World at War, Halo 2, Dead Space, Gears of War - all menus that immediately invoke a very strong, specific set of emotions. What would you consider THE BEST video game menu of all time? *Watch my newest video about the game that saved my love of gaming here! -> **kzitem.info/news/bejne/t6ht05-LcWV-lI4*
@Wolfman14178
Жыл бұрын
Dying Light
@albier1760
Жыл бұрын
The gears music made my ear prick up like crazy, I was moving like a meerkat
@stickyxliver1223
Жыл бұрын
Nothing will ever top the black ops one menu for me, that fact that you can also break out of the chair and walk around sets it far above anything else.
@mistaJ.
Жыл бұрын
Black ops 1 has the most unique menu I’ve seen in a game and the amount of detail is crazy.
@darkblades1201
Жыл бұрын
Metroid Prime 1
@ATG3192
Жыл бұрын
The sanitization of UIs and menus is really just another indication of how video games these days are no longer viewed as works of art or immersive experiences, but products merely to just be mass produced with the bare minimum viable product for a quick cash grab.
@mdd4296
Жыл бұрын
It's not sanitasation, chief. I have much less trouble reading a game UI made in the 90s than nowadays. It's more like a vomit where shape, size and color is the same homogenous blob everywhere.
@HiddenXperia
Жыл бұрын
Yes, very good point, I should've mentioned this in the video actually
@Kacper42PL
Жыл бұрын
@@mdd4296 Basically literally same experience as going to a major city full of screens filled with ads
@-Evo
Жыл бұрын
Too many woman trying to be devs 🤡
@michaelf.4290
Жыл бұрын
what capitalism does to a mfkr
@dalekbumps
Жыл бұрын
One thing that 343 need to add to MCC is the option to use the original loading screens and main menu UIs for each game. The Halo: CE loading screen, with the ominous building monks chant and the shaft of light revealing more of the Halo mural in the background as the level loaded made the game feel alive, like it was some ancient Forerunner mechanism or something. It's not just about nostalgia, things like that are an essential part of experiencing a game, especially one as atmospheric as Halo: CE.
@stelpher
Жыл бұрын
I can forgive the busy and unimpressive menus of MCC. After all, MCC does cram six games into one and allows you to navigate all of it, instead of individually loading into each game's respective menu. The amazing aesthetics and design of the classics is sacrificed to combine access and functionality from all of them in one place. ...So what's Infinite's excuse?
@gageshott5654
Жыл бұрын
That was a big thing that concerned me when I 1st bought the mcc, that id never experience the old menus again, looks like there is a couple mods that changes the background image but it isn`t close enough
@jimmyrustles914
Жыл бұрын
I’m already sick and tired of the Halo MCC theme 😒
@damsen978
Жыл бұрын
They won't do this because the original menus are tied to Xbox 360 functions that aren't available for PC now. Closest you can do is play them on emulators now, but Reach is not playable yet, and they don't have online play.
@mythhead2688
Жыл бұрын
Still mad at the loading screen 343 made in Halo 3 between the last mission and the epilogue: a picture of Chief alive before the cutscene, instead of wondering if there’s something after the credits. Ruins all suspense for new players.
@LordShrub
Жыл бұрын
As someone who works in the industry, I know a few causes for UI getting worse: - UI development cost minimization mandated by execs - Engineer-driven design, instead of artist-driven, meaning menus are made up of simple tinted rectangles and most animations are done programmatically (i.e. translation, scale, rotation transforms) - Heavy templatization that doesn't permit crazy custom animations - Yearly franchised game releases. That said, I really enjoy the Persona 5 games' UIs. They exude so much personality. The developers have said in interviews that it took a long time to make them.
@ali32bit42
Жыл бұрын
you may also want to consider modularity. its hard to fit constant new content and banners to a very stylized and custom menu design . the simplified boxes that we have today exist so they can keep adding more and more buttons and options without redesigning the entire thing
@C.A._Old
Жыл бұрын
2008 Always Remembered Gamers Of Year.
@nathansmith8883
Жыл бұрын
I have been making my own game and the ui in it is a bit ugly but still matches the theme and has no real issues. It never lags and is one of the only parts that still works the same after making big changes to the engine. You would think that modern game engines would have a modular but customizable ui library built in because I am getting that from a ugly ui library from 1998!
@ThaMxUp
Жыл бұрын
I hate gaming UI now even HUD's are lacking a lot of the time, they used to be full of slants and jagged sharp edges and curves and designed in a way that accounts for style and function, now style has been thrown out of the window and function is all that's left.... and the little bit of "style is something little timmy could make on his virus ridden cracked copy of photoshop in like 3 minutes
@nathansmith8883
Жыл бұрын
@@ThaMxUp I am not good at drawing so I can't make really good looking ui's but I at least keep it constant. Most game studios have the resources to make a good looking ui.
@solidice5660
Жыл бұрын
Star Wars Battlefront (original 2004) had the coolest menu! Blue hologram/wireframe/schematic aesthetic! Sweeping camera movements over the battlefield, and seeing an army of soldiers advancing on an AT-AT. It all made you feel like you were strategizing your plan of attack. And when you loaded into a game, you start from orbit looking down on the planet. Like a satellite, you zoom in grid by grid until you reach the battlefront map on the planet below. It never gets old, literal perfection!
@Tercel_Champion
Жыл бұрын
I still play that.
@ginraw
Жыл бұрын
Literally just booted this game up yesterday. It's a masterpiece of its time. It was great how quickly I could get into the game from the start screen. My buddy and I went right into Instant Action, which is so aptly named lol. The UI is great though. I love that it literally shows you the class of soldier you are selecting.
@Walamonga1313
Жыл бұрын
The loading screens were the coolest I've ever seen. That zoom in with amazing sound effect
@Blackpapalink
Жыл бұрын
Can we talk about the sound design of Battlefront 2 OG? It has EA BF2 beat senselessly.
@CJ-111
Жыл бұрын
The game has held up all these years later
@iampain5737
Жыл бұрын
I remember sitting in the menu of the original halos just listening to the music and watching the background slowly move about. What a truly mesmerizing experience they were.
@mohza1890
Жыл бұрын
same I would watch the banshees fly around and the cruisers glassing Mombasa from halo 3's menu for ages before I started to play.
@nathangothan601
Жыл бұрын
Halo 3 menu really hits for me. The sound track playing is heart warming.
@ImaginArt24
Жыл бұрын
I hope I can make a game that will meet people happy
@Xderda
Жыл бұрын
I'd sit and scroll through even the most boring/mundane parts of the menu in Halo 2 just so I could listen to Heavy Price Paid
@ImaginArt24
Жыл бұрын
@@Xderda I usually waited till the Cairo station part
@XxHUNT3RN4T0RxX
Жыл бұрын
Black Ops 1 had the most unique menu I’ve seen and is perhaps still my favorite in a video game. Instead of being a simple UI screen you’re actually Alex Mason in that chair still being interrogated. The television you see in your television screen is the freaking menu. You can even break out of the chair and find a small computer in the room to put in cheat codes. And when you switch to Zombies the whole tone changes in the room, the interrogator becomes a zombie banging on the window and the iconic Damned track plays in the background. I’ve always loved the menu in that game and it made me more immersed into the campaign or when playing Zombies. Not many games do cool and creative stuff for something as simple as a menu screen anymore.
