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Everyone have sunglasses 'cause designers weren't able to design proper eyes.
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Weirdest Graphical Compromises
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Human revolution had mirrors that didn't do real time reflections. They had this wierd faux reflective surface on them. In Mankind Divided I'm pretty sure the mirrors took a step back even further and no light or anything came off them. Pretty strange considering MD is a gen latter.
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Yeah, I think too many people latched onto this as a means of making fun of Xbox One's power deficit compared to PlayStation 4. Not everything needs to be modeled in 3D. In either case, I still think this is a cool little touch, and it kind of makes me wonder who some of these people are. Friends and/or family of the devs? Maybe even the devs themselves?
I'm guessing what you're describing are cubemaps. Super inexpensive solution for psuedo-reflectivity, but can't do anything real-time.
Black Ops 3 using a car model from Black Ops 2 instead of the tank from Black Ops 3 current gen, really weird.
The crowds in Forza Motorsport 5. Two questions come to mind regarding them:
1) Did the developers not think people would notice these cardboard cutouts of onlookers?
2) Why am I the first person to mention this?
Edit: Sorry, I thought you are saying that nobody talked about this in general, not about the thread subject
They're most definitely stock photo models. They just have that unsettling, clinically nondescript look to them.
One of them is Forza director Dan Greenawalt so it atleast seems to be a mixture of devs/stock photos.
I remember this was a problem with the DmC: Definitive Edition, and when people reported it to the devs they just enabled it in the next patch without any performance decrease.
also that thing where Jensen had previously already destroyed the mirror in his apartment, as it would be the mirror that you encounter the most often.
Just say Horizon. Why the generalization? Uncharted 4, TLL, God of War and Detroit have impressive looking water.
And what's so weird about compromising the water quality in Horizon?
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I'm sure that it varies from game to game. If there was no significant performance increase in all cases, then I can't see why 16x anisotropic filtering wouldn't simply be implemented on a system level.
Watch Dogs using an intersection maps for windows. Climbing up somewhere random and seeing a street in the window was random. Especially when different windows next to each other showed different streets.
This is badass, and I agree... I'd love to see demakes like these, there's something very special about them. Especially when you can manage to maintain the gameplay (and almost even the framerate) of the original!The system used sprites for most other games but I guess this was the best way to make Space Harrier work - in some ways it's actually one of the closest versions to the arcade. I actually really dig the look of it and would love to see some modern games "demade" for the MZ-700 in this "text" mode.
This "swoosh" to the left is a treat :)
And I love that the title screen was pretty much kept totally intact too, just hyper low-res
Holy shit lol
Man Odyssey's low res reflections aren't even the worst mirror implementation in this thread, let alone the industry.
I'm talking strictly for Nintendo games. They always skimp out on reflections.
That's just bad/inaccurate cubemap placement.
Games fake reflections using cubemaps all the time, but the good implementations try to make sure that the cubemap atleast somewhat resembles whatever's in front of the reflective surface. This is more of an oversight/resource issue. Sometimes they might not have appropriate cubemaps so just use something random. It doesn't really have an effect on performance.
This is a bit of the opposite of a compromise, but Enter the Gungeon, similar to a link between worlds, is rendered in 3D and shown at a very secific angle so as it appears to be a 2D game...that is a crazy amount of effort for something to "look" 2D. I always wondered why they did it this way instead of just...you know...making the game in 2D in the first place.
For all the lighting effects, it makes sense. I'm surprised they managed to make it look so convincing. The way the camera scrolls makes everything look like it's rendered on a proper pixel grid, unlike, say, Shovel Knight where sprites move smoothly across the screen.This is a bit of the opposite of a compromise, but Enter the Gungeon, similar to a link between worlds, is rendered in 3D and shown at a very secific angle so as it appears to be a 2D game...that is a crazy amount of effort for something to "look" 2D. I always wondered why they did it this way instead of just...you know...making the game in 2D in the first place.
watThis is a bit of the opposite of a compromise, but Enter the Gungeon, similar to a link between worlds, is rendered in 3D and shown at a very secific angle so as it appears to be a 2D game...that is a crazy amount of effort for something to "look" 2D. I always wondered why they did it this way instead of just...you know...making the game in 2D in the first place.
That Enter the Gungeon one reminds me of this. The literal opposite. Super Mario Maker's NSMB mode is actually pre-rendered 2D but uses normal mapping to fake 3D lighting.
Yeah I actually can't stand when games look pixel but don't stick to the grid...they end up looking like flash animation games. Death Road to Canada is one that has a great art direction, but because its "fake" pixel art, I just can't get into it.
Gungeon straight up animates 100% as if it were entirely on a pixel grid....and as you can tell from my avatar, its a game I love the heck out of, as a game dev myself, it just impresses with how many things it get right.
It would be cool if they released DLC that allows you to play the game in semi 3D...it would feel like a remake, even though it is just a slightly different view.
This is a bit of the opposite of a compromise, but Enter the Gungeon, similar to a link between worlds, is rendered in 3D and shown at a very secific angle so as it appears to be a 2D game...that is a crazy amount of effort for something to "look" 2D. I always wondered why they did it this way instead of just...you know...making the game in 2D in the first place.
I really liked this setup because you still had a full screen view essentially. No problems with a strangely limited FoV.
Anyone remember this marvelous splitscreen mode?
Zelda BOTW reflections look great, especially for a handheld.
Impressive that they got some dynamic real-time reflections on mobile tech.
This is a bit of the opposite of a compromise, but Enter the Gungeon, similar to a link between worlds, is rendered in 3D and shown at a very secific angle so as it appears to be a 2D game...that is a crazy amount of effort for something to "look" 2D. I always wondered why they did it this way instead of just...you know...making the game in 2D in the first place.
Unity hobby dev here, this was most likely done for easier depth/height coding (dodge-rolling makes you lower than bullets fly) and possibly for making the pixel graphics align better with the camera.