Will minimalist UI ever stop in games?

Hopefully not. Fuck covering the screen with useless shit, just show me the game.

I'm just glad Pokemon is still married to its 90s ass western logo.

It looks like one of those shitty romhacks from the 2000s.

Jesus i didn't even notice the bar. It's actually irritating my eyes

It's on its way out, nu-skeumorphism will be the trend for the next decade, gradients are already back in fashion

>pokeball symbol is clearly pixelized and looks as if it is from another game
That's because I'm pretty sure it's from as early as 4th gen if not 3rd gen. It'll be old enough to post here soon.

Nintendo's latest obsession with minimal UIs needs to fucking die, it makes their games look cheaper and lazier than they already are.

When was the last time you guys saw perfect or fun looking UI's anons? I feel like persona 5 had a fun looking UI but I don't think any game will beat dead space perfect UI. It's a shame the industry is getting too lazy to even make nice looking UI now.

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I really don't care what the UI looks like. This is just one of those "muh soul" nostalgia complaints. If games you played as a kid had minimalist UI you would like it. Its just not what you grew up with.

Here's your pokemon logo bro.

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and here is a clear case of "i'm an adult,grow up all of you!"

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Gameboy Pokemon games arguably did have minimalist UIs

That was surely out of necessity though. The GBA games at least used outlines.

looks like an indonesian bootleg

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I mean yeah, can't really go crazy with the UI on a small screen. So of course a bunch of them are going to have minimalist UI, it makes sense

This was only bad until BW1 when the version names weren't plain white text anymore.

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So why isn't okay for a mobile system like the switch to have a mobile UI

I hate it when you people just bitch about the games for no reasons

>XY logo is 3d
neat

>So why isn't okay for a mobile system like the switch to have a mobile UI
you're right, the switch IS a phone!

Persona 5 perfected JRPG battle menus. It's not surprising that Gamefreak isn't bothering to look at its competition given that they have leagues of retarded fans who will eat up whatever slop they shit out, but it's a shame.

literally what more do you want from that

It's minimal but also bloated at the same time. Like you need an icon of a guy running for the run button.

Eventually. Every time an art style becomes popular, there is always a counter art style that eventually takes over and that process repeats forever.

The UI looks like a mobile games
It lacks soul

>Gender symbol is pixels away from the last text character
That looks extremely jarring

dummy it's portable like the gameboy

why shouldn't the UI be similar?

Why do minimalist UIs make everything white

What's going on with the exp bar?

So you're autistic ass is literally comparing to an old hardware with a smaller screen like the gameboy vs the switch? Jesus you nintenfags are complete idiots

more like minimal effort

CARLOS

I want to stick my weewee in that afromon

Because the Switch isn't a Gameboy. It has the capability to produce good looking images. That excuse left completely when the DS debuted.

As for bitching about games for no reason, we do have a reason. It's ugly. If you don't like it that's all the reason someone needs to talk shit on it.

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lol nigga wtf more ui do you need for pokemon. yikes

Do you mean flat UI?

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Pokemon x and y...*sip*, now that was some good UI.

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For comparison.

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No. Actually we need to go further, that shit definitely isn't minimalist.

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>hey you played the new Pokemon game?
>no I refuse to play it
>why not?
>I don't like the color of the health bars

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>implying that's arial
>implying high contrast font/background doesn't make borders unnecessary
>implying the menu items don't have a diffused drop shadow
>it's shit because I don't like it

Never change Yea Forums

The slightest hint of originality? Anything that makes it remotely appealing to look at? Something that makes it stand out from other generic soulless UI's?

There's a very, very faint drop shadow to the boxes

>that pokeball symbol is clearly pixelized and looks as if it is from another game and doesnt fit here
you mean the pokeball icon that's been in every game since gen 4? No yeah totally, this is such a problem now.

Just wanted to post galaxys hud. I really miss colours and unique icons in modern games

It's also the best looking thing on the screen. Coincidence?

