Games with a "Mirror's Edge" like atmosphere?
mirror's edge (2008)
>>724717552Jet Set Radio, kind of?
>>724717552There aren't any
>>724717552Onirism
The Finals.
>>724717552Super Hot.
>>724717552Marathon
neon white, marathon
>>724717552I need to replay it right now
>>724722546wtf is this retarded shit
>>724723374Elite schizoness
>>724718560thank goodness this wasn't the aislopified version where she takes her clothes off.
>>724723691Someone post it
I'm gonna do it bros. I'm going to play ME. Should I play ME:C afterwards?
>>724717552Mirrors edge always felt like a valve game to me
>>724725190my second favorite game of all time is ME: C, but I'm in the minority.
>>724724413https://files.catbox.moe/rx0fwa.webm
>>724726964hot
>>724717552The best thing about it's design is that it was clean and readable. Which is literally fucking IMPOSSIBLE on modern game engines apparently.
>>724717970No, it has a cartoonish art style
>>724717552>I have changed>I have changed>Just like you>Just like you
>>724729204
>>724729204Yeah all they had to do was not put a lot of shit in there. More modern means more useless clutter. The opening cinematic was kino. Need to take a break to soak in the first few missions.
>>724717552Half-Life 2 always reminds me of it for some reason, especially when you're running away from a helicopter
>>724729204Execs think detail means better so we need more detail. Thankfully UE5 is there to support them on this quest for universal photorealism and minimalist modern UI.
>>724731789It's not just that, modern graphics are ridiculously blurry and suffer from terrible """HDR""" effects where the shadows are too dark to see shit and the highlights are too bright to see shit. All that cinematic postprocessing shit was made to ruin the readability of 3D graphics in video games.
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>>724731976Yeah, TAA makes things blurry. DE HR to MD for example, first one had old school AA then MD had TAA. But part of the reason TAA was necessary because of the amount of clutter worsened the problem with older AA techniques. HDR is also ass but sometimes it's on purpose in Metro/Stalker games where shadows are meant to be deadly.
>>724725719Based
>>724734832>DE HR to MD for example, first one had old school AA then MD had TAA.MD also had MSAA, the problem was that MSAA was absolutely useless in MD due to a plethora of reasons.
>>724717552The Finals
>>724717552Mass Effect 2
>>724717552Switch 2 welcome tour
>>724717552I got a similar vibe from neon white. It's more abstract but it has the same visual style of using few colors in its architecture. And it's also a game about running same as mirror's edge.
>>724717552Echo Point Nova
>>724738703>soulless furry gameBleh
>>724717552Mirror's Edge itself. There's no other option, the game is in a category of itself. Nothing else even comes close, it's unique and stranded in its time. The feel cannot be replicated. Just feel this feel by, you guessed it, playing Mirror's Edge once more!THREAD THEME https://youtu.be/SzmUde_EK5Y?si=4NvthwbY9_zE1DrS
I did replay Mirror's Edge because I wanted to see if it holds up and it really does.The crazy thing is that the aesthetic is not even hard to do on a mechanical level,but clearly there is something to it.
>>724741646>Not the AMVhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUXyoyuJZ8Y
>>724737087>it had other AA>but you had to use TAA if you actually wanted functional anti-aliasingYeah... Just wish we could have old-school pre-baked lighting with supersampling by rendering 4k down to 1440p or something to that effect. >>724725719I remember not actually disliking ME:C other than city traversal limiting you to a few points when going between regions/islands. Did it have some mechanic where you needed to do side missions/challenges to actually progress story? Because I think the story itself was actually similar to ME1 with mostly set pieces but it's been so long. Also was there some kind of grappling hook?
>>724744106My bad G :(
>>724744812>>724744106>>724741646>gaming used to be so SOVL game studios would literally have their own music recording companies banking on their IPs becoming big>it was peak gaming and the sequel narrowly missed the mark due to a few wrong decisionsBros... I can't.
