This right here is my favourite game of all time. It has flaws, like any other game, but I don't understand one thing about old games, especially in this period and maybe middle 2000s. Why are there so many spider enemies? Not only in this game but Diablo, Thief, Blood just to name a few more popular games. I don't have a problem with them, they're the right amount of scary and dangerous but why spiders and not snakes or bats or rats or something else.
>>10857752spiders are easy to animate and always look coolsnakes and bats are hard to animate and always look ridiculousaren't rats pretty common though?
>>10857787Meh, snakes look cool if you go for some king cobra styled ones. Spiders are also cool, like in RE1 with the huge tarantulas, but I don't think they fit well in a game like Thief for example. Rats are indeed common, not the best example, what about centipedes or wasps/hornets to add into the mix?
>>10857787>spiders are easy to animateAre they really?That may be true for the ones that zip up-down on web string in platformers, but the way they walk on surfaces always looks pretty complex.
>>10858268Yeah, the crawling animation seems pretty hard to make imo, especially on smaller sized spiders because the speed of limb movement has to be higher and it seems like a pain in the ass to make it NOT look ridiculous. Just throw in some kind of beasts like wolves, bears, scorpions, giant ants or some big ass flying beetles.
>>10858268Nta, I've animated spiders in unity before and you can make them really twitchy, janky and mechanical and it still has a recognizable spider appeal. Flapping wings and the contractions that make a snake move are difficult to pull off convincingly and require much closer attention
>>10858282you would think so: what makes it easy is that nearly all 3D studios do the IK for you(e.g. Hi-solvers in 3DS max)and you only need to place where the feet go in the animation
>>10858282Can confirm. Decades ago I've tried to animate tiny spider in some gif creator and failed horribly.>>10858286Aren't wing flaps and snake wiggling commonly handled in Unity by gluing together some basic shaders?
>>10858424I don't know I do everything in the most obtuse way possible
>>10858409That butt bounce is kinda hot...
>>10857752Looking up this game a liitle it seems quite cool. I read it has an interesting combat system but didn't see it described. Sell me on the game?
>>10860124diablo but with a story and better gameplay.
>>10860124>Sell me on the gameJust try it and see for yourself. It's immersive, the story is good and it's packed with action. You also have a pretty nice stealth mission.
>>10860124It's a game for the sort of people that like Quake and isometric RPGs in equal measure.
>>10861223That sounds near perfect. >>10860671I think it's on GOG so I'll give it a shot.
>>10862701Yeah, I bought it on gog too. It won't work after install, download the NoxSolution patch from here: http://noxcommunity.com/downloads.php# and many other mods.
>>10862706Hmmmm good to know, thanks.
