love that Virtual Hydlide
Did you get to the mansion area? Very uncanny, the way that indoors are presented in this engine
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it is still so wild to me that the characteristic mid/late 90s pc game cinematic look of âpoorly lit actors in front of green screensâ has, with a slight bump in technology, become the main way films are made in the 21st century
do you think george lucas was inspired by Jedi Knight cutscenes?
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The boring answer is that it was the obvious future since the late '70s and the cheaper revisions in the 90s, combined with the poorly acted and directed scenes, servicing hastily-scribbled off nerd porn, run through incredibly lossy compression is a hilarious backwater.
But itâs funner to see Phantom Menace as Kyle Katarn fanfic
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no real woman has ever been able to compare to meeting Catherine in riven
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Thatâs a chefâs kiss Felix line right there
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itâs not widely known that the Flaming Lipsâ âThey Punctured My Yolkâ from their 1995 âClouds Taste Metallicâ was originally commissioned as the soundtrack to Rivenâs ending cutscene (âcucked_by_atrus_so_I_have_to_go_to_space.movâ) but was cut due to CD size limitations
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This post reminded me that I wanted to make tmkf bot, thank you
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This might be the funniest 5 consecutive posts Iâve ever seen on sb
Itâs likely to have been Rebel Assault 2 instead, which was the first piece of Star Wars media that was authorized to shoot new live action sequences since Return of the Jedi.
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I actually like the way the character models look, but wow this battle system
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Oh ugh that looks⌠bad
I think itâs the first time I see this game in motion. Wasnât expecting that kind of framerate in 2019
Looking around at other videos and that video is actually not a very good representation of how the game runs. The animations are very much intentionally choppy with no inbetweens but the overall framerate is fine even on the Switch
Not sure if this is relevant, but this guy plays modern ish games on super low end hardware while tweaking settings to the point of grotesqueness.
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I first played Half-Life 2 on Voodoo Banshee (basically a Voodoo 1 rebadge) without hardware transform and lighting. It wasnât supposed to work
No pixel shaders, and no shadow maps loaded, either â everything was just raw diffuse texture output at lowest LODs. It didnât look anything that, though.
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no one ever talks about what a Live and Let Die ass name this was for a GPU
idk what was going on in their branding department, their API was a lube and their first product was a blaxsploitation villain
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Someone with an Actual Modern Gaming PC needs to run the game with those settings and tell us what kind of performance you can get.
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Ultima 7âs perspective alone makes the game grotesque IMO
I donât understand how this game was released like this
I feel hungover whenever I look at it
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It makes a lot of sense when you look at Ultima 6, which is strictly tile based but uses the slanted aesthetic to make its tiles look 3d, because then you understand this is just the natural evolution (itâs still tile based, but there are several layers of tiles and the tiles are smaller). It also allows you to sidestep some conceptual problems you have to figure out if you go the isometric (actually dimetric) way
That being said itâs functionally identical so of course thereâs an exult mod that rotates everything 45 degrees.
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Seeing it rotated 45 degrees always reminds me just how bad those tree sprites are
More than anything, I think its the wonky trees that make the game feel like its listing to port
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