@winlover37
Жыл бұрын
I absolutely loved Black Ops 1's menus. It blew my mind when I found out you could break outta the chair and walk around. What blew my mind even more was just how much is hidden away in the computer, a playable version of Zork, email accounts from all the characters in the game you gotta guess your way into. Immersion is a lost art mostly these days
@litrim1285
Жыл бұрын
The Zombies menu used to scare the crap out of me when I was younger. 😆
@claytonnlambert
Жыл бұрын
I think we could say that in general most games don't do a lot of cool and creative stuff anymore both in menus and gameplay. They just follow what ever formula made the most money the year before and get it out as quick as possible.
@PicturesquePictureFrame
Жыл бұрын
I never knew that zombie was the instructor lol
@LucasCunhaRocha
Жыл бұрын
there were a few other games that did something similar as well, one that comes to mind is psychonauts.
@Ghost0fDawn
Жыл бұрын
Its not just UI - its everything, and I mean everything. "Hollow corporate shell" like you said answers it perfectly. Look at a McDonalds building from 20 years ago. Look at one from today. Stripped of personality and color, a greyscale square built to look effectively depressing. We as a society have totally lost sight of personality because corporate takeover has bled into every medium we consume and is quite literally killing every uniqueness it can. Its dystopian really. We are already in a corporate dystopia.
@Dj.D25
Жыл бұрын
I've been noticing this too, the past several years. It feels like everything new coming out is being simplified or minimalistic in their appearance. Video game menus, architecture, artwork used in advertising and cartoons, logos, websites, etc. It's as though people are afraid to create new and exciting art trends. Even fonts used are so boring and lack personality. There's some videos I watched some time ago that explain why this is so.
@AKK5I
Жыл бұрын
globohomo has done this to extract as much profit as it can from you and is products, no longer are the days of free expression at the expensive of sales or uncomformity. It needs to be streamlined and efficient to squeeze as much $$$
@skully3242
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! I swear all these years I thought I was the only one who noticed this!
@crylune
Жыл бұрын
No shit. But good luck educating the masses riding the American propaganda cock about how bad capitalism actually is.
@skully3242
Жыл бұрын
@@crylune this has nothing to do with capitalism you communist.
@Raxyz_0
Жыл бұрын
I feel like smaller AA productions and Indies still keep the tradition alive. Pentiment starts by opening a book in a escritoire, and it ends making an really clever callback to that very scene. Tunic also has an "old-school" styled menu that is actually _crucial_ to the end game (if you know, you know). Metal Hellsinger also had Unknown opening her eyes when you first press start and the torches in the back flicker along with the background music. Fighting games also rely heavily on personality, SF6 went with a techno-punk aesthetic which ties the entire game together, Guilty Gear also always uses a genre of metal to stylize pretty much anything in the game, and while Strive does have a few faults in functionality, the UI is still one of a kind.
@prequeltrilogy5812
Жыл бұрын
A main menu is important for a game. The first thing the devs likely think when they make it is BUILD UP THIS LAND!
@HiddenXperia
Жыл бұрын
I see what you did there 😎
@n3m37h
Жыл бұрын
This was well known back in N64 days, Mario 64 let you Mess with marios face before choosing a save. Conkers Bad Fur Day had argueably the best into/menu ever made
@prequeltrilogy5812
Жыл бұрын
@@n3m37h I remember it all vividly. My favorite game ever made is Metroid prime. That original screen and its loading screen for new zones… impeccable. Love that game
@unboxing_legend7708
Жыл бұрын
what made me love the 1st level ever in the older halo games was the pure fact that instead of clicking thru menu's to then have the game have to spend time to load the map or level, ud go instantly from main menu, to the background story which doubled up as the cutscenes and tutorial section of the game and then instantly into the game its self. it was an all in one package that drove the start of those games to be so thrilling. i remember for the 1st time coming across the covenant after not knowing the threat i was dealing with. it was pretty much we told u the basics now get up and get a move on soldier. u got a story to be a part of. not what we have these days of yeah so most times were just going to sit back and wait for loading screens which highly tend to lag and cause issues even trying to properly load the game and when u load in its not coded properly to work and your missing alot of actual key aspects of the game that for even a natual casual player should be there but isnt, the tutorial is sometimes told while ur playing the campeign but only explained thru text which u have to read or a setting u need to turn on for u to get audio or the tutorial instead of text u dont really get a backstory or catchup ur just expected to know and be part of the fan base who know the whole story back to front upside down and we only going to sprinkle vague easter eggs secrets and lore from the previous games and the rest is tied to premoting our other games out there that we want u to spend tons of money to buy which also have the same glaring issues.
@_Wizzo
Жыл бұрын
What do most incredible UI’s have in common? Vertically. Blows me away that modern design teams can’t see this or chose to ignore it lol. Amazing video mate I loved it, so much nostalgia!
@gavo7911
Жыл бұрын
It seems so obvious, right? The general shift towards horizontality makes navigating menus for multiplayer games a nightmare nowadays.
@almicc
Жыл бұрын
UI developers are overwhelmingly learning how to make mobile/ platform agnostic UIs. While this is good for mobile devices or integrated devices, it's horrible for video games. Original UI developers were just programmers/ artists who got assigned to make the UI, now it's college grads being told to use google design philosophy
@LouSassol69er
Жыл бұрын
@@gavo7911 Hulu designers haven't learned this yet
@HotboxedCoffin
Жыл бұрын
Maybe devs thought, well social media has a vertical layout because phone screens are portrait. Maybe devs make game UIs since TVs are landscape? Modern UIs are reminiscent of tabs on a web browser.
@Zack_Wester
Жыл бұрын
@@almicc correction its terrible for PC use period. its only good for UI on small screens that near where you can´t really have small detail object (harder to press on). controller usally acts as the direction keys on the keyboard (I can´t recall many games that used the joystick as a mouse flouting around trying to hit a squere). and mouse uses mouse.
@aidansky55
Жыл бұрын
The sad thing is that I bet a lot of developers want to make more creative menus and loading screens but with their tight deadlines, it makes it more difficult to do so.
@epitaph8704
Жыл бұрын
That's why you don't become a bootlicker and that's why early access shouldn't be demonized if done right
@watch.v-dQw4w9WgXcQ
Жыл бұрын
@@epitaph8704 nah should just give a goddamn game that works at least 80-100% like in the past where Quality Assurance exists to some extent (Halo 2 is held together by duct tape and virtual glue yet STILL WORKED AND HAD CONTENT), I wont buy Half of a car for full price or a house that's just the lot with 3 walls and not being allowed to alter or add anything. Early Access is a scam if its not given out to select group to you know, TEST the game and provide actual feedback on functions and glitches within the game.
