• .Donuts
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    891 month ago

    What an Oblivion mountain lion actually looked like:

    Kinda crazy how we remember games to look better than they actually did. Like the remastered version is as good looking as I remember the game, but obviously the differences are huge. Weird how that works!

    • @Mothra@mander.xyz
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      211 month ago

      I hold the belief that once you are immersed in the game, your brain accepts it as “reality” and will remove the questionable bits from visual processing. Being the player really makes a difference to me, as opposed to just watching a video of someone else playing. They can have their graphics at a much higher res than me but I am still sort of shocked and put off by how ugly/unrealistic things are when watching someone else, and always surprised of how much I don’t notice while playing the same game myself.

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        51 month ago

        Suspension of disbelief is definitely a thing. It’s also a lot easier to catch things going on when you’re spectating vs playing yourself, kinda like tunnel vision.

    • @Tattorack@lemmy.world
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      111 month ago

      Characters and creatures looked like such a weird mess of polygons in Oblivion.

      Christ, remember how Khajiit looked like melted plastic!?