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jungleroomx
It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered User regular
It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered User regular
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Yeah, like I said, they got stuff right. The elemental interaction with materials is cool. The travel is cool.
I just found the main gameplay combat loop fundamentally unfun, and that's a significant portion of your time in the game.
The actual folks who own Sonic will never, ever, ever do this concept justice, but lord I would pay $100 for that game and I'm not even very good at Sonic games.
From knows how to make game worlds and combat fun.
Sekiro also showed they know how to make movement fun. If they can manage this over the entire expanse of their map, it's going to be quite the experience I think.
Very good idea
Always have been
It would be pretty hard to make this on a technical level but I think it could probably be done. The main thing standing in the way is the same thing that makes most sonic titles just not very fun to play: if the player character is expected to have a faster reaction time than the actual player, you either have to make the game partly play itself, or you have to encourage the player to rehearse race pathways several times, then play them from memory.
This is why the games have always played more like proto-runners than platformers, and never could make the jump to more freeform gameplay formats.
I've always wondered if it was a design problem or a technical limitation that they never put out an open world sonic game.
A lot of games right now are flaunting big open worlds with insane texture streaming thanks to direct access methods, and I gotta wonder if they're doing so because it just wasn't as viable before when everything had to go GPU > CPU > Storage
I feel like there are a lot of tricks you can do to make the character feel faster than they are actually travelling, and make it so that the player can slightly screw up what they are trying to do without breaking the momentum of the gameplay (one of the biggest sins of modern sonic).
Yeah, that kind of stuff is what direct access is letting devs do, now that texture loading has been essentially sped up to insane levels.
Placing the camera low to the ground, giving the camera a short lens, making everything else really slow, making the world relatively sparse so the player's APM isn't really higher than other games. I feel like it's all been tried in the sonic adventure titles and they never quite made it work.
They literally just need to do what F-Zero GX did almost 2 decades ago, whatever it was.
Right, giving him that sort of auto-parkour where he reacts intelligently to surfaces would do a lot, but I could imagine it being difficult to make. I'm imagining something that is PS4 Spider-Man amounts of giving the player control but fudging things so that movement comes together smoothly.
post of the year, pack it up folks
The speed rifts were the worst
Pretty much for all the reasons DK articulated
is there a particular name for an agile antipattern where devs code "to the story" and hardcode logic to meet the business scenario presented
Even something like "every flat surface is a bumper if you hold the parkour button down" would get you a bit closer.
TBF he was kind of an asshole. :?
farron swamp, the forbidden woods in bloodborne, darkroot garden, the frozen wastes
just a murderer's row
fromsoft is great at making a series of tunnels connect to each other, making a big open area to explore.... ehhhhhhhh
sekiro had good map design tho, so as long as they can keep it focused it should work
i think they made them on accident
Movement is fast in ER, from what I gather. You have no stamina reduction from running outside of combat, plus horse and fast travel. Vaati equated the movement to be more like Sekiro than Souls.
Plus now you can run away from field boss fights.
if you just watch this video, i can understand coming away with the mistaken impression that SA2 is a good video game
When it got ip-banned and they added a captcha they converted it into an iOS app to crowdsource the required human intervention
Godspeed, that person
i like how this is supposed to be a military base
and sonic rides the rocket for all of 4 seconds before jumping into what looks like a giant garbage chute
and how he didn't actually escape the base because you end up right next back to the launch pad