Special Effects

[Data]

Which special game effect stumbled your senses when you first saw it ?

One of my favorites is:
The colour changes in ATRAIN.
The colour will change from day to night and vary from season to season.


I've recorded a sample of what I mean. (day and night changes)
ATRAIN - The movie(HQ) (http://www.abandonia.com/~data/at.avi)

[Bobbin Threadbare]

I get an error for the video it tries to get a codec but fails. Help says I don't have a codec. I figured that out. Stupid Windows.

[Data]

hmm I used a (hopefully) standard codec. mpeg4
Try this one: (msmpeg4v2)
http://www.abanonia.com/~data/ab.avi

[Quintopotere]

the movie in the first link doesn't work... and the second link doesn't work...

[wormpaul]

Hm....

Special effects that did something to me...... :eeeeeh:


"The colours in the cycling races in Tron 2.0

[guesst]

Originally posted by Data@May 24 2006, 10:17 AM
Which special game effect stumbled your senses when you first saw it ?

One of my favorites is:
The colour changes in ATRAIN.
The colour will change from day to night and vary from season to season.


I've recorded a sample of what I mean. (day and night changes)
ATRAIN - The movie(HQ) (http://www.abandonia.com/~data/at.avi)
Hey data, since you like A-Train, you know it's topping the list of games to be reviewed (http://www.abandonia.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1658)?

[Blood-Pigggy]

Battlefield 2's disorientation effect.
F.E.A.R. 's slowmo power.
Far Cry's white lighting.
Oblivion's bump mapping.
Half-Life 2's rag doll physics.

So many that I found that blew me away, too many to list :D

[Tervez]

Sanity effects from Eternal Darkness. The bathtub scene* just hits you so quickly.
And Pretty much all ragdoll physics... Especially from Destroy All Humans! :sneaky:

*If you are playing Eternal Darkness and are scared easily, do not, I repeat DO NOT go near the bathtub. You have been warned.

[gregor]

morrowind sunrise and sunset.

otherwise gore in doom 2 when i first saw it. especially the berserker punch.
oh and hexen ice spell - when i saw it back then the first time.

also gore in Rise of the triade.

[Tulac]

Morrowind with nice weather effects, it's sky is very realistic...

[efthimios]

Playing my first modern 3D game, Incoming. Good shooter with amazing good graphics (for the time) and extremely fluid animation.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/inco...ict/screenshots (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/incoming-the-final-conflict/screenshots)

[Blood-Pigggy]

Originally posted by Tervez@May 25 2006, 04:32 AM

*If you are playing Eternal Darkness and are scared easily, do not, I repeat DO NOT go near the bathtub. You have been warned.
Lawl, that scared me so bad blood came running out of my nose, I just saw the A button prompt at the bottom of the screen, pressed it, and BAM, I flew into the air.
It was in the middle of the night with all the lights off too, and I have surround sound in my room so I was about ready to throw up.

:crazy:

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Now that sounds interesting. I saw it for 30 or 40 bucks pre-owned. What's it like on length?

[Don Andy]

Originally posted by Tervez@May 25 2006, 10:32 AM
*If you are playing Eternal Darkness and are scared easily, do not, I repeat DO NOT go near the bathtub. You have been warned.
Hmm, I don't think it would surprise me that much. I mean. A bathtub in a horror adventure. There HAS to be something in there.

I hate bathrooms in horror games. Either it's the bathtub or it's the mirror.
The mirror got me in Doom 3. It wasn't scary or something but I really wasn't expecting that.


Now for the topic ;)

I liked the movie TRON. It's basically one big special effect. And the actors seem to blend really well into the surroundings.

As for games I liked the "vision" of the character in Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, although it was more of a neat feature than a special effect.

But I've never seen a special effect so far that really made me go all "wow".

[gregor]

JEDI KNIGHT when you use force speed everything arround you actualy slows down.

not to mention the battle with swords!!! i used a cheat and spawned a few enemies just to enjoy sword fighting with them.

[Tervez]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Iron_Scarecrow @ May 26 2006, 01:59 AM) 232304</div>
Now that sounds interesting. I saw it for 30 or 40 bucks pre-owned. What's it like on length?
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While I wasn`t the one playing the game, (Yeah, I know, but i just don`t enjoy playing games like this) my sister says it lasted for about 10 hours. She played a long time ago though, so she may be wrong. Or not. You could always check some websites about it.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Don Andy @ May 26 2006, 02:24 AM) 232307</div>
Originally posted by Tervez@May 25 2006, 10:32 AM
*If you are playing Eternal Darkness and are scared easily, do not, I repeat DO NOT go near the bathtub. You have been warned.
Hmm, I don't think it would surprise me that much. I mean. A bathtub in a horror adventure. There HAS to be something in there.
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True, but it just comes so quickly, as Blood-Pigggy said.
I agree about the windows. Scared me in Fahrenheit. But not that much.