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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

People "this game is so unrealistic, there's no way these biomes would be this close and distinct"

Also people "flying through space for weeks to visit a baren rock is so bullshit and biting"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

Yes, and I love them for it. ^^

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

You're lucky if the game has reasonable climate progression like this. Most games the frozen zone is right next to forest zone which is right next to the volcano zone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Wouldn't it be kind of boring if it was just like the great plains for 40 miles with maybe a singular river on the far side?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Just Cause 4 is the embodiment of this lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Palworld lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Pillars of Eternity Deadfire :D

[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, in Star Wars:

"This is Snow World. It's all snow there. That is Wet World. The whole planet is wet. Over there is Sand World. Nothing but sand everywhere."

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Behold Coruscant! The entire planet ... is a city!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I mean, that is just a sci-fi concept. Ecumenopolis.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Behold Umate

Coruscant's tallest mountain and the only place where the planet's surface is still visible.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's some trivia I did not previously know, thank umate

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You should watch Andor. It's an actual good star wars show. Probably because it is mostly an original story in the star wars universe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I did not expect an absolutely savage takedown of capitalism in the middle of my Rogue One prequel. 10/10, would unionize my workplace.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Absolutely loved Andor, the tension was so thick.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Layout is like 1 for 1 almost with Super Mario World

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

I mean, yeah, but this is like showing a picture of the alphabet and saying "this is spot on for so many books."

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Eh, except so many double-down (or triple) on the swamps and caves while omitting more interesting settings like glaciers, oases, rainforests, and river deltas.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don’t understand why the post is supposed to be funny or critical

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I think it is funny because, in reality, these different features would not appear in the world right next to one another. This map is a dramatization of geological features with no variation or nuance that naturally occurs. But for video games, it is easier to differentiate areas with these clear geological differences so the player can be like, "Oh yes, the island town." Or "it's close to the mountain" It's just an acknowlegdment if how so many video games have done the same strange thing in order to streamline gameplay.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's funny that a desire for biome diversity has led in a small way to a kind of sameyness. Not so much a criticism as an amusing little irony.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If a game is supposed to take after earth then ofc its gonna look like earth. I don't really see the point here. The last couple open world game I have played are cyberpunk and satisfactory so I definitely don't see the point here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Satisfactory is a fairly good example of it (and also a game I am obsessed with). Games differentiate areas with biomes often, but the position of biomes often follows no climate logic. Having a rainforest and high desert and boreal forest, each maybe 1km x 1km within a 5x5 km area, with stark borders between them would be utterly bizarre on earth. Satisfactory does it's part to hide this by having such a maze like layout, broken up by the steep karst landscape, with no clear line of sight across the whole map most of the time, but a lot of games just let that be something we suspend our disbelief for in order to have more variety in the game. Satisfactory also can do some hand waving of it through the implication that it's some sort of alien garden world as well, and might be ecologically influenced by an entity which may be pursuing variety (that said I haven't gathered all the mercer spheres, that's just the vibe I get fairly early in the game). The bizarreness is reduced by not having a taiga or frozen desert in that same 5km x 5km region, something some games will include so they can have a snowy place as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

That is something I am completely happy with. I certainly can't think of a better way to implement the biomes and variety with the restrictions of game development and scope in mind.

But my main point was that the games doesn't feel similar just because they all have biomes, not exactly on the feasibility which can't really be put together logically within a small limited map. There always a balance between logic, practicality and entertainment value.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Zelda did that in the 80s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I hate the whole top right section. Those are usually the boring filler zones.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, what else do you want?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Name one open-world game from the past 5 years whose map looks like this. Seriously. I'd like to play it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Monster Hunter Rise, although it's not exactly open world

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Satisfactory. Alien planet version.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

As an American, now living in Canada for the past 20 years, I am really not into the winter area in games I'm currently playing PoE Deadfire Breath of Winter and I want to go back to the beaches and kill stuff :D

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I remember when Skyrim came out I was living in a drafty house with no heat in a snowy winter. I was wrapped in like 5 layers sitting at my PC going "Why couldn't this have been in a desert" lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It must've been pretty immersive

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Playing Fallout: New Vegas in the Texas summer will make you wish for a nuclear winter.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well yeah. You gotta have sound in a videogame. That's a no brainer.

And although you no longer need to have your TV on channel 3 or 4, you do need to use an input for it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Still want to go here

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Wait, no tributaries? Unplayable!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Honestly I'd love is someone made exactly that map to play around in in a sandbox game

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Or go Star Wars with it and make the entire planet the same geography.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

It kept things interesting! If not realistic, it was always beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never completed that one but had explored most of the mainland. I really need to go back and go through it all again. I loved the small details throughout the world. The wilderness and countryside was so well done, with little shrines along the roads here and there and so many lived-in places throughout. I spent 75% of my playtime with Roach set to a slow trot just so I could really absorb the world and feel like I was making a journey on those old roads. There's something so profoundly Witcher about quietly riding dark paths at night and stopping to hear a monster in the woods. You climb off Roach and draw your silver sword, then make your way into that decrepit forest to deal with whatever is going on out there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Witcher 3 was one of the few games I 100% and didnt use fast travel... the journey was half the game.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Far Cry to some extent.

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