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Pre-rendered backgrounds Anonymage 02/11/24 (Sun) 07:43:26 No.61367 [Reply]

Pre-rendered backgrounds with 3D assets should've remained until at least the 2010s for certain genres. I'm pretty sure much of the love for the golden age of Final Fantasy (VII- IX) and the early Resident Evil games is due to the highly detailed nature of pre-rendered graphics. The worlds depicted felt more alive and lived in, meaning kids could imagine themselves in it more easily.

It's just a factor that nobody really picks up on when discussing these games. I remember my Grandma watching me play through the Winhill sequence in Final Fantasy VIII and going on about how beautiful the village looked. I don't think you could've had anything comparable in detail in full 3D for at least fifteen years, and not anything as consistently pretty over the course of a full game until around today.

Final Fantasy X was sort of a graphical step down in a sense of so much being plain, flat and ugly. So much so that when you step into a pre-rendered background house, you're taken back by how detailed that is compared to the ugly flatness of the outside.

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Anonymage 02/20/24 (Tue) 15:22:59 No.61387

>>61385
because modern players would complain about not being able to move the camera around, I've seen many people saying old resident evil games are "unplayable" because of fixed camera angles
>And why did the point & click genre die out?
they just fell out of fashion, the point and click public moved on to other stuff like walking simulators

Anonymage 04/29/24 (Mon) 21:42:21 No.61595

you got someone to make a video

Anonymage 04/30/24 (Tue) 00:00:55 No.61597

>>61385
>And why did the point & click genre die out?
Most were really really bad and even the good ones didn't sell that well.
With very few exceptions they have always had relatively poor sells compared to most other kinds of games.

As for why modern games don't use prerendered backgrounds as much, while you still see them in indie titles on occasion the main reason is the technology has moved on and now you don't have the same hardware limitations that prevent you from actually rendering stuff in the distance instead of faking it with a painting. You can have as many complex polygons within a scene as you want provided your programing is decent. Prerendering has always been a cope for technical limitations.

Anonymage 04/30/24 (Tue) 00:04:33 No.61598

I do remember some of the areas from ff8. Great salt lake, Tomb of the Unknown King, fisherman's harbor, Lunatic Pandora, Esthar city under attack. The victory arch at Deling…
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/c/cc/Deling_5.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080210051322

Incomprehensible plot, but sometimes the art direction wasn't bad

Anonymage 04/30/24 (Tue) 00:08:52 No.61599

>>61387
Resident evil on the harder settings where you're expected to dodge zombies is miserable because of the camera angles. Point and click doesn't really resemble modern games in the way we think of them and often had quite bizarre object interactions that were rarely intuitive. They'd often lock you into encounters where you couldn't even get the necessary items through backtracking without an earlier save state.

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Japanese games are superior Anonymage 02/16/23 (Thu) 01:10:57 No.59447 [Reply]

Almost every single game that I played in 2023 was a game made in Japan. Mainly JRPGs. Now I can't barely play western games, which I found dull and ugly.

when Japan became the best game developer?

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Anonymage 04/29/24 (Mon) 18:49:50 No.61589

>>61588
Money is unrequired for good gamemaking today.

Anonymage 04/29/24 (Mon) 19:04:59 No.61590

>>61589
agreed. I still pay 25 year old strategy games because the core gameplay is tighter. Indie devs regularly produce good titles using simply rpgmaker or retro aesthetics. There's no excuse, nu gaming is a bunch of cutscenes and streamlined experiences for marvel movie fans

Anonymage 04/29/24 (Mon) 19:11:25 No.61592

>>61590
>>61589
ok but indie games tend to be meh

Anonymage 04/29/24 (Mon) 19:16:13 No.61593

>>61062
waoh that's a lot of game I don't know. What are there titles?

Anonymage 04/29/24 (Mon) 19:16:16 No.61594

>>61592
Some smbx2 episodes are still better than actual smbx2

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Morrowind/OpenMW Modding Anonymage 04/26/24 (Fri) 19:37:56 No.61567 [Reply]

People are doing some crazy things with OpenMW, there is a huge Star Wars total conversion mod for OpenMW called Starwind for example. Basically a complete game.

I've only just played a bit of Starwind so far, but been in more of a fantasy mood so I've been exploring Tamriel Rebuilt.

There is also home of the Nords which adds a part of Skyrim, and there is another mod that so far adds an island of the coast of Cyrodiil called Province Cyrodiil.

Anonymage 04/27/24 (Sat) 05:41:03 No.61568

>Starwind
Never heard of this until now cool, I love Morrowind and KOTOR so I'll have to check it out at some point.
I replayed Morrowind a few years ago (vanilla with a few bugfix and QOL mods I don't think I used OpenMW) and it was a great experience. I did install Tamriel Rebuilt as well after I beat the game and explored a little of the new area but I was so overpowered at that point and was just levitating everywhere while invisible so I kind of got bored and quit, seems like it'd be better to explore it early or midgame.

