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Didn't they actually take pictures of the tracks to use as/in textures somehow? Or something similar? That might make it less of a... well... detail.
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The most insane detail you have seen in a game
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Didn't they actually take pictures of the tracks to use as/in textures somehow? Or something similar? That might make it less of a... well... detail.
Leaves on cars in Watch Dogs 2. Noticed this last night. Cray.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lHvac-auM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lHvac-auM
TheRedSnifit
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System Shock had an outrageously advanced character physics system for 1994, for the sole purpose of weird small movement details. Your character's head tilts forward when you start to run, and jerks back a bit when you stop. If you run in a tight circle, you lean a bit towards the center. If you run into something or get shot, the part of your body that got hit recoils in the opposite direction.
I can't think of many FPSs that do that even today. Or any, really.
I can't think of many FPSs that do that even today. Or any, really.
SliceSabre
Banned
In Odin Sphere Leifthrasir whenever your character eats food out in the field they all have different animation when they finish.
Example: Mercedes licks her fingers, Gwendolyn covers her mouth as she finishes the last bits etc.
Completely meaningless thing few people probably notice and doesn't affect the game whatsoever but I thought it was funny.
Example: Mercedes licks her fingers, Gwendolyn covers her mouth as she finishes the last bits etc.
Completely meaningless thing few people probably notice and doesn't affect the game whatsoever but I thought it was funny.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
Lazy response. Be more specific. OP still had the lead with Metroid.
nkarafo
Member
Yeah.
But in the case of Metroid is more impressive to me because you can't normally see her hand since it's inside the canon.
They didn't even have to model it but not only they did, they even added those animations for each weapon.
LordKasual
Banned
Ignis's glasses having prescription comes to mind recently.
I know this is only because of the way the engine renders translucent surfaces, but the fact they applied it to his glasses is pretty awesome.
FFXV Muscle group jiggle
Individual muscle groups, or any large, fleshy part on a creature, have jiggle physics applied to them. It's hard to see without actually playing the game because most of the time it's pretty subtle, but when i noticed it easily became the coolest attention to animation detail i've seen in a while. It's easily noticeable on something like Titan because he's massive, but even the toes/neck of the Behemoth have slight physics applied to it.
FFXV is filled with alot of very detailed physics-assisted animation routines. I recall one video where Ignis and Prompto are in the car, Ignis moves his arm to grab the seat to reverse park and it hits Prompto's face, but the characters actually collide and move accordingly without clipping or looking super awkward.
There's another gif where someone managed to glitch the opening car push sequence and push Noctis away from the car, but his arms and hands still follow the car door rim as he's being pushed away.
mcz117chief
Member
I was asking, hence the question mark but I think I read somewhere that if you lie on the ground in jail or in the Vulcan Raven boss arena for too long you can catch cold and start sneezing.
DavionStriker
Member
I was thinking this the entire time, well done. Also you can smith a sword.
In Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Venus Weeds are watered with human blood, and Blue Venus Weeds are watered with demon blood (according to the Master Librarian's bestiary). When either one shoots projectiles, the projectiles that hit and stick into Alucard bloom into flowers. Very cool detail that took me years to notice.
Triggerhappytel
Member
In Metal Gear Solid 2 in the opening chapter you basically need to reach a location to progress the story. On the way you pass through a bar, and sitting on the bar counter-top is a glass with a bunch of ice cubes in it. If you shoot the glass it falls over, the ice cubes spill over the counter and if you stay there watching them, they slowly melt. It serves no purpose and most people would probably never notice it, but is an amazing little detail.
dl77
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Aaaah, thanks. I've been scratching my head trying to think where I've seen ants in a video game recently!
CrichtonKicks
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Don't know about MGS1 but you can definitely catch cold in the opening chapter of MGS2 if you hang out in the rain for too long.
supernormal
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Also the fact that the ice cubes that are closer togethet melt slower than the ones that are by themselves. I played that MGS2 tanker demo way too much.
Bitch Pudding
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The first one is a picture from Breitscheid in Adenau at the Nurburg Circuit. The second one isn't. It's a screenshot from an early GTS trailer.
PD also implemented that painting in Gran Turismo 5 and 6.
The thing is: When you drive around the track, it's impossible to see that painting on that wall. You basically need to stop on the bridge in Wehrseifen, look back and drive the car a little bit to the right so you can barely see it. And even then, you'd probably only appreciate this detail if you're familiar with the surroundings. I was born and grew up there.
royox
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I was pretty impressed by this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/R_Nikaido/status/731043177826680832
I mean, there's no reason to do that. And yet...
dl77
Member
In Uncharted 4 I never noticed until my 2nd playthrough that when you're driving with Sully through that town and being chased by the armoured vehicle that the petrol can at the back independently moves depending upon your driving!
Also, the way that sand bags leak sand and actually deflated once they've been shot.
Also, the way that sand bags leak sand and actually deflated once they've been shot.
Well that was dark...
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Yeah Rockstar with GTA is pretty much the king of this IMO.
Similarly to OP, it was cool in Batman: Arkham City that the 'Joker' you see for more of the game is actually Clayface, and you can tell this by using X-Ray/Detective Vision to look at him. He doesn't have a skeleton.
On-topic: the MGS series and many of Naughty Dog's games are the ultimate examples of this.
In Uncharted 4 I love the way guns are handled. Long weapons actually have straps that the characters actually wrap around their bodies. But even more, if you get into a vehicle the character slots the gun down by their side vertically, and have bespoke animations for that getting into the vehicle from any angle.