@epitaph8704
Жыл бұрын
@@watch.v-dQw4w9WgXcQ Yeah mate. Every person with half a brain wants this. That's not the point, the point is that companies are generally market first creativity second. Being an indie dev, you have the expectation, if not requirement to do more than AAA. That is why animalcrossing-likes, roguelikes, card games, shitty shooters, nostalgia bait, etc... are so disappointing because of their simple derivative nature and disgusting lack of creativity.
@Toothily
Жыл бұрын
Perfect Dark has one of the best menus ever. The whole audio + visual aesthetic floods me with emotion. It’s immediately immersive af in the game’s world, being a projected hologram from a laptop, which you can also close to instead explore your HQ.
@generalcjg
Жыл бұрын
What a sad realization that Gaming UIs and menus are now so oriented towards being slow and clunky to use because of their addiction to putting an emphasis on monetization over anything else. For as much as Halo 4 gets hate from people due to its decision to make the gameplay be tailored towards Call of Duty fans, one thing it definitely did right was have the best main menu and UI design that 343 had ever done for a new Halo game, it's way better than the UIs that were done for Halo 5 and especially Halo Infinite.
@WhatIsSanity
Жыл бұрын
Halo 4 was certainly a mixed bag. Parts of the game were crafted with just enough love to make us hopeful for the future, I think that's why what happened next hurt so much.
@EvilNeonETC
Жыл бұрын
I strongly disagree with the "blocky" playercard model things they did for the lobby. It took longer to understand in h4 than what reach had, and you couldnt even see everything in h4.
@buddybluegaming3222
Жыл бұрын
As much as I hated Halo 4 to despicable levels I cannot argue with that statement it's the truth it did have a good menu UI
@HotboxedCoffin
Жыл бұрын
Lot of words for not saying much tbh
@burnthecrown
Жыл бұрын
@@HotboxedCoffin it’s okay if you don’t understand.
@dom4591
Жыл бұрын
10 years ago I remember imagining how amazing games were going to be in the next decade. Never in my life would I have expected so little progress. A lot of things have become worse actually. What a shame.
@caseyhall2320
Жыл бұрын
I spent too much time fantasizing about how polished and fun-level-improved games would be as a kid. Now I have all of these expectations that're only met on games that released a decade ago and before. I didn't expect games to be the embodiment of being less than half assed 😩
@Zionswasd
Жыл бұрын
We can only hope there's some kind of AAA renaissance, but the main thing holding that back is that plenty of gamers are dumbasses with expendable income who keep paying these scum lords ruining the industry; they buy battle passes, they play live service games, they pre-order games so the companies dont bother to finish em, they buy skins and other microtransactions which make way more money than full priced games, they don't watch good videos like these or think critically about games as an art form, they're braindead consumers eating macdonalds and chugging soda while their eyes glaze over scrolling through endless tiktoks, playing fortnite, watching reality tv, batchesting at every marvel movie and shitty star wars show. Real salt of the earth. You know, morons. To solve games' menus being lame, first you need to solve the decline of our post-capitalist society's population's sagacity and intelligence and self-awareness and general morality. "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
@Kawasaki10rr
Жыл бұрын
The only thing that has gotten better is graphics and mechanics, everything else has went down the shitter.
@dom4591
Жыл бұрын
@@Kawasaki10rr that's true. What's strange is that physics for a lot of games have actually become worse. Makes no sense to me.
@Kacper42PL
Жыл бұрын
At least the Indie scene is here to replace the triple A devs from previous decade
@victornoel36
Жыл бұрын
A relatively recent game whose UI I absolutely loved is Kingdom Come: Deliverance. The game takes place in Bohemia (today's Czechia) during the late middle ages and (aside from the main the main menu) EVERYTHING in the game UI is designed to look like it came from a medieval manuscript! The health/stamina bar, the inventory, the quest log, etc...
@MSF_Soldier_Alligator
Жыл бұрын
Call of Duty 2 had really cool loading screens. It was your character’s kit laid out on a table. A map of the area they’re fighting in, ammo, a pistol, personal items, and their diary that’s flipped open to their current entry, which both tells you the mission while bringing a bit of their personality (“I don’t like the odds but we’re surrounded, what choice do I have” or the Soviet soldier mentioning how cold it is) which I always remember as one of my favorite style of loading screens. It just had so much personality packed into it.
@TheRedKing247
Жыл бұрын
This too paved the way for 4's, MW2's and MW3's infamous informational briefing style loading screens which aren't even a part of the series anymore. How far things have fallen.
@lxfenix
Жыл бұрын
Gotta show some appreciation for Spec Ops: The Line - A simple and easy to use UI - A main menu that tells a story set in the world of the game - Loading screens that go from helpfull hints to actively taunting and mocking the player Truly a masterclass in the design of all three elements
@beanother1an690
Жыл бұрын
Don't forget Jimi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner rendition. That was something else.
@blastingsound
Жыл бұрын
is that game like, a great? i hear so much about it but it never seems to be "super" mainstream
@lxfenix
Жыл бұрын
@@blastingsound It definitely is a cult classic and for good reason.
@beanother1an690
Жыл бұрын
@@blastingsound Its gameplay is a bit mediocre, but the story is incredible.
@MetalCharlo
Жыл бұрын
@@beanother1an690 Gameplay is tight af tho
@justinadson3412
Жыл бұрын
This video deserves a ton of views to make people realize what we lost. I did my part liking to hope that it blows up.
@HiddenXperia
Жыл бұрын
Cheers bro, appreciate ya 🫡
@Definitelynotacelebrity
Жыл бұрын
I’ll do my part commenting.🤙
@Balloonbot
Жыл бұрын
This video also ignores how games, platforms and audiences needs have changed, but sure.
@xXLeandro12
Жыл бұрын
@@Balloonbot He don't need it, just showing what problems have that games and the industry it's fine enough.
@Elytra_Space
Жыл бұрын
Even a menu as simple as the original Skyrim menu felt different than modern menus. It was fast like the modern menus try to be but it was easy to use and non-confusing, yet it built an atmosphere around the central Imperial Dragon symbol backed by smoke and a memorable menu theme that was amazing and memorable. It’s sad that not only has a lot of stuff in gaming itself fallen, but also the menus. Glad I got to see this video as it made me really think about it, and it’s completely correct.
@Keith-rd2uh
Жыл бұрын
Modern ui is confusing
@ashokrohan7232
Жыл бұрын
I think oblivion and Morrowind did a far better job at an immersive menu tho. I specifically look for mods that give Skyrim's UI a more RPG feel
@vladprus4019
Жыл бұрын
Skyrim UI is stylistic, for sure. It has clear art direction, minimalist, but done for the style. However, when it comes to actually using it... yeah, there is a reason why SkyUI is one of the most popular mods out there (although it doesn't change bas emenu).
