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Monkeydduffy, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?

There are plenty of amazing games with no HUD whatsoever. First thing that comes to mind is Journey it literally has no HUD element, most games from thatgamecompany are minimal like that.

Also games by Josef Fares have almost no HUD, Brothers and the Hazelight Studios games similarly don’t rely on the HUD much.

wizardbeard, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?
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If you’re into Bethesda games and modding them, nearly all of them have “immersive HUD” mods that only show HUD elements when it’s relevant.

Yokozuna, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?
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Alien: Isolation is another good example of this. Actually terrifying to be hunted by the AI as well.

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Alien: Isolation is genuinely the best horror game ever made and I don’t hear people talk about it enough.

LordOfLocksley, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?

Ghost of Tsushima has a very minimal hud

Pxtl, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?
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Tomb Raider 2013 would only pop up the hud when you did something that involved it, by default the GUI was fully hidden.

The ultimate original “no hud FPS” was Jurassic Park Trespasser, where checking your health involved looking down at a tattoo on your breast.

synae, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?
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I know you can disable all HUD elements in Doom eternal, but you need to be pretty good at it already to be effective. So not a good candidate for a beginner, but it sure does look good if you can pull it off.

highduc, do gaming w Valve needs to step up on Anti-Cheat

Only Valve has the motivation and means…

I think they have the means but not the motivation. I can think of only 2 reasons why the state of anti-cheat is the way it is:

  1. They don’t want to spend money to fix it
  2. They don’t want to ban paying customers
dino,

I doubt that, I mean show me a proper working anti cheat which isn’t deeply rooted into the system as this Valorant bullshit? Don’t even know how good that one is actually working. I just think there should be more focus from players and general attention that cheaters are bad for sales, because people don’t want to spend money on games where cheaters are free to prevail.

I also think with CS2 Valve has a big motivating factor to make this classic one which is cheater free. Also why aren’t third party games able to use VAC?

I really like the community driven moderation of playerbase is a good suggestion. For games like Hunt: Showdown and any other game with just lobbies, its not working though.

FunkyMonk, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?

Elden Ring and other fromsofts have the Hud disappear unless something actively happens with it sometimes. You don't see your health or mana unless you get hit or cast a spell.

dmention7, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?

I don’t think you can fully remove all the HUD elements in Ghost of Tsushima, but there’s an “expert” mode that removes most of them to make it more immersive.

PolishAndrew,

As long as it’s not distracting I’m okay with that!

MacedWindow, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?
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I used to play Overwatch with no HUD. The game is definitely not designed around that, but I found I did decently well, and many characters have displays on their guns that relate the same info.

I know Jurassic Park Trespasser infamously used a tatoo on your characters chest instead of a healthbar to avoid using a HUD.

I did the same as you in GTA, very different and fun way to experience the game.

I always thought it’d be cool to make a no UI fighting game, with health being related by the characters appearance (ie more and more beaten up) rather than the usual top of the screen health bars.

PolishAndrew,

Yessss I feel like developers really have room to get creative with visual elements like that for fighting games. For first person games even just the redness on the edges of the screen is good enough in most cases!

TheaoneAndOnly27,

Oh man, I remember the titty tattoo. 12-year-old me had to check my health like every 3 seconds.

Donut, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?

Both Zelda BotW and TotK have the option for a “PRO” HUD mode which only shows certain elements of the HUD at the right time.

It makes exploration so much more fun when you’re not (if not subconsciously) navigating with the minimap instead of the environment in front of your eyes.

+1 for Battlefield 1. That game nailed the cinematic experience and without a HUD it’s turned up to 11.

Have you played heists in GTA5 in first person without a HUD? It becomes a completely different game!

PolishAndrew,

I did the GTA story heists with no HUD but not online, I found those tricky enough already!

cosmicrose, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?
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Dead Space, my favorite game of all time. All HUD elements are holographic projections from your suit and weapons, integrated into the game world and moving with the camera. Your health meter is a series of light segments going up your spine, and the meter for one of your abilities is a pie-chart style light on the back of your right shoulder. Even the objective markers are a trail of light projected from your hand when you press down on the control stick.

PolishAndrew,

I played that aaaages ago and I remember that really stuck out to me at the time!

leave_it_blank, do games w Good gaming experiences with no HUD?

Dead Space. Ammunition is displayed on your weapon, health and stasis on your suit.

Prey 2016 also displayed your ammo on your gun, but had traditional health bars (it was an fpp game after all).

But I like a good HUD if it’s implemented in the story, like Cyberpunk where it’s a part of your augmented eyes, like an advanced Google lens. Doom did the same with the helmet.

Regarding GTA V, I never got to know the city well enough to play without a map. That fucking town was just to big for me. But I remember Vice City, I knew the map in and out, and playing without a map was fun!

PolishAndrew,

Oooo I forgot about dead space, that’s a good one! Cyberpunk and prey are on my list!

ABCDE, do games w Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Review Thread

It’s been a while since I’ve seen such a wide variety of reviews.

Renacles, do games w Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Review Thread

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