Thread 723373031

Remember when games just had cool shit in the distance that you can't actually reach or get any explanation?

>>723373031 (OP)
Do you? If you did, you'd post an example.

>>723373031 (OP)
Big scaled up skeleton is the laziest mysterious past thing you can put into a fantasy game
Nobody ever thinks about making the anatomy work or the materal and scale for their equipment make sense

>>723373031 (OP)
AI slop

>>723373031 (OP)
because now they will make a 2 hours video essay about the weird thing in the background

yall niggas are gay

>>723373546
Not op but here are some examples from mhgu

>>723373031 (OP)
>that you can't actually reach
Bad

>>723376969
I agree with chad here.

>>723376969
>>723378343
>WAIT SUSAN! you cant add that, its superfluous! Players might use their imagination to come up with why it exists
>oh em gee Wilma you are so right!
good job ladies, you saved gaming.

>>723378496
Upboated

>>723377949
Have you never heard of a skybox?

>>723381425
Good job explaining what it is.
I stil want games to actually have something out there in the distance to wander about.

>>723381518
Essentially, skyboxes let devs "cheat" because they could directly insert art into a game. Whereas if something was part of the game world, it would have to be modeled, etc. You don't really see it anymore because open world has become the norm, so everything can be reached, and processing power has caught up so any cool stuff can be inserted into the game proper and interacted with. The disconnect you're having is because these far-off objects implied scale, but now we have this scale as minus limitations like view distance or poor LoD rendering

>>723374640
>Nobody ever thinks about making the anatomy work or the materal and scale for their equipment make sense
They're normal sized skeletons, you're just very small.
Problem solved.

>>723373546
>Guild wars 1, the floating castle

Not really exactly what you mean but I loved all the sovlful moments in paper Mario and paper Mario TTYD where you could actually warp pipe to the 2D backdrop and enter some house/building or do some parkour for something

You can technically reach here, but not in this map.

>>723373546
>>>/wsr/

I'd gladly trade in modern graphical fidelity for the wonder and sense of scale to come back.

>>723377949
Nigga only the second image has anything for you "wonder" about

You know what's cooler than weird shit that you can only look at?

Weird shit that you can interact with. The best way to do it is to have it be something inaccessible only for you to interact with it in a sequel

>>723373031 (OP)
Yeah Cod did that last year and turns out it's the final map all along

>>723373031 (OP)
>Remember when games just had cool shit in the distance that you can't actually reach or get any explanation?
The "see that mountain? you can climb it" meme removed all sense of mystery and wonder from games.

>>723384064
Game?

You can see those two peaks from far away but there's fucking nothing there

>>723373031 (OP)
Expedition 33 kind of has that.

>>723373031 (OP)
holy fuck I just remembered this in WoW

mfers longing for skyboxes now

>>723390709
Yeah, WoW used to be like that, now you get diagrams that explain every little aspect so the only thing people speculate is what npc is faggot and with who.

>>723389371
Sonic Adventure.

>>723391843
Thanks

Tainted Grail does with the giant mountain-sized swords visible on every map and finally you can walk on them at the last area

>>723376969
>Left
Elder Scrolls lore in reality
>Right
Elder Scrolls "lore" according to Michael Kirkbride, ESO and Reddit

>>723389563
game? is this witcher

>>723389563
I think there's an easter egg from the devs there
>>723394578
yeah, the blood and wine expansion

>>723373031 (OP)
yeah, it sucked as bad as Pong
>first Pong game broke down the first day it was demoed because players jammed the coin slot with quarters
>tried playing it on an emulator, lasted 5 seconds before I was too bored to go on
fuck the rose colored glasses, I play better games now

>either have unreachable landmarks forever
>or infinite ocean because "why bother"
I like when stuff gets added over time, like in MMOs or gacha.
Alternatively in sequels.

Also, for all its flaws, DD2 had a good thing going with "see that location?"

>>723373031 (OP)
Yes. And then we left the original xbox era and developed open worlds. No more excuses to be lazy, devs.

>>723394458
The developer is hinting at things that are clearly outside of the game's scope, and yet you want to linger on them and derail the game just because it would be realistically possible in real life. If you paid attention and read the room then you wouldn't want to go there in the first place, sperg.

>>723377949
>can't reach the fucking moon
No shit

>>723373031 (OP)
No, and I've played all the games. That's a fake image and you live in lala land.

>>723373031 (OP)
You mean like that giant skull in Dark Souls?

>>723373031 (OP)
Yup.
Unpopular opinion but Fromsoft's older games fill me with a bigger sense of wonder than ER.

>dumbass kid me always wondered what's out there beyond the horizon in Lego Island
>learn about Ogel island
blew my fucking mind

We need a BotNS game.

>>723378013
MH graphics peaked here.

soon

>>723399178
FF4 enters the chat

>reading lore
>looking off into this distance
for some reason this had me immensely immersed

I feel like the N64 era was the best at this. They knew their resources were super limited so they made up for it by tossing in a 3D model there or an unusual skybox there and little gamers ran with it

TALE AS OLD AS TIME

>>723373031 (OP)
So like..an skybox? Those still exist

>>723403034
tendies are so dumb

Abiotic Factor had some of this, especially before each sector was added, but also at the cocktease of an ending.

I love beautiful skyboxes, it feels like a lost art. I think dynamic time cycles and lighting kinda did away with that.

>>723403345
nah, totally different vibes

sliding a 3D model across a prerendered background lacks verisimilitude, which is required to get the "stuff in the distance" feeling

LotRO altered their terrain generation code and accidentally created an enormous boulder in the middle of a road. Most people discovered it because it fucked with fast travel and horses couldn't path around it

For awhile it was this extremely bizarre and unexplainable thing, but was juuuuust intentional enough that people wondered if it part of some secret. Despite being so big people eventually found a long way to jump / clip / climb it, lending more credence to the idea that there was *something* there that people couldn't quite figure out

This was only a few years ago but it felt so much like something you'd see in the late 90s or early 00s

>>723403784
Next you're gonna say, "it's okay when Zelda does it"

>>723404448
no Zelda has ever had 3D models sliding across a static, prerendered background. I think most devs realize how stupid it looks.

I don't know how it become a virtue in games to be able to reach anything, or interact with anything. One of the most enjoyable parts of games, and maybe all art, is the feeling of depth, of seeing things in the distance. Not being able to go there is what increased the feeling of wonder.

>>723404621
>no Zelda has ever had 3D models sliding across a static, prerendered background.
Uhhhh... tendiebro? Are you okay?

>>723404385
I wish GMs would fuck more often with players/the world

>>723373546
Dark Souls

>>723405839
for me it's demons souls

>>723402724
W1 was a super kino game and anybody shitting on it is a shitter

That huge commie block / kowloon walled city at the top of the map in Rain World.

>>723376969
Agree with the left one.
Mysteries can contribute so much to the atmosphere of the game world, always sparking your imagination and making you think "what else is out there"?

every boomer once dreamed of exploring these mountains. and now that they let you do it, we realize we didn't want it

I remember there being a giant skeleton draped along a mountain in Borderlands 1 but I can't seem to find an image of it
but yeah as a whole giant environmental skeletons are a staple that send kid me spiraling like >>723376969 's post.

I loved this shit in Guild Wars