I still groan about the old Xbox 360 King Kong game, where they made a big deal in promoting it as wanting to hide all the gameyness and make it like you're playing a movie. A pared down user interface, lack of HUD, everything should be intuitive. I got really into that....until I quit the game for the night, came back the next day, and learned that I was supposed to have hit start and manually saved the game before quitting. It saved no progress at all and I was back at the beginning. They were SO successful in hiding the UI that it failed me. I had been enjoying it, but was so upset I immediately returned it to Gamefly.
I still groan about the old Xbox 360 King Kong game, where they made a big deal in promoting it as wanting to hide all the gameyness and make it like you're playing a movie. A pared down user interface, lack of HUD, everything should be intuitive. I got really into that....until I quit the game for the night, came back the next day, and learned that I was supposed to have hit start and manually saved the game before quitting. It saved no progress at all and I was back at the beginning. They were SO successful in hiding the UI that it failed me. I had been enjoying it, but was so upset I immediately returned it to Gamefly.