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Author: Huo

Jun 17th 2012 at 4:53:25 PM

No, being a rare example of a trope makes something rare. I think you might be confused because your original statement said "hard to tell", not "bad". Mind you it's not actually that hard to tell in the actual game. There have been tons of comments for that game yet you'd have to search entire threads just to see someone saying that is hard to tell. Of course if you don't know the game, it is hard to tell but that is still a rare text example.

I think you might also be confused by the picture. It's not there to illustrate the trope as a whole. It's there to illustrate how a rare text example portrays the trope.

Who goes next in turn relates to death. If you know which dead character turns are being made irrelevant, you'd have a better idea if you're optimizing your attacks to benefit the turn order. Does this really need clarifying? There's even an X in the portrait. Death scenes are famous for their red hue to signify bloodied characters.

Not to mention the text is not small at all. The picture is showing the entire battlefield. That's like complaining the example image with the stack portraits shows only the face.

Not to mention that is no more a better picture than the text example. It is saved by the caption below it but both pictures would be unknown to people if they didn't know it was a page on turn order stacks.

It's also worth noting that the text example takes up much less space which is a feature. Even in the sequel where the portraits are shown but take much less screen space than the above pic, it's still much harder to spot a face than a name.

Remember unlike portraits, all a user needs is to get a shape of an R to recognize the turn in the text example. The portrait may be larger but unless each face is distinct, even two obviously different blonde portraits require a second to register.

Still, even if it's hard to tell "to a person ignorant of the game", the point stands that being a text example - the reader is supposed to get an idea from the definitions and the other examples. The text example is just there to show how a text version can be done.