/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7824510
My guess is because most people got conditioned by vidya into a color-coded thinking pattern that goes pretty much like this:
-red=health -blue=mana -green=armor -yellow=ammo
This way the pickup itself can be shaped whatever as long as its mostly in bright red color (optionally with a white background) and one could still make the connection that its a healing item subconciously - for some reason changing the colors while keeping the cross shape itself feels harder for some folks to make the same connection as quickly/naturaly as they did before (anyone complaining about the blue star of life being a shitty replacement for red cross icon is an example of this behaviour)