>>724717552Skate 3
The “fight the power dog” shit in this game was so hilariously fucking cringeControls were dog shit. Quit after an hour or two, got mad trying to do basic fights. Skip, though I wanted to see how great it was to have “the power” be gone and be rich like every democrat dreams
>724746712>got mad>trying to do basic fights>in a game that's about running and running away>some politics BSYes bro, I too want to keep this thread bumped
>>724725190It's OK but not as good as mirrors edge 1
>>724717615OP will never recover.
>>724746712>Controls were dog shit>got mad trying to do basic fightsunironically a you problem
>>724747612NTA but it's a pretty common take that the combat in the game was dogshit. The go-to defense is always that you're meant to run not fight but then these people haven't played their own game because the game has segments where you had to fight to progress (as demonstrated by how even speedrunners couldn't figure out how to skip them).
>>724747950I'm literally playing this game right now and it's fine.
>>724748894Ok nevermind, I got to the ending. You start off getting shot at point blank by CPF and you latch onto the helicopter. You end up jumping back onto the building that CPF was shooting you from. They just dissapear and ending plays as if you wouldn't get arrested 5 seconds later. Unplayable dogshit game. You're right.
>>724729204ya ok man turn off runner vision and see how often you try to grab something only to realize its not a grab-able surface.
>>724749993>i played the game wanting to hate it and be mad>i hated it and i got mad>this means the game is badit means you are mentally ill and an anon tulpa in your head decides how you feel about everything.
>>724750112>turn off game feature>yeah now see how featureful the game is>>724750203I enjoyed the game. It was ludokino as fuck. I just made a sarcastic post, anon. Stop being so mad. You clearly should have seen the aura.
>>724750279>turn off game feature>yeah now see how featureful the game isyou typed this out despite the fact you have made fun of le yellow paint on ledges in newer games.
>>724717774as someone who played brink at launch it really was a shit game. dirty bomb was much better (besides the awful character chatter)
>>724750550>mirror's edge>a fast paced parkour sim>need runner's vision to know what to latch ontoversus>YOU NEED TO GO HERE TO THIS LEDGE> HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY FIGURE OUT YOU NEED TO GO HIGHER TO GET HIGHERRetard. Stop posting.
>>724750203Most people play games wanting to like it anon. Or else why did they bother playing it?
booomp
>>724741646Based
I'm going to start up my bi-yearly playthrough
>>724731831ME came out at peak Garrysmod culture so you got a lot of maps inspired by it. Either thru the parkour mechanics or just creating places that felt lived in.
>>724717552The clean environments and crawling around back rooms feels a lot like portal.
why cant they make non-insufferable female protagonists like Faith anymore?
>>724729204Even funnier is the fact that the game used Unreal Engine 3. If you compare it to other UE3 games from that era...it looks miles better.
>>724717552The Finals, especially the Seoul and the SYS$HORIZON map(picrel is the monaco map, I'm too lazy to get a pic for the others fuck u)
>>724725296It almost feels like they got inspired by that one beginning level in H2 where Gordon was running across rooftops across City 17 while being fired at by the combine
>>724717552Why are there no other games with parkour like ME? Its sense of flow is amazing
Bros...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzRm-zQIVXM
>>724717552marathon if you can stomach the embarrassing decal spam vomit
>>724747950>speedrunners couldn't figure out how to skip themincorrect and gay. every combat encounter in this game is either scripted cutscene or optional. No exceptions. Speedrunners tend to take some fights because in certain cases, it's faster to go through enemies than around them.
>>724717552Half-Life 2 and Portal. They have a similar eerieness to them
>>724718630visually i would agreebut the goofy commentary and sfx shift the atmosphere away from something like mirrors edge
Anyone prefer the city in mirror edge 1 than the city in 2? Never was a fan of the change of being in a modern city to a sleek ultra futuristic city
>>724770593Yes 1 is better but sadly there's no free roam like in MEC.
>>724717552That's the neat part. There aren't any.
>>724770593Is Catalyst even in the same timeline as the first one?
>>724717552There's something about the city in ME that reminds me of my dreams. The quiet, clean environments and the bright, sunny skies is something that resonates with me like nothing else.
