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The "Wedding Cake" fountain is one that this guy covered when he talks about Super Mario Galaxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rCRsOLiO7k It's not quite the same, but it's interesting to see all the things they do to get that cool water level effect.
I think they wrote their own bespoke per-game levelblob decoders and renderers. Deserves its own HN submission.
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I will happily second this. Along with Horizon Zero Dawn, this is the most amazing game I’ve played in years. I’ll start it up sometimes just to go horseback riding along the amazing scenery, or go fishing, or bird watching, or hunting, or any number of the seemingly pointless things you can do in that game. It’s very therapeutic, especially after a stressful day.
Red Dead 2 is my favourite game of all time. It was an incredibly game to play. I couldn't get into Horizon. The normal difficultly was just insanely hard. I think I got 4 ~ 5 hours in and never ended up finishing it :(
I think maybe this depends on your play style – I most often went for the strategy of divide and conquer, lure individual machines away from the pack and get them one by one from a distance, usually with a combination of hard point arrows and tear blast arrows to get rid of their most lethal weapons. Whenever I went for using the staff to kill a machine it was too hard, unless it was one of the smaller ones. Also, making use of different ammo to target weaknesses in the machines proved quite effective, and after a little while you just intuitively know which kinda of ammo works against which machines.
Hope you give it another go, I think the story really is worth it!
Edit: definitely second your feelings on RDR2. First rockstar game that had me hooked from start to finish, such a great story. I never played the first one, and I'm a little hesitant to try it because of how great and beautiful RDR2 is, and how well it plays, and I fear playing the previous game will feel too dated in comparison, regardless of how good the story seems to be.
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I will happily second this. Along with Horizon Zero Dawn, this is the most amazing game I’ve played in years. I’ll start it up sometimes just to go horseback riding along the amazing scenery, or go fishing, or bird watching, or hunting, or any number of the seemingly pointless things you can do in that game. It’s very therapeutic, especially after a stressful day.
I'll eventually play it when I get to it in my ever-growing backlog of games and my ever-shrinking amount of personal time.
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I rarely play games these days now that I have 3 kids under 5 years old. The last full game I played for GTA V on my still working xbox 360. If GTA VI comes out , I will probably buy a new console just so I can play the game knowing that I might not use the console for that game only
What I really like about GTAV is, that it respected the time of the player. It does not force you to replay the WHOLE mission when you missed the goal (because of a car accident) but has nice checkpoints. Also it doesn't force you to play horrible missions like the toy helicopter bomb mission from Vice City. With that, it's the first GTA I can actually play and enjoy and I'm sure it will be the first one I finish - e…
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I rarely play games these days now that I have 3 kids under 5 years old. The last full game I played for GTA V on my still working xbox 360. If GTA VI comes out , I will probably buy a new console just so I can play the game knowing that I might not use the console for that game only
What I really like about GTAV is, that it respected the time of the player. It does not force you to replay the WHOLE mission when you missed the goal (because of a car accident) but has nice checkpoints. Also it doesn't force you to play horrible missions like the toy helicopter bomb mission from Vice City. With that, it's the first GTA I can actually play and enjoy and I'm sure it will be the first one I finish - e…
Back then, me and my friends in the building started the game at around the same time. We loved discussing the game every morning on the bus to school. Eventually we reached the RC helicopter mission and no one could complete it. After what seemed like forever, I managed to complete it first. Cue loads of awestruck friends and receiving "street cred". And then, I used to visit their homes and complete the mission for them :D
Now that I am nostalgic, I can't help but remember how much fun we had playing RuneScape.
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Thanks for the hints! :) Yeah my English isn't that good. I use it sometimes to - often - to make sure its understood that the words belong together but let me look up the rules... ...ah, there is no rule :D It is recommented to check the dictionary :D p.s. I've also changed it to Mortal Kombat :)
Getting a hang of when to use "its" and "it's" is more important, if you don't mind me saying so.
The "Wedding Cake" fountain is one that this guy covered when he talks about Super Mario Galaxy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rCRsOLiO7k It's not quite the same, but it's interesting to see all the things they do to get that cool water level effect.
Heh, that's my video! Thanks for the shoutout. Galaxy has the other approaches too, you can see a Tongue Fountain over in Beach Bowl Galaxy. https://noclip.website/#smg/HeavenlyBeachGalaxy;ShareData=AA... A few of the effects also have variants of the "Wormy Fountains" style, most notably in the Warp Pod code. Their particle system lets them do those sorts of "Stripe Particles" as they call them, as well. https://twi…
What Software did you use to animate your examples so nicely? The example-pictures and texts move very nicely around on your slide.
The water effects in "Sea of Thieves" are extraordinary. I'm not a big game player, but am tempted to purchase just so I can watch the water.
Love this exposition of visual effects!
Forgive this being slightly off topic, but you might also enjoy these posts of a similar flavour, on the game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I particular enjoyed the Silhouette Effect section in the first of the two. https://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/03/10/deus-ex-huma... https://lousodrome.net/blog/light/2015/05/18/reverse-enginee...
https://www.froyok.fr/blog/2012-10-breakdown-shadow-of-the-c...
https://www.froyok.fr/blog/2015-12-breakdown-assassins-creed...
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What I really like about GTAV is, that it respected the time of the player. It does not force you to replay the WHOLE mission when you missed the goal (because of a car accident) but has nice checkpoints. Also it doesn't force you to play horrible missions like the toy helicopter bomb mission from Vice City. With that, it's the first GTA I can actually play and enjoy and I'm sure it will be the first one I finish - e…
I never got far in China Town Wars. Still have my copy; guess I should start it up next weekend to give it a second chance.