Why the fuck did every early 2000s video game have a tropical beach level?
Oh it's this thread again. Don't you get tired of making the same threads over and over?
Because the tech was there to do beach environments well for the first time
>>12529578to appeal to australians
>>12529603Specifically it was one feature called environment mapped bump mapping. DX6-DX7 GPUs could do bump mapping on textures, but without pixel shaders, they couldn't change how surfaces reacted to light. It was effectively a texture distortion filter. A few Wii games like Jett Rocket and The Conduit used it to fake real normal mapping but for the most part it was just used for water. On GameCube games especially, it's why water looks a generation ahead of everything else.Also, Baywatch and MTV Spring Break coming out around the same time put "the beach" into the zeitgeist for a few years
>>12529603This. The water had never been nicer and everyone had to see.
>>12533310Didn't the XBox use DirectX 8, which could do environment bump mapping?
>>12529578Halo didnt. HL2 didnt. Doom 3 didnt.
>>12529578The better question is why do new games NOT have tropical beach areas?Now every game is some depressing shit set in dull indoor enviroments or apocalyptic wastelands
>>12533408y2k was full hopium but the beacon of western civilization was destroyed in 9/11 and brown demons forced us to live in a depressing post-west anti-white world ever since. retvrn.
>>12533408Windrose. What modern games have you even played?>DAE think modern bad??Piss off already, you miserable NPC brainlet
>>12533378nigga what?
These are some of my favourite threads here. Not just the tropical ones, but all the comfy retro environs ones in geneal
>>12533481I was gonna post this but then I remembered it's just a regular beach not tropical, no palm trees and shit.
Why the fuck did every late 80s video game have a sewer level?
>>12534046easy repetitive mazelike environment in a non-fantasy setting. same reason dungeons in rpgs looked the way they did.
>>12534046I was coming to post this but there were sewer levels thru 90s and into early 2000s too.
>>12533481I know, imagine eliding over one of the best CE levels.
>>12529578Its a good setting, same as lava castle, and top of cold mountain.
>>12533481Yes one of the best levels of Halo CE is a beach level like wtf was that guy smoking?
>>12534046Tmnt’s popularity could not be understated
>>12533550tommy vercetti drowning in the water
The same reason every 7th gen game was brown corridors. It was popular back than.
>>12529578Because water effects sold games back then anon.
>>12534046>>12534450what he said. you have no idea how fucking insane TMNT was at that time. it took toy execs by surprise and soon everything needed to emulate them.
>you will never be an early 2000s game developer and go on a vacation to the tropics and write it off for tax purposes and tell your boss it was for "research"
>>12534046kek this
>>12534448T r o p i c a l