>>724773810No, it's basically a reboot
>>724770593Well, yeah, the first city actually looked like a city. I've posted about this a lot, the city in Catalyst literally looks like someone's idea of what a futuristic city looks like, but without actually being a city. The architecture of the open world is so fucking retarded, not to mention the city looks and feels like there's no people in it, whereas the city in the first game had no regular people, yet you could still feel and hear the sound of background life. I'm still confused to this day why the people at DICE thought they should have people completely unrelated to the first game's development make Catalyst.
Synthetik
>>724717552Remember Me
>>724775090The game had in-built film-grain. You had to fucking use a texture editor to get that shit out, no option in the game's graphic options.
>>724762801>proto yellow paint but red>you can actually turn it off>something that simple is literally impossible to implement in the current year
Motorslice is in development but it looks promising.The writing and marketing is a bit cringe but the demo was decenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gytRK8SJMM
>>724774875You can't even go down to the ground level in ME:C. It shows a profound misunderstanding of what the first game was about. Half the missions had you going down to the docks and sparring on the ground. You end up running through train tracks from the ground, or going down to the metro.
>>724780521The only ground level Catalyst had was the very beginning, when Faith is getting out of prison.I'll admit, some of the set pieces, i.e. the mission levels, really looked nice and the music that Solar Fields made is still great, but the first one is way better.
>>724780521not like it matters since elevators are your primary means of accessing the rooftops.
>>724780678It's a small detail but it just turns it into a meme.>runners don't go on the ground!They jolly well do, they're normal humans, not fucking pidgeons.
i'm surprised more games don't do baked GI like mirrors edge. dynamic lighting seems to have ruined the prospect for it in the form of raytracing and other methods that allow light to be influenced by moving objects, so i guess it has to do with the need for things to interact with the lighting and the surroundings rather than have really polished environmental visuals.
>>724781365Basically we used to have game devs. Now we have Dev Patels and it's just not the same and never will be.
>>724777479Mirror's Edge made the red look perfectly fine for the most part, I think. Probably because the levels were built specifically for parkouring to begin with, and they generally applied the red to things that it made sense for. A red door or a red crane isn't that weird to see, unlike yellow paint on random parts of a cliffside.
>>724763530Cool but too short
>>724725296If Valve made style over substance games, sure. Mirror's Edge threads are just discussions about the vibes and aesthetic, because the unremarkable gameplay was just there as an excuse to show those off.
>>724786508>there's no gameplay in my gameHaving a laff.
Portal I guess
>>724717552>america 1 seconds after colored folx zero summed
>>724780521>You can't even go down to the ground level in ME:CYes you can though?
>>724765106>because in certain cases, it's faster to go through enemies than around them.They're stopping to take out the enemies in an area before moving on, because moving on required climbing which would be impossible with the guards shooting at you, hence why taking them out was forced. Granted some of those sections have become skippable by speedrunners knowing more advanced tech but then you're still expecting the typical first time player who isn't going to know the layout well enough to know how to skip the fight to instead fight them.
>>724786508>one of the first parkour game ever had no gameplaydo you retards even think before saying something?
>>724718560awful skin texture/shader
>>724729204>it's design>it is design
>>724750112I have never played with runner visionHoly shit what a faggot you'd have to be to play with vison assist mode, clone yourself and ask him to kill you cuz the current iteration is a failure
>>724770593Nah, mirror's edge 1 mogged mirror's edge catalyst in terms of aesthetics and it's not even close
>>724776247what a retarded thing to have an issue with
>>724780625The freerunning is just as good if not better than the first game thanks to the expanded moveset. The problem is that in pretty much every story level you'll have at least one forced combat section where you're locked in a room with some goons and can't progress until beating each one. I actually liked the combat in the first game (aside from the forced shooter section in the last level) because it was kinetic, you could take a few enemies down on your way and run past the rest or just disarm one of them and dispatch them all quickly which felt natural for Faith. The second game just makes you perform the same 3 hit combo over and over against 3 or 4 faceless guys with batons until the door behind them opens.
>>724717552You may not like this answer but Wipeout HD (Wipeout Omega Collection)
>>724731749We're never getting the DLC levels on PC
>>724794118>t.
>>724729204>>7247416462007, 2008 and 2009 were the best years in video game history.
>>724750112The only time I turned it on was while climbing the elevator shaft, the rest of the game is pretty straightforward