Have you considered maybe most people don't want the UI taking up half the fucking screen? I turned off the UI in BotW for example, I wish more games offered that option.

even SM has more soul than SS

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Sun and moon had a useless second screen they had to fill with shit so of course they made some big ass icons.

post soulful UI

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as opposed to all the other DS and 3DS pokemon games that DIDN'T have 'useless second screens'?

I'm not arguing over the size of the UI just the style. I don't like bloated health bars either I just want them to look nice.

everything on the top screen also looks better though

Gentlemen? Console Pokemon soul

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>128px stone.jpg everywhere
>low-poly 3d models clashing with realistic textures
>photoshop-preset tier emboss with no consistent direction
>non-responsive static elements that scale like ass if you ever go above 1024x768

How can boomers' opinions be trash this consistently?

Yes they all did that's the point. If you want to compare the UI compare it to the gba games not the ds/3ds ones which had to fill a 2nd screen.

that's not even a minimal UI, OP

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>those /weg/tier portraits

Oh yeah, that's soul alright.

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That's very stylish though.

One of the anons already mentioned it here. But dead space has the nicest UI ever. Everything is on your suit which let's you focus on the environment. Really wish more games had more creative UI's like that

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That’s not minimalist tard
And if you want your UI cluttered then just go play shit games

>Portable means it should treated exactly like a mobile game
That is the last thing any traditional game dev wants. You literally cannot charge money for a phone game because everyone knows they're worthless. The only way to make money off mobile games is F2P with exploitative microtransactions.

You had the Wii U, and you fuckers did fuck all with it! Piece of lazy shits!

>Oh my god they mapped actions to buttons instead of having a menu! Literally nobody has ever thought to do this before!
P5fags are retarded.

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>>it's shit because I don't like it
You can't possibly think it looks good, though.

I'll have to admit that regardless of how ugly the UI is, to this day I'm amazed at the level of coordination required for 25-man raids. I wish I could experience it, my biggest party ever was like 6 or so.

Fuck neets who player 100+ hours a week, you ruined MMO's.

user never said it was original you illiterate mong

Perfect design choice for the genre. The last thing you want in an immersive game is for the generic menus to rip you right out of the experience.
Can't actually think of any other games that do it as well as DS did, though. Closest I can think of is fallout using the pip boy as the inventory manager, but it's full of other text boxes and pop ups that rip you out.

>NEON GREEN?!!?!
>HOW COULD THEY MAKE SOMETHING NEON GREEN?!?!?!?!?!????!!?!?

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you're not wrong that it's super ugly but damn that's your breaking point?

pic related did it before smrpg.

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not as long as millennials and zoomers continue to demand them

Is the same shill from the zelda awakening remake thread from last night also samefagging this thread? Either you fags are a hivemind or you autist have the same mannerisms in general, which explains the personality of a you shills

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You'd think now that we've gone HD we could vectorize the dream world art so the interface could look extra clean

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B... but user, think of the devs.

>game is literally SM 2.0
>$60
>devs can't be bothered to copypaste pokemon models from the previous game, despite the fact that they copypasted the other models
>reused 3DS assets
>more removed mechanics from previous games
Literally who cares

>the health bar looks like shit
OH NONONONO

Why are pokeautists so fucking retarded?

>Literally who cares
Are you retarded or something? Literally everyone is complaining about these things

>Cottonee but better
I still won't buy your game Masuda and fuck Serebii.

>New, sterile UI like a UK train station sign
>Still using pixellated orange Pokeball icon from gen 4

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take your pills

>Cottonee but better
Too bad based whimsicott is still better

Pokeballs don't look bad though

>Every single civilisation has its own UI

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This guy is probably one of those faggots who tried to convince me that the persona 5 UI is anything but gaudy dogshit

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If it wasn't for the tutorial popups the last guardian would've been an even more immersive game

>Nintendo
Pokemon is made by a bunch of hacks called Game Freak

You're right in that, but there's a very limited amount of information the games even needs to convey, so it kinda has it easy, there's no real numbers or anything to keep track of.

