Thread 724717552

Games with a "Mirror's Edge" like atmosphere?

mirror's edge (2008)

>>724717552 (OP)
Jet Set Radio, kind of?

>>724717552 (OP)
There aren't any

>>724717552 (OP)
Onirism

The Finals.

>>724717552 (OP)
Super Hot.

>>724717552 (OP)
Marathon

neon white, marathon

>>724721153
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nplefywEFI

>>724717552 (OP)
I need to replay it right now

>>724722546
wtf is this retarded shit

>>724723374
Elite schizoness

>>724718560
thank goodness this wasn't the aislopified version where she takes her clothes off.

>>724723691
Someone post it

I'm gonna do it bros. I'm going to play ME. Should I play ME:C afterwards?

>>724717552 (OP)
Mirrors edge always felt like a valve game to me

>>724725190
my second favorite game of all time is ME: C, but I'm in the minority.

>>724723474
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nplefywEFI

>>724724413
https://files.catbox.moe/rx0fwa.webm

>>724726964
hot

>>724718653
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5yc4WgS7i0

>>724717552 (OP)
The best thing about it's design is that it was clean and readable. Which is literally fucking IMPOSSIBLE on modern game engines apparently.

>>724717970
No, it has a cartoonish art style

>>724717552 (OP)
>I have changed
>I have changed
>Just like you
>Just like you

>>724729204
Yeah all they had to do was not put a lot of shit in there. More modern means more useless clutter. The opening cinematic was kino. Need to take a break to soak in the first few missions.

>>724717552 (OP)
Half-Life 2 always reminds me of it for some reason, especially when you're running away from a helicopter

>>724729204
Execs think detail means better so we need more detail. Thankfully UE5 is there to support them on this quest for universal photorealism and minimalist modern UI.

>>724731789
It's not just that, modern graphics are ridiculously blurry and suffer from terrible """HDR""" effects where the shadows are too dark to see shit and the highlights are too bright to see shit. All that cinematic postprocessing shit was made to ruin the readability of 3D graphics in video games.

x

>>724731976
Yeah, TAA makes things blurry. DE HR to MD for example, first one had old school AA then MD had TAA. But part of the reason TAA was necessary because of the amount of clutter worsened the problem with older AA techniques. HDR is also ass but sometimes it's on purpose in Metro/Stalker games where shadows are meant to be deadly.

>>724725719
Based

>>724734832
>DE HR to MD for example, first one had old school AA then MD had TAA.
MD also had MSAA, the problem was that MSAA was absolutely useless in MD due to a plethora of reasons.

>>724717552 (OP)
The Finals

>>724717552 (OP)

Mass Effect 2

>>724717552 (OP)
Switch 2 welcome tour

>>724717552 (OP)
I got a similar vibe from neon white. It's more abstract but it has the same visual style of using few colors in its architecture. And it's also a game about running same as mirror's edge.

>>724717552 (OP)
Echo Point Nova

>>724738703
>soulless furry game
Bleh

>>724717552 (OP)
Mirror's Edge itself. There's no other option, the game is in a category of itself. Nothing else even comes close, it's unique and stranded in its time. The feel cannot be replicated. Just feel this feel by, you guessed it, playing Mirror's Edge once more!
THREAD THEME https://youtu.be/SzmUde_EK5Y?si=4NvthwbY9_zE1DrS

I did replay Mirror's Edge because I wanted to see if it holds up and it really does.
The crazy thing is that the aesthetic is not even hard to do on a mechanical level,
but clearly there is something to it.

>>724741646
>Not the AMV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUXyoyuJZ8Y

>>724737087
>it had other AA
>but you had to use TAA if you actually wanted functional anti-aliasing
Yeah... Just wish we could have old-school pre-baked lighting with supersampling by rendering 4k down to 1440p or something to that effect.

>>724725719
I remember not actually disliking ME:C other than city traversal limiting you to a few points when going between regions/islands. Did it have some mechanic where you needed to do side missions/challenges to actually progress story? Because I think the story itself was actually similar to ME1 with mostly set pieces but it's been so long. Also was there some kind of grappling hook?

>>724744106
My bad G :(

>>724744812
>>724744106
>>724741646
>gaming used to be so SOVL game studios would literally have their own music recording companies banking on their IPs becoming big
>it was peak gaming and the sequel narrowly missed the mark due to a few wrong decisions
Bros... I can't.

