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Insane little details in video games
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The first time I fired a standard arrow through a fire which caught fire on the way to an explosive barrel which then exploded and took out three enemies I knew BotW was something truly special. The physics of the World are just incredible and put most modern AAA games running on hardware 10x more powerful to shame.
Conker's Bad Fur Day: When Conker is idling, he'll perform a bunch of animations such as playing Killer Instinct on his Game Boy, reading beaver-themed girly mags, bouncing a yoyo, and drinking from a can with a straw. When Conker has finished drinking, he crushes the can and tosses it aside. The can splashes if it happens to hit water. Conker has special animations when an enemy is close enough to grab him. His movement becomes frantic, and he makes incoherent noises as he runs. Also, when you walk into a wall, Conker will stop and place his hands against the wall. At the time, and even years later, many games will let you keep running into a wall, and this is a pretty basic animation failure.
Perfect Dark: Escalators affect anything on them. This includes NPCs and dropped objects. However, NPCs can still run up and down moving escalators without any issue. If they die on the escalator, their body is carried up/down. If they drop their weapon on the escalator, the same. Perfect Dark is full of details that could go on for pages and pages. But the fact the escalators work the way they're supposed to is sublime.
Homefront: The Revolution has many nifty little touches, but the raindrop effect is the niftiest of all. Instead of surfaces just magically becoming wet, they transition from dry to wet in a relatively realistic manner.
Perfect Dark: Escalators affect anything on them. This includes NPCs and dropped objects. However, NPCs can still run up and down moving escalators without any issue. If they die on the escalator, their body is carried up/down. If they drop their weapon on the escalator, the same. Perfect Dark is full of details that could go on for pages and pages. But the fact the escalators work the way they're supposed to is sublime.
Homefront: The Revolution has many nifty little touches, but the raindrop effect is the niftiest of all. Instead of surfaces just magically becoming wet, they transition from dry to wet in a relatively realistic manner.
Not really on topic but this video from this play list was cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSehhpW6stE
It's fun to basically hear the story progress only through the announcements.
F4 PC Version. New built things throw accurate shadows. Discovered it yesterday and was impressed af.
Details in the Yakuza cutscenes. You can see characters pores, the stitching on their suits, etc.
Video @13:40
Video @13:40
There is a smiley on the grenade of the flak cannon in Unreal Tournament 99. Only the one being shot at can see it though.
I've posted this before but I don't think that many pepole noticed it during the game.
The stuff you can do in this game is insane. O_o Already finished the game when it came out on the Switch, but I really want to go back to this game, but just don't have the time, while there are so many others game I have to play.....
Surprised no one mentioned that in Horizon zero Dawn if you look closely at some of the trees you can see ants carrying leaves moving up and down the trunk. Always thought that was a nice little detail.
Realizing I could (very slowly) melt ice roadblocks in Breath of the Wild while holding a fire sword was one of my favorite moments.
The insect behavior and detail in Horizon Zero Dawn, among other things:
https://youtu.be/I08VJj6sHtc
https://youtu.be/I08VJj6sHtc
Out of all of the crazy ass details throughout the MGS games, my favorite will always be being able to provoke Meryl into calling a Wolf over to piss on you in the caves in MGS1. If you hide in the box before they do the deed, you get a cardboard box that smells like wolf piss. If you use said box in the area, the wolves leave you alone because the box smells of wolves.
Like, who would have even thought to try that?
Like, who would have even thought to try that?
Bayonetta's use of the Enochian language as well as all the tiny interactions between different weapons and enemy types is incredibly detailed to an obsessive degree.
Please give some specific examples, otherwise this post is just sort of maddening since I love Bayonetta and the game was such an obvious labor of love.
This reminds me, Lollipop Chainsaw does this thing that if you adjust the canera to look under Juliet's skirt, the game will call you out by unlocking an achievement, making your action public. It's kind of brilliant.
Perhaps slightly off topic, but I was intrigued by the Xbox One X update for Halo 5 because it revealed details that weren't noticeable on the standard version, including some text on the battery percentage on the assault rifle's screen. It's neat because it was there for years but the technical limitations didn't allow us to see it.
To be more on topic, besides what has already been mentioned, I always enjoyed Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy in regards to calculating what players can or can't do. There's a lot of branching and even "fake" finales, like drinking after taking medicines kills you. Perhaps not as mindblowing as the ice cubes in MGS2 or stuff in BOTW but I like scenarios like this where developers thought of every option you could do and acted accordingly.
To be more on topic, besides what has already been mentioned, I always enjoyed Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy in regards to calculating what players can or can't do. There's a lot of branching and even "fake" finales, like drinking after taking medicines kills you. Perhaps not as mindblowing as the ice cubes in MGS2 or stuff in BOTW but I like scenarios like this where developers thought of every option you could do and acted accordingly.