@Just_a_Tool
Жыл бұрын
One of the most underrated game ui's I have ever seen was the UI from The Darkness (2009). The menu and pause screens use the tentacles of the Darkness as the background. Their writhing is audible when those menus are up. And The Darkness had my favorite loading screens ever. Whenever you hit a loading screen, you see Jackie monologue on his thoughts on what's happening in the story, the location you're loading into, a random short story, or sometimes it's just a cinematic with no spoken words. The same is true for the second game as well. One of the most memorable loading screens from the series for me was in the second game when Jackie described a time as a child when he woke up to see his father standing over his bed with a gun. He said he wasn't sure if his father was thinking about killing him, himself, or both. That was a harrowing loading screen and it really shows the lengths some people go after the Darkness has a hold of them. I absolutely love the game, and I can say for sure it and the second game have my favorite loading screens of all time.
@Torulv
Жыл бұрын
great game, in my play again list
@Just_a_Tool
Жыл бұрын
@@Torulv I played through it again on a PS3 emulator some months ago. Still love it.
@LaperLarden
Жыл бұрын
Instant goosebumps with that use of the World at War theme. It's a shame that the menu music for a lot of games doesn't feel as thoughtful as it once was.
@Yoshino_Tommoya
Жыл бұрын
Even over a decade after release. Each time I load up World at war I can't help but just sit there, stunned in silence. With not only goosebumps but my body being over taken by emotions I can not describe. I sit there watching the photos of destroyed and barren lands slowly change in the menu. Accompanied by the soft yet eerie voice of the German woman singing, Brave Soldat. I feel as if experienced the pain, the sorrow and the loneliness like the soldiers during the war. It felt as a painful and agonizing reminder of a the war as if I was in it. It draws me into its universe every time, To points I forgot why I opened it in the first place.
@ZenoDovahkiin
Жыл бұрын
@@Yoshino_Tommoya >the German woman Errr, nah. Hiring a German speaker would have been a bit TOO "thoughful", she clearly has no clue how to say it. Which suggests she ain't German. What I can tell is that the second line is clearly meant to be "sterbt mit mir", plural, meaning the full text is "Brave Soldaten, sterbt mit mir.", "Good/obedient soldiers, die with me." Can't blame you or the video creator for getting it wrong, as the game got it wrong first.
@elmiau4225
Жыл бұрын
Star Wars Battlefront 2 2005 had my favorite menu. It starts with the iconic imperial march and shows you a side of good and evil, something that Star Wars was always about. The sound design was also very iconic and really created an impact on how memorable it would be.
@Zionswasd
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I can hear them crunchy tech noises n blolulu's rn.
@samx9720
Жыл бұрын
So nostalgic!!! The sounds when scrolling through the menu were pure ear candy. I miss those times 😢
@aceskeletonne7446
Жыл бұрын
nothing beats battlefront 1's loading screens as it zooms into the planet that youre about to fight on with those iconic and pleasing sound effects
@Ash21
Жыл бұрын
I loved BF2004's hologram menus and the loading screens were amazing. Also BF2 2005's console menu was great but it's sadly not on the PC version and the one that is on the PC is awful (and still for whatever reason is a completely different resolution compared to the game itself)
@Marshall1026
Жыл бұрын
I played BF2 so much growing up and it had such a recognizable and bold presentation in the menu that when Xbox made it backwards compatible and I booted it up years later my mom knew exactly what it was and yelled from across the house “Oh boy that takes me back! I remember hearing that all the time!”
@thorshammer7883
Жыл бұрын
I believe Titanfall 2's UI was pretty good compared to many modern ones.
@f11bot
Жыл бұрын
You just gave me inspiration for the game menu that I’m working on! Videos like this are awesome to get inspired and see what made some UIs so magical. How I miss the days where creativity was priority n1
@HiddenXperia
Жыл бұрын
Ayyyy that's sick! Good luck with the game broski!
@f11bot
Жыл бұрын
@@HiddenXperia Thank you so much!!
@Loansome_
Жыл бұрын
It's so funny to hear how both functionality and theming took a nosedive over the years, because those are supposed to be the main 2 things UI designers/artists pay attention to for a good user experience.
@GreenSinic
Жыл бұрын
UX designers nowadays are just leftover art students.
@ballisticcrayon3892
Жыл бұрын
You know the problem is significant when Japanese games, like Ace Combat 7 and Persona 5 Royal, in the last 3+ years have menus that are actually what old menus in Western games had before: designs themed to the games' stories, aesthetically pleasing and easy to navigate.
@WMan37
Жыл бұрын
There's a game called ECHO from a now defunct studio called Ultra Ultra that opens on the eyeball of the main character, and she follows your mouse cursor/menu selection left and right to various parts of the menu, and if I recall correctly, once you click new game it transitions seamlessly to the game itself. I love atmospheric stuff like that.
@Darth_Wallace
Жыл бұрын
AC 1 menu was the actual physical Animus itself in the Abstergo facility which was kinda cool il say. And the fact that you can run around as an assassin in a weird endless simulation void was very immersive for a loading screen.
@gloomykasumi8580
Жыл бұрын
Now this is quality content. Glad someone's finally making a dedicated video towards this. It's a bigger deal than people like to think imo
@caseyhall2320
Жыл бұрын
I hold the personal philosophy that a good UI enhances a game, and a bad UI gets in the way of it. Currently Halo Infinite's gets in the way more than it helps, for example. Rainbow 6 Siege and Overwatch also have this issue. The bad UI plague keeps yucking in my yum, man.
@gloomykasumi8580
Жыл бұрын
@@caseyhall2320 I agree bro. These boxy ass horizontal scrolling UI design is atrocious. I get they want to make money but like, if I wanna buy something just give me a drop down store tab menu and I'll be 10x more likely to feel inclined to buy something. This cluttered, laggy, frame dropping UI's like infinite and CoD decentivise me to want to buy anything at all because it's such a pain in the ass to even get to that part of the menu. It shouldn't be a chore to to find the things I want or need to play the game.
@bltzcstrnx
Жыл бұрын
@@gloomykasumi8580 most of modern game and console UI are just following the general development of UIs. Take a look at OS or website from early 2000s for example. Then compare it to current trend in UI design and you'll see the same pattern.
@OzTheWizardOfPorn
Жыл бұрын
Assassin's Creed had a fantastic menu design too. Accessing it through the Animus in-game integrated it so perfectly into the lore.
@Gingrman-mx4sp
Жыл бұрын
I think show streaming service UIs work well because there is a ton of content that you aren't familiar with, and thumbnails help give you at least some idea of what you might be getting into. It's like looking at cover art at the rental store. But the problem is that menus have a ton fewer options, and between their names and description text, the user knows pretty much exactly what they are looking at, and can eventually basically memorize what options there are. There needs to be a totally different design philosophy for game menus vs streaming menus.