>>724717552 (OP)
Skate 3

The “fight the power dog” shit in this game was so hilariously fucking cringe

Controls were dog shit. Quit after an hour or two, got mad trying to do basic fights. Skip, though I wanted to see how great it was to have “the power” be gone and be rich like every democrat dreams

>724746712
>got mad
>trying to do basic fights
>in a game that's about running and running away
>some politics BS
Yes bro, I too want to keep this thread bumped

>>724725190
It's OK but not as good as mirrors edge 1

>>724717615
OP will never recover.

>>724746712
>Controls were dog shit
>got mad trying to do basic fights
unironically a you problem

>>724747612
NTA but it's a pretty common take that the combat in the game was dogshit. The go-to defense is always that you're meant to run not fight but then these people haven't played their own game because the game has segments where you had to fight to progress (as demonstrated by how even speedrunners couldn't figure out how to skip them).

>>724747950
I'm literally playing this game right now and it's fine.

>>724748894
Ok nevermind, I got to the ending. You start off getting shot at point blank by CPF and you latch onto the helicopter. You end up jumping back onto the building that CPF was shooting you from. They just dissapear and ending plays as if you wouldn't get arrested 5 seconds later. Unplayable dogshit game. You're right.

>>724729204
ya ok man turn off runner vision and see how often you try to grab something only to realize its not a grab-able surface.

>>724749993
>i played the game wanting to hate it and be mad
>i hated it and i got mad
>this means the game is bad

it means you are mentally ill and an anon tulpa in your head decides how you feel about everything.

>>724750112
>turn off game feature
>yeah now see how featureful the game is

>>724750203
I enjoyed the game. It was ludokino as fuck. I just made a sarcastic post, anon. Stop being so mad. You clearly should have seen the aura.

>>724750279
>turn off game feature
>yeah now see how featureful the game is

you typed this out despite the fact you have made fun of le yellow paint on ledges in newer games.

>>724717774
as someone who played brink at launch it really was a shit game. dirty bomb was much better (besides the awful character chatter)

>>724750550
>mirror's edge
>a fast paced parkour sim
>need runner's vision to know what to latch onto
versus
>YOU NEED TO GO HERE TO THIS LEDGE
> HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY FIGURE OUT YOU NEED TO GO HIGHER TO GET HIGHER
Retard. Stop posting.

>>724750203
Most people play games wanting to like it anon. Or else why did they bother playing it?

booomp

>>724741646
Based

I'm going to start up my bi-yearly playthrough

>>724731831
ME came out at peak Garrysmod culture so you got a lot of maps inspired by it. Either thru the parkour mechanics or just creating places that felt lived in.

>>724717552 (OP)
The clean environments and crawling around back rooms feels a lot like portal.

why cant they make non-insufferable female protagonists like Faith anymore?

>>724729204
Even funnier is the fact that the game used Unreal Engine 3. If you compare it to other UE3 games from that era...it looks miles better.

>>724717552 (OP)
The Finals, especially the Seoul and the SYS$HORIZON map
(picrel is the monaco map, I'm too lazy to get a pic for the others fuck u)

>>724725296
It almost feels like they got inspired by that one beginning level in H2 where Gordon was running across rooftops across City 17 while being fired at by the combine

>>724717552 (OP)
Why are there no other games with parkour like ME? Its sense of flow is amazing

Bros...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzRm-zQIVXM

>>724717552 (OP)
marathon if you can stomach the embarrassing decal spam vomit

>>724747950
>speedrunners couldn't figure out how to skip them
incorrect and gay. every combat encounter in this game is either scripted cutscene or optional. No exceptions. Speedrunners tend to take some fights because in certain cases, it's faster to go through enemies than around them.

>>724717552 (OP)
Half-Life 2 and Portal. They have a similar eerieness to them

>>724718630
visually i would agree
but the goofy commentary and sfx shift the atmosphere away from something like mirrors edge

Anyone prefer the city in mirror edge 1 than the city in 2?

Never was a fan of the change of being in a modern city to a sleek ultra futuristic city

>>724770593
Yes 1 is better but sadly there's no free roam like in MEC.

>>724717552 (OP)
That's the neat part. There aren't any.

>>724770593
Is Catalyst even in the same timeline as the first one?

>>724717552 (OP)
There's something about the city in ME that reminds me of my dreams. The quiet, clean environments and the bright, sunny skies is something that resonates with me like nothing else.

