Thirith on 13/3/2017 at 16:30
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Malleus on 13/3/2017 at 17:32
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ArmA2/3 & E.Europe
Arma 3 takes place in Greece btw, but it really nails the mediterranean feeling IMO. Not specific to any country, just generally the whole climate and environment. I only played the demo, but it felt like being there.
demagogue on 13/3/2017 at 18:39
I should try it again with an open mind. And Greece is the birthplace of all things Byzantine & Orthodox, so I always think it deserves to be an honorary East European state. Maybe it's just me, though.
Malleus on 13/3/2017 at 19:19
Oh it didn't occur to me that you included Greece there, especially lumping together A2 and A3 which IMO are quite different environments. It's just that I'd think of Greece as Southern Europe, not Eastern. I guess it's a remnant of the cold war eastern bloc definition, which didn't include Greece. Anyway, as for the Arma games, they definitely don't represent "its natural world of everyday life" like in GTA5, as you wrote, but the environments are great, in a hiking simulator kind of way.
SD on 14/3/2017 at 15:43
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I was thinking about this yesterday driving around in GTAV. One thing I really like about its world, especially living as an expat, is how incredibly American it is.
All the more remarkable when you consider it was developed by a Scottish studio. Though on second thought, so many of the movies that have really nailed life in America have also been directed by foreigners.
demagogue on 16/3/2017 at 13:42
It had content made by so many studio branches, though, a lot in the US, actually a ridiculous number I found myself thinking during that 40 minute credit roll.
But that aside I do think foreigners can see things natives can't see at the tip of their own noses because they're too immersed in it. Also natives that go live in another country see things back home that had always been there they didn't notice before.
That doesn't diminish how self conscious I am about making an open world game set in 1700s Paris though. But I decided to go with a kind of caricatured mythic version for purposes of the game, so not too worried.
