SC2's tacky and inconsistant UI - Page 10

ColterTV

Argentina163 Posts

January 16 2012 03:50 GMT

#181

I don't know if this has been pointed out but I accidentally discovered it.

If you uncheck the option to display tooltips it should not display them, right?
Well, it works, unless you press enter to chat. If you do, the tooltip will come up anyway.
Pretty annoying IMO, i don't want the tooltips when typing my BM thing!! <-- just kidding

BlueBoxSC

United States582 Posts

January 16 2012 06:44 GMT

#182

I can see why you'd get upset over spending $60 on this slop, but really?

I don't care about it. I love the game all the same.

lachy89

Australia264 Posts

January 16 2012 06:51 GMT

#183

Anything that can be complained about, will be complained about.

To me this seems like the most pointless and insignificant rant on SC2 I have ever seen. If this makes you annoyed then I feel sorry for you.

kofman

Andorra698 Posts

January 16 2012 06:53 GMT

#184

Typical blizzard not caring about a game they make you pay 60$ for. Theres also a really annoying bug making it so that when i play on ladder, sometimes I can't even select my units. I find that it happens when I start searching for an opponent immediatly after opeining sc2, and you can tell its happening when it says searching for opponent, but there is no yellow icon. You would think that since blizzard releases games at a snail's pace (Diablo III...), they would have the games polished when they come out, but thats far from the truth...

tWR

Canada138 Posts

January 16 2012 06:59 GMT

#185

I think this is just a design team issue, you have many team members working on the project for so long you get this sort of blindness to change.

I don't think this really affects gameplay in any way, shape or form; I feel a designer might sit down and be like well this isn't consistent, but is it really noticeable to someone who isn't looking for it?

If it really bothers you, my suggestion would be message Blizzard as a design studio that revels in feedback from fans, if you brought this up to them, they would say, 'hey! we never noticed that! we can tighten that up!'

Sign of a good designer is how well they take constructive criticism

Alakaslam

United States17336 Posts

January 16 2012 07:08 GMT

#186

On December 27 2011 23:20 whatthefat wrote:

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Well, I can't help myself.

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What the fat! You just made my day twice! Rofl!!

Alakaslam

United States17336 Posts

January 16 2012 07:20 GMT

#187

On January 16 2012 15:53 kofman wrote:
Typical blizzard not caring about a game they make you pay 60$ for. Theres also a really annoying bug making it so that when i play on ladder, sometimes I can't even select my units. I find that it happens when I start searching for an opponent immediatly after opeining sc2, and you can tell its happening when it says searching for opponent, but there is no yellow icon. You would think that since blizzard releases games at a snail's pace (Diablo III...), they would have the games polished when they come out, but thats far from the truth...

Oh shut up. Did you work 8 hours to buy this game? The stress must have been like a Nazi camp! Gosh, almost would have been easier to just make your own game!

Folks. I thought it was agreed here that this game is worth having. Otherwise what is the point of posting on tl. Especially if like most $60 is really one fill up for your car, if it lasts more than a week, and therefore is chump change. Or if you're 12 (plenty of life left to wait for game releases!) and $ is hard to come by why don't you look before you leap next time instead of smoldering about mountains not dumping themselves into the sea for you. "blizzard doesn't care" WTF man. WTF officially means what the fat now roflrofl! :p

farside604

Canada127 Posts

January 16 2012 07:21 GMT

#188

Wow these critiques are certainly very nit picky, I wouldn't have noticed any of these if the pictures didn't highlight them. I want a high quality game as much as the next guy but I think it's a little far to call it an "inconsistent mess".

canikizu

4860 Posts

January 16 2012 07:28 GMT

#189

On December 27 2011 23:20 whatthefat wrote:

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Well, I can't help myself.

