[t800]

Lets have a little poll about popularity of various types of huds. Which one do you prefer?
In good old times when I used to play dos Duke I always choosed classic minimal hud. I know that it was missing armor and keys informations, but I found it much more handy that clumsy full hud that covered entire bottom of screen. I never liked fact that it limited my vertical view and hid portion of my selected weapon.
But after Eduke32 added its brand new modern hud, I quickly scrapped old minimal hud and never returned to it. It finally solved all problems of classic minimal hud (displaying keys and armor) and it didnt obstruct my view.
So what are your opinions?

[DustFalcon85]

Mine's the old full hub. Haven't tried out the modern one though.

[Jinroh]

I always liked the Duke 64 HUD, I thought it was both slick and informational.

[t800]

DustFalcon85, on 11 October 2012 - 04:41 AM, said:

Mine's the old full hub. Haven't tried out the modern one though.

But that means you never tried Eduke32, right? Because modern is default. It is the one you get when you run Eduke32 first time. For others (full, minimal and none) you have to change settings in game options.

Jinroh, on 11 October 2012 - 04:57 AM, said:

I always liked the Duke 64 HUD, I thought it was both slick and informational.

IIRC (from beta version of Fox's mod, I never had luck to play real one) Duke 64 hud has one little weakness - every time you want to check armor strength you have to select it as inventory item.

BTW - In generally do you prefer minimalist or more elaborate huds? I always had dillema in HeXen II - whether to choose that nice big detailed hud with gargoyle heads at sides or simplistic one with blue and green boxes.

[Jinroh]

t800, on 11 October 2012 - 06:26 AM, said:

IIRC (from beta version of Fox's mod, I never had luck to play real one) Duke 64 hud has one little weakness - every time you want to check armor strength you have to select it as inventory item.

Yes this is true, though I never really check armor so I never really notice it. Though when I play the PC Duke, I always use the full HUD. PC games I usually use the full HUD like Shadow Warrior, Blood, Duke, but I liked the minimal HUDs in Duke Nukem Advance and Duke Nukem 64. Don't really like the PC one though.

[Loke]

I've always found the full HUD in Blood too big and distracting. The minimal version is much better.





Shame it doesn't show which keys you have though.

[Jinroh]

I always thought it looked cool, those gargoyles. I never found it distracting, but maybe I was indoctrinized by earlier games? I dunno, I just can't play those classic FPS with a small HUD. haha. Well unless I'm forced too like Duke Advance and Duke 64.

[t800]

Loke, on 11 October 2012 - 07:03 AM, said:

I've always found the full HUD in Blood too big and distracting. The minimal version is much better.
Shame it doesn't show which keys you have though.

IMO this would be much better.

[Jinroh]

Yeah that would be way more useful, I always wondered why they kept some info from the smaller HUDs.

[thatguy]

I loved epxansive huge HUDs for a lot of old games, but for first person shooters? I prefer minimal to no hud...but no hud for modern fps's. Immersion can only be done in games that have proper field of view and modern visuals and atmosphere.

I loved Realms of the Haunting's HUD. It gave it a cinematic quality (widescreen) while not providing the thread of looking like a generic FPS.

[Jinroh]

Yeah that is a very nice HUD, and I agree, I prefer minimal HUDs for games that err more on the side of realism. Things like Serious Sam 3 and DNF would look really weird with full bulky HUDs. haha.

[dnskill]

All games except Hereitc and Hexen.. I like to use the full HUD. Heretic and Hexen for some reason the HUDS are too big for me.

I do think using no HUD at all can be fun, especially in Deathmatch. It adds more realism to the game. You'd not know how much health or armor you have left, and if you suck at math you'd not know how much ammo you have either.

I think the Blood max HUD was a leftover from the last build in which they had the Beast Mode.. I think the bar with the version number was originally something else (a meter), and when you entered beast mode the 2 beast heads would have glowing red eyes or something, though this is not at all proven, I just really believe it to be the truth. I mean, why would you need to know what version you are playing while playing the game?

[MrFlibble]

I generally prefer the original minimized HUD, although the full one is also nice. It's just that it obscures a rather considerable part of the screen, however I don't mind using it either.