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Augus posted:LOD (level of detail) is a feature all games use where the game switches a model out for a simpler, lo-res version when you move the camera away from it. A model can have multiple LODs for medium distance and medium detail, far distance and low detail, super-far distance and super-low detail, etc. I always like that trick especially on older games where they're not even starting with really complex models. I think distant Mario in Mario 64 is probably one of the more famous ones.  
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Apr 23, 2023 20:01
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The Matrix 5 UE demo on PC was a really great demonstration of LoD. If you go from flying around the city and then suddenly to the ground up to someone's face, you can watch them turn from a mario64 face, to a golden eye face, to a metal gear solid 3 face, into a mass effect face, and then finally loading in a modern almost 3d scanned looking realistic face with fancy hair and all that new jazz.
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Apr 23, 2023 20:20
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Captain Hygiene posted:I always like that trick especially on older games where they're not even starting with really complex models. I think distant Mario in Mario 64 is probably one of the more famous ones. yeah N64-era models are fun to look at because the games had to strike such a precarious balance in order to run at all. In basically every game that Mario appeared in on the 64 he has a completely different look because of the different technical demands of each one.  ^ if you tried to drop this model into Super Smash Bros 64 and had it fighting 3 other identical Marios the cartridge would shoot up out of your N64 at escape velocity and leave a perfectly cartridge-shaped hole in the roof
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Apr 23, 2023 20:43
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Augus posted:bringing back Like-Likes feels like it’d be a no-brainer since shields and weapons are already expendable I think we saw one in a trailer.
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Apr 23, 2023 21:36
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Procrastine posted:iirc it's the "switch shield" button when you have a bow drawn Cheers (and thanks to everyone else). I walked and climbed across about half the map today, twatting bad guys with spears and finding shrines and koroks. Great game.
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Apr 23, 2023 21:55
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Khanstant posted:The Matrix 5 UE demo on PC was a really great demonstration of LoD. If you go from flying around the city and then suddenly to the ground up to someone's face, you can watch them turn from a mario64 face, to a golden eye face, to a metal gear solid 3 face, into a mass effect face, and then finally loading in a modern almost 3d scanned looking realistic face with fancy hair and all that new jazz. That's surprising to hear about, but I guess in any game where you can move around a large environment so fast that's inevitable. I recently loaded up Cyberpunk again to check out their path tracing update and it showed how inconsistent LoD placement can be. The game was always a mess technically, but when you're driving through a tunnel you can have light shine through the roof because it's loading slightly different LoD sections as you draw near them. It was astonishing to me they were still using 2D car sprites when you zoomed in on roads in the distance.
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Apr 23, 2023 23:18
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To be fair I was running the UE5 demo on a 3080 PC and it was basically only optimized really for consoles. And high detail humans have sooo much stuff you don't need to look convincing from a distance when their entire head is a quarter of the size of a forum avatar on screen. The Mario 64 lods look appropriate at the distances intended. It's just going straight up their nostrils suddenly from a distance you got to see the evolution of LoD unfold. And the cyberpunk distance lights being 2d cards was funny mostly bc it looks good while running around and mostly sticks out because the 2d cards I ply a shitload more cards than there ever are on the streets, especially out in the boonies. You'd see a dozen lights in the distance all seemingly headed towards you but only encounter 1 car if you're lucky. If they had synced the bg cards with spawning a real car eventually tmitd be a better effect. I was playing or saw some old final fantasy or something recently and they had a spot where the far distance was buildings and lights reflecting on the water and I was impressed how good the illusion was from the angles they intend you to see. It's like matte paintings for videogames.
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Apr 23, 2023 23:28
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Augus posted:bringing back Like-Likes feels like it’d be a no-brainer since shields and weapons are already expendable I feel the exact opposite, actually? I think a core aspect of the Like-Like experience is, as a new player, wandering up to one and being like "Hmm... I wonder what this thing do- did you just eat me? Did you just eat my shield?? You can do that?? You can't do that, that's illegal!" Y'know, the way it's a thing that nothing else can do to you. An enemy that can destroy your equipment, in BotW? That's every enemy, baby. "Oh no, what am I going to do," I say, reaching into my pack for one of the six other identical shields I'm carrying.
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Apr 24, 2023 00:16
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Asterite34 posted:Also Din, Nayru and Farore are supercomputers and Hyrule is a simulation or something Zelda revealed as happening in the Xenoblade universe.
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Apr 24, 2023 01:00
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Would explain some things
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Apr 24, 2023 01:04
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Antonymous posted:Totk needs those squirrel people who throw boomerangs I too want a Zelda game set in the Redwall universe
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Apr 24, 2023 01:08
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:I feel the exact opposite, actually? I think a core aspect of the Like-Like experience is, as a new player, wandering up to one and being like "Hmm... I wonder what this thing do- did you just eat me? Did you just eat my shield?? You can do that?? You can't do that, that's illegal!" You're right - they should eat your pants
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Apr 24, 2023 01:09
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Ytlaya posted:Zelda revealed as happening in the Xenoblade universe. Wait, does this mean Link is somehow going to impregnate Fi
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Apr 24, 2023 01:35
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Ytlaya posted:Zelda revealed as happening in the Xenoblade universe.
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Apr 24, 2023 01:35
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Orange Crush Rush posted:Wait, does this mean Link is somehow going to impregnate Fi Somehow? Buddy, my fanfiction portfolio has you covered if you jus--
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Apr 24, 2023 02:14
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Asterite34 posted:Also Din, Nayru and Farore are supercomputers and Hyrule is a simulation or something   I shared this in the last thread but it seemed relevant to bring up again
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Apr 24, 2023 02:19
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The xenoblade crossover in botw was very dumb. BOTW shouldn’t have marketing bs shoved into it for a bad game
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Apr 24, 2023 02:19
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We know link's hats are alive and his Napster sword, but what else does he use that has a soul? Do we get a game where his tunic talks all the time or his boots scream in pain as you walk, will it also let us get small for minish action?