@gavo7911
Жыл бұрын
I remember a couple years ago booting up Xenoblade Chronicles for the first time and just seeing that single sword embedded in a field as that piano played. Immediately told me everything I needed to know about this experience. Some other favorites of mine are Persona 5, Resident Evil 7, Halo 3, Destiny 1, Titanfall 2 (the original one before they changed it for no reason), Va-11 Hall-A, and Batman Arkham City.
@andresmirabal6864
Жыл бұрын
Destiny 1 goated even tho u had to pay $200+ for the full experience
@The_saza
Жыл бұрын
I just realized Xenoblade 2 has a horizontal menu. No wonder it was always so tedious to get through.
@allent1152
Жыл бұрын
Red dead redemption 1 and 2 have some really good dynamic menus that show the world functioning and alive, so when you press start you feel as if you're being transported to a living breathing world that's still there when you quit playing. Its like a little time machine, I wish we had more menus like that.
@kakuhou
Жыл бұрын
Rockstar games have a big problem to me, The main menu never has options to load different saves
@adamfighter358
Жыл бұрын
@@kakuhou all rockstar games before gta 4 and gta 4 included had that but idk about recent rockstar games
@Riyokintyu
Жыл бұрын
Perfect Dark for the N64 (and it’s 360 remaster) had a really good menu system. At any time while navigating, press B and the menu (which was just an interface for a personal computing device being projected into the eye of the main character) would disappear and you could navigate a fully modeled 3D futuristic secret facility environment with lots of things to do and interact with.
@randomcatdude
Жыл бұрын
AYOOO FELLOW PERFECT DARK ENJOYER
@rainesubnaut5918
Жыл бұрын
A really good, recent Menu UI (2019) is Ace Combat 7's. It's in-universe, reflecting the mission briefing screens. It's functional with drop down menus that allow you to view what is in each option before tabbing into them, and the music is nice and subtle, picking up pace when you go into mission select. I'm a big fan of it.
@maryzmijski6087
Жыл бұрын
I wondered if someone would bring this up. Thankyou
@thealliedpowers
Жыл бұрын
ace combat's almost always stuck to this formula with it's menus. almost the entirety of electrosphere's out-of-game experience is through your "data swallow" computer, where you view things like the news, recieve video mail from characters, and all pre-mission loadout adjusting. 04 i think has the most striking start/title screen, even though it's the only one of the holy trinity that i havent played. the intro is already super mysterious and aesthetic and when you get to the title screen, you're whiplashed into a very quiet scene of just a blue displayscreen with the title but the highlight is ALL on the audio. It's an ambient hum of electronics that you'd find in an aircraft and the sound of low, rhythmic breathing through an oxygen mask. it's super clean.
@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537
Жыл бұрын
@@thealliedpowers _"Amidst the blue skies, a link from past to future. The sheltering wings of the protector..."_
@JessedoesDIY
Жыл бұрын
I completely agree, so glad you talked about this! I've been sitting here silently brooding to myself about menus, less about loading screens but you make a good point. Crappy UI is one of many reasons I won't even touch CoD. It's just a cluttered mess of microtransactions, like the game itself has taken a backseat to the store itself
@yewtewbstew547
Жыл бұрын
It's one of those things that you almost feel stupid for critiquing, but it does matter and I'm glad to see so many people agree lol.
@FreddyKruger112
Жыл бұрын
I’m really glad you talked about loading screens. I really miss the loading screens from Halo CE-4. What I think sucks about the loading screens now is that sometimes they aren’t new player friendly and contain spoilers. 1 example I can remember clearly is when I was watching DeeBeeGeek play halo 2 for the first time and the loading screen with the Gravemind absolutely spoiled the surprise of what he was about to see. I wish companies would bring back those awesome loading screens.
@bltzcstrnx
Жыл бұрын
Loading screens are a thing of the past. Modern consoles load game and level in less than 5 seconds. A properly coded current gen game will do this around 3 seconds. A simple fade would be sufficient in this case. This include PCs, modern game on SSD load very fast.
@chaserivera1623
Жыл бұрын
My favorite menu was Star Wars Episode III the video game. The apocalyptic landscape of lava in the background with the ominous music. The menu sounds effects and the blue computer terminal visual style. There's also a lot of variety of shapes and sizes on the screen. Flashforward to battlefront II EA and it's mostly black and white rectangles
@Osama-KIN_TMZ01
Жыл бұрын
I think sound design and music also plays a big part in that with the general artstyle of a game, my favorite UI/Menus in that aspect gotta be in Persona 5, there aren't many games out there where I enjoy looking at the UI, it just seeps in vibes.
@TheBagelman44
Жыл бұрын
I remember playing halo 3 with my brother as a kid, we would always play the campaign together on legendary and see how far we go. But one thing I will never forget is the menu screen, it was perfect. And the loading screen was actually mesmerizing and nice to look at, and didn’t have me siting there twiddling my thumbs waiting for the next mission.
@kurikuritarget
Жыл бұрын
Almost put me in tears with the PS2 console menu, I remember loving so much the feeling of mystery, awe, and curious wonder that the PS2's menu invoked. Just reflecting on it now, it really gave off a sense of "This is a special place, one where you can jump in and immerse yourself in a game, in any game. You'll be able to do things you can't do in real life. Come on in and explore. Are you ready?" Oh, where has that unique atmospheric aesthetic gone....
@Aqueox
Жыл бұрын
The Xbox menu's did the same thing. The original Xbox I mean.
@noddy1973
Жыл бұрын
i still remember how amazing it felt to install Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 with how much went into their installers, not to mention UI
@OKtheChannel
Жыл бұрын
Man, the Black Ops menu, that was probably the best menu i've ever seen! You really don't appreciate how good menus were, until you have a direct comparison, thanks for showing us!
@St.Sparta
Жыл бұрын
Trying to set up a Custom Game in Halo Infinite for the first time was like trying to decipher alien hieroglyphics.
@n7specialoperatives949
Жыл бұрын
I remember sitting in the title screen for mass effect 2 for 20 minutes when I played it, and felt literal shivers because it was simple, yet set up the atmosphere for the game. Such a masterpiece
@dooperdooper6679
Жыл бұрын
Mass Effect 2’s loading screens also had me mesmerized. Watching the little space ship move locked my eyes in for some reason.
@jss2a98aj
Жыл бұрын
This makes me realize how much something as simple a main menu can improve a game. Thinking back, Warframe drew me in with its early UI design and menu SFX, despite the new player experience being terrible. Unfortunately I watched it go from having excellent looking, immersive, and functional menus for years to having some of the most ugly and nonfunctional ones I have used. Before I stopped playing it altogether, navigating the inventory went from a quick task to sometimes taking minutes. It definitely had an impact on how I approach designing software and game menus, and I think some of what I have seen here will as well.
