paint
Interestingly, has seen both sides of the debate and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:decided to eliminate the problem🥃 altoge♒ther. For players who can’t do without obvious signposting, Outlaws’ climbin🎶g sequences and puzzles are smeared with the yellow stuff, but it’s also going to give players the option to toggle off all that paint, at least on “core navigational elements”, with an Explorer Mode.
Ubisoft has included Explorer Mode in its games before, mainly in Assassin’s Creed, in an attempt to make exploration feel more organic. In Assassin’s Creed, the regular guided mode shows you your current quests and all required tasks on screen, while exploration will only provide you hints and directions in the 🤪quest log, forcing you to go out and search for your objective instead of heading straight to a marker.
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Is Explorer Mode Really All That Much Better?
It’s unclear if Explorer Mode in Outlaws will function in the same way, but its implementation in Assassin’s Creed left much to be desired. While it ostensibly mixes things up a little by forcing you to wander around a little more than you would in Guided mode, in practice, it feels less organic and more like a gimmick that adds♔ extra steps to a quest.
I’d like to think that Outlaws will feel a little less prescriptive – from the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:preview coverage I’ve read so far, there’s a lot of cool stuff to discover and moments of emergent gameplay that make it feel less like a typical Ubisoft game. The expert quests in particular give me hope that this won’t be another checklist-directed jaunt through th♏e galaxy, but it’s still hard to say how directed players will be in general and how mu🥀ch paint we’ll find in the wild.
It’s a little disappointing 🅠that yellow paint is still so apparent in Outlaws by default – a lot of games are starting to work around this by establishing visual language cues with colours, textures, or lighting, or allowing you to highlight interactable objects in an area with a button a la . I understand the need for signposting, of course, I’m just perplexed that after so much discourse about the paint, this is the specific form of signposting Massive Entertainment cho🧜se. We’ll have to wait and see how necessary this paint is when the game is released, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be playing on Explorer Mode from the start.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Star Wars Outlaws
- Top Critic Avg: 75/100 Critics Rec: 67%
- Released
- August 30, 2024
- ESRB
- T For Teen // Violence, Simulated Gambling,๊ Mild Language
- Developer(s)
- ꧑ 𝓰 Massive Entertainment
- Publisher(s)
- Ubisoft, Lucasfilm Games
- Engine
- Snowdrop
Star Wars Outlaws follows Kay Vess as she bids to out manoeuver the galaxy's deadliest criminals. An open-world action-adventure game from Ubisoft, it also features grand space battles and a deep story.
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