Feb 14, 2024 · Video game nerds are arguing about yellow paint as a tool used by game designers to guide players toward in-game objectives. Here are the different faction.

Yellow Paint Debate is a viral debate surrounding the use of brightly colored paints to highlight interactable objects such as ladders and crates in video games.

Feb 12, 2024 · Last week, thanks to the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth demo, some old video game discourse returned and overtook social media: The use of yellow paint to mark certain in-game objects or ledges.

Mar 20, 2023 · Twitter user @FPSthetics took issue with what look like rather glaring examples of Resident Evil 4 having signposts in the form of yellow paint on interactable items in the game. In follow-up tweets, the user noted that the yellow paint …

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Feb 10, 2024 · I doubt the yellow paint is actually something he's angry about. The correct answer is to still include yellow paint. But allow people to turn it off in the settings. Horizon 2 had an interesting way to deal with this "complaint" that worked in the worlds lore. But yeah.

Feb 21, 2024 · If a game needs yellow paint on every single ledge it's because they playtested it and enough people failed to recognize the ledges. Well then, the problem is the ledge. Let's take the recent FFVII Rebirth example, where there's nonsensical yellow paint on climbable ledges.

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Feb 10, 2024 · If someone's "immersion" is really that destroyed by yellow paint, it's time to rethink how serious you're taking games. It'd be one thing if it was in cutscenes and noted by the characters, but as a design in world I don't think it matters that much.

the yellow paint discourse was a punchline 12 years ago and no one has done it better since