NOBODY IS MISTAKING THIS FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN A DREAMCAST GAME BUT MAN IT'S A PRETTY DREAMCAST GAME. - ThreadSky

beatskelton.bsky.social • 8 days ago

NOBODY IS MISTAKING THIS FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN A DREAMCAST GAME BUT MAN IT'S A PRETTY DREAMCAST GAME.

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beatskelton.bsky.social•5 days ago

WE LOST SOMETHING REAL AND IMPORTANT WHEN VIDEO GAME CHARACTER MODELS REACHED THE POINT WHERE YOU COULD CHANGE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS BY MOVING POLYGONS AROUND INSTEAD OF SWAPPING OUT TEXTURES.

sillyrookie.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's not a lost art, but it's not common, and that's a serious shame.

boobachu.bsky.social•5 days ago

You see it mostly in anime, it's kinda strange you don't see it much with cartoony games.

sillyrookie.bsky.social•5 days ago

We SHOULD.

beatskelton.bsky.social•5 days ago

DAM THIS BLEW UP TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS FREE PALESTINE.

beatskelton.bsky.social•5 days ago

OH ALSO HERE'S ANOTHER SCREENSHOT I TOOK A FEW DAYS BACK AND FORGOT TO POST LOL.

beatskelton.bsky.social•5 days ago

AHHH HERE WE GO.

beatskelton.bsky.social•5 days ago

I MISSED GETTING A SCREENSHOT BUT THAT LITTLE SMIRK DRACHMA GIVES YOU FOR A HALF-SECOND BEFORE GOING DOWN WITH THE SHIP GETS ME EVERY TIME.

beatskelton.bsky.social•5 days ago

SKIES OF ARCADIA IS UNAFRAID TO GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT.

untimelygamer.bsky.social•5 days ago

That polygon style is so good.

bamfaerie.bsky.social•5 days ago

A NEW FAN!! ONE OF US ONE OF US! Favorite JRPG of all time right there. @valiarah.bsky.social got me hooked

beatskelton.bsky.social•5 days ago

I MEAN I'M HAPPY TO JOIN THE CLUB BUT I'VE LOVED THIS GAME SINCE THE DREAMCAST.

beatskelton.bsky.social•5 days ago

SO NOT EXACTLY A *NEW* FAN LOL.

tinykong.bsky.social•5 days ago

i love megaman legends

thetrin.bsky.social•5 days ago

There's something really special about games that use textures for facial expressions. There's just something about the technique that I absolutely love (apart from what you mentioned)

johnnyiii.bsky.social•5 days ago

The cutscenes in Vagrant Story are brilliant with this.

shadefawks.bsky.social•5 days ago

I mean that's how I do most of my models for Vtuber stuff. It's all textures hidden in the head for talking and expressions

reloadlastsave.bsky.social•4 days ago

Working on an indie game with some friends and I just put your post in our discord lol. Thanks for helping me outline my design philosophy.

beatskelton.bsky.social•4 days ago

HAPPY TO HELP

bakenshake.bsky.social•5 days ago

Okay, but Skies of Arcadia is such a great game. Lol.

beatskelton.bsky.social•5 days ago

AGREED

freesiathepilot.bsky.social•5 days ago

To this day this is one of my favorite dev "secrets", you could get away with so much expresivity.

spitebard.bsky.social•5 days ago

Even better is when they create a texture for use in one specific scene in one specific camera angle that does not work at all otherwise.

beatskelton.bsky.social•5 days ago

I FUCKIN LOVE CHEATED CAMERA ANGLES SO MUCH YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.

bikeengineer.bsky.social•5 days ago

But think of the monstrosities we gained?

https://youtu.be/lgBvhpU0VMI

beatskelton.bsky.social•5 days ago

YEAH... THOSE ARE PRETTY GREAT.

bikeengineer.bsky.social•5 days ago

1500% facial animation never fails to get a laugh

https://youtu.be/pUIxTEGPMgc

ker-plop.bsky.social•5 days ago

Indeed we did...

pseudo-magpie.bsky.social•5 days ago

I really want them to make a remaster of this game, but also at the same time terrified we'll lose some of the charm of it if they do so...

rlyehsurfclub.bsky.social•5 days ago

“FIRE, CONSUME MY ENEMY!
LAMBDA BURST!”

after 20+ years I can hear that voice line still

pseudo-magpie.bsky.social•5 days ago

That voice line is seared into my brain!

kitsunenohon.bsky.social•5 days ago

Alpha Stoooooooooooooooooorm

Moons, grant me your power!

jelliesonline.bsky.social•5 days ago

I will always appreciate Gravity Rush for still doing this 😭

cias.bsky.social•3 days ago

A Hat in Time did this and it was great

amtrax.bsky.social•5 days ago

Limitations breed creativity in the BEST way possible.

scorpion1386.bsky.social•5 days ago

This game needs a remaster/release, c’mon SEGA!

kenplaysgames.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh man, one of the two best RPGs on the DC. Skies of Arcadia and Grandia II both got heavy duty play from me. Skies story was the best of them, but that combat system in Grandia was fire.

backwoods-artificer.xyz•5 days ago

I'm more familiar with the GameCube port but tbh even the GameCube ports of Dreamcast games always had a different vibe from other GameCube games

vance.bsky.social•8 days ago

I didn't like the Dreamcast the way others did but I had no problem with the way it's games looked.

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