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Best/Worst rain in videogames (Sponsored by Resident Evil 4 Remake)
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I played that demo so much.
Buggy Loop
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DUH
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Le Mans on Dreamcast had nice rain. Individual drops, little circle thingie where they touch the ground, haze going off the car tires, making the road slightly reflective, some pre-shader droplets on camera effects, etc., can't find any good footage with it but you can see some of it here.
ZeroZeroQuatre
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Good old King of Fighters '99 :
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stranno
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Need for Speed 2: Special Edition also had hardware accelerated randomized on-screen droplets, if you use the Glide renderer (3DFX did what Nvidiadon't).
Probably the first game ever to do that on PC.
Kill·Switch also had some nice on screen droplets + rain. Nothing special, but it looked great back in the day.
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VAVA Mk2
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Imagine if a studio like Retro back then could work with 2023 modern PC hardware instead of a Nintendo console...
Venom Snake
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Feel Like I'm On 42
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Graphics of Metroid Prime back then were mind blowing.
Deputy Moonman
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I love Pikmin but the inability to move the camera and being stuck from one angle in Pikmin 3 was highly frustrating.I nominate Pikmin 3 for best rain, and just best environments in general. Really looking forward to how good Pikmin 4 will (hopefully) look.
Another Iori
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When I think of rain in video games, the first thing that comes to my mind is the rainy backdrop of Tung Fu Rue in "Fatal Fury" 1, whch is supposed to have been the first title to introduce the weather changes in the fighting games, however, on the net I have not found the GIF of this stage during this very moment, therefore, I will nominate "The King of Fighters '99' as the final choice, because in my opinion it still possesses to this day the best rainy background seen in a totally two-dimensional game.
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Synless
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When I think of rain in video games, the first thing that comes to my mind is the rainy backdrop of Tung Fu Rue in "Fatal Fury" 1, whch is supposed to have been the first title to introduce the weather changes in the fighting games, however, on the net I have not found the GIF of this stage during this very moment, therefore, I will nominate "The King of Fighters '99' as the final choice, because in my opinion it still possesses to this day the best rainy background seen in a totally two-dimensional game.
beautiful.
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Another Iori
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While I was looking the images for write this post, I and user ZeroZeroQuatre chose the exact same thing, but I guess it's no shame see such a masterpiece of pixel art with three other different images.
While I was looking the images for write this post, I and user ZeroZeroQuatre chose the exact same thing, but I guess it's no shame see such a masterpiece of pixel art with three other different images.
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AltogetherAndrews
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Botching rain of all effects almost seems like an achievement. It’s not difficult to get rain to look at least good.
VAVA Mk2
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poodaddy
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XXL
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drive club (the best)
Comandr
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It really feels like RE4, a game that's still in development, is getting a lot of unnecessary heat for a really minor thing.
RE2 didn't look like this.
Another RE engine game in the same franchise. Why should RE4 look dramatically worse? This just seems like a case of the transparency is incorrect on the rain. I'm certain this will be fixed by launch. That said, Drive Club has the best rain, and everyone else is just racing for second.
RE2 didn't look like this.
Another RE engine game in the same franchise. Why should RE4 look dramatically worse? This just seems like a case of the transparency is incorrect on the rain. I'm certain this will be fixed by launch. That said, Drive Club has the best rain, and everyone else is just racing for second.
Fake
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NFS 2015
What a shame this game being always online. Is by far the best visually NFS to date.
Good old King of Fighters '99 :
Opposite end also from snk
Fatal fury
Snk art sure went from zero to hero over the years
Fun fact, rock has more frames of animation in garou motw than the entire cast of fatal fury 1
Turk1993
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The game looks superior to all the NFS games released after it. The PBR, lighting and reflections where soo good and still is better than the newer releases.
semiconscious
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during my recent replay i realized that i hated this more than the breakable weapons...
MGS2 rain is a classic. The rain in the original RE4 also looked great. From modern games Driveclub and Arkham Knight are really well done.
uh ok
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Moriah20
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Days Gone, glad to see it mentioned. Beyond rain it also has snow and what's cool about it is that the snow actually persists on the ground, gradually building up a full coverage, transforming how everything looks. It's something that very few games do, and I appreciate that the devs went the extra mile there.
RDR 2, another one already mentioned, but yeah, it's probably the best rain. I like how it has tons of different types of it too - short, intense showers, calm, long lasting rain, thunderstorms, weak trickling, etc. It really feels dynamic in a way that a lot of games just don't.
RDR 2, another one already mentioned, but yeah, it's probably the best rain. I like how it has tons of different types of it too - short, intense showers, calm, long lasting rain, thunderstorms, weak trickling, etc. It really feels dynamic in a way that a lot of games just don't.
Fredrik
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Tommi84
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I 'like' how there HEAVY wind denoted by trees and grass moving, but the rain drops are like... 'nope, don't give an F, I will drop as I want and in whatever direction I want'Battlefield games had some crazy rainy maps
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