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InFamous SS vs Seattle in Real Life
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plasmawave
Banned
Yakuza.
HORRORSHØW
Member
needs more toe truck and gum wall.
DoubleTake
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LOL This.
KINGofCRA5H
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civilstrife
Member
I love videogames.
Coolbgdog12
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What resolution is real life at?
UnluckyKate
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Same guy doing gt5P vs real life ?
TheAdmiester
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PGR3.
See, in the OP you can clearly tell which is which, probably because of how overly clean the game looks. This one I seriously struggle with.
EDIT: Just noticed the race barriers in the bottom left one, I guess it's the bottom that's from the game.
For real
EatinOlives
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I didn't like the way they rendered their version of Seattle. They lifted individual small landmarks pretty faithfully but then ruined all illusion by not giving a shit about the bigger picture.
I mean look at this:
^fuck?
I mean look at this:
^fuck?
ClivePwned
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The Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica
in GTAV (sort of)
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electroflame
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Look at those streets in Real Life. So barren, you'd think it was last gen.
Also, Real Life needs more SSAO.
Also, Real Life needs more SSAO.
The Praiseworthy
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lol true.
MrTroubleMaker
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Its neat to see the location comparisons.
Rogue_Ledr
Banned
Real life needs better lighting effects.
TheAdmiester
Member
That looks fantastic, all it's lacking is that overblown grey sky we've seen in a lot of these real life shots.
HI. BILLY MAYS HERE
Banned
PGR3.
So they just pasted photos on to models? Also is that legal?
Gran Turismo 5/6
Hype for gt on ps4 intensifies
someguyinahat
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I was just about to ask this. Do you need permission to use the likeness of buildings and/or the name? Would they have to pay Elephant Super Car Wash for the use of their presumably trademarked name, or would the car wash pay them for what's basically advertising?
7DollarHagane
Banned
I drive through chicago many times a year and am very much looking forward to driving down the loop in game and see how recognizable it is.
If they're going for a realistic chicago that major I-94 that runs through the city should be in there.
Also the size of the city isn't going to mimic real life simply because Infamous is an action game and at that size it would take too long to get around and there would be a lot of empty space that serves no purpose.
sportzhead
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SS Seattle is terrible. Played and loved the game, but it is nothing like real world Seattle. They just picked some buildings and landmarks, then placed them in a city setting.
Gran Turismo 5/6
There is usually a bit of creative licence involved with stuff like this. Things not being exact. But these are very accurate. Even down to the number of arches and windows etc. no wonder GT games take so damn long. Maybe if they took a more relaxed approach, like recreating a general "feel" for a location (like infamous), rather then a carbon copy, we'd get games faster?
IIRC, Sucker Punch wasn't able to stick the Space Needle into the game and call it a day. I believe they had to work things out with city officials first. On that same note, Polyphony got into trouble for creating a track (or was it a photo mode spot?) at a historic location. I'm not sure if it was a money issue, but Polyphony solved the problem by removing the track entirely.
Keyser Soze
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Driv3r
7DollarHagane
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This part cracked me up on N64.%20%20snap0030.jpg)
The real life I-94 is *sort of* similar.. you see the skyline with the sears tower, enter a tunnel for about 5 minutes, then you're in the middle of the city and no skyline.
EatinOlives
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Second Son's city could actually use with being bigger. It's too small as it is, already the smallest of the inFamous games, and it doesn't help that traversal options make Delsin much faster than Cole ever was. The game map is tiny, Seattle recreation or no Seattle recreation.
At any rate, size isn't really my concern so much as it is the actual layout of the city. SP didn't even attempt at nailing down a "general" layout, even if it isn't 1:1 (and yes, games with real-life settings are almost always not 1:1). The novelty of seeing the Seattle Center, for instance, is kinda shattered when the scale is completely (not even partially) off and the area not two inches surrounding the center looks absolutely nothing like the real thing.
And let's be real, SS's Seattle already has a ton of empty, purposeless space, even though it's tiny as I mentioned before.
Did I mention I really didn't like SS's Seattle? 
7DollarHagane
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I think a lot of this stuff is accomplished in games like GT, Forza, Madden, and MLB by using 3D scanning technology that captures a real life location and that data is modified to be usable in a game.
They don't create it all from scratch. its kind of like motion capture for a location or environment.
7DollarHagane
Banned
Second Son's city could actually use with being bigger. It's too small as it is, already the smallest of the inFamous games, and it doesn't help that traversal options make Delsin much faster than Cole ever was. The game map is tiny, Seattle recreation or no Seattle recreation.
At any rate, size isn't really my concern so much as it is the actual layout of the city. SP didn't even attempt at nailing down a "general" layout, even if it isn't 1:1 (and yes, games with real-life settings are almost always not 1:1). The novelty of seeing the Seattle Center, for instance, is kinda shattered when the scale is completely (not even partially) off and the area not two inches surrounding the center looks absolutely nothing like the real thing.
And let's be real, SS's Seattle already has a ton of empty, purposeless space, even though it's tiny as I mentioned before.
Did I mention I really didn't like SS's Seattle?
I don't disagree. It's good for a launch game. Think of it like Saints Row 1 - we still have yet to see Saints Row the 3rd
Bluekaveli
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Beast did you take these with your one million dollar 20K Super Ascended HD Camera?
Yankee. Hotel. Foxtrot.
They were going for the "feel" of Seattle while not attempting to match it outside of the occasional landmark, but I agree. ISS's Seattle feels like a medium-sized city nestled amongst a few tree-covered hills. It's a very low-key vibe.
The real-world Seattle has a very different overall geometry to it. Any time you look at a horizon in Second Sun, there's not much Seattle to it, outside of the very well-realized Space Needle (and Seattle Center arches) in its own right. They even threw a large ridge to the left of Rainier for some reason, which makes it feel small and nearby, and which pretty much completely obliterates its striking figure (I didn't expect a team from Bellevue to make that decision).
