Oct 28th, 2018, 12:19 AM
Basically a thread for you to talk about things that have caught your attention while gaming, but that wouldn't necessarily warrant their own topic otherwise.
Everything is alright, from sightings of very oddly-placed assets to your own theories regarding the existence or characters and/or inventory objects. Go nuts
Since this is Spooketober after all, I'd like to kick things off by talking about something that I just can't seem to stop focusing on while playing --or, well, trying to-- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
Man, Raccoon City would be a pretty awful place to live in, zombie outbreak or not.
Everything on that place seems to have fallen to a state of complete abandonment, with assets not having been maintained in what looks like ages (and I don't think that's because of the zombies; the amount of dirt in some areas seems to have been created since long before that came to be). I also find it rather interesting how the city is laid out, with key areas being seemingly out of the way regardless of which direction you approach them from, and the amount of very narrow streets covering pretty much all areas (at least, early on) seem to suggest that the whole thing would be repulsive for those not particularly in love with small or cluttered places.
Funnily enough, I didn't start realizing any of this until I got to the park, which takes a big of a walk around in the first place and doesn't look particularly coherent in design once you are in it. I know this was made this way to prevent the player from wandering around in what otherwise would have been a very open map, but the realization came with the subtlety of a brick: Raccoon City wouldn't be able to stand having more than 30 people on the street at any given time. Some city (although, I guess "Raccoon Village" wouldn't sound nearly as cool)
It's funny how I never started questioning any of that when I was younger and it's only now that my gaming time is limited that I can point at the maddening level design and realize how unreal it all feels.
Absolutely great game, though
Well... that went on for longer than expected xD But tell us, what are your Stray Observations in gaming?
Everything is alright, from sightings of very oddly-placed assets to your own theories regarding the existence or characters and/or inventory objects. Go nuts
Since this is Spooketober after all, I'd like to kick things off by talking about something that I just can't seem to stop focusing on while playing --or, well, trying to-- Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
Man, Raccoon City would be a pretty awful place to live in, zombie outbreak or not.
Everything on that place seems to have fallen to a state of complete abandonment, with assets not having been maintained in what looks like ages (and I don't think that's because of the zombies; the amount of dirt in some areas seems to have been created since long before that came to be). I also find it rather interesting how the city is laid out, with key areas being seemingly out of the way regardless of which direction you approach them from, and the amount of very narrow streets covering pretty much all areas (at least, early on) seem to suggest that the whole thing would be repulsive for those not particularly in love with small or cluttered places.
Funnily enough, I didn't start realizing any of this until I got to the park, which takes a big of a walk around in the first place and doesn't look particularly coherent in design once you are in it. I know this was made this way to prevent the player from wandering around in what otherwise would have been a very open map, but the realization came with the subtlety of a brick: Raccoon City wouldn't be able to stand having more than 30 people on the street at any given time. Some city (although, I guess "Raccoon Village" wouldn't sound nearly as cool)
It's funny how I never started questioning any of that when I was younger and it's only now that my gaming time is limited that I can point at the maddening level design and realize how unreal it all feels.
Absolutely great game, though
Well... that went on for longer than expected xD But tell us, what are your Stray Observations in gaming?