Goddamn it's not fucking fair. The 90's logo clashes so fucking horribly.

Pokemon may have not been made by Nintendo, but his point still stands
>Super Mario Maker 2
>Odyssey
>BoTW
>ARMS
>Splatoon 2

Minimalist UI can work if done well.

LIke with this one, everything you need to know is already on the screed:
Health
Stasis
Time limit for oxygen (only pops-up when needed)
Ammo Count

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Nintendo's discount apple UIs are fucking shit.

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Mario was always minimalist in UI so its fine.
Same for Zelda.
Splatoon isn't minimalistic lol

>Trade the UI away for graphics
In a heartbeat

Wasn't it always this color in pokemon games though?

>this
>looks good
Pick 1
I bet you wear graphic tees

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That game looks a lot like Colosseum, what is it called?

I fucking hate all of you fags, every single one of you.
We spend 30 years developing good UIs, and you fucks want to walk backward in search of "soul"
Fuck you, fuck you all, I bet you look at childish shit like this and think it has """soul"""

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Gale of Darkness

XD

There's nothing wrong with minimalist UI but it does get annoying seeing everywhere, we need variety

Are you? He is obviously talking about the ones who aren't complaining

How is Splatoon minimalistic

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>Exp bar
>Gender
>Amount of Pokeballs you have
>Pokeball shortcut
>Info shortcut
Do we REALLY still need all this useless non-information?

That looks like some shitty Unity game test build

It's pretty minimal but for some reason it looks intrusive, maybe the solid white backgrounds make it look shit

yes actually

Has anybody tried to make a English logo that looks like the Japanese ones?

I miss the fuck off huge health bars and tribal ui from the previous mhs now that world modernized it

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Yes. They're actually pretty essential.

reminder

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>BoTW
this one is particularly weird since the ingame sheikah tech ui and the actual game ui are pretty fucking different looking

>exp bar
It let's you see how close you are to leveling up and was in every game since GSC.
>gender
Some moves or abilities only work depending on the pokemon's gender
>amount of pokeballs you have
Not pokeballs, it's how many pokemon are in your party.
The other two aren't really important though.

this is such a clusterfuck I can't tell whats going on in either

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Have you retards ever even played a Pokemon game? This is more UI than gens 1-5. It's not "minimalist" just because it doesn't look like your gooklick

The OP is the end result of what you call "good UI". The image in the OP looks like hot dogshit. Fuck off.

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at least keep it video games

>>implying that's arial
He stated it you retarded meme arrower.

Old internet was so much nicer

what happened

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here's your unironic big boy modern day UI sweetie

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Jesus christ that nigger on the frontpage

SOUL

Minimalism is the way and the truth and the light. I'm so much happier than my peers who are obsessed with owning stupid shit.

Bitch when the UI is minimalist
Bitch when the UI is complex

That's not old, that's just straight up what Yahoo japan looks like.

Protip: the west has never had a good sense of aesthetic. Never. Theres outliers of course, but in the whole it's always been pretty shit

their search used to be better too.. until they fucked it up

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It's almost as if there's a middle ground

Bitch when the UI is in the middle ground
I accidentally left that one out, my mistake

>bitch when the room is boiling
>bitch when the room in freezing
these people are so fucking entitled

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Clarity is important in an interactive visual medium.

This isn't minimalist, it's just minimal. Minimalist describes an artistic design, not merely having as few UI elements as possible.

>Minimalist describes an artistic design

which Dead Space has

>STYLE BAD REEEEE

No more backgrounds in your PC either. Super weird shit to remove.

no it doesn't, that holographic ui is the farthest from minimalist you can get

>spelt tonnes wrong
dumbo

Their phone game at least has color.

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God I fucking hate the new interface of nexus.

you nintendiesreally are the dumbest of all console niggers

I've been noticing that recent Nintendo games in general are going for this minimal flat bullshit UI. For me, BotW was the most jarring since the inventory side of the menu is so plain and clinical compared to what was seen in OoT>onward, but the kicker is that the map/photo/rune menus DO have UI design more like what you'd expect with the Sheikah tech stone aesthetic.