Then there's the fact that mud actually dynamically sticks to your character, to objects, to car tires etc. You can roll in mud and it will be stuck on his back specifically, then after a while it will dry and change colour, then you can go in water and it will wash off.
In The Last of Us, blood actually rolls across models realistically. If you get your head bashed in while playing Joel, you can see blood actually rolling down his face across his nose and eyes while he screams to death.
Shit is just insane.
On-topic: the MGS series and many of Naughty Dog's games are the ultimate examples of this.
In Uncharted 4 I love the way guns are handled. Long weapons actually have straps that the characters actually wrap around their bodies. But even more, if you get into a vehicle the character slots the gun down by their side vertically, and have bespoke animations for that getting into the vehicle from any angle.
Then there's the fact that mud actually dynamically sticks to your character, to objects, to car tires etc. You can roll in mud and it will be stuck on his back specifically, then after a while it will dry and change colour, then you can go in water and it will wash off.
In The Last of Us, blood actually rolls across models realistically. If you get your head bashed in while playing Joel, you can see blood actually rolling down his face across his nose and eyes while he screams to death.
Shit is just insane.
Not sure if this is an example of insane detail as much as evidence that you have a problem.
Gai Murakumo
Member
I completely forgot about that. It is totally not necessary to program that, but a nice attention to detail regardless.
Metroid Prime is one of the best games ever OP.
That is god damn cool, has to go in OP.
That's just the physics engine though. It happens when you slide down the slopes too. When anything touches it basically.
I think OP is referring to minor details that most people wouldn't notice.
It's still crazy detail though, and I definitely stopped to do a double take the first time I saw it. You just know a developer probably spent a week or 2 just getting that right.
Uncharted 4 - I dunno why, but I was amazed that in the jeep sections where you had to attach a tow to certain pillars to pull bridges down etc that it wasn't just go over there and press triangle to attach it, you actually had to run around the post first to wrap it around AND then you had to actually jump over the cable if you needed to get over it. One of a huge amount of tiny details in that game. The little collection of rubble that would follow you down the sliding sections were awesome too.
In Witcher 3 if you cast Aard at water, it blows really cool dynamic ripples across the surface of the water.
In Witcher 3 if you cast Aard at water, it blows really cool dynamic ripples across the surface of the water.
I mean it's not out yet, but all the physics stuff in the new zelda, including lightning being attracted by metal and stuff..
An...enemy attack knocking you back into a surface?
The Leonard Nimoy memorial space-station in Elite Dangerous was an unexpected joy in a stupidly big galaxy.
The metroid one and a lot of examples in here are pretty neat, but the ice cube one doesn't really get me.
It's very common practice to have cleanup with destructible objects. The most common methods out there are fading away, scaling to 0, or just making it disappear hoping the player is looking way. Keep in mind someone spent probably a few hours to days on working all the breakables in MGS2, and when they got to the ice they made a clever choice to use the scaling method very slowly since it sort of makes it look like it's melting.
It's not like Kojima and all had a meeting on realism and subversive ideas and decided to put a bucket of ice in the game that specifically had cubes explode out and melt when shot.
At least that's my guess.
It's very common practice to have cleanup with destructible objects. The most common methods out there are fading away, scaling to 0, or just making it disappear hoping the player is looking way. Keep in mind someone spent probably a few hours to days on working all the breakables in MGS2, and when they got to the ice they made a clever choice to use the scaling method very slowly since it sort of makes it look like it's melting.
It's not like Kojima and all had a meeting on realism and subversive ideas and decided to put a bucket of ice in the game that specifically had cubes explode out and melt when shot.
At least that's my guess.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Ants in Skyrim.
In Dead Rising 2, there's a boss named Slappy who rides around on roller skates with two flamethrowers. Normally you can just dodge his attacks and eventually he'll get tired, leaving you an opening to attack. However, on one run, I'd consumed a bunch of wine to heal myself and ended up getting sick, causing me to throw up every few seconds. At one point Slappy skated through my puddle of vomit and actually slipped and fell, giving me an opening to attack him.
When this first happened I had to pause the game, in shock of how insane that little detail was.
In addition in the same fight, you can put out his flames by shooting a water gun or fire extinguisher on him.
When this first happened I had to pause the game, in shock of how insane that little detail was.
In addition in the same fight, you can put out his flames by shooting a water gun or fire extinguisher on him.
I think he/she is referring to how - it looks like (hard to tell because of GIF quality) - link's body kinda moves around the tree a bit when hitting it.
ss_lemonade
Member
Isn't that an issue with the engine? The car's windshield does the same, visible right at the start of the gameIgnis's glasses having prescription comes to mind recently.
A very MGS sort of detail. Awesome.
Not a bad point, but remember that MGS 1-PW are all in small instances. IIRC nothing in the "level" is culled until you leave - at which point it's totally reset. Like nothing else in the room that you break or play with will disappear - but the ice will melt. It's a specific thing.
Still, you make a good point b
AgentLampshade
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Arkham Knight's hallucinations. Take any midgame save, look at any billboard and rotate the camera around a few times. What was once a jewelry ad is now a lot more sinister.
Ya, would be more impressive if little puddles of water formed. Then you'd know it was deliberate.
MarcusAurelius32
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I'm playing through the game again and it's full of awesome little details like this.