Current Events > FF7 remake rebirth part two has yellow paint

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Isn't it normal to have rock climbing route painted?

And besides, you can put a hidden treasure on an unpainted route

Fucking why are more games doing this? Capcom did something like this recently with RE4R. Is yellow like some sort of accessibly coded color used to draw attention to something?

I mean then you just have characters jumping or grappling things because in a lot of these games you arent going to have stairs or ladders.

I prefer the yellow environmental paint as opposed to the blue arrows from the last one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/90ab942e.jpg

Its a shame that this discourse is focusing on the paint and not the fact that games should just get rid of these useless climbing sections in general.

Should every stage just be a series of ramps? What is this take?

I prefer the yellow environmental paint as opposed to the blue arrows from the last one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/90ab942e.jpg

People love to poop on Ubisoft but the AssCreed games allow traversal without this and have been doing it for years.

Every game should reduce bloat by cutting out unengaging sections that add nothing meaningful to the plot or gameplay.

With the amount of people I've watched play re4, the yellow paint seems necessary.

Breath of the wild didn't need yellow paint because you can climb everything

people who complain about these kinds of visual aids don't seem to realize they were put there because they had actual people play the games and realized they needed them...

There are ways to make visual aids that fit into the environment. Yellow paint is like God of War's excessive verbal "hints," lazy and way too handholdy to the point of patronization.

people who complain about these kinds of visual aids don't seem to realize they were put there because they had actual people play the games and realized they needed them...

only people complaining about this are those who think they are smarter than everyone else. what a nothingburger.

people who complain about these kinds of visual aids don't seem to realize they were put there because they had actual people play the games and realized they needed them...

And you can have a midpoint so those visual aids can help people without making the rest of the players feel talked down to.

Having basic problem solving skills is apparently a marker of superior intelligence.

Seriously, I'll be willing to bet you can't even fucking deviate from the path leading to these yellow paint sections, making it even more pointless(and ugly).

Playtesters must be the most braindead lot around.

Its a complete bottleneck

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b2d92b1f.jpg

So it's completely pointless considering you don't even have the option to go elsewhere.

So it's completely pointless considering you don't even have the option to go elsewhere.

You know what would have been a better choice? Some ragged climbing rope or something. Could at least use the argument someone was there naturally. Most of it is brought colored for safety, too.

you could go back if you didn't realize you could climb.

The solution is to just remove this section since its a useless pace-killer.

I will more than happily accept yellow paint instead of just randomly mashing my control stick in various directions to figure out where to go, like the OG FF7.

Ah yes, the classic game ending. Just a literal wall and no more story.

again, they just don't add these things cause they insist you aren't smart enough to know better, they PLAYTEST with actual players to determine they needed it. Going back the way you came cause you think you hit a dead end is not a rare instance in video games.

Nailed it. I also don't let dumb shit bother me.

it's an active dungeon and climbing the cliff takes, like, 15 seconds...

Yeah and it would be better if it was a 5 second ladder.

again, they just don't add these things cause they insist you aren't smart enough to know better, they PLAYTEST with actual players to determine they needed it. Going back the way you came cause you think you hit a dead end is not a rare instance in video games.

Yes, and I'm sure the suicide squad game hit it out of the park with focus groups too. This is a multi level failure of design, and going "OH THE PLAY TESTERS" doesn't mean much with a company like SE.

I could think of about twenty less intrusive ways to handle it that still get the point across very clearly, and it's not even my job.

any solution you can come up with will just be another way to guide the player that is no different from yellow paint.

This is being a Karen

Its being a "game pacing and reducing bloat is important, actually" person

It's weird that you don't consider any possible midpoint. Plenty of games have guidance and accessibility options that are much less in your face. You don't need to inherently cater to the wandering child or game journalist. You just need to make sure you have options that can cater to them, if needed.

Wow the hostility over this is crazy. You'd think they killed someone's family member

Which in the grand scheme of things doesnt matter for traversing terrains.

If anything the only thing the game is guilty of wasting time on isnt the yellow paint but the need to have these small QTE events that arent even QTEs but using R2L2 to rotate a damn valve or to crawl.

To be fair, aren't the vast majority of those QTE events just hidden load times? Same with crawl spaces, forced walking segments, etc. For all we know the real purpose of that climb isn't to engage the player in feeling like they're navigating the wild, but simply to give the game time to load the assets at the top of said climb before the player gets there.

How does making traversal more streamlined and better paced not matter for traversing terrains?

Its both of these. They all add up

To be fair, aren't the vast majority of those QTE events just hidden load times? Same with crawl spaces, forced walking segments, etc. For all we know the real purpose of that climb isn't to engage the player in feeling like they're navigating the wild, but simply to give the game time to load the assets at the top of said climb before the player gets there.