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constructive pc games Anonymage 03/23/24 (Sat) 20:02:03 No.61456 [Reply]

these are some of the only games i can bear to play after a dew decades of video games:

factorio
dwarf fortress
cities skyline
rimworld
sim city 4 (with the network addon mod!)
airline tycoon
pizza connection
theme hospital
anno 1602

they related in genre in the sense that they are building something up: management, city builder, colony sim.

i waited to play dwarf fortress until the premium edition on steam came out with the graphics and so far i very much like it. only recently got into it. it is a lot of fun to play because the z-levels. it feels like being in a sky scraper where there is just infinite floors to build on. it's not really a sky scraper but instead it is a mountain but the dwarfs are so crafty, they make a mountain a nice home. great game. takes a bit to get the hang of but the degree of freedom is really nice, i would think wizards would like it, some probably already do.

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Anonymage 03/28/24 (Thu) 14:04:37 No.61493

>>61490
>im not interested in these games

but you are interested in telling other people that you are not interested? how's that interesting, i don't see it. must be some more of your pretend-emotional theatrical nonsense that you also lack the ability to defend. at this point i question your gender.

Anonymage 03/28/24 (Thu) 14:11:21 No.61494

>>61492

i was under the impression there are specific places for people like you that you cleverly disguise as pizza on the internet where you can discuss your filth with likeminded other filthy people so that i don't have to see it.

i liked this not-having-to-see-it part the most, that was my favorite part.

Anonymage 03/28/24 (Thu) 17:46:33 No.61495

>>61492
> want to beat my meat to little succubi

Really? Why would you do that instead of killing yourself?

Anonymage 04/03/24 (Wed) 09:29:17 No.61503

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few games have felt as nice as theme hospital. i've played the new twopoint hospital, it wasn't bad but it just did not reach the simplistic charm of the original. it doesn't matter that the graphics are so primitive, they clearly depict what is happening. it feels so alive.

Anonymage 04/26/24 (Fri) 17:15:51 No.61566

>>61482
>you would prob enjoy project zomboid

currently enjoying project zomboid only because you mentioned it, all credit goes to you.

i like how the game has it's priorities straight. graphics are pleasant and simple, i dig that everything looks like sims 1. it is surprisingly deep and it looks like it can be custom tailored quite a bit.

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Visual Novels Thread Anonymage 07/14/21 (Wed) 02:58:56 No.54136 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Which visual novels have you enjoyed lately, wizzies? For me, I'd say my top VN's were Yume Miru Kusuri (only got one ending, am planning on picking it back up in the future) as well as "Our Lost World Beneath the Skies". I'm still looking for that VN that I can give a 10 on in Vndb, which I'm going to reserve for just one.
What qualities do you look for in a VN? I look for depth, music, and variety, and I don't like sex scenes (for YMK I would just skip past).

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Anonymage 04/21/24 (Sun) 13:27:45 No.61556

>>61549
It's like a book…with visuals.

Yeah, I will see myself out of the thread now.

Anonymage 04/21/24 (Sun) 14:11:12 No.61557

>>61556
I prefer VN with gameplay, fo you know some?

Anonymage 04/21/24 (Sun) 15:12:58 No.61558

>>61557
How do you feel about edgy rpg maker games?

Anonymage 04/21/24 (Sun) 16:17:04 No.61559

>>61558
since it's rpg maker better be a 10/10 because I quickly get bored of them (like it did with my play of black souls)

Anonymage 04/21/24 (Sun) 22:06:55 No.61561

>>61559
nevermind then

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RE4 REMAKE Anonymage 03/24/23 (Fri) 15:13:10 No.59697 [Reply]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Share any observations, positive or negative. Installing the game as we speak

Anonymage 03/26/23 (Sun) 16:03:20 No.59705

It's censored garbage.
They gave Ashley stupid looking pants instead of a skirt.

And they changed most dialogue to remove anything offensive to succubi. Besides various other things getting cut out.

Anonymage 04/18/24 (Thu) 12:44:44 No.61547

>>59697
I could excuse all of the content cuts if they didn't butcher the charm and artstyle of the original so much. The devs seem to think dark = scary, and took all the soul out of the menus and sound design.

Anonymage 04/18/24 (Thu) 13:56:21 No.61548

They made it worse.
Better off emulating.

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Linux Gaming Anonymage 10/14/23 (Sat) 13:32:18 No.60916 [Reply]

What games do you play on your box, wizzies?

