Maybe after the battle on the rooftop, we'll explore the city in the distance
Background/skybox thread
Angel Perez
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Juan Smith
Lucas Robinson
It's probably just a highly compressed picture of Tokyo
Julian Gutierrez
I like backgrounds too, user.
Jason Martinez
Nathaniel Ross
Joseph Rodriguez
Hudson Cooper
Michael Murphy
I genuinely miss having the naivete to imagine the world beyond the edges of a game or what was possible and not just knowing it was a void and skybox textures.
And I don't even mean thinking that it was possible to go there, I just mean not having my enjoyment of a game being framed by an understanding of design and mechanics.
Sebastian Martinez
Paper Mario's backgrounds make me cum.
Daniel Mitchell
There's some good ones in Toy Story 2 but not many images of them
Eli Gonzalez
Jose Hill
I miss this sense of wonder too. I remember looking at the boundaries in games and letting my mind race about the possibilities. Just to let your mind believe for a split second that there are things beyond the tree barrier in games like Ocarina of Time and imagining things beyond. Like maybe there's other small villages or strange monsters we haven't seen in the places open to us. That kind of wonder hasn't been with me for some time either.
Maybe someday in our lifetime AI will be able to spin up those mysteries on the fly. That's the only comfort I feel about that.
Carson Jackson
I'm tempted to say this looks better than remake.
Gabriel Johnson
it clearly does look way better
Jonathan Brown
This skybox looks so amazing from far away, but as soon as you see it from above, it falls apart.
Really great art direction though.
Lincoln Bennett
They sucked out all of its soul, and even fucked up when trying to add more references to EB, since at E3 the department store showed up behind the Monotoli building.
Like, before it looked like a mix of Moonside and Fourside, with the bright neon buildings, but now it's just... New York at night.
Jonathan Ramirez
Sanic had some really great backgrounds. Casino Night's makes me especially nostalgic.
Camden Lee
Xavier Jones
I always liked Rainbow Road from MK Double Dash, looks terrible on close inspection though
Mason Moore
You like it more because it's brighter and you can see more of it while it has simpler details. In the remake there are actual buildings in the background instead of rectangles with white dots on them. And nothing gets that nostalgia firing like barely textured bright colors on the spires.
Austin Kelly
Mirror's Edge alone is like a master class on city skyboxes.
Austin Miller
I don't know if I ever noticed the city.
John Lewis
Colton James
You must've been pretty good then because it's clear to see every time you fall
Nathaniel Nguyen
No lie. Amazing atmosphere, indoors and outdoors.
Carter Smith
GREEBLE, greeble everywhere.
Elijah Perez
Nah, I'm willing to bet just too many years have past since I booted it up. And my memories of Rainbow Road are clouded by all the past versions that just had a starfield background as best I can recall.
Jonathan Hernandez
It just looks too fucking busy compared to the actual Fourside, which barely has as many buildings as Ultimate's design.
But hey, at least Ultimate fixed the Monotoli font, made the heli chubby to look like the sprite, modelled Monotoli's office (no bear statue doe) and added a body of water in the back.
Zachary Jones
They really did a good job making Rayman 2s world feel like you were in a dream
Lucas White
Nolan Taylor
Ayden Clark
MW2 actually has some pretty good backgrounds, I love the city and the blimps on the bridge map. Cant find a decent pic unfortunately
Brody Ramirez
catalyst is so souless
John Martin
I know that feel, bro.
Sebastian Baker
I remember back in the very early PS1 days I was amazed at the backgrounds such as Toshinden 2 as they had all these flat 'billboard' polygons surrounding the rings which made every thing seem more alive and bigger than what it actually was. Kayin (city at night) and Vermilion's (swamp/forest at night) stages in particular were atmospheric. Now I see something like that and I immediately notice how it's just a flat texture and all the mystique is lost.
Bentley Lopez
Gavin Thompson
I always found Doom episode 1's skybox to be maximum comfy.
Jack Ramirez
It's nearly monochromatic : where's the green light from the OG building, for instance? Gone...
Oliver Hughes
Carter Johnson
Zachary Lewis
Why are these better than our irl skybox, what garbage simulation is this?
Liam Thomas
I really love that whole first area in DS1. The burg, parish, lower burg, depths, the forest, New Londo, everything is just so good. I would love to play something set in a fleshed out version that.
Joshua Peterson
they're not better, you're just autistic
Justin Green
Your post made me think about that fact that at some point in time I just stopped playing with toys and playing in the woods. I stopped going on "adventures" and being fascinated by little things. If I had to take a guess, I'd say around that time I noticed the same things about video games too. It's odd to think that we're genetically wired like that; To grow up out of our imaginations. It's a good thing, but it does make you feel melancholic when looking back at your youth.
Easton Powell
Maybe one day a dev team will be passionnate enough to attempt this... (Spending time crafting the "outer limits " of the game just to reward you for going there just for the sake of exploration & make the game feel alive, with NPCs doing stuff in an interactive landscape you'd completely skip if you just want to complete objectives)
I miss secrets in games & unlockables.
Colton Hernandez
>when the backgrounds are the most interesting thing in the game
I still don't get the design aesthetic behind Sonic CD but I love it.
Daniel Myers
Unfortunately, i kinda have to agree with you on that. :/
I really wanted to like the game but it kinda just gives me an empty feeling despite how pretty it looks in many parts.
Daniel Reyes
It's lonely at the top.
Landon Gutierrez
Is it cheating if i use a screenshot from a game i made?
Chase Young
Why cant other sonic games have this feel?
Hudson Lopez
Adventure series had a few backgrounds like that.
Mason Bell
they forgot what made the first game stand out was how simple everything was combined with superb lighting and art direction.
Nolan King
Many many many castles.
Samuel Wilson
Why u no add textures? Just take a real close picture of cement/metal/neon lights, plastic?/etc?
Asher Jenkins
Why are cities at night so cool
Levi Gonzalez
DKC always did have the best backgrounds
Lincoln Nelson
yeah miss that feeling too. i used to stare out at the edges of the game world and wonder what was out there.
Nathan Thompson
Lots of soul itt
Dominic Martin
Looks like Zeal from Chrono Nigger
Xavier James
you can imagine whats going on in all those buildings and streets in the distance
Leo Powell
Familiar.
Ryan Adams
Chemical Plant Zone had that feel
Adam Ward