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Attention to Detail in Video Games.
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EightBit Man
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kiphalfton
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Static background Resident Evil and Dino Crisis games are better.
Bakkus
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But Kojima games are Americanized to the core. Hehe, anyways. My point is that I wish there existed channels like these for other types of games.
HaveButOneLife
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Kagero
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Shut it!
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SLoWMoTIoN
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MGS games are extremely western.
greencoder
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Any RockStar game.
Danjin44
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I'm not sure I agree, MGS might have western setting but they are still very much Japanese games, both from character designs and its entire aesthetics, Same with games like Resident Evil, Silent Hill and original Dead Rising. For example Ghost Tsushima might have Japanese setting but its very clear is a western game.
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SLoWMoTIoN
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MGS mostly follows hollywood movies with some craziness added to them.
Danjin44
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Sure it has lots of inspiration from hollywood since Kojima is big fan of western movies but its very clear its a Japanese game. You can easily tell when a western developers works on Japanese IP, I mean just look at the difference between original Dead Rising and Dead Rising 4 or look at Silent Hill Home Coming compare to Silent Hill 1 -3.
Agree, when i first played MGS1 i was very surprised to find out it was made by a Japanese company. I though it was from the usa or smth. Then i watched a ton of anime and realized that MGS is totally anime just in a western setting.
TUROK
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I love all that incidental shit they throw in there.
The Division was pretty amazing in this regard. The destruction system in the game is so granular, you can shoot literal holes into some traffic cones, chip away little chunks of concrete off a wall or roadblock, and shooting couch cushions had a neat decal that made it look like the couch was rippling.
Decent game, great engine.
The Division was pretty amazing in this regard. The destruction system in the game is so granular, you can shoot literal holes into some traffic cones, chip away little chunks of concrete off a wall or roadblock, and shooting couch cushions had a neat decal that made it look like the couch was rippling.
Decent game, great engine.
Kojima is the biggest reverse-weeb.
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Moriah20
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RDR 2 is just really the king of this, I am absolutely amazed at the amount of care and detail rockstar placed into everything. There's the obvious stuff like newspaper articles, store catalogues, horse behaviour, Arthur's appearance changing. But they really are just scratching the surface. The amount of unique animations for things that you would really not expect a game to animate, landscape slowly changing over the course of the game as stuff gets built, all the crazy animal behaviours -- I mean jesus, I saw a cat randomly scratch a wooden post to sharpen their claws or saw a dog try and play with my horse as I was buying something in the store. But visual attention to detail isn't really something that truly makes the game better IMO. It's all about the small interactive moments that occur outside of the usual gameplay circles. Like, RDR 2 is a shooting game, but there is more to it than just that.
For example there's the camp which probably has more unique, non cutscene interaction in them than most games do throughout their entire lenght. Sitting down to play cards with your gang members feels so good in RDR 2 - because it's actually fully animated, with hundreds of banter lines and the life doesn't stop just because you sat down to play, stuff still happens in the background, you can hear and see it all. I loved how you had an interact button for every npc, how your actions were constantly judged by people around, how you could perform completely pointless chores just for the hell of it. All of this just made the world feel much more genuine and lived in. I wished so many times playing The Witcher 3 that I could just sit down at an inn to have a drink instead of my inventory menu popping up whenever I bought something. Or that there were more minigames besides gwent - that one quest in Kaer Morhen where you get drunk was amazing, and I really wanted just to have more interactions with my fellow witchers or all the people that I met during my travels, but... there is nothing. There aren't really random npc events or unique npc interactions outside of quests.
For example there's the camp which probably has more unique, non cutscene interaction in them than most games do throughout their entire lenght. Sitting down to play cards with your gang members feels so good in RDR 2 - because it's actually fully animated, with hundreds of banter lines and the life doesn't stop just because you sat down to play, stuff still happens in the background, you can hear and see it all. I loved how you had an interact button for every npc, how your actions were constantly judged by people around, how you could perform completely pointless chores just for the hell of it. All of this just made the world feel much more genuine and lived in. I wished so many times playing The Witcher 3 that I could just sit down at an inn to have a drink instead of my inventory menu popping up whenever I bought something. Or that there were more minigames besides gwent - that one quest in Kaer Morhen where you get drunk was amazing, and I really wanted just to have more interactions with my fellow witchers or all the people that I met during my travels, but... there is nothing. There aren't really random npc events or unique npc interactions outside of quests.
GymWolf
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Almost all the AAA games of this gen have a lot of microdetails in their worlds, from rockstar titles to ubisoft titles to sony games etc.
You can find details video in yt for everyone of these games, rockstar is not the only one anymore.
Of course a game like rdr2 has more stuff than days gone or watch dogs but that games was in development for 8-9 years with infinite money and manpower behind, it's only natural.
You can find details video in yt for everyone of these games, rockstar is not the only one anymore.
Of course a game like rdr2 has more stuff than days gone or watch dogs but that games was in development for 8-9 years with infinite money and manpower behind, it's only natural.
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Elektro Demon
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Well rdr2 is king in terms of small details. Every Rockstar game is like this.
IbizaPocholo
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nkarafo
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Ocarina of Time impressed me with this back in the day. Not with visual details but other stuff like how you could magically fix destroyed sign posts with Zelda's lullaby. Or how butterflies would turn into fairies if they would land on the tip of a deku stick you are holding. Or how Link's idle animations would change depending on some environments (like scary, cold, hot, etc). I have no idea how many little touches like this i missed in this game.
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M1chl
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Darkness is something else, such a good game, sadly those people now works on "gems" like Wolfenstein II: New Cucks. Nazi badz doe, if we did not get the memo for 1000 TRILLION time already. And that's especially ironic due to Sweden should shut the fuck up about WWII...
IbizaPocholo
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Naughty Dog are on another level
holy shit I never even knew about a lot of these details
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Lionel Richie
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The OG. Still awesome and simple enough to not be anal. AH RAVIOLI!!!