@ryoko_avenger
Жыл бұрын
Halo main menu will always stay with me because nothing beats those late night in the 2000s and hearing the osts hits different, another main menu that was pretty spooky was the original dead rising menu. you knew the atmosphere was gonna be something you never experienced before especially as a kid
@jeffkardosjr.3825
Жыл бұрын
Another good one is Enclave.
@mr.wiggles1909
Жыл бұрын
Republic Commando always hyped me up before I start a mission. The others mentioned are incredible and makes you feel excited every time :)
@leonrussell9607
Жыл бұрын
Vode an
@yewtewbstew547
Жыл бұрын
Quite a lot of people seem to be naming Star Wars games as their favourite menus lol. I mentioned Knights of the Old Republic, and I see a lot of people mentioning Battlefront 1 and 2. So many of those early 2000's LucasArts Star Wars games were great, that was a good time for Star Wars games.
@andycopeland7051
Жыл бұрын
Man a couple years ago I found it on Steam and played through it again for the first time in 15 years. Wow that was a cool game!
@sloreo8278
Жыл бұрын
Really appreciate the Metro and Dead Space menu ontop of everything else. My first time playing Dead Space as a kid I was already stressed out just opening the game. Metro is a nice setting for showing what you're going to be looking at for most of the game, its alive and almost gives the feel of being one of those random radio operators about to listen in on the gang's journey.
@Danb-fk5iw
Жыл бұрын
Thankfully, some genres outside of FPSes seem not to have fallen into this decline. Hell, if anything, the Persona series went in the opposite direction. Take one look at P5's UI and you'll know that the people behind it knew what they were doing very well.
@The_Annihilator
Жыл бұрын
Halo 3 had the strongest main menu I've ever experienced. It was my first halo and still remember how strong it was when u launched it. I still feel sad when I see it to this day cause it reminds me of better times
@ezraneumann6665
Жыл бұрын
Man I really haven’t thought about this but it’s so true. Menus used to evoke feelings and make the into so impactful, now MW2 seems to have been designed by Hulu UI developers it’s insane.
@J_spec6
Жыл бұрын
To touch a bit more on this, I think games like these also helped a lot of us understand the reality of war a little bit. I know when Sgt. Johnson was shot down, and when Commander Keys got shot in the back, it hit me right in the fucking chest! I was emotionally invested in these characters. They didn't have to die. Now i'm never gonna see them again. Maybe it's cause I have a mental condition with an overactive imagination, but all I could think about was how their families and fellow soldiers must've felt. I don't think games like the weight to them that they used too
@m0urn1ng5tar5
Жыл бұрын
Empathy toward people and the ability to feel something in the face of senseless killing isn't a mental problem. It's human nature. Don't let anyone tell you that there's something wrong with you for feeling that way "because it's just a game".
@overtherenowaitthere
Жыл бұрын
my favorite loading screen was from The Darkness on Xbox 360. The loading screens just had your main character spotlighted in a black void, either monologuing or doing some repetive ocd things. As you progress through the game it doesn't take you long to realize that the loading screens are representing Jackie's psyche after "the darkness" emerges and he becomes its host.
@Salerias
Жыл бұрын
I am happy that the Dead Space remake kept the menu design. The main Menu (and when you go back in the game after you a restart) is a hologram like you are using one at that moment on the Ishimura. The camera even moves out of the last save "station". I love thinks like that. It gives you the "I am in this world" feeling the second you start the game.
@Itsumi456
Жыл бұрын
Shout-out to the nostalgia I get when you booted up Destiny 1. It's still great for the current titles screens they have but that original launch one just hits different.
@NorweigenSwordfish
Жыл бұрын
So this is actually my first time replying to any video and I am doing so to say thank you for making this video. I have been playing indie games for a while now so I have been away from the triple A experience for some time now...that is until yesterday when my friends asked me to download and play Warzone 2. I couldn't get over how cluttered and broken the menus seemed. Between the obsessive advertising and micro-transactions, the seemingly never ending popups and the confusing UI I felt like I was losing my mind and none of my friends seemed to even notice. It made me physically sick to my stomach and felt like I was watching gaming as a genre being strangled by corporations and greed, so thank you for making this. As a side note you should play a game called GTFO on steam or at least look up the UI, menu and loading screens as they are truly incredible. I can't wait to watch more of your content in the future.
@Fi_Sci_
Жыл бұрын
Jedi: Fallen Order is a modern menu I like. The music was captivating, and the visual of an Escape pod escaping a Venator provided a good mystery and once you start a new game it transitions to Cal Kestis meditating. Something remarked in the story is how his reconnection to the force makes him remember the trauma Order 66 caused him. My favorite menu has to be halo 3 because of the phenomenal music. Everything came full circle to finish the fight, and that’s what the menu felt like. A finale to a long journey.
@TheKirBoi
Жыл бұрын
I am barely 19 and yet this video is making me miss the good old days. When did this childhood integral form of media slip so badly?
@Mediados
Жыл бұрын
I remember Fall of Cybertron, where the menu when you opened it was in Cybertronian at first and then translated from left to right to English. It was so cool and felt really alien, I miss these ideas. PS5 brought the atmosphere back a little by playing the game's soundtrack and showing a wallpaper when hovering over its icon.
@barkley8285
Жыл бұрын
I think ps5 menu is awful. PS3 and 4 had custom themes and were way more unique
@Mediados
Жыл бұрын
@@barkley8285 Yeah custom themes would be cool, I hope it comes as some point as an update.
@markss367
Жыл бұрын
I miss that game
@Mediados
Жыл бұрын
@@markss367 We all will, till all are one.
@Cooltech06
Жыл бұрын
Same you couldn’t see the mission description which made the progress more interesting
@iradiltheskygazer7253
Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite UIs ever is the Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars main menu. Each button is in the drop-down style while curving around a ravaged planet earth on one side and video of what the conditions are on the ground. Mission selection was great too, allowing you to click on areas of a map where conflict was taking place. You could also read about unit information, lore, etc with a menu that felt like you were accessing a classified GDI or Nod computer database
@lollertoaster
Жыл бұрын
I think I know the answer. It used to be the case that assets team would usually have a lot of downtime nearing the end of the development, while the programmers always had their hands full until day -1 of the release. So all those nice but unnecessary gimmicks were created because a team of visual artists had nothing else to do. With games-as-a-service it obvious what happened, that effort was funneled into creation of skins and other battle-pass items. For other games, I guess the work was outsourced and streamlined, since it makes more financial sense.
@spinosauruskin
Жыл бұрын
I've found one place for interesting and artistic UI is VR games. I have found they're still themed heavily by their respective games. SuperHot VR has menus you are supposed to grab a gun to shoot to enter, and you start the game by inserting floppy disks into a machine and putting on a vr headset. The vanity plates for game studios are also interesting as hell (Warpfrog's intro in Blade And Sorcery is otherworldly).