Starting out with a classic, Minecraft works flawlessly. Really enjoy it on my machine, especially since I can afford more generous RAM allocation.

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Anonymage 01/10/24 (Wed) 11:09:45 No.61220

GOG Tyranny, runs natively :)

Such a good game, second play through presently .

Anonymage 01/11/24 (Thu) 03:56:21 No.61228

>>61194
are these lego games good? been wanting to play a 3d platformer lately

Anonymage 04/13/24 (Sat) 21:01:10 No.61525

GTA5 on Wine

Anonymage 04/13/24 (Sat) 21:41:09 No.61526

>>61220
>runs natively

could you briefly sumarize what that means on linux please? if something isn't in my package manager and it is not in the AUR (which i also install via package manager) then it better be an .appimage file because other than that i wouldn't know what that means yet and how to install it.

t. leanooksnoob on manjaro kde who uses steam for everythang

Anonymage 04/18/24 (Thu) 04:32:48 No.61546

>>61526
Running natively means it doesn't need wine or dxvk, or some other translation layer.
From.what I remebed native games usually come in a folder with an executable, similarly to how portable window applications are.

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Anonymage 04/03/24 (Wed) 13:28:13 No.61504 [Reply]

I miss Habbo Hotel.

I scammed a lot of people on here for furni. Made a lot of scamming friends. Made just regular friends. Played with my sister and she would steal some of my furni by logging into my account.

I would sink probably 100's of dollars into this game if they brought back old habbo.

Fun times. Sulake (the company that owns it) ruined it though by trying to make it kid friendly and removing all the fun aspects of it. I miss when games were actually fun to play.

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Anonymage 04/14/24 (Sun) 01:42:48 No.61528

>>61527
Never knew about it until it was already long gone.
Seems actually worth being nostalgic over it.

Anonymage 04/14/24 (Sun) 08:24:08 No.61531

>>61528
I didn't know that it was gone, the website is still up with recent updates.

If you mean metaphorically dead then maybe, I probably won't reinstall it to find out, to be honest.

Anonymage 04/14/24 (Sun) 09:16:08 No.61532

>>61531
Ment dead as in low player count and basically being in maintenance mode as far as development.

Not literally not accessible/off line.

Anonymage 04/16/24 (Tue) 20:26:34 No.61539

>>61523
It was fun back then.

>>61524
>zoomer gets mad again

Anonymage 04/17/24 (Wed) 00:18:19 No.61542

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If you want to play something similar but better in every way, you have Roblox, they put fucking tekken of all things. Pure Gen Alpha kino.

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Games you're currently playing Anonymage 10/09/23 (Mon) 12:27:04 No.60906 [Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Thread for discussing games you're currently playing.

>What games are you playing?
>What games have you recently purchased?

Previous thread:
>>57966

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Anonymage 03/24/24 (Sun) 07:49:33 No.61466

>>61082
I play Wild Rift. It's super fun and casual and most matches are short like 15 minutes to 25 minutes max. Nowhere nar as rage inducing as the computer game.

Anonymage 04/02/24 (Tue) 22:32:10 No.61502

Started playing Kenshi. I bought this on a whim after seeing it and thinking it looks interesting. I'm not sure it's gonna do it for me though. It seems like a huge grindfest and the controls are aids. Having no quests or objective kind of sucks so far because I still don't know shit about how anything works or what I should do and I'm also weak as fuck. There are a shit ton of bandits too. Harvesting their stuff after they die is extremely tedious. The gameplay in general seems tedious. This is after just a few hours though. I hope I will eventually get to the point where it becomes fun.

Anonymage 04/05/24 (Fri) 20:57:32 No.61507

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It has been Dominions 6 for me. I started with Dominions 5 a couple of years ago, played around 300 hours of that, played around 180 hours of dom6, and i still feel like i don't know what i'm doing. There's just so much and i love that. I'm also just now getting into playing multiplayer against other players and not just AI.

Anonymage 04/09/24 (Tue) 21:03:11 No.61520

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Did not notice the chain steering wheel on slamvan despite playing since 2011 and completing all (minus the last few ones that require you to take over the gang turfs) main story missions 30-35 times (5-7 times including end of the line). Purple works good with livery and gives it a subtle pearl-like effect.

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After finishing Defense Grid I decided to try the second game, Defense Grid 2 but it plays so incredibly similar to the first I think I'll drop it for now. I might be quitting too soon since I've only played the first couple of levels but the towers are exactly the same and everything looks pretty much as the first game. It's basically the same title but with more narration (which I don't like) and updated graphics.

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Video Game Music Anonymage 04/14/24 (Sun) 16:25:26 No.61535 [Reply]

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Anonymage 04/14/24 (Sun) 16:42:35 No.61536

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