Thread 12109906

What is it about these places that makes us long for them?

>>12109906 (OP)
Inaccessibility

>>12109906 (OP)
It has to be the repeating square of water texture. It is uniform and predictable.

One of the few times SADX looks better than the DC version, almost Sonic CD esque

>>12109906 (OP)
Bump

>>12109906 (OP)
Beautiful sunny day. Deep blue water reflecting clear blue sky, sunlight making beautiful glittering patters on the water's surface. Bright yellow sand near you, magical clearly seen as in some liquid crystal underwater world, through intricate play if light and shadows made both lighthearted, interesting, unusual and relaxing to eyes to look upon. Real or imaginary marimbas and ukuleles playing making place the ideal one for experiencing the joy of sunlight, carelessness, delicate balance between calm relaxing observation of beauties of the place and active games full of fun and energy.
The place, where joy, purity, nature and light form the entire world in unobtrusive manner, where you are free and only you, this place, encompassing the entire world of earth, water, wind and fire in soft, kind and relaxing way, joy, harmony and freedom exist.

>>12109906 (OP)
it's the same reason video game snow can look so picturesque and perfect
Knowing what a perfectly appealing beach, or snowfall, or autumnal forest looks like, we can create our simulacra without all the inconvenient and uncontrollable detractors reality might impose on them
The beach might be full of niggers and trash, the snow will be cold, windy and probably lit by your neighbors tacky holiday lawn decorations, forests in autumn might have mosquitos spiders or homeless encampments
but the point of Hyperreality is to take those parts out, to show us the beauty in reality better than reality itself does

>>12109906 (OP)
beside the fact that they look pretty and inviting, there my be some personal bias. I personally have associated beach with fun and joy since it was what beach time was like for me as a kid. Nothing but fond memories of it.

>>12109906 (OP)
Beaches don't need a lot of polygons/objects like say a forest, so they work pretty well in retro 3D environments. They also benefit from high saturation, something modern games are allergic to.

>>12110408
Good post

>>12110317
But I don't like that in real life, I like forests and mountains.
Video game beaches have a completely different appeal from actual nature.

>>12110408
Shallow interpretation. Video game forests always look awful, oversimplified and underwhelming compared to the real thing, whereas beaches look better in a completely different way.

>>12110408
Cool idea but irl forests mog even the best video game forests

>>12109906 (OP)
yearning for those hopeful and carefree days. not only the imagery itself is beautiful and serene, it hearkens back to those good days, where tropical beaches showed up in games. It makes you long for it in both the literal and metaphysical sense.

I'm beginning to think zoomers fetishize that aesthetic (which dates since the 80s in vidya, but for some reason they think it's a 6th gen thing) because they don't go outside

>>12111342
>I'm beginning to think
And the world's all the worse for it.

>>12111331
>muh nostalgia
Another shit analysis

>>12109906 (OP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wVH1JWdNY

>>12111456
it's not deeper than that, shitnigger. there's nothing special about a beach other than nostalgia.

>>12109906 (OP)
>hurr durr why is something as universally appealing as beaches also appealing in videogames???

>>12112035
Retard

>>12111407
kek

bump

sonic games are trash for furry pedo garbage

>>12112035
/thread

>>12110317
>>12110408
>>12110482
>>12110663
>>12111331
Great answers

>>12111342
Sure they do they just don't live on/near a beach, and if they do they probably post on /xs/ instead

>>12111793
soul

>>12113190
I want to live there...

>>12114963
Love that one.

>>12116284
shut up

Planet Undertow - Home.

>>12118329
Rude

>>12111342
Nah. The tropical beach aesthetic was arguably most "fetishized" back during the 80s and 90s, which is why it's so prevalent in games to begin with. For generations, going on vacation meant "going somewhere tropical", and was inexorably linked with concepts of wealth, comfort, relaxation, and decadence. Any time you asked a kid in the 80s or 90s where they wanted to go for vacation, the answer was always generic tourist beach destinations like Bermuda/Hawaii/Cancun, etc. Everyone's favorite sitcoms almost ALWAYS had an episode where the family went on vacation to some polynesian tourism mecca. Fetishizing tropical beaches is just a long standing tradition in American culture that's only died off as of late because our culture is dying off entirely.
>I'm beginning to think
Don't quit your day job.

>>12118842
you faggot, what game is that from?

>>12119996
Ristar

>>12109906 (OP)
Check out T&C Surf Designs

Really pretty strong colors.

I liek beaches

>>12121928
I wanna go back

>>12121928
Unironically this shade of blue no longer exists in most parts of the world.
Even if you can ignore that, in the back of your mind you know that the oceans, air, food, water and every single one of your organs are full of microplastics.
It's genuinely impossible to experience this kind of environment in the real world anymore.

>>12122762
based "the sky used to be more blue" autist. life unironically used to look just like it did in old polaroids, too. something happened around 2007 that sucked the soul out of the world.

>>12122762
Meds

>>12122781
Look it up, you have microplastics in your balls and brain.

>>12122779
The atmospheric ratio of gases has shifted slightly in the past 20 years, which affects the color of the sky.
The sky is simply less blue in most parts of the world now compared to 1990

>>12122809
>>12122812
Meds

>>12122830
If only you know how bad things truly are.
I was I was as ignorant to the state of this world as you are. I would maybe enjoy vidya more.
By the way, this is the reason I stopped collecting games, and have been slowly selling my retro carts. Fuck having all this ancient plastic off-gassing in my own home.
Built a mister and haven't looked back.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11342020/

>>12123048
I wish I was*
Kek the microplastics are in my brain for sure

>>12123058
yowa doreemu camu turu