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[Alright]

Holy shit that game takes me back. Cheers dude, I haven't thought about that game in decades

 

[8bitpill]

Back in my day...

 

[regawdless]

Couldn't find a gif, but I remember these explosions fondly.

Outcast (1999)

For the time, the chunks of the ground flying around looked amazing.

 

[Aldynes]

Couldn't find a gif, but I remember these explosions fondly.

Outcast (1999)

For the time, the chunks of the ground flying around looked amazing.

VOXELS baby !

 

[Aldynes]

I love when game engines take into account all explosives in an area and if you set one off and the game knows the others will blow too it doesn't just spawn 20 smaller explosions it actually combines them together into a bigger splosion, Crysis did it and I think Just Cause 3 and 4 do it to a certain extent. I believe a lot of the physics are precalculated before you actually see it happening so every game should do it.

Any other games you guys know of that do this?

Also, shout out to blast waves in Just Cause 3 and 4, so great when you get blasted off a ledge by a giant explosion, makes it have so much more impact.

This is very interesting, I'm pretty sure seeing this on some games but can't recall which one, I guess Goldeneye uses this system for it's chain reactions to a lesser extent, Jagged Alliance 2 feels that way also.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[lachesis]

.. please be mindful of the singing of that guy. lol.

User triggered explosions are my favorites. I know it's not as fancy as like movie set types of explosions visually, but the random mess these things creates are sometimes rather satisfying.
(Like gathering ton of TNTs and blow a big hole into the ground on Minecraft..)

 

[Alright]

What was the game on the Xbox 360 where you could manipulate the level/land by making it sink or rise?

I'm sure that had some good explosions.

And the one where you threw that big ninja death star. Dark sector was it?

 

[regawdless]

What was the game on the Xbox 360 where you could manipulate the level/land by making it sink or rise?

I'm sure that had some good explosions.

This game?

 

[nkarafo]

Metal Slug series:

By far the best hand drawn explosion i have ever seen. Including cartoons and anime.

 

[Wonko_C]

Nothing like a Shmup Boss explosion, complete with dramatic slowdown+frameskip and heavy bass:

 

[Keihart]

Metal Slug series:

More gas expansion than explosion, but I still love these cannon muzzle flashes:

The thread made me realize how much better animated explosions are and how the fuck they keep sucking in 3d games, not even more extreme stylized games have good looking explosions. Those metal slug explosions look better than anything i can think of.

 

[Aldynes]

Nothing like a Shmup Boss explosion, complete with dramatic slowdown+frameskip and heavy bass:

That Psyvariar 2 explosion are completely insane, fucking brutal !

Also Raiden DX got the tiniest of details right, like every debris falls to the ground below, making impact everywhere trees get burned houses got damaged, truly a feast for the eyes!




And for the sound effects, i love me some M.U.S.H.A explosions.

 

[SSfox]

RE5 explosions were super cutting edge on its time.

 

[Aldynes]

RE5 explosions were super cutting edge on its time.

Capcom MT Framework, Lost Planet , Dead rising and RE 5 got awesome explosions.

 

[Alright]

This game?

That's the one

 

[Aldynes]

That's the one

It's actually pretty light on explosions, just watched some gameplay and I've struggled to find them, kind of sad with such a cool concept of letting the player terraforming in real time...

I let you be the judge

 

[Alright]

It's actually pretty light on explosions, just watched some gameplay and I've struggled to find them, kind of sad with such a cool concept of letting the player terraforming in real time...

I let you be the judge

I might be mixing two games up. Lots of alcohol back in 360 days

 

[regawdless]

Freespace 2

 

[GymWolf]

Mad max exploding cars

 

[Kurimao]

Killzone 2 explosions are for me still unbeaten:

Sony must rerelease this on PC!

 

[regawdless]

Sony must rerelease this on PC!

Imagine a mod removing the input lag and playing it with direct mouse input.

 

[Con-Z-epT]

Couldn't find a gif, but I remember these explosions fondly.

Outcast (1999)

For the time, the chunks of the ground flying around looked amazing.

Best i could find.

Not even a good video around.

 

[Team Andromeda]

 

[UnNamed]

So many destroyed starships (and millions of dollars lost forever) the game almost stopped working.

 

[regawdless]

Best i could find.

Not even a good video around.

Found some, time stamped.



Unfortunately obstructed by trees to a certain degree. Still cool explosions.

 

[Aldynes]

So many destroyed starships (and millions of dollars lost forever) the game almost stopped working.

It's amazing, I've heard of it many times and it never cease to amazed me upon watching it, one of the biggest gaming moment for the medium as a whole, the equivalent of putting (expensive) red barrels in space in one spot and see what happen next when you fire.

At least they got out with a bang!

 

[regawdless]

Rocket League has great explosions btw

 

[Fuz]

I'M READING IT AGAIN AND I'M IN TEARS

 

[Aldynes]

For explosions in Fighting Games we got Doctrine Dark :

My man eyes are always wide open and he's perpetually high after sniffing one of Garuda's farts ( it's canon look it up ) dude's got some explosives to set traps on wake up or uses them to extend his combos, oh and the best part : he says EXPLOSHUN every time !

 

[Nico_D]

Spoilers for those who haven't played Mass Effect:

Spoiler

 

[Mr. PlayStation]

The mushroom clouds seen in BF4 campaign is some next-gen stuff even to this day

 

[Birdo]

Battlefront had some good ones:

 

[cireza]

Nothing like a Shmup Boss explosion, complete with dramatic slowdown+frameskip and heavy bass:

And Kuranghi :

Came for Psyvariar 2 and pretty sprites. Thanks for delivering.

Also this one :

 

[EverydayBeast]

Dice gave up explosive environments with Bf1 and v to get the world war themes which made gamers upset. BFBC2 was just off the charts with explosives not that explosives aren’t possible in BF1, V.