Op Ed [Sep 17, 2011, 11:15 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
truepcgaming - Visual Noise: A Criticism of HUDs.
Having a player’s health, ammunition, inventory, and abilities always visible is a staple of the gaming medium, but one that we may be better off learning to deal without. I make this claim based solely on the experiences of noticing that virtually all games get better without an always-on interface. I’ve managed to nix 90% of the unnecessary HUD materials off New Vegas through two mods, and the result is a game that is unquestionably more immersive, balanced, difficult, and above all, beautiful.
This issue needed an online petition for this feature, not a ridiculously biased article stressing one viewpoint.
But we also live in the age of "consoles are the death of PC gaming" FUD...and therefore devs rarely take the time to finish the job right, not that it's the only reason things are missing/broken in games released.
Any more discussion of whether the idea is bad or good is little more than internet verbal fapping.
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