I played Mad Max recently because I got it for 90% off on Steam, and while it was pretty good it really did the literal yellow paint thing in the most blatant way I've seen. It was really annoying when I'd come across rock formations that are wider than the yellow ones you enter an animation to squeeze through, but they're impassable.
Yeah there are two almost opposite ends of their usage.
The first, most famous in Resident Evil, is because you'd never guess which crate is destructible or not without it. It is indistinguishable from many not breakable objects that are everywhere. Almost a "we created a world too real and need to compensate to help players" problem.
The opposite, as you described, is pure laziness where they are used to denote which things you can interact with so that way they can just spam invisible walls on all the ones you can't and teach you not to go poking for it.
Also I feel bad for the Mad Max game. Its a fantastic rental title released half a decade after rentals died, but its nowhere good enough to buy above 15-20$.
Problem with Stanley Parable is that it requires you to think "British Accent = better" or else half of the humor fades away to just becoming a guy talking too much.
Which is true for like 90% of the world it seems, but for us in the minority its just smarmy for the sake of being smarmy and thinking its smarter than everyone because he said it with British.
I played Mad Max recently because I got it for 90% off on Steam, and while it was pretty good it really did the literal yellow paint thing in the most blatant way I've seen. It was really annoying when I'd come across rock formations that are wider than the yellow ones you enter an animation to squeeze through, but they're impassable.
Yeah there are two almost opposite ends of their usage.
The first, most famous in Resident Evil, is because you'd never guess which crate is destructible or not without it. It is indistinguishable from many not breakable objects that are everywhere. Almost a "we created a world too real and need to compensate to help players" problem.
The opposite, as you described, is pure laziness where they are used to denote which things you can interact with so that way they can just spam invisible walls on all the ones you can't and teach you not to go poking for it.
Also I feel bad for the Mad Max game. Its a fantastic rental title released half a decade after rentals died, but its nowhere good enough to buy above 15-20$.
This is where Stanley Parable shines since it makes fun of everything related to gaming.
Too bad the devs are leftists.
Problem with Stanley Parable is that it requires you to think "British Accent = better" or else half of the humor fades away to just becoming a guy talking too much.
Which is true for like 90% of the world it seems, but for us in the minority its just smarmy for the sake of being smarmy and thinking its smarter than everyone because he said it with British.
Personal, subjective opinion there though.