A lot of older games were bigger because of static assets. Riven (myst 2) was fucking huge because it was like 60,000 jpgs. It was on 5 discs. Later games running in a 3D engine just had texture files and small models, they were a lot smaller.
There’s that quake 2 clone that team did a while back that was only 92KB- it generated everything in memory on the fly. Krieger I think it was called?
iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Camera isn’t stuck in isometric view. You can zoom, pan, tilt and see all the fantastic detail.
snooggums@kbin.social 11 months ago
The original Dawn of War ruined isometric games for me since it allowed the pan and zoom, with mods allowing even more zooming in an out. BG3 having that ability has my interest peaked!
teft@startrek.website 11 months ago
piqued*
snooggums@kbin.social 11 months ago
Thanks, I wasn't sure it was right but also too lazy to check.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
pooped*
joe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Please, please don’t take this as any insult or criticism, but for future reference, it’s “piqued”.
This particular homophone is almost as devious as “milquetoast”. (Sounds like “milk toast”)
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
An easy way to remember “milquetoast” is with context, here let me use it in a sentence:
“Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath is an Eccentric-class Offensive Unit.”
See, didn’t that clear it all up?
velxundussa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’m not the person you answered to, but as english ain’t my first language I figured I’d ask:
I get that this person was trying to say “piqued” as in “got my interest”
But wouldn’t “peaked” as in “my interest couldn’t possibly get higher as it has peaked from that new information” also be valid?
(I get it’s a saying, but as I’m not familiar with that saying in english it didn’t bother me, which is why I’m curious)
icesentry@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The zoom out is very limited. I constantly wish it could zoom out more
snooggums@kbin.social 11 months ago
The inability to zoom out is my dealbreaker for Diablo. The limitation doesn't feel immersive to me, it feels claustrophobic.