So how come it seems like with every game today it seems like when you get hurt the screen starts fading red, turn black and white, or blood spatters on the screen?

I can understand this in some games where they're trying to do the cinematic minimal HUD thing like with Uncharted or new and shiny with Gears of War but now it seems like every game does it.

I was playing Bioshock 2 last night and it was actually *really* aggrevating the way they handed it and was pretty annoying with just the fact it was there.  It's bad enough I have this weird oval on my screen that just looks silly, but when you start getting hurt your screen is filled with red splotches that don't go away until you heal yourself.  And then the fact the game actually has a life bar and has the red screen thing is just silly.  You don't need both, especially when it's one as annoying as that one.

I just don't understand why every game has that.  I swear, if I pop in Super Mario Galaxy 2 and it has that I'm just going to have to hurt somebody.

(bet you thought this thread was going to be about something else, huh?)

If you hurt somebody they will get a Red screen of Dead aswell =/

Oh gods, that is the only part of Mass Effect 2 that I HATED! I love that game, but why the red death screen? It seems like they talked to Epic and were like "we want this to be a great action game?" and Epic was like "Red death screen, bitches!" and Bioware said "If you say so. . . why don't you have a neck?"

Oh I forgot about Mass Effect 2, but that's probably the HUD on a whole was a nightmare in that game.

The completely unnecessary red screen was just fail-icing on the cake in that situation.

I had to think of this...

Somebody should do a polkadot-screen-of-death just for the novelty.

ya I know its getting a lil out of hand...

You can turn off the helmet in the options menu.

I fail to see the humor, must have been some in that post somewhere! Have you changed the text to grey?

the old method was to show a color or arrow showing where shots were coming from, but now it seems like they do it just for shits and giggles and it is starting to get commonplace and stupid.