/vr/ limitations as storytelling/gameplay seeds

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/vr/ limitations as storytelling/gameplay seeds 2017-01-13 11:16:48 Post No. 3736068
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/vr/ limitations as storytelling/gameplay seeds Anonymous 2017-01-13 11:16:48 Post No. 3736068 [Report]

Bear with me here

Arguable "retro feel" factor aside, I think the most interesting thing about classic games, the one thing that can't be replicated, is the way devs HAD to wrestle with huge visual/computation limitations to create worthwhile experiences, and sometimes they actually used those roadblocks as starting points to develop gameplay and scenario concepts.

Pic related is the universal example; got a shitty 3D draw distance? Make a game about a spooky town shrouded in fog and darkness.

So what are your favorite examples?

Anonymous 2017-01-13 11:29:51 Post No.3736098
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heh

Anonymous 2017-01-13 11:34:34 Post No.3736110
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>>3736068
Well besides your example.

I'll say music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hf3O6mf3Rk

Sprites and dithering are also very neat,

Anonymous 2017-01-13 11:41:35 Post No.3736126
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>>3736098
That always was a cute one, but I wouldn't say it's what I had in mind (this is more like clever padding, or a workaround)

It can be little things like this other one; in my mind, the Enix tech guys were messing around with the dev kit and they ended up with this weird effect and they called everybody going all "what am I even Mode 7-ing lmao"; then some scenario guy came up with the idea of setting part of the game ~~in the concave surface inside a planet~~

Anonymous 2017-01-13 11:43:58 Post No.3736128
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Anonymous 2017-01-13 11:43:58 Post No.3736128 [Report]

The only example I can think of isn't retro

Anonymous 2017-01-13 11:45:13 Post No.3736130
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>>3736126

Seriously though fuck mode 7

Anonymous 2017-01-14 12:34:46 Post No.3736213
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>>3736130
Aw, surely there are worse modes

On topic, this scene from Monkey Island does it for me, though it's basically a cutscene; it uses the Sentence Line as a literal storytelling device

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