@vincentkuns319
Жыл бұрын
This was a great video and put into words the way I feel about modern gaming on the whole, in a way. I truly feel like I got lucky growing up through the peak of gaming in the late 90s and 2000s, through 2012 or so when things seemed to drop off. I hope the industry pivots back to that high point one day.
@andycopeland7051
Жыл бұрын
If the film industry is any indication then it will be a very long time and may never happen.
@jw5931
Жыл бұрын
Financialization and cost of production basically means the medium is dead
@twisky3751
Жыл бұрын
play indie games, AAA games are boring and soulless while indies just keep getting better every year
@mattd5857
Жыл бұрын
Dragon Age Inquisition had a remarkably smart main menu. The background features two lines of templars and mages marching towards a temple in the distance, they are fully animated and rendered and slowly march by but as soon as you hit "start new game" the temple detonates in a vibrant green explosion before a shield knocked from one of the soldier's hands hits the "camera" and transitions you to the character creator. The story begins the very moment you hit start new game on the menu!
@hitmeupKosdff_9tk
Жыл бұрын
Hit me up!!!☝️☝️☝️
@Metalsluga_
Жыл бұрын
Imagine buying a small CRT TV speaker and a classic television and plugging in your XBOX, XBOX 360 and play your fav halo game and sitting there listening to the sad music giving you a feeling of melon collie while looking at the ui/menu that looks like a hyper advanced extratriestrial hardware. Nostalgia.
@TheKirBoi
Жыл бұрын
As soon as you started talking about loading screens my brain went straight to Ratchet and Clank. Those flying ships are as iconic as the main characters.
@whiteheat64gaming3
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video and I fully agree with you. Gaming has had a very sad decline over the past 6 or so years and the only way we can reverse it is by talking about it. Educating younger gamers on what once was and calling out devs on their terrible decision making for new games is what has to be done. My favorite menu of all time is HaloReach, so many good memories of a much happier 12 year old me. The newest game I can think of with a normal menu system that is well done and still evokes emotion for me is Battlefield 1’s menu. The music is pure beauty.
@jevonb1002
Жыл бұрын
The first 30 seconds brought me so much nostalgia😢
@Lucas-gg9yb
Жыл бұрын
I remember need for speed most wanted 2005 and juiced 2 ui, even today it looks modern, and it's a game about cars, so i can look into my cars on carrer while navigating in the menus, like i'm looking to my car while thinking how will be my next ride. Zelda ocarina of time or even skyward sword, when you pause you see that menu with that epic atmosphere, and now with tears of the kingdom (my favorite game) it's so clean and don't feel like a part of adventure or the world, it just exists, but it could have a zonai look or something. I remember that crash team racing had buttons to press while the loading screen, you could press square and fart, for an instance. Something on relativelly recent games i love is that pause menu from super mario odyssey, you have mario and cappy looking to the option you choose and they even change poses depending on the option you are in, it has some details on the screen that looks like maps, and this game has a strong theme of travel everywhere. I remember in ps1, the first game i've played in my life was test drive 5, to me the track selection was magic because you had the earth 3d model to choose where is the track you'll race, and the model rotates indicating where in the world that track was located! As a kid, i was in wonder with that. The direct sequel test drive 6, hasn't this planet model, but there was some magic in car selection/buying: there was classes, that each one looks like a car showroom, sound of engines and suspensions everywhere while you select an option or go back.
@ohbreeguniii9178
Жыл бұрын
One of the recent games, that i think nailed a theming part of the ui, is GTFO. When you boot up the game, you hear muffled heartbeat monitor beeps, with lines of code running on the screen that show "the prisoner status" with omious lines like "mental eval: UNSTABLE; suggested action: RETIRE; OVERRIDE: REDEPLOY;" while you see flashes of you fighting in the compoud. When the loading ends, you are welcomed with minimalistic but stylish hud of the map of the compound where you do you missions and your loadout. That's all, apart of "settings" and "quit" buttons, the menu has. And when you chose your mission, you wake up in a some sort of a stasis capsule, and immideatly after that get forcefully put on a elevator that drops you into deep void, while you hear your character nerviously breething and sighing. I really think that opening sets the mood of the game perfectly, by showing you who you're playing as and how dire the situation is. Like you woudn't put a mentally unstable convict on a mission, if you had other more capable ones, something went really wrong. When you select a mission, its description contains short logs of a previous crew, and most of them are their last sentences. And talking about stasis capsule you wake up from. It is later revealed, through the audiologs, that it has an unintended side-effect of worsening your memory, to the point that you may forget who you are. The flashes of "gameplay" you see in the loading, are flashes of your previous deployments that you forgot, confirming that even, if it's your first time playing the game, cannonicaly, your character did it before, but doesn't remember it. UI represents an opressing and lonely atmosphere of the game, where you're rarely in control of what's going to happen. Also I really love its design with little attention to details and effects, like the menu and your hud looks like it's being projected on a glass visor of your helmet, lines of code that pop up from time to time, etc. I really love the game and its UI, so much, but it is sometimes too hardcore for me, and thinking about it, exploring the lore gives more enjoyment then not being able to comlete a level in weeks. So yeah, i'd recommend it, cool game.
@mcdonoughjl
Жыл бұрын
Hugely underrated part of a game; main menus are one of the biggest things I remember from early Halo, COD, etc. MASSIVE thumbs up on this video
@nukeit2thedirt814
Жыл бұрын
I will never forget playin ME1 and opening the character creator. The blue background contrasting with the red error message that says "DATABASE FAILED" which gives an actual reason for you creating the character. Same with black ops. Waking up in a CIA interrogation chamber with all this war imagery in front of the player was sick as f***. I feel like that life is lost in newer games. Probably because devs think children can't see stuff like black ops and it's really gritty imagery. Either that or it's complete eye cancer like 2042s in game UI.
@wellingtonbruh3756
Жыл бұрын
Look what they have taken from us. Look at this art, culture, beauty, look what you have lost and didn't even know how much we'd miss it once it was gone.
@videowatcher495
Жыл бұрын
One thing I noticed with UIs/menu screens from the late 360 days to now is that the screen is cluttered. So much is plastered on the screen that it is hard to find what you are looking for at times.
@DerpingtonTM87
Жыл бұрын
I haven't finished the video but one of my favorite menus is the Batman Arkham City menu. As you progress through or back in the menu, Batman jumps between multiple cinematic shots that when viewed one at a time show a small story and finishes with one of 4 villains at the end before looping. Gets me so amped to the idea of flying around the city as the Bat, while also fitting the aesthetic of the game perfectly.