Similarly, Super Mario Odyssey's UI is so flat and uses generic fonts for everything, with the travel brochure map screen being the only creative and interesting menu, with the generic fonts actually working in favor of that context.

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>nexusmods not videogames
pay attention fag

Most Nintendo games on the Switch are suffering from bland UIs.

at least Michiko Sakurai tries to be different

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>adjective: minimalist; adjective: minimalistic
>1. relating to minimalism in art or music.
Retard.

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There is not much to focus on though with splatoon. Only addition that could be added is a bar showing you how much you still have.

why try when you can make a flash game menu in a 60 dollar release and zoomers will LOVE it

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you mean in terms of ink? That's what the backpack's for

I was just saying that if the previous person was complaining that it was too minimalistic then the only addition could be to add the bar. If anything the player count on top was copied by another game unless splatoon wasn't the first to show alive/charged up there.

>japan gets the better UI and text

every time. why do americans have such shit taste

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But that's blurry and ugly as shit.

Says you

Behold....soul...

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thats really ugly tbqh

Dragon Quest games go deliberately minimalist because japanese players are ultra nostalgafags.

Compare the JP Menus for Dragon Quest 8 to the NA ones.

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What do the NA menus look like? I like your pic a lot, never played any DQ games but I assume it's really similar to the older ones or something like that.

it's not true, what you're saying. there are concrete values that make a good or bad UI, or at least something that looks finished versus something that looks slapped together and cheap

it's the one on the right you dingus.

JP has simple black menus overlayed on the game, while NA loads in a parchment menu with pictures. I'm not sure if those pictures were made specifically for NA or not.

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Oh damn, never thought I'd end up liking the NA/localized version of something more, guess there's a first time for everything.

this is great because everything is color coded. it's good for people who have poor vision because they just have to remember what each color does. the buttons are big rectangles, easy to tap; it just works. there is a nice shadow gradient to halve the rectangle so it looks more like a button, like a finished object you can interact with rather than a nebulous flat plane

i thought the vista gloss took it too far, and i prefer rectangles to ovals personally but i'd still take XY's UI over this new one

>Drop shadow

they don't. are you blinded?

Name a game with better UI, you can't.

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you are okay with black arial on white with no details, okay, but thst UI looks like a terrible placeholder and i hope to god it is

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>You can't call my art bad it's my STYLE!
Embarrassing.

I have the strange urge to blame minimalist UI on California, although I have no reason to suspect they're responsible for its proliferation.

yeah and it worked for those games you absolute fucking retard. if sword/shield had a pixel art aesthetic then it would look fine.
as it is now it stands out and looks ugly, and clearly shows game freak hasn't really put effort into the UI or anything else in the game for that matter

minimalist just looks better and you're a retarded boomer if you think otherwise

minimalist just looks like shit and you're literally soulless if you think otherwise

>BLAND TEXT AND WHITE BACKGROUNDS THAT EXIST JUST TO SERVE THE PURPOSE OF FUNCTIONALITY JUST LOOK BETTER AND YOU'RE OLD IF YOU DONT AGREE

>Fuck neets who player 100+ hours a week, you ruined MMO's.
user I did 25 mans and fucking 40 mans as the man tank for years back in school, what the fuck ae you talking about?

MSG1

Why would I want a UI that covers half the screen like some fucking early 90s game that was trying to save on processing

kino ui

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Mario Odyssey and BotW both had this ugly as shit UI design and I don't know why.

The games were for the 3DS, so yeah.

Looks souless compared to Gen 6, Alola games and hell even LGPE

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Dumbass zoomers raised by Apple were taught by them that lifeless design is quality.

I hate the ones on the mobile ports doesnt even look good like the one in your pic

>market is obsessed with "flat" design for years now
>literally the adjective used for shitty singing and shitty drinks

What happens when the fingerless glove meter fills the screen?

looks fine to me, I don't get it

I liked SMTIV's

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