Shadowbringers Main Title Screen - Kinda Ugly.

https://i.imgur.com/2Pz0qHP.png

I've got to say, this is probably my least favorite startup screen.

Animation: Yellow "light" flames are moving upwards.

The Yellow and the purple is a bit of an eyesore with the animation. It feels like the background colors need to be toned down a lot, or add in different colors. The flames move upwards which draws a lot more unnecessary attention to them.

Any thoughts?

i Kinda like it. think its fitting. That said, id love it if they gave us the option to choose which startup screen we wanted to use

I like the umbral atmosphere, actually.

I don't mind the yellow as much as those trees on the bottom part.

It's my favorite to date, actually. From the lore we know the First is in an eternal day, so the screen symbolizes carving through the veil of light into the night on the other side; the starry sky looks beautiful in contrast to the flames of light, and the forest at the bottom is a really neat addition.

The mix of dark and light looks bad for their text display, I think.

I prefer more abstract backgrounds - the flames for Stormblood are fine in an "un-noticeable" way for the brief time the menu is there.

I like it, but I wonder if it would be hard for them to let players choose their title screen. If it's an easy thing to set up that could be nice. Roulette title screen option even, maybe lol.

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Originally Posted by Veritas-Ancora

https://i.imgur.com/2Pz0qHP.png

I've got to say, this is probably my least favorite startup screen.

Animation: Yellow "light" flames are moving upwards.

The Yellow and the purple is a bit of an eyesore with the animation. It feels like the background colors need to be toned down a lot, or add in different colors. The flames move upwards which draws a lot more unnecessary attention to them.

Any thoughts?

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That colour scheme is actually very sophisticated and magnificent. Yellow and Purple are supposed to go together.

It perfectly exhibits what is called "Complementary Colours" in colour theory. Every artist worth their salt knows that there is a certain basic method in which colours go next to each other... yellow and purple, blue and orange, red and green. Here is a simple colour wheel chart that helps explain...

https://files.brightside.me/files/ne...1476252429.jpg

A more complex chart exhibiting hues and shades will look something like this one below. In addition, the colour animations you see in the screen are obviously intended to look vibrant and give a sense of consistent movement. if they are toned down, they will look washed out and will not trigger the design intent.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/11...g?v=1477840801

Ramesses laying down the facts!

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Originally Posted by griffinborn

Ramesses laying down the facts!

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*(Laughs)*

Yes indeed... some of my work in real life involves managing design concepts and creative quality control.

I fully understand that yellow and purple are what you put together when you want complementary contrasting colours - I just don't think the title screen is using them in the right way.

The background behind text should be a contrasting colour to the text. Yellow text on a purple background would be fine.

White text on a pale-yellow-and-purple-striped background looks like bad graphic design.


(Although the game already does this badly with the 'auto-playing' text that sometimes appears as white subtitles without a text box behind them. They can be incredibly hard to read, depending on the background of the image. Fine on a dark background, terrible on a brightly lit scene.)

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Originally Posted by Iscah

I fully understand that yellow and purple are what you put together when you want complementary contrasting colours - I just don't think the title screen is using them in the right way.

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Exactly this.

My brother's a graphic artist, so I know color theory.

But the purpose of color theory is for people to like it and make it aesthetically pleasing. If people aren't pleased with it, Color Theory isn't working.

An additional thought on the title screen image - it would work really well as the PS4's "initial loading screen" that comes up each time you run the program. An atmospheric screenshot like this image is the sort of thing that I think works well, but all through Stormblood it's been an extreme close-up of WoL and Lyse's faces from their trailer fight, and I don't like it. So hoping the replacement will be something a bit more abstract like this - although fully expecting it will be Mr Dark Knight staring intently. >_<