HP/MP orb girls

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Charanjaydemyr wrote:

generic

I read this generalization thrown around all the time in these threads.

Can you name the individual games in the mentioned large group of ARPGs that justifies this "generic ARPG" UI statement?

as pointed out by pasts posts in this thread... girls are just as much part of the game as a skull and what ever the fuck that other thing is. >.>

generic???........ i don't think you people know what words mean... and my english isn't that good. >.>

sure neat....
.... and junk....

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Charanjaydemyr wrote:

The lion and skull, however, are directly related to The Awakening: the skull for Kaom, the lion for Daresso. Note the new lion statues in the Grand Arena? Yep.

I think incorporating the UI into the overall feel of where the game is lore-wise is pretty neat.

I always felt the girls fitted the theme of PoE also. They could be other exiles that were chained up on the ship that brought us to Wraeclast. :P

But in the end, who gives two shits about what the UI looks like as long as it's functional and unobtrusive. I'd be willing to bet that everyone that's against the new UI is some kind of 50 Shades of Grey type of person. hehe

To be honest, I didn't notice them until the rage posts started dropping during the awakening beta. haha

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Charanjaydemyr wrote:

As I like to say, the girls were fine for a less-exposed PoE. Now that PoE is really on the radar and trying to be its own thing, it's better we have thematically strong visuals.

it's one thing getting a bigger audience and successful and all but it's also one of the usual mistakes to forget about the roots which made you successful in the first place when mainstreaming your product.

the girls, being controversial, were the best advert ggg could ever get. especially if you don't notice them immediately, an ui should't draw the attention away from the game

advertizement is about being controversial. potential new players talk only about controversial things, not how nice a skull and a lion fits to the new theme of a game they don't know yet because they only saw something on imgur.

speaking about controversial, the initial closed beta templar video brought me to the game. if the german gouvernment could have banned it, they would have. best advert they ever made.

I think the new orbs skin is simply in-line with the Awakening theme.

Solution :

Make an option in the UI menu so that everyone can choose which theme they want for the UI (Vanilla, Awakening, <insert future expansion theme here>...)

And everyone would be happy :)

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Charanjaydemyr wrote:

And wouldn't at least some of the hefty supporters find it tasteless and beneath GGG were they to rely on *that* instead of, I dunno, a quality game with plenty to offer?

what i mean is the first impression mostly from pictures on gaming sites, imgur and so on.

but of course that view of mine is a bit outdated: let's play, twitch, youtube and cohorts show actual gameplay. and atziris 6 boobs in action.

I'm going to need someone to explain to me how a lion and skull is less generic than the chained orb girls.