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[nkarafo]

Couldn't replay RE2 Remake with the other character because i had to go through these long, boring, tunnels of bricks again.

I feel like i see them too often in games. Why devs use them so much? I bet it's because they are long, boring corridors with the same brick textures over and over so they must be easy to make and also go easy on the hardware as well?

 

[ROMhack]

Reminds me of a running joke in those early Bro Team videos

 

[Relativ9]

Warehouses and generic office buildings come to mind; see the F.E.A.R franchise.

 

[rofif]

Warehouses and generic office buildings come to mind; see the F.E.A.R franchise.

Office shootouts are the best shootouts

 

[Geki-D]

In games sewers are pretty much a biome at this point.

 

[nikolino840]

I hate Just becouse of the labirinth puzzles...

 

[nkarafo]

Warehouses and generic office buildings come to mind; see the F.E.A.R franchise.

At least offices have some furniture and objects to blast. FEAR was pretty good with this so at least it looked good. Sewers have nothing in them, they are empty tunnels.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Depends on the artists/level designer.

But yeah, agreed in general. Just thinking about it, I kind of eyeroll.

 

[Perrott]

Office shootouts are the best shootouts

 

[CobraXT]

Nothing more bland and boring then office building hallways

 

[nkarafo]

Yeah, this game still looks amazing. Offices can often look fancy and artsy in real life. Nobody cares about sewers though, they are made to transfer shit so no architect will care about the looks.

 

[Lupin3]

Fuck the sewers!

 

[ROMhack]

Office shootouts are the best shootouts

We're talking about games here, right...

 

[rofif]

We're talking about games here, right...

Debirs, flying papers, glass. Fear does it great

 

[marianus]

Desert levels. They're all brown, boring, empty and endless.

 

[DelireMan7]

Anything involving lava is boring for me

 

[nkarafo]

Desert levels. They're all brown, boring, empty and endless.

Dunno, i really liked how Serious Sam games look. But thats maybe because they also combine Ancient Egyptian archtecture, which looks great in games.

 

[turtlepowa]

I hate sewer levels with a passion since i played Redneck Rampage with the stuck door bug. Ran through that level for hours and by that time i had no internet and no cheat codes.

 

[qiqiqiiq]

I liked the sewer level in Arkham Asylum.

 

[makaveli60]

Yep, I'm trying to remember a good sewer level, but I can only remember that I hated it in all games.

 

[cireza]

Pure. Magic.



That music. That bass :

 

[bumleforce]

The warehouse level in any game

 

[Kataploom]

For me, American old west. Nothing even come close.

 

[nkarafo]

For me, American old west. Nothing even come close.

I kinda hate it too but i still want to play RDR2

 

[OrionNebula]

Desert levels. They're all brown, boring, empty and endless.

So you must’ve really enjoyed Assassin’s Creed Origins & Mad Max


Also :

 

[Diddy X]

Underwater has some bad levels but it is yet to be nailed so there is hope.


Any setting can be good or bad depending how they pull it off, let's say there is nothing as bland and boring as contaminated Chernobyl, right? well they pulled off an awesome level at Cod 4.

There are examples of good and bad fo any setting, be it lava, snow, circus, offices, etc.

 

[Siri]

Lava levels.

Typically these involve little stones from which you have to jump to land on the next one. Your goal, of course is to cross the river of lava, but typically there will be one or two tricky jumps that will get you killed, and you’ll have to re-load and try again.

Also, I can’t believe how good this game looks. That video makes me want to reinstall Max Payne 3.

 

[Rean no Kiseki]

Desert levels. They're all brown, boring, empty and endless.

 

[Stilton Disco]

Sewers can at least occasionally have some interesting elements and can work well in horror games, but yeah, they do often suck.

Far worse for my money are caves, sewers older and even blander uncle, that have all the same issues but further compinded by monotonous and hard to tell apart surfaces that make it far too easy to miss where you were meant to be going .

 

[KiNeMz]

air vents. both places no human being would venture. games are so unrealistic

 

[INC]

Desert and snow maps in mp

 

[stranno]

Reminds me of a running joke in those early Bro Team videos

Good lord the on-screen rain effect of this game

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

Sewers do suck. Getting lost in the underground railway during Fallout 3 (which is pretty much a sewer environment) is one of my most frustrating gaming memories.

 

[hyperbertha]

Yes! Caves. 2x worse than sewers.

 

[INC]

If you hate sewers, dont play alyx, that shits 1 long sewer/corridor

 

[ZeroZeroQuatre]

Swamps.

Sewers are somewhat tolerable, cause they can still have some nice secrets. It's also pretty satisfying when you finally escape'em.
Unless those sewers lead to swamps.

Just no.

 

[Boss Mog]

It's crazy that a game that came out over 8 years ago still looks this good today. Props to R*, but where's my Max Payne 4 at?

 

[Husky]

Desert levels. They're all brown, boring, empty and endless.

I came to say desert, especially after playing Assassin's Creed Origins. But I fuckin loved Mad Max's map...
I honestly think tropics get repetitive pretty easily. But I guess just about any sort of setting feels bland if the game never mixes things up.

 

[Esppiral]

Underwater sections, I just hate them.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Can't be fucked with swamp areas anymore in games now.

 

[YCoCg]

It's crazy that a game that came out over 8 years ago still looks this good today. Props to R*, but where's my Max Payne 4 at?

The PC version of Max Payne is crazy detailed, they really bumped up the quality for that version, the "final bullet" texture (which each weapon has) has a base texture that's 2048x2048 and detail/spec texture that's 1024x1024.

 

[brian0057]

I'll take sewers over factories and/or industrial complexes any day.

 

[Birdo]

Alien Space Ship.

Endless tunnels copy-and-pasted into a maze. Every time.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Castles.

 

[Spaceman292]

The sewers in Mirrors Edge are heart-stoppingly gorgeous. But for everything else I agree with you. Sewer levels are just when the level designer gives up.

 

[DoctorEkkoUK]

Yep, I'm trying to remember a good sewer level, but I can only remember that I hated it in all games.

left 4 dead?

 

[sublimit]

Oh boy you're going to love FFVIIR....

 

[makaveli60]

left 4 dead?

Didn't play that.

 

[CAB_Life]

Deserts. Every MMORPG ever has one and I always fall asleep—literally—at least once in said zones.

 

[Papa]

Warehouses and generic office buildings come to mind; see the F.E.A.R franchise.

Maybe you’re not an office worker, but I find it cathartic