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20-07-17, 17:39 | #32 |
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Well, animations have nothing to do with the engine. It's just that LoK Defiance had a movement set that suited TRL and thus Crystal didn't bother to create new animations for Lara. But that's more related to the animations they already had than the engine they used. The Legend engine was also used for the last two Deus Ex game and these are first person shooters.
And don't forget that the Unreal engine has its roots in the 90s as well and is one of the most used game engines ever. |
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21-07-17, 10:40 | #35 |
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I watched a gameplay video of LoK Defiance and some animations indeed are similar to those in Legend, especially the running animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L62SDl2D8tY Watching this makes me wish that Crystal would go back to over-the-top abilities and fun over realism. |
21-07-17, 14:39 | #36 |
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And for me watching this makes it painfully obvious why they went with Crystal Dynamics to produce Tomb Raider. As much as I'm not a fan of them, I can see why they got the job.
Somehow those older games with fantasy settings seem a lot more fun than today's realism-laden ones... But that's probably just nostalgia speaking through me. Last edited by Dustie; 21-07-17 at 14:40. |
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There're still games like this being made, just not as many because of "realizms". Sunset Overdrive and ReCore have a similar fun gameplay and Mass Effect Andromeda went away from cover based shooting to jumping around while fighting enemies. Games with fun gameplay elements and lots of jumping about and slashing through enemies are currently making a return, just a rather slow one. Makes me think that Crystal maybe made a bad decision with building their new combat system on cover based shooting, but they can still change it.
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By that, do you mean matching the functions in TR7 to the ones in Defiance? Would it be straightforward if you already had the symbols for both?
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03-05-18, 18:25 | #39 |
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Don't know if you would believe me but ...
From my point of view , for each series of Tomb Raider games they have used the old engine , which was TRLE as we all know , but with cooler features and sophisticated graphics . This is what I think that Crystal Dynamics and Eidos don't want to tell it . |
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(In more detail: The game uses integer calculations for everything, because it was made at a time when floating point calculations were still very expensive. Pentium CPUs, especially later ones, and graphics cards with built-in transform and lighting completely changed that equation. It also spends a lot of time making sure it only draws the triangles it needs to, and then draws all of them one by one - you can see that nicely in some less-than-perfect TRLE levels where you can see from one room to another, but the level designer didn't actually build a portal in. Again, that makes sense when you render triangles individually anyway and rendering a single one is expensive - as was the case in 1996. With cards that have hardware transform and lighting, meaning I think DirectX 7 and anything since, it's much, much cheaper to just tell the graphics card to draw all the triangles in a model in one go.) Now, if you said that they all re-used AoDs engine, that would actually make vaguely more sense. Except for the part where Legend's engine actually works, of course. |
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