Hexic 2 - colorblind?
I was looking through some of the alternate tile sets in Hexic 2 and I noticed that a few of the sets have a pair or two that look 100% identical to me. Am I slightly color blind, or do some of the sets not have 10 distinct colors?
Even the black and white set (at least I think it's black and white) has a pair of checkered pieces that look identical to me.
Can anybody see the difference in all 10 tiles in every set? The option is available in the demo as well as the full game.
I can tell the difference in all the sets. My wife is color blind and has trouble with many of them. It could just be your tv color settings a bit too. There is one set I remember where 2 colors looked very close but I could still tell them apart.
I *think* some of the sets they made are designed for whatever color blindness (so they can see them apart). It appears this way but I'm not sure.
I am not colour blind at all, but I find the Hexic 2 tiles sets hard to decipher quickly. In a puzzle game built around speed this is a big no no in my opinion.
I understand they wanted it to look all spiffy and "next-gen" but all the effort is wasted without including a base functional tileset. All they needed was something similar to the original for instance inlcuding a colour blind mode option.
We all know that colour dependant puzzle games (Hexic, Astrpop, Zuma, Luxor 2 etc) get furious in the upper levels and I assume Hexic 2 does also (I do not own the full version). Making it difficult to see the pieces rather than making the difficulty the actual gameplay is a step back for the genre.
Myabe they will do a title update?
Can't say I had a probably with the colors but I don't own the full game so I am definitely not the authority on this one.
All I have to say is that I generally dislike the look of Hexic 2. It's too busy. And why did they have to turn it into another stupid JEWEL swapping game? I liked the simple look of Hexic much more and I liked that there was no added extraneous emphasis on these hexes being jewels.
Oh well...
Yeah, I don't like the 3d look either. It's distracting. The whole reason I noticed the color issue is because I was looking for a "classic" flat tile skin or something.
The base tile set is easy enough to tell apart, but some of the alternate sets where it's 10 different shades of blue and purple, or 10 different shades of green and beige, to me look like 8 different shades with a couple of repeats.
i wouldve loved a tile set that functioned on a flat 2-d plane, using the most basic of colors.....um..........something cell-shaded. it doesnt have to be the primary set; but something like this should be selectable. no off-hues, no symbols on the tiles, just your basic crayola box of 12 colors. if you are colorblind then this wouldnt be the set for you, but it would sure help me, a guy who dislikes trying to distinguish between a lighter and less lighter shade of green.
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