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    Fog plays an important role in many games. In games like Silent Hill, it's an atmospheric element. In other games, it's artificially added to reduce draw distances to save memory and increase framerate.

    I love fog!!!

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    #1  Edited By AlwaysAngry

     
    Anyway, I always have loved fog in games. People think that just because a game enters the modern era, it need huge draw distances and what-not. I strongly disagree. Sure, Fallout 3 benefited alot form draw distances, but check out SOCOM: Confrontation. I remember back in the day, when it was about strategy. Now, every game on DG is just "I can't run down the middle or else I'll get sniped!!!" What happened to lurking in the shadows, being stealthy? 
     
    How would a modern Silent Hill game be without fog? (Or any horror game for that matter.) 
     
     
    I really appreciate fog in video games when it's done right. Sometimes it's used out of laziness, sometimes it's used for atmosphere, and sometimes people can use it for that nice stealthy approach. 
     
     
    Take the blizzard in the second level of MW2. The blizzard hid your approach and let you be a little sneaky. Imagine fog instead of snow, and imagine a different setting. Fog has so much potential. I just love fog so much! 
     
     
    Awww, I took the time to create a not spam article in the fog section and I didn't even get the quest!

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    #2  Edited By FreakAche

    You don't really love fog. I see through your clever ploy.

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    #3  Edited By AlwaysAngry
    @FreakAche said:
    " You don't really love fog. I see through your clever ploy. "
    Yes I do! I even edited the fog page! (Which I'm still proud of!)
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    #4  Edited By eroticfishcake

    I don't like fog. Every time there's fog, someone dies...on that side
     
    >_> 
     
    <_<

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    #5  Edited By Charles

    Sounds like you love fog in games as much as I love water in games

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    #6  Edited By End_Boss
    @AlwaysAngry said:
    " @FreakAche said:
    " You don't really love fog. I see through your clever ploy. "
    Yes I do! I even edited the fog page! (Which I'm still proud of!) "
    I'm still unsure. Sell me on your love of fog.
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    #7  Edited By Dom

    i think Alex Shepherd's house is for sale, it might interest you

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    #8  Edited By FreakAche
    @End_Boss said:

    " @AlwaysAngry said:

    " @FreakAche said:
    " You don't really love fog. I see through your clever ploy. "
    Yes I do! I even edited the fog page! (Which I'm still proud of!) "
    I'm still unsure. Sell me on your love of fog. "
     I'm gonna assume that since this thread was created when the quest system was still new, that this was merely, a misguided attempt to get the Into the Fog quest. In other words, you don't actually love fog.
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    #9  Edited By End_Boss
    @FreakAche:  There's a fucking fog quest? That you can get into from the FORUMS?! FFFFFFFFFFFFHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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    #10  Edited By carlthenimrod

    Smoke grenades = fog in a can.

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    #11  Edited By count_zero

    While I like fog in the real world, I've never felt it's been executed right in a game - in particular, if I'm playing a driving game, or if we get a current-gen Grand Theft Auto game with country environments like San Andreas, I'd like to see if they can properly execute a light fog in the game. In particular, I like that light morning mist, the kind that obscures things way out in the distance, but up close just clings to the ground. Something like this: 
     

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    #12  Edited By buzz_clik

    Oh, god. You've just put it in my head that some days San Francisco doesn't have enough processing power to properly render all the polygons found in the cars, people, buildings and bridges. On those days, the fog rolls in.

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    #13  Edited By AlwaysAngry
    @FreakAche said:

    " @End_Boss said:

    " @AlwaysAngry said:

    " @FreakAche said:
    " You don't really love fog. I see through your clever ploy. "
    Yes I do! I even edited the fog page! (Which I'm still proud of!) "
    I'm still unsure. Sell me on your love of fog. "
     I'm gonna assume that since this thread was created when the quest system was still new, that this was merely, a misguided attempt to get the Into the Fog quest. In other words, you don't actually love fog. "
    I already got that quest before I posted this... 
     
    I also edited the SOCOM 3 page.
     
    Go ahead, try me, but you can't harm the love I have for fog!
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    #14  Edited By maimran91

    I got a question for you guys. Is the fog the same as the mist or both are quite different?

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    #15  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

    Persona 4 and Silent Hill had some great use of fog.

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    #16  Edited By c1337us

    Fuck fog, I like the rain. But Silent Hill 2 had some good game fog as does the whole series in general.

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    #17  Edited By dbz1995

     I actually don't care if this was quest spam or not, it's a decent post.

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    #18  Edited By Yummylee

    Fog is puuuurteeee.

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    #19  Edited By CaptainObvious

    Doing the fog someone usually dies and ends up on a telephone pole. Rain is no better, people go crazy and I see weird people limboing.

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    #20  Edited By VisariLoyalist

    Carl Heine liked fog to and look what that got him

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    #21  Edited By AhmadMetallic

    tear jerking read <3

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    #22  Edited By Bogitt

    Do you love all fog? How about some Kryptonite fog - Superman 64

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    #23  Edited By warxsnake

    Devs love fog as well because it occludes far away objects from being rendered, which is better for performance. 

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    #24  Edited By Joshakazam

    I like how fog was used in Morrowind.

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