gaming Attention to detail in games.

[CastletonSnob 3,089]

What are some examples of the little subtle things that add to a game?

In Mega Man X, if you beat Mavericks in a certain order, some stages will be changed. Like, if you beat Chill Penguin before Flame Mammoth, Flame Mammoth's stage will be frozen.

[Empty Room 512]

This may not be too subtle, but I find the skyboxes in Super Mario 64 to be quite intriguing. 

 

 

 

 

Because this game was released in 1996, they are all pre-rendered. However, if they were made today, they'd more than likely just be modeled in 3D. In my eyes, they look quite mysterious and leave a lot to the imagination. The cave one, for example, comes to mind. It's obviously a cave, but how big is it? How far deep does it go? Why is it green? Does it end? It's 100% up to interpretation; the game isn't gonna fill it out for you.

[Yufery 205]

The amount of detail in The Last of Us is pretty interesting. I mean they've managed to make the world so in depth that it's just difficult to not notice subtle things.

 

Plus Uncharted 3 had that Easter Egg that's basically a crossover of TLoU and the aforementioned franchise. I'm sure there's more things I'm not even thinking of, but these are just a couple things I wanted to point out.

[1Bit 1,531]

The Metro game series is a master at attention to detail It's by far one of the most immersive games I've played because of that fact.

[SquipyCheetah 449]

Video games made me more attention to detail. Every time I play any kind of game now, I watch the backgrounds and elsewhere for oncoming danger or just anything interesting. The fact I play most of these games at night does not help.