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Oh god, I just can't stop laughing.

kineSiS-

Korea (South)1068 Posts

January 16 2012 07:32 GMT

#190

The game should already be finished in my whole opinion. The same goes for balance. Balance has progressed as such an infantile rate starting at something that is a disappointing mess with a development time of well since Starcraft 1 came out which is 1998, with a leeway of 3-4 years, they still should have had at least 5 years to work on it which is a considerably lengthier amount of time than SC1.

stinger_ro

90 Posts

January 16 2012 07:35 GMT

#191

i find that the OP illustrates nitpicking at its finest

while i do find that some choices betray a more low brow approach (with a decent result none the less) the examples listed can be traced to either technical limitations (for the help screens) or a result of the progression and refinement process you can see in blizzard products over the course of time (menus and icons come to mind)

as someone pointed out as a product you're getting your money's worth and then some by the constant work that continues to be put in ... i certainly appreciate the reactiveness of the developer in putting in certain options more then i mind the inperfections that arise because of the process...

added later: such obervations however can be constructive and can imho only be viewed as complaints in a finnnished type of product - such as a single player game or finite experience .. with an end and a start...

Eknoid4

United States902 Posts

January 16 2012 07:41 GMT

#192

You make a lot of confusing typos for a guy who nitpicks like a 12 year old autistic boy who's out of his favorite ice cream

Fencar

United States2694 Posts

February 06 2012 02:35 GMT

#193

On December 27 2011 22:12 Ryder. wrote:

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I can't believe people are so petty and willing to whine about absolutely everything.

The business model for games has seem to evolved to either subscription based games or pumping out new expansions/DLC whenever they can. This also annoys the shit out of me, when the games are bad.. SC2 campaign was much longer than HEAPS of other game's campaigns, PLUS you get unlimited multiplayer with no subscriptions, and a dedicated team who after a year and a half after release still work on bug fixes, balance tweaks as well as more content (GM league, their 3 official custom games, new portraits/achievements). Wings of Liberty is a full, complete game that has given me (and I'm sure plenty of the people on this board) HUNDREDS of hours of entertainment. If you wanted to go and see a movie, takes 2 hours and you pay $15. Yet you pay $60 for hundreds of hours of good entertainment and all you do is bitch cause you are going to have to fork out another $60 (unlikely it will be this high) for an expansion which will provide a new campaign + units? God damn it put shit in perspective. In Australia we pay ~$90 for most games, and I will gladly pay full price for the two upcoming expansions because it is worth my money.

You realise why there is no alternative to starcraft in RTS gaming? Because it's the best RTS game around. Yeah the game isn't perfect, but if you think it is barely worth the $60 you paid for it then I am surprised you post on these forums.

True, but they could still have easily had a consistent plan for the menu's that are opened while you are in-game. It also isn't an excuse to dumb down the custom game system. They could clean it up a bit, maybe have the popularity system optional, but they really screwed up their UI on this one. No doubt about that.

KicKDoG

Sweden765 Posts

February 06 2012 02:37 GMT

#194

the game is still very young. I don't think we should expect the best of it just yet.

sofakng

100 Posts

February 06 2012 02:57 GMT

#195

"you're tacky and i hate you."

NtroP

United States174 Posts

February 06 2012 03:03 GMT

#196

I did graphical UI design and programming for house automation for about 3 years. It is tacky and unprofessional to have an inconsistent UI. Basically what happens, is that different elements are finished at different points in time. When you are just starting you choose elements quickly just so you can start finishing individual parts. Later on (after looking at the same style 20 times a day) you might change the fonts and graphical themes for the program to one you decide works better. What Blizzard didn't do is go back and update old assets that were probably already 'completed'. Obviously not a huge deal (apologists will even jump to in to defend blizzard amusingly enough), but it does show a decided lack of polish in a blockbuster game.

kindle139

United States128 Posts

February 06 2012 03:03 GMT

#197

are you fucking kidding me? this is some first day video game tester bullshit, Class C, not a bug

docvoc

United States5491 Posts

February 06 2012 03:09 GMT

#198

wow just wow, i can't believe they dropped the ball on this one, thats just sad -_-

Sovano

United States1503 Posts

February 06 2012 03:12 GMT

#199

They may be inconsistencies, but honestly did even 99% of the people reading this even notice these slight differences or even care about them? I would think not. I do feel as though the UI could be better overall, but the main thing Blizzard should be worried about is the actual GAMEPLAY. This is just my opinion though.

dukem

Norway189 Posts

February 06 2012 03:20 GMT

#200

Great find, 10/10

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