So for those that keep saying they prefer the current icons over the ones in for example, AOE2, or other games, can I ask of you to share your favourite icons in AOE4?
I’d like to see what you find to endearing about them. I can point towards many icons in other games, whether it is because they look funny, expressive, cool or just interesting and unique, I tend to float towards liking and disliking icons based on what they convey as well as how it is expressed.
In AOE4, I can’t think of one from the top of my head that I like. I really thought about it. So I went and looked into individual civilizations, and I guess like the Malian’s Poisoned Arrows? Thought I’d like the new Palace Guard, but it feels too busy and shrunk. Overall, I don’t think there is a singular one icon that I actually like like.
So, yea, please share icons that you feel really happy about.
In case one of you responds with “you don’t need to have a favourite icon for them to be good”, then I think that kind of reveals the split in logic between people who like and dislike the current style of iconography. It reveals people who care about these things, and those that don’t. Neither group is more important mind you, and that is why I keep suggesting a style that satisfies both camps by utilizing the vivid simplicity that you guys are so fond of, as well as the colourful expressiveness that the other camp loves.
Above there are two letters, a, one with many ornaments and the other simple, the simple one is of the SANS SERIF type, and its functionality is to facilitate reading, that is its function and it fulfills it well (like the font of this same forum !); So no matter how much someone is fascinated by the letter with ornaments, it is not optimal for reading, the same analogy is with the icons that I already explained and argued! If someone is a fan of the ornamental exuberance of the Baroque, it is up to them and fanatical biases
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There are studies on the loss of quality of peripheral vision, when I see a replay sometimes I don’t use the caster mode and I pay attention to the global tail, which, by its icon colors, I can tell if it is producing a unit or a technology, so I fully agree with that classification, and with the direction that the game took with Eric Wrobel, this is based on studies on the Gestal, on how the brain optimizes things. What you are req…
I have reduced the image and although they have a green background, I get confused between the two technologies
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Meanwhile here I also shrink the image and I can recognize the technologies by their particular silhouette
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this is the ancient egyptian alphabet, each letter is a particular silhouette, which makes it easy to read
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