@dgtlty: Neither actually. It's a mod for PC, free move camera, and I took a photo inside where the only light was candlelight or hand igni lighting the candle. Just made some great light.
Love going through this thread every now and then to see the progression of graphics over the last five years. Anyways, here are some Rise of the Tomb Raider shots. Great game that looks ever better.
@beachthunder: Doorways looks good - does it include actual gameplay (combat, platforming, real-time interaction with the world etc..) or is it just the next Dear Esther? So many of those games nowadays where all you do is walk forward amid beautiful scenery without actually doing anything.
@howardian: There are enemies, but the game is focused on evading them. There are a few platforming sections, but they're nothing noteworthy. Your main interaction with the game is puzzle solving; one area in particular has an especially hard puzzle. It's much closer to Amnesia than it is to Dear Esther. In fact, the main thing that drew me to the Doorways series is that the voice acting is by Sam Mowry, the guy who voiced the antagonist in Amnesia.
@howardian: There are enemies, but the game is focused on evading them. There are a few platforming sections, but they're nothing noteworthy. Your main interaction with the game is puzzle solving; one area in particular has an especially hard puzzle. It's much closer to Amnesia than it is to Dear Esther. In fact, the main thing that drew me to the Doorways series is that the voice acting is by Sam Mowry, the guy who voiced the antagonist in Amnesia.
Call me a 'traditional' player but I never was a fan of having zero power in a game and avoiding everything in total fear. Think I'll pass on Doorways but thanks for the response!
The PC port of Dead Rising is surprisingly good and I think this game still looks pretty good today. But I wish a bit of a HD texture pass was done for some textures and hopefully mods will be made.
Papua New Guinea comes on the radio just as a foggy dusk settles onto the forest & I remember why I enjoy the stuff that isn't racing or even driving with purpose in games with cars in. It's about the spaces and being there.
Papua New Guinea comes on the radio just as a foggy dusk settles onto the forest & I remember why I enjoy the stuff that isn't racing or even driving with purpose in games with cars in. It's about the spaces and being there.
The pictures look like a racing game, like DiRT or NFS, therefore your caption sounds really out of place. What are you talking about?
@howardian: Check the 3rd pic (it's watermarked with the game name).
I'm talking about how driving round a place and watching the landscape change with the time and weather while you listen to a tune on the in-game radio station builds a sense of place and can make a game far more than just the action/skill tasks (any actual racing that I could take part in) inside the space.
"Walking simulator" but on wheels. Even when not online, Forza Horizon 3 encourages you to beep at Drivatars and cruse the highways with them in formation.
@shivoa: I've never played Forza. So you're telling me Forza is more than just a closed racing track that you do 3-5 laps around and hope to finish first? You know, like every other racing game out there? It has a massive map you travel through and see real people and locations while enjoying a fitting tune? So it's GTA?
@howardian: It's more like need for speed or burnout paradise , set in an open world you can drive around in, driving to different race events set in the playing area. At least the horizon versions of the game are, the main forza games are more traditional racing games like Gran Turismo .
I am very much enjoying the weather and time of day. I really wish the in-game photo mode was less of a port of the XB1 system and more of a free-cam for taking PC screenshots while the game was paused (the offline render for photo mode is nice but can never resolve anything sharp; a 4K output with similar settings would be something I'd love them to support for both good anti-aliasing and enough pixel count for the texture details).
I do love the "if you can see it, you can probably go there". Skyscrapers in the distance as the Sun rises (in-car view):
Foggy city during the day (photo mode):
Out into the countryside (photo mode):
And down into the local town (photo mode):
Back out to the out-back at night (in-game, using the drone):
So I stuck around for that last shot to get some time of day transition footage. This game is pretty ok at making those transitions while always considering the final tone-mapping (I guess they gave it extra effort because they needed to also do an HDR tone mapping). The contrasts at different times always pop without crushing darkness at night (assuming you're looking at these on an ok screen, I expect the blacks all get crushed if you're using a TN panel). These are all direct captures from in-game footage (just a drone cam to get better positioning, not photo mode) without any tweaking to process them.
@thatonedudenick: Just curious, how are you taking those shots? Going to drone mode and using an external program, or is there a way to take a screenshot with the drone and pull it off your hard drive?
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