Why did the game over screen die?
Why did the game over screen die?
Nolan Williams
Nathaniel Nelson
It doesn't actually serve any purpose in games that aren't in arcades. There's no real design reason to end the game instead of just restarting them at some point, be it the start of the level or a checkpoint or whatever.
I'm all for having penalties for death, but unless the game is a roguelike where death basically deletes your character, then game overs and even the concept of "lives" is utterly worthless and outdated.
Aiden Gonzalez
it kind of breaks immersion sometimes
Josiah Ortiz
>Game Over
>Game's still running
Fucking false advertising...
Nicholas Ramirez
It's a micro aggression
Logan Price
But they didn't? Game Over screens only don't exist in games that don't have "game over" state, like GTA or Bioshock, just to name a few.
Aaron Ortiz
It's not about purpose, it's about being a staple of videogames that shows you still have some sovl left.
Jackson Fisher
It's a failure of game design
Michael Allen
is it?
using it for scoring is still a valid challenge.
Gavin Thomas
People who write that shit unironically think that being able to lose a game is bad design
Dylan Wilson
removing fail states is the only failure of game design in this conversation.
Isaiah Gomez
Because games don't have lives anymore. People seem to see lives as nothing more than a relic of the arcade era that serve no purpose in modern games other than artificially inflating the playtime, so developers avoid them like the plague.
Aiden Ross
People today can't deal with losing, you have the sickening 'Everyone is a Winner!' mentality reigning currently.
That's why they removed scoreboards from Battlefield 2042.
Hunter Reyes
In Turok 1 you got a game over screen after you beat the game. they removed it in the PC rerelease for some reason
Ryan Cooper
You're a dumbass.
Levi James
This doesn’t count?
Aiden Evans
I always hated when games ended with a Game Over screen. I associate game over with losing so beating the game and getting that just annoyed me.
Not that I'm defending that specific example of a game being rereleased and removing that screen.
Cooper Smith
>In Turok 1 you got a game over screen after you beat the game
Those were actually common in older games, before "game over" became synonymous with failure.
It's technically still a "game over" screen except they got a little more creative with it.
Ayden Johnson
Another semi recent one but its pretty plain
Ian Thompson
Says the no fun allowed autist who thinks vidya is about functionality.
Mason Carter
Kek I can only think of indie games with game over screens
Thomas Collins
Best one I could find online even though its from a mod but witcher 3
Brayden Moore
That reminds me Earthbound's "game over screen" is actually dialogue boxes.
I'm surprised Undertale used a more traditional game over screen instead.