@AD-he9in
Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite game menus is from Turok Evolution. Just seeing the Sleg’s and Dinosaurs actively moving around in a fully rendered environment was so cool to me as a kid. Another has to go to Peter Jackson's King Kong game, seeing the venture and skull island with that haunting music is so atmospheric even to this day
@bluesord114
Жыл бұрын
Brooo I used to play this game on GameCube. Jesus what memories
@RariettyC
Жыл бұрын
I definitely notice how so many UIs seem to draw from Assassin's Creed's "generic sci-fi that doesn't fit in with the setting at all" approach...and yet the point of Assassin's Creed is that the dissonance between the UI and the gameplay is meant to simulate that you're not actually playing as a historical character. Instead, you're reliving memories through a modern device that was designed by a soulless corporation that is trying to take advantage of history for its own personal gain. Still, it feels like other Ubisoft games co-opted it while ignoring that context, and then it spread like a virus everywhere else. Also, it’s really funny how Ubisoft is just straight-up the villain of their own franchise at this point. Like, it feels like most of AC's writers don’t even try to obscure it.
@PizzaMate
Жыл бұрын
Detroid Become Human has also a very beutiful menu, a character from the game is there and talks to you, also mentions some things you did in the game when you return. That left an impression
@CypherV0
Жыл бұрын
One can only hope this video and others like it make their way into game Dev meetings. Because this shit has to change.
@_HPX_
Жыл бұрын
I do really miss how thoughtful and reflective old UI's used to be in games like Halo or World at War. I'm sure being a teenager at the time plays a huge part in my memory and appreciation of them, but I think those games really did just have different priorities that were directly targeted at evoking the vibe or the tonal mission statement of the game rather than naked, cold utility (which barely even works most of the time.) It took me like 20 fucking minutes trying to figure out how to play local vs in Multiversus before we literally gave up and moved on. What the actual fuck has happened?
@keatonkitsune4064
Жыл бұрын
Remember, the inventory screen for the original Resident Evils? A modern take of that was going to be in the remake of Resident Evil 2. The developers removed it for the boring minimalist RE7 inventory instead.
@BrandAstros
Жыл бұрын
The Halo CE loading screen, what a nostalgia you have given me, I remember that I loved hearing those mysterious voices in the background, thanks for noticing the details that have been diminishing over time
@jesusparra8367
Жыл бұрын
This is a dark age... the age of MODERN GAMING
@HiddenXperia
Жыл бұрын
MoDeRn GaMiNg
@jesusparra8367
Жыл бұрын
@@HiddenXperia *Epic Act Man noises
@Solotocius
Жыл бұрын
You're exaggerating
@sonicdash9652
Жыл бұрын
@@Solotocius Says you
@Solotocius
Жыл бұрын
@@sonicdash9652 what about me?
@TheCman5015PLPro
Жыл бұрын
That's why I mainly play old games these days. Most are freeware like some old Megaman games, and they exude passion in their gameplay, not to mention their first impressions in their menus. On another note, much more economical too for these days. I've only ever payed 60$ for a new game twice, and I haven't continued that trend in many years.
@howtomundane3109
Жыл бұрын
There's also a conflict between Mouse & Keyboard / Controller. The „Streaming Service“ layout can easily be navigated using the cross button 🎮, but not for a cursor. Sometimes, menus prefer a mouse, sometimes arrow keys, etc...
@spacekettle2478
Жыл бұрын
I can think of several modern games that does their UI themes really nicely: Total War Warhammer, Genshin Impact, Persona 5, Elite Dangerous, Anno 1800, etc. I think most of the worst offenders of UI theming are AAA FPS/multiplayer focused games, because, they focus on usability because you just want to play with your friends, not immerse yourself in the game.
@sashautrera6935
Жыл бұрын
That Mass Effect OST though.
@HiddenXperia
Жыл бұрын
I've never been able to get into Mass Effect unfortunately but regardless I still love its soundtrack, sooooooo calming and chill
@J_spec6
Жыл бұрын
@@HiddenXperia It took me a while to get into it myself. It's a very long and tedious grind to get the rewards, but it is worth it. The game was great in so many ways. You just have to be patient lol. But I'm sure moden internet guides would help massively help get through that
@sashautrera6935
Жыл бұрын
@@HiddenXperia You should give it a go someday. The trilogy is quite amazing.
@magnenoalex2
Жыл бұрын
@@HiddenXperia if the present keeps disappointing you. Head to the past and try out that trilogy
@sashautrera6935
Жыл бұрын
@@magnenoalex2 Less disappointing than most of the modern games today, that I totally agree.
@condsy
Жыл бұрын
Completely agree. WaW still sends a chill down my spine to this day. Haven't had a single modern game immediately bring me into the world of the game better than WaW.
@ForgedinPrint
Жыл бұрын
Try sword are online then. Every time I play I feel like I'm in a life or death situation, hadn't heard from my friend since his in game death but whatever.
@condsy
Жыл бұрын
@@ForgedinPrint hilarious
@sonicdash9652
Жыл бұрын
@@ForgedinPrint A classic WW2 game just to say about a mediocre game from a crappy anime. Nice transition (sarcasm).
@Tsuchimursu
Жыл бұрын
I didn't even realise the "modern" Web page format has invaded video games... I hate the big fancy images with no relevant information that look nice (sort of) but don't deliver me efficient information. I guess I'll just keep playing indie games.
@dannyCOTW
Жыл бұрын
Awesome video man. Topics like this make me miss Total Biscuit, he would have shredded so many "modern" UIs and settings. RIP
@GradyGames
Жыл бұрын
Great video. I never really put much thought into game menu UI, but the opening for World at War to start this video really got me. The Halo 2 menu themes live rent free in my head.
@UNBROKENONYX
Жыл бұрын
This really is the fall of emissive menus
@mysteriousstranger5873
Жыл бұрын
I think fromsofts Ui is a good example of simple UIs done right. A simple logo on a black background while the soundtrack plays. You become immersed not through the ui itself, but the sound. Almost like your seeing the menu with your eyes closed and the music is what puts the title there in your minds eye
@zephyr8954
Жыл бұрын
The LittleBigPlanet Series had some super awesome menus, aka the Pod. From the moment you drop down into it you see the giant PS3 controller to open up the Pod menu to basically do anything. Apart from the load times for user created levels, it was snappy and fast and oozed so much creativity. It only got better as the franchise went on. Easily one of the best menus ever.
@TaTopePia
Жыл бұрын
Great video Luc - I wrote a blog about this a while back, specifically about Halo 3's loading screens vs. Halo Infinite's. There's nothing specifically wrong with Infinite's, but Halo 3 was almost sad, like you were really witnessing Forerunner tech that was super futuristic, but lost to history. Appreciate this much broader look at the industry as a whole - as always, your videos always are super insightful!
@joshberry2991
Жыл бұрын
Take me back to the Halo 2 and 3 main menus. I love them so much. Also the Xbox 360 UI and menus are phenomenal, still my favorite. 100% agreed.
@xXx_Regulus_xXx
Жыл бұрын
15:59 Windows 8 was an absolute scourge on UX and we're still suffering the consequences over a _decade_ later.
@rambii.
Жыл бұрын
Midnight Club 3 had really nice UI too. The way your camera speed through the city each time you select something and the UI is set onto the buildings is something I really like
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