Anarchic Fox on 13/5/2021 at 17:11
It's nice to finally see an advance in graphics technology that doesn't require expanded development teams to implement.
demagogue on 13/5/2021 at 17:43
Regarding issues like the uncanny valley and "every frame" ... There's lots of flexibility once you have this kind of tech. E.g., reanimating something every frame doesn't have to be the only option. You could just cook up a whole new game engine, so it's actually recreating things like animation cycles and blocky models whole cloth with the classic game as an input, so your blocky weird animated guy is just fully replaced with a realistic looking guy knowing to follow the pathing but the animation is interpolated into a realistic-looking walk, etc.
Also, while photorealism is one option, you could also have other kinds of "realisms", like fantasy or scifi aesthetics, or animation styles, or you could even force certain retro styles. I think some stylized artistic styles could mitigate the uncanny valley issue. I also think in 10 years photorealism may really mean photorealism beyond the ability of the eye to see the difference (maybe).
Quote Posted by Aja
who wants to hire hundreds of artists to draw every pebble on the ground?
Not me! :D
Anarchic Fox on 13/5/2021 at 18:08
Quote Posted by demagogue
who wants to hire hundreds of artists to draw every pebble on the ground?Not me! :D
The answer, of course, is Naughty Dog:
[video=youtube_share;BBDuaT-wzlI]https://youtu.be/BBDuaT-wzlI?t=37[/video]
Anarchic Fox on 13/7/2021 at 16:35
I want to remind everyone that Dunkey's E3 recaps are the best of the best, nearly on the same level as SMB2.
Aja on 13/7/2021 at 23:51
Incidentally, Dunkey’s recap of SMB2 is also very good.
Anarchic Fox on 15/7/2021 at 13:56
[video=youtube;XB4m_Y5lNpo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB4m_Y5lNpo[/video]
Malf on 17/11/2021 at 13:38
I thought I'd pointed to Bedbananas' Star Citizen vids before, but apparently not!
No matter what I may think of the game, its development and Chris Roberts, it has still provided me with a huge amount of amusement thanks to the antics of Bedbananas and his buddies:
[video=youtube;31v7sSGfTm8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31v7sSGfTm8[/video]
[video=youtube;xWO9GY8wiKM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWO9GY8wiKM[/video]
henke on 19/11/2021 at 16:59
This mini-doc on a 15-years-in-the-making Mafia 1 mod will have you saying things like "Wow!" and "Why?"
[video=youtube;1KmAMP74Ax0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KmAMP74Ax0[/video]
Anarchic Fox on 19/11/2021 at 20:38
I got some laughs out of the Star Citizen videos. I lump that game in with EVE Online, as a game that I'm happy exists, but that I'd never play myself.
It's not gaming-related, but this was the most laughs I've ever had from a two-degree-of-freedom system:
[video=youtube;dhZxdV2naw8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZxdV2naw8[/video]