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Off With Their HUDS!
Gamasutra has a piece looking at the move to unite player and gameworld by removing the HUD from the gameplay space. From the article: "Many elements found on a typical HUD are there not out of necessity, but out of convention; they represent a sort of 'info overkill' that, for the vast majority of players, has no impact on gameplay at all. For every piece of information you offer the player, ask, 'Is this information essential to the game experience?' In doing so, you might find that you don't need to bombard the player with quite as much data as you once thought you did."
I agree. Now we just have to explain it to CNN Headline News and MTV.
I agree with the ammo... People manage to keep track in real life and the movies fine without any HUD telling them how much ammo they have. Or, they lose track and it makes it more dramatic... I mean, Dirty Harry just wouldn't be as cool with a little ammo gauge on his gun.
Well, do ya, punk?
"A screaming display flashes up on the goggles informing him that the millimeter-wave radar notices a steam of bullets heded in hi direction an would like to know where they came from, Sir?...He tuns off all the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statices about his own death even has its happening to him. Very Post-Modern. Time tp get immersed in Reality, like the people around him" Neal Stephenson
Mikey
I've always been the kinda guy to fall for the girl dressed like an eskimo.
Next week, Google will unveil its new gHUD technology. gHUD allows the player to immerse themselves within a game without information overload. Rival Yahoo's HUD currently only lets players see 1/4 of their screen.