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>I’ll give you some context first

Apparently during its initial development, the forever winter was intended to be a normal open world game. As time progressed, the devs switched to a level model of map exploration and they changed a bunch of things about how they built the maps.

Unlike most developers, fundog’s were actually really dedicated to making the map as lore accurate and full as possible. The game’s maps were originally meant to be fully handcrafted, but the developers soon found out that the work load was too high even with having all the maps being broken down into levels. Instead they used a kit bashing approach.

Fundog’s team built a bunch of toy sets for the developers to play around with. The devs kitbashed a bunch of these toys, and then they made digital models out of them. With the help of some procedural tricks, the developers managed to create large expansive urban combat environments like the elephant mausoleum and its predecessor the mech trenches. In fact, the elephant mausoleum was such a large map in development that it had to be broken down again into sub levels so your computer wouldn’t crash when trying to load the map.

They used the same techniques with all the other models including the ones for characters and vehicles.

>okay, now I’ll talk about the open world idea the devs had
If you’ve read the manga called blame!, then you’ll know what the initial open world was supposed to feel and look like.

Basically all the terrain in it was excavated to build fortresses, steel reinforced trenches, bunker complexes, cities, and roads.

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They just are. Not only are they better than the new games, they're better than the originals too.
>Dreamcast Conversion is better than both SA1 and SADX
>Team Fortress 2 Classic is better than both beta and modern TF2
>Project+ is better than both Melee and Brawl
The only other good versions of these games are the OG releases (Sonic Adventure International, Team Fortress 2 Beta, Super Smash Bros Melee). But why play the OG releases when the mods provide so much more? And that is only scratching the surface. If the game is FLOSS then it's even easier to remaster it, look at Doom or Quake or Friday Night Funkin'.

CUZ I REALLY WANT TO STAY AT YOUR HOUSE

>Fat people bad, coomerbait good
>Nobody wants to cosplay fat people
>Why would you want to play a fat person in a video game?
>Even women don't like like playing as fat people.
Guys, we must tell the creators of Dr. Eggman and Globox that their characters are fat and ugly and not even women want to play as them. Never liked Dr. Eggman anyway. Like, c'mon, he's so fat and ugly. Fat people are cringe. 🙃

On a serious note, the first design is kinda fire ngl.

You awaken somewhere in a darkly lit space. You look around and see that the walls in on you are lined with wires and metal pipes while the floor beneath you is covered in garbage covering rows of bricks. You move towards the nearest door out of this room and find yourself moving through tunnels entirely built of cement, stone, and metal as far as the eye can see. After even more exploration you manage to find a ladder towards a hatch that seems to be the exit from this artificial space. You climb it, open the seal and… nothing. You stare out in what’s supposed to be nature and find nothing worth seeing. There are no plants or animals, no bacteria present, and no indication that there was anything around you that was ever alive. All you can see on the surface is a barren lifeless rock while the sky above you has an atmosphere so thin that you can easily see the stars above.

What I’m describing is what a space entirely devoid of the biosphere looks like. I find the idea of ecumenopolis or even spaces entirely deprived of life interesting in games. I think what sparked this weird interest was from a book I read called “the one straw revolution” where the author criticized that people where living lives horribly disconnected from their natural origins. There’s something uniquely disturbing about seeing a mechanized food factory in real life when you realize that all the crushed gunk you’re seeing get processed is something you’ll inevitably feed off of. Similarly, there’s something uniquely horrifying about walking through artificial and or dead spaces.

Dead space, star citizen, scorn, naissance, to some extent rain world, all these games I’ve played feature environments entirely disconnected from the nature people used to be used to. Walking through those worlds genuinely makes me feel like alien. I think that feeling of “you genuinely don’t belong here” that’s created by the way these environments are designed is what made these games so scary. Actually, I think this is what made the FNAF games in particular so scary when you consider that the environments were both artificial and strangely familiar to the places real people have been in.

It wasn’t the jump scares or the body horror, but the continuous and obvious reality that the player is immersing themselves in an environment that they obviously do not belong in. Even if the player does end up gaining some spatial awareness over the game’s world, it’s unlikely that the player Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

The only game I have been looking forward to finally came out and turned out to be utterly mediocre. I had my suspicions it might end like this due to artstyle looking like an ADHD high contrast mess.
I also just realized they were developing Avowed side-by-side with Outer Worlds 2, which seems like such a bizarre decision, spreading themselves thin over two open world RPGs, both set to release this year. I guess that is what getting acquired by Microsoft does to you.

Roleplaying game developers need to force players to start walking at a normal pace again. There is no greater feeling of immersion created than by simply walking through the barren wastes of the mojave man with your sniper ready for any caravan or raider passing by.

For those of you who don’t know, ever since the frontier mod launched, new Vegas has gotten many map expansions. Most of the mods I’m going to list expand the games default map:
NV interiors project
NV interiors project remastered
Freeside interiors
Open Mojave
<as the names imply, these mods add new interiors to the game world and they integrate entire locations to the base game world seemlessly respectively.
Nova Arizona expansion
<effectively doubles the size of the base map by making the eastern portion traversabke with new quests
Dry wells
<another legion expansion mod that makes the northern part of the map accessible with new quests
Long 15 before the remaster
<made in 2010s. Allows you to explore the far wests without needing to complete lonesome road

The new expansion is going to add a brand new location to the Mojave wastes. Now you get to do NCR quests in it. The community has been developing the mod for years, and I’ve seen a lot of good stuff come out of it. New Vegas almost feels finished with this new expansion.