You enter a bright new digital world, exited to explore and hyped just to enjoy the vibe. Ten months later you're yelling at someone for standing in fire. Wh...
Ignore the clickbait title this is a really fascinating video.
I think there might be some merit in a game that hides the numbers from the playerbase - ie make all math happen server side and just give the players a kind of vague idea about what does what.
That's how I played my second run of Horizon: Zero Dawn. I realized that the game does a great job of visually showing you how damaged an enemy is (aside from humans really). Fixating on the health bar really took away from the awesome immersion of it all, so I just turned off enemy health bars. Fights were a lot more stressful, visceral, and fun. I felt much more like an actual hunter trying to take down this huge, robotic beast with only visual cues to know how well I was doing
That's how I played my second run of Horizon: Zero Dawn. I realized that the game does a great job of visually showing you how damaged an enemy is (aside from humans really). Fixating on the health bar really took away from the awesome immersion of it all, so I just turned off enemy health bars. Fights were a lot more stressful, visceral, and fun. I felt much more like an actual hunter trying to take down this huge, robotic beast with only visual cues to know how well I was doing
I just started Horizon: Zero Dawn and I might try this out!