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The importance of Wireframe graphics.

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I like games that let your imagination fill the gaps.

However, there have to be gaps to begin with.
Not a big black void with some stick figures drawn on it.
If you want that, I recommend pen and paper, but that does require other human beings.
 
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I made this thread during a manic episode on like the 3rd day of not sleeping and non-stop binging of Wiz-games. That said, I 100% stand by all my words!

:)

Still, you gotta admit look how fucking dope this E: Gothic dungeon looks with anti-aliased wire-frames (!!!!!!!):




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Plus that fucking brilliant music. No hyperbole here when I say It is the perfect little mini-homage to 8-bit sound chip sounds as the gimmick for a legitimately solid little tune that manages to evoke the appropriate atmosphere.

This dungeon from E: Gothic would not be as good as it is without all its parts: the dungeon music, the wire-frame graphics, and the NPCs spouting cryptic dialog which is all tied to classic-Wizardry lore.

One NPC intimates that the world of Elminage was born from the ashes of the destruction of the Wizardry-universe without ever using any of the words I just did.
 

Iznaliu

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If I had started with Wizardry 1-5 instead of 7, maybe I would find wireframe graphics acceptable too, but I simply don't.

IIRC, aweigh's first Wizardry was Wizardry 8; people like to have justify their opinions with their life experience, but they often don't hold up.
 

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I made this thread during a manic episode on like the 3rd day of not sleeping and non-stop binging of Wiz-games. That said, I 100% stand by all my words!

Jesus dude, I guess blobbers are a better response to mania than hookers and blow or gambling (better as in cheaper and lower risk, not more fun), but bipolar is degenerative without medication. So please get some meds (or some better meds)! You don’t want to end up in a hospital someday with no computer or internet access. Even just a little Lamictal could smooth things out.
 

Kyl Von Kull

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Lamictal doesn't agree with me, mang. I'm currently on Depakote.

Did it give you that damned rash? My gf at the time I took it was super paranoid about it and I spent the first couple of months being inspected for angry red splotches every day.

I hope Depakote’s helping you sleep and not get too manic—the harder stuff is much worse side effects wise. IMHO everybody should be on a cocktail, but I’m probably far too comfortable toying with neurochemistry (my own and anyone who will listen to me).
 

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I made this thread during a manic episode on like the 3rd day of not sleeping and non-stop binging of Wiz-games.
That explains things.

That said, I 100% stand by all my words!

:)

Still, you gotta admit look how fucking dope this E: Gothic dungeon looks with anti-aliased wire-frames (!!!!!!!):
Dude, get help.

Plus that fucking brilliant music. No hyperbole here when I say It is the perfect little mini-homage to 8-bit sound chip sounds as the gimmick for a legitimately solid little tune that manages to evoke the appropriate atmosphere.
Umm, not really?
And I'm the kind of guy that has a habit of humming chiptunes from time to time (last time yesterday, while taking a dump).
At best it sounds like the author had a good idea but none of the skills necessary to make it work. And it's hard to make slow chiptunes that sound good - the more retro, the harder.
 

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He's got a point that the 'crawler experience' is basically getting lost and exercising spacial memorization, and wireframe happens to make the first easier and allow you to concentrate on the 'mental map' and number of clicks on your maze transversal.
 

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I don't know, is there a treatment for aspergers yet?
 

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I don't know, is there a treatment for aspergers yet?
Aspergers is, for example, when you can't stop fapping to this (because you probably just have to have some sort of ASD to enjoy something like this).

The thing ITT, OTOH, is just derp.
That... is fucking awesome!!
Yes. Yes, it is.
https://childrenofadeadearth.wordpress.com/2016/04/15/how-realistic-is-it-actually/
You can get it on Steam too. Shame it isn't on GOG or I would have gotten it much earlier.
 

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it has been theorized by many of the great film scholars that the primary reason film film will always be so entrancing to the viewer or simply put the reason why it will always "look so real" compared to the modern digitally-sourced film is because celluloid film strips were physical material that lack the digital ability to "shoot continuously"; as such there is a gap between every single frame of a celluloid-sourced film strip and while it is something so incredibly brief that were you not told about it one would never know it the fact remains that the human brain can and does "catch" the dark, blank void of the film strip that lies between each frame and when our human eyes are in the process of taking in the movie every time a frame cuts to the next frame we sub-consciously begin to anticipate each void of black lying in wait between each frame and, depending on our level of engagement, our human brain which will be at that moment actively suspending our disbelief begins to fill in the darkness between each frame of the movie with interstitial interpretation that continually unfolds as the movie progresses.
 

Jrpgfan

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aweigh needs to be studied.
 

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