I loved the ones in BOTW and the MGS (one I loved in V was the way the camera "adjusts" to light settings, making light sources unbearable if you've been in the dark too long) series, but the game that kinda blindsided me was Overwatch. Some of the neat ones are the fact that each physics object is correctly weighted (chairs can be tilted, but won't fall over unless they cross their balance threshold), and the fact that Baewatch McCree's flip flops, a unique set of footwear in across the skins, actually flip flop in-game, as opposed to just sticking to his feet.
The animations are the best part of course, and most of the coolest stuff is in this video:
Some of my favorites:
The animations are the best part of course, and most of the coolest stuff is in this video:
Some of my favorites:
- If you jump as Orisa and look down, you can see her adorable robo-centaur legs kick up
- To convey McCree's excellent marksmanship, he leads his shot whenever tracking his gun
- Zenyatta doesn't breath.
- Lucio's gun's light display is synced to his music, and changes size according to your volume setting
- The eyes in the orbs of Zenyatta's Cthulu skin twitch and flicker like real eyes
Saiyoris Hands are bloody/hurt. Indicating - although she hung herself - it didn't quite work like it was supposed to. So she war hurting her hands while trying to loose the rope around her neck as the survival instinct kicked in. It is an insane little detail I guess.
Oh god. That makes it even worse.
Also, Yuri's blood dries and her eyes change color when you spend the weekend next to her.
That's more than a collection. That's more like a novella. So many tiny things most people would never see
You can see the reflection of the environment in Aloy's eyes in Horizon Zero Dawn (yes, it's in game, I used the Photo Mode to zoom in).
That looks bonkers. That games visuals are truly outstanding!
There is a smiley on the grenade of the flak cannon in Unreal Tournament 99. Only the one being shot at can see it though.
I love to see those details so many years later, haven't seen it before.
I was not very interested in the game but now I am. Only the destroyable equipment worries me in that game, I hate that feature...
In Persona 5 if you raise your proficiency to max Ren will start spinning his pen or phone while doing study events.
This game has some really nice animationsIn Persona 5 if you raise your proficiency to max Ren will start spinning his pen or phone while doing study events.
I feel like we need more posts with examples than praises.
Mario punching Yoshi to make him open his mouth in SMW
Mario punching Yoshi to make him open his mouth in SMW
Saiyoris Hands are bloody/hurt. Indicating - although she hung herself - it didn't quite work like it was supposed to. So she war hurting her hands while trying to loose the rope around her neck as the survival instinct kicked in. It is an insane little detail I guess.
That's nice
I feel like we need more posts with examples than praises.
Mario punching Yoshi to make him open his mouth in SMW
He's clearly pointing...
In Battlefield 1 when you aim down the sight your soldier actually closes his eye when looking from third person.
Start from 8:44
https://youtu.be/8MhX0riqBDE
Start from 8:44
https://youtu.be/8MhX0riqBDE
I thought that too when I first saw people saying it was a punch. It was later confirmed that that is what it actually was though
http://mashable.com/2017/09/28/mario-is-a-jerk/#Wq8xoJaO_kqf
I do too normally, but replacement weapons are so easy to come by that it's really not an issue.
I'm still not buying it, if Mario were punching there'd be a follow-through frame of animation, don't be fooled by the conspiracy!
If you lie to enough people in Planescape Torment and tell them your name is "Adahn" your lies will manifest an actual character named Adahn the Imaginary who will be very confused how he got where he is but will be happy to see you.
BF1 has so many insane little details that DefendTheHouse has made a mini series about it.
Here's Vol 1:
Not only how guns get muddy awesome, but how the rain/water washes it off is amazing.
Here's Vol 1:
Not only how guns get muddy awesome, but how the rain/water washes it off is amazing.
Actually I forgot this crazy thing. It's a meta detail, to be fair.
In Danganronpa V3's soundtrack on Spotify, a piano track played by the protagonist is credited with the protagonist Kaede's name.
If you don't believe...
In Danganronpa V3's soundtrack on Spotify, a piano track played by the protagonist is credited with the protagonist Kaede's name.
If you don't believe...
These two are my current favorites:
The lens flares in BOTW are highly dynamic, and their appearance is based on Sunlight intensity, directional lighting incident with the camera aperture, and obstruction of sunlight from clouds/mie scattering (or occluders in between the camera and the sun). It's ridiculously detailed for an effect that most people (aside from photographers) will hardly appreciate.
And anything capable of specular reflection will produce a real time [infinite] cubemapped reflection and specular lighting from the environment in Super Mario Odyssey. Yes, that includes the tiny little bubbles in the water!
The lens flares in BOTW are highly dynamic, and their appearance is based on Sunlight intensity, directional lighting incident with the camera aperture, and obstruction of sunlight from clouds/mie scattering (or occluders in between the camera and the sun). It's ridiculously detailed for an effect that most people (aside from photographers) will hardly appreciate.
And anything capable of specular reflection will produce a real time [infinite] cubemapped reflection and specular lighting from the environment in Super Mario Odyssey. Yes, that includes the tiny little bubbles in the water!
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