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Apr 24, 2023 02:21
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Junpei posted:
I've been thinking about this same idea recently, except for MegaMan Battle Network. I feel like Cyberpunk 2077s bullet time stuff could be hacked into a psuedo card based dueling game. Make the dangerous sleazy place only weirdoes use avatars to jack in to, the real world nice until janky virus plots unfold, people's toaster launching deadly toast because ToastedMan.exe is fuckin around in there.
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Apr 24, 2023 02:25
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Khanstant posted:We know link's hats are alive and his Napster sword, but what else does he use that has a soul? Do we get a game where his tunic talks all the time or his boots scream in pain as you walk, will it also let us get small for minish action? You must work to keep up the morale and dedication of your bomb collection, so they're willing to sacrifice themselves to further your goals
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Apr 24, 2023 02:25
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Beve Stuscemi posted:BOTW shouldn’t have marketing bs shoved into it for a bad game 
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Apr 24, 2023 02:29
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I feel like internally Skyward sword might've been one of their most beloved. Or maybe just think that bc Hyrule Historia volume 1 was like 85% skyward sword lore and art and interviews and they seemed really pleased with it on all levels. I wanted more freaky majora stuff.
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Apr 24, 2023 02:32
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Khanstant posted:I feel like internally Skyward sword might've been one of their most beloved. Or maybe just think that bc Hyrule Historia volume 1 was like 85% skyward sword lore and art and interviews and they seemed really pleased with it on all levels. I wanted more freaky majora stuff. that's probably because hyrule historia was publish a month after skyward sword came out
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Apr 24, 2023 02:39
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age of calamity update: between revali and teba i don't know why the rest of the army even bothers showing up. war is for the birds teba is a one-man carpet bombing operation, sure, but revali cracks weak point gauges better than anyone. Y5X, stasis, cancel out of arrow rain, take flight, Y4X, mash until broken. though teba keeps up with him in that respect too, since his stasis field takes seven days and seven nights to wear off
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Apr 24, 2023 03:42
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Botw replay: I realize now when this game wants to be slow it is absolute molasses. Great for vibes, but tower climbs aren't fun Edit: I knew it was slow when I first played it, but I was in a point back then where I had the luxury of free time not to be bothered too much.
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Apr 24, 2023 04:08
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New JP TV spot, there's a bit of new footage for TotK (but it's not fully focused on it, since it's also advertisting Mario Kart 8, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Splatoon 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02W3RX7hHP8
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Apr 24, 2023 04:20
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God drat, we're really 3 weeks out from a new Zelda game? I have so much PTO saved up I'm definitely going to take that Friday and Monday off.
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Apr 24, 2023 04:30
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SyRauk posted:God drat, we're really 3 weeks out from a new Zelda game? I have so much PTO saved up I'm definitely going to take that Friday and Monday off. Oh I take it you're not a fan? I'm working overtime so I can come home to my Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom knowing it can live the comfortable life I want to provide.
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Apr 24, 2023 04:37
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I’m using PTO and I am going to be setting an alarm to start playing it the moment I can. Three straight days of nothing but Zelda and coffee while I take several years off my life.
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Apr 24, 2023 04:51
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Beve Stuscemi posted:The xenoblade crossover in botw was very dumb. BOTW shouldn’t have marketing bs shoved into it for a bad game Xenoblade 2 was a pretty good game, except the designers decided to make the excellent combat system be awful instead for the first 40% of the story, as a joke
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Apr 24, 2023 05:18
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Blaziken386 posted:counterpoint: arachnophobia and insect-phobia can trigger even on cartoony insects and i have a personal vendetta against developers who put them in games when they cant think of anything more interesting I feel for you, really I do, but insects are pretty interesting. I'm glad that more games are having options to disable spiders but I wouldn't want to live in a world where bugs aren't allowed to exist in media anymore
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Apr 24, 2023 05:20
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Hogama posted:New JP TV spot, there's a bit of new footage for TotK (but it's not fully focused on it, since it's also advertisting Mario Kart 8, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Splatoon 3. Alright Link, give 'em the kabob.
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Apr 24, 2023 05:33
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Beve Stuscemi posted:The xenoblade crossover in botw was very dumb. BOTW shouldn’t have marketing bs shoved into it for a bad game
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Apr 24, 2023 05:36
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Alxprit posted:I feel for you, really I do, but insects are pretty interesting. I'm glad that more games are having options to disable spiders but I wouldn't want to live in a world where bugs aren't allowed to exist in media anymore
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Apr 24, 2023 06:02
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I'm not scared of spiders because, one-on-one, I would win a fist fight with most of them.
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Apr 24, 2023 06:13
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The xenoblade crossover content is going to be weird when retro gamers of the future play botw (on secret emulators hidden from the Nintendo kill-teams)
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Apr 24, 2023 06:16
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Blaziken386 posted:bugs can exist in horror games and games that go "here is something specifically about bugs", i just dont like it when games go "hey, you know what this world needs? giant spider : )" at the 12 hour mark. LOOKING AT YOU, DARK SOULS 2. When I was a young teen playing TP on my Wii I had my brother do the Forest Temple because the tarantulas gave me literal nightmares
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Apr 24, 2023 06:18
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Haha, I did not do well with the last bit of Bloodborne, at all.
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Apr 24, 2023 06:29
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Age of Calamity is fun so far. Impa MVP.
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Apr 24, 2023 06:30
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What if Link was frenching a living talking ocarina like skeeters muppet head?
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Apr 24, 2023 06:44
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