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>>14620573

>2nd pic

wat game

>>14620573

What about futuristic cities? Do they bore you as well? I think the main problem with historical cities for developers is probably that they take a lot more effort than building a generic modern city, which is more bland and has less intricate architecture. That's why they go the easy route instead of going for a more interesting urban setting.

I'm a fan of settings in games like Dead Space and Red Faction where you can see the little details and creativity that the devs put into in-game signs and advertizements.

>>14620586

Baldur's Gate.

>>14620587

No, futuristic cities are more often than not interesting just because of the fact that they force the creators to think about technology or at least a stylistic of the faction.

>>14620603

Try Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader if you haven't already.

>>14620593

Dead Space 2's city was great, why the flag?

I liked the way novigrad changed in witcher 3. Not a lot of games do any kindof story related things with their cities.

>>14620766

Forgot to turn it off because I'm a dummy.

i never (aside from sim city4) played thoses kind of game.

So, Is it possible to create a dystopian megacity?

>3rd pic

what game

>>14621496

You can create some pretty nasty cities in SC4 because building high-wealth towers and then letting them decline to lower wealth makes them look all decrepit and filthy. Also, you really CAN create regions with 10 million people, or probably 100 million.

And now I want to watch Akira again.

>>14623982

i just hope it will be a good game and not another witcher3 where the scenario doesn t fit the progression system (and thus ruin the immersion) and stuff like that.

basically: just being a "goty award" game like you have in cinema.

good quality ingredient(aka what the review check) that if taken by themself will indeed make a great game.. but once mixed will just leave a strange aftertaste

>>14623982

>>14624004

You know no matter how much promotional material and hype they give they'll never be able to bring a cyber punk city to life, it would be so crowded that the amount of detail needed would be impossible, so they'll just fill it with empty spaces, and npc's that don't matter, it will probably have a lot of space too instead of people.

>cities in BG 2 (2000): size of actual cities, even though you can only explore a part of them, the rest is at least shown as being there.

>cities in Skyrim (2011): 3 houses with 8 npcs, even the capital of the fucking country. Truman's show tier.

>>14624056

Or worse.

>The open world is uninteractable, it's detailed but you can only talk to 4 people on the map at any given time for "Side quests,"

I think I now realized why my favorite games are my favorite games.

The immersion comes from the fact that there are only enemies. Friendly npc's were the biggest mistake in gaming history.

>>14624087

Does CD Red put loading zones in it's open world or is it Fallout and you basically don't get a loading zone unless you go in and out of buildings.

If you put loading zones every 3 blocks or so you could probably make a realistic cyberpunk city but I doubt autists would be willing to make the sacrifice for that.

>>14621496

One dystopian megacity coming up!

This guy is a Buddhist from somewhere in south east asia. Out of all the dystopian megacities I've seen this is the only one that's truly scary, because it truly cares for nothing except extreme efficiency and total optimisation. Look at the stats for citizens in the end.

>>14624109

>Out of all the dystopian megacities I've seen this is the only one that's truly scary, because it truly cares for nothing except extreme efficiency and total optimisation. Look at the stats for citizens in the end.

>inb4 this is actually cdprojectred

>inb4 Cyberpunk 2077 will have every npc just be a robot and it's shrugged off as being because the ultimate mega city has no real humans

>>14624103

With W3 they spliced up the map into 3 different regions (Northern relms, Skillige Isles, and Toussaint If you bought the DLC.)

These each were large enough to be on parity or bigger than Fallout 4's map.

There were no loading screens when going in and out of buildings.

The only Loading screens in that game was when traveling region 2 region or when the story's plot teleported you around the world.

Loading times were defiantly long but I remember them being shorter then skyrims.

I'm hoping CP does it where sections like the corporate zone and lawless zone have checkpoints where you have short load screens for their area's.

Even though NuDeusEx is dogshit, I liked the idea in mankind divided where your character would ride the subway while loading different areas. Maybe they could do something like this but not shit?

Also loading into a true mega structure wouldn't be so bad, Just none of the 2min load time to get in and out of a small cabin BS that Skyrim has.

>>14624176

A simple solution would be to make the city so crowded that you have loading screens every two seconds but those loading screens all last for just two seconds, and every room would have like 200 people, but like I said I doubt anyone would be open to a system like that.

>>14624186

But can you interact with those crowds beyond

>Go up to group

>shoot street

>Run

>>14624221

>seeing signs for "Baltic Cafe" in City 17

>fighting gunships in Little Odessa

>HL2:EP2 has you fight in an abandoned mine with vodkarunes everywhere, which implies you had escaped deeper into Russia's forest

Truly deepest lore, even if it is never specified where the games take place.

The HL2 game artist is Bulgarian, which would explain how he nailed this aesthetic. I am from a former eastern bloc country myself and playing HL2 feels very nostalgic for some reason. There are lots of little details in the levels that show a clear eastern bloc aesthetic.

I also like TF2's old artstyle for all the things you mentioned, and also because the maps feel like they are in daily use and lived in.

>>14620573

We need more non-Japanese asian cities in vidya tbh.