>>724773810
No, it's basically a reboot

>>724770593
Well, yeah, the first city actually looked like a city. I've posted about this a lot, the city in Catalyst literally looks like someone's idea of what a futuristic city looks like, but without actually being a city. The architecture of the open world is so fucking retarded, not to mention the city looks and feels like there's no people in it, whereas the city in the first game had no regular people, yet you could still feel and hear the sound of background life.

I'm still confused to this day why the people at DICE thought they should have people completely unrelated to the first game's development make Catalyst.

Synthetik

>>724717552 (OP)
Remember Me

>>724775090
The game had in-built film-grain. You had to fucking use a texture editor to get that shit out, no option in the game's graphic options.

>>724762801
>proto yellow paint but red
>you can actually turn it off
>something that simple is literally impossible to implement in the current year

Motorslice is in development but it looks promising.
The writing and marketing is a bit cringe but the demo was decent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gytRK8SJMM

>>724774875
You can't even go down to the ground level in ME:C. It shows a profound misunderstanding of what the first game was about. Half the missions had you going down to the docks and sparring on the ground. You end up running through train tracks from the ground, or going down to the metro.

>>724780521
The only ground level Catalyst had was the very beginning, when Faith is getting out of prison.

I'll admit, some of the set pieces, i.e. the mission levels, really looked nice and the music that Solar Fields made is still great, but the first one is way better.

>>724780521
not like it matters since elevators are your primary means of accessing the rooftops.

>>724780678
It's a small detail but it just turns it into a meme.
>runners don't go on the ground!
They jolly well do, they're normal humans, not fucking pidgeons.

i'm surprised more games don't do baked GI like mirrors edge. dynamic lighting seems to have ruined the prospect for it in the form of raytracing and other methods that allow light to be influenced by moving objects, so i guess it has to do with the need for things to interact with the lighting and the surroundings rather than have really polished environmental visuals.

>>724781365
Basically we used to have game devs. Now we have Dev Patels and it's just not the same and never will be.

>>724777479
Mirror's Edge made the red look perfectly fine for the most part, I think. Probably because the levels were built specifically for parkouring to begin with, and they generally applied the red to things that it made sense for. A red door or a red crane isn't that weird to see, unlike yellow paint on random parts of a cliffside.

>>724763530
Cool but too short

>>724725296
If Valve made style over substance games, sure. Mirror's Edge threads are just discussions about the vibes and aesthetic, because the unremarkable gameplay was just there as an excuse to show those off.

>>724786508
>there's no gameplay in my game
Having a laff.

Portal I guess

>>724717552 (OP)
>america 1 seconds after colored folx zero summed

>>724780521
>You can't even go down to the ground level in ME:C
Yes you can though?

>>724765106
>because in certain cases, it's faster to go through enemies than around them.
They're stopping to take out the enemies in an area before moving on, because moving on required climbing which would be impossible with the guards shooting at you, hence why taking them out was forced. Granted some of those sections have become skippable by speedrunners knowing more advanced tech but then you're still expecting the typical first time player who isn't going to know the layout well enough to know how to skip the fight to instead fight them.

>>724786508
>one of the first parkour game ever had no gameplay
do you retards even think before saying something?

>>724718560
awful skin texture/shader

>>724729204
>it's design
>it is design

>>724750112
I have never played with runner vision
Holy shit what a faggot you'd have to be to play with vison assist mode, clone yourself and ask him to kill you cuz the current iteration is a failure

>>724770593
Nah, mirror's edge 1 mogged mirror's edge catalyst in terms of aesthetics and it's not even close

>>724776247
what a retarded thing to have an issue with

>>724780625
The freerunning is just as good if not better than the first game thanks to the expanded moveset. The problem is that in pretty much every story level you'll have at least one forced combat section where you're locked in a room with some goons and can't progress until beating each one. I actually liked the combat in the first game (aside from the forced shooter section in the last level) because it was kinetic, you could take a few enemies down on your way and run past the rest or just disarm one of them and dispatch them all quickly which felt natural for Faith. The second game just makes you perform the same 3 hit combo over and over against 3 or 4 faceless guys with batons until the door behind them opens.

>>724717552 (OP)
You may not like this answer but Wipeout HD (Wipeout Omega Collection)

>>724731749
We're never getting the DLC levels on PC

>>724794118
>t.

>>724729204
>>724741646
2007, 2008 and 2009 were the best years in video game history.

>>724750112
The only time I turned it on was while climbing the elevator shaft, the rest of the game is pretty straightforward