Bring them here, I adore a good storm or rain moment in my games. Water and fire, explosions and rain, have always been difficult to recreate in games. Who does it best?
(thread created after seeing the rain effect in the new Formal 1 game)
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Friday, 9 July 2010 12:52 (fifteen years ago)
Riding round in a thunderstorm in 5.1 surround sound is AMAZING in Red Dead Redemption.
― nate woolls, Friday, 9 July 2010 13:06 (fifteen years ago)
the storm level in left 4 dead 2 is great. it's probably the only part in those games that's actually frightening on some level.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Friday, 9 July 2010 13:49 (fifteen years ago)
The Bast Castle level of Jedi Academy has acid rain, which causes real problems because it rapidly depletes your health.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Friday, 9 July 2010 14:00 (fifteen years ago)
beginning of twinsens odyssey
― like a ◴ ◷ ◶ (dyao), Friday, 9 July 2010 15:08 (fifteen years ago)
Weather changes from region to region in Morrowind are pretty great.
― We All Live in a World of Petty Goves (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 July 2010 16:15 (fifteen years ago)
It's pretty but 90% of the time it will fuck up your fps. That Hurricane Katrina survival game is a few years off sadly.
― Darramouss, Sunday, 18 July 2010 01:54 (fifteen years ago)
Seeing the rain fall in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was the point where I was like, "OK, the Super NES is officially the greatest thing ever."
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 18 July 2010 03:07 (fifteen years ago)
I'm with you there, at age 11 it was like I got catapulted into THE FUTURE.tm
― Darramouss, Sunday, 18 July 2010 03:08 (fifteen years ago)
Generally a big fan of the fanciness of particle emitters these days, but just completed Borderlands, and I very nearly didn't bother with that last mission; there's particles (snow? ash?) everywhere, and it's damn near impossible to see what you're trying to do.
― CraigG, Sunday, 18 July 2010 16:17 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah Bad Company 2 suffers from this a bit. Makes it more realistic but damn hard to see anything at times.
― Darramouss, Sunday, 18 July 2010 16:34 (fifteen years ago)
itt: posts very much in character
― Lamp, Sunday, 18 July 2010 17:31 (fifteen years ago)
*the* Darramouss?
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Sunday, 18 July 2010 18:46 (fifteen years ago)
The one and only bebe ;)
― Darramouss, Sunday, 18 July 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
I usually turn off the higher volumetric effects in games since they can stress out the GPU something fierce, but Napoleon: Total War has interesting effects with rain and snow, and there are mods were you can up the amount of musket & cannon smoke that hang around the field.
― Don Homer (kingfish), Sunday, 18 July 2010 20:21 (fifteen years ago)
yes one thing that annoys me in a lot of games, which I think is more of a console restriction, is how quickly particle effects vanish. So you don't get prolonged explosions or smoke effects.
(i think on pc this is tuneable in most games isn't it, i wouldn't know I don't own one!)
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Monday, 19 July 2010 12:38